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Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration, allowing organizations to build and manage multiple AI agents that work together to solve complex workflows. This feature allows developers to create agents with specialized roles tailored for specific business needs, such as financial data collection, research, and decision-making. By enabling seamless agent collaboration, Amazon Bedrock empowers organizations to optimize performance across industries like finance, customer service, and healthcare. With multi-agent collaboration on Amazon Bedrock, organizations can effortlessly master complex workflows, achieving highly accurate and scalable results across diverse …

Starting today in preview, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers. With this new capability, you can now build highly available multi-Region applications with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero, achieving the highest level of resilience. Multi-Region strong consistency ensures your applications can always read the latest version of data from any Region in a global table, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing consistency across multiple Regions. It is useful for building global …

Amazon S3 Metadata is the easiest and fastest way to help you instantly discover and understand your S3 data with automated, easily-queried metadata that updates in near real-time. This helps you to curate, identify, and use your S3 data for business analytics, real-time inference applications, and more. S3 Metadata supports object metadata, which includes system-defined details like size and the source of the object, and custom metadata, which allows you to use tags to annotate your objects with information like product SKU, transaction ID, or content rating, for example. S3 Metadata is designed to automatically capture metadata from objects as they are uploaded into …

Are you a developer approaching serverless for the first time, or even an experienced one looking for a better way to accelerate your feedback loop from code to production? This collection of resources is perfect for you! There are plenty of developer goodies available on AWS to streamline your code creation and achieve a faster flow in your development lifecycle. Let us share a few examples with you. What if I told you that you could have an assistant to create your tests? Or that you could review the schema of DynamoDB tables without logging into the AWS Console? Get ready to discover some game-changing tools and techniques that will revolutionize your serverless de…

GROW with SAP on AWS is now available for subscription from AWS Marketplace. As a complete offering of solutions, best practices, adoption acceleration services, community and learning, GROW with SAP helps any size organization adopt cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) with speed, predictability, and continuous innovation. GROW with SAP on AWS can be implemented in months instead of years with traditional on-premises ERP implementations. By implementing GROW with SAP on AWS, you can simplify everyday work, grow your business, and secure your success. At the core of GROW with SAP is SAP S/4HANA Cloud, a full-featured SaaS ERP suite built on the learnings of SAP’s 50…

Latency-optimized inference for foundation models in Amazon Bedrock now available in public preview, delivering faster response times and improved responsiveness for AI applications. Currently, these new inference options support Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku model and Meta's Llama 3.1 405B and 70B models offering reduced latency compared to standard models without compromising accuracy. As verified by Anthropic, with latency-optimized inference in Amazon Bedrock, Claude 3.5 Haiku runs faster on AWS than anywhere else. Additionally, with latency-optimized inference in Bedrock, Llama 3.1 405B and 70B runs faster on AWS than any other major cloud provider. As more custom…

With the launch of VPC Resources for Amazon VPC Lattice, you can now access all of your application dependencies through a VPC Lattice service network. You're able to connect to your application dependencies hosted in different VPCs, accounts, and on-premises using additional protocols, including TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, and now TCP. This new feature expands upon the existing HTTP-based services support, enabling you to share a wider range of resources across your organization. With VPC Resource support, you can add your TCP resources, such as Amazon RDS databases, custom DNS, or IP endpoints, to a VPC Lattice service network. Now, you can share and connect to all your applic…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5en instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. You can use Amazon EC2 P5en instances for training and deploying increasingly complex large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models powering the most demanding generative AI applications. You can also use P5en instances to deploy demanding HPC applications at scale in pharmaceutical discovery, seismic analysis, weather forecasting, and financial modeling. P5en instances feature…

Most companies have adopted a diverse set of software as a service (SaaS) platforms to support various applications. The rapid adoption has enabled them to quickly streamline operations, enhance collaboration, and gain more accessible, scalable solutions for managing their critical data and workflows. More companies have realized there is an opportunity to integrate, enhance, and present this SaaS data to improve internal operations and gain valuable insights on their data. Using AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, companies can streamline this process, integrating data from internal and external sources into a centralized AWS data lake. From there, they ca…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of declarative policies, a new management policy type within AWS Organizations. These policies simplify the way customers enforce durable intent, such as baseline configuration for AWS services within their organization. For example, customers can configure EC2 to allow instance launches using AMIs vended by specific providers and block public access in their VPC with a few simple clicks or commands for their entire organization using declarative policies. Declarative policies are designed to prevent actions that are non-compliant with the policy. The configuration defined in the declarative policy is maintained even when s…

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage optimized I8g instances. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU …

Independent software vendors (ISVs) like Asana, Miro, PagerDuty, Zoom, and more are integrating the Amazon Q index into their applications to enrich their generative AI experiences with enterprise knowledge and user context spanning multiple applications. End customers remain in control of which applications can access their data, and the index retains user-level permissions. The Amazon Q index is a canonical source of content and data that unites data from across over 40 supported connectors. Amazon Q Business customers create an index based on their enterprise data so that generated responses, insights, and actions are most relevant to employees. Software providers re…

Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware, the first generative AI–powered assistant that can simplify and accelerate the migration and modernization of VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These new capabilities help you streamline complex VMware transformation tasks, reducing the time and effort required to move VMware workloads to the cloud. Using advanced AI techniques to automate critical steps in the migration process, Amazon Q Developer helps accelerate your cloud journey, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Amazon Q Developer transformation agents simplify and automate VMware transformation t…

Amazon Connect now makes it easier for you to collect sensitive customer data and deliver seamless transactional experiences within chats, enhancing the overall customer experience. You can now support inline chat interactions such as processing payments, updating customer information (e.g., address changes), or collecting customer data (e.g., account details) without requiring the customer to switch channels or navigate to another page on your website. To get started, use Amazon Connect’s No-code UI builder to create step-by-step guides with forms, enable the ‘This view has sensitive data’ option in the Show view flow block to ensure compliance with data protection an…

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to create highly accurate, low latency, secure, and custom GenAI applications by incorporating contextual information from your company's data sources. Today, we are announcing the support of RetrieveAndGenerateStream API in Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This new streaming API allows Bedrock Knowledge Base customers to receive the response as it is being generated by the Large Language Model (LLM), rather than waiting for the complete response. RAG workflow involves several steps, including querying the data store, gathering relevant context, and then sending the q…

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Amazon Q Business now offers capabilities to answer questions and extract insights from visual elements embedded within documents. This new feature enables users to query information embedded in various types of visual, including diagrams, infographics, charts, and image-based content. With this launch, customers can now uncover valuable insights that are captured within visual content embedded in documents including PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, …

Today, AWS announces the Preview of Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect, a groundbreaking offering that integrates native digital and voice capabilities into Salesforce Service Cloud, delivering a unified and streamlined experience for agents. Salesforce users can now unify and route voice, chat, email, and case management across Amazon Connect and Service Cloud capabilities, streamlining operational efficiency and enhancing customer service interactions. With Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect, companies can now seamlessly integrate their Salesforce CRM data and agent experience with Amazon Connect’s leading voice, digital channel, and routing cap…

Today, AWS announces the launch of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure, physical location where you can bring your storage devices, connect directly to the AWS network, and upload data to AWS including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and others using a high throughput connection. Currently, Data Transfer Terminals are located in Los Angeles, and New York. You can reserve a time slot to visit your nearest Data Transfer Terminal facility to upload data. AWS Data Transfer Terminals are ideal for customer scenarios that create or collect large amounts of data that need to be transferred to the AWS cloud quickly and secur…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for Amazon FSx that costs up to 85% less than the FSx SSD storage class and up to 20% less than traditional HDD-based NAS storage on premises, and that brings full elasticity and intelligent tiering to network-attached storage (NAS). The new storage class is available today on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Using Amazon FSx, customers can launch and run fully managed cloud file systems that have familiar NAS capabilities such as point-in-time snapshots, data clones, and user quotas. Before today, customers have been moving NAS data sets for mission-critical and performance-int…

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection. This new capability allows you to identify sophisticated, multi-stage attacks targeting your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. You can now use new attack sequence findings that cover multiple resources and data sources over an extensive time period, allowing you to spend less time on first-level analysis and more time responding to critical severity threats to minimize business impact. GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms trained at AWS scale and automatically correlates security signals from acr…

AWS Marketplace now offers EC2 Image Builder components from independent software vendors (ISVs), helping you streamline your Amazon Machine Image (AMI) build processes. You can find and subscribe to Image Builder components from ISVs in AWS Marketplace or in the Image Builder console, and incorporate the components into your golden images through Image Builder. AWS Marketplace offers a catalog of Image Builder components from ISVs to help address the monitoring, security, governance, and compliance needs of your organization. Previously, consolidating software from ISVs into golden images required you to go through a time-consuming procurement process and write custom …

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Incident Response, a new service that helps you prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events. This service offers automated monitoring and investigation of security findings to free up your resources from routine tasks, communication and collaboration features to streamline response coordination, and direct 24/7 access to the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT). Security Incident Response integrates with existing detection services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, and third-party tools through AWS Security Hub to rapidly review security alerts, escalate high-priority findings, and, with your per…

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for customer service, now supports end-customer self-service interactions across Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and digital channels. With this launch, businesses can augment their existing self-service experiences with generative AI capabilities to create more personalized and dynamic experiences to improve customer satisfaction and first contact resolution. Amazon Q in Connect can directly converse with end-customers and reason over undefined intents for more ambiguous scenarios to provide customers accurate responses. For example, Amazon Q in Connect can help end-customers by completing actions such as booking…

Amazon Connect now supports WhatsApp Business messaging, enabling you to deliver personalized experiences to your customers who use WhatsApp, one of the world's most popular messaging platforms, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs. Rich messaging features such as inline images and videos, list messages, and quick replies allow your customers to browse product recommendations, check order status, or schedule appointments. Amazon Connect for WhatsApp Business messaging makes it easy for your customers to initiate a conversation by simply tapping on WhatsApp-enabled phone numbers or chat buttons published on your website or mobile app, or by scanning a QR …

Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces support for collaboration with datasets from multiple clouds and data sources. This launch allows companies and their partners to easily collaborate with data stored in Snowflake and Amazon Athena, without having to move or share their underlying data among collaborators. With AWS Clean Rooms expanded data sources and clouds support, organizations can seamlessly collaborate with any company leveraging datasets across AWS and Snowflake, without any party having to move, reveal, or copy their underlying datasets. This launch enables companies to collaborate on the most up-to-date data with zero extract, transform, and load (zero-ETL), elim…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides you with the ability to use generative AI to automatically fill and submit agent performance evaluations. Managers can now specify their evaluation criteria in natural language, and use generative AI for automating evaluations of any or all of agents’ customer interactions, and get aggregated agent performance insights across cohorts of agents over time. You are also provided with context and justification for the automated evaluations along with references to specific points in the conversation for agent coaching. This launch provides managers with automated evaluations of additional agent behaviors (e.g., was the agent able to re…

Amazon Connect now makes it as easy as a few clicks for you to create, edit, and continuously improve conversational AI bots for interactive voice response (IVR) and chatbot self-service experiences. Now, you can configure and design your bots (powered by Amazon Lex) directly from the Connect web UI, allowing you to deliver dynamic, conversational AI experiences to understand your customer’s intent, ask follow-on questions, and automate resolution of their issues. By using Amazon Connect’s drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can enhance your bots with Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, making it easy to deliver personalized experiences with no code. For example, you ca…

Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring now allows you to monitor network performance of your AWS workloads by using flow monitors. The new feature provides near real-time visibility of network performance for workloads between compute instances such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, and AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB, enabling you to rapidly detect and attribute network-driven impairments for your workloads. CloudWatch Network Monitoring uses flow monitors to provide TCP-based performance metrics for packet loss and latency, and network health indicators of your AWS workloads to help you quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues. Flow monitor…

Today, we are announcing RAG evaluation support in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This capability allows you to evaluate your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications built on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. You can evaluate either information retrieval or the retrieval plus content generation. Evaluations are powered by LLM-as-a-Judge technology, with customers having a choice of several judge models to use. For retrieval evaluation, you can select from metrics such as context relevance and coverage. For retrieve plus generation evaluation, you can select from quality metrics such as correctness, completeness, and faithfulness (hallucination detection), as well…

Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions now support integration with private APIs powered by AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice, making it easier for customers to accelerate innovation and simplify modernization of distributed applications across public and private networks, both on-premises and in the cloud. This allows customers to bring the capabilities of AWS cloud to new and existing workloads, achieving higher performance, agility, and lower costs. Enterprises across industries are modernizing their applications to drive growth, reduce costs, and foster innovation. However, integrating applications across siloed VPCs and on-premises environments can be chal…

Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering from AWS and Oracle, is now in limited preview. It enables customers to access Oracle Database Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Exadata infrastructure within AWS data centers. Customers can easily and quickly migrate their Oracle Database workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) workloads, to Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS with minimal to no changes. Customers can modernize mission-critical applications and develop new intelligent applications with a low-latency network connection between Oracle databases and AWS services. Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to maintain full-featu…

In the ever-evolving consumer goods industry, innovation and agility are paramount. AWS has launched the AWS Consumer Goods Competency to support digital transformation. This initiative connects businesses with top validated AWS Partners offering specialized industry solutions. These partners provide expertise across six critical areas: product development, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, unified commerce, and digital transformation. To earn the designation, partners must complete a rigorous technical validation process based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient cloud operations. By collaborating with these validate…

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to create highly accurate, low latency, secure, and custom GenAI applications by incorporating contextual information from your data sources. Today, we are launching automatically-generated query filters which improves retrieval accuracy by ensuring the documents retrieved are relevant to the query. This feature extends the existing capability of manual metadata filtering, by allowing customers to narrow down search results without the need to manually construct complex filter expressions. RAG applications process user queries by searching across a large set o…

Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Now, you can use a new evaluation capability: LLM-as-a-judge in Preview. This allows you to choose an LLM as your judge to ensure you have the right combination of evaluator models and models being evaluated. You can choose from several available judge LLMs on Amazon Bedrock. You can also select curated quality metrics such as correctness, completeness, and professional style and tone, as well as responsible AI metrics such as harmfulness and answer refusal. You can now also bring your own prompt dataset to ensure the evaluation is customized for your …

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers built-in dashboards to monitor the performance of your conversational AI bots making it easy for you to analyze and continuously improve your self-service and automated experiences. From the Contact Lens flows performance dashboard, you can view Amazon Lex and Q in Connect bot analytics including how your customers communicate their issues, the most common contact reasons, and the outcomes of the interaction. From the dashboard, you can navigate to the bot management page and make updates in a couple clicks to improve bot accuracy. These new capabilities make it easy for you analyze the performance of your conversational AI experienc…

