diff --git a/.changes/1.22.18.json b/.changes/1.22.18.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cc5506df7769
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.22.18.json
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``devops-guru``",
+    "description": "DevOps Guru now provides detailed, database-specific analyses of performance issues and recommends corrective actions for Amazon Aurora database instances with Performance Insights turned on. You can also use AWS tags to choose which resources to analyze and define your applications.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``kendra``",
+    "description": "Experience Builder allows customers to build search applications without writing code. Analytics Dashboard provides quality and usability metrics for Kendra indexes. Custom Document Enrichment allows customers to build a custom ingestion pipeline to pre-process documents and generate metadata.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``dynamodb``",
+    "description": "Add support for Table Classes and introduce the Standard Infrequent Access table class.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``directconnect``",
+    "description": "Adds SiteLink support to private and transit virtual interfaces. SiteLink is a new Direct Connect feature that allows routing between Direct Connect points of presence.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``shield``",
+    "description": "This release adds API support for Automatic Application Layer DDoS Mitigation for AWS Shield Advanced. Customers can now enable automatic DDoS mitigation in count or block mode for layer 7 protected resources.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker-runtime``",
+    "description": "Update sagemaker-runtime command to latest version",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``",
+    "description": "This release enables - 1/ Inference endpoint configuration recommendations and ability to run custom load tests to meet performance needs. 2/ Deploy serverless inference endpoints. 3/ Query, filter and retrieve end-to-end ML lineage graph, and incorporate model quality/bias detection in ML workflow.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``lexv2-models``",
+    "description": "Update lexv2-models command to latest version",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``ec2``",
+    "description": "This release adds support for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), which enables you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your workloads. This release also adds support for VPC Network Access Analyzer, which enables you to analyze network access to resources in your Virtual Private Clouds.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index e9645368c610..7b4a418e7d87 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.22.18
+=======
+
+* api-change:``devops-guru``: DevOps Guru now provides detailed, database-specific analyses of performance issues and recommends corrective actions for Amazon Aurora database instances with Performance Insights turned on. You can also use AWS tags to choose which resources to analyze and define your applications.
+* api-change:``kendra``: Experience Builder allows customers to build search applications without writing code. Analytics Dashboard provides quality and usability metrics for Kendra indexes. Custom Document Enrichment allows customers to build a custom ingestion pipeline to pre-process documents and generate metadata.
+* api-change:``dynamodb``: Add support for Table Classes and introduce the Standard Infrequent Access table class.
+* api-change:``directconnect``: Adds SiteLink support to private and transit virtual interfaces. SiteLink is a new Direct Connect feature that allows routing between Direct Connect points of presence.
+* api-change:``shield``: This release adds API support for Automatic Application Layer DDoS Mitigation for AWS Shield Advanced. Customers can now enable automatic DDoS mitigation in count or block mode for layer 7 protected resources.
+* api-change:``sagemaker-runtime``: Update sagemaker-runtime command to latest version
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: This release enables - 1/ Inference endpoint configuration recommendations and ability to run custom load tests to meet performance needs. 2/ Deploy serverless inference endpoints. 3/ Query, filter and retrieve end-to-end ML lineage graph, and incorporate model quality/bias detection in ML workflow.
+* api-change:``lexv2-models``: Update lexv2-models command to latest version
+* api-change:``ec2``: This release adds support for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), which enables you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your workloads. This release also adds support for VPC Network Access Analyzer, which enables you to analyze network access to resources in your Virtual Private Clouds.
+
+
 1.22.17
 =======
 
diff --git a/awscli/__init__.py b/awscli/__init__.py
index 11002eb2d749..a7fc27738631 100644
--- a/awscli/__init__.py
+++ b/awscli/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 """
 import os
 
-__version__ = '1.22.17'
+__version__ = '1.22.18'
 
 #
 # Get our data path to be added to botocore's search path
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 73231ec78e81..1cd92d583c4e 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '1.22.'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.22.17'
+release = '1.22.18'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index cca80d2c67f0..aec0fc4782ea 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ universal = 0
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-        botocore==1.23.17
+        botocore==1.23.18
         docutils>=0.10,<0.16
         s3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0
         PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fa0648d85d38..063fadd3922d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 
 install_requires = [
-    'botocore==1.23.17',
+    'botocore==1.23.18',
     'docutils>=0.10,<0.16',
     's3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0',
     'PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5',