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  1. This post was authored by Mihir Mangalvedhekar, Sr. GenAI Specialist, Next Gen Developer Experience, AWS and co-written with Rajbir Singh, Senior Technical Account Manager. Many users are taking a container-first approach for on-premises workloads using Kubernetes. Amazon EKS Anywhere lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure. EKS Anywhere builds on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro and provides open source software that’s up to date and patched so you can have an on- premises Kubernetes environment that’s more reliable than a self-managed Kubernetes offering. In this post, we explore best practices that can help you successfully adopt…

  2. Amazon S3 announces schema definition support for the CreateTable API to programmatically create tables with pre-defined columns. This enhancement simplifies table creation for data analytics applications, making it easier to get started and ingest data in S3 table buckets. To use this feature, you can specify column names and their data types as new request headers in the CreateTable API to define a table's schema in an S3 table bucket. You can also define a table's schema when you create tables using the AWS CLI or the AWS SDK. To create tables with a pre-defined schema, upgrade to the latest version of the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs. This support is available in all AW…

  3. Amazon S3 Tables now support creating up to 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket. With this higher quota, you can scale up to 100,000 tables across 10 table buckets within an AWS Region per AWS Account. The higher table quota is available by default on all table buckets at no additional cost. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. You can use S3 Tables with AWS Analytics services through the preview integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, as well as Apache Iceberg-compatible open source engines like Apache Spark and Apache Flink. S3 Tables support 10,000 tables in…

  4. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is now available in preview in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt and London), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central). Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) is an integrated data and AI development environment that enables collaboration and helps teams build data products faster. It brings together familiar tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services for data processing, SQL analytics, machine learning model development, and generative AI application development into a single experience. SageMaker Unified Studio provides unified data access through Amazon SageMaker La…

  5. AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy PHP 8.4 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to take advantage of the newest PHP features while leveraging the enhanced security and performance of AL2023. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. PHP 8.4 on AL2023 delivers significant performance improvements, critical bug fixes, and a new Document Object Model (DOM) API. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running PHP 8.4 on AL2023 through the El…

  6. With AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now bring your own pre-transcoded HLS and DASH packaged ads through VAST responses, enabling custom control over ad transcoding. This new capability allows ad decision servers to include HLS and DASH manifest URLs for pre-transcoded multi-bitrate ad streams directly in the VAST XML creative file attributes. MediaTailor will stitch the pre-transcoded ad creative into the manifest without dynamic transcoding. Previously, MediaTailor could only dynamically transcode ads to match the content stream at insertion time. With Bring-Your-Own-Ads via VAST, you can now pre-transcode ads and provide the transcoded manifest URLs via VAST, enab…

  7. AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy .NET 9 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest .NET features while benefiting from AL2023's enhanced security and performance features. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. .NET 9 on AL2023 delivers enhanced garbage collection capabilities and significant performance improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running .NET 9 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Cons…

  8. AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Python 3.13 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest features and improvements in Python while taking advantage of the enhanced security and performance of AL2023. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Python 3.13 on AL2023 delivers enhanced interactive interpreter capabilities, improved error messages, and important security and API improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk enviro…

  9. Amazon Lex has expanded Assisted Slot Resolution to additional AWS regions and enhanced its capabilities through integration with newer Amazon Bedrock foundation models. Bot developers can now select from allowlisted foundation models in their account to enhance slot resolution capabilities, while maintaining the same simplified permission model through bot Service Linked Role updates. When enabled, this feature helps chatbots better understand user responses during slot collection, activating during slot retries and fallback scenarios. The feature supports AMAZON.City, AMAZON.Country, AMAZON.Number, AMAZON.Date, AMAZON.AlphaNumeric (without regex), and AMAZON.PhoneNum…

  10. CloudWatch Synthetics now allows canaries running in a VPC to make outbound requests to IPv6 endpoints allowing monitoring of IPv6-only and dual stack enabled endpoints over IPv6. You can also access CloudWatch Synthetics APIs over both IPv4 and IPv6 through new dual stack compatible regional endpoints. Additionally, PrivateLink access to Synthetics within VPCs is now available over IPv6 connections. Using CloudWatch Synthetics, you can now monitor the availability and performance of websites or microservices accessible via IPv6 endpoints ensuring that end users can use the applications seamlessly irrespective of their network protocol. You can create IPv6 enabled cana…

