We are excited to announce the launch of disk-optimized vector support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, offering customers a cost-effective solution for vector search operations without compromising on accuracy and recall rates. This new feature enables organizations to implement high-quality vector search capabilities while significantly reducing operational costs. With the introduction of Disk Optimized Vectors, customers […]

AWS Step Functions adds supports for IPv6. You can now send IPV6 traffic to AWS Step Functions via new dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that enables customers to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and build data and machine learning pipelines using AWS services. This […]

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports managed node autoscaling using Karpenter, enabling customers to automatically scale their clusters to meet dynamic inference and training demands. Real-time inference workloads require automatic scaling to address unpredictable traffic patterns and maintain service level agreements, while optimizing costs. However, organizations often struggle with the operational overhead of installing, configuring, and […]

AWS Lambda now supports creating or updating functions using container images stored in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repository located in a different AWS account than the Lambda function in all GovCloud Regions (AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East)). Previously, users could only access container images within the same AWS account as their […]

Amazon Corretto 25, a Long Term Support (LTS) version, is now generally available. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You can download Corretto 25 for Linux, Windows, and macOS from our downloads page. Amazon Corretto 25 new features include: Two features that were initially released as experimental in JDK 24 are […]

Amazon Connect now provides you with agent hierarchy filters on the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. This launch enables contact center leaders to drill-down into their hierarchy to review contacts handled by specific contact center sites, departments or teams, for assessing contact quality or agent performance. This also enables centralized teams within […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage optimized I8ge instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. I8ge instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, […]

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Brunei, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, European Union countries, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, the United Arab […]