AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025)

Join us for the AWS Developer Day on February 20! This virtual event is designed to help developers and teams incorporate cutting-edge yet responsible generative AI across their development lifecycle to accelerate innovation. In his keynote, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evang … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 day ago

AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available

AWS CloudTrail now offers network activity events for VPC endpoint logging, enabling comprehensive monitoring and recording of AWS API activity through VPC endpoints to enhance security visibility, detect unauthorized access, and prevent data exfiltration without requiring custom … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 4 days ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Q Developer, and more (February 10, 2024)

We are well settled into 2025 by now, but many people are still catching up with all the exciting new releases and announcements that came out of re:Invent last year. There have been hundreds of re:Invent recap events around the world since the beginning of the year, including in … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 8 days ago

AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane

AWS CodeBuild now includes pre-installed Fastlane in macOS environments, streamlining mobile app development by providing built-in access to automated tools for code signing, testing, and app distribution, without manual setup requirements. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 12 days ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)

Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Her … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 15 days ago

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling users to build and scale their generative AI applications with minimal infrastruct … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 18 days ago

AWS Weekly roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, and more

I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessi … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 22 days ago

Luma AI’s Ray2 video model is now available in Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers Luma AI's Ray2 video model, enabling users to generate high-quality, 5 or 9 second video clips with 540p and 720p resolution from text prompts, marking AWS as the exclusive cloud provider offering fully managed Luma AI models. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 26 days ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)

As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of sereni … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 29 days ago

Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region

AWS launches its first cloud Region in Mexico, enabling digital transformation with local infrastructure, delivering low latency, and helping customers meet data residency requirements, backed by a planned $5 billion investment over 15 years. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 month ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: New Asia Pacific Region, DynamoDB updates, Amazon Q developer, and more (January 13, 2025)

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nu … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 month ago

Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region

AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now! | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 month ago

Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025)

Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, an … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 month ago

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock

Unleash your creativity: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock generates stunning high-resolution images with superior detail, style variety, and prompt adherence for accelerated visual content creation. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases

Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

And that’s a wrap!

After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last […] | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)

Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace

Buy with AWS enables you to seamlessly discover and purchase products available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner websites using your AWS account. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes help customers get started with training and fine-tuning popular publicly available foundation models, like Llama 3.1 405B, in just minutes with state-of-the-art performance. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators

Amazon commits $100M to empower education equity initiatives, enabling socially-minded organizations to create AI-powered digital learning solutions. This aims to reach underserved students globally through innovative platforms, apps, and assistants. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight

Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Q Developer empowers non-ML experts to build ML models using natural language, enabling organizations to innovate faster with reduced time to market. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)

Build responsible AI applications - Safeguard them against harmful text and image content with configurable filters and thresholds. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval

Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI data analysis with multimodal processing, graph modeling, and structured querying, accelerating AI application development. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)

Route requests and cache frequently used context in prompts to reduce latency and balance performance with cost efficiency. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place

Discover, test, and use over 100 emerging, and specialized foundation models with the tooling, security, and governance provided by Amazon Bedrock. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans

Unlock efficient large model training with SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans - find optimal compute resources and complete training within timelines and budgets. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance

Enable priority-based resource allocation, fair-share utilization, and automated task preemption for optimal compute utilization across teams. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries

Connect, discover, and govern data across silos with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse's new data catalog and permissions capabilities, enabling centralized access and fine-grained controls. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications

Simplify data replication and ingestion from applications such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Zendesk, to Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

Unifying data silos, Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse seamlessly integrates S3 data lakes and Redshift warehouses, enabling unified analytics and AI/ML on a single data copy through open Apache Iceberg APIs and fine-grained access controls. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

Effortlessly analyze operational data in Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, freeing developers from building custom pipelines and enabling seamless insights extraction. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI securely with Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance

Manage data and AI assets through a unified catalog, granular access controls, and a consistent policy enforcement. Establish trust via automation - boost productivity and innovation for data teams. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Announcing the general availability of data lineage in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone

Realize visual traceability of data origins, transformations, and usage - bolstering trust, governance, and discoverability for strategic data-driven decisions. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker: The center for all your data, analytics, and AI

Unify data engineering, analytics, and generative AI in a streamlined studio with enhanced capabilities of Amazon SageMaker. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations

Amazon Q Business extends productivity with generative AI-powered workflow automation capability and 50+ actions for enterprise efficiency, enabling seamless task execution across tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and Asana. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences

New Amazon Q Business capabilities help ISVs integrate with the Amazon Q index to retrieve data from multiple sources through a single API and customize the design of their Amazon Q embedded assistant. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests

Enhancing coding productivity, Amazon Q Developer agents now offer capabilities for auto-generating documentation, conducting code reviews, and creating unit tests within IDEs and GitLab. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET (preview)

Unlock Linux's power with Amazon Q Developer's transformation capabilities for .NET porting – effortlessly modernize .NET applications from Windows to cross-platform .NET in your familiar IDE. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads (preview)

Amazon Q Developer streamlines large-scale transformations using generative AI agents supervised by teams through a unified web experience, accelerating .NET porting, mainframe modernization, and VMware migration. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Investigate and remediate operational issues with Amazon Q Developer (in preview)

Amazon Q Developer can now help you investigate and remediate operational issues quickly from anywhere in the AWS Management Console, accelerating the troubleshooting process for operators of all experience levels. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

GitLab Duo with Amazon Q streamlines software development across tasks and teams by embedding advanced AI agent capabilities into the GitLab workflows developers already know. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing Amazon Nova: Frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance

Amazon Nova foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, with support for text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, and high-quality images and videos. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing multi-agent collaboration capability for Amazon Bedrock (preview)

With multi-agent collaboration on Amazon Bedrock, developers can build, deploy, and manage multiple specialized agents working together seamlessly to tackle more intricate, multi-step workflows. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Prevent factual errors from LLM hallucinations with mathematically sound Automated Reasoning checks (preview)

Enhance conversational AI accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks - first and only gen AI safeguard that helps reduce hallucinations by encoding domain rules into verifiable policies. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Build faster, more cost-efficient, highly accurate models with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation (preview)

Easily transfer knowledge from a large, complex model to a smaller one. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago

Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview)

Unlock S3 data insights effortlessly with AWS' rich metadata capture; query objects by key, size, tags, and more using Athena, Redshift, and Spark at scale. | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 months ago