Today, Amazon Timestream for Live Analytics announces the launch of Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs), a new feature that allows you to provision dedicated compute resources for your queries, providing predictable and cost-effective query performance. Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a serverless time-series database that automatically scales to ingest and analyze gigabytes of time-series data […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered post contact summarization is now available in Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions, which summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context rich contact summaries (e.g., “The customer didn’t receive a reimbursement for a last minute flight cancellation […]

Today, we’re excited to launch application favoriting and quick access features in the AWS Management Console. Now you can pin your most-used applications as favorites and quickly return to recently visited applications. Customers can easily designate favorite applications with a single click, and sort your most important applications, bringing favorites to the top of your […]

AWS announces Quantum Embark, a new program aimed at getting customers ready for quantum computing by providing an expert-led approach as they begin their quantum computing journey. With this program, customers can explore the value of quantum computing for their business, understand the pace of development of the technology, and prepare for its impact. Quantum […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Flows, previously known as Prompt Flows, and adding two key new capabilities. Bedrock Flows enables you to link the latest foundation models, Prompts, Agents, Knowledge Base and other AWS services together in an intuitive visual builder to accelerate the creation and execution of generative AI workflows. […]

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Users can upload files and Amazon Q can help summarize or answers about the files. Starting today, users can drag and drop files to […]

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports binary vector embeddings for building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. This feature is available with Titan Text Embeddings V2 model and Cohere Embed models. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully-managed RAG workflows to create highly accurate, low latency, secure and customizable retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) applications by incorporating contextual information from […]

Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables strong, phishing-resistant authentication. With passwordless authentication, you can reduce the friction associated with traditional password-based authentication and thus simplify […]

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift and zonal autoshift features on load balancers that are enabled across zones. Zonal shift allows you to quickly shift traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone (AZ) and recover from events such as bad application deployment and gray failures. Zonal autoshift safely […]

Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding. Amazon Cognito provides millions of users with secure, scalable, and customizable sign-up and sign-in experiences. With Managed Login, Cognito customers can now use its no-code visual editor to customize the look […]