AWS News Blog
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Llama 4 models from Meta now available in HAQM Bedrock serverless
Meta’s newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in HAQM Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and extended context processing for enterprise applications across multiple industries.
Writer Palmyra X5 and X4 foundation models are now available in HAQM Bedrock
Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models in HAQM Bedrock features extensive context windows and enterprise-grade security for building sophisticated AI applications across multiple industries.
AWS Weekly Roundup: HAQM Q Developer, AWS Account Management updates, and more (April 28, 2025)
Summit season is in full throttle! If you haven’t been to an AWS Summit, I highly recommend you check one out that’s nearby. They are large-scale all-day events where you can attend talks, watch interesting demos and activities, connect with AWS and industry people, and more. Best of all, they are free—so all you need […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: HAQM S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on HAQM Bedrock, HAQM Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025)
The HAQM Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last week’s launches Announcing up […]
AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in HAQM Bedrock serverless
Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in HAQM Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering with cross-Region inference support, multilingual capabilities, and a 128K context window that can process images alongside text.
Introducing HAQM Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
HAQM Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on HAQM Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for multiple fragmented models.
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.
HAQM Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos
HAQM Nova Reel 1.1 enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots, and quality and latency improvements over HAQM Nova Reel 1.0.