Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector 0.7.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database, letting you use retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) when building your generative AI applications. This release of pgvector includes features that increase the number of dimensions of vectors you can index, reduce index size, and includes additional support for using CPU SIMD in distance computations. pgvector 0.7.0 adds two new vector data types: halfvec for storing dimensions as 2-byte floats, and sparsevec for storing ..read more

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics now integrates with the Amazon EKS access management controls. Starting today, the collector utilizes the EKS access management controls to create a managed access policy that allows the collector to discover and collect Prometheus metrics. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector with support for EKS access management controls is available in all regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is available. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector ..read more

Amazon Cognito introduces pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication to better support continued growth and expand capabilities. There is no change to Amazon Cognito's user based pricing (monthly active users or MAUs). Customer accounts currently using Amazon Cognito for M2M use cases will be exempt from pricing for 12 months. M2M pricing is based on the number of application clients configured for M2M authentication and the number of tokens requested for them. You can find details on our pricing page ..read more

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.7.0, which lets you index vectors larger than 2,000 dimensions and adds support for scalar and binary quantization through expression indexes.  ..read more

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.12.13, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Starting from RabbitMQ 3.12.13, all Classic Queues on Amazon MQ brokers are upgraded to Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) automatically. All queues on RabbitMQ 3.12 now behave similarly to lazy queues. These changes provide a significant improvement to throughput and lower memory usage for most use cases.  ..read more

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase API. Previously, customers were required to manually turn on SPICE auto-purchase via the console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically turn on the SPICE capacity auto-purchase, seamlessly integrating it into their adoption and migration pipeline. Once turned on, users don’t need to estimate SPICE usage and manually purchase capacity each time. Instead, they can seamlessly ingest data and use SPICE worry free, as QuickSight will automatically acquire the necessary capacity to m ..read more

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes GitLab Container Registry as a supported upstream registry for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers using GitLab’s software-as-a-subscription offering, GitLab.com, can automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registry to their private ECR repositories ..read more

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models.  ..read more

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the highly expressive generative engine with the three English Amazon Polly voices: two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice Amy.  ..read more

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Europe West (Paris) EU-West-3 region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs ..read more