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The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are available in Amazon Bedrock. Starting today, the Llama 3.1 405B model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. All Llama 3.1 models demonstrate significant improvements over previous versions. The models support a 128K context length and exhibit improved reasoning for multilingual dialogue use cases in eight languages. The models access more information from lengthy text to make more i…

AWS is launching a self-guided experience to help AWS Partners on the Services Path reach the Advanced tier. This experience includes personalized Tasks in Partner Central that offer tips and resources for both new and existing partners to advance in their AWS journey, unlocking access to programs like Specialization and enhancing their discoverability for AWS customers and AWS sales teams. In addition, AWS Partners who provide managed services will receive personalized tasks including the new AWS MSP Practice Building Guide. This experience empowers partners to progress through tiers and access benefits independently. Tasks will now be labeled with their associated so…

Developing cloud skills and expertise across the workforce is a critical first step as organizations continue their cloud journeys. While cloud maturity is an iterative process, effective training and enablement is crucial for the success of this transformative journey. This blog will highlight AWS training resources and strategies that organizations can leverage to upskill their workforce across five key cloud initiatives – migration, modernization, generative AI and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), security and resiliency, and cost optimization. Assessing cloud skill gaps to drive targeted upskilling The first step to properly plan for and deploy a t…

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 33 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center with your existing identity source or create a new directory, and manage workforce access to part or all of your AWS environment. With IAM Identity Center, you can manage and audit user access more easily and consistently, your workforce has single sign-on access and unified experience across AWS services, and your data owners can authorize…

We are excited to announce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Inference that helps customers reduce the time it takes for their Generative AI models to scale automatically. They can now use sub-minute metrics and significantly reduce overall scaling latency for AI models. Using this enhancement customers can improve the responsiveness of their Generative AI applications as demand fluctuates. With this capability customers get two new high resolution CloudWatch metrics - ConcurrentRequestsPerModel and ConcurrentRequestsPerModelCopy - that enable faster autoscaling. These metrics are emitted at a 10 second interval and provide a more accurate representation of the load…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to the AWS Nigeria region Local Zone, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into the Nigeria Local Zone to reach players across the continent of Africa. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that extends AWS Regions to place compute, storage, database, and other AWS services at the edge of the cloud near large population, industry, and information technology (IT) centers—enabling developers to deploy games that requi…

AWS HealthImaging adds new copy and update capabilities, making it easier than ever to manage your medical imaging data. With this launch, you can more efficiently organize, combine, and update your medical imaging data to support common clinical and research workflows. This launch offers enhanced capabilities for modifying DICOM data, and simplifies resolving metadata inconsistencies. You can now copy one or more DICOM instances, making it easier organize your instances by imaging Study and Series. It is now easier to update metadata, including Study, Series, and SOP Instance UIDs, so you can keep data current as new patient information becomes available. This launch …

AWS Step Functions now supports the use of Customer Managed Keys with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt Step Functions State Machine and Activity resources. This new capability enables you to encrypt your workflow definitions and execution data using your own encryption keys. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. With support for Customer Managed Keys, you have more fine-grained security control over your workflow data, making it easier to meet your organization's regulatory and compliance requirements. Yo…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is announcing the general availability of repository creation templates, which allow customers to specify initial configuration for repositories that are automatically created by ECR via pull through cache and replication. ECR customers can specify configuration for these repositories, including encryption settings, lifecycle policies, and repository permissions. This enables customers to define custom configurations and assign them as defaults for various use cases within their registries. Repository creation templates can specify configuration for all repository settings including resource-based access policies, tag immutabilit…

CloudWatch RUM, which helps you perform real user monitoring by collecting client-side data of application performance and user interactions in real time, now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for PutRumEvents API, enabling enhanced data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Each data item collected using RUM web client or “app monitor“ is considered a RUM event and is sent to CloudWatch RUM using the PutRumEvents API. Now, CloudTrail logs would provide a comprehensive audit trail of PutRumEvents API calls, helping troubleshoot issues by providing insights into request parameters, source IP addresses, and timestamps. These logs can b…

Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces four new enhancements: the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution on Clean Rooms, additional privacy controls for data analyses, a feature to configure which collaborators receive analyses results, and the ability to generate seed data for lookalike modeling using SQL. These capabilities help you improve data matching, and give you increased control and flexibility for data collaborations. AWS Entity Resolution is now natively integrated within AWS Clean Rooms to help you and your partners more easily prepare and match related customer records. Using rule-based or data service provider-based matching can help you improve data mat…

This blog post is co-written with Raj Samineni from ATPCO. In today’s data-driven world, companies across industries recognize the immense value of data in making decisions, driving innovation, and building new products to serve their customers. However, many organizations face challenges in enabling their employees to discover, get access to, and use data easily with the right governance controls. The significant barriers along the analytics journey constrain their ability to innovate faster and make quick decisions. ATPCO is the backbone of modern airline retailing, enabling airlines and third-party channels to deliver the right offers to customers at the right tim…

