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Amazon Bedrock introduces Citations API and PDF support for Anthropic’s Claude Models that empower developers to build more trustworthy AI applications and expand document processing capabilities. The Citations API allows Claude to ground its answers in source documents, providing detailed references to the exact sentences and passages used to generate responses. This leads to more verifiable and trustworthy outputs, crucial for applications requiring high accuracy and transparency. With the new Citations API, developers can enhance the reliability of their AI-powered applications. This feature is particularly valuable in fields such as legal research, academic writing, and fact-checking, where the ability to trace information back to its source is critical. PDF support for Claude further extends Amazon Bedrock's capabilities, allowing users to extract text, analyze charts, and understand visual content from PDF documents. This comprehensive document analysis enables more

AWS Transfer Family announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for server endpoints and service APIs. This enhancement enables both IPv6 and IPv4 clients to communicate with Transfer Family SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 server endpoints. You can also use IPv6 while accessing the Transfer Family service APIs. AWS Transfer Family offers fully managed support for file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser-based transfers. The addition of IPv6 support provides you with a vastly expanded address space, eliminating concerns about address exhaustion and simplifying network architecture for IPv6-native applications. With dual-stack support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Transfer Family endpoints, you can transition from IPv4 to IPv6, without needing to switch all systems at once. AWS Transfer Family support for IPv6 is available in all AWS

Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers. With this new capability, you can now build highly available multi-Region applications with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero, achieving the highest level of resilience. DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency provides the highest level of application resilience enabling applications to be always available and always read the latest data from any Region. It also removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing strongly consistent replication. Multi-Region strong consistency is ideal for building global applications with strict consistency requirements like user profile management, inventory tracking, and financial transaction processing. DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency is available

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon ElastiCache, you create an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon ElastiCache in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. With an interface VPC endpoint, you can privately access the Amazon ElastiCache APIs from appl

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities of C8gn to scale performance and throughput, while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference. For increased scalability, C8gn instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 384 GiB of memory, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). C8gn instances support Elastic Fabric Ada

Today, AWS announced Ubuntu support for Finch, an open source command line tool that allows developers to build, run, and publish Linux containers. Finch simplifies container development by bundling a minimal native client with a curated selection of open-source components. With the addition of Ubuntu support, Finch now provides a consistent and streamlined container development experience across more Linux distributions, addressing a key pain point for developers who work across multiple environments. Previously, Ubuntu users needed to build Finch from source and handle dependency management, which required additional setup time and coordination across development teams. Now, they can easily install Finch using Ubuntu's APT package manager. This expansion allows teams to standardize their container workflows and tooling, improving productivity and collaboration across different Linux flavors. Finch's Ubuntu support is available in the deb file format for Ubuntu LT

Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance frameworks such as CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, and NIST-CSF-v1.1. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your AWS resources. Control Catalog is a feature of AWS Control Tower that enables you to search AWS managed controls and their associated compliance frameworks. Control Catalog has classifications including Domain (such as "Data Protection"), Objective (such as "Data Encryption"), and common control (such as "Encrypt data at rest") to help you better understand the purpose of a control. Today’s launch maps AWS Config rules to the specific compliance frameworks available in AWS Control Tower Control Catalog (CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, ISO-IEC-27001:2013-Annex-A, NIST-CSF-v1.1, NIS

Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce feature and accuracy updates to the text detection model used in Textract DetectDocumentText and AnalyzeDocument APIs. This update adds support for superscripts, subscripts, and rotated text in documents. The update also includes accuracy improvements for text detection in box forms, extraction of visually similar character sets (e.g., ‘0’ vs. ‘O’), and lower-resolution documents such as faxes. This update is now available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. To get started,

AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke AWS Control Tower and Control Catalog APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported services and resources, and your on-premises networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet. AWS Control Tower simplifies managing a secure, compliant multi-account environment within an AWS Organization. Customers enable AWS services like Config, CloudTrail, and Identity Center with AWS-recommended configurations through Control Tower, ensuring that all accounts in each Organization Unit (OU) adhere to the same baseline defined by the IT administrator. Applications running inside these accounts are governed via managed controls deployed through the Control Catalog

Amazon Connect now lets you maintain a synchronized instance in Asia Pacific (Osaka) that mirrors the channel configurations and service quotas of your Asia Pacific (Tokyo) environment. With a resiliency instance in Asia Pacific (Osaka), you can replicate your Amazon Connect configurations, such as users, routing profiles, and flows, and configure traffic distribution settings to pre-define groups of users and phone numbers to shift between Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Osaka), enabling your resiliency instance to handle new incoming traffic after switching regions. To get started, you first need to set up an Amazon Connect instance in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) as your primary region. You can then create a replica instance for Amazon Connect in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. To learn more about Amazon Connect Global Resiliency, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and Amazon Connect API Reference. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact c