Amazon Data Firehose introduces a new capability that captures database changes and streams updates to a data lake or warehouse, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with automatic scaling and minimal impact on transaction performance. | Continue reading
Eliminate long-term root credentials, perform privileged tasks via short-lived sessions, and centrally manage root access - aligning with security best practices. | Continue reading
New Resource Control Policies let you centrally restrict AWS service access across accounts, bolstering security with preventative controls that supersede permissive policies - even for external users. See how these powerful governance tools complement Service Control Policies an … | Continue reading
AWS BuilderCards 2nd Edition: Gamify AWS learning with enhanced design, new mission cards, generative AI deck, and improved game mechanics for seamless architecturing fun. | Continue reading
Happy 20th Anniversary of the AWS News Blog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr published his first blog post. At the time, he started a personal blog site using TypePad. He wanted to speak to his readers with his personal voice, not the company or team. O … | Continue reading
Amazon Location unveils 17 new APIs with enhanced route optimization, toll cost calculations, GPS trace snapping, proximity search, predictive suggestions, and static/dynamic map rendering - streamlining developer experiences across a wide range of location-based applications. | Continue reading
With 3x throughput, 20x faster scaling, and 90% reduced recovery time, Express brokers deliver unmatched performance for Apache Kafka on AWS, streamlining operations while cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. | Continue reading
As we gear up ahead of AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re thrilled to announce our final cohort of new AWS Heroes! These individuals exemplify expertise and dedication to leveraging AWS technologies and sharing knowledge. Their contributions to the AWS community are greatly appreciated, a … | Continue reading
The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more intere … | Continue reading
Unlock Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model's full potential with Amazon Bedrock's fine-tuning for enhanced accuracy and customization. | Continue reading
Uncover hidden insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics, powered by Amazon QuickSight, enabling custom reporting and data visualization for smarter supply chain management. | Continue reading
Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless enables massive horizontal scaling for write throughput and storage by distributing workloads across multiple Aurora instances while using standard PostgreSQL queries and syntax. | Continue reading
Deploy static sites with streamlined configuration, custom domains, SSL, CDN, and one-click updates using Amazon S3 with AWS Amplify Hosting. | Continue reading
A decade of AWS innovation: Amazon ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with "blazingly-fast" performance. | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to host subject matter experts from across Asia Pacific in the global 24 Hours of Amazon Q live stream event. This continuous 24-hour stream offered insights from AWS experts on Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business, featuring use … | Continue reading
Streamline workflows, automate installs like Xcode, and centralize management across operating systems. Set up pipelines building versioned, validated AMIs for your macOS workloads. | Continue reading
Four months ago, we introduced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 in Amazon Bedrock, raising the industry bar for AI model intelligence while maintaining the speed and cost of Claude 3 Sonnet. Today, I am excited to announce three new capabilities for the Claude 3.5 model family in Amazon Be … | Continue reading
Agentic workflows are quickly becoming a cornerstone of AI innovation, enabling intelligent systems to autonomously handle and refine complex tasks in a way that mirrors human problem-solving. Last week, we launched Serverless Agentic Workflows with Amazon Bedrock, a new short co … | Continue reading
Unlock insights instantly with Amazon Redshift's new zero-ETL integrations for Aurora PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, eliminating complex ETL pipelines. | Continue reading
Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These … | Continue reading
AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java), or CLI code - a game-changer for streamlining cloud automation workflows. | Continue reading
Last Friday, I had the privilege of attending China Engineer’s Day 2024(CED 2024) in Hangzhou as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) speaker. The event was organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF), one of the most influential professional developer communities in China. At CED … | Continue reading
Discover how this high-performance remote protocol securely streams graphics-intensive apps from cloud to device, with QUIC, client enhancements, and extended OS support. | Continue reading
Every week, there’s a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) community event where you can network, learn something new, and immerse yourself in the community. When you’re in a community, everyone grows together, and no one is left behind. Last week was no exception. I can highlight the D … | Continue reading