Amazon Connect now integrates with other voice systems to directly transfer voice calls and metadata without using the public telephone network. You can use Amazon Connect telephony and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) with your existing voice systems to help improve customer experience and reduce costs. Amazon Connect IVR provides conversational voice bots in 30+ languages with natural language processing, automated speech recognition, and text-to-speech to help personalize customer service, provide self-service for complex tasks, and collect information to reduce agent handling time. Now, you can use Amazon Connect to modernize the IVR experience of your existing con…

Amazon Connect now integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics, so you can use Amazon Connect Contact Lens with your existing voice system to help improve customer experience and agent performance. Amazon Connect Contact Lens provides call recordings, conversational analytics (including contact transcript, sensitive data redaction, content categorization, theme detection, sentiment analysis, real-time alerts, and post-contact summary), and agent performance evaluations (including evaluation forms, automated evaluation, supervisor review) with a rich user experience to display, search and filter customer interactions, and programmatic acces…

Amazon Connect now enables you to record audio when your customer engages with self-service interactive voice response (IVR) and other automated interactions. On the Contact details page, you can listen to the recording or review logs which includes information such as the bot transcription or touch-tone menu selection. Recording settings can be configured using the “Set recording and analytics behavior” block on the Amazon Connect drag-and-drop workflow designer, allowing you to easily specify portions of the experience to record. For example, pausing and resuming recordings before and after sensitive exchanges, such as when a customer shares their credit card or social …

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights introduces enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon Fargate with out-of-the-box detailed metrics, from cluster level down to container level to deliver faster problem isolation and troubleshooting. Enhanced observability enables customers to visually drill up and down across various container layers and directly spot issues like memory leaks in individual containers, reducing mean time to resolution. With enhanced observability customers can now view their clusters, services, tasks or containers sorted by resource consumption, quickly identify anomalies, and mitigate risks pro…

AWS PrivateLink customers can now use VPC endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) to privately and securely access VPC resources. These resources, such as databases or clusters, can be in your VPC or on-premises network, need not be load-balanced, and can be shared with other teams in your organization or with external independent software vendor (ISV) partners. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available and scalable technology that enables your VPCs to have private unidirectional connection to VPC endpoint services, including supported AWS services and AWS Marketplace services, and now to VPC resources. Prior to this launch, customers could only access or share services that…

Today, AWS introduces an enhanced version of SaaS Quick Launch for Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in AWS Marketplace, delivering a streamlined Databricks workspace deployment experience on AWS. Databricks is a unified data analytics platform that enables organizations to accelerate data-driven innovation. SaaS Quick Launch for Databricks automates installation and configuration steps, simplifying the process of launching Databricks workspaces on AWS, where data professionals manage notebooks, clusters, and data engineering jobs. Previously, deploying Databricks on AWS required manual configuration and knowledge of AWS infrastructure provisioning tools. Now all u…

Amazon Connect now allows you to compare intraday forecasts against previously published forecasts, review projected daily performance, and receive predictions for effective staffing, all available within the Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards. With intraday forecasts, you receive updates every 15 minutes with predictions for rest-of-day contact volumes, average queue answer time, average handle time, and, now, effective staffing. These forecasts allow you to take proactive actions to improve customer wait time and service level. For example, contact center managers can now track agent utilization at the queue level, enabling them to identify potential imbalances or s…

Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS is a new, native AWS service to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon EVS automates and simplifies deployments and provides a ready-to-use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment on AWS. This allows you to quickly migrate VMware-based virtual machines to AWS using the same VCF software and tools you already use in your on-premises environment. With Amazon EVS, you can now take advantage of the scale, resilience, and performance of AWS together with familiar VCF software and tools. You have the choice to self-manage or…

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI powered assistant for customer service, now enables customers to natively configure AI guardrails to implement safeguards based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. Contact center administrators can configure company-specific guardrails for Amazon Q in Connect to filter harmful and inappropriate responses, redact sensitive personal information, and limit incorrect information in the responses due to potential large language model (LLM) hallucination. For end-customer self-service scenarios, guardrails can be used to ensure Amazon Q in Connect responses are constrained to only company-related topics and maintain profession…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides you with the ability to automatically categorize your contacts using generative AI, making it easy to identify top drivers, customer experience, and agent behavior for your contacts. You can provide criteria to categorize contacts in natural language (e.g., did the customer try to make a payment on their balance?). Contact Lens then automatically labels contacts that meet the match criteria, and provides relevant points from the conversation. In addition, you can receive alerts and generate tasks on categorized contacts, and search for contacts using the automated labels. This feature helps supervisors easily categorize contacts fo…

Amazon Connect now offers new capabilities to proactively engage your customers in a personalized manner. These features help non-technical business users create customer segments using prompts and drive trigger-based campaigns to deliver timely, relevant communications to the right audiences. Use new segment AI assistant in Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to build audiences using natural language queries and receive recommendations based on trends in the customer data. Identify segments such as customers with an increase in support cases over the last quarter, or whose have reduced purchases in the last month, using easy-to-use prompts. Use new trigger-based campaign…

Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS Verified Access’ new feature that supports secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and, RDP. With this launch, Verified Access enables you to provide secure, VPN-less access to your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles. This feature eliminates the need to manage separate access and connectivity solutions for your non-HTTP(S) resources on AWS and simplifies security operations. Verified Access evaluates each access request in real time based on the user’s identity and device posture, using fine-grained policies. With this feature, you can extend your existing Verifie…

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Schema Conversion with generative AI is now available. The feature is currently available for database schema conversion from commercial engines, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. Using generative AI recommendations, you can simplify and accelerate your database migration projects, particularly when converting complex code objects which typically require manual conversion, such as stored procedures, functions, or triggers. AWS DMS Schema Conversion with generative AI converts up to 90% of your schema. AWS DMS Schema Co…

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports custom connector and ingestion of streaming data, allowing developers to add, update, or delete data in their knowledge base through direct API calls. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to create highly accurate, low latency, secure, and custom GenAI applications by incorporating contextual information from your company's data sources. With this new capability, customers can easily ingest specific documents from custom data sources or Amazon S3 without requiring a full sync, and ingest streaming data without the need for intermediary storage. This enh…

You can now use the Amazon S3 Express One Zone and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access storage classes in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that is fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements. In Dedicated Local Zones, these storage classes are purpose-built to store data in a specific data perimeter, helping to support your data isolation and data residency use cases. To learn more, visit the S3 User Guide. View the full article

Starting today, PartyRock is supporting improved app discovery using search, making it even easier to explore and build with generative AI. In addition, a new and improved daily free usage model will replace the current free trial grant in 2025 to further empower everyone to build AI apps on PartyRock with daily recurring free use. Previously, AWS offered new PartyRock users a free trial for a limited time, but starting in 2025 you can access and experiment with PartyRock apps, without the worry of exhausting the free trial credits through a free daily use grant. Since its launch in November 2023, more than a half million apps have been created by PartyRock users. Unti…

AWS Transfer Family web apps are a new resource that you can use to create a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, upload, and download data in S3. Transfer Family offers fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2, enabling seamless workload migrations with no need to change your third-party clients or their configurations. Now, you can also enable browser-based transfers for non-technical users in your organization through a user-friendly interface. Transfer Family web apps a…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Invoice Configuration, which enables you to customize your invoicing experience to receive separate AWS invoices based on your organizational structure. This enables you to group AWS accounts according to your internal business entities such as legal entities, subsidiaries, cost centers etc. and receive separate AWS invoices for each of your business entities, within the same AWS Organization. A separate invoice per business entity enables you to track invoices separately, thus enabling faster processing of AWS Invoices by removing manual processes to split the AWS invoice on an entity level. With Invoice Configuration, …

Starting today, customers can attach block data volumes backed by NetApp® on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage® FlashArray™ to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts directly from the AWS Management Console. This makes it easier for customers to leverage third-party storage with Outposts. Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. With this enhancement, Outpost customers can combine the cloud capabilities offered by Outposts with advanced data management features, high density stor…

Amazon Bedrock announces support for reranker models through the Rerank API, enabling developers to improve the relevance of responses in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The reranker models rank a set of retrieved documents based on their relevance to user's query, helping to prioritize the most relevant content to be passed to the foundation models (FM) for response generation. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed, end-to-end RAG workflows to create custom generative AI applications by incorporating contextual information from various data sources. For Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base users, enabling the reranker is through a setting availa…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Hybrid Nodes. With Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, you can use your on-premises and edge infrastructure as nodes in Amazon EKS clusters. Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes unifies Kubernetes management across environments and offloads Kubernetes control plane management to AWS for your on-premises and edge applications. You can now manage Kubernetes applications running on-premises and in edge environments to meet low-latency, local data processing, regulatory, or policy requirements using the same Amazon EKS clusters, features, and tools as applications running in AWS Cloud. Amazon EKS Hybrid…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of managed, preventive controls implemented using declarative policies in AWS Control Tower. These policies are a set of new optional controls that help you consistently enforce the desired configuration for a service. For example, customers can deploy a declarative, policy-based preventive control that disallows public sharing of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Declarative policies help you ensure that the controls configured are always enforced regardless of the introduction of new APIs, or when new principals or accounts are added. Today, AWS Control Tower is releasing declarative, policy-based preventive cont…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights with support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your applications, your databases, and the operating systems on which they run into a unified view in the console. Using its pre-built dashboards, recommended alarms, and automated telemetry collection, …

Today at re:Invent, AWS announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode, a new feature that fully automates compute, storage, and networking management for Kubernetes clusters. Amazon EKS Auto Mode simplifies running Kubernetes by offloading cluster operations to AWS, improves the performance and security of your applications, and helps optimize compute costs. You can use EKS Auto Mode to get Kubernetes conformant managed compute, networking, and storage for any new or existing EKS cluster. This makes it easier for you to leverage the security, scalability, availability, and efficiency of AWS for your Kubernetes applications. EKS Auto Mode removes th…

Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs, a new account-wide setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts. You can now simply specify the AMI owner accounts or AMI owner aliases permitted within your account, and only AMIs from these owners will be visible and available to you to launch EC2 instances. Prior to today, you could use any AMI explicitly shared with your account or any public AMI, regardless of its origin or trustworthiness, putting you at risk of accidentally using an AMI that didn’t meet your organization's compliance requirements. Now with Allowed AMIs, your administrators can specify the acco…

