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AWS – AWS SAM now supports Amazon API Gateway Custom Domain Names for private REST APIs
AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) now supports custom domain names for private REST APIs feature of Amazon API Gateway. Developers building serverless applications using SAM can now seamlessly incorporate custom domain names for private APIs directly in their SAM templates, eliminating the need to configure custom domain names separately using other tools. API Gateway […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities to safely build generative AI applications
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities to safely build generative AI applications at scale. These new capabilities offer grater flexibility, finer-grained control, and ease of use while using the configurable safeguards provided by Bedrock Guardrails aligning with use cases and responsible AI policies. Bedrock Guardrails now offers a detect mode that provides a preview of […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces general availability of prompt caching
At re:Invent 2024, AWS announced the preview of prompt caching, a new capability that can reduce costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. Today, AWS is launching prompt caching in generally availability on Amazon Bedrock. Prompt caching allows you to cache repetitive […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i and R7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and R7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors can now delete, rename or move files on remote SFTP servers
AWS Transfer Family now enables you to delete, rename, or move files on remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors. This enhancement allows you to easily manage files and directories stored on remote SFTP file systems and keep them up to date. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience
AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience through secure and isolated sandbox environments. You can connect to the sandbox environment via SSH clients or from an IDE to interactively troubleshoot your build or test runs. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova Reel 1.1
We are excited to announce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots. In addition, Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0. Multi-shot videos in Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 offers […]

AWS – AWS End User Messaging now supports IPv6
AWS End User Messaging now allows customers to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing service endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their AWS End User Messaging endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). ARP is a NetApp ONTAP feature that proactively monitors your file system for unusual activity and automatically generates ONTAP snapshots when a potential attack is detected, helping you […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Canvas now supports fine-tuning
Amazon Nova Canvas now supports fine-tuning through Amazon Bedrock, enabling customers to adapt the model to their unique datasets and brand characteristics. With custom model fine-tuning, customers can train the model on their proprietary data to generate fully customized images that align with their specific requirements and style guidelines. Fine-tuned models can be tested and […]