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AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. With this expansion, S3 Tables are now generally available […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock now offers Pixtral Large 25.02, a multimodal model from Mistral AI
AWS announces the availability of Pixtral Large 25.02 in Amazon Bedrock, a 124B parameter model with multimodal capabilities that combines state-of-the-art image understanding with powerful text processing. AWS is the first cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large 25.02 as a fully managed, serverless model. This model delivers frontier-class performance across document analysis, chart interpretation, and natural image […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova Sonic, a new speech-to-speech model that brings real-time voice conversations to Amazon Bedrock
Today, Amazon introduces Amazon Nova Sonic, a new foundation model that unifies speech understanding and generation into a single model, to enable human-like voice conversations in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Amazon Nova Sonic enables developers to build real-time conversational AI applications in Amazon Bedrock, with industry-leading price performance and low latency. It can understand speech […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application […]

AWS – AWS SAM now supports Amazon API Gateway Custom Domain Names for private REST APIs
AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) now supports custom domain names for private REST APIs feature of Amazon API Gateway. Developers building serverless applications using SAM can now seamlessly incorporate custom domain names for private APIs directly in their SAM templates, eliminating the need to configure custom domain names separately using other tools. API Gateway […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities to safely build generative AI applications
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities to safely build generative AI applications at scale. These new capabilities offer grater flexibility, finer-grained control, and ease of use while using the configurable safeguards provided by Bedrock Guardrails aligning with use cases and responsible AI policies. Bedrock Guardrails now offers a detect mode that provides a preview of […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces general availability of prompt caching
At re:Invent 2024, AWS announced the preview of prompt caching, a new capability that can reduce costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. Today, AWS is launching prompt caching in generally availability on Amazon Bedrock. Prompt caching allows you to cache repetitive […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i and R7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and R7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors can now delete, rename or move files on remote SFTP servers
AWS Transfer Family now enables you to delete, rename, or move files on remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors. This enhancement allows you to easily manage files and directories stored on remote SFTP file systems and keep them up to date. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience
AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience through secure and isolated sandbox environments. You can connect to the sandbox environment via SSH clients or from an IDE to interactively troubleshoot your build or test runs. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready […]