August 2025 monthly summary focusing on instrumentation testing enhancements and release documentation across two repositories. Delivered removal of the obsolete OpenTelemetry instrumentation patch and expanded test coverage for AWS SDK v1.11 and v2.2 instrumentation, including Bedrock Gen AI attributes and authentication attributes. In parallel, released and documented AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation 2.11.3 with updated getting started guides, a release blog post, and revised release notes to direct customers to the latest stable version and artifacts.

July 2025 monthly summary for aws-otel-java-instrumentation. Delivered SPI-based instrumentation for AWS SDKs v2.2 and v1.11, migrating from patching to a Service Provider Interface. Established a foundational SPI structure, enhanced attribute capture through mapping and parsing, and improved compatibility with OpenTelemetry. Also implemented Bedrock-specific JSON parsing and experimental attribute extraction to broaden instrumentation coverage. This work improves stability, observability signals, and maintainability across AWS SDK usage.