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Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality…
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets you run your own custom Python plugins on the managed versions of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions. You host your plugin code in public or private repositories you control…
Enterprises that use Amazon API Gateway often want to bring their own client certificate for backend mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. With API Gateway, you can now use a third-party or AWS Private CA-issued client…
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed capability that makes it easy to compute, store, and retrieve features for training and deploying AI models. SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes, a…
AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. With this launch, customers operating in…
You can now configure Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to present an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate to your backend during the TLS handshake, enabling mutual TLS (mTLS). Previously, API Gateway could present only…
A practical, step-by-step guide to getting Oracle Database@AWS up and running. It covers the five procurement and onboarding steps, from securing your AWS Marketplace offer through validating prerequisites, linking your…
Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces the resource fallback directive, enabling you to define an ordered list of preferred accelerator types, including an option to fallback to CPU instances, for tasks in your Workflow…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets developers submit content directly for long-term memory extraction without persisting it as a short-term memory event. The new IngestData API accepts content, fans it out to the…
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In…
Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT), an AWS supported solution that helps customers transform images in response to their needs. Customers can now use…
A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest architecture in computing teach us about where agents and memory…
Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security,…
Amazon EMR now gives you more time, at no additional cost, to migrate off older releases before they reach end of support. If you are actively migrating, your workloads on eligible releases keep receiving support while…
AWS Builder ID, your personal profile for accessing AWS applications including AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, Amazon Quick and Kiro, now offers new ways to protect and recover your profile. You can…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for…
Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention, allowing you to apply write-once-read-many (WORM) protection to objects whose required retention period starts with a future event, such as a contract closing or an…