Starting today, you can leverage Amazon EC2 status checks to directly monitor if the EBS volumes attached to your instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations. You can use this new status check to quickly detect attachment issues or volume impairments that may impact the performance of your applications running on Amazon EC2 […]

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of two female-sounding Amazon Polly voices for two new locales: Czechia and Switzerland. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. We have developed a […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are available in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud […]

Today, Amazon Bedrock announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. By using cross-region inference, Bedrock customers using on-demand mode will be able to get higher throughput limits (up to 2x their allocated in-region quotas) and enhanced resilience during periods […]

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customers’ enterprise data. Customers create and manage their workforce user identity using identity providers of their choice. Previously, customers had to sync their user identity information from their identity […]

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports Microsoft Entra ID and Intune. With this launch, customers using Amazon WorkSpaces Personal can now provision virtual desktops joined with Entra ID and enrolled in Intune, without requiring Microsoft Active Directory. By integrating with AWS IAM Identity Center, the launch also allows customers the flexibility to use other cloud-based identity […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240808. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon […]

Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now offers Rigetti Computing’s latest 84-qubit Ankaa-2 system in the US West (N. California) Region. Ankaa-2 is the highest qubit-count gate-based quantum device available on Amazon Braket, enabling customers to tackle larger and more complex problems while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with today’s quantum hardware. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers who use Federated or SSO authentication methods with the AWS Console Mobile App can now select their sign in URL from a list of recently used URLs when they setup a subsequent identity […]