---
title: Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS release notes
description: Release notes for Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS.
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/edot/cloud-forwarder/aws
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Forwarder
  - Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Unavailable
  - Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS: Generally available since 1.0, Preview in 0.2
---

# Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS release notes
Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS.
To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31).

## 1.10.0

**Release date:** September 1, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- The unified templates are now the default deployment method. Each unified template forwards multiple log types from multiple S3 buckets and CloudWatch Log Groups in a single stack, in OpenTelemetry or ECS mode. They are also available in the AWS Serverless Application Repository as `elastic-cloud-forwarder-logs-otel` and `elastic-cloud-forwarder-logs-ecs`.


### Fixes

- The `DataSetOverrides` parameter of the unified ECS template now applies to log types sourced from S3. Previously it only applied to log types sourced from CloudWatch.


## 1.9.0

**Release date:** July 14, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- Technical preview of Netskope Log Streaming input via S3.
- Enhance customizability of CrowdStrike Falcon Data Replicator (FDR) input.


## 1.8.0

**Release date:** July 08, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- Technical preview of CrowdStrike Falcon Data Replicator (FDR) input.


## 1.6.0

**Release date:** May 12, 2026

### Features and enhancements

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


## 1.5.1

**Release date:** April 22, 2026

### Fixes

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


## 1.5.0

**Release date:** April 9, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- 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.


## 1.4.0

**Release date:** March 18, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- 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.


## 1.3.0

**Release date:** January 21, 2026

### Features and enhancements

- Add waf logs to supported log types.


## 1.2.0

**Release date:** January 15, 2026

### Fixes

- Use URL decoded key to avoid 404.


## 1.1.0

**Release date:** December 24, 2025

### Features and enhancements

- Custom streaming support with buffering at S3 receiver.


## 1.0.0

**Release date:** December 11, 2025
General Availability release.

### Features and enhancements

- Add support for CloudWatch Metric Streams.


## 0.2.6

**Release date:** November 19, 2025
First preview release.