AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Business, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces update, and more (Aug 5, 2024)

Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in ou … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 months ago

Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available

Advertisers can now leverage first-party data with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, enabling differentiated insights, audience discovery, and effective campaign planning and measurement while maintaining data privacy. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 months ago

AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements

AWS extends existing operational/management capabilities to simplify multicloud oversight. Learn about their approach, recent hybrid/multicloud service launches (18 in 2023), and helpful resources. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024)

I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AWS User Group Women Bay Area meetup, led … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 6 months ago

Announcing Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock

The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size multilingual models that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks, offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Global AWS Heroes Summit, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and more (July 22, 2024)

Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program recognizes a select group of AWS experts worldwide who go above and beyond in sharing their knowledge and making an impact wi … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Advanced capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and more (July 15, 2024).

As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Vector search for Amazon MemoryDB is now generally available

Store, index, retrieve, and search vectors with in-memory performance for use cases like retrieval augmentation, semantic caching, and anomaly detection through single-digit millisecond queries. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Build enterprise-grade applications with natural language using AWS App Studio (preview)

Effortlessly build apps with AI-powered low-code tools, enabling organizations to create secure custom apps in minutes without dev teams - streamlining processes like claims, inventory, and approvals. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Amazon Q Apps, now generally available, enables users to build their own generative AI apps

Craft generative AI apps from conversations using natural language and approved data sources. Customize securely shared apps, specifying data sources per card and new APIs for programmatic app management. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Customize Amazon Q Developer (in your IDE) with your private code base

Unlock hyper-relevant code suggestions tailored to your codebase; enhance productivity with Amazon Q Developer's private customization while maintaining robust data privacy and security standards. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Agents for Amazon Bedrock now support memory retention and code interpretation (preview)

Agents for Amazon Bedrock now offer Memory to retain user context and Code Interpreter to dynamically execute code snippets—whether for data analysis, visualization, or complex problem-solving. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations and safeguard apps built using custom or third-party FMs

Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock adds hallucination detection and an independent API to fortify generative AI applications with customized guardrails across any model, ensuring responsible and trustworthy outputs. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data connectors (in preview)

Enhance company knowledge bases with new Amazon Bedrock connectors for Confluence, Salesforce, SharePoint, and web domains - empowering RAG models with contextual data for more accurate and relevant responses. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Introducing Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to streamline ML workflows

Streamline your ML workflows with this generative AI assistant providing tailored guidance, code generation, and error troubleshooting, to build, train, and deploy models efficiently. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Monitor data events in Amazon S3 Express One Zone with AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail data event logging enables auditing for governance and compliance of object operations like PutObject and GetObject. Leverage high performance and low cost for latency-sensitive workloads. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024

Along with a plethora of new launches, read about the latest models in Amazon Bedrock and new features for Amazon Q. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Integrate your data and collaborate using data preparation in AWS Glue Studio

With AWS Glue's new visual interface, data teams can collaboratively build ETL pipelines, bridging the gap between analysts and engineers through an intuitive, shareable canvas. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances: best price performance in Amazon EC2

Discover the price performance and sustainability benefits of Graviton4 with Amazon EC2 R8g instances, ideal for memory-intensive workloads. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 Access Grants, AWS Lambda, European Sovereign Cloud Region, and more (July 8, 2024).

I counted only 21 AWS news since last Monday, most of them being Regional expansions of existing services and capabilities. I hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet week, because this one will be busier. This week, we’re welcoming our customers and partners at the Jacob Javits Conve … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, and more (July 1, 2024)

AWS Summit New York is 10 days away, and I am very excited about the new announcements and more than 170 sessions. There will be A Night Out with AWS event after the summit for professionals from the media and entertainment, gaming, and sports industries who are existing Amazon W … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Cost-effective, non-persistent virtual desktops

Streamline virtual desktop management: provision non-persistent desktops, configure apps and resources, and automatically scale capacity based on demand, all from a centralized platform. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Introducing end-to-end data lineage (preview) visualization in Amazon DataZone

Trace data from origin to insights with an intuitive visual graph, empowering engineers, analysts, and admins to validate provenance, troubleshoot pipelines, and ensure governance with ease. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitLab and Bitbucket repositories, with blueprints and Amazon Q feature development

Manage your code across popular git repositories with Amazon CodeCatalyst's new integration with GitLab.com and Bitbucket Cloud. Use blueprints and Amazon Q feature development. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scale

Amazon SQS boosts performance, scaling capabilities, and energy efficiency without impacting existing behavior - a behind-the-scenes look at AWS's continuous improvement journey. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Amazon Bedrock, CodeCatalyst updates, SageMaker with MLflow, and more (June 24, 2024)

This week, I had the opportunity to try the new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock just before it launched, and I was really impressed by its speed and accuracy! It was also the week of AWS Summit Japan. JAWS-UG, a Japanese AWS user group, held various sessions w … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 7 months ago

