11/27/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/28/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon SQS announces increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput mode

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 70,000 transactions per second per API action in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS offers two types of queues, standard and FIFO. FIFO queues process messages only once, in the exact order that they are sent. Now, customers using high throughput mode FIFO queues can send and receive messages at a higher rate.

Amazon EFS Replication now supports failback

Amazon EFS Replication now supports failback, making it easier and more cost-effective to synchronize changes between EFS file systems after Disaster Recovery (DR) and other failover events.

Announcing major dashboard enhancements in AWS Security Hub

Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces new data visualizations, filtering and customization enhancements to the AWS Security Hub dashboard, allowing you to more easily focus on risks that require your attention.

Amazon SageMaker launches a new version of Large Model Inference DLC with TensorRT-LLM support

Today, Amazon SageMaker launched a new version (0.25.0) of Large Model Inference (LMI) Deep Learning Container (DLC), with support for NVIDIA’s TensorRT-LLM Library. With these upgrades, customers can easily access state-of-the-art tooling to optimize Large Language Models (LLMs) on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker LMI TensorRT-LLM DLC reduces latency by 33% on average and improves throughput by 60% on average for Llama2-70B, Falcon-40B and CodeLlama-34B models, compared to previous version.

New updates automatically accelerate Amazon S3 data transfer for ML training

Starting today, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and Python SDK automatically use the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) to accelerate data transfer between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 Trn1, P4d, and P5 instances. The AWS CRT implements Amazon S3’s performance best practices for request parallelization, automatic retry, DNS load balancing, and more to deliver high data transfer rates between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. As a result, machine learning training jobs now download training data from Amazon S3 up to 3x faster and upload model checkpoints to Amazon S3 up to 5x faster, which accelerates total training times.

Announcing AWS B2B Data Interchange

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS B2B Data Interchange, a fully managed service for automating the transformation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents into common data representations such as JSON and XML at scale and with pay-as-you-go pricing. Customers across verticals such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and more can now reduce the time, complexity, and cost associated with preparing and integrating EDI data into their business applications and purpose-built data lakes.

Announcing enhanced capabilities for Partner-Led Support

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces an expanded portfolio of proactive benefits for AWS Partners that leverage the extensive cloud expertise of AWS Support. Participating partners will enhance their customers’ experience using new tools and receive the benefit of scalable pricing, and will have the opportunity to showcase Backed by AWS Support to help customers easily identify partners who offer AWS Partner-Led Support.

AWS Backup launches support for restore testing

Today, AWS Backup announces the general availability of restore testing, a new capability within AWS Backup that helps perform automated and periodic restore tests of supported AWS resources that have been backed up. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can test recovery readiness to prepare for possible data loss events and to measure duration times for restore jobs to satisfy compliance or regulatory requirements.

AWS Healthscribe is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA eligible, generative AI-powered service designed to help healthcare application builders automatically create preliminary clinical documentation from patient-clinician conversations. With AWS HealthScribe, you can integrate speech recognition and generative AI, specifically trained to assist with healthcare industry documentation, into your application to help accelerate clinical documentation and enhance the consultation experience. AWS HealthScribe makes it easier and faster for healthcare software providers to include generative AI capabilities without the need to manage the underlying machine learning (ML) infrastructure or train their own healthcare-specific large language models (LLMs).

Virtualization for SPARC on AWS with Stromasys is now available

Virtual SPARC environments are now available on the AWS Cloud. With this new capability, customers can migrate and rehost applications running on legacy SPARC systems. The lift-and-shift migration of applications from SPARC machines to virtual SPARC-compatible execution environments on the AWS Cloud enables sunsetting of legacy hardware without any change to the applications, and with minimal recertification or retraining. Once on the AWS Cloud, the applications can benefit from elastic on-demand resources with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing. Such rehosting of applications on virtual SPARC environments can help accelerate modernization timelines, reduce operating costs, and improve resilience.

Announcing Multi-Account Experiments for AWS Fault Injection Service

Today, AWS announces the support of multi-account experiments for AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This feature allows you to set up and run real-world failure scenarios on an application which spans multiple AWS accounts using a single FIS experiment. You can centrally configure, monitor, and review an experiment that targets resources in multiple accounts.

Announcing new finding enrichment in AWS Security Hub

Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces new metadata enrichment for findings aggregated in AWS Security Hub that allow you to better contextualize, prioritize, and take action on your security findings. This enrichment adds resource tags, a new AWS application tag, and account name information to every finding ingested into Security Hub, including findings from AWS security services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and AWS IAM Access Analyzer, as well as a large and growing list of AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Replatform with NTT DATA is now available

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with NTT DATA UniKix technology for replatforming and running mainframe applications on the AWS Cloud. The new capability broadens the replatform provider choices available to customers for mainframe application modernization.

Announcing the general availability of Amazon RDS for Db2

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Db2 databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS manages time-consuming database administration tasks, such as provisioning, patching, backups, recovery, failure detection, and repair, so you can focus on applications and business.

AWS AppSync improves support for Amazon Aurora clusters configured with the RDS Data API

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events. With AppSync GraphQL APIs, customers can create an API that connects to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. Applications can then retrieve data from different sources with a single efficient request.

Amazon SQS announces support for FIFO dead-letter queue redrive

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues or a standard custom destination queue. Now SQS customers can also redrive messages from a FIFO dead-letter queue to FIFO source queues or FIFO custom destination queues.

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive

Today, AWS Backup announces support for EBS Snapshots Archive, allowing customers to automatically move EBS Snapshots created by AWS Backup to EBS Snapshots Archive. EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent or fast retrieval, allowing you to save up to 75% on storage cost.

Announcing AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces general availability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This launch gives customers in both the public and commercial sectors, as well as their partners, access to AWS DRS capabilities in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC is now generally available

We are excited to announce public availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC. This capability relies on BMC’s mainframe data set transfer technology to discover, transfer, and convert mainframe data sets for use on the AWS Cloud.

AWS AppFabric’s new generative AI feature helps build cross-app experiences (Preview)

Today, AWS AppFabric announced a new feature, AWS AppFabric for productivity, that reimagines end-user productivity in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications by generating insights and actions with context from multiple applications. AWS AppFabric is a service that connects multiple SaaS applications to enhance security and increase productivity. Since its launch, IT professionals can use AppFabric to automatically normalize application logs from 19 different SaaS applications for improved SaaS observability across their application stack.

Announcing new central configuration capabilities in AWS Security Hub

Today, AWS announces new capabilities in AWS Security Hub that allow security teams to centrally enable and configure Security Hub standards and controls across accounts and Regions in just a few steps. This enhancement is designed to streamline and simplify how you set up and administer Security Hub in your multi-account, multi-Region organizations. You can now use Security Hub central configuration to address gaps in your security coverage by creating security policies with your desired standards and controls and applying them in selected Regions across accounts and Organizational Units (OUs).

Announcing DR drill validation automation for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to automate validations when launching EC2 instances for recovery and drills. This saves you time used to perform tedious manual verifications, as AWS DRS empowers you to define custom automated validations tailored to your specific needs. Also, you can leverage the convenience of pre-defined validations such as volume free space detection and network connectivity verification, providing you with the tools to conduct thorough drills to ensure robust and resilient production environments.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Data Replication with Precisely is now available for IBM i

We are excited to announce public availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization Data Replication with Precisely for IBM i. The capability, already available to mainframe augmentation customers, is now also available for midrange systems including IBM i, iSeries, System i, or AS/400. It leverages data replication offered by Precisely to enable near real-time replication of midrange data to the AWS Cloud with support for heterogeneous source and target databases. It builds resilient high-performance data pipelines that replicate data changes via Change Data Capture (CDC) from midrange data stores to AWS database services like Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. As a result, businesses can modernize and augment midrange applications by offloading data processing, building new business functions or channels, and driving business insights and intelligence with analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the AWS Cloud to speed modernization and deliver cost savings, agility, and innovation.

Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing (Preview)

Today, we are excited to announce a public preview of AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing, an AWS Mainframe Modernization service feature that automates functional equivalence testing of mainframe applications being modernized with the AWS cloud. This new feature provides cloud-native testing capabilities including test capture, on-demand automated test replays, comparisons, and regression testing at scale. Available as a part of AWS Mainframe Modernization service console, the Application Testing feature is designed to offer a simplified testing experience that is highly scalable across a wide range of mainframe testing use cases, with support for parallel test runs and visualization of testing results.

