AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
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 […]
Announcing up to 85% price reductions for HAQM S3 Express One Zone
HAQM S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding 512 kilobytes.
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.
AWS Weekly Roundup: HAQM EKS, HAQM OpenSearch, HAQM API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)
AWS Summit season starts this week! These 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 will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]
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 […]