AWS AppSync now allows customers to invoke their Lambda functions, configured as AppSync data sources, in an event-driven manner. This new capability enables asynchronous execution of Lambda functions, providing more flexibility and scalability for serverless and event-driven applications. Previously, customers could only invoke Lambda functions synchronously from AppSync, which meant that the GraphQL API would […]

In December 2023, Amazon Cognito user pools announced the ability to enrich identity and access tokens with custom attributes in the form of OAuth 2.0 scopes and claims. Today, we are expanding this functionality to support complex custom attributes such as arrays, maps and JSON objects in both identity and access tokens. You can now […]

Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the new Converse API, which provides developers a consistent way to invoke Amazon Bedrock models removing the complexity to adjust for model-specific differences such as inference parameters. This API also simplifies managing multi-turn conversations by enabling developers to provide conversational history in a structured way as part of the API request. […]

Amazon QuickSight, which lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization and embed data visualizations into your apps, is now available in Milan, Zurich, Cape Town and Jakarta Regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Milan, Zurich, Cape Town or Jakarta as their primary region, making SPICE capacity […]

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now emits 12 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics allowing you to monitor API request rates for create, delete, get, list, and update API calls for Schedules and ScheduleGroups. You can now more effectively monitor your application’s performance when making calls to Scheduler’s APIs and proactively identify when you may need to increase your […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in AWS Europe (Zurich) and Europe (Spain) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in […]

AWS WAF now allows you to select specific versions of Bot Control and Fraud Control managed rule groups within your web ACLs. This provides greater control over managing traffic when AWS makes new managed rule groups updates available to you. With versioning, you gain the flexibility to test new and updated bot and fraud rules […]

Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), an open-source developer library, launched a new feature to ease the creation of Agents for Amazon Bedrock. With this release, Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) handles the automatic generation of OpenAPI schemas directly from the business logic code, validates inputs and outputs according to that schema, and drastically reduces the […]