AWS Weekly Roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, HAQM Corretto, HAQM Connect, HAQM Bedrock, and more

I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite one so far in 2025.

But our teams didn’t stop there, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements.

Last week’s launches

Beside the usual Regional expansion (new capabilities that are now available in a new Region), here are the launches that got my attention.

HAQM EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets – HAQM EventBridge is now able to deliver events to targets in another AWS account directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. This will simplify so many architectures out there! It supports any target that supports resource-based policies, including AWS Lambda, HAQM Simple Queue Service (HAQM SQS), HAQM Simple Notification Service (HAQM SNS), HAQM Kinesis, and HAQM API Gateway.

HAQM Corretto quaterly update – We announced quarterly security and critical updates for HAQM Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, 8u442 are now available for download. HAQM Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You can download the updates from the Corretto home page or just type apt-get or yum update.

High-throughput mode for HAQM SNS FIFO Topics – HAQM SNS now supports high-throughput mode for SNS FIFO topics, with default throughput matching SNS standard topics across all Regions. When you enable high-throughput mode, SNS FIFO topics will maintain order within message group, while reducing the deduplication scope to the message-group level. With this change, you can leverage up to 30K messages per second (MPS) per account by default in US East (N. Virginia) Region, and 9K MPS per account in US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) Regions, and request quota increases for additional throughput in any Region.

HAQM Connect agent workspace now supports audio optimization for Citrix and HAQM WorkSpaces virtual desktops – HAQM Connect agent workspace now supports the ability to redirect audio from Citrix and HAQM WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to a customer service agent’s local device. Audio redirection improves voice quality and reduces latency for voice calls handled on virtual desktops, providing a better experience for both end customers and agents.

HAQM Redshift announces support for History Mode for zero-ETL integrations – This new capability enables you to build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from databases, out-of-the-box in HAQM Redshift, without writing any code. History mode simplifies the process of tracking and analyzing historical data changes, allowing you to gain valuable insights from your data’s evolution over time.

Finally, HAQM Bedrock has its own set of announcements. First, for anyone investing in retrieval-augmented generation, Bedrock now support multimodal content with Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English models. This enables you to create embeddings to not only index text, but also images.

Second, read Luma AI’s Ray2 visual AI model now available in HAQM Bedrock. Luma Ray2 is a large-scale video-generation model capable of creating realistic visuals with fluid, natural movement. With Luma Ray2 in HAQM Bedrock, you can generate production-ready video clips with seamless animations, ultrarealistic details, and logical event sequences with natural language prompts, removing the need for technical prompt engineering. Ray2 currently supports 5- and 9-second video generations with 540p and 720p resolution.

And finally, HAQM Bedrock Flows announces preview of multi-turn conversation support. HAQM Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), HAQM Bedrock Prompts, HAQM Bedrock Agents, HAQM Bedrock Knowledge Bases, HAQM Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. This week, the team announced preview of multi-turn conversation support for agent nodes in Flows. This capability enables dynamic, back-and-forth conversations between users and flows, similar to a natural dialogue.

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That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!