AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for event source mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Apache Kafka event sources, a feature that allows you to optimize the throughput of your Kafka ESM by provisioning event polling resources that remain ready to handle sudden spikes in traffic. Provisioned Mode helps you build highly responsive and scalable event-driven Kafka […]

Today AWS announces an integration between AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS) and AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), which allows data collected about your on-premises workloads to directly feed into your migration execution plan. This new capability provides a one-click export of the on-premises server configuration, tags, application grouping, and Amazon EC2 recommendations gathered during planning […]

Today, Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of Amazon Q Business browser extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Users can now supercharge their browsers’ intelligence and receive context-aware, generative AI assistance, making it easy to get on-the-go help for their daily tasks. The Amazon Q Business browser extension makes it easy […]

CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, enables developers and operators to easily monitor the health and performance of their applications hosted across different compute platforms such as EKS, ECS and more. Customers can now use OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), an open-source protocol, to send traces to the X-Ray OTLP endpoint, and unlock application […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the general availability of customizable chat responses generated by Amazon Q Developer in the IDE. With this capability, you can securely connect Q Developer to your private codebases to receive more precise chat responses that take into account your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, and methods. […]

Today, AWS Security Token Service (STS) is announcing support for digitally signing OpenID Connect (OIDC) JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) keys. A digital signature guarantees the JWT’s authenticity and integrity and ECDSA is a popular, NIST-approved digital signature algorithm. When your identity provider (IdP) authenticates a user, it crafts […]

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Smartsheet connector for Amazon Q Business. Smartsheet is a modern enterprise work management platform. This connector makes it easy to synchronize data from your Smartsheet instance with your Amazon Q Business index. When implemented, your employees can use Amazon Q Business to query their intelligent assistant on […]

AWS Systems Manager now supports instances running Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10. Systems Manager customers running these operating systems versions now have access to all AWS Systems Manager Node Management capabilities, including Fleet Manager, Compliance, Inventory, Hybrid Activations, Session Manager, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Distributor. For a […]

SES announces that Mail Manager now has a rule action for “Deliver to Q Business” which allows customers to specify an Amazon Q Business application resource and submit email messages to it for indexing and queries. This simplifies setup and allows granular control of which messages are selected by the rule conditions, as well as […]