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Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding 512 kilobytes.

Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering with cross-Region inference support, multilingual capabilities, and a 128K context window that can process images alongside text.

Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for multiple fragmented models.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails introduces enhanced capabilities to help enterprises implement responsible AI at scale, including multimodal toxicity detection, PII protection, IAM policy enforcement, selective policy application, and policy analysis features that customers like Grab, Remitly, and KONE are leveraging to standardize safeguards across generative AI applications.

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots, and quality and latency improvements over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0.

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest

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Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling

Amazon API Gateway now offers IPv6 support across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs in all commercial and AWS GovCloud regions, enabling dual-stack configuration options as a solution to growing IPv4 address scarcity.

It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning

Speed up build times on CodeBuild with test splitting across multiple parallel build environments. Read how test splitting with CodeBuild works and how to get started.

AWS Amplify Hosting now offers direct integration with AWS WAF, allowing users to apply web application firewall protection to their hosted apps through the console or infrastructure as code, eliminating the need for complex Amazon CloudFront configurations.

AWS is expanding its global infrastructure, now providing increased transparency about the specific geographic locations of its 114 Availability Zones across 36 regions to help customers meet regulatory requirements and make informed deployment decisions.

As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 15th anniversary, AWS Pi Day has grown into a flagship event highlighting the transformative power of cloud technologies in data management, analytics, and AI. This year’s

AWS Pi Day, an annual event commemorating the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006, has evolved from celebrating cloud storage milestones to showcasing cutting-edge developments in data management, analytics, and AI. In 2025, we’re focused on unified data foundation for analytics and AI through new capabilities like S3 Tables, SageMaker Unified Studio, and Amazon Bedrock IDE.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is a single data and AI development platform that brings data together with analytics and AI/ML tools, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q Developer, to streamline analytics and AI application development across virtually any use case.

Amazon S3 Tables integration with SageMaker Lakehouse enables unified access to S3 Tables data from AWS analytics engines like Amazon Athena, Redshift, EMR, and third-party query engines, to build securely and manage centrally.

DeepSeek-R1 is now available as a fully managed model in Amazon Bedrock, freeing up your teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of managing infrastructure complexities.

As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations.