Amazon Quick Sight now supports comprehensive theming capabilities that enable organizations to maintain consistent brand identity across their analytics dashboards. Authors can customize interactive sheet backgrounds with gradient colors and angles, implement sophisticated card styling with configurable borders and opacity, and control typography for visual titles and subtitles at the theme level. These enhancements address […]

Amazon Braket now offers access to IBEX Q1, a trapped-ion quantum processing unit (QPU) from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT), a new quantum hardware provider on Amazon Braket. IBEX Q1 is a 12-qubit system with all-to-all connectivity, enabling any qubit to directly interact with any other qubit without requiring intermediate SWAP gates. With this launch, customers […]

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 16TB of memory (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region, U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and U7i instances with 8TB of memory (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud […]

Amazon Aurora DSQL now provides statement-level cost estimates in query plans, giving developers immediate insight into the resources consumed by individual SQL statements. This enhancement surfaces Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) usage estimates directly within the query plan output, helping developers identify workload cost drivers, tune query performance, and better forecast resource usage. With this launch, […]

AWS Step Functions enhances the TestState API to support local unit testing of workflows, allowing you to validate your workflow logic, including advanced patterns like Map and Parallel states, without deploying state machines to your AWS account. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 […]

Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for end-customer self-service interactions across voice and digital channels, helping you better understand and improve your customers’ self-service experiences. This includes across PSTN/telephony, in-app and web-calling, web and mobile chat, SMS, WhatsApp Business messaging, and Apple Messages for Business. With this launch, Connect now provides rich conversational analytics across […]

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a comprehensive and secure service […]

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers campaign managers the ability to configure how long voice calls should ring—between a range of 15 and 60 seconds—before marking a call as “no answer” and moving to the next contact. Each contact also records when ringing began and ended for precise reporting and traceability. When ring duration is […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces outbound identity federation, enabling customers to securely federate their AWS identities to external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). This allows customers to securely authenticate their AWS workloads with third-party cloud providers, SaaS providers, and self-hosted applications without using long-term credentials or implementing complex workarounds. Customers can […]