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Today, AWS announces the Bedrock GenAI chatbot blueprint in Amazon CodeCatalyst. CodeCatalyst customers can use this blueprint to quickly build and launch a generative AI chatbot with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude. This blueprint helps development teams build and deploy their own secure, login-protected LLM playground that can be customized to their data. You can get started by creating a project in CodeCatalyst. For more information, see the CodeCatalyst documentation and the Bedrock GenAI Chatbot documentation. View the full article

Last Friday was International Women’s Day (IWD), and I want to take a moment to appreciate the amazing ladies in the cloud computing space that are breaking the glass ceiling by reaching technical leadership positions and inspiring others to go and build, as our CTO Werner Vogels says. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon Bedrock – Now supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundational model. Claude 3 Sonnet is two times faster and has the same level of intelligence as Anthropic’s highest-performing models, Claude 2 and Claude 2.1. My favorite characteristic is that Sonnet is better at producing JSON outputs, making it simpler for developers to build applications. It also offers vision capabilities. You can learn more about this foundation model (FM) in the post that Channy wrote early last week. AWS re:Post – Launched last week! AWS re:Post Live is a weekly Twitch livestream show that provides a way for the community to reach out to experts, ask questions, and improve their skills. The show livestreams every Monday at 11 AM PT. Amazon CloudWatch – Now streams daily metrics on CloudWatch metric streams. You can use metric streams to send a stream of near real-time metrics to a destination of your choice. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Announced the general availability of new metal instances, C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd. These instances have up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are built on top of the AWS Nitro System. AWS WAF – Now supports configurable evaluation time windows for request aggregation with rate-based rules. Previously, AWS WAF was fixed to a 5-minute window when aggregating and evaluating the rules. Now you can select windows of 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes, depending on your application use case. AWS Partners – Last week, we announced the AWS Generative AI Competency Partners. This new specialization features AWS Partners that have shown technical proficiency and a track record of successful projects with generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered by AWS. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS news Some other updates and news that you may have missed: One of the articles that caught my attention recently compares different design approaches for building serverless microservices. This article, written by Luca Mezzalira and Matt Diamond, compares the three most common designs for serverless workloads and explains the benefits and challenges of using one over the other. And if you are interested in the serverless space, you shouldn’t miss the Serverless Office Hours, which airs live every Tuesday at 10 AM PT. Join the AWS Serverless Developer Advocates for a weekly chat on the latest from the serverless space. The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in several languages. Check out the ones in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. AWS Open Source News and Updates – This is a newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to bring you the latest open source projects, posts, events, and more. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Summit season is about to start. The first ones are Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), and London (April 24). AWS Summits are free events that you can attend in person and learn about the latest in AWS technology. GOTO x AWS EDA Day London 2024 – On May 14, AWS partners with GOTO bring to you the event-driven architecture (EDA) day conference. At this conference, you will get to meet experts in the EDA space and listen to very interesting talks from customers, experts, and AWS. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! — Marcia This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

This has been a busy week – we introduced a new kind of Amazon CloudFront infrastructure, more efficient ways to analyze data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and new generative AI capabilities. Last week’s launches Here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. More details in Donnie’s post. Here’s a deep dive into Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B models, by my colleague Mike. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – With hybrid search support, you can improve the relevance of retrieved results, especially for keyword searches. More information and examples in this post on the AWS Machine Learning Blog. Amazon CloudFront – We announced the availability of embedded Points of Presence (POPs), a new type of CloudFront infrastructure deployed closest to end viewers, within internet service provider (ISP) and mobile network operator (MNO) networks. Embedded POPs are custom-built to deliver large scale live-stream video, video-on-demand (VOD), and game downloads. Today, CloudFront has 600+ embedded POPs deployed across 200+ cities globally. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams – To help you analyze and visualize the data in your streams in real-time, you can now run SQL queries with one click in the AWS Management Console. Amazon EventBridge – API destinations now supports content-type header customization. By defining your own content-type, you can unlock more HTTP targets for API destinations, including support for CloudEvents. Read more in this X/Twitter thread by Nik, principal engineer at AWS Lambda. Amazon MWAA – You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.8 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). More in this AWS Big Data blog post. Amazon CloudWatch Logs – With CloudWatch Logs support for IPv6, you can simplify your network stack by running Amazon CloudWatch log groups on a dual-stack network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. You can find more information on AWS services that support IPv6 in the documentation. SQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB – As you use this client-side application to help you visualize and build scalable, high-performance data models, you can now clone tables between development environments. With this feature, you can develop and test your code with Amazon DynamoDB tables in the same state across multiple development environments. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) – The new AWS AppConfig Level 2 (L2) constructs simplify provisioning of AWS AppConfig resources, including feature flags and dynamic configuration data. Amazon Location Service – You can now use the authentication libraries for iOS and Android platforms to simplify the integration of Amazon Location Service into mobile apps. The libraries support API key and Amazon Cognito authentication. Amazon SageMaker – You can now accelerate Amazon SageMaker Model Training using the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class to gain faster load times for training data, checkpoints, and model outputs. S3 Express One Zone is purpose-built to deliver the fastest cloud object storage for performance-critical applications, and delivers consistent single-digit millisecond request latency and high throughput. Amazon Data Firehose – Now supports message extraction for CloudWatch Logs. CloudWatch log records use a nested JSON structure, and the message in each record is embedded within header information. It’s now easier to filter out the header information and deliver only the embedded message to the destination, reducing the cost of subsequent processing and storage. Amazon OpenSearch – Terraform now supports Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion deployments, a fully managed data ingestion tier for Amazon OpenSearch Service that allows you to ingest and process petabyte-scale data before indexing it in Amazon OpenSearch-managed clusters and serverless collections. Read more in this AWS Big Data blog post. AWS Mainframe Modernization – AWS Blu Age Runtime is now available for seamless deployment on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate to run modernized applications in serverless containers. AWS Local Zones – A new Local Zone in Atlanta helps applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for use cases such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, and more. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS news Here are some additional projects, programs, and news items that you might find interesting. The PartyRock Hackathon is closing this month, and there is still time to join and make apps without code! Here’s the screenshot of a quick app that I built to help me plan what to do when I visit a new place. Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – A very interesting use case for generative AI. Here’s a complete solution to build a robust text-to-SQL solution generating complex queries, self-correcting, and querying diverse data sources. A nice overview of .NET 8 Support on AWS, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of cross-platform .NET. Introducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard – A new tool to help you make informed decisions about your security posture for applications protected by AWS WAF. Some tips on how to improve the speed and cost of high performance computing (HPC) deployment with Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instances, accessing it as a local file system. My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open source newsletter, in which he highlights new open source projects, tools, and demos from the AWS Community. Upcoming AWS events You can feel it in the air–the AWS Summits season is coming back! The first ones will be in Europe, you can join us in Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), and London (April 24). On March 12, you can meet public sector industry leaders and AWS experts at the AWS Public Sector Symposium in Brussels. AWS Innovate are an online events designed to help you develop the right skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications. AWS Innovate Generative AI + Data Edition for Americas is on March 14. It follows the ones for Asia Pacific & Japan and EMEA that we held in February. There are still a few AWS Community re:Invent re:Cap events organized by volunteers from AWS User Groups and AWS Cloud Clubs around the world to learn about the latest announcements from AWS re:Invent. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Danilo This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS. View the full article

The entire AWS News Blog team is fully focused on writing posts to announce the new services and features during our annual customer conference in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent! And while we prepare content for you to read, our services teams continue to innovate. Here is my summary of last week’s launches. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon CodeCatalyst – You can now add a cron expression to trigger a CI/CD workflow, providing a way to start workflows at set times. CodeCatalyst is a unified development service that integrates a project’s collaboration tools, CI/CD pipelines, and development and deployment environments. Amazon Route53 – You can now route your customer’s traffic to their closest AWS Local Zones to improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads. Learn more about geoproximity routing in the Route53 documentation. Amazon RDS – The root certificates we use to sign your databases’ TLS certificates will expire in 2024. You must generate new certificates for your databases before the expiration date. This blog post details the procedure step by step. The new root certificates we generated are valid for the next 40 years for RSA2048 and 100 years for the RSA4098 and ECC384. It is likely this is the last time in your professional career that you are obliged to renew your database certificates for AWS. Amazon MSK – Replicating Kafka clusters at scale is difficult and often involves managing the infrastructure and the replication solution by yourself. We launched Amazon MSK Replicator, a fully managed replication solution for your Kafka clusters, in the same or across multiple AWS Regions. Amazon CodeWhisperer – We launched a preview for an upcoming capability of Amazon CodeWhisperer Professional. You can now train CodeWhisperer on your private code base. It allows you to give your organization’s developers more relevant suggestions to better assist them in their day-to-day coding against your organization’s private libraries and frameworks. Amazon EC2 – The seventh generation of memory-optimized EC2 instances is available (R7i). These instances use the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). This family of instances provides up to 192 vCPU and 1,536 GB of memory. They are well-suited for memory-intensive applications such as in-memory databases or caches. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions: Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Frankfurt). This is important for customers in Europe because they often have to ensure their data stays in the European Union. You can now embed generative AI functionalities and access to large language models in your applications with the assurance that the prompts and customizations will stay in Europe. Amazon EC2 extended its footprint for multiple families of instances: m6gd instances are now available in Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo), c6a in Canada (Central), m6a in Canada (Central) and Europe (Milan), and r6a instances in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Finally, m6id instances are now available in Europe (Zurich). Amazon EMR managed scaling is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Other AWS news Here are some other blog posts and news items that you might like: The Community.AWS blog has new posts to teach you how to integrate Amazon Bedrock inside your Java and Go applications, and my colleague Brooke wrote a survival guide for re:Invent first-timers. The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in several languages. Check out the ones in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Some other great sources of AWS news include: AWS Open Source Newsletter AWS Graviton Weekly AWS Cloud Security Weekly Last Week in AWS Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and check out the re:Invent highlights for generative AI. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. And that’s all for me today. I’ll go back writing my re:Invent blog posts. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! -- seb This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

By using Generative AI, developers can leverage pre-trained foundation models to gain insights on their code’s structure, the CodeGuru Reviewer recommendation and the potential corrective actions. For example, Generative AI models can generate text content, e.g., to explain a technical concept such as SQL injection attacks or the correct use of a given library. Once the recommendation is well understood, the Generative AI model can be used to refactor the original code so that it complies with the recommendation. The possibilities opened up by Generative AI are numerous when it comes to improving code quality and security. In this post, we will show how you can use CodeGuru Reviewer and Bedrock to improve the quality and security of your code. While CodeGuru Reviewer can provide automated code analysis and recommendations, Bedrock offers a low-friction environment that enables you to gain insights on the CodeGuru recommendations and to find creative ways to remediate your code... View the full article

As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in the United States, we’re also just 50 days away from re:Invent 2023! But before we officially enter pre:Invent sea­­son, let’s have a look at some of last week’s exciting news and announcements. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS Control Tower – AWS Control Tower released 22 proactive controls and 10 AWS Security Hub detective controls to help you meet regulatory requirements and meet control objectives such as encrypting data in transit, encrypting data at rest, or using strong authentication. For more details and a list of controls, check out the AWS Control Tower user guide. Amazon Bedrock – Just a week after Amazon Bedrock became available in AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), Amazon Bedrock is now also available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region. To get started building and scaling generative AI applications with foundation models, check out the Amazon Bedrock documentation, explore the generative AI space at community.aws, and get hands-on with the Amazon Bedrock workshop. Amazon OpenSearch Service – You can now run OpenSearch version 2.9 in Amazon OpenSearch Service with improvements to search, observability, security analytics, and machine learning (ML) capabilities. OpenSearch Service has expanded its geospatial aggregations support in version 2.9 to gather insights on high-level overview of trends and patterns and establish correlations within the data. OpenSearch Service 2.9 now also comes with OpenSearch Service Integrations to take advantage of new schema standards such as OpenTelemetry and supports managing and overlaying alerts and anomalies onto dashboard visualization line charts. Amazon SageMaker – SageMaker Feature Store now supports a fully managed, in-memory online store to help you retrieve features for model serving in real time for high throughput ML applications. The new online store is powered by ElastiCache for Redis, an in-memory data store built on open-source Redis. The SageMaker developer guide has all the details. Also, SageMaker Model Registry added support for private model repositories. You can now register models that are stored in private Docker repositories and track all your models across multiple private AWS and non-AWS model repositories in one central service, simplifying ML operations (MLOps) and ML governance at scale. The SageMaker Developer Guide shows you how to get started. Amazon SageMaker Canvas – SageMaker Canvas expanded its support for ready-to-use models to include foundation models (FMs). You can now access FMs such as Claude 2, Amazon Titan, and Jurassic-2 (powered by Amazon Bedrock) as well as publicly available models such as Falcon and MPT (powered by SageMaker JumpStart) through a no-code chat interface. Check out the SageMaker Developer Guide for more details. