CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, enables developers and operators to easily monitor the health and performance of their applications hosted across different compute platforms such as EKS, ECS and more. Customers can now use OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), an open-source protocol, to send traces to the X-Ray OTLP endpoint, and unlock application […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the general availability of customizable chat responses generated by Amazon Q Developer in the IDE. With this capability, you can securely connect Q Developer to your private codebases to receive more precise chat responses that take into account your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, and methods. […]

Today, AWS Security Token Service (STS) is announcing support for digitally signing OpenID Connect (OIDC) JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) keys. A digital signature guarantees the JWT’s authenticity and integrity and ECDSA is a popular, NIST-approved digital signature algorithm. When your identity provider (IdP) authenticates a user, it crafts […]

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Smartsheet connector for Amazon Q Business. Smartsheet is a modern enterprise work management platform. This connector makes it easy to synchronize data from your Smartsheet instance with your Amazon Q Business index. When implemented, your employees can use Amazon Q Business to query their intelligent assistant on […]

AWS Systems Manager now supports instances running Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10. Systems Manager customers running these operating systems versions now have access to all AWS Systems Manager Node Management capabilities, including Fleet Manager, Compliance, Inventory, Hybrid Activations, Session Manager, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Distributor. For a […]

SES announces that Mail Manager now has a rule action for “Deliver to Q Business” which allows customers to specify an Amazon Q Business application resource and submit email messages to it for indexing and queries. This simplifies setup and allows granular control of which messages are selected by the rule conditions, as well as […]

Today, Amazon Timestream for Live Analytics announces the launch of Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs), a new feature that allows you to provision dedicated compute resources for your queries, providing predictable and cost-effective query performance. Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a serverless time-series database that automatically scales to ingest and analyze gigabytes of time-series data […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered post contact summarization is now available in Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions, which summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context rich contact summaries (e.g., “The customer didn’t receive a reimbursement for a last minute flight cancellation […]

Today, we’re excited to launch application favoriting and quick access features in the AWS Management Console. Now you can pin your most-used applications as favorites and quickly return to recently visited applications. Customers can easily designate favorite applications with a single click, and sort your most important applications, bringing favorites to the top of your […]