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Today, we’re announcing two new capabilities for Amazon S3 Tables: support for the new Intelligent-Tiering storage class that automatically optimizes costs based on access patterns, and replication support to automatically maintain consistent Apache Iceberg table replicas across AWS Regions and accounts without manual sync. Organizations working with tabular data face two common challenges. First, they …

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Today, we’re announcing three new capabilities for Amazon S3 Storage Lens that give you deeper insights into your storage performance and usage patterns. With the addition of performance metrics, support for analyzing billions of prefixes, and direct export to Amazon S3 Tables, you have the tools you need to optimize application performance, reduce costs, and …

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Today, we’re announcing new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to further remove barriers holding AI agents back from production. Organizations across industries are already building on AgentCore, the most advanced agentic platform to build, deploy, and operate highly capable agents securely at any scale. In just 5 months since preview, the AgentCore SDK has been …

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Modern applications increasingly require complex and long-running coordination between services, such as multi-step payment processing, AI agent orchestration, or approval processes awaiting human decisions. Building these traditionally required significant effort to implement state management, handle failures, and integrate multiple infrastructure services. Starting today, you can use AWS Lambda durable functions to build reliable multi-step applications …

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Managing database environments demands a balance of resource efficiency and scalability. Organizations need flexible options across their entire database lifecycle, spanning development, testing, and production workloads with diverse storage and compute requirements. To address these needs, we’re announcing four new capabilities for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to help customers optimize their costs as …

New capabilities to optimize costs and improve scalability on Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle Read More »

Today we’re expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place and with reduced data duplication and costs. This enhancement means that CloudWatch can automatically normalize and process data to offer consistency across sources with built-in support for Open …

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Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans, customers have been able to lower the cost of running sustained workloads while maintaining the flexibility to manage usage across accounts, resource types, and AWS Regions. Today, we’re extending this flexible pricing model to AWS managed database services with the launch of Database Savings Plans, which help …

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Today we’re announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs and automatically optimize vector indexes for optimal trade-offs between search quality, speed, and cost. Here are the new capabilities introduced today: GPU acceleration – You can build vector databases …

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Today, we’re announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans that combine AI-powered capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise. The new and enhanced plans help you identify and address potential issues before they impact your business operations, helping …

New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance Read More »

Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with significantly increased scale and production-grade performance capabilities. S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native support to store and query vector data. You can use it to help you reduce the total cost of storing and querying vectors by …

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