Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the…

Amazon Neptune now supports reading data from Amazon S3 within openCypher queries. Through the new `neptune.read()` procedure, customers now have an additional option of federating with external data stored in S3 versus needing to load data into Neptune. Organizations using Neptune…

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports expanded multi-node cluster configurations for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise edition, enabling you to scale clusters up to 15 nodes for demanding production workloads requiring high read throughput and high availability. With this launch, you can…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Partner Central agents, new AI-powered capabilities designed to accelerate partner co-selling with AWS. Built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, these agentic capabilities work alongside partner sales teams to shorten sales cycles and simplify…

Amazon Connect now enables agents to forward email contacts to external email addresses and distribution lists directly from the Agent workspace and Contact Center Panel. When an email is forwarded, agents still retain ownership and complete communication trail of the…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the Agent-User Interaction (AG-UI) protocol, enabling developers to deploy AG-UI servers that deliver responsive, real-time agent experiences to user-facing applications. With AG-UI support, AgentCore Runtime handles authentication, session isolation, and scaling for AG-UI workloads,…