You know what I find more exciting than the Amazon Prime Day sale? Finding out how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it all happen. Every year, I wait eagerly for Jeff Barr’s annual post to read the chart-topping metrics. The scale never ceases to amaze me. This year, Channy Yun and Jeff Barr bring us behind the scenes of how AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales. I will let you read the post for full details, but one metric that blows my mind every year is that of Amazon Aurora. On Prime Day, 6,311 Amazon Aurora database instances processed more than 376 billion transactions, stored 2,978 terabytes of data, and transferred 913 terabytes of data. Other news I’m…
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Amazon Q Apps, now generally available, enables users to build their own generative AI apps
When we launched Amazon Q Business in April 2024, we also previewed Amazon Q Apps. Amazon Q Apps is a capability within Amazon Q Business for users to create generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered apps based on the organization’s data. Users can build apps using natural language and securely publish them to the organization’s app library for everyone to use. After collecting your feedback and suggestions during the preview, today we’re making Amazon Q Apps generally available. We’re also adding some new capabilities that were not available during the preview, such as API for Amazon Q Apps and the ability to specify data sources at the individual card level. I’ll expand on the new features in a moment, but let’s…