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

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 …

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Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available

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 …

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Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with …

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Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available

Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements. We continue to expand the AWS global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Omdia recognition, Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation, International Women’s Day events, and more (March 24, 2025)

As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 15th anniversary, AWS Pi Day has grown into a flagship event highlighting the transformative power of cloud technologies in data management, analytics, and AI. This year’s …

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Collaborate and build faster with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, now generally available

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment where you can find and access all of the data in your organization and act on it using the best tool for the job across virtually any use case. Introduced as preview during AWS re:Invent 2024, my …

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Amazon S3 Tables integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse is now generally available

At re:Invent 2024, we launched Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support to streamline storing tabular data at scale, and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse to simplify analytics and AI with a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse. We also previewed S3 Tables integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) analytics services …

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DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock

As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek …

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