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EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS release notes

Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS.

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Release date: May 12, 2026

  • General Availability of the WAF logs via S3 input.
  • Introduce sizing recommendations for WAF logs via S3 input.

Release date: April 22, 2026

  • Fix Lambda layer version mismatch in some AWS regions caused by a release pipeline issue in 1.5.0.

Release date: April 9, 2026

  • Add ECS compatibility mode via beatsencoding extension and elasticmetadata processor, with a new CloudFormation template and collector configs for ECS-formatted output.
  • Add configurable log level for the Lambda function.

Release date: March 18, 2026

  • Add support for ingesting logs from Amazon CloudWatch Logs (VPC Flow Logs and CloudTrail) via subscription filters.
  • Use upstream AWS Lambda receiver with streaming and CloudWatch Logs support.

Release date: January 21, 2026

  • Add waf logs to supported log types.

Release date: January 15, 2026

  • Use URL decoded key to avoid 404.

Release date: December 24, 2025

  • Custom streaming support with buffering at S3 receiver.

Release date: December 11, 2025

General Availability release.

  • Add support for CloudWatch Metric Streams.

Release date: November 19, 2025

First preview release.