Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock helps implement safeguards customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies (preview)

As part of your responsible artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, you can now use Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock (preview) to promote safe interactions between users and your generative AI applications by implementing safeguards customized to your use cases and responsible AI pol … | Continue reading


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Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning

Back in July, we introduced Agents for Amazon Bedrock in preview. Today, Agents for Amazon Bedrock is generally available. Agents for Amazon Bedrock helps you accelerate generative artificial intelligence (AI) application development by orchestrating multistep tasks. Agents uses … | Continue reading


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Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training

Today, I’m excited to share that you can now privately and securely customize foundation models (FMs) with your own data in Amazon Bedrock to build applications that are specific to your domain, organization, and use case. With custom models, you can create unique user experience … | Continue reading


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Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock

Back in September, we introduced Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock in preview. Starting today, Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is generally available. With a knowledge base, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for Retrieval … | Continue reading


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Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)

We are opening up a preview of the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Equipped with brand-new Graviton4 processors, the new R8g instances will deliver better price performance than any existing memory-optimized instance. The R8g instances are … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class

The new Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is designed to deliver up to 10x better performance than the S3 Standard storage class while handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second with consistent single-digit millisecond latency, making it a great fit for your mos … | Continue reading


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Reserve quantum computers, get guidance and cutting-edge capabilities with Amazon Braket Direct

Today, we are announcing the availability of Braket Direct, a new Amazon Braket program that helps quantum researchers dive deeper into quantum computing. This program lets you get dedicated, private access to the full capacity of various quantum processing units (QPUs) without a … | Continue reading


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AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer

Today, we’re announcing that AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer. This new integration brings together the development of workflows and application resources into a unified visual infrastructure as code (IaC) builder. Now, you can have … | Continue reading


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Amazon CodeCatalyst introduces custom blueprints and a new enterprise tier

Today, I’m excited to introduce the new Amazon CodeCatalyst enterprise tier and custom blueprints. Amazon CodeCatalyst enterprise tier is a new pricing tier that offers features like custom blueprints and project lifecycle management. The enterprise tier is $20/user per month, an … | Continue reading


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Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached is now available

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon ElastiCache Serverless, a new serverless option that allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. ElastiCache Serverless is compatible with two popular … | Continue reading


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Join the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

Today, we are announcing the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database, a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database. Amazon Aurora read replicas allow you … | Continue reading


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Getting started with new Amazon RDS for Db2

I am pleased to announce that IBM and AWS have come together to offer Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, a fully managed Db2 database engine running on AWS infrastructure. IBM Db2 is an enterprise-grade relational database management system (RDBMS) developed … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Announcing throughput increase and dead letter queue redrive support for Amazon SQS FIFO queues

With Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume. Today, Amazon SQS has introduced two new capabilities for first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues: Maximum throughput has been increased up to 70,000 tran … | Continue reading


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Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available with AWS Backup

Today we announce the availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive with AWS Backup. Previously available only in the Amazon EC2 console or Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, this feature gives you the ability to transition your infrequently accessed Amazo … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Replication failback and increased IOPS are new for Amazon EFS

Today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has introduced two new capabilities: Replication failback – Failback support for EFS replication makes it easier and more cost-effective to synchronize changes between EFS file systems when performing disaster recovery (DR) workflows … | Continue reading


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AWS Control Tower adds new controls to help customers meet digital sovereignty requirements

Today, we added to AWS Control Tower a set of 65 purpose-built controls to help you meet your digital sovereignty requirements. Digital sovereignty is the control of your digital assets: where the data resides, where it flows, and who has control over it. Since the creation of th … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Announcing new diagnostic tools for AWS Partner-Led Support (PLS) participants

We have added a set of diagnostic tools that will give participants in the AWS Partner-Led Support program access to diagnostic tools that will empower them to do an even better job of supporting their customers. Intro to AWS Partner-Led Support This AWS Partner Network (APN) pro … | Continue reading


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Manage EDI at scale with new AWS B2B Data Interchange

Today we’re launching AWS B2B Data Interchange, a fully managed service allowing organizations to automate and monitor the transformation of EDI-based business-critical transactions at cloud scale. With this launch, AWS brings automation, monitoring, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Automatic restore testing and validation now available in AWS Backup

Performing automatic game day testing of all your critical resources is an important step in determining that you are prepared to respond to ransomware or any data loss event. This gives you the opportunity to take appropriate corrective actions based on the results and monitor r … | Continue reading


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Amazon CodeWhisperer offers new AI-powered code remediation, IaC support, and integration with Visual Studio

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code remediation and infrastructure as code (IaC) support for Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line. Amazon CodeWhisperer is also now available in … | Continue reading


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FlexGroup Volume Management for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available

You can now create, manage, and back up your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes using the AWS Management Console, the Amazon FSx CLI, and the AWS SDK. FlexGroups can be as large as 20 petabytes and offer greater performance for demanding workloads. Before this launch y … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

New – Scale-out file systems for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

You can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems that are up to 9x faster than even before. As is already the case with this service, the file systems are fully managed, with latency to primary storage at the sub-millisecond level and latency to the capacity pool in th … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Introducing shared VPC support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