Amazon S3 updates the default behavior of object upload requests with new data integrity protections that build upon S3’s existing durability posture. The latest AWS SDKs now automatically calculate CRC-based checksums for uploads as data is transmitted over the network. S3 independently verifies these checksums and accepts objects after confirming that data integrity was maintained in transit over the public internet. Additionally, S3 now stores a CRC-based whole-object checksum in object metadata, even for multipart uploads, which helps you to verify the integrity of an object stored in S3 at any time. S3 has always validated the integrity of object uploads from the …

Amazon S3 is announcing the general availability of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users, such as customers, partners, and employees, with access to easily browse, download, and upload data in S3 directly from your own applications. Storage Browser for S3 is available in the AWS Amplify React and JavaScript client libraries. With the general availability of Storage Browser for S3, your end users can now search for their data based on file name and can copy and delete data they ha…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region, a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that lets you build multi-Region applications with up to 99.999% availability and microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latencies. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible database service providing multi-AZ durability, microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latency, and high throughput. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value data store—stewarded by Linux Foundation—and is a drop-in replacement of Redis OSS. With MemoryDB Multi-Region, you can build highly available multi-Reg…

Amazon Web Services is announcing general availability for next generation high density Storage Optimized I7ie instances. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances have the highest local NVMe storage density in the cloud for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better rea…

Amazon Web Services announces a new integrated analytics experience and zero-ETL integration between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service for customers to get the best of both services. CloudWatch customers can now leverage OpenSearch’s Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL. Additionally, CloudWatch customers can accelerate troubleshooting with out-of-the-box curated dashboards for vended logs like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF). OpenSearch customers can now analyze CloudWatch Logs without having to duplicate data. With this integration, CloudWatch Logs customers have two more query lan…

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake, enabling you to query and analyze security data in-place directly through OpenSearch. This integration allows you to efficiently explore voluminous data sources that were previously cost-prohibitive to analyze, helping you streamline security investigations and obtain comprehensive visibility of your security landscape. By offering the flexibility to selectively ingest data and eliminating the need to manage complex data pipelines, you can now focus on effective security operations while potentially lowering your analytics costs. Using the powerful analytics and visualization capabil…

Customers often want to augment and enrich SAP source data with other non-SAP source data. Such analytic use cases can be enabled by building a data warehouse or data lake. Customers can now use the AWS Glue SAP OData connector to extract data from SAP. The SAP OData connector supports both on-premises and cloud-hosted (native and SAP RISE) deployments. By using the AWS Glue OData connector for SAP, you can work seamlessly with your data on AWS Glue and Apache Spark in a distributed fashion for efficient processing. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, mac…

Amazon S3 Glacier serves several important audit use cases, particularly for organizations that need to retain data for extended periods due to regulatory compliance, legal requirements, or internal policies. S3 Glacier is ideal for long-term data retention and archiving of audit logs, financial records, healthcare information, and other compliance-related data. Its low-cost storage model makes it economically feasible to store vast amounts of historical data for extended periods of time. The data immutability and encryption features of S3 Glacier uphold the integrity and security of stored audit trails, which is crucial for maintaining a reliable chain of evidence. The s…

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS). With this launch, Amazon FSx for Lustre now provides the fastest storage performance for GPU instances in the cloud, delivering up to 12x higher throughput per client instance (1200 Gbps) compared to previous FSx for Lustre systems, so you can complete machine learning training jobs faster and reduce workload costs. EFA improves workload performance by using the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to increase network throughput utilization and by bypassin…

Amazon Q Developer launches public preview of Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface). The CLI allows you to invoke transformations from the command line and perform transformations at scale. The CLI provides the following capabilities: Transform your Java applications from Java 8, Java 11 to Java 17 (available in the IDE and now in the CLI) Custom transformations (new and only in CLI): The CLI will allow you to perform custom transformations you defined specific to your code bases in your organization. Prior to this launch, Amazon Q Developer would upgrade open-source libraries in your Java applications. With custom transformations in the CLI, …

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale, cloud data warehouse that tens of thousands of customers rely on to power their analytics workloads. Thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift data sharing to enable instant, granular, and fast data access shared across Redshift provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups. This allows you to scale your read workloads to thousands of concurrent users without having to move or copy data. Now, we are announcing general availability (GA) of Amazon Redshift multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing. This new capability allows you to scale your write workloads and achieve better performance for extract, transform, and load…

While customers can perform some basic analysis within their operational or transactional databases, many still need to build custom data pipelines that use batch or streaming jobs to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data into their data warehouse for more comprehensive analysis. Zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift reduces the need for custom pipelines, preserves resources for your transactional systems, and gives you access to powerful analytics. Within seconds of transactional data being written into Amazon Aurora (a fully managed modern relational database service offering performance and high availability at scale), the data is seamlessly made available in A…

