AWS News Blog
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New generative AI features in HAQM Connect, including HAQM Q, facilitate improved contact center service
If you manage a contact center, then you know the critical role that agents play in helping your organization build customer trust and loyalty. Those of us who’ve reached out to a contact center know how important agents are with guiding through complex decisions and providing fast and accurate solutions where needed. This can take […]
Announcing throughput increase and dead letter queue redrive support for HAQM SQS FIFO queues
With HAQM Simple Queue Service (HAQM SQS), you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume. Today, HAQM SQS has introduced two new capabilities for first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues: Maximum throughput has been increased up to 70,000 transactions per second (TPS) per API action in selected AWS Regions, supporting sending or […]
AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023
Last week I saw an astonishing 160+ new service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts for re:Invent […]
New for HAQM SQS – Update the AWS SDK to reduce latency
With HAQM SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, HAQM SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under […]
AWS Weekly Roundup – re:Post Selections, SNS and SQS FIFO improvements, multi-VPC ENI attachments, and more – October 30, 2023
It’s less than a month to AWS re:Invent, but interesting news doesn’t slow down in the meantime. This week is my turn to help keep you up to date! Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: AWS re:Post – With re:Post, you have access to a community […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: R7iz Instances, HAQM Connect, CloudWatch Logs, and Lots More (Sept. 11, 2023)
Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week: R7iz Instances – Optimized for high CPU performance and […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Farewell EC2-Classic, EBS at 15 Years, and More (Sept. 4, 2023)
Last week, there was some great reading about HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell, celebrating the 17 years of loyal duty of the original version that started what we now know as cloud computing. […]
AWS Weekly Roundup – HAQM MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023
While I enjoyed a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, a lot has happened in the AWS universe. Let’s take a look together! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: HAQM MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6 – HAQM Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow […]