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AWS – Amazon Q Developer announces automatic unit test generation to accelerate feature development
Today, Amazon Q Developer announces the general availability of a new agent that automates the end-to-end process of generating unit tests. This agent can be easily initiated by using a simple prompt: “/test”. Once prompted, Amazon Q will use the knowledge of your project to automatically generate and add tests to your project, helping improve […]

AWS – Amazon Q Business introduces over 50 actions for popular business applications and platforms
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Q Business, including Amazon Q Apps, has expanded its capabilities with a ready-to-use library of over 50 actions spanning plugins across popular business applications and platforms. This enhancement allows Amazon Q Business users to complete tasks in other applications without leaving the Amazon Q Business interface, improving […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer adds operational investigation capability (Preview)
Amazon Q Developer now helps you accelerate operational investigations across your AWS environment in just a fraction of the time. With a deep understanding of your AWS cloud environment and resources, Amazon Q Developer looks for anomalies in your environment, surfaces related signals for you to explore, identifies potential root-cause hypothesis, and suggests next steps […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer can now automate code reviews
Starting today, Amazon Q Developer can also perform code reviews, automatically providing comments on your code in the IDE, flagging suspicious code patterns, providing patches where available, and even assessing deployment risk so you can get feedback on your code quickly. Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining […]

AWS – AWS announces Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
AWS announces Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse that simplifies your analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies all your data across Amazon S3 data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you […]

AWS – Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker
Today, AWS announces the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. This launch brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities and provides an integrated experience for analytics and AI with unified access to data and built-in governance. Teams can collaborate and build faster from a single […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova foundation models available today in Amazon Bedrock
We’re excited to announce Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance. Amazon Nova models available today on Amazon Bedrock are: Amazon Nova Micro, a text only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost. Amazon Nova Lite, a very […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability. Aurora DSQL allows you to build always available applications with virtually unlimited scalability, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It is designed to make scaling and resiliency effortless for your applications, and offers the fastest […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads
Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting in up to 3x faster query throughput and up to 10x higher transactions per second compared to self-managed tables. With S3 Tables […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn2 instances and preview of Trn2 UltraServers, powered by AWS Trainium2 chips. Available via EC2 Capacity Blocks, Trn2 instances and UltraServers are the most powerful EC2 compute solutions for deep learning and generative AI training and inference. You can use Trn2 instances to […]