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing extract, transform, and load (ETL); business intelligence (BI); and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per day and power analytics workloads such as BI, predictive analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that lets you define cloud resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflo…

Today, Amazon EMR announces 24 month support for Amazon EMR release versions. Amazon EMR aims to get the latest open-source versions of its Core Engines and Open Table Formats into your hands within 90 days from their upstream release. This extended support period gives customers peace of mind and a predictable timeline for budgeting, testing, and transitioning workloads. During this 24 month period, Amazon EMR will provide support and fixes for critical issues related to security, bugs, and data corruption, subject to the availability of fixes. Standard Support covers eligible components under recommended configurations. Amazon EMR intends to deploy fixes to the lates…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or on-premises infrastructure to a platform optimized for dense HDD storage workloads. Amazon EC2 D3en instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of private networking, and efficient, flexible, and secure cloud …

AWS Data Pipeline helps customers automate the movement and transformation of data. With Data Pipeline, customers can define data-driven workflows, so that tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks. Launched in 2012, Data Pipeline predates several popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings for orchestrating data pipelines such as AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). Data Pipeline has been a foundational service for getting customer off the ground for their extract, transform, load (ETL) and infra provisioning use cases. Some customers want a deeper level of control and specificity than …

At AWS, we are constantly innovating and evolving our services to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. In this post, we want to help you understand the differences between Amazon CloudSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service, and how you can transition to OpenSearch Service. Comparing Amazon CloudSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service CloudSearch is a fully managed service in the cloud that makes it straightforward to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. With CloudSearch, you can search large collections of data such as webpages, document files, forum posts, or product information. You can quickly add search capabilities with…

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless version of Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed open search and analytics platform. On Amazon OpenSearch Service you can run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without the heavy lifting of managing the underlying OpenSearch Service clusters and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series collections. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless provides an installation of OpenSearch Dashboards with every collection created. The network configuration for an OpenSearch Serverless collection controls how the collection can be accessed over the network. You have the option to make the colle…

AWS DataSync now supports agentless cross-region data transfers between all regions in the commercial AWS partition, including opt-in regions. With this update, you can now transfer millions of files or objects between AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in different regions without deploying or managing a DataSync agent. AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates the transfer of files and objects. It uses a purpose-built network protocol and scale-out architecture to move data quickly and securely between AWS Storage services, on-premises storage, edge locations, or other clouds. DataSync …

Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This model is the latest version of Mistral AI's flagship large language model, Mistral Large (24.02), with significant improvements on multilingual accuracy, conversational behavior, coding capabilities, reasoning and instruction-following behavior. With this new release of Mistral Large, you can leverage its multi-lingual proficiency to seamlessly communicate and process information in dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Arabic, and Hindi. It has an increased context window of 1…

Today, AWS open-sourced the AWS Signer plugin for Notation, giving customers flexibility and transparency in how they sign and verify container images with AWS Signer, a managed signing service. Notation is an open source tool developed by the Notary Project, an industry standard for securing software supply chains by authenticating container images and other OCI artifacts. The plugin extends Notation with Signer managed secrets and revocation capabilities. Customers can now incorporate the Signer plugin as a library inside their native tools to generate and verify container artifacts signatures. Notation can be used as a CLI executable or as a Golang library. With the…

This post is written in collaboration with Mackenzie Johnson and Phil Catterall from ActionIQ. ActionIQ is a leading composable customer data (CDP) platform designed for enterprise brands to grow faster and deliver meaningful experiences for their customers. ActionIQ taps directly into a brand’s data warehouse to build smart audiences, resolve customer identities, and design personalized interactions to unlock revenue across the customer lifecycle. Enterprise brands including Albertsons, Atlassian, Bloomberg, e.l.f. Beauty, DoorDash, HP, and more use ActionIQ to drive growth through better customer experiences. High costs associated with launching campaigns, the secur…

When it comes to AWS certifications, AWS Security Specialty and AWS DevOps Engineer certifications are highly demanded in the cloud computing industry. These certifications not only validate your skills but also open up a world of career opportunities in the ever-growing field of cloud infrastructure. But how do you decide which certification to go for, and which one aligns with your career goals? If you are passionate about securing cloud environments, have a strong understanding of security protocols, and enjoy identifying and mitigating risks, then the AWS Security Specialty certification might be the right choice for you. This certification focuses on securing A…

AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Billing Entity” to its rules. You can now use eight types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, "Usage Type", “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, “Billing Entity” and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules. AWS Cost Categories is a feature within the AWS Cost Management product suite that enables you to group cost and usage information into meaningful categories based on your needs. You can create custom categories and map your cost and usage information into these categories based on the rules defined by you using various dimensions. Once cost categories are set up and enabled, you w…

