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 […]

AWS Lambda launches enhanced error handling capabilities for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka (SMK) event sources. These capabilities allow customers to build custom retry configurations, optimize retries of failed messages, and send failed events to a Kafka topic as an on-failure destination, enabling customers to build resilient Kafka workloads […]

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Interstitials for live streams, enabling broadcasters and streaming service providers to deliver seamless, personalized ad experiences across a wide range of modern video players. This capability allows customers to insert interstitial advertisements and promotions directly into live streams using the HLS Interstitials specification (RFC 8216), which […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]

You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain). MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that enables you to reliably replicate data across […]

Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions across multi-warehouse architectures Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions, which simplify permissions management across multiple Redshift data warehouses. Customers are adopting multi-warehouse architectures to scale and isolate workloads and are looking for simplified, consistent permissions management across warehouses. With Redshift federated permissions, you define data permissions once from any […]