Release 2.32.16. Updated CHANGELOG.md, README.md and all pom.xml.

Author: AWS

.changes/2.32.16.json

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+    "version": "2.32.16",
+    "date": "2025-08-05",
+    "entries": [
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Bedrock",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This release introduces Automated Reasoning checks for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The feature adds new APIs for policy building, refinement, version management, and testing. Guardrail APIs now support Automated Reasoning policy configuration and validation output."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Bedrock Runtime",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "This release adds support for Automated Reasoning checks output models for the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails ApplyGuardrail API."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add support for deletion protection on EKS clusters"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon Relational Database Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Adds a new Aurora Serverless v2 attribute to the DBCluster resource to expose the platform version. Also updates the attribute to be part of both the engine version and platform version descriptions."
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "Amazon SageMaker Service",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Add support for SageMaker Hyperpod continuous scaling and custom AMI; Introduce new APIs: ListClusterEvents, DescribeClusterEvent, BatchAddClusterNodes"
+        },
+        {
+            "type": "feature",
+            "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+            "contributor": "",
+            "description": "Updated endpoint and partition metadata."
+        }
+    ]
+}

.changes/next-release/feature-AWSSDKforJavav2-0443982.json

@@ -1,4 +1,29 @@
  #### 👋 _Looking for changelogs for older versions? You can find them in the [changelogs](./changelogs) directory._
+# __2.32.16__ __2025-08-05__
+## __AWS SDK for Java v2__
+  - ### Features
+    - Updated endpoint and partition metadata.
+
+## __Amazon Bedrock__
+  - ### Features
+    - This release introduces Automated Reasoning checks for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The feature adds new APIs for policy building, refinement, version management, and testing. Guardrail APIs now support Automated Reasoning policy configuration and validation output.
+
+## __Amazon Bedrock Runtime__
+  - ### Features
+    - This release adds support for Automated Reasoning checks output models for the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails ApplyGuardrail API.
+
+## __Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service__
+  - ### Features
+    - Add support for deletion protection on EKS clusters
+
+## __Amazon Relational Database Service__
+  - ### Features
+    - Adds a new Aurora Serverless v2 attribute to the DBCluster resource to expose the platform version. Also updates the attribute to be part of both the engine version and platform version descriptions.
+
+## __Amazon SageMaker Service__
+  - ### Features
+    - Add support for SageMaker Hyperpod continuous scaling and custom AMI; Introduce new APIs: ListClusterEvents, DescribeClusterEvent, BatchAddClusterNodes
+
 # __2.32.15__ __2025-08-04__
 ## __AWS CodeConnections__
   - ### Features

.changes/next-release/feature-AmazonBedrock-6e24b5c.json

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ To automatically manage module versions (currently all modules have the same ver
     <dependency>
       <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
       <artifactId>bom</artifactId>
-      <version>2.32.15</version>
+      <version>2.32.16</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
     </dependency>
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ Alternatively you can add dependencies for the specific services you use only:
 <dependency>
   <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
   <artifactId>ec2</artifactId>
-  <version>2.32.15</version>
+  <version>2.32.16</version>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
   <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
   <artifactId>s3</artifactId>
-  <version>2.32.15</version>
+  <version>2.32.16</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ You can import the whole SDK into your project (includes *ALL* services). Please
 <dependency>
   <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
   <artifactId>aws-sdk-java</artifactId>
-  <version>2.32.15</version>
+  <version>2.32.16</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 

.changes/next-release/feature-AmazonBedrockRuntime-0234baf.json

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>archetypes</artifactId>
         <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-        <version>2.32.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.32.16</version>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>