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Amazon QuickSight is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of users without the need to provision or manage any infra…

In 2023, we blogged about OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities. Since then, OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have developed to bring better performance, lower cost, and enhanced tradeoffs. We’ve improved the OpenSearch Service hybrid lexical and semantic search methods using both dense vectors and sparse vectors. We’ve simplified connecting with and managing large language models (LLMs) hosted in other environments. We’ve brought native chunking and streamlined searching for chunked documents. Where 2023 saw the explosion of LLMs for generative AI and LLM-generated vector embeddings for semantic search, 2024 was a year of consolidation and reification…

Imagine navigating the same cloud challenges that AWS solutions architects face daily, and proving you can solve them. That’s what AWS Jam Journeys offer through hands-on learning experiences. AWS Skill Builder now features 14 AWS Jam Journeys, comprised of six new experiences and eight revamped journeys with fresh challenges. These immersive learning experiences are available with both AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription and Team subscription providing flexible access options for learners and organizations. AWS Jam Journeys are challenge-based, hands-on experiences that allow you to apply your AWS knowledge in realistic scenarios. Whether you’re preparing for cer…

Amazon Connect now allows agents to exchange shifts with each other, providing greater schedule flexibility without compromising service levels. With this launch, agents can initiate shift trades directly, allowing them to manage unexpected life events without using time off. Additionally, contact center managers can now automate some approvals while ensuring others are approved manually — reducing admin work without sacrificing controls when needed. For example, supervisors can automate approvals for agents handling non-critical tasks, such as routine customer inquiries, while manually approving requests from agents who handle sensitive customer segments, like healthcare…

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink to connect directly to the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager APIs in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. Customers create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies to automate the creation, retention, and management of EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). When you use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager APIs, communication between your VPC and Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager API is conducted privately within the AWS network, providing a secure pathway for your data. An AWS PrivateLink endpoint connects your VPC directly to the Amazon Data Li…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered contact categorization in five additional regions, making it easy to identify top drivers, customer experience, and agent behavior for your contacts. With this launch, you can use natural language instructions to define a criteria to automatically categorize customer contacts (e.g., “show me calls where customers attempted payment”). Contact Lens automatically labels interactions matching your criteria and extracts relevant conversation points. In addition, you can receive alerts and generate tasks on categorized contacts, and search for contacts using the automated labels. This feature helps managers easily c…

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In modern data architectures, the need to manage and query vast datasets efficiently, consistently, and accurately is paramount. For organizations that deal with big data processing, managing metadata becomes a critical concern. This is where Hive Metastore (HMS) can serve as a central metadata store, playing a crucial role in these modern data architectures. HMS is a central repository of metadata for Apache Hive tables and other data lake table formats (for example, Apache Iceberg), providing clients (such as Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and Trino) access to this information using the Metastore Service API. Over time, HMS has become a foundational component for data lak…

Topic was moved to forum Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Today, AWS announced extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere). With extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere, you continue to receive security patches for clusters on any Kubernetes version for up to 26 months after the version is released in Amazon EKS Anywhere. Extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere is available for Kubernetes versions 1.28 and above. Standard support begins when a Kubernetes version becomes available in Amazon EKS Anywhere, and continues for 14 months - the same as the upstream Kubernetes project support window. After this time peri…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Tomcat 11 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Tomcat 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. Tomcat 11 on AL2023 allows developers to take advantage of the latest Jakarta EE specifications. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Corretto 17 and 21 with Tomcat 11 on AL2023 through the El…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Ruby 3.4 applications on the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Ruby 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. Ruby 3.4 on AL2023 delivers performance improvements and reduced memory usage. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Ruby 3.4 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API. Th…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Q Business integrations for Microsoft 365 for Word and Outlook. These new integrations improve the usability and usefulness of Amazon Q Business by making its generative AI features available where business users do their work. Users can now get Amazon Q Business’ help in creating content, reviewing documents, and reading or drafting their emails without switching context. The Word integration helps users boost their document creation and review efficiency. Users can leverage generative AI capabilities to draft content, enhance writing quality, and analyze lengthy documents with ease. Through the Amazon Q Busi…

Starting today, EC2 Fleet customers can override the Block Device Mapping specified in the Launch Template when launching a new fleet. With this release, customers save the effort of creating and associating new Launch Templates with their fleet requests, when they need to customize the Block Device Mapping but keep rest of the instance configurations the same. Customers use EC2 Fleet to access wider EC2 capacity across instance types and availability zones within a single launch request. To provide their EC2 instance configurations such as Amazon Machine Images, Key pair etc, customers associate a Launch Template with their Fleet requests. They can override the values…

With the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. As a result, distributed machine learning training jobs in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters can read data from Amazon S3 at high throughput to accelerate training times. The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver supports sequentia…

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These models are designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs, providing customizable visual content for various applications. This expansion addresses the growing demand for automated, high-quality visual content generation, benefiting marketers, content creators, and developers who need efficient solutions for producing engaging media. Amazon Nova creative models offer built-in controls to enable the safe and responsible use of AI, including watermarking for traceability, content moderation, and i…

Today, AWS IoT Device Defender introduced two features to simplify IoT certificate lifecycle management - a new audit check for certificate age and enhancements to the existing device certificate expiring audit check. The new audit check for certificate age allows developers to monitor and receive alerts based on a certificate's age, regardless of its expiration date. Additionally, the device certificate expiring audit check now supports new configuration options, allowing developers to set custom alert durations before certificate expiration. Regularly rotating certificates is a critical security practice that mitigates risks from compromised credentials and prevents …

AWS Network Firewall now provides enhanced console capabilities that improve rule management and policy configuration workflows. Key improvements include the ability to modify the priority of rules directly from the console without needing to delete and recreate them, pre-populated fields to add descriptions and signature ID in your rules, default "Alert Established" selection for comprehensive connection logging, and automatic "Reject" action selection in Stream Exception Policy configuration. These console improvements streamline the firewall administration workflow and help prevent common configuration oversights. Security teams can now efficiently adjust rule prior…

AWS CodeBuild now supports macOS 15.2 as a new major version for macOS builds. This allows developers to build and test their applications in the latest macOS environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new major version includes the latest Xcode 16.2, Fastlane for iOS automation and Finch for container management in macOS environment. We have also updated our existing macOS AMI to version 14.7, ensuring customers have access to the latest security updates and improvements. The new macOS 15.2 is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Vir…

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to the RDS for MySQL and RDS for MariaDB database engines. This feature leverages machine learning models to help identify performance bottlenecks during the selected time period, and gives advice on what to do next. This launch allows you to analyze database performance monitoring data for a time period of your choice. You can learn how the selected time period differs from normal, what went wrong, and get advice on corrective actions. Through simple-to-understand graphs and explanations, you can identify the chief contributors to performance issues. You will also get gui…

Amazon EC2 announces the general availability of Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Similar to Time-based Copy for EBS snapshots , this feature enables customers to meet their compliance objectives by ensuring that AMIs are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified duration. Prior to today, customers could not predict or control the duration of their AMI copy operations, making it challenging for them to meet their recovery time objectives for disaster recovery and compliance purposes. Now with this capability, customers can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours, for individual AMI copy requests. Custome…

We are excited to announce regional inference profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) in Europe and Asia Pacific. AWS Customers are now able to use cross-region inference profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models in the following regions: Europe (Stockholm, Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney). The Amazon Nova understanding models include: Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at a very low cost; Amazon Nova Lite, a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text input…

AWS Batch now supports job scheduling that takes into account consumable resources (CRs) such as third-party license tokens, database access bandwidth, budgetary limits, and more. With resource aware scheduling you can set up sets of tokens representing these resources, which will then be consumed by the running AWS Batch jobs. This will help you reduce job failures and wasted compute time caused by missing or rate-limited resources, which in turn will improve utilization of infrastructure and reduce costs. You can create, manage, and monitor consumption of your CRs using AWS Batch Management Console or the new AWS Batch consumable resource APIs such as CreateConsumabl…

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Vietnam in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. This includes price reductions of Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 95% from $0.0815/min to $0.004/min, and Outbound minutes by 44% from $0.0896/min to $0.05/min. The new Telephony Rates are now available as part of the standard pricing for Amazon Connect service usage for the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. To see all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available, see the AWS Region table. Visit the Amazon Connect website for more information. View the full article

CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications now supports the ability to monitor your applications' services and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) across multiple source accounts from one monitoring account. Centralized application observability across accounts in a region provides single-pane-of-glass tracking, health maintenance, and resource optimization. Customers can use Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager (OAM) to create and manage links between source accounts and monitoring accounts. Using the Application Signals Console in their monitoring account, c…

Starting today, the FPGA-powered Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. F2 instances are the second generation of FPGA powered instances and are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM). Compared to F1 instances, the F2 instances have up to 3x vCPUs (192 vCPUS), 2x system memory (2 TB), 2x SSD space (7.6 TiB), and 4x networking bandwidth (100 Gbps). Amazon EC2 F2 instances are ideal for FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network acceleration, and more. With this additional region, F2 instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (…

Effective data governance has long been a critical priority for organizations seeking to maximize the value of their data assets. It encompasses the processes, policies, and practices an organization uses to manage its data resources. The key goals of data governance are to make data discoverable and usable by those who need it, accurate and consistent, secure and protected from unauthorized access or misuse, and compliant with relevant regulations and standards. Data governance involves establishing clear ownership and accountability for data, including defining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority related to data management. Traditionally, data gover…

Passionate sports viewers expect to easily discover and access sports events and their favorite teams, leagues, and players. Providing a robust and intuitive search experience is crucial for the success of Prime Video Sports. With a vast, rapidly growing catalog of live and on-demand sports offerings, a well-designed search architecture allows Prime Video Sports to cater to this engaged audience, streamlining navigation and reducing friction in the user experience. The Prime Video search experience is one of the most clicked on elements in the global navigation bar. Search enables highly relevant recommendations and drives increased viewership and engagement. By prioritiz…

Amazon Connect Chat now enables you to greet customers with interactive messages when starting chats, delivering contextual and personalized experiences that improve engagement and self-service resolution rates. For example, when a customer visits a product page and opens the chat widget, they receive a contextual greeting with options to compare similar products, check store availability, or learn about warranty details. To customize the interactive welcome message using Amazon Lex, check the 'Initialize bot with message' option in the 'Get customer input' block in the Amazon Connect flow designer. You can either manually enter or dynamically set the initial message s…

AWS re:Invent 2024, the flagship annual conference, took place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, bringing together thousands of cloud enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders from around the globe. This premier event showcased groundbreaking advancements, keynotes from AWS leadership, hands-on technical sessions, and exciting product launches. Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data an…

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You can now automatically merge your tests reports into a consolidated report when you execute test cases in parallel. This enhancement also allows you to select a mix of on-demand instances, reserved capacity fleets, or Lambda compute resources for your parallel tests. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. As the number of tests in a project grows, the total test execution time also increases when using a single compute resource. CodeBuild runs your tests in parallel across new compute environments and now also merges the test results into a single report. …

AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer. The new name recognizes the integration of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, in Microsoft Teams and Slack to manage and optimize AWS resources. With Amazon Q Developer, customers can monitor, operate, and troubleshoot AWS resources in chat channels faster. Customers can quickly retrieve telemetry and ask questions to understand the state of their resources. Customers can leverage the existing non-generative AI features to operationalize Dev Ops and incident response processes with customizable notifications, action buttons, and command aliases. With this launch, t…

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. M6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. With this additional region, M6a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo). These instances can be purchased as …

Amazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg Tables, Amazon S3 Tables, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. With Amazon Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination…

AWS CodeBuild’s support for managed webhooks now extends to include GitHub Enterprise. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Customers using GitHub Enterprise as their source provider previously had to manually create webhooks for CodeBuild to receive events. CodeBuild now integrates natively to create and manage webhooks on your behalf. Additionally, you can use CloudFormation to define your webhooks in a CodeBuild project. This feature is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), GovCloud (US-Eas…