AWS CodeArtifact adds support for Rust packages with Cargo

AWS CodeArtifact now supports Rust packages, enabling secure storage and management of Rust crates within your organization's private repositories, mitigating legal and security risks from external package sources while ensuring efficient collaboration across teams. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock: Even more intelligence than Claude 3 Opus at one-fifth the cost

This powerful and cost-effective model outperforms on intelligence benchmarks, with remarkable capabilities in vision, writing, customer support, analytics, and coding to revolutionize your workflows. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Announcing the general availability of fully managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker

Use Amazon SageMaker with MLflow to track experiments, compare runs, register candidate models, and transition models from experimentation to production. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Passkey MFA, Malware Protection on Amazon S3, and more (June 17, 2024)

Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was ama … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

In the Works – AWS Region in Taiwan

Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and will give AWS customers in Taiwan the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS Audit Manager extends generative AI best practices framework to Amazon SageMaker

Ensure responsible AI compliance with AWS Audit Manager's "Generative AI Best Practices v1" framework for SageMaker. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Simplify AWS CloudTrail log analysis with natural language query generation in CloudTrail Lake (preview)

Streamline compliance and security analysis using natural language query generation. Ask questions like "What errors occurred last month?" and get ready-to-run SQL queries tailored to your needs – no technical expertise required. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3

Amazon GuardDuty expands malware scanning to secure S3 uploads, enabling continuous monitoring and isolation of malicious files without infrastructure overhead. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

IAM Access Analyzer Update: Extending custom policy checks & guided revocation

New custom policy checks for critical resources, public access detection, and guided revocation to remove unused permissions - proactively securing AWS environments with tailored analysis and actionable insights. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users

Fortify your AWS account security with new passkey MFA and mandatory root user MFA. Experience seamless authentication while bolstering protection against unauthorized access. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Q and more (June 10, 2024)

In the last AWS Weekly Roundup, Channy reminded us on how life has ups and downs. It’s just how life is. But, that doesn’t mean that we should do it alone. Farouq Mousa, AWS Community Builder, is fighting brain cancer and Allen Helton, AWS Serverless Hero, his daughter is fightin … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Simplify risk and compliance assessments with the new common control library in AWS Audit Manager

Map enterprise controls to AWS data sources effortlessly with predefined, pre-mapped controls based on auditor reviews. Automatically inherit improvements as Audit Manager updates. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Our brand-new cohort of AWS Heroes has arrived – June 2024

The vibrant AWS community is made up of millions of builders worldwide. Within this global audience, there are technical enthusiasts who are going above and beyond to solve problems and generously share their learnings and best practices to empower others—the AWS Heroes. These in … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 U7i Instances, Bedrock Converse API, AWS World IPv6 Day and more (June 3, 2024)

Life is not always happy, there are difficult times. However, we can share our joys and sufferings with those we work with. The AWS Community is no exception. Jeff Barr introduced two members of the AWS community who are dealing with health issues. Farouq Mousa is an AWS Communit … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Simplify custom contact center insights with Amazon Connect analytics data lake

Amazon Connect's analytics data lake centralizes customer data for powerful performance analysis without complex pipelines. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS analytics services streamline user access to data, permissions setting, and auditing

Streamline data access with trusted identity propagation: simplify sign-in, define fine-grained permissions, and audit using actual user identities across selected AWS analytics services. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases

Unleash unparalleled power with U7i instances: up to 32 TiB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, and unmatched performance for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup – LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune, force AWS CloudFormation stack deletion, and more (May 27, 2024)

Last week, Dr. Matt Wood, VP for AI Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered the keynote at the AWS Summit Los Angeles. Matt and guest speakers shared the latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), developer tooling, and foundational infras … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 months ago

Optimized for low-latency workloads, Mistral Small now available in Amazon Bedrock

Mistral Small, an efficient large language model, joins Amazon Bedrock's lineup, excelling in low-latency tasks, multilingual support, and coding prowess while maintaining cost-effectiveness. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 9 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup – Application Load Balancer IPv6, Amazon S3 pricing update, Amazon EC2 Flex instances, and more (May 20, 2024)

AWS Summit season is in full swing around the world, with last week’s events in Bengaluru, Berlin, and Seoul, where my blog colleague Channy delivered one of the keynotes. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon S3 will no longer charge for sever … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 9 months ago

New compute-optimized (C7i-flex) Amazon EC2 Flex instances

The vast majority of applications don’t run run the CPU flat-out at 100% utilization continuously. Take a web application, for instance. It typically fluctuates between periods of high and low demand, but hardly ever uses a server’s compute at full capacity. CPU utilization for m … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 9 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: New capabilities in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Amplify Gen 2, Amazon RDS and more (May 13, 2024)

AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elas … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 9 months ago