AWS Control Tower announces 65 new controls to help meet digital sovereignty requirements

AWS Control Tower is excited to announce 65 new AWS-managed controls and enhanced Region deny capabilities to help you meet your digital sovereignty requirements. With this release, you can discover 245+ controls under a new digital sovereignty group in the AWS Control Tower console. You can use these controls to help prevent actions, enforce configurations, and detect resource changes for data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, and resiliency capabilities.

Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 now in preview

Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software. Currently, Amazon Inspector leverages the widely deployed AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Agent to assess your EC2 instances for third-party software vulnerabilities. With this new capability, you can expand your vulnerability assessment coverage across your EC2 infrastructure with Amazon Inspector agentless scanning for EC2 instances that do not have SSM Agents installed or configured. For agentless scanning, Amazon Inspector takes snapshots of EBS volumes to collect software application inventory from the instances to perform vulnerability assessments. Once you enable EC2 scanning within Amazon Inspector, it automatically discovers all your EC2 instances and starts evaluating them for software vulnerabilities. Customers can enable agentless scanning by simply visiting the EC2 settings page within the Amazon Inspector console and selecting hybrid scan mode. In hybrid scan mode, Amazon Inspector relies on SSM Agents to collect information from instances to perform vulnerability assessments, and automatically switches to agentless scanning for instances that do not have SSM Agents installed or configured.

Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for new provisioned clusters

AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances are now generally available for use with new provisioned Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters. MSK provisioned clusters running on M7g instances deliver up to 24% price/ performance improvement, up to 29% higher write and read throughput, and up to 27% reduction in CPU usage over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports batch retrieval of secrets

AWS Secrets Manager now supports a single API call to identify and retrieve a group of secrets for your application. The new API, BatchGetSecretValue, offers greater simplicity to common developer workflows where you need to bring multiple secrets into your application. With this feature, you no longer have to make iterative calls to retrieve one secret at a time or account for partial failures when pulling multiple secrets, enhancing the overall efficiency.

New from AWS: You can now customize security controls in AWS Security Hub

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced support for customer-specific inputs in AWS Security Hub controls that allow you to customize your security posture monitoring in AWS. Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service with hundreds of managed and automated controls that allow you to monitor your cloud resources and ensure they are configured securely. The new enhancements allow security teams to refine the best practices monitored by Security Hub controls to meet more specific security expectations.

Announcing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP scale-out file systems

Starting today, you can create FSx for ONTAP scale-out file systems that deliver up to 36 GB/s of throughput and 1.2 million IOPS—9x higher performance than before. FSx for ONTAP is the first and only storage service that allows you to launch and run fully managed, fully-featured ONTAP file systems in the cloud. This allows you to migrate or extend your workloads that rely on ONTAP’s widely used data management features to AWS without having to modify your applications, tools, processes, or workflows. Now, you can leverage ONTAP’s data management features for an even broader range of high-performance workloads on AWS.

IAM Access Analyzer now simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you toward least privilege

AWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Access Analyzer now simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you toward least privilege. IAM Access Analyzer continuously analyzes your accounts to identify unused access and creates a centralized dashboard with findings. Security teams can use the dashboard to review findings centrally and prioritize which accounts to review based on the volume of findings. The findings highlight unused roles, unused access keys for IAM users, and unused passwords for IAM users. For active IAM roles and users, the findings provide visibility into unused services and actions.

Amazon GuardDuty now supports runtime monitoring for Amazon EC2 (Preview)

Today, AWS announces the preview launch of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring, an expansion of Amazon GuardDuty that introduces runtime threat detection for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads.

Amazon Inspector expands AWS Lambda code scanning with generative AI powered remediation

Amazon Inspector code scanning for AWS Lambda functions now includes assisted code remediation using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated reasoning. Amazon Inspector code remediation for Lambda function provides in-context code patches for multiples classes of vulnerabilities detected during security scans for AWS Lambda function. It extends the Amazon Inspector capabilities to assess custom proprietary Lambda code for security issues like injection flaws, data leaks, weak cryptography, or missing encryption based on AWS security best practices. Upon discovering vulnerabilities, Amazon Inspector provides actionable security findings, including affected code snippets and remediation suggestions. As part of supported findings, Amazon Inspector provides code patches associated with the vulnerabilities, simplifying the process of updating vulnerable code.