  11. SES announces that Mail Manager now supports defined email address and domain lists which are used as part of the Mail Manager rules engine to distinguish between known and unknown addresses. This functionality adds both the mechanisms to upload and manage email address and domain lists, and the rules engine controls to make routing decisions based on whether a given address in a message envelope is on such a list or not. Customers are therefore able to ensure trusted delivery for known internal recipients while implementing catch-all behaviors for directory harvesting attacks, mistyped addresses, and standard behaviors for other domains owned and managed by the customer.…

  12. Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Orange in Casablanca, Morocco. With this first Wavelength Zone in North Africa, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use AWS infrastructure and services to support applications with data residency, low latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS Wavelength, in partnership with Orange, delivers on-demand AWS compute and storage services to customers in North Africa. AWS Wavelength enables customers to build and deploy applications that meet their data residency, low-latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS Wavelength offers the operational consisten…

  13. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce support for Public Subnets that allow you to use EMR Serverless for cost effective outbound data transfer from the cloud for big data processing workloads. EMR Serverless applications allow you to enable VPC connectivity for use cases that need to connect to VPC resources or for outbound data transfer from the cloud to access resources on the Internet or other cloud providers. Previously, VPC connectivity su…

  14. We are excited to announce the launch of storage scaling functions for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing you to scale your allocated storage and change your storage Tiers as needed. With Storage Scaling, in you few simple steps you have greater flexibility and control over your time-series data processing and analysis. Timestream for InfluxDB is used in applications that require high-performance time-series data processing and analysis. You can quickly respond to changes in data ingestion rates, query volumes, or other workload fluctuations by moving to a faster more performant storage tier or extending your allocated storage capacity, ensuring that your Timestr…

  15. Amazon SES announces that the SES Mail Manager product is now available in 11 new commercial AWS Regions. This expands coverage from the original six commercial AWS Regions where Mail Manager first launched, meaning that Mail Manager is now offered in all non-opt-in commercial Regions where SES offers sending and receiving services. SES Mail Manager allows customers to configure email routing and delivery mechanisms for their domains, or for private use, and to have a single view of email governance, risk, and compliance solutions for all email workloads. Mail Manager is most often deployed to replace legacy hosted mail relays, or to simplify integration alongside thir…

  16. CloudWatch Database Insights now supports the analysis of historical snapshots of operating system (OS) processes running on your databases, allowing you to correlate a spike in database load with OS process metrics. Database administrators (DBAs) leverage OS metrics to understand how different processes or threads use system resources on their database instances. With this new Database Insights feature, DBAs can now access historical snapshots of OS processes running on their databases, including key metrics like memory and CPU utilization for each running process. OS process snapshots in Database Insights helps DBAs understand how each running process is using system…

  17. This is a guest post co-authored by Michael Davies from Open Universities Australia. At Open Universities Australia (OUA), we empower students to explore a vast array of degrees from renowned Australian universities, all delivered through online learning. We offer students alternative pathways to achieve their educational aspirations, providing them with the flexibility and accessibility to reach their academic goals. Since our founding in 1993, we have supported over 500,000 students to achieve their goals by providing pathways to over 2,600 subjects at 25 universities across Australia. As a not-for-profit organization, cost is a crucial consideration for OUA. While …

  18. Businesses require powerful and flexible tools to manage and analyze vast amounts of information. Amazon EMR has long been the leading solution for processing big data in the cloud. Amazon EMR is the industry-leading big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using over 20 open source frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Hive, and Apache Spark. However, data residency requirements, latency issues, and hybrid architecture needs often challenge purely cloud-based solutions. Enter Amazon EMR on AWS Outposts—a groundbreaking extension that brings the power of Amazon EMR directly to your on-premises environments. This innov…

  19. AWS Marketplace sellers can now utilize a new self-service process to enable demo and private offer requests for their products through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal and AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Enabling this feature allows customers to request demos and private offers directly from sellers’ product listing pages, accelerating product evaluations and reducing procurement cycle times. When creating or updating software as a service (SaaS) or server products in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, sellers who are eligible to receive AWS Opportunity referrals through the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) program and have linked their AWS Marketplace and Partner…

  20. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) 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 i…

  21. AWS CodeBuild announces support for codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn as IAM condition keys. These two new condition keys can be used in IAM policies to restrict the ARN of the project or build that originated the request. Starting today, CodeBuild will automatically add the new codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn condition keys to the request context of all AWS API calls made within the build. You can use the Condition element in your IAM policy to compare the codebuild:projectArn condition key in the request context with values that you specify in your policy. This capability allows you to implement advanced security controls for the AWS API calls o…

  22. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance t…

  23. AWS DataSync now supports Kerberos authentication for self-managed file servers that use the Server Message Block (SMB) network protocol. This update provides enhanced security options for connecting to SMB file servers commonly found in Microsoft Windows environments. DataSync is a secure, high-speed data transfer service that simplifies and accelerates moving data over a network. It automates copying files and objects between AWS Storage services, on-premises storage, and other clouds. DataSync uses protocols like SMB to transfer data to and from network storage systems. With this launch, you can configure your DataSync SMB locations to authenticate access to your st…

  24. AWS Health customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to view operational issues or planned lifecycle events for all accounts and resources in your organization. The existing Health endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on Health endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without …

  25. AWS Amplify now enables developers to use the Amplify Data client within AWS Lambda functions. This new capability allows you to leverage the same type-safe data operations you use in your frontend applications directly in your Lambda functions, eliminating the need to write raw GraphQL queries. The Amplify Data client in Lambda functions brings a consistent data access pattern across your entire application stack. Instead of managing separate GraphQL implementations, you can now use the same familiar client-side syntax to query and mutate data with full TypeScript support. This unified approach reduces development time, minimizes errors, and makes your codebase more m…

  26. Happy New Year and welcome to January’s post announcing new training course launches and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our December course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including two new AWS Jam Journeys, additional language availability for Exam Prep materials in support of AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate certification exams, as well as a new AWS Builder Lab, Sustainability Strategies with AWS Compute Workload, designed to help identify sustainability …

  27. This post is cowritten with Sean Zou, Terry Quan and Audrey Yuan from MuleSoft. In our previous thought leadership blog post Why a Cloud Operating Model we defined a COE Framework and showed why MuleSoft implemented it and the benefits they received from it. In this post, we’ll dive into the technical implementation describing how MuleSoft used Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon S3, & AWS Glue to implement it. Solution overview MuleSoft’s solution was to build a lakehouse built on top of AWS services, illustrated in the following diagram, supporting a portal. To provide near real-time analytics we used an event-driven strategy t…

  28. Nielsen Marketing Cloud, a leading ad tech company, processes in one of their pipelines 25 TB of data and 30 billion events daily. As their data volumes grew, so did the challenges of scaling their Apache Spark workloads efficiently. Nielsen’s team faced a scenario in which, as they scaled up their cluster by adding more instances, the performance per instance degraded. The degradation resulted in a decrease in the amount of work done per hour by each instance, and drove costs per GB of data processed up. Furthermore, they encountered occasional data skew issues. Data skew, where data is unevenly distributed across partitions, created processing bottlenecks and furthe…

  29. AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in its Service-Managed Fleets and Customer-Managed Fleets. With this update, creative teams can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render complex projects and access flexible Usage-Based Licensing (UBL). With AWS Deadline Cloud, you can submit Cinema 4D jobs to Deadline Cloud without having to manage your own render farm infrastructure. You can now scale Cinema 4D and Redshift rendering workloads effortlessly, eliminating bottlenecks caused by local resource limitations. UBL integration offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model, ideal for studios managing dynamic workloads. You can build pipelines for 3D gra…

  30. This blog was authored by Chris Splinter, Principal Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes, Elamaran Shanmugam, Sr. Container Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS, Re Alvarez Parmar, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS. We are excited to announce the general availability of a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that we launched at re:Invent 2024 called Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. With EKS Hybrid Nodes, users can use their existing on-premises and edge infrastructure as nodes in Amazon EKS clusters, creating a unified Kubernetes management experience across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. This can be used for a variety of use cases, …

  31. AWS announces the general availability of Amazon S3 Metadata, the easiest and fastest way to discover and understand your Amazon S3 data. S3 Metadata provides automated and easily queried metadata that updates in near real time, simplifying 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. S3 Metadata automatically captures metadata from objects as they are uploaded into a bucket and makes that metad…

  32. AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports a set of diagnostic metrics designed to provide visibility into the quality of your video and audio streams. The new metrics detect black frames, frozen video, and audio silence allowing you to quickly identify and address potential disruptions. This level of monitoring goes beyond traditional network performance indicators by analyzing the actual content, so you can maintain a high-quality experience for viewers. With these metrics, you have the flexibility to configure custom thresholds tailored to your preferences. This enables you to swiftly identify and address any interruptions to content delivery. To learn more about en…

  33. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications, a new feature of AWS User Notifications that enhances how customers receive and manage AWS Health notifications. This feature allows you to view and modify default AWS Health notifications in the Console Notifications Center, alongside your custom notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. A dedicated user interface is now available to manage notification subscriptions, including the ability to unsubscribe the primary or alternate contact emails from specific notification categories like 'Operational events'. You can easily subscribe to Health Notifications through additional d…