You can now create Multi-AZ FSx for ONTAP file systems in VPCs that have been shared with you by other accounts in the same AWS Organization. This highly requested feature enables a clean separation of duties between network administrators and storage administrators, and makes it … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Today we’re adding to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS the capability to send a snapshot from a file system to another file system in your account. You can trigger the copy with one single API call or CLI command, and we take care of the rest. You don’t need to use commands like rsync and … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests

Now AWS Lambda scales up to 12 times faster. Each synchronously invoked Lambda function now scales by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until the aggregate concurrency across all functions reaches the account’s concurrency limit. In addition, each function within an ac … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

IAM Access Analyzer updates: Find unused access, check policies before deployment

We are launching two new features for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer today: Unused Access Analyzer – A new analyzer that continuously monitors roles and users looking for permissions that are granted but not actually used. Central security teams can take … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

External endpoints and testing of task states now available in AWS Step Functions

Now AWS Step Functions HTTPS endpoints let you integrate third-party APIs and external services to your workflows. HTTPS endpoints provide a simpler way of making calls to external APIs and integrating with existing SaaS providers, like Stripe for handling payments, GitHub for co … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters

Starting today, you can use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in Amazon Elastic Kuberne … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

New Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client provides cost-effective, secure access to virtual desktops

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client improves end-user and IT staff productivity with cost-effective, secure, easy-to-manage access to virtual desktops. The devices are preconfigured and shipped directly to the end user, ready to deploy, connect, and use. Here’s my testing setup … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty

Today, we’re announcing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learnin … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Introducing Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases (preview)

The new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), the instances are now available in multiple AWS regions in preview form, in t … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Amazon Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations

Today, Amazon Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators o … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023

Welcome to Las Vegas, where excitement fills the air for the premier AWS event of the year – re:Invent 2023! Happening Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, re:Invent 2023 offers keynotes, training, Innovation Talks, AWS Builder Labs, and much more to inspire you on your cloud journey. Can’t make it … | Continue reading


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Increase collaboration and securely share cloud knowledge with AWS re:Post Private

Today we’re launching AWS re:Post Private, a fully managed knowledge service to accelerate cloud adoption, improve productivity, and drive innovation. re:Post Private allows organizations to increase collaboration and access knowledge resources built for your cloud community. It … | Continue reading


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Use anomaly detection with AWS Glue to improve data quality (preview)

We are launching a preview of a new AWS Glue Data Quality feature that will help to improve your data quality by using machine learning to detect statistical anomalies and unusual patterns. You get deep insights into data quality issues, data quality scores, and recommendations f … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Mutual authentication for Application Load Balancer reliably verifies certificate-based client identities

Today, we are announcing support for mutually authenticating clients that present X509 certificates to Application Load Balancer. With this new feature, you can now offload client authentication to the load balancer, ensuring only trusted clients communicate with their backend ap … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Use natural language to query Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics (preview)

To make it easy to interact with your operational data, Amazon CloudWatch is introducing today natural language query generation for Logs and Metrics Insights. With this capability, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), you can describe in English the insights you a … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Check your AWS Free Tier usage programmatically with a new API

Starting today, you can check your usage of the AWS Free Tier using the new AWS Free Tier API. You can use the API directly with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or integrate it into an application with the AWS SDKs. The AWS Free Tier program provides you with the ability … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics

You can now consolidate metrics from your hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises data sources using Amazon CloudWatch and process them in a consistent, unified fashion. You can query, visualize, and alarm on any and all of the metrics, regardless of their source. In addition to givi … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Announcing cross-region data replication for Amazon WorkSpaces

You can now use cross-region data replication to provide business continuity for your Amazon WorkSpaces users. Snapshots are taken every 12 hours, replicated to the desired destination region, and are used to provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of 12-24 hours. Multi-Region R … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)

We are announcing generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered call summarization in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics in preview. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this feature helps businesses improve customer experience, and agent and supervisor productivity by automatically summar … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock

Today we are announcing two new optimized integrations for AWS Step Functions with Amazon Bedrock. Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

New Cost Optimization Hub centralizes recommended actions to save you money

Today, we are announcing Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that makes it easy for you to identify, filter, aggregate, and quantify savings for AWS cost optimization recommendations. With the new Cost Optimization Hub, you can interactively query … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection

Searching through log data to find operational or business insights often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. It usually requires you to manually filter and review individual log records. To help you with that, Amazon CloudWatch has added new capabilities to automatica … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS

Today, I’m happy to announce a new capability, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, to automatically and agentlessly discover and collect Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector consists o … | Continue reading


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Optimize your storage costs for rarely-accessed files with Amazon EFS Archive

Today, we are introducing EFS Archive, a new storage class for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) optimized for long-lived data that is rarely accessed. With this launch, Amazon EFS supports three Regional storage classes: EFS Standard – Powered by SSD storage and designed t … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

New Amazon CloudWatch log class for infrequent access logs at a reduced price

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces today a new log class called Infrequent Access. This new log class offers a tailored set of capabilities at a lower cost for infrequently accessed logs, enabling customers to consolidate all their logs in one place in a cost-effective manner. As c … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 year ago

Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions

Amazon CloudFront allows you to securely deliver static and dynamic content with low latency and high transfer speeds. With CloudFront Functions, you can perform latency-sensitive customizations for millions of requests per second. For example, you can use CloudFront Functions to … | Continue reading


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