February 9, 2025
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I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since final week – again to our regular rhythm of releases. Providers groups are listening to your suggestions and growing little (or large) adjustments that makes your life simpler when working with our companies. The power to assist a number of classes within the AWS Console is my favourite one thus far in 2025.

However our groups didn’t cease there, let’s have a look at the final week’s new bulletins.

Final week’s launches

Beside the same old Regional enlargement (new capabilities that at the moment are accessible in a brand new Area), listed below are the launches that received my consideration.

Amazon EventBridge proclaims direct supply to cross-account targets – Amazon EventBridge is now in a position to ship occasions to targets in one other AWS account instantly with out having to ship them to the default bus within the goal account first. This may simplify so many architectures on the market! It helps any goal that helps resource-based insurance policies, together with AWS Lambda, Amazon Easy Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Easy Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon API Gateway.

Amazon Corretto quaterly replace – We introduced quarterly safety and important updates for Amazon Corretto Lengthy-Time period Supported (LTS) and Characteristic Launch (FR) variations of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, 8u442 at the moment are accessible for obtain. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You may obtain the updates from the Corretto dwelling web page or simply sort apt-get or yum replace.

Excessive-throughput mode for Amazon SNS FIFO Matters – Amazon SNS now helps high-throughput mode for SNS FIFO matters, with default throughput matching SNS customary matters throughout all Areas. If you allow high-throughput mode, SNS FIFO matters will keep order inside message group, whereas lowering the deduplication scope to the message-group degree. With this alteration, you may leverage as much as 30K messages per second (MPS) per account by default in US East (N. Virginia) Area, and 9K MPS per account in US West (Oregon) and Europe (Eire) Areas, and request quota will increase for extra throughput in any Area.

Amazon Join agent workspace now helps audio optimization for Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces digital desktops – Amazon Join agent workspace now helps the power to redirect audio from Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces Digital Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to a customer support agent’s native machine. Audio redirection improves voice high quality and reduces latency for voice calls dealt with on digital desktops, offering a greater expertise for each finish clients and brokers.

Amazon Redshift proclaims assist for Historical past Mode for zero-ETL integrations – This new functionality lets you construct Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables in your historic information from databases, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, with out writing any code. Historical past mode simplifies the method of monitoring and analyzing historic information adjustments, permitting you to realize priceless insights out of your information’s evolution over time.

Lastly, Amazon Bedrock has its personal set of bulletins. First, for anybody investing in retrieval-augmented generation, Bedrock now assist multimodal content material with Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English fashions. This lets you create embeddings to not solely index textual content, but additionally pictures.

Second, learn Luma AI’s Ray2 visible AI mannequin now accessible in Amazon Bedrock. Luma Ray2 is a large-scale video-generation mannequin able to creating practical visuals with fluid, pure motion. With Luma Ray2 in Amazon Bedrock, you may generate production-ready video clips with seamless animations, ultrarealistic particulars, and logical occasion sequences with pure language prompts, eradicating the necessity for technical immediate engineering. Ray2 presently helps 5- and 9-second video generations with 540p and 720p decision.

And at last, Amazon Bedrock Flows proclaims preview of multi-turn dialog assist. Amazon Bedrock Flows lets you hyperlink basis fashions (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Brokers, Amazon Bedrock Data Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and different AWS companies collectively to construct and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. This week, the staff introduced preview of multi-turn dialog assist for agent nodes in Flows. This functionality allows dynamic, back-and-forth conversations between customers and flows, just like a pure dialogue.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, make sure you regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

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That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!

— seb

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