Category: Launch

Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available with planned extension to 20 new Regions. This blog shows you how to get started and how to integrate with zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and more.

Every Monday we tell you about the best releases and blogs that caught our attention last week. This week I’m making an exception to include a release from today: Amazon Bedrock API keys. This new feature simplifies generative AI development by providing direct API authentication without needing to manually configure IAM principals and policies. Amazon […]

Amazon Nova Canvas has introduced two new AI-powered image generation capabilities: virtual try-on for visualizing clothing on people and style options for applying predefined artistic styles to images, both accessible through the Amazon Bedrock console with straightforward API implementation.

Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency capability for global tables, providing the highest level of application resilience and enabling your applications to be always available.

Amazon EC2 announces general availability of C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth for demanding network-intensive workloads with 30% higher compute performance over previous Graviton3-based instances.

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training […]

You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this new capability, you can work with your file data using a broad range of applications that work with S3—all without any refactoring or data movement.

Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.