5/2/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/3/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Announcing automated 997 and TA1 acknowledgements for AWS B2B Data Interchange
AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 997 functional acknowledgements and TA1 interchange acknowledgements in response to all relevant inbound X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. These acknowledgements are used to confirm receipt of individual transactions and to report errors. With this launch, you can now automate delivery of 997 and TA1 acknowledgements to trading partners that require them.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides managers with generative AI-powered recommendations for answers to questions in agent evaluation forms, enabling them to perform evaluations faster and more accurately. Managers now receive additional agent behavioral insights (e.g., did the agent show empathy while delivering bad news?) and will get context and justification for the recommended answers (reference points from the transcript that were used to provide answers).
Amazon Personalize launches new recipes supporting larger item catalogs with lower latency
Today, Amazon Personalize announces the general availability of two new recipes, User-Personalization-v2 and Personalized-Ranking-v2 (v2 recipes). Built on Transformers architecture, these new recipes support catalogs with up to 5 million items with lower inference latency. Amazon Personalize testing showed that v2 recipes improved recommendation accuracy by up to 9% and recommendation coverage by up to 1.8x compared to previous versions. A higher coverage means Amazon Personalize recommends more of your catalog. These new recipes also support item metadata like genres and descriptions in inference responses, allowing customers to easily enrich recommendations in their user interfaces.
Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector now supports audio streaming G.711 A-Law encoded audio
Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector audio streaming now supports G.711 A-law encoded audio. With this update, companies can stream audio to AWS from their phone systems using session initiation protocol recording (SIPREC) with G.711 A-law encoded audio.
Amazon Bedrock now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications.
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports MongoDB Atlas for vector storage
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), to deliver more relevant and accurate responses. Today, we are announcing vector storage support for MongoDB Atlas in Knowledge Bases (KB) for Amazon Bedrock.
Introducing file commit history in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today, AWS announces the general availability of file commit history in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Customers can now view the file git commit history in the CodeCatalyst’s console. Amazon CodeCatalyst helps teams plan, code, build, test, and deploy applications on AWS. Viewing the history of commits, pertaining to a file, is a way to reduce the effort for developers when trying to understand the history of changes for a codebase.
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports API to exclude resources
AWS Trusted Advisor introduces new API to enable you to programmatically exclude resources from recommendations associated with Trusted Advisor best practice checks. On Nov 17 2023, Trusted Advisor announced the launch of new APIs available to Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers. This launch adds the BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusions API to this suite of APIs to allow users to exclude specific resources from specific checks programmatically. This capability is only available to via AWS Trusted Advisor APIs, and not available through AWS Support API (SAPI).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon Q Business, which uses generative AI to help improve employee productivity, is now generally available
- Amazon Q Developer is now generally available with new features that reimagine the developer experience
- Amazon Bedrock guardrails with new safety filters and privacy controls are now available
- Amazon Titan image generator and watermark detection API are now available on Amazon Bedrock
- Run scalable enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R and R+ now available on Amazon Bedrock
- Send traces to AWS X-Ray using the CloudWatch integration agent
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeCatalyst, etc. (April 29, 2024)
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AWS Startups Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium deliver lowest cost to deploy Llama 3 models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Revolutionize Customer Satisfaction with tailored reward models for your business on Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Personalize launches new recipes supporting larger item catalogs with lower latency
- Get started with Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2: A new state-of-the-art embeddings model on Amazon Bedrock