The most advanced and capable Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3.1 models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. Llama 3.1 models demonstrate significant improvements over previous versions due to increased training data and scale. The models support a 128K context length, an increase of 120K tokens from Llama 3. Llama 3.1 models have 16 times the capacity of Llama 3 models and improved reasoning for multilingual d…

Managing data across diverse environments can be a complex and daunting task. Amazon DataZone simplifies this so you can catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Many organizations manage vast amounts of data assets owned by various teams, creating a complex landscape that poses challenges for scalable data management. These organizations require a robust infrastructure as code (IaC) approach to deploy and manage their data governance solutions. In this post, we explore how to deploy Amazon DataZone using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to achieve seamless, scalable, and secure data governance. Overview…

Today, Amazon EKS announces new controls for Kubernetes version policy, allowing cluster administrators to configure end of standard support behavior for EKS clusters. This behavior can easily be set through the EKS Console and CLI. Kubernetes version policy control is available for Kubernetes versions in standard support. Controls for Kubernetes version policy makes it easier for you to choose which clusters should enter extended support and which clusters can be automatically upgraded at the end of standard support. This control provides the flexibility for you to balance version upgrades against business requirements depending on the environment or applications runn…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports managing on-premises workloads running on Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora 40, Debian 11, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24, and CentOS Stream 9. Amazon ECS Anywhere is a feature of Amazon ECS that enables you to run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. Amazon ECS Anywhere is available in all AWS Regions globally. To learn more visit the ECS Anywhere user guide. View the full article

Today, AWS announces advanced targeting capabilities for AWS AppConfig feature flags. Customers can set up multiple values within flag data, and target those values to fine-grained and high-cardinality user segments. A common use-case for feature flag targets include allow lists, where a customer can specify user IDs or customer tiers, and only enable a new or premium feature for those segments. Another use-case is to split traffic to 15% of your user-base, and experiment with a user experience optimization for a limited cohort of users before rolling the feature out to all users. Customers can start using this powerful feature by creating an AWS AppConfig feature flag…

The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. All Llama 3.1 models demonstrate significant improvements over previous versions. The models support a 128K context length, have 16 times the capacity of Llama 3, and exhibit improved reasoning for multilingual dialogue use cases in eight languages. The models access more information from lengthy text to make more informed decisions and leverage richer conte…

We are excited to announce public availability of Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica. This new capability enables automated conversion of legacy code written in Assembler language to COBOL. The majority of mainframe environments include Assembler code that is expensive to maintain. Modernization of the code unblocks modernization projects to enable refactor projects, replatform projects, on-mainframe modernization initiatives, within AWS Mainframe Modernization toolchains, or to use alongside third-party modernization toolchains. AWS Mainframe Modernization service allows you to modernize and migrate on-premises mainframe applications to AWS. It offers …

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics. You can now easily visualize and monitor campaign performance, track efficiency, measure compliance, and understand campaign outcomes for your voice workloads. You can view real-time and historical reports using custom time periods and benchmarks, track campaign progress and delivery status, and drill down into call classification outcomes (e.g., human answered, voicemail). You can also quickly identify trends and patterns across key metrics, such as dials attempted or abandonment rate, to monitor and enhance campaign performance. Additionally, these metrics are now available via API f…

We are excited to announce that AWS Certification will introduce three new question types: ordering, matching, and case study. Combined with the existing multiple-choice questions and multiple-response questions, the new question types are designed to reduce your reading time and test additional critical concepts. The first exams to include these new question types are AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate. This blog post shares insights about the new question types and offers information to help you prepare. Why the addition of new question types? Ordering and matching questions provide a more efficient way to test proce…

Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program recognizes a select group of AWS experts worldwide who go above and beyond in sharing their knowledge and making an impact within developer communities. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS and a long-time supporter of developer communities, made a special appearance for a Q&A session with the Heroes to listen to their feedback and respond to their questions. Here’s an epic photo from the AWS Heroes Summit: As Matt mentioned in his Linkedin post, “The developer community has been core to everything we have done since th…

Amazon MQ now provides support for quorum queues, a replicated FIFO queue type offered by open-source RabbitMQ that uses the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain data consistency. Quorum queues are the replicated queue type recommended by open-source RabbitMQ maintainers. With quorum queues, developers can design highly available messaging systems with higher data consistency and fault tolerance. Quorum queues can detect network failures faster and recover more quickly, improving the resiliency of the message broker as a whole. Quorum queues also provide poison message handling which helps developers manage unprocessed messages more efficiently. Amazon MQ benchmarks sh…

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. Internet registries manage the allocation and registration of IP addresses within specific geographical regions. BYOIP allows you to bring IP addresses allocated to you by these registries, to AWS, and use them for your workloads. This new feature extends BYOIP support to previously unsupported Internet Registries, including JPNIC, LACNIC, and AFRINIC. When setting up BYOIP, AWS validates that you control the IP address space that you are bringing to AWS. This validation ensures that users cannot use IP …

