Amazon OpenSearch Service adds multimodal support on Neural Search for OpenSearch 2.11 deployments. This empowers builders to create and operationalize multimodal search applications with significantly reduced undifferentiated heavy-lifting. For years, customers have been building vector search applications on OpenSearch k-NN, but they’ve been burdened with building middleware to integrate text embedding models into search and ingest pipelines. OpenSearch builders can now power multimodal search through out-of-the-box integrations with Amazon Bedrock text and image multimodal APIs to power search pipelines that run on-cluster.

Today, AWS announces support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environments. This launch allows you to connect to a VPC from your Dev Environment, extending the number of developer scenarios supported by CodeCatalyst.

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches cross-account observability across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to help you monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Region. Central Operational Teams managing container administration can now monitor and analyze container health and performance across their organization from a consolidated view and maintain the overall application health status to achieve the best business results.

Today, AWS Backup Audit Manager adds a new control allowing you to audit restore time targets against your resources. With this launch, you can help your organizations recovery preparations by specifying restore time targets for your resources, and evaluating whether they meet your business or compliance requirements.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports simplified configuration of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles with Kubernetes clusters, through a new set of APIs that tightly integrate IAM identities with Kubernetes authentication and authorization controls.

Amazon Redshift customers can now use the identities in their identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc., to access Amazon Redshift in a single sign-on experience from Amazon QuickSight or Amazon Redshift Query Editor. Administrators can manage fine grained access to data in Redshift using the users and groups in the organization IdP, and can audit user access in AWS CloudTrail.

Amazon Cognito user pools now support the ability to enrich access tokens with custom attributes in the form of OAuth 2.0 scopes and claims. You can make application-specific advanced authorization decisions using custom attributes in the access token. This feature also allows you to personalize end-user experiences and improve customer engagement. 

Amazon DynamoDB local now supports table deletion protection and the ReturnValuesOnConditionCheckFailure parameter. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by running DynamoDB in your local development environment without incurring any costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works with your existing DynamoDB API calls. 

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