AWS News Blog

Today, we announce that the Pixtral Large 25.02 model is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model. Working with large foundation models (FMs) often requires significant infrastructure planning, specialized expertise, and ongoing optimization to …

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Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications. Traditional approaches in building voice-enabled applications require complex orchestration of multiple models, such as speech recognition to convert speech to text, language models to …

Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications Read More »

Since we launched Amazon Bedrock Guardrails over one year ago, customers like Grab, Remitly, KONE, and PagerDuty have used Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to standardize protections across their generative AI applications, bridge the gap between native model protections and enterprise requirements, and streamline governance processes. Today, we’re introducing a new set of capabilities that helps customers …

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities Read More »

At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, …

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos Read More »

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest …

AWS Weekly Review: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025) Read More »

Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS News Blog as of December last year, the AWS News Blog team will keep sharing the most important and impactful AWS product launches the moment they become available. I want to quote Jeff’s last comment on the future of the News Blog again: Going forward, the …

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Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling …

Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service Read More »

Today, we are launching IPv6 support for Amazon API Gateway across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs, in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now configure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, and custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call API …

Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints Read More »

It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025) Read More »

I’m excited to announce that AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, so you can run your test suites concurrently and reduce build times significantly. With the demo project I wrote for this post, the total test time went down from 35 minutes to six minutes, including the time to provision the environments. These two …

Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available Read More »