Amazon Bedrock Agents now supports custom orchestration, allowing developers to control how agents handle multistep tasks, make decisions, and execute complex workflows. This capability enables developers to define custom orchestration logic for their agents using AWS Lambda, providing them flexibility to tailor agent’s behavior to fit specific use cases. With Custom Orchestration, developers can implement […]

Amazon Q Apps, a capability within Amazon Q Business to create lightweight, generative AI-powered apps, now supports private sharing. This new feature enables app creators to restrict app access to select Amazon Q Business users, providing more granular control over app visibility and usage within organizations. Previously, Amazon Q Apps could only be kept private […]

AWS Amplify is excited to announce support for Amazon Cognito’s new passwordless authentication features, enabling developers to implement secure sign-in methods using SMS one-time passwords, email one-time passwords, and WebAuthn passkeys in their applications with Amplify client libraries for JavaScript, Swift, and Android. This update simplifies the implementation of passwordless authentication flows, addressing the growing […]

AWS adds support for Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in the open-source Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, high-performance, and highly available client, and it’s pre-configured with best practices from over a decade of operating Amazon ElastiCache. Valkey GLIDE is compatible with versions 7.2 and 8.0 of […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of console context awareness for the Amazon Q Developer chat within the AWS Management Console. This new capability allows Amazon Q Developer to dynamically understand and respond to inquiries based on the specific AWS service you are currently viewing or configuring and the region you are operating within. For […]

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity. Until now, Interface VPC endpoints only supported connectivity to VPC endpoint services in the same region. This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can enable access to […]

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest […]

We are excited to announce Advanced Scaling, a new capability in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling which provides customers increased flexibility to control the performance and resource utilization of their Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters. With Advanced Scaling, customers will be able to configure the desired resource utilization or performance levels for their cluster, and Amazon […]

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Time-based Copy. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified timeframe. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their […]

Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system, a 10x increase over the previous limits, making it easier to power machine learning (ML) research, multi-tenant SaaS, genomics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS. Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it […]