  34. AWS now supports the Zone Groups for Availability Zones across all AWS Regions, making it easier for you to differentiate groups of Local Zones and Availability Zones. Zone Groups were initially launched to help you identify related groups of Local Zones that reside in the same geography. For example, the two interconnected Local Zones in Los Angeles (us-west-2-lax-1a and us-west-2-lax-1b) make up the us-west-2-lax-1 Zone Group. These Zone Groups are used for opting in to the AWS Local Zones. You can now find the Zone Group for Availability Zones for all Regions in the DescribeAvailabilityZones API. For example, the Availability Zones in the US West (Oregon) Region …

  35. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers new update strategies for managed node groups, giving you control over how Amazon EC2 instances in your clusters are updated with new configurations or for new Kubernetes versions. This feature provides flexibility to make changes to your Amazon EKS cluster nodes in a way that best suits your use case, while reducing operational overhead and compute costs. Amazon EKS managed node group update strategies let you choose between the current EKS managed node group update behavior, Default, and a new strategy, Minimal Capacity, that attempts to update the managed node group by launching fewer new EC2 instances compar…

  36. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now get push notifications for default AWS Health notifications and view them in the AWS Console Mobile Application’s notification inbox, alongside your user-configured notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. To get started, visit the AWS Console Notifications Center and select the AWS managed notifications subscriptions option in the navigation panel. Next, select Manage subscriptions for the specific notifications you’d like to receive and click Add delivery channels. Finally, in the Add delivery channels modal’s AWS Con…

  37. I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite one so far in 2025. But our teams didn’t stop there, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Beside the usual Regional expansion (new capabilities that are now available in a new Region), here are the launches that got my attention. Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets – Amazon EventBridge …

  38. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Jeddah. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance. All Amazon CloudFront edge locations are protected against infrastructure-level DDoS threats with AWS Shield Standard that uses always-on network flow monitoring and in-line mitigation to minimize application latency and downtime. You also have the ability …

  39. OpenSearch Vector Engine can now run vector search at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17+ domains. You can now configure k-NN (vector) indexes to run on disk mode, optimizing it for memory-constrained environments, and enable low-cost, accurate vector search that responds in low hundreds of milliseconds. Disk mode provides an economical alternative to memory mode when you don’t need near single-digit latency. In this post, you’ll learn about the benefits of this new feature, the underlying mechanics, customer success stories, and getting started. Overview of vector search and the OpenSearch Vector Engine Vector search is a technique that improves search quality b…

  40. AWS Transfer Family now allows you to customize the directories for your Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) files, including the inbound AS2 messages, message disposition notifications (MDN), and other metadata files. This enables you to separate your AS2 messages from the MDN files and status files generated by the service, and automate downstream processing of the messages received from your trading partners. AS2 is a business-to-business messaging protocol used to transfer Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents across various industries, including healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics. You can now specify separate directory locations to store your inbound …

  41. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I7ie instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. 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 offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest 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…

  42. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.6 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific security and feature improvements such as support for GIN operator classes with B-tree behavior (btree_gin) and support for DISCARD. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Auro…

  43. Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region. Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. Because Amazon EFS has a simple web services interface, you can create and configure file systems quickly and easily. The service is designed to manage file storage infrastructure for you, meaning that you can avoid the complexity of deploying, …

  44. With AWS Elastic Beanstalk you can easily deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Now, Elastic Beanstalk automatically launches Windows instances with EC2 Fast Launch enabled on currently supported Windows platform versions. This new functionality helps in timely provisioning of Windows instances at scale reducing downtime and improving operational costs during deployment, saving time for development and operational teams. Elastic Beanstalk support for EC2 Fast Launch for Windows Instances is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US…

  45. Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. Today, we announce preview of multi-turn conversation support for agent nodes in Flows. This feature enables dynamic, back-and-forth conversations between users and flows, similar to a natural dialogue. Customers who use agents to execute steps within flows have indicated that sometimes the agents don’t have all the context required to successfully complete the action. With this preview launch, an agent node can in…

  46. Luma AI's new video-generating AI foundation model (FM), Ray2, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first and only cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Luma AI, expanding creative possibilities for developers and businesses using AWS services. Luma Ray2 is a large-scale video-generation model capable of creating realistic visuals with fluid, natural movement. With Luma Ray2 in Amazon Bedrock, you can generate production-ready video clips with seamless animations, ultrarealistic details, and logical event sequences with natural language prompts, removing the need for technical prompt engineering. Ray2 currently supports 5- and 9-second video genera…