The AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server now supports specialized tools for AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM), helping developers configure and manage ESMs more efficiently. These new tools combine the power of AI assistance with Lambda ESM expertise to streamline how developers set up, optimize, and troubleshoot event-driven serverless applications built on Lambda. […]

AWS Backup now supports copying database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts using a single copy action. This feature supports Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB snapshots. It eliminates the need for sequential copying steps. You can use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies to protect against incidents like ransomware attacks and Region […]

AWS Cloud Map now supports cross-account service discovery through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This enhancement lets you seamlessly manage and discover cloud resources—such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon DynamoDB tables—across AWS accounts. By sharing your AWS Cloud Map namespace via AWS RAM, […]

TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 3.0 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing advanced video-native multimodal embedding capabilities to developers and organizations working with video content. Marengo embedding models unify videos, images, audio, and text into a single representation space, enabling you to build sophisticated video search and content analysis applications for any-to-any search, recommendation systems, and […]

Amazon Bedrock announces the availability of 4 new image editing tools to Stability AI Image Services: outpaint, fast upscale, conservative upscale, and creative upscale. These tools give creators precise control over their workflows, enabling them to transform concepts into finished products efficiently. The expanded suite now offers enhanced flexibility for professional creative projects. Stability AI […]

Amazon EBS now provides additional visibility to monitor the average IOPS and average throughput of your Amazon EBS volumes with two new CloudWatch metrics – VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput. You can use the metrics to monitor the I/O being driven on your EBS volumes to track performance trends. With these new volume level metrics, you can […]

Amazon S3 expands conditional write functionality to copy operations. With conditional copy, you can now verify if the object exists or has been modified in your destination S3 bucket before copying it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object. You can now […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Tomcat 11 applications using Amazon Corretto 25 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Java 25 and Jakarta EE 11 features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance capabilities. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service […]

Amazon EC2 U7i-8tb (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS Europe (London) region. U7i-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), delivering up to 135% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances. U7i-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models. Customers can use Web Grounding today with Nova Premier using the Amazon Bedrock tool use API. Support for additional Nova models is coming soon. Web Grounding is a built-in tool that can be used to retrieve and […]