Amazon ECS customers using AWS Fargate launch mode now benefit from improved deployment consistency with SOCI Index Manifest v2 support. Seekable OCI (SOCI) accelerates Amazon ECS task launches by enabling containers to start running before the full container image is downloaded. SOCI Index Manifest v2 uses a cryptographic method to establish an explicit link between […]

Today, AWS announces accuracy improvements and new settings for Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness. Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness is a feature of Amazon Rekognition that detects in real-time whether real users, not bad actors using spoofs, can access your services. Customers across financial, gig economy, telecommunications, healthcare, and social media use Rekognition Face Liveness detection for […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. […]

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new feature in Graph Explorer that enables users to write and execute native Gremlin and openCypher queries directly within the interface. This enhancement empowers data scientists, developers, and database administrators to seamlessly interact with their graph databases using their preferred query language, eliminating the need […]

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and supports multi-Region clusters within Asia Pacific Regions – Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul) as well as European Regions – Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris). Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region […]

Amazon Connect now provides new editing and accessibility enhancements for the drag-and-drop flow designer making it easier to build customer service experiences. These enhancements include keyboard navigation, auto arranging of blocks, screen reader support, and improved support for high zoom on browsers. Additionally, when editing a flow block in configuration side panel on the flow […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports a maximum storage limit of 256 TiB, doubling the previous limit of 128 TiB. This enhancement allows customers to store and manage even larger datasets within a single Aurora database cluster simplifying data management for large-scale applications and supporting the growing data needs of modern applications. Customers only pay […]

Amazon Connect now provides APIs that allow you to delete cases, case comments, undo contact associations, and remove service level agreements (SLAs) from cases. These new capabilities enable you to programmatically remove sensitive customer information from cases or delete cases upon a customer’s request. Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high performance S3 storage class, now supports tags for cost allocation and attribute-based access control (ABAC). You can add tags to S3 directory buckets to track and organize AWS costs using AWS Billing and Cost Management. Additionally, with ABAC support, you can extend your tag-based access control to new […]

Today, we are releasing two capabilities in Amazon Nova Canvas: virtual try-on and style options. These features enhance AI-powered image generation, enabling more engaging and customized visual content. With virtual try-on integrated into Amazon Nova Canvas, you can now create immersive shopping experiences by visualizing products in context. Whether it’s seeing clothing naturally draped on […]