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Author: Esra Kayabali
Esra Kayabali is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, specialising in analytics, including data warehousing, data lakes, big data analytics, batch and real-time data streaming, and data integration. She has more than ten years of software development and solution architecture experience. She is passionate about collaborative learning, knowledge sharing, and guiding community in their cloud technologies journey.
HAQM Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities
HAQM 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.
Accelerate operational analytics with HAQM Q Developer in HAQM OpenSearch Service
Today, I’m happy to announce HAQM Q Developer support for HAQM OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. HAQM 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 […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: HAQM Bedrock, HAQM QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025)
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 […]
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in HAQM Bedrock
Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date excelling at coding and powering AI agents. It is the first Claude model to offer extended thinking—the ability to solve complex problems with careful, step-by-step reasoning.
AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
AWS CloudTrail now offers network activity events for VPC endpoint logging, enabling comprehensive monitoring and recording of AWS API activity through VPC endpoints to enhance security visibility, detect unauthorized access, and prevent data exfiltration without requiring custom TLS traffic inspection solutions.
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)
As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when […]
HAQM SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in HAQM Athena federated queries
Connect, discover, and govern data across silos with HAQM SageMaker Lakehouse’s new data catalog and permissions capabilities, enabling centralized access and fine-grained controls.
Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new HAQM SageMaker Lakehouse
Unifying data silos, HAQM SageMaker Lakehouse seamlessly integrates S3 data lakes and Redshift warehouses, enabling unified analytics and AI/ML on a single data copy through open Apache Iceberg APIs and fine-grained access controls.