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AWS – AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs now support data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
Today, AWS AppSync announced support for logging GraphQL data plane operations (query, mutation, and subscription operations and connect requests to your real-time WebSocket endpoint) using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into GraphQL API activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. AWS AppSync GraphQL is a serverless […]

AWS – Introducing Binary Embeddings for Titan Text Embeddings model in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now supports Binary Embeddings. With Binary Embeddings, customers can reduce the storage cost for their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications while maintaining similar accuracy of regular embeddings. Amazon Titan Text Embeddings model generates semantic representations of documents, paragraphs, and sentences, as 1,024 (default), 512, or 256 dimensional vector. With Binary […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports point in time (PIT) search
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for Point in Time (PIT) search, enabling you to run multiple queries against a dataset fixed at a specific moment. This feature allows you to maintain consistent search results even as your data continues to change, making it particularly useful for applications that require deep pagination or need to […]

AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to configure software version consistency
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to configure software version consistency for specific containers within your Amazon ECS services. By default, Amazon ECS resolves container image tags to the image digest (SHA256 hash of the image manifest) when you create a new Amazon ECS service or deploy an update to the service. […]

AWS – AWS Amplify launches the full-stack AI kit for Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit for Amazon Bedrock, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. The Amplify AI kit allows developers to easily leverage their data to get customized responses from Amazon Bedrock AI models. […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now scales to 1000 data nodes on a single cluster
Amazon OpenSearch Service now enables you to scale a single cluster to 1000 data nodes (1000 hot nodes and/or 750 warm nodes) and enables you to manage 25 petabytes of data (10 Petabytes in hot nodes and further 15 Petabytes in warm nodes). You no longer need to setup multiple clusters for workloads that require […]

AWS – Amazon EKS enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring
Amazon EKS enhances visibility into the Kubernetes control plane by offering new intuitive dashboards in EKS console and providing a broader set of Kubernetes control plane metrics. This enables cluster administrators to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues. All EKS clusters on Kubernetes version 1.28 and above will now automatically display a curated set of […]

AWS – Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication
Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication, allowing customers to replicate file systems between AWS accounts. EFS Replication enables you to easily maintain an up-to-date replica of your file system in the AWS Region of your choice. With this launch, EFS Replication customers can meet business continuity, multi-account disaster recovery, and compliance requirements by automatically keeping […]

AWS – AWS support case management is now available in AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams and Slack
AWS Chatbot announces general availability of AWS Support case management in Microsoft Teams and Slack. AWS customers can now use AWS Chatbot to monitor AWS support cases updates and respond to them from chat channels. When troubleshooting issues, customers need to stay informed up-to-date on the latest support case updates in a place where they […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Binary Vector and FP16 cost savings features
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now is supporting Binary Vector and FP16 compression helping reduce costs by lowering the memory requirements. It also lowers the latency, improve performance with acceptable accuracy tradeoff. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and […]