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports change streams on reader instances. With change stream on reader instances, customers can now isolate change stream workloads to specific reader instances, which reduces the load on cluster’s writer instance. Change stream tokens can be shared across writer and reader instances, enabling customers to resume change streams from a specific document or time from any Amazon DocumentDB instance during a cluster failover or maintenance event. This functionality is also available in Amazon DocumentDB global clusters – customers can now read change streams from reader instances from the secondary global cluster. Th…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this expansion, customers of RDS for open source engines in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region have more than double the number of available instance types to choose from. M6i and R6i database instance types offer a new maximum instance size for the region of 32xlarge. 32xlarge supports 128 vCPU, which is 33% more than the maximum size of M5 and R5 database instance types. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Get started by creating…

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports the ability to enable compression on existing collections, set a compression threshold for each collection, and enable compression on all new collections using a cluster-wide setting. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB can be up to 7 times smaller than uncompressed documents, leading to lower storage costs, I/O costs, and improved query performance. Customers can enable document compression across their entire cluster using a single cluster-wide parameter group setting. With the compression setting enabled, all new collections created during a database migration or after upgrading the cluster will be co…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries within seconds after a contact ends, versus minutes previously, helping you get faster insights when reviewing contacts, save time on after-contact work, and more quickly identifying opportunities to improve contact quality and agent performance. These faster summaries are available via API and Kinesis data streams, enabling integrations with third-party agent workspace or CRM systems. You can also access these summaries natively within Amazon Connect through contact details and contact control panel (CCP). Generative AI-powered post-contact summaries are available in the US West (Ore…

AWS KMS has doubled default service quotas for cryptographic operations in all AWS Regions, including raising the symmetric cryptographic operation request rate from 50,000 to 100,000 in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). The request rate for cryptographic operations involving RSA and ECC KMS keys has also been increased from 500 to 1,000 in all AWS Regions. These default service quotas have been increased in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see Request quotas section in the AWS KMS Developer Guide. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides an API to search an agent status by name, ID, tag, or other criteria. Agent statuses are used in the Contact Control Panel (CCP) to indicate if an agent is available to handle contacts or not, for example because they are away for lunch or in training. With this new API, you can now answer questions such as, “How many of our statuses are disabled?”, and, “What statuses have ‘break’ in their description?”, and see a response with details like name, description, display order, and ARN. The SearchAgentStatuses API is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact cen…

Amazon Connect now provides an API to search for hierarchy groups by name, group ID, tag, or other criteria. Hierarchy groups describe your organization’s structure, and are used for reporting and access control. With this new API, you can now answer questions such as, “How many teams operate in the northwest region?” and, “What groups have a tag indicating they can access performance reviews?” and see a response with details like name, description, hierarchy level, ARN, and when a record was last updated. The SearchUserHierarchyGroups API is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact ce…

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports deploying fine-tuned Foundation Models (FMs) to SageMaker real-time inference endpoints, allowing you to bring generative AI capabilities into production and consume outside the Canvas workspace. SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions and use generative AI capabilities. SageMaker Canvas provides access to fine-tuning FMs powered by Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart such as Amazon Titan Express, Falcon-7B-Instruct, Falcon-40B-Instruct, and Flan-T5 variants. You can upload a dataset, select a FM to fine-tune, and SageMaker Canvas automatically …

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions, enabling you to build serverless applications with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ Classic and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to migrate to a message broker in the cloud. Lambda makes it easy to read from Amazon MQ message brokers and process messages without needing to create and manage a consumer application that monitors Amazon MQ queues for updates. Your Lambda functi…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on AWS, is now available in all GovCloud regions. Logs IA helps improve visibility into your overall application health with a subset of CloudWatch Logs' capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per GB ingestion price. This makes Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs. With Logs IA, you can choose the log class that best aligns with your use case. While you can use CloudWatch Logs Standard for logs requiring real-time operational v…

We're excited to announce the introduction of a GitHub library that will host the schemas for the DetailsDocument used in StartChangeSet, DescribeChangeSet, and DescribeEntity APIs in Catalog API (CAPI). This new feature aims to simplify the integration process for developers working with the Catalog API. Today, as a developer in seller/partner organizations, you need to construct the API request structure manually when integrating with Catalog API for operations such adding pricing dimensions. This involves reviewing the API documentation and experimenting to understand the schema of the "DetailsDocument" for the request. With the new schema library, you can directly …

This post was co-written with Shyam Narayan, a leader in the Accenture AWS Business Group, and Hui Yee Leong, a DevOps and platform engineer, both based in Australia. Hui and Shyam specialize in designing and implementing complex AWS transformation programs across a wide range of industries. Enterprises that operate out of multiple locations such as in retail and telecom industries often deal with the complexities of processing several utility bills. These bills need to be verified for discrepancies before making payments. Business processes are often done by teams of people manually processing invoices in various formats. Additionally, enterprises often need to meet …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first c…

