April 2024

Today, AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI–powered capability of Amazon Q Developer that enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. Amazon Q Developer is the AWS expert to assist you with all of your development tasks. Amazon Q data integration is a new chat experience specifically for AWS Glue, design for authoring and troubleshooting data integration pipelines.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Route 53 alias records for defining custom domain endpoints. Alias records provide better flexibility when configuring routing to AWS resources. For more information about Route 53 alias records, please see documentation.

Amazon Redshift now supports Multi-AZ deployment for zero-ETL integration on RA3 clusters, enabling customers to run near real-time analytics on a highly available data warehouse. With a Multi-AZ deployment, your zero-ETL integration can automatically recover from any infrastructure or Availability Zone (AZ) failures ensuring your workloads remain uninterrupted.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-nine. 

Today, AWS Direct Connect now enables AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Partners (AWS Direct Connect Partners) to support 25 Gbps hosted connection capacity . 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R6gd instances provide local SSD storage and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics that need access to high-speed, low latency storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), up to 512 GiB RAM, and up to 3.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage.

Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL's core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own functions or procedures for use during various database operations.

Today, AWS announces the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The AWS PDK provides building blocks for common patterns along with development tools to manage and build your projects. You can now use the AWS PDK in CodeCatalyst through the PDK blueprints, enabling you to compose one or more such blueprints together to create an application comprising of a React website, Smithy API, and the supporting CDK infrastructure to deploy the application to AWS. You can get started by creating a PDK backed project in CodeCatalyst. For more information, see the Blueprints documentation and PDK tutorial.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers memory optimized X2iedn instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta and Osaka), Europe (Milan and Paris), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Amazon Braket now provides access to three new experimental capabilities via Braket Direct, offering increased flexibility and control when programming on QuEra’s Aquila device. With today’s launch, you can get access to local detuning, taller geometries, and tighter geometries - opening up new research opportunities, such as advanced combinatorial optimization problems that are relevant for various industry applications.

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1 and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports rds_superuser_role to simplify implementation of role-based privileges on MySQL 8.0. The rds_superuser_role is granted by default to the primary administrative user, and has privileges including, CREATE ROLE, CREATE USER, and DROP ROLE, for all database objects. For a complete list of rds_superuser_role privileges, refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Cognito in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

Today, AWS announces that CodeCatalyst Issues now support breaking down issues into smaller units called tasks. CodeCatalyst customers can now add up to 100 tasks within a single issue to further organize and plan out the work involved. Tasks can be added when creating a new issue or later added to existing issues and can be assigned to any of the project members. You can also reorder, mark as complete, or remove tasks on an issue. 

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Ruby 3.3. Developers can use Ruby 3.3 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available.

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P5, C6i, C7i, M6i, M7i, R6i, and R7i instances on SageMaker notebooks.

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and enable real-time experiences with GraphQL APIs.

AWS Resilience Hub has expanded support for AWS Trusted Advisor, adding an additional check for unrecoverable application components. In addition, Resilience Hub has expanded support to assess applications that include Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.