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Build more accurate AI applications with Amazon Nova Web Grounding

Imagine building AI applications that deliver accurate, current information without the complexity of developing intricate data retrieval systems. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models on Amazon Bedrock. Web Grounding provides developers with a turnkey Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) option that allows the Amazon …

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Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings: State-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search

Today, we’re introducing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search applications, available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model to enable crossmodal retrieval with leading accuracy. Embedding models convert textual, …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025)

This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who …

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Insider Threats Loom while Ransom Payment Rates Plummet

As we enter the final quarter of 2025, the cyber extortion landscape has split along two clear paths: volume-driven Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) campaigns targeting the mid-market, and high-cost, targeted intrusions aimed at larger enterprises.   In the volume category, mid-market companies remain the most impacted by traditional RaaS groups. The Akira RaaS group leveraged a vulnerability that …

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Introducing AWS RTB Fabric for real-time advertising technology workloads

Today, we’re announcing AWS RTB Fabric, a fully managed service purpose built for real-time bidding (RTB) advertising workloads. The service helps advertising technology (AdTech) companies seamlessly connect with their supply and demand partners, such as Amazon Ads, GumGum, Kargo, MobileFuse, Sovrn, TripleLift, Viant, Yieldmo and more, to run high-volume, latency-sensitive RTB workloads on Amazon Web …

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Customer Carbon Footprint Tool Expands: Additional emissions categories including Scope 3 are now available

Since it launched in 2022, the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) has supported our customers’ sustainability journey to track, measure, and review their carbon emissions by providing the estimated carbon emissions associated with their usage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. In April, we made major updates in the CCFT, including easier access to carbon …

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Veeam + Securiti AI creates the unified and trusted data platform to run AI with confidence

Today marks a defining moment for Veeam and for our industry I am thrilled to announce that Veeam has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI – bringing together two category leaders to deliver something the market has been waiting for: a unified platform that brings data protection, security, governance, privacy, and AI trust …

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Strengthening Salesforce Data Protection Amid Persistent Threats

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month — a time to reflect, educate, and act. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud platforms like Salesforce, the stakes for data protection have never been higher. Recent headlines have spotlighted a worrisome surge in cyberthreats targeting CRM environments. While lawsuits and breaches make the news, the real story is about …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is …

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