OpenSearch is an open source, distributed search engine suitable for a wide array of use-cases such as ecommerce search, enterprise search (content management search, document search, knowledge management search, and so on), site search, application search, and semantic search. It’s also an analytics suite that you can use to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, security analytics and more. Like Apache Solr, OpenSearch provides search across document sets. OpenSearch also includes capabilities to ingest and analyze data. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy, scale, and monitor OpenSearch in the AWS…

Starting today, you can use Lambda SnapStart with Java functions that use the ARM64 instruction set architecture. SnapStart for Java delivers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost, enabling you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda without having to provision resources or implement complex performance optimizations. This launch expands SnapStart’s performance benefits to functions running on ARM64 architecture, which enables upto 34% better price performance as compared to x86. Lambda SnapStart for Java functions on ARM64 architecture is available in all AWS Regions where SnapStart is generally available.…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. View the full article

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks. A data mesh addresses these issues with four principles: domain-oriented decentralized data ownership and architecture, treating data as a product, providing self-serve data infrastructure as a platform, and implementing federated governance. Data mesh enables organizations to organize around data domains with a focus on delivering data as a product. In 2019, Volkswagen AG (VW) and Amazon Web…

AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon Q Developer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Q Developer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate by Q Developer. Previously, session durations for Q Developer in the IDE had the same length as other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal, between 15 minutes and 90 days. Customers appreciated the flexibility to change the configuration and many opted for more frequent re-authenticat…

Today, AWS Control Tower customization frameworks Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) and Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCT) are available in additional AWS Regions. AFT and CfCT are now available in 5 additional commercial AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, and Osaka), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE). They are also available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers in these home regions can now deploy customizations in their accounts using the AFT and CfCT frameworks. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS ser…

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up and maintain the underlying infrastructure. It is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager to provide you with central visibility and control over your firewall policies across multiple AWS accounts. To see which regions AWS Network Firewall is available in, visit the AWS…

AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Amazon CodeWhisperer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate by CodeWhisperer. Previously, session durations for CodeWhisperer in the IDE had the same length as other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal, between 15 minutes and 90 days. Customers appreciated the flexibility to change the configuration and many opted for more frequent…

On July 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.2, 21.0.4, 17.0.12, 11.0.24, 8u422 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, Corretto 11, Corretto 17, Corretto 21, or Corretto 22. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt or Yum repo. Feedback is welcomed! View the full article

AWS HealthImaging has launched two additional DICOMweb APIs for retrieving medical imaging metadata and image frames. This launch offers customers greater flexibility in how they access data stored on HealthImaging, and expanded interoperability with legacy applications. Customers can now download DICOM instance metadata from HealthImaging with GetDICOMInstanceMetadata. Customers can also retrieve one or more image frames from a DICOM instance stored on HealthImaging with GetDICOMInstanceFrames. Both of these APIs are built in conformance with the DICOMweb WADO-RS standard for web-based medical imaging. These APIs make it easy to connect DICOMweb-enabled applications, …

The automobile industry has undergone a remarkable transformation because of the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs, known for their sustainability and eco-friendliness, are paving the way for a new era in transportation. As environmental concerns and the push for greener technologies have gained momentum, the adoption of EVs has surged, promising to reshape our mobility landscape. The surge in EVs brings with it a profound need for data acquisition and analysis to optimize their performance, reliability, and efficiency. In the rapidly evolving EV industry, the ability to harness, process, and derive insights from the massive volume of data generated by…

This post demonstrates how to migrate nearly any amount of data from an on-premises Apache Hadoop environment to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) by using S3DistCp on Amazon EMR with AWS Direct Connect. To transfer resources from a target EMR cluster, the traditional Hadoop DistCp must be run on the source cluster to move data from one cluster to another, which invokes a MapReduce job on the source cluster and can consume a lot of cluster resources (depending on the data volume). To avoid this problem and minimize the load on the source cluster, you can use S3DistCp with Direct Connect to migrate terabytes of data from an on-premises Hadoop environment to Amazo…

Introduction In today’s dynamic business landscape, operational efficiency and cost optimization are two critical ingredients for a successful business outcome. This is especially true for companies navigating through digital transformation. In 2020, Thomson Reuters (TR), a leader at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, committed to a cloud-first strategy with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Once this migration was complete, the Thomson Reuters team continued to work with AWS to further modernize the migrated applications, improve operability, and reduce overall cloud costs. At this point, TR felt a need for a platform that can not only help them to r…

This post is written in collaboration with Clarisa Tavolieri, Austin Rappeport and Samantha Gignac from Zurich Insurance Group. The growth in volume and number of logging sources has been increasing exponentially over the last few years, and will continue to increase in the coming years. As a result, customers across all industries are facing multiple challenges such as: Balancing storage costs against meeting long-term log retention requirements Bandwidth issues when moving logs between the cloud and on premises Resource scaling and performance issues when trying to analyze massive amounts of log data Keeping pace with the growing storage requirements, while…

