Amazon OpenSearch’s vector engine can now run modern search applications at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17 domains. When you configure a k-NN (vector) index for disk mode, it becomes optimized for operating in a low memory environment. With disk mode on, the index is compressed using techniques like binary quantization and search […]

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add Regions to existing Keyspaces. With this launch, you can convert an existing single-Region Keyspace to a multi-Region Keyspace or add a new Region to an […]

AWS Glue announces 19 new connectors for Enterprise applications to expand its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Instagram Ads, Intercom, Jira Cloud, Marketo, Oracle NetSuite, SAP OData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, ServiceNow, […]

Today, AWS AppSync announced support for logging GraphQL data plane operations (query, mutation, and subscription operations and connect requests to your real-time WebSocket endpoint) using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into GraphQL API activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. AWS AppSync GraphQL is a serverless […]

Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now supports Binary Embeddings. With Binary Embeddings, customers can reduce the storage cost for their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications while maintaining similar accuracy of regular embeddings. Amazon Titan Text Embeddings model generates semantic representations of documents, paragraphs, and sentences, as 1,024 (default), 512, or 256 dimensional vector. With Binary […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for Point in Time (PIT) search, enabling you to run multiple queries against a dataset fixed at a specific moment. This feature allows you to maintain consistent search results even as your data continues to change, making it particularly useful for applications that require deep pagination or need to […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to configure software version consistency for specific containers within your Amazon ECS services. By default, Amazon ECS resolves container image tags to the image digest (SHA256 hash of the image manifest) when you create a new Amazon ECS service or deploy an update to the service. […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit for Amazon Bedrock, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. The Amplify AI kit allows developers to easily leverage their data to get customized responses from Amazon Bedrock AI models. […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service now enables you to scale a single cluster to 1000 data nodes (1000 hot nodes and/or 750 warm nodes) and enables you to manage 25 petabytes of data (10 Petabytes in hot nodes and further 15 Petabytes in warm nodes). You no longer need to setup multiple clusters for workloads that require […]

Amazon EKS enhances visibility into the Kubernetes control plane by offering new intuitive dashboards in EKS console and providing a broader set of Kubernetes control plane metrics. This enables cluster administrators to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues. All EKS clusters on Kubernetes version 1.28 and above will now automatically display a curated set of […]