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. Other AWS News Here are some additional blog posts and news items that you might find interesting: Behind the scenes on AWS contributions to open-source databases – This post shares some of the more substantial open-source contributions AWS has made in the past two years to upstream databases, introduces some key contributors, and shares how AWS approaches upstream work in our database services. Fast and cost-effective Llama 2 fine-tuning with AWS Trainium – This post shows you how to fine-tune the Llama 2 model from Meta on AWS Trainium, a purpose-built accelerator for LLM training, to reduce training times and costs. Code Llama code generation models from Meta are now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – You can now deploy Code Llama FMs, developed by Meta, with one click in SageMaker JumpStart. This post walks you through the details. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: Build On Generative AI – Season 2 of this weekly Twitch show about all things generative AI is in full swing! Every Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Emily and Darko look at new technical and scientific patterns on AWS, invite guest speakers to demo their work, and show us how they built something new to improve the state of generative AI. In today’s episode, Emily and Darko discussed how to translate unstructured documents into structured data. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) (October 13), Italy (October 18), UAE (October 21), Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Americas and EMEA on October 19 and AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and check out the re:Invent highlights for generative AI. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Antje This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great to get to meet with so many of our customers and hear how they are building on AWS. Now on to the AWS updates. I’ve compiled a few announcements and upcoming events you need to know about. Let’s get started! Last Week’s Launches Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Amazon Bedrock was announced in preview in April of this year as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Last week’s announcement of this service being generally available was received with a lot of excitement and customers have already been sharing what they are building with Amazon Bedrock. I quite enjoyed this lighthearted post from AWS Serverless Hero Jones Zachariah Noel about the “Bengaluru with traffic-filled roads” image he produced using Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion XL image generation model on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon MSK Introduces Managed Data Delivery from Apache Kafka to Your Data Lake – Amazon MSK was released in 2019 to help our customers reduce the work needed to set up, scale, and manage Apache Kafka in production. Now you can continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Other AWS News A few more news items and blog posts you might have missed: The Community.AWS Blog is where builders share and learn with the community of cloud enthusiasts. Contributors to this blog include AWS employees, AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and other members of the AWS Community. Last week, AWS Hero Johannes Koch published this awesome post on how to build a simple website using Flutter that interacts with a serverless backend powered by AppSync-merged APIs. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Upcoming AWS Events We have the following upcoming events: AWS Cloud Days (October 10, 24) – Connect and collaborate with other like-minded folks while learning about AWS at the AWS Cloud Day in Athens and Prague. AWS Innovate Online (October 19) – Register for AWS Innovate Online to learn how you can build, run, and scale next-generation applications on the most extensive cloud platform. There will be 80+ sessions delivered in five languages and you’ll receive a certificate of attendance to showcase all you’ve learned. We’re focused on improving our content to provide a better customer experience, and we need your feedback to do so. Take this quick survey to share insights on your experience with the AWS Blog. Note that this survey is hosted by an external company, so the link doesn’t lead to our website. AWS handles your information as described in the AWS Privacy Notice. – Veliswa View the full article

While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: C7i Instances – Powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) and available only on AWS, these compute-optimized instances offer up to 15 percent better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers. A great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding, C7i instances deliver up to 15 percent better price performance versus C6i instances. vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth c7i.large 2 4 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.xlarge 4 8 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.2xlarge 8 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.4xlarge 16 32 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.8xlarge 32 64 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps c7i.12xlarge 48 96 18.75 Gbps 15 Gbps c7i.16xlarge 64 128 25 Gbps 20 Gbps c7i.24xlarge 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.48xlarge 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps c7i.metal-24xl* 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.metal-48xl* 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps *Bare metal instances are coming soon. To facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads, C7i instances support built-in Intel accelerators such as Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. EC2 R7a Instances – Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, these memory optimized instances deliver up to 50 percent higher performance compared to R6a instances and are ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications. Read more in Channy’s blog post. Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock (Preview) – To deliver more relevant and contextual responses, Bedrock can now manage both the ingestion workflow and runtime orchestration to connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) and enable retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for your generative AI applications. To store data, you can choose from a range of vector databases including the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, and Redis Enterprise Cloud. Read more in Antje’s blog post. High Query Rates with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Extends Auto-Scaling – You can now rely on OpenSearch Serverless to help manage unpredictable surges in your search and query traffic and efficiently handle tens of thousands of query transactions per minute. Amazon EMR on EKS – You can now improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management by using EMR to run Apache Flink (Public Preview) on the same Amazon EKS cluster as your other applications. Also, to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment with the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, and openssl, you can now use Amazon Linux 2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run your workloads with Amazon EMR on EKS. Amazon Connect – Amazon Connect Cases now supports uploading attachments to a case, enabling agents to have the information they need at their fingertips in order to resolve cases, and displaying the author name for comments that are written on cases, to more easily track who contributed to the resolution of the case and collaborate more effectively. To receive near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (for example, call is queued) in a contact center, you can now subscribe to the new Contact Data Updated event. Custom Notifications for AWS Chatbot – This lets you include additional information, such as number of orders or current throttling limits, when monitoring the health and performance of your AWS applications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels. AWS IAM Identity Center Session Duration Increased Up to 90 Days – You now have more flexibility based on your security context and desired end-user experience. Previously, the maximum duration was 7 days. The default session duration continues to be 8 hours and existing customer-configured session limits will remain unchanged. Full Support of GraphQL APIs in Amplify Studio – You can now generate forms connected to your API, manage records in your API with Data Manager, and create data-bound Figma to React components for GraphQL APIs created with Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI. Previously, these data-powered features were only available when using Amplify DataStore. Nested Filtering for AWS AppSync WebSockets-Based Subscriptions – You now have additional control over how data should be published out to connected clients by using filtering rules that allow you to target specific sub-items within the published data. Read more in this blog post. API Gateway Console Refresh – There are usability improvements to REST and WebSocket API workflows (now visually aligned with the console experience of HTTP APIs) and dark mode support. Accessibility enhancements also help to better integrate with assistive technology. Override Retention Capability for AWS Supply Chain – Manual forecast adjustments made by a demand planner are now automatically saved and reapplied from one planning cycle to the next. Other AWS News Serverless Development on AWS – AWS Hero Sheen Brisals and his colleague Luke Hedger revealed that they are sharing their expertise with a book that helps build enterprise-scale serverless solutions on AWS. The book outlines the adoption requirements in terms of people, mindset, and workloads, and details architectural patterns, security, and data best practices for building serverless applications. More posts from AWS blogs – Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: AWS Containers Blog – Deploy and scale Django applications on AWS App Runner. AWS Architecture Blog – Let’s Architect! Leveraging in-memory databases. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Learn how to build and deploy tool-using LLM agents using AWS SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Simplify access to internal information using Retrieval Augmented Generation and LangChain Agents. AWS for Games Blog – Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS On Tour, Sept. 18-Oct. 6 – The AWS Developer Relations team is boarding a bus and traveling across European cities (London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Lyon, and Barcelona) to share their experiences and help you improve productivity. AWS Global Summits, Sept. 26 – The last in-person AWS Summit of the year will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26. CDK Day, Sept. 29 – Learn more at the website about this community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. AWS re:Invent, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 – Browsing the session catalog is a nice way to start planning your re:Invent. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Netherlands (Sept. 20), Spain (Sept. 23), Zimbabwe (Sept. 30), Peru (Sept. 30), Chile (Sept. 30), and Bulgaria (Oct. 7). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — Danilo This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article