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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
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 […]
AWS – Smartsheet connector for Amazon Q Business is now generally available
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 – AWS Systems Manager now support Windows Server 2025, Ubuntu Server 24.04, and Ubuntu Server 24.10
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 […]
AWS – SES Mail Manager adds delivery of email to Amazon Q Business applications
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 […]
AWS – Announcing Provisioned Timestream Compute Units (TCUs) for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics
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 […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered post contact summarization is now available in 5 new regions
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 […]
AWS – Announcing features to favorite applications and quickly access your recently used applications
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 […]
AWS – Announcing the Quantum Embark advisory program for customers new to quantum computing
AWS announces Quantum Embark, a new program aimed at getting customers ready for quantum computing by providing an expert-led approach as they begin their quantum computing journey. With this program, customers can explore the value of quantum computing for their business, understand the pace of development of the technology, and prepare for its impact. Quantum […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows is now generally available with two new capabilities
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Flows, previously known as Prompt Flows, and adding two key new capabilities. Bedrock Flows enables you to link the latest foundation models, Prompts, Agents, Knowledge Base and other AWS services together in an intuitive visual builder to accelerate the creation and execution of generative AI workflows. […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business introduces ability to reuse recently uploaded files in a conversation
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Users can upload files and Amazon Q can help summarize or answers about the files. Starting today, users can drag and drop files to […]