We are excited to announce enhanced search capability in the AWS Artifact Reports console that allows you to quickly find the compliance reports you need. You can now perform targeted searches for reports based on individual columns, including report title, category, series, description, and ARN. This empowers you to easily locate specific reports. For example, if you need to find all SOC (System and Organization Controls) reports, you can now search the "Title" column using the "contains" operator and the term "SOC". The new column-specific search helps you narrow down your results and save time. Targeted search is available for customers who are opted-in to use the A…

Introduction Culture Amp is an employee experience platform that provides the insights into employee engagement, performance, and development that organizations need to build a category-defining culture. Culture Amp’s mission is to create a better world of work. Developer feedback loops An efficient developer feedback loop is a critical part of an effective development process – ideally the engineer has timely “loops” that provide them with reliable feedback on their implementation thus far. Successive loops often increase in complexity – providing more realistic feedback at the cost of increased “loop time”. Delays or overheads due to poor feedback loops are a common…

Currently in Amazon QuickSight when readers interact with controls they need to wait for all relevant controls to reload after each change is made. With this new release readers will see most controls immediately accessible as loading has been moved to the background. Readers may see a loading indicator in the sample value list, but we prioritize the control being interacted with to reduce the loading time experienced. Readers can start interacting with controls right away when the dashboard loads. As more controls are added to the dashboard or if controls previously loaded slowly, it will be more clear that this update has sped up the ability to interact with controls…

As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq were at the AWS Community Day Cameroon last week. They were energized to meet amazing professionals, mentors, and students – all willing to learn and exchange thoughts about cloud technologies. You can access the video replay to feel the vibes or just watch some of the talks! Last week’s launches In addition to the launches at the New York Summit, here are a few others that got my atte…

Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service with workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. In addition to achieving FedRAMP High authorization in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions, AWS Application Migration Service is in scope for numerous compliance programs and standards, including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard), ISO (International Organization for Standardization), SOC 1, 2, and 3 (System and Organization Controls). To learn more about AWS Application Migration Service compliance valid…

AWS Security Hub has released 24 new security controls, increasing the number of controls offered to 418. Security Hub now supports controls for additional AWS services such as Amazon Inspector, Amazon Data Firehose and AWS Service Catalog. Security Hub also released new controls against previously supported services like Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon DynamoDB. For the full list of recently released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide. To use the new controls, turn on the standard they belong to. Security Hub will then start evaluating your security posture and monitoring your resources for the relevant security con…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ 2 file systems in two additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Customers can now also create new Multi-AZ file systems in these two regions with higher throughput capacity than they could previously, up to a new maximum of 10,240 MBps. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s of throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression). It offers two deployment types: Single-AZ…

You can now disable individual outputs on an AWS Elemental MediaConnect flow, temporarily stopping them from transmitting data. This makes it easier to manage content sharing by allowing you to suspend and restart distribution of live video to a single destination without having to delete and then reconfigure output settings or flows. To learn more about stopping individual flow outputs, visit the AWS Elemental MediaConnect documentation page. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and custo…

AWS Cloud Control API now allows customers to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing service endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their AWS Cloud Control API endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can standardize their applications on the new ve…

We are excited to announce the new smart caching feature for indexing in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. This innovative caching mechanism automatically fetches and intelligently manages data, leading to faster data retrieval, efficient storage usage, and cost savings. OpenSearch Serverless has a built-in caching tier for indexing and search compute, measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCU). Prior to this feature, the OCUs consumed by indexing was predominantly determined by the size of the workload. The new caching feature optimizes data management on the indexing compute by keeping only the most recently or frequently used data readily available in the cache. Instead…

This post is co-written with Çağrı Çakır and Özge Kavalcı from PostNL. PostNL is the designated universal postal service provider for the Netherlands and has three main business units offering postal delivery, parcel delivery, and logistics solutions for ecommerce and cross-border solutions. With 5,800 retail points, 11,000 mailboxes, and over 900 automated parcel lockers, the company plays an important role in the logistics value chain. It aims to be the delivery organization of choice by making it as easy as possible to send and receive parcels and mail. With almost 34,000 employees, PostNL is at the heart of society. On a typical weekday, the company delivers an aver…

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is announcing improvements that simplify how customers manage OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers (IdPs) in their AWS accounts. These improvements include increased availability when handling federated user logins through existing IdPs and a streamlined process for provisioning new OIDC IdPs. IAM now secures communication with OIDC IdPs by trusting the root certificate authority (CA) anchoring the IdP’s SSL/TLS server certificate. This aligns with current industry standards and removes the need for customers to update certificate thumbprints when rotating SSL/TLS certificates. For customers using less common root CAs…

