December 2024

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, our flagship annual conference, is taking place Dec. 2-6, 2024, in Las Vegas. This premier cloud computing event brings together the global cloud computing community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, product launches, and networking opportunities. As AWS continues to unveil its latest innovations and services throughout the conference, we’ll keep …

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Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security

Today, I’m happy to introduce advanced AI/ML threat detection capabilities in Amazon GuardDuty. This new feature uses the extensive cloud visibility and scale of AWS to provide improved threat detection for your applications, workloads, and data. GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection employs sophisticated AI/ML to identify both known and previously unknown attack sequences, offering a more …

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Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS

Last year, we announced enhanced observability in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a new capability to improve your observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This capability helps you detect and fix container issues faster by providing detailed performance metrics and logs. Expanding this capability, today we’re launching enhanced observability for your container workloads running …

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AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources

Today, we are announcing support for Snowflake and Amazon Athena as new sources for AWS Clean Rooms data collaborations. AWS Clean Rooms helps you and your partners more seamlessly and securely analyze your collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data. This enhancement helps you collaborate with datasets stored in Snowflake or those …

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New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data faster to the AWS Cloud. The first Data Transfer Terminals are located in Los Angeles and New York, with plans to add more locations globally. You can reserve a time …

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Enhance your productivity with new extensions and integrations in Amazon Q Business

Today, we’re announcing a new capability from Amazon Q Business to seamlessly access your assistant within popular web browsers and productivity tools. This helps you save time and complete your work and tasks more efficiently without having to leave your preferred applications. Now, you can use Amazon Q Business directly from your web browser and …

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Announcing Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for FSx for OpenZFS

When I speak to customers who are planning to migrate massive amounts of on-premises data to AWS, they tell me that they want to simplify their storage management, reduce their costs, and to make the data more accessible so that it can be used for analytics, machine learning training, genomics, and other use cases. Customers …

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New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we’re announcing two new evaluation capabilities in Amazon Bedrock that can help you streamline testing and improve generative AI applications: Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation (preview) – You can now run an automatic knowledge base evaluation to assess and optimize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. The …

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Newly enhanced Amazon Connect adds generative AI, WhatsApp Business, and secure data collection

Today, Amazon Connect introduces a set of new features that help businesses enhance their contact center operations through generative AI, advanced security features, and streamlined bot management. These innovations help businesses deliver better customer experiences by creating more time and space for meaningful human interactions, while maintaining security and compliance. Contact center managers continually face …

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Securely share AWS resources across VPC and account boundaries with PrivateLink, VPC Lattice, EventBridge, and Step Functions

At some point, every AWS customer tells me that they have the desire to move into the future as quickly as possible. They want to simplify their modernization efforts, drive growth, and adapt to the cloud, while also reducing costs as they proceed. These customers typically have a large suite of legacy applications, possibly running …

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