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AWS Summits are in full swing around the world, the most recent being AWS Summit Singapore! Get a glimpse of AWS employees and ASEAN community members at our developer lounge booth. AWS Community speakers delivered lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), security, generative AI, and more.
Released last week
Here are a few releases that caught my attention: Naturally, there are a lot of interesting generative AI features!
Amazon Titan Text Premier is now available on Amazon Bedrock. – This is the latest addition to the Amazon Titan Large Language Model (LLM) family and provides optimized performance for key features such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in the Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock and function calls to the Agent for Amazon Bedrock.
Amazon Bedrock Studio is now in public preview. – Amazon Bedrock Studio provides a web-based environment that accelerates the development of generative AI applications by providing a rapid prototyping environment with key Amazon Bedrock capabilities including knowledge base, agents, and Guardrail.
Agents for Amazon Bedrock now support the provisioned throughput pricing model. – As agent applications scale, they require higher input and output model throughput compared to on-demand limits. The provisioned throughput pricing model allows you to purchase model units for a specific base model.
MongoDB Atlas is now available as a vector store in Amazon Bedrock’s Knowledge Base. – MongoDB Atlas vector store integration allows you to build a RAG solution that securely connects your organization’s private data sources to Amazon Bedrock’s Foundation Model (FM).
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports pgVector 0.7.0. – You can use the open source PostgreSQL extension to store vector embeddings and add Search Augmented Generator (RAG) functionality to your generative AI applications. This release includes additional support for increasing the number of dimensions of vectors that can be indexed, reducing index size, and using CPU SIMD in distance calculations. Additionally, Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Oracle multi-tenant configurations on Amazon RDS for Oracle.
Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances are now available in the new region. – These instances are optimized for generative AI workloads and are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions.
Amazon Polly’s new Generative Engine is now generally available. – Amazon Polly’s generation engine is the most advanced text-to-speech (TTS) model and currently includes two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice, Amy.
AWS Amplify Gen 2 is now generally available – AWS Amplify provides a code-first developer experience for building full-stack apps using TypeScript and allows developers to express app requirements such as data model, business logic, and authorization rules in TypeScript. AWS Amplify Gen 2 has added a number of features since its preview, including the new Amplify console with features for custom domains, data management, pull request (PR) preview, and more.
Amazon EMR Serverless now includes performance monitoring of Apache Spark jobs through Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. – This allows you to analyze, monitor, and optimize your jobs using job-specific engine metrics and information about Spark event timelines, stages, tasks, and executors. Amazon EMR Studio is also now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Israel (Tel Aviv).
Amazon MemoryDB has released two new condition keys for IAM policies. – New condition keys allow you to create AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies or service control policies (SCPs) to enhance security and meet compliance requirements. Additionally, Amazon ElastiCache updated its minimum TLS version to 1.2.
Amazon Lightsail now offers larger instance bundles – It includes 16 vCPUs and 64 GB of memory. Now you can scale your web applications and run more compute- and memory-intensive workloads in Lightsail.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) adds pull-through cache support for GitLab Container Registry – ECR customers can create pull-through cache rules that map an upstream registry to a namespace in a private ECR registry. Once the rules are configured, you can pull images from GitLab Container Registry via ECR. ECR automatically creates new repositories for cached images and keeps them synchronized with the upstream registry.
AWS Resilience Hub expands application resilience drift detection capabilities – This new enhancement detects changes such as adding or deleting resources within the input source of your application.
For a complete list of AWS announcements, keep checking our What’s New on AWS page.
Other AWS News
Here are some additional projects and blog posts you might find interesting:
Making Games with LLM – Check out Banjo Obayomi’s fun experiment in creating a Super Mario level using different LLMs on Amazon Bedrock!
Amazon Q Troubleshooting – Ricardo Ferreira walks you through how he solved a nasty data serialization problem while working with Apache Kafka, Go, and Protocol Buffers.
Getting started with Amazon Q in VS Code – Check out Rohini Gaonkar’s great step-by-step guide that covers installing extensions for features like code completion chat and productivity-boosting features powered by generative AI.
AWS Open Source News and Updates – my colleague Ricardo I write about open source projects, tools, and events in the AWS community. Check out Ricardo’s page for the latest updates.
Upcoming AWS Events
Check the calendar and register for upcoming AWS events.
AWS Summit – Attend free online and offline events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Bengaluru (May 15-16), Seoul (May 16-17), Hong Kong (May 22), Milan (May 23), Stockholm (June 4) ), Madrid (June 5).
AWS re:Inforce – Explore 2.5 days of immersive cloud security learning in the era of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10-12 in Pennsylvania.
AWS Community Day – Participate in community-led conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world. Türkiye (May 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), New York (August 28).
Find all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events.
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly update!
— Abishek
This post is part of the Weekly Roundup series. Check out exciting news and announcements from AWS quickly every week!
