Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC), a feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers use S3 Replication to replicate billions of objects across buckets to the same or different AWS Regions and to one […]

AWS Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL DB instances and storage. These recommendations help you identify idle databases and choose the optimal DB instance class and provisioned IOPS settings, so you can reduce costs for over-provisioned workloads and increase the performance of under-provisioned workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically discovers […]

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per seconds (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with IO2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact. Crates, which are used to distribute Rust libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact. Cargo, the package manager for the Rust programming language, can be used to publish and download crates from CodeArtifact repositories. Developers can configure CodeArtifact to fetch crates from crates.io, the […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one […]

Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings (int8 and binary) from the Cohere Embed model, enabling developers and businesses to build more efficient generative AI applications without compromising on performance. Cohere Embed is a leading text embedding model. It is most frequently used to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search systems. The text embeddings output […]

Amazon Chime SDK now offers WebRTC meetings with API endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this release, Amazon Chime SDK developers can add one-to-one and group meetings with real-time audio and video to web and mobile applications from the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This release also includes the ability to connect clients to […]

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Real-Time Streaming enables you to build real-time interactive video experiences. With individual participant recording, you can now record each live stream participant’s video or audio to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When recording is enabled, each participant is automatically recorded and saved as a separate file in the […]

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, sets a new industry standard for intelligence. The model outperforms other generative AI models in the industry as well as Anthropic’s previously most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus, on a wide range of […]