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AWS – AWS Knowledge MCP Server now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability (GA) of the AWS Knowledge Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The AWS Knowledge server gives AI agents and MCP clients access to authoritative knowledge, including documentation, blog posts, What’s New announcements, and Well-Architected best practices, in an LLM-compatible format. With this release, the server also includes knowledge about the […]

AWS – AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release
Today, AWS announces the v1.0.0 release of the AWS API model context protocol (MCP) server enabling foundation models (FMs) to interact with any AWS API through natural language by creating and executing syntactically correct CLI commands. The v1.0.0 release of the AWS API MCP Server contains many enhancements that make the server easier to configure, […]

AWS – Amazon Detective now supports AWS PrivateLink for private API access
Amazon Detective now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely initiate API calls to Detective from within your VPC without requiring Internet traversal. AWS PrivateLink support for Detective is available in all AWS Regions where Detective is available (see the AWS Region table). To try the new feature, […]

AWS – Application map is now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch now helps you monitor large-scale distributed applications by automatically discovering and organizing services into groups based on configurations and their relationships. SREs and DevOps teams can identify critical dependencies and blast radius impacts to remediate issues faster. You get an always-on, out-of-the-box catalog and map that visualizes services and dependencies across AWS accounts […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now provides support for enhancing transcriptions
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports enhanced transcription output for audio files by providing the option to distinguish between various speakers and separately process audio from each channel. Additionally, BDA expands support for blueprint creation using a guided and natural language-based interface for extracting custom insights to audio modality. BDA is a feature of […]

AWS – AWS DataSync now supports VPC endpoint policies
AWS DataSync now supports virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint policies, allowing you to control access to DataSync API operations through DataSync VPC service endpoints and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 enabled VPC service endpoints. This new feature helps organizations strengthen their security posture and meet compliance requirements when accessing DataSync API operations through VPC […]

AWS – AWS Cloud WAN is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. With AWS Cloud WAN, you can use a central dashboard and network policies to create a global network that spans multiple locations and networks, removing the need to configure and manage different networks using different technologies. You can […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow streamlines AI experimentation and accelerates your GenAI journey from idea to production. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps customers manage experiment tracking to providing end-to-end observability, reducing time-to-market for generative AI development. […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience
Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service integrated analytics experience is now available in 5 additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California). With this integration, CloudWatch Logs customers have two more query languages for log analytics, in addition to CloudWatch Logs Insights QL. Customers can use […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Bogota, Colombia
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption capabilities at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Equinix BG1 data center near Bogota, Colombia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this […]