AWS Podcast Extended Shownotes for Episode: 698

Topic || AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace now offers EC2 Image Builder components from independent software vendors

New streamlined deployment experience for Databricks on AWS

Topic || Analytics

Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake

Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience

AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources

Topic || Application Integration

Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions announce integration with private APIs

Topic || Artificial Intelligence

Introducing latency-optimized inference for foundation models in Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports RAG evaluation

Amazon Bedrock now supports Rerank API to improve accuracy of RAG applications

Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation now includes LLM-as-a-judge

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now provides auto-generated query filters for improved retrieval

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports custom connectors and ingestion of streaming data

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports streaming responses

PartyRock improves app discovery and announces upcoming free daily use

Amazon Q Business adds support to extract insights from visual elements within documents

Topic || Compute

Amazon EC2 P5en instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available

Announcing Amazon EC2 I8g instances

Introducing Amazon EC2 next generation high density Storage Optimized I7ie instances

Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs to enhance AMI governance

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon ECS

Announcing Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

Announcing Amazon EKS Auto Mode

AWS simplifies the use of third-party block storage arrays with AWS Outposts

Announcing Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Topic || Customer Engagement

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now automatically categorizes your contacts using generative AI

Amazon Connect launches AI guardrails for Amazon Q in Connect

Amazon Connect launches new intraday forecast dashboards

Amazon Connect launches AI assistant for customer segments and trigger-based campaigns

Amazon Connect now provides the ability to record audio during IVR and other automated interactions

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice

Amazon Connect now supports external voice transfers

Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches built-in dashboards to analyze conversational AI bot performance

Amazon Connect launches simplified conversational AI bot creation

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now automates agent performance evaluations using generative AI

Amazon Connect now supports WhatsApp Business messaging

Amazon Connect launches generative AI-powered self-service with Amazon Q in Connect

AWS announces Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to collect sensitive customer data within chats

Topic || Database

Announcing the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region

Oracle Database@AWS is now in limited preview

Topic || Management and Governance

Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon ECS

Amazon CloudWatch adds network performance monitoring for AWS workloads using flow monitors

AWS announces Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights

AWS announces Invoice Configuration

AWS Control Tower launches managed controls using declarative policies

Topic || Migration & Transfer

AWS announces AWS Data Transfer Terminal for high-speed data uploads

Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps

AWS DMS Schema Conversion now uses generative AI

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery

VPC Lattice now includes TCP support with VPC Resources

AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink

Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance

AWS announces AWS Security Incident Response for general availability

Amazon GuardDuty introduces GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection

Amazon Web Services announces declarative policies

AWS Verified Access now supports secure access to resources over non-HTTP protocols

Topic || Storage

Amazon S3 adds new default data integrity protections

Storage Browser for Amazon S3 is now generally available

Amazon S3 launches storage classes for AWS Dedicated Local Zones

Announcing Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, a new storage class for FSx