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AWS Weekly Review: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025)
The Amazon 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 Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Amazon 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 Amazon Bedrock serverless
Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in Amazon 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 Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon 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.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities
Amazon 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.
Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos
Amazon 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 Amazon Nova Reel 1.0.
AWS Weekly Review: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon 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 […]
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