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances employee productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer's enterprise data. Across various industries, users want to derive insights from document types such as invoices, tax statements, which are frequently in scanned PDF format. Starting today, Amazon Q Business users can get answers from text content in scanned PDFs, and images embedded in PDF documents. Prior to today, customers who wanted to derive insights from scanned PDFs and images in PDF documents would first have to do preprocessing to extract the text from …

Today, AWS announces IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat. Users can now add @workspace to their chat message to Amazon Q Developer to ask questions about the code in the project they currently have open in the integrated development environment (IDE). Developers can ask questions like “@workspace what does this codebase do?” or “how does this @workspace implement authentication and authorization?”. Previously, Amazon Q Developer chat in the IDE could only answer questions about your currently opened code file. Now, Q Developer automatically ingests and indexes all code files, configurations, and project structure, giving the chat comprehensive co…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enforces software version consistency for your containerized applications, helping you ensure all tasks in your application are identical and that all code changes go through the safeguards defined in your deployment pipeline. Customers deploy long-running applications such as HTTP-based microservices as Amazon ECS services and often use container image tags to configure these services. Although container images are immutable, image tags aren’t immutable by default and there is no standard mechanism to prevent different versions from being unintentionally deployed when you configure a containerized application using ima…

AWS Secrets Manager today announces Secrets Manager Agent - a language agnostic local HTTP service that you can install and use in your compute environments to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory. With this launch, you can now simplify and standardize the way you read secrets across compute environments without the need for custom code. Secrets Manager Agent is an open source release that your applications can use to retrieve secrets from a local HTTP service instead of making a network call to Secrets Manager. With customizable configuration options such as time to live, cache size, maximum connections, and HTTP port, you can adapt the agent bas…

Introduction Container image tags offer a user-friendly way to manage and keep track of different versions of container images. However, they also present a security risk to organizations due to their mutable nature. Without protections in place, a container image tag can be changed in a container image repository to point to a different container image. This presents a scenario whereby the intended container image when a workload was defined may not be the one used when a workload is run. Today we are excited to announce a new feature for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): software version consistency. Amazon ECS will now resolve a container image tag to its cont…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) jobs in AWS Batch on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With AWS Batch MNP jobs you can run tightly-coupled High Performance Computing (HPC) applications like training multi-layer AI/ML models. AWS Batch helps you to launch, configure, and manage nodes in your Amazon EKS cluster without manual intervention. You can configure MNP jobs using the RegisterJobsDefinition API or via job definitions sections of AWS Batch Management Console. With MNP jobs you can run AWS Batch on Amazon EKS workloads that span multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. AWS Batch MNP jobs …

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.19, introducing support for flash attention kernel to enable performant LLM model training and inference with large sequence lengths. AWS Neuron is the SDK for AWS Inferentia and Trainium based instances purpose-built for generative AI. Neuron integrates with popular ML frameworks like PyTorch. It includes a compiler, runtime, tools, and libraries to support high performance training and inference of AI models on Trn1 and Inf2 instances. This release adds new features and performance improvements for both training and inference and new Ubuntu 22 Neuron DLAMIs for PyTorch 2.1 and PyTorch 1.13. Neuron 2.19 adds support for …

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now makes it easier to troubleshoot task launch failures with enhanced stopped task error messages. When your Amazon ECS task fails to launch, you see the stopped task error messages in the AWS Management Console or in the ECS DescribeTasks API response. With today’s launch, Amazon ECS stopped task error messages are now more specific and actionable. Amazon ECS is designed to help easily launch and scale your applications. When your Amazon ECS task fails to launch, you can use the Amazon ECS stopped task error message to identify the failure reason and resolve the failure. With this launch, stopped task error messages from…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer’s capability to chat about your AWS account resources. With this capability, you can use natural language prompts to list resources in your AWS account, get specific resource details, and ask about related resources. From the Amazon Q Developer chat panel in the AWS Management Console, you can ask Q to “list my S3 buckets” or “show my running EC2 instances in us-east-1” and Amazon Q returns a list of resource details, along with a summary. You can ask what Amazon EC2 instances an Amazon CloudWatch alarm is monitoring or ask “what related resources does my ec2 instance <id> have?” and Amazon Q Dev…

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Senegal. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Outposts can also help meet data residency requirements. Outposts is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployment…

A protein is a sequence of amino acids that, when chained together, creates a 3D structure. This 3D structure allows the protein to bind to other structures within the body and initiate changes. This binding is core to the working of many drugs. A common workflow within drug discovery is searching for similar proteins, because similar proteins likely have similar properties. Given an initial protein, researchers often look for variations that exhibit stronger binding, better solubility, or reduced toxicity. Despite advances in protein structure prediction, it’s still sometimes necessary to predict protein properties based on sequence alone. Thus, there is a need to quic…

