Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026. The AWS South America (Chile) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Chile. This new Region joins the AWS South America (São Paulo) and…
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, a feature that accelerates the transfer of data from an EBS snapshot, a highly durable backup of volumes stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to a new EBS volume. With Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate…
Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at…
Starting today, you can now use Amazon Q Developer in GitHub in preview! This is fantastic news for the millions of developers who use GitHub on a daily basis, whether at work or for personal projects. They can now use Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the…
Today, Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, interactive, agentic coding experience that is now available in the integrated development environments (IDE) for Visual Studio Code. This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based features. You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and…
Today we’re expanding the Amazon Nova family of foundation models announced at AWS re:Invent with the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation. Nova Premier joins the existing Amazon Nova understanding models available in Amazon Bedrock. Similar to Nova Lite and Pro, Premier can…