This post is co-written with Mulugeta Mammo and Akash Shankaran from Intel. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) technology acceleration on vector search workloads when you run OpenSearch 2.17+ domains with the 4th generation Intel Xeon Intel instances on the Amazon OpenSearch Service. When you run OpenSearch 2.17 domains on C/M/R 7i instances, you can gain up to 51% in vector search performance at no additional cost compared to previous R5 Intel instances. Increasingly, application builders are using vector search to improve the search quality of their applications. This modern technique involves encoding…

The Amazon Q Developer plugin for the Eclipse IDE is now in public preview. With this launch, developers can leverage the power of Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, within the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse developers can now chat with Amazon Q Developer about their project and code faster with inline code suggestions within the IDE. Developers can also leverage Amazon Q Developer customization to receive tailored responses and code recommendations that conform to their team's internal libraries, proprietary algorithmic techniques, and enterprise code style. This helps users build faster while enhancing productivity across th…

Today, we’re introducing a new feature for Neptune Analytics that allows customers to easily provision Amazon VPC interface endpoints (interface endpoints) in their Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). These endpoints provide direct access from on-premises applications over VPN or AWS Direct Connect, and across AWS Regions via VPC peering. With this feature, network engineers can create and manage VPC resources centrally. By leveraging AWS PrivateLink and interface endpoints, development teams can now establish private, secure network connectivity from their applications to Neptune Analytics with simplified configuration. Previously, development teams had to manually co…

Amazon Q Developer Java upgrade transformation now offers step-by-step upgrades, and library upgrades for Java 17 applications. This new feature allows developers to review and accept code changes in multiple diffs, and to test proposed changes in each diff step-by-step. Additionally, Amazon Q can now upgrade libraries for applications already on Java 17, enabling continuous maintenance. This launch significantly improves the code review and application modernization process. By allowing developers to review smaller amount of code changes at a time, it makes error fixes easier when manual completion is required. The ability to upgrade apps already on Java 17 to the lat…

Amazon Q Apps, the generative AI-powered app creation capability of Amazon Q Business, now offers a new data collection feature in public preview. This enhancement enables users to collate data across multiple users within their organization, further enhancing the collaborative quality of Amazon Q Apps for various business needs. With the new ability to collect data through form cards, app creators can design apps to gather information for a diverse set of business use cases, such as conducting team surveys, compiling questions for company-wide meetings, tracking new hire onboarding progress, or running a project retrospective. These apps can further leverage generativ…

Amazon Bedrock Agents now supports custom orchestration, allowing developers to control how agents handle multistep tasks, make decisions, and execute complex workflows. This capability enables developers to define custom orchestration logic for their agents using AWS Lambda, providing them flexibility to tailor agent’s behavior to fit specific use cases. With Custom Orchestration, developers can implement any customized orchestration strategy for their agents, including Plan and Solve, Tree of Thought, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). This ensures agents perform tasks in the desired order, manage states effectively, and integrate seamlessly with external tools…

Amazon Q Apps, a capability within Amazon Q Business to create lightweight, generative AI-powered apps, now supports private sharing. This new feature enables app creators to restrict app access to select Amazon Q Business users, providing more granular control over app visibility and usage within organizations. Previously, Amazon Q Apps could only be kept private for individual use or published to all users of the Amazon Q Business environment through the Amazon Q Apps library. Now app creators can share their apps with specific individuals allowing for more targeted collaboration and controlled access. App users with access to shared apps can find these apps in the A…

AWS Amplify is excited to announce support for Amazon Cognito's new passwordless authentication features, enabling developers to implement secure sign-in methods using SMS one-time passwords, email one-time passwords, and WebAuthn passkeys in their applications with Amplify client libraries for JavaScript, Swift, and Android. This update simplifies the implementation of passwordless authentication flows, addressing the growing demand for more secure and user-friendly login experiences while reducing the risks associated with traditional password-based systems. This new capability enhances application security and user experience by eliminating the need for traditional …

AWS adds support for Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in the open-source Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, high-performance, and highly available client, and it’s pre-configured with best practices from over a decade of operating Amazon ElastiCache. Valkey GLIDE is compatible with versions 7.2 and 8.0 of Valkey, as well as versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2 of Redis OSS. With this update, Valkey GLIDE will direct requests to Valkey nodes within the same Availability Zone, minimizing cross-zone traffic and reducing response time. Java, Python, and Node.js are the currently supported languages for Valkey GL…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of console context awareness for the Amazon Q Developer chat within the AWS Management Console. This new capability allows Amazon Q Developer to dynamically understand and respond to inquiries based on the specific AWS service you are currently viewing or configuring and the region you are operating within. For example, if you are working within the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) console, you can ask "How can I create a cluster?" and Amazon Q Developer will recognize the context and provide relevant guidance tailored to creating ECS clusters. This update enables more natural conversations without providing re…

This post is authored by John Howard(Senior Architect, Solo.io), Petr McAllister(Engineer on the Partner Team, Solo.io), Christian Posta(VP, Global Field CTO, Solo.io) and Jooyoung Kim (Senior Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed service that streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Although Amazon ECS has deep integration with other AWS services, it also offers compatibility with open source projects, particularly those under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Amazon ECS support for CNCF projects allows enterprises to use t…