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduced the OpenSearch Optimized Instances (OR1), deliver price-performance improvement over existing instances. The newly introduced OR1 instances are ideally tailored for heavy indexing use cases like log analytics and observability workloads. OR1 instances use a local and a remote store. The local storage utilizes either Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) of type gp3 or io1 volumes, and the remote storage uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). For more details about OR1 instances, refer to Amazon OpenSearch Service Under the Hood: OpenSearch Optimized Instances (OR1). In this post, we conduct experiments using OpenSearch B…

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in nine new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Canada West (Calgary), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Learn more about using Amazon MWAA on the product page. Please visit the AWS region ta…

AWS License Manager now integrates with Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM) to provide greater insight into use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on Amazon EC2. With instance and subscription data from RHSM accessible directly in License Manager, you can better manage cost optimization and compliance of your RHEL usage on AWS. You can already use License Manager to discover and track RHEL instances on Amazon EC2 launched from AWS provided Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). License Manager can now integrate with RHSM to show information about instances launched from custom RHEL images. The new feature will help customers discover RHEL instances and subscriptions in use on A…

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce an increase in the table size limit for joining SPICE datasets from 1GB to 20GB. Previously, when customers prepared their data and joined tables from various sources, including SPICE, the combined secondary tables had to be less than 1GB. This limitation often forced QuickSight customers to find workarounds in their upstream data pipeline to handle large datasets and build complex data models. With the new 20GB limit for secondary tables, users can now join SPICE tables with 20 times the previous capacity, significantly enhancing data preparation capabilities in QuickSight. This upgrade also enables large cross-source join tasks b…

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Canada West (Calgary) Region. Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. With the addition of this region, Amazon Cognito is now available in 30 AWS Regions globally. For a list of regions where Amazon Cognito is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more about Amazon Cognito, visit the product documentation page. To get starte…

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. With the addition of this region, Amazon Cognito is now available in 29 AWS Regions globally. For a list of regions where Amazon Cognito is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more about Amazon Cognito, visit the product documentation page. To get sta…

Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive in backup policies, allowing customers to automatically move Amazon EBS Snapshots created by AWS Backup to Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive at the AWS Organizations level. Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent retrieval. You can now use your Organizations’ management account to set an Amazon EBS Snapshots Archival policy across accounts. To get started, create a new or edit an existing AWS Backup policy from your AWS Organizations’ management account. You can use AWS Backup policies to transition your Amazon EBS …

Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock enables customers to implement safeguards based on their application requirements and responsible AI policies. Today, guardrails adds contextual grounding checks and introduces a new ApplyGuardrail API to build trustworthy generative AI applications using any foundation model (FM). Customers rely on the inherent capabilities of the FMs to generate grounded (credible) responses that are based on company’s source data. However, FMs can conflate multiple pieces of information, producing incorrect or new information - impacting the reliability of the application. With contextual grounding checks, Guardrails can now detect hallucinations in mod…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of customized Amazon Q Developer inline code recommendations. You can now securely connect Amazon Q Developer to your private code bases and generate more precise suggestions by including your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, methods, and best practices. In preview, you can also use Amazon Q Developer chat in the IDE to ask questions about how your internal code base is structured, where and how certain functions or libraries are used, or what specific functions, methods, or APIs do. With these capabilities, Amazon Q Developer can save builders hours typically spent examining previously written code or interna…

Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access expert guidance on SageMaker features, code generation, and troubleshooting. This allows for more productivity by eliminating the need for tedious online searches and documentation review, and ensuring more time delivering differentiated business value. Data scientists and ML engineers using JupyterLab in SageMaker Studi…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced a new code interpretation capability on Agents for Amazon Bedrock. Code interpretation allows agents to dynamically generate and execute code snippets within a secure sandboxed environment, extending the capabilities of Agents for complex use cases such as data analysis, data visualization, and optimization problems. This new capability allows developers to move beyond the predefined capabilities of the large language model (LLM) and tackle more complex, data-driven use cases. Agents can now generate and execute code, process files with diverse data types and formatting, and even generate graphs to enhance the user experi…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced Agents for Amazon Bedrock can retain memory across multiple interactions over time, allowing developers to build generative AI applications that seamlessly adapt to user context and preferences, enhancing personalized experiences and automating complex business processes more efficiently. By retaining memory AI assistants remember historical knowledge and learn from user interactions over time. For example, if a user is booking a flight, the application can remember the user's travel preferences for future bookings. This capability is crucial for complex multi-step tasks like insurance claims processing, where continuity …

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Today, we are launching a new feature that allows customers to securely ingest data from various sources into their knowledge bases. Knowledge Bases now supports the web data source allowing you to index public web pages. Secondly, Knowledge Bases now supports three additional data connectors including Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, and Salesforce. You can connect directly to these data sources to build your RAG applications. These n…

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Chunking allows processing long documents by breaking them into smaller chunks, enabling accurate knowledge retrieval from a user’s question. Today, we are launching advanced chunking options. The first is custom chunking. With this, customers can write their own chunking code as a Lambda function, and even use off the shelf components from frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex. Additionally, we are launching built-in chunking options such as …