Unleash unparalleled computing prowess and energy efficiency for memory-intensive workloads, from in-memory databases to real-time analytics, with C8g and M8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. | Continue reading
Pushing the boundaries of generative AI, Meta unveils Llama 3.2, a groundbreaking language model family featuring enhanced capabilities, broader applicability, and multimodal image support, now available in Amazon Bedrock. | Continue reading
AI21's Jamba 1.5 models enable high-performance long-context language processing up to 256K tokens, with JSON output support and multilingual capabilities across 9 languages. | Continue reading
AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates t … | Continue reading
The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant positions AWS as a Leader, reflecting our commitment to diverse virtual desktop solutions and operational excellence - driving innovation for remote and hybrid workforces. | Continue reading
New memory-optimized X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB DDR5 memory, 192 vCPUs, and 50 Gbps network bandwidth, designed for memory-intensive workloads like databases, analytics, and caching with unparalleled price/performance and efficiency. | Continue reading
Gain indispensable data engineering expertise through a hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS. This professional certificate covers ingestion, storage, querying, modeling, and more. | Continue reading
Secure your mission-critical data with S3 Express One Zone's server-side encryption using KMS keys, combining top-notch performance and robust security for regulatory compliance. | Continue reading
Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news of th … | Continue reading
Near real-time data replication: RDS for MySQL zero-ETL with Redshift streamlines data ingestion with filtering, multiple integrations, and CloudFormation support for customized insights without managing complex pipelines. | Continue reading
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod's integration with Amazon EKS brings resilience, observability, and flexibility to large model training, reducing downtime by up to 40%. | Continue reading
Last week, the latest AWS Heroes arrived! AWS Heroes are amazing technical experts who generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others. The AWS GenAI Lofts are in full swing with San Francisco and São Paulo open now, and London, Paris, and … | Continue reading
Generate photorealistic images with exceptional detail. Enhance visuals effortlessly across industries with improved multi-subject prompts, stunning image quality, and impeccable typography. | Continue reading
The AWS Heroes program recognizes outstanding individuals who are making meaningful contributions within the AWS community. These technical experts generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others create efficiencies and build faster on AWS … | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI code assistant Amazon Q Developer named a Leader in Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, driving innovation across the software development lifecycle with enterprise-grade controls. | Continue reading
With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I am very excited for the new upcoming services and announcements at the conference. I remember attending re:Invent 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the biggest in-person re:Invent with 60,0 … | Continue reading
With AWS Parallel Computing Service, run HPC workloads at virtually any scale effortlessly; leverage Slurm and managed clusters to accelerate simulations. | Continue reading
The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks … | Continue reading
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region bolsters cloud innovation, empowering local businesses and government initiatives while aligning with Malaysia's sustainability goals through Amazon's renewable energy commitment. | Continue reading
AWS CodeBuild now supports macOS, simplifying CI/CD pipelines for Apple apps, using managed M2 machines with pre-installed tools like Xcode. Auto scale capacity seamlessly while CodeBuild manages the fleet. | Continue reading
You know what I find more exciting than the Amazon Prime Day sale? Finding out how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it all happen. Every year, I wait eagerly for Jeff Barr’s annual post to read the chart-topping metrics. The scale never ceases to amaze me. This year, Channy Yun an … | Continue reading
Dive into the numbers from Amazon's record-breaking Prime Day 2024, from AI chip deployment to the staggering transaction volumes across AWS services like Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, CloudFront, and more. | Continue reading
When Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data, was an intern at Amazon in 2005, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, was his first manager. Nineteen years later, the two shared a stage at the VivaTech Conference to reflect on Amazon’s history of innovation—from pioneering the pa … | Continue reading
Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 provides unprecedented creative capabilities: image conditioning, color control, background removal, and subject preservation via fine-tuning for brand consistency. | Continue reading