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab Self-Managed CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This feature allows GitLab Self-Managed jobs to integrate natively with AWS, providing security and convenience through features such as IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon VPC. Customers can access all compute platforms that CodeBuild offers, including Lambda, GPU-enhanced and Arm-based instanc…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We were positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in 2023. This recognition, we feel, reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence in data integration, demonstrating our continued progress in providing comprehensive data management solutions. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates 20 data integration tool vendors based on two axes—Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. This evaluation, we feel, critically examines vendors’ capabilities to address key service needs, including data engineering, operational data integration, modern d…

In this blog, let us deep-dive into different AI Key model deployment strategies like Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, AWS Inferentia, Elastic Inference and more from the AWS services. Here, you will also understand the best practices to deploy efficient machine learning models, performance optimization, scalability, and cost-effectiveness... View the full article

AWS CodePipeline now offers a redesigned console experience that helps you monitor and troubleshoot your pipeline releases more effectively. The new horizontal pipeline view displays stages and actions from left to right, results in a stronger visual hierarchy, which helps you to better locate and understand stage and action execution status. This visual update also makes it easier for you to focus on the key information, and find what you are looking for more effectively while preserving the familiar and consistent experience of the current CodePipeline console. The new layout also optimizes information density by reducing unused space, leading to more pipeline releas…

Businesses of all sizes are challenged with the complexities and constraints posed by traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) tools. These intricate solutions, while powerful, often come with a significant financial burden, particularly for small and medium enterprise customers. Beyond the substantial costs of procurement and licensing, customers must also contend with the expenses associated with installation, maintenance, and upgrades—a perpetual cycle of investment that can strain even the most robust budgets. At Wipro, scalability of data pipelines in addition to automation remains a persistent concern for their customers and they’ve learned through customer eng…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in default service quota limits enabling you to scale your generative AI applications for higher traffic. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to filter undesirable and harmful content across different categories and prompt attacks, topic filters to define and disallow specific topics, sensitive information filters to redact personally identifiable information (PII), word filters to block specific words, and detect model hallucinations by detecting grounding and relevance of model responses as well as identify, correct, and explain factual claims in model responses using Automated Reasoning . These policies ca…

We are excited to announce that Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink integration, enabling customers to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and Amazon Location Service without data ever traversing the public internet. With this new capability, customers can now access Amazon Location Service APIs through private IP addresses within their VPC, significantly enhancing their security posture. This integration simplifies network architecture by eliminating the need for internet gateways, NAT devices, or public IP addresses, while helping customers meet strict regulatory and compliance requirements by keeping all traffic within the AWS network.…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) is available in the Europe (Zurich) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On-Demand (OD) 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. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memo…

Welcome to February’s post announcing new training course launches—helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our January course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including seven new AWS Builder Labs, four new AWS Jam Journeys, and six major updates to AWS Jam Journeys... View the full article

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AWS Developer Day 2025, held on February 20th, showcased how to integrate responsible generative AI into development workflows. The event featured keynotes from AWS leaders including Srini Iragavarapu, Director Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, David Nalley, Director Open Source Marketing of AWS, along with AWS Heroes and technical community members. Watch the full event recording on Developer Day 2025. Applications are now open through March 6th for the 2025 AWS Cloud Clubs Captains program. AWS Cloud Clubs are student-led groups for post-secondary and independent students, 18 years old and over. Find …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 in…

AWS WAF enhances Service Quotas capabilities, enabling organizations to proactively monitor and manage quotas for their cloud deployments. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. By leveraging AWS Service Quotas, you can quickly understand your applied service quota values for these WAF resources and request increases when needed. This enhanced integration brings three key benefits. First, you can now monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas for WAF resources such as web ACLs, rule gro…

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model, their most intelligent model to date, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This new model includes strong improvements in coding and brings enhanced performance across various tasks, like instruction following, math, and physics. Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces a unique approach to AI reasoning by integrating it seamlessly with other capabilities. Unlike traditional models that separate quick responses from those requiring deeper thought, Claude 3.7 Sonnet…