4/23/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/24/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Bedrock Agents simplifies agent creation and launches Return of Control capability
Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable generative AI applications to automate multi-step tasks across company systems and data sources. Agents removes the undifferentiated lifting of orchestration, infrastructure hosting and management, and we’re making building Agents easier than ever.
Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides execution plan for RDS SQL Server
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query.
Amazon QuickSight launches cross sheet filters and controls
Amazon QuickSight now includes cross-sheet filters and controls. This enables authors to create and manage filters and controls across an entire analysis or dashboard.
Amazon Titan Image Generator model in Amazon Bedrock now generally available
Amazon Titan Image Generator enables content creators with rapid ideation and iteration resulting in high efficiency image generation. The Amazon Titan Image Generator model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, helping you easily build and scale generative AI applications with new image generation and image editing capabilities.
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now simplifies asking questions on a single document
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases (KB) now provides a real-time, zero-setup, and low-cost method to securely chat with single documents.
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports multiple data sources
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports adding multiple data sources, across accounts.
Custom Model Import for Amazon Bedrock
We are excited to announce the preview of Custom Model Import for Amazon Bedrock. Now you can import customized models into Amazon Bedrock to accelerate your generative AI application development. This new feature allows you to leverage your prior model customization investments within Amazon Bedrock and consume them in the same fully-managed manner as Bedrock’s existing models. For supported architectures such as Llama, Mistral, or Flan T5, you can now import models customized anywhere and access them on-demand.
Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Kerberos authentication in additional regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign-on and centralized authentication of Oracle Database users. Keeping all of your user credentials in the same Active Directory will save you time and effort as you will now have a centralized place for storing and managing them for multiple DB instances.
Watermark detection for Amazon Titan Image Generator now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Titan Image Generator’s new watermark detection feature is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. All Amazon Titan-generated images contain an invisible watermark, by default. The watermark detection mechanism allows you to identify images generated by Amazon Titan Image Generator, a foundation model that allows users to create realistic, studio-quality images in large volumes and at low cost, using natural language prompts.
Model evaluation on Amazon Bedrock is now Generally Available
Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom metrics, such as friendliness, style, and alignment to brand voice, you can set up a human evaluation workflow with a few clicks. Human evaluation workflows can leverage your own employees or an AWS-managed team as reviewers. Model evaluation provides built-in curated datasets or you can bring your own datasets.
AWS AppFabric now supports 1Password
Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for 1Password. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 26 supported SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps.
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN public network support now available in Spain
Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announced the expansion of the public network support in the Spain region. With this expansion, Internet of Things (IoT) customers that offer LoRaWAN-based systems and solutions in Spain can seamlessly connect their LoRaWAN-powered devices to AWS over a public network infrastructure. This public infrastructure is provided as a service and supported by Everynet - a global LoRaWAN network operator offering networks in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. Thanks to the publicly available network infrastructure, customers in Spain can realize improved savings in time and costs associated with managing a private network infrastructure for LoRaWAN-based solutions.
Agents for Amazon Bedrock add support for Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet
Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge sources. In order to complete complex tasks, with high accuracy, reasoning capabilities of the underlying foundational model (FM) play a critical role.
AWS Transfer Family now lists files from remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors
AWS Transfer Family customers can now use SFTP connectors to list files stored in remote SFTP servers, enabling visibility into the contents of directories in remote SFTP file systems and transfer files when file names are not known in advance.
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock is generally available with new safety & privacy controls
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock that enables customers to implement safeguards across large language models (LLMs) based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. Customers can create multiple guardrails tailored to different use cases and apply them on multiple LLMs, providing a consistent user experience and standardizing safety controls across generative AI applications.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.
Meta Llama 3 now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Meta’s Llama 3 models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, in Amazon Bedrock. Meta Llama 3 is designed for you to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative artificial intelligence applications. You can now use these two new Llama 3 models in Amazon Bedrock enabling you to easily experiment with and evaluate even more top foundation models for your use case.
Amazon CodeCatalyst adds task breakdown assistance for issues assigned to Amazon Q
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of a new capability of Amazon Q to analyze issues for complexity and propose splitting the work into separate tasks.
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP language analyzers
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP (Chinese NLP) language analyzer plugins. These are now available as optional plugins that you can associate with your Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters.
myApplications is now available in 9 additional AWS Regions
Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich).
CloudWatch Container Insights now announces Accelerated Compute Observability on EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS now auto-discovers critical health metrics from your AWS accelerators Trainium and Inferentia, and AWS high performance network adapters (Elastic Fabric Adapters) as well as NVIDIA GPUs. You can visualize these out-of-the-box metrics in curated Container Insights dashboards to help monitor your accelerated infrastructure and optimize your AI workloads for operational excellence.
Amazon CloudWatch RUM is generally available in 5 additional AWS Regions
Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS Regions starting today: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Secure customer information collaboration using Amazon Connect in-app calls, web calls, and video calls
- Modernizing AWS Account Management with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Control Tower
AWS News Blog
- Meta Llama 3 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
- Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock now available with new safety filters and privacy controls
- Agents for Amazon Bedrock: Introducing a simplified creation and configuration experience
- Amazon Bedrock model evaluation is now generally available
- Import custom models in Amazon Bedrock (preview)
- Amazon Titan Image Generator and watermark detection API are now available in Amazon Bedrock
AWS Database Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS HPC Blog
AWS for Industries
- Revolutionizing Oil and Gas Innovation: WellAware and PCC Use Amazon EKS to Propel Customer Success
- Relive the Innovation: AWS Next Level Demo Recordings from MWC24
- Unleashing the power of Graphs: operating 5G networks with GNN and generative AI on AWS
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Accelerate ML workflows with Amazon SageMaker Studio Local Mode and Docker support
- Significant new capabilities make it easier to use Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications – and achieve impressive results
- Building scalable, secure, and reliable RAG applications using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock