Key announcements
- Generative AI: AWS is doubling down on generative AI, with new offerings and tools like Amazon SageMaker Canvas (no-code AI model building), Amazon CodeWhisperer (AI-powered code completion), and Amazon Personalize Personalization Engine Enhancements.
- Amazon Trainium Chip: The second generation of Trainium chips offers four times faster machine learning training compared to the previous generation.
- Amazon Transcribe: New languages and speech foundation model-based transcription for 100 languages, including support for medical terminology and low-latency transcription.
- AWS IoT TwinMaker: A new service for creating and managing digital twins of physical assets, enabling real-time data analysis and simulations.
- Amazon Kendra: Enhancements including improved search relevance, support for new document formats, and integration with AWS DataSync.
- AWS DataZone: A new service that provides a central location to discover, manage, and share data across the organization.
- Amazon SageMaker Studio Enhancements: New features include automated model tuning, collaborative notebooks, and improved experiment management.
- Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Instances: The latest generation of Mac-based instances with the M1 Ultra chip, offering significant performance improvements.
- Neptune Analytics: A new service that combines graph and vector databases for more powerful graph analytics.
- Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup Support: Create, manage, and back up volumes using the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK.
- Amazon Detective: Enhancements including improved security posture recommendations, investigation timelines, and integration with Amazon CloudTrail.
- Amazon Managed Grafana: A fully managed service for deploying, managing, and scaling Grafana dashboards.
- Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval: Faster access to archived data in S3 Glacier cold storage.
- AWS Lambda Powertools: New libraries and tools for building more efficient and reliable Lambda functions.
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: A new service that helps automate the process of labeling training data for machine learning models.
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer: New features including support for Python and Java, and improved code review insights.
- AWS Amplify Flutter Support: Build mobile apps with Flutter and leverage AWS services seamlessly.
- Amazon HealthLake Insights: New features for analyzing and visualizing healthcare data.
- Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol: A new protocol for improved performance and scalability of Amazon WorkSpaces.
This is not an exhaustive list of all announcements, but it covers the major highlights. For more information on specific announcements, please refer to the resources listed above.
