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Today, AWS announces the general availability of RubyGems support in CodeArtifact. Gems, which are used to distribute Ruby libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact.

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We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics private workflows now support file systems that dynamically scale with your workflow. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data to generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With this release, customers can now choose between static and dynamic run storage options.

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Today, AWS Security Hub announces the release of the AWS Resource Tagging standard. The standard contains 85 new controls which can be used to identify if any of your AWS Resources are missing tag keys required by your organization. With the release of this standard, Security Hub now offers 386 security controls that automatically check the compliance of your AWS resources against pre-defined security principles and best practices.

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Today, Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics announces Timestream Compute Unit (TCU), serverless compute capacity, for customers to predict and control query costs. With TCUs, you are charged for the duration of compute units (TCU) used by your queries, and there are no minimum bytes metered for queries.

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Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports event delivery through AWS PrivateLink, allowing you to send events from an event source located in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to a Pipes target without traversing the public internet. With today’s launch, you can use Pipes to poll from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), self-managed Kafka, and Amazon MQ sources residing in a private subnet without the need to deploy a NAT gateway, configure firewall rules, or set up proxy servers.

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Starting today, the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring AWS Config data usage will display only billable usage. With this enhancement, non-billable usage will no longer be displayed in both the Amazon CloudWatch Config metrics and AWS Config console. This allows you to validate AWS Config setup and usage using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and correlate billable usage with associated costs.

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Business and the preview of Amazon Q Apps, a new Amazon Q Business capability. Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. It helps users get comprehensive answers to complex questions and take actions in a unified, intuitive web-based chat experience—all using an enterprise’s existing content, data, and systems. Amazon Q Business connects seamlessly to over 40 popular enterprise systems, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Microsoft 365, and Salesforce. It ensures that users access content securely with their existing credentials using single sign-on, according to their permissions, and enterprise-level access controls.

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant that reimagines your experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Amazon Q Developer includes unique, game-changing capabilities that allow developers to offload time-consuming, manual tasks inside or outside of AWS. Amazon Q Developer capabilities include Q&A and diagnosing common errors in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Q data integration which enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language, conversational coding and inline code generation in the IDE, and Amazon Q Developer Agent for software development in the IDE and in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Amazon Q Developer also includes Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation, a feature that can accelerate your application maintenance, upgrades, and migration in minutes. Additionally, Amazon Q Developer lists and describes resources in your AWS account (preview), and can now help you retrieve and analyze cost data from AWS Cost Explorer (preview).

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Today, AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI–powered capability of Amazon Q Developer that enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. Amazon Q Developer is the AWS expert to assist you with all of your development tasks. Amazon Q data integration is a new chat experience specifically for AWS Glue, design for authoring and troubleshooting data integration pipelines.

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Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. Lambda Insights provides you access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance changes caused by new function versions. 

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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. These releases also offer improved performance through faster COPY operations (for PostgreSQL 16.2), Query Plan Management enhancements for queries with aggregate operations, and optimizations for further reducing the logical replication lag. 

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii. You can now use Local Zones in Honolulu to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. In this new Local Zone, you can access Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.

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Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to define policies for centrally creating, deploying and managing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Network Access Control List (NACL) rules for their VPC subnets across accounts in their AWS Organization. Additionally, NACL policies provide customers with visibility into policy adherence by reporting the compliance status for each policy.

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You can now access Cohere’s newest state-of-the-art enterprise foundation model family, Command R+ and Command R, in Amazon Bedrock. These generative AI models are highly scalable, optimized for long context tasks like advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citations to mitigate hallucinations, multi-step tool use to automate complex business tasks, and are multilingual in 10 languages to support global business operations.

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Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is available for public preview in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Amazon Q generative SQL is available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Redshift, to simplify query authoring and increase your productivity by allowing you to express queries in natural language and receive SQL code recommendations. Furthermore, it allows you to get insights faster without extensive knowledge of your organization’s complex database metadata.

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AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines now support stage level rollback to help customers to confidently deploy changes to their production environment. When a pipeline execution fails in a stage due to any action(s) failing, customers can quickly get that stage to a known good state by rolling back to a previously successful pipeline execution in that stage. Customers can roll back changes in any stage, whether succeeded or failed, except the Source stage.

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Customers can now create and manage default policies across their entire organization or organizational unit (OU) with AWS CloudFormation StackSets. Default policies work in conjunction with customers’ existing backup mechanisms to only create EBS-backed AMIs and EBS Snapshots of instances and volumes without recent backups. This helps administrators ensure that all member accounts have comprehensive backup protection without creating duplicate backups or increasing management overhead and cost. 

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You can now restore your Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application to the previous running version and application state from the most recent, successful snapshot. This feature will work when your application is running and is most useful when you want to immediately rollback to the previous application version to mitigate downstream impact of an application update. Prior to this launch, you could only rollback applications that were in updating or autoscaling statuses. 

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Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Resource Map, a tool in the console that displays all your NLB resources and their relationships in a visual format on a single page, providing you a clear understanding of your NLB architecture.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports local time zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for Db2 instances to the local time zone of your choice.

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