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity. Until now, Interface VPC endpoints only supported connectivity to VPC endpoint services in the same region. This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can enable access to your VPCE service for customers in all existing and upcoming AWS Regions without the need to setup additional infrastructure in each region. As a service consumer, you can privately connect to VPCE services in other AWS Regions without the need to setup cross-region peering or exposing your data over the public…

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon Aurora databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can spin up R8g database insta…

We are excited to announce Advanced Scaling, a new capability in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling which provides customers increased flexibility to control the performance and resource utilization of their Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters. With Advanced Scaling, customers will be able to configure the desired resource utilization or performance levels for their cluster, and Amazon EMR Managed Scaling will leverage the customers intent to intelligently scale the cluster and optimize cluster compute resources. Customers appreciate the simplicity of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling. However, there are instances where the default Amazon EMR Managed Scaling algorithm might lead to cluster un…

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Time-based Copy. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified timeframe. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes, and copy them across multiple AWS Regions and accounts, for disaster recovery, data migration and compliance purposes. Time-based Copy gives you predictability when copying your snapshots across Regions. With this feature, you can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes…

Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system, a 10x increase over the previous limits, making it easier to power machine learning (ML) research, multi-tenant SaaS, genomics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS. Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads on AWS. With this launch, Amazon EFS supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system. Now, applications that demand millions of IOPS and tens of GiB per second of throughput performance, such as analytics user shares supporting hundreds of data scientists, mult…

This post was co-written with Dipankar Mazumdar, Staff Data Engineering Advocate with AWS Partner OneHouse. Data architecture has evolved significantly to handle growing data volumes and diverse workloads. Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. This led to the rise of data lakes based on columnar formats like Apache Parquet, which came with different challenges like the lack of ACID capabilities. Eventually, transactional data lakes emerged to add transactional consistency and performance of a data warehouse to the d…

AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Colombia Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners. This expansion serves to increase the breadth of software and data offerings, adding to the 20,000+ software listings and data products from 5000+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers around the world can directly procure software and data products from ISVs in Colombia, making it easier than ever to reach data-driven decisions and build operations in the cloud. In addition, AWS Marketplace customers can now purchase software through regional and local Channel Partners in Colombia, who offer knowledge of their…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these insta…

AWS Partner Assistant, a generative AI–powered virtual assistant built on Amazon Q Business, is now available for Partners in AWS Partner Central and the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. Partner Assistant makes it easier for you to get quick answers to common questions—helping you boost productivity and accelerate your AWS Partner journey to unlock benefits faster. Partner Assistant enables you to reduce the need for manual searches by generating real-time guidance and concise summaries from guides and documentation that are available specifically for AWS Partners. For example, you can ask Partner Assistant how to list a software as a service (SaaS) product in AWS Ma…

AWS Graviton4-based M8g and R8g database (DB) instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload. AWS Graviton4 processors are the latest generation of custom-designed AWS Graviton processors built on the AWS Nitro System. Both M8g and R8g DB instances are available with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes. With these new sizes, M8g an…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best perform…

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor versions include: SQL Server 2016 GDR for SP3 - 13.0.6455.2…

Today, we are excited to announce support for new protocols in AWS Network Firewall so you can protect your Amazon VPCs using application-specific inspection rules. With this launch, AWS Network Firewall will detect protocols like HTTP2, QUIC, and PostgreSQL so you can apply firewall inspection rules to these protocols. You can also use new rule keywords in TLS, SNMP, DHCP, and Kerberos rules to apply granular security controls to your stateful inspection rules. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs. It’s flexible rules engine lets you define firewall rules that give you fi…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scala…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports a 10x increase in the default limit for repositories per region per account to 100,000, up from the previous limit of 10,000. This change better aligns with your growth needs and saves you time from not having to request limit increases till 100,000 repositories. You still have the flexibility to adjust the new limit and request additional increases if you require more than 100,000 repositories per registry. The new limit increase is already applied to your current registries and is available in all AWS commercial and Gov Cloud (US) regions. To learn more about default ECR service limits, please visit our documentati…

We are enabling Amazon QuickSight readers to generate filtered views of pixel-perfect reports and create schedules to deliver reports via email. Readers can create up to five schedules per dashboard for themselves. Previously, only dashboard owners could create schedules and only on the default (author published) view of the dashboard. Now, if an author has added controls to the pixel-perfect report, schedules can be created or updated to respect selections on the filter control. These features empower each user to create the view of pixel perfect report that they are interested in and send them as scheduled reports. Authors can create filter controls (prompts) for dif…

Today, AWS announces the addition of cost analysis capabilities to Amazon Q Developer, allowing customers to retrieve and interpret their AWS cost data through natural language interactions. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps customers build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. The cost analysis capability helps users of all skill levels to better understand and manage their AWS spending without previous knowledge of AWS Cost Explorer. Customers can now ask Amazon Q Developer questions about their AWS costs such as "Which region had the largest cost increase last month?" or "What services cost me the most last quarter?". Q interpret…