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AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)

I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works …

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Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, a feature that accelerates the transfer of data from an EBS snapshot, a highly durable backup of volumes stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to a new EBS volume. With Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)

Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at …

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Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation

Starting today, you can now use Amazon Q Developer in GitHub in preview! This is fantastic news for the millions of developers who use GitHub on a daily basis, whether at work or for personal projects. They can now use Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the …

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Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience

Today, Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, interactive, agentic coding experience that is now available in the integrated development environments (IDE) for Visual Studio Code. This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based features. You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and …

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Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation

Today we’re expanding the Amazon Nova family of foundation models announced at AWS re:Invent with the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation. Nova Premier joins the existing Amazon Nova understanding models available in Amazon Bedrock. Similar to Nova Lite and Pro, Premier can …

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Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks with breakthrough performance and scalability on-premises

Today we’re announcing the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks, which marks the latest innovation from AWS for edge computing. This new generation includes support for the latest x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, new simplified network scaling and configuration, and accelerated networking instances designed specifically for ultra-low latency and high-throughput workloads. …

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Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless

The newest AI models from Meta, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as a fully managed, serverless option in Amazon Bedrock. These new foundation models (FMs) deliver natively multimodal capabilities with early fusion technology that you can use for precise image grounding and extended context processing in your applications. …

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Reduce your operational overhead today with Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager

Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new feature that helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, web development platform providers, and companies with multiple brands and websites efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. Customers already use CloudFront to securely deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds. CloudFront SaaS …

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