Announcing vision system data from AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview)

Today, AWS announces the preview of vision system data from AWS IoT FleetWise, a service that lets automotive companies efficiently collect vehicle data and organize it in the cloud. With this new feature, you can easily collect and organize data from vehicle vision systems that include cameras, radars, and lidars. It keeps both structured and unstructured vision system data, metadata (event ID, campaign, vehicle), and standard sensor (telemetry data) automatically synchronized in the cloud, making it easier to assemble a full picture view of events and gain insights.

Announcing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances (Preview)

Amazon Web Services announces Amazon EC2 U7i, next-generation High Memory instances. U7i instances offer up to 32TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) delivering up to 125% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances.

IAM Access Analyzer introduces custom policy checks powered by automated reasoning

AWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Access Analyzer now provides custom policy checks to validate that IAM policies adhere to your security standards ahead of deployments. Custom policy checks use the power of automated reasoning—security assurance backed by mathematic proof— to help security teams proactively detect nonconformant updates to policies. For example, IAM policy changes that are more permissive than their previous version. Security teams can use these checks to streamline their reviews, automatically approving policies that conform with their security standards, and inspecting more deeply when they don’t. This new kind of validation provides you higher security assurance in the cloud.

AWS Step Functions launches support for HTTPS endpoints and a new TestState API

AWS Step Functions announces support for HTTPS endpoints, so you can now integrate with virtually any SaaS application directly from your workflows. In addition, AWS Step Functions launches a new TestState API to test a single step in your workflow, that helps accelerate development so you can deploy new features fast.

Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity

Today, Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity, a new feature that simplifies how cluster administrators can configure Kubernetes applications to obtain AWS IAM permissions. These permissions can now be easily configured with fewer steps directly through EKS console, APIs, and CLI. EKS Pod Identity makes it easy to use an IAM role across multiple clusters and simplifies policy management by enabling the reuse of permission policies across IAM roles.

You can now manage and back up FSx for ONTAP FlexGroup volumes using the AWS Console and API

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully-managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to create, manage, and back up FlexGroup volumes using the AWS Management Console, FSx CLI, and AWS SDK, making it even easier to manage and protect your data at-scale.

FreeRTOS roadmap and code contribution process now published on freertos.org

Starting today, FreeRTOS roadmap is published on freertos.org and GitHub. With this update, you can transparently access information on specific FreeRTOS features and have a consolidated view of upcoming, ongoing, and shipped FreeRTOS projects to plan your projects accordingly. In addition, you can track the status of your requested FreeRTOS features or the projects you have volunteered to work on.

AWS IoT SiteWise Edge Now Available on Siemens Industrial Edge Marketplace (Preview)

Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens Industrial Edge to help simplify, accelerate, and reduce the cost of sending industrial equipment data to the AWS cloud. This new offering allows customers to start ingesting industrial equipment data from a variety of industrial protocols into the cloud faster using Siemens Industrial Edge Devices already connected to machines, removing layers of configuration and accelerating time to value.

Introducing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring, including AWS Fargate

Today, AWS announces Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring, an expansion of Amazon GuardDuty that introduces runtime threat detection for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) workloads—including serverless container workloads running on AWS Fargate.

Announcing utterance generation for Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Today, we are excited to introduce utterance generation for Amazon Lex that expedites bot development by leveraging generative AI to automatically produce new training utterances.

Amazon EventBridge now supports partner integrations with Adobe and Stripe

Amazon EventBridge now supports partner integrations with Adobe I/O events and Stripe, enabling you to route events from these platforms to over 20 AWS services making it easier to build event-driven architectures for handling payments, invoices, ordering, and much more. By leveraging these integrations you can increase developer agility by spending less time writing integration code and build features faster that combine best-in-class Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities with AWS services.

Assisted Slot Resolution with Generative AI

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (chatbots), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. By leveraging foundation models (FMs) to enhance its natural language understanding capabilities, Lex can now resolve slot values in user utterances with greater accuracy. The Assisted Slot Resolution feature uses the advanced reasoning capabilities of FMs to improve accuracy and ultimately a better customer experience.

