Today, we are announcing knowledge base for Amazon Bedrock in preview that lets you connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) to enable retrieval augmented generation in your generative AI applications to deliver more relevant and contextual FM responses. 

We are excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon EMR on EKS. Customers can now use AL2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS. This provides customers a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run their applications as well as enables them to access the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, openssl and other system libraries and utilities.

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has expanded its auto-scaling capabilities to efficiently handle tens of thousands of query transactions per minute. With this new feature, you can rely on OpenSearch Serverless to help handle unpredictable surges in your search and query traffic. 

Amazon EC2 now supports AMI Block Public Access (BPA), an account-wide setting that allows customers to block public sharing of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in a region. Customers managing AMIs at-scale now have a simple and proactive way of safeguarding their AMIs from inadvertent access by unauthorized users.

Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaigns in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS region making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features such as point-of-dial checks, calling controls for time of day, time zone, number of attempts per contact, and predictive dialing with integrated voicemail detection. A list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user contact experiences. With this launch, high-volume outbound calls can now be made to customers in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain from Amazon Connect instances located in Europe (Frankfurt) or Europe (London) AWS regions. Outbound campaigns can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console.

AWS Marketplace now features a new self-service listing experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal for SaaS products. The new feature enables AWS Marketplace sellers to publish and update SaaS listings more quickly and easily. This feature enables you to directly interact with AWS Marketplace catalog to create, preview, test, and update your product listing without needing AWS Marketplace to manually process your inputs.

Today, Amazon API Gateway announces a console experience refresh with usability improvements to REST and WebSocket API workflows, accessibility enhancements, and dark mode support.

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