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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections, so data users can connect Microsoft Power BI and other ODBC-compatible tools directly to governed data in SageMaker Unified Studio projects using the Amazon Athena ODBC driver. This adds a native connection path for analysts who have standardized on Power BI to work with governed data using their existing tools and workflows. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds an ODBC connection details view to the project overview page, alongside the existing JDBC view. From the project's JDBC and ODBC connections tab, data users can copy the connection string and its parameters for a DSN-less…
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Today, AWS Lambda durable functions announces an integration with Pydantic AI, an open source framework for building AI agents in Python. AWS Lambda durable functions saves your Pydantic AI agent's progress as it runs, so after an interruption like a timeout, your agent resumes from the last completed step instead of starting over. Your agent gains fault tolerance without you having to write the checkpoint and retry logic yourself. With this integration, each model and tool call your agent makes is a durable execution step, so an interrupted run does not repeat calls that already completed. This matters when the work is expensive to repeat, …
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Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.3 which adds quorum queue feature enhancements such as compaction, increased priority levels, native delayed retries, and graceful consumer timeouts. RabbitMQ 4.3 also includes various bug fixes and performance improvements for memory management. Quorum queues on RabbitMQ 4.3 performs compaction to reduce disk usage for queues and native support for 32 strict priority levels, compared to the relative 2 levels supported in previous RabbitMQ versions. Quorum queues can now automatically set failed messages aside and retry delivery after a set cooldown delay. Consumer timeouts have moved from global pro…
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Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. RG instances deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes, enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine. RG instances are available in four instance sizes, rg.large, rg.xlarge, rg.4xlarge and rg.12xlarge. Customers…
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers Dynamic Multiview, a server-side capability that composes multiple live video sources into viewer-selected tiled layouts on demand. Content providers can deliver multi-angle, multi-game, and personalized viewing experiences as standard HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) streams playable on most modern consumer devices, televisions, and set top boxes without custom player development. Dynamic Multiview operates entirely in the compressed domain, combining individually encoded sources without re-encoding or compositing. Customers encode each source once through AWS El…
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AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports A/B forensic watermarking, enabling content owners to trace the source of unauthorized redistribution of live video content. A single MediaLive channel produces two synchronized output variants, each carrying a distinct visually transparent watermark that persists through re-encoding and screen capture. Downstream packaging and CDN infrastructure assembles these variants into unique per-session sequences that identify the origin of leaked content. Forensic watermarking follows the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) specification for A/B watermarking (European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) TS 10…
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers Yield Optimization, a new capability that automatically monetizes unused ad inventory with Amazon Ads demand during server-side ad insertion (SSAI) for livestreams. Available exclusively to publishers in the Amazon Publisher Services (APS) Streaming TV program, yield optimization turns unfilled ad breaks into monetized impressions at zero cost to enable and with no additional infrastructure required. Because ads are stitched directly into the stream before reaching the viewer, they play seamlessly on every device. Key highlights: - Built for scale: yield optimization is designed for large-scale live event…
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AWS Elemental Inference now generates contextual metadata from live video streams in real time, using AI to produce scene-level intelligence without custom machine learning infrastructure. The new capability analyzes live video in parallel with encoding to extract Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) content taxonomy categories, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) brand suitability signals, detected objects and actions, and shot and scene-level descriptions. Broadcasters and content platforms can now power contextual ad decisioning, media asset enrichment, and content discovery workflows using serverless, fully managed AI. For conte…
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AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.
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AWS Marketplace sellers that activated the request demo or request private offer call-to-action buttons on their listings can now act on customer requests within minutes of submission, while customers are still actively evaluating their products. This happens automatically, with no changes required to their listings or workflows. When a customer submits a request, they can now provide details about their use case, and AWS Marketplace uses an agentic workflow to evaluate those details and create an opportunity for the seller: an active prospect with a defined use case. Each opportunity arrives in AWS Partner Central with the customer's contac…
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AWS announces the CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl APIs for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, giving customers a self-service way to debug document access issues and audit document-level permissions. When a user doesn't see an expected document in retrieval results for ACL-enabled data sources, it can be difficult to determine whether the cause is an access control misconfiguration or something else entirely. These new APIs and the accompanying console experience close that gap, enabling you to quickly diagnose and resolve permission issues without opening a support case. CheckIngestedDocumentAcl lets you verify wheth…
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Today, Amazon Quick offers new capabilities that make it easier to organize your work, govern it across an organization, and trust the answers it produces. These capabilities build on Amazon Quick across desktop and mobile, bringing enterprise-grade management, richer collaboration, and always-on intelligence to teams wherever they work. Your agents no longer stop when you step away. Scheduled tasks and monitoring agents run in the cloud and deliver results to your feed even when your laptop is closed. A sharper activity feed adds top-level filters, an improved catch-up view, a daily briefing that refreshes three times a day, and search acro…
