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AWS announced Amazon Nova Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models on Amazon Bedrock that automatically retrieves current, cited information to reduce AI hallucinations and improve accuracy in applications requiring up-to-date factual data.

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is a new state-of-the-art embedding model available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the industry’s first embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single unified model, enabling cross-modal retrieval and semantic search applications with leading accuracy, at industry-leading costs.

AWS RTB Fabric is a fully managed service designed for real-time bidding advertising workloads that enables AdTech companies to connect with their supply and demand partners through a dedicated, high-performance network environment, delivering single-digit millisecond performance and up to 80% lower networking costs compared to standard cloud connections while eliminating the need for colocation infrastructure or upfront commitments.

AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]

Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.

Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.

Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.