Amazon Detective now supports log retrieval from Amazon Security Lake

Amazon Detective now integrates with Amazon Security Lake, enabling security analysts to query and retrieve logs stored in Security Lake. You can use this integration to get additional information from AWS CloudTrail logs and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs stored in Security Lake while conducting security investigations in Detective.

Announcing AWS Console-to-Code (Preview) to generate code for console actions

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced AWS Console-to-Code is in preview. It is a generative AI capability that makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to deploying production code for your workloads. Customers can now generate code for their console actions in their preferred format. The code helps customers get started and bootstrap their automation pipelines for their workloads tasks.

New Discover Apps page for PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground

PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground is a fun and intuitive hands-on, shareable generative AI app-building tool. Post announcement, builders made tens of thousands of AI-powered apps in a matter of days, shared on social media using single-step tools from within the playground. Today, PartyRock is announcing a new Discover page, where top community-created apps will be curated by AWS. The page will showcase what PartyRock users are building and help others to get hands-on by providing a central resource for inspiration and discovery. Here you’ll find some of the most viewed, remixed, and snapshotted apps, curated by PartyRock employees, including those they found particularly amusing, novel, or helpful for understanding key generative AI concepts. Everyone can learn to build AI apps with PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground.

Amazon Detective introduces finding group summaries using generative AI

Amazon Detective now provides finding group summaries using generative artificial intelligence (AI) that automatically analyzes finding groups and provides insights in natural language to help you accelerate security investigations. Amazon Detective finding groups allows you to examine multiple activities related to potential security events. For example, you can analyze the root cause of high-severity Amazon GuardDuty findings using Detective finding groups. With Detective finding group summaries, you can more quickly locate and review key insights on suspicious activity identified in finding groups in natural language, making it easier to investigate and understand unusual or suspicious activities.

FSx for ONTAP now supports creating Multi-AZ file systems in Shared VPC participant accounts

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to create Multi-AZ file systems in Shared VPCs from participant accounts, making it even easier for your organization to decentralize how you administer network and storage resources.

Descriptive Bot Builder with Generative AI

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (chatbots), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex leverages Generative AI to accelerate bot building by automatically generating a bot from a user’s prompt. Simply provide a description in natural language to generate a starting point which can be further refined.

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment.

Amazon Detective supports security investigations for Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring

Amazon Detective now supports security investigations for threats detected by Amazon GuardDuty Elastic Container Service (ECS) Runtime Monitoring. Amazon Detective now provides enhanced visualizations and additional context for detections on ECS. You can use the new runtime threat detections from GuardDuty and the investigative capabilities from Detective to improve your detection and response for potential threats to your container workloads.

Announcing new enhancements to Amazon CodeWhisperer

Today, AWS announces new updates to Amazon CodeWhisperer, including support for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AI-powered code remediation, and expanded language support for security scanning, all generally available. CodeWhisperer is also now available in Visual Studio, in preview. These updates help to enable faster and more efficient software development by offloading undifferentiated work and delivering more automation, security, efficiency, and accelerated code delivery for customers, and provides this support in more places where developers love to work.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand data replication across file systems

Today, AWS announces on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, enabling you to easily and efficiently transfer incremental point-in-time snapshots of your volumes between file systems. On-demand data replication provides a simple and resilient way to replicate production data in a separate file system for development, experimentation, and analytics workloads.

Announcing Conversational FAQ with generative AI for Amazon Lex (Preview)

We are pleased to offer a preview of the QnAIntent in Amazon Lex. The QnAIntent allows developers to securely connect foundation models (FM) to company data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). By providing access to company data, FMs generate more relevant, accurate, and contextual responses. The QnA Intent can be used with new or existing Lex bots to automate frequently asked questions (FAQs) through text and voice channels, such as Amazon Connect.

Announcing Lens Catalog for the AWS Well-Architected Tool

Today, AWS Well-Architected (AWS WA) announces the general availability of the Lens Catalog in the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool). The Lens Catalog is a new, central lens repository for customers looking to explore, review, and implement the latest cloud best practices available from AWS.

Amazon Detective announces investigations for IAM

Amazon Detective now supports the ability to automatically investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities for indicators of compromise (IoC). This new capability helps security analysts determine whether IAM entities have potentially been compromised or involved in any known tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) from the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

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