AWS News Blog
Category: Featured
Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation
Nova Premier is designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across tools and data sources. It has capabilities for processing text, images, and videos while also serving as a teacher model for distilling smaller, more efficient models for production use.
Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless
Meta’s newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and extended context processing for enterprise applications across multiple industries.
Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager
Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and web hosting platforms efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. CloudFront SaaS Manager can dramatically reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance content delivery and enterprise-grade security for every customer domain.
Writer Palmyra X5 and X4 foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models in Amazon Bedrock features extensive context windows and enterprise-grade security for building sophisticated AI applications across multiple industries.
In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region
AWS is adding a new Availability Zone in Maryland to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region by 2026, enhancing redundancy and supporting growing AI workloads while maintaining high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections.
Enhance real-time applications with AWS AppSync Events data source integrations
Developers can connect Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, and other resources to create sophisticated real-time applications with features like data transformation, persistent storage, and validation.
New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage
AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to Graviton3-based predecessors.
Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding 512 kilobytes.