AWS News Blog

Read about all the new launches, including Nova enhancements, Bedrock AgentCore, SageMaker, and AI Agents.

AWS now enables extensive customization of Amazon Nova foundation models through SageMaker AI with techniques including continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, reinforcement learning from human feedback and model distillation to better address domain-specific requirements across industries.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents with enterprise-grade security. It provides memory management, identity controls, and tool integration—streamlining development while working with any open-source framework and foundation model.

Amazon SageMaker has introduced three new capabilities—Amazon QuickSight integration for dashboard creation, governance, and sharing, Amazon S3 Unstructured Data Integration for cataloging documents and media files, and automatic data onboarding from Lakehouse—that eliminate data silos by unifying structured and unstructured data management, visualization, and governance in a single experience.

AWS is enhancing its Free Tier program with up to $200 in credits for new users: $100 upon sign-up and an additional $100 earned by completing activities with services like Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and AWS Budgets.

Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging capabilities that enable you to easily monitor and debug your event-driven applications on AWS. Enhanced logging provides complete event lifecycle tracking with detailed logs that show when events are published, matched against rules, delivered to subscribers, or encounter failures.

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches while seamlessly integrating with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, SageMaker, and OpenSearch for AI applications.

Amazon S3 Metadata now provides comprehensive visibility into all objects in S3 buckets through live inventory and journal tables, enabling SQL-based analysis of both existing and new objects with automatic updates within an hour of changes.