Today, AWS announces the general availability of preprocessing queries for AWS Glue Data Quality, enabling you to transform your data before running data quality checks through AWS Glue Data Catalog APIs. This feature allows you to create derived columns, filter data based on specific conditions, perform calculations, and validate relationships between columns directly within your […]

AWS IoT Core announces a new capability to dynamically retrieve IoT thing registry data using an IoT rule, enhancing your ability to filter, enrich, and route IoT messages. Using the new get_registry_data() inline rule function, you can access IoT thing registry data, such as device attributes, device type, and group membership and leverage this information […]

Today, Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations to help you better utilize your reserved capacity and save costs. On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) help you reserve compute capacity in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. When ODCRs are not in use, you can now make them temporarily available as interruptible ODCRs, enabling other workloads within […]

Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS Authentication (mTLS), a security protocol that requires both the server and client to authenticate each other using X.509 certificates, enabling customers to validate client identities at CloudFront’s edge locations. Customers can now ensure only clients presenting trusted certificates can access their distributions, helping protect against unauthorized access and […]

Today, AWS announces enhanced log analytics capabilities in Amazon OpenSearch Service, making Piped Processing Language (PPL) and natural language the default experience in OpenSearch UI’s Observability workspace. This update combines proven pipeline syntax with simplified workflows to deliver an intuitive observability experience, helping customers analyze growing data volumes while controlling costs. The new experience includes […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Quick Suite Embedded Chat, enabling you to embed Quick Suite’s conversational AI, which combines structured data and unstructured knowledge in a single conversation – directly into your applications, eliminating the need to build conversational interfaces, orchestration logic, or data access layers from scratch. Quick Suite Embedded Chat […]

Customers can now use Claude Opus 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies. Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest model, setting new standards across coding, agentic workflows, computer use, and office tasks while making Opus-level intelligence accessible at one-third the cost. Opus 4.5 […]

AWS Glue announces the general availability of catalog federation for remote Iceberg catalogs. This capability provides direct and secure access to Iceberg tables stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote catalogs using AWS analytics engines. With catalog federation, you can federate to remote Iceberg catalogs and query remote Iceberg tables using your preferred AWS […]

Amazon Connect flow modules now support custom inputs, outputs, and branches, along with version and alias management. With this launch, you can now define flexible parameters for your reusable flow modules to math your specific business logic. For example, you can create an authentication module that accepts a phone number and PIN as inputs, then […]