Following the announcement of the price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances, we are announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon SageMaker AI instances to enable more cost-efficient generative AI model development. The price reduction for SageMaker AI instances includes P4 (P4d and P4de) and P5 (P5, P5e and P5en) instance types. This […]

Amazon EKS Pod Identity now provides a simplified experience for configuring application permissions to access AWS resources in separate accounts. With enhancements to EKS Pod Identity APIs, you can now seamlessly configure access to resources across AWS accounts by providing the resource account’s IAM details during the creation of the Pod Identity association. Your applications […]

Today, AWS announces enhanced application layer (L7) DDoS protection capabilities with faster automatic detection and mitigation, designed to respond to events within seconds. AWS WAF application layer (L7) DDoS protection is an AWS Managed Rule group that automatically detects and mitigates DDoS events of any duration to ensure your applications on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load […]

Amazon Nova Sonic, a state-of-the-art speech-to-speech foundation model, now supports Spanish language, bringing natural, real-time voice conversations to more users and developers worldwide. This expands on its original support for English, with expressive voices in American and British accents, to now include Spanish with two additional (masculine and feminine-sounding) expressive voices. Nova Sonic unifies speech […]

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Ireland) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the […]

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now supports updating capacity providers for an existing ECS service. With this enhancement, customers can seamlessly update the underlying compute configuration for their ECS services, without incurring operational overhead or potential disruption from needing to recreate their services. Amazon ECS enables customers to update their service configurations programmatically via […]

Today, Amazon Verified Permissions announces price reduction for single authorization requests by up to 97% to $5 per million API requests. This price reduction makes it substantially cost-effective for customers to implement fine-grained authorization across all their applications, enabling authorization checks for every user action. Amazon Verified Permissions is a scalable, fully managed authorization service […]

Amazon Lex now offers a Large Language Model (LLMs) assisted Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to improve intent classification and slot resolution capabilities for English and Spanish locales. This feature allows you to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance accuracy when the standard NLU encounters challenges, helping you deliver more natural, resilient conversational experiences, while […]

Today, we are excited to announce support for service-linked AWS Config rules in AWS Control Towers detective controls. A service-linked AWS Config rule is managed entirely by AWS services and cannot be edited or deleted by users. To maintain consistency, prevent configuration drift, and simplify user experience, you can only update these rules through AWS […]