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Amazon Quick now expands Generate Analysis with two new ways to create dashboards faster. You can generate a single sheet inside an existing analysis by describing it in natural language, and you can generate a new analysis from an image of an existing dashboard. With Generate Sheet, you describe the sheet you want and Amazon Quick adds it to your current analysis with visuals selected for your data, filter controls, and calculated fields such as year-over-year growth and month-over-month comparisons. You can extend an analysis without building each visual by hand. With generate an analysis from an image, you attach an image of a dashboard, …
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Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This is one of the latest open-weight models from NVIDIA and employs a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 3B active parameters and 30B parameters in total. In addition to deploying this model on SageMaker AI, you can now adapt it to your specific domains and workflows. Model customization enables you to tailor foundation models with your proprietary data so a smaller, right-sized model can match frontier-model quality…
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AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and depth of AWS in one step, with no migration required.
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Builders can now sign up for a new simplified experience that makes it faster to turn ideas into running code on AWS. AWS services provide an array of configuration options so that the largest enterprises can customize settings for their distinct needs. Until now, builders with a new project idea had to decide among these options and configure their AWS environment before beginning to build. The new experience reduces setup effort by simplifying sign-up and automatically configuring an initial project with sensible defaults so builders can begin implementing their idea immediately. When you sign up, you can use your existing Google, GitHub, …
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Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers import a PDF of an evaluation form from a third-party quality management application, and automatically recreates it in Connect using AI, making it easier to migrate an existing quality program into Connect. Instead of rebuilding an existing form question by question, you upload the PDF and choose the preferred scoring method, either percentage or points-based, and Connect Customer automatically extracts the sections, questions, answer options, and scoring into a draft evaluation form. You can also provide natural language instructions to import the form more accurately or to adjust it as it's create…
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access control for custom metrics, so you can govern which users and roles can view, create, or modify each custom metric. As more teams across your organization adopt custom metrics, they end up editing the same shared library. Without controls, one person can change a metric that other teams count on. The usual fix is to give only a handful of people permissions to custom metrics, but that shuts out every other team that wants to start using them. Now you can tag each metric, then use those tags to set access: a team gets full control of their own metrics, view-only access to another team’s, a…
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Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core now support Graphics G7 bundles, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. Graphics G7 delivers up to 2.1x better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation Graphics G6 bundles. Four bundle sizes are available, ranging from 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and one GPU up to 48 vCPUs, 192 GB of memory, and two GPUs. With Graphics G7, you can run demanding professional applications such as CAD/CAM, 3D rendering, scientific visualization, video editing, and AI-assisted design workflows at higher fidelity and frame rates…
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions: post ad decision server (ADS) response, and pre manifest insertion. MediaTailor is a video service that personalizes and inserts ads into live and on-demand streams. Monetization functions run customer-defined logic at defined points in an ad-personalized playback session, removing the need for a middleware tier between MediaTailor and the ADS. The post ADS response hook runs after MediaTailor parses an ADS response and resolves all Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) wrappers, before ads are selected and transcoded. Customers use it to call a seco…
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Amazon Connect Customer provides a library of standard metrics. Custom metrics let you go further; defining the measurements unique to your business. But managing them across various instances manually means definitions slowly drift until the numbers no longer align. A metric you can't trust is worse than no metric at all, because people still make decisions on it. Now you define a metric once and manage it programmatically through seven new API operations (CreateMetric, DeleteMetric, DescribeMetric, ListMetrics, SearchMetrics, UpdateMetricContent, and UpdateMetricMetadata) so your definitions stay consistent as you scale across queues, team…
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Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies in a single, tailored dashboard. The Detected Anomalies widget displays the number of anomalies detected and their total cost impact relative to your month-to-date spend, giving you immediate context on each anomaly's scale. For each anomaly, you can review the cost impact, root cause, and…
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AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for 10G and 100G dedicated connections AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connectivity from on-premises environments to AWS. Customers value the flexibility of AWS Direct Connect's pay-as-you-go pricing, paying only for the port hours and data transfer out (DTO) they use, with no upfront commitment or long-term contracts. For workloads with large, sustained DTO, the per-gigabyte charges vary from month to month, making monthly costs challenging to predict as traffic grows. Flat-rate pricing for 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections introduces a single fixed monthly price that eli…
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AWS Billing Conductor now lets you define custom rate pricing for AWS services, including defining custom usage tiers to configure rates by the desired usage volume. Customers and Partners using AWS Billing Conductor to model commercial agreements with subsidiaries, affiliates, or end customers can now more easily reflect their negotiated pricing on pro forma billing data. Using SKU-scoped pricing rules, you can enter a custom rate and configure usage tier thresholds — instead of marking up or down from the public on-demand rates tied to pre-defined AWS usage tiers. By configuring exact rates and tier breaks directly in a pricing rule, you n…
