Today, AWS introduces an enhanced version of SaaS Quick Launch for Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in AWS Marketplace, delivering a streamlined Databricks workspace deployment experience on AWS. Databricks is a unified data analytics platform that enables organizations to accelerate data-driven innovation. SaaS Quick Launch for Databricks automates installation and configuration steps, simplifying the process of […]

Amazon Connect now allows you to compare intraday forecasts against previously published forecasts, review projected daily performance, and receive predictions for effective staffing, all available within the Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards. With intraday forecasts, you receive updates every 15 minutes with predictions for rest-of-day contact volumes, average queue answer time, average handle time, and, […]

Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS is a new, native AWS service to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).  Amazon EVS automates and simplifies deployments and provides a ready-to-use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment on AWS. This allows you to […]

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI powered assistant for customer service, now enables customers to natively configure AI guardrails to implement safeguards based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. Contact center administrators can configure company-specific guardrails for Amazon Q in Connect to filter harmful and inappropriate responses, redact sensitive personal information, and […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides you with the ability to automatically categorize your contacts using generative AI, making it easy to identify top drivers, customer experience, and agent behavior for your contacts. You can provide criteria to categorize contacts in natural language (e.g., did the customer try to make a payment on their balance?). […]

Amazon Connect now offers new capabilities to proactively engage your customers in a personalized manner. These features help non-technical business users create customer segments using prompts and drive trigger-based campaigns to deliver timely, relevant communications to the right audiences. Use new segment AI assistant in Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to build audiences using natural language […]

Today at re:Invent, AWS announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode, a new feature that fully automates compute, storage, and networking management for Kubernetes clusters. Amazon EKS Auto Mode simplifies running Kubernetes by offloading cluster operations to AWS, improves the performance and security of your applications, and helps optimize compute costs.  You can […]

Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs, a new account-wide setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts. You can now simply specify the AMI owner accounts or AMI owner aliases permitted within your account, and only AMIs from these owners will be visible and available […]

Amazon S3 updates the default behavior of object upload requests with new data integrity protections that build upon S3’s existing durability posture. The latest AWS SDKs now automatically calculate CRC-based checksums for uploads as data is transmitted over the network. S3 independently verifies these checksums and accepts objects after confirming that data integrity was maintained […]

Amazon S3 is announcing the general availability of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users, such as customers, partners, and employees, […]