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Amazon Quick now supports document-level access controls (ACLs) for Microsoft SharePoint knowledge bases, enabling organizations to maintain native SharePoint permissions when indexing content. Users with whom knowledge bases are shared can only access documents through Amazon Quick that they have permission to view in SharePoint, ensuring security and compliance with your organization’s sharing policies.

Quick combines ACL replication for efficient pre-retrieval filtering with real-time permission checks directly with SharePoint at query time. This dual approach delivers the performance benefits of indexed ACLs while guarding against stale or incorrectly mapped permission data. When a user submits a query, Quick verifies their current permissions with SharePoint before generating a response, ensuring answers are based on live access rights.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. To get started, create an admin-managed SharePoint knowledge base in the Amazon Quick console and configure document-level access controls in advanced settings. For more information, see Microsoft SharePoint integration in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Amazon Quick is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and Europe (Ireland). For more information about Amazon Quick, visit the Amazon Quick page .

Amazon Connect now provides audit logging for agent activity status changes made through analytics dashboards to AWS CloudTrail. This enhancement provides visibility into who changed agent activity status, and when changes occurred, helping contact centers maintain clear audit trails. For example, if an agent is scheduled to be on break, a supervisor can change an agent’s status from “Available” to “Break”, this action is now captured in CloudTrail with details including the supervisor’s identity, timestamp, and the specific status change.

Logging agent activity status changes made from analytics dashboards to AWS CloudTrail is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To get started, ensure CloudTrail logging is enabled for your AWS account, and status changes made through Amazon Connect analytics dashboards will automatically appear in your CloudTrail logs. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide . To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

Amazon SageMaker Training Plans now supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the utilization of capacity reservations associated with your purchased plan. SageMaker Flexible Training Plans helps you create the most cost-efficient training plans that fit within your timeline and AI budget. Once you create and purchase your training plans, SageMaker automatically provisions the infrastructure and runs the AI workloads on these compute resources without requiring any manual intervention.

This feature provides administrators access to both historical and real-time metrics on instance usage—at the individual plan level and across all plans in your account—enabling them to make informed decisions about capacity and cost. To learn more about the Flexible Training Plan reservation monitoring feature, see the Amazon SageMaker Training Plans User Guide .

For a detailed breakdown of Training Plan instance availability by AWS Region, see the SageMaker AI pricing page

Today, we’re announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports the i7i.metal-24xl Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) bare-metal instance type, offering a lower-core-count option with a newer generation processor to help you realize cost-performance benefits for your VMware-based workloads on AWS.

With this release, you now have more options for running your virtual machines (VMs) on Amazon EVS environments and growing your cloud presence at your own pace, as your business demands. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, i7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, delivering up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over i4i instances.

This latest release is available in AWS Regions where Amazon EVS and Amazon EC2 i7i are both available. See Amazon EVS regional availability and Amazon EC2 i7i regional availability .

Learn more about Amazon EVS by visiting the product detail page and the user guide .

AWS Billing Conductor now supports the Passthrough Pricing Plan, a new managed pricing plan for Billing Transfer users.

Customers using Billing Transfer can now select the AWS-managed Passthrough Pricing Plan for their billing groups. Under this plan, all accounts in a billing group view billable data that reflects the AWS invoice value through their primary view.

Customers can apply the new Passthrough Pricing Plan by logging into their Bill-Transfer account and selecting a pricing plan in the Billing Transfer page as they configure a new transfer. For existing billing groups, Customers can apply Passthrough Pricing via the AWS Billing Conductor Console. Once configured, the Bill-Transfer account will see the same billing data across both the My View and Showback/Chargeback views associated with billing group’s consumption.

Direct Customers or Channel Partners who wish to use Billing Transfer to centralize billing and simplify payments without protecting proprietary discounts or customizing the billing data visible to the accounts in the billing groups, can do so by selecting the Passthrough Pricing plan, free of charge.

This feature is available in the US East (N. Virginia) region. To get started, visit the Billing Transfer page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console or the AWS Billing Conductor console . To learn more about Billing Transfer and AWS Billing Conductor visit the Billing Transfer product page , AWS Billing documentation and the AWS Cost Management documentation.

 

Today, Amazon Quick introduces document and visual creation capabilities, enabling you to produce polished documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and more through natural language without leaving your conversation. No more switching between multiple tools to draft reports, build decks, or format tables. Quick users can now create documents and visuals, refine them in conversation or inline, and download finished files including Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel formats.

Quick also generates images, infographics, charts, and other visuals you can embed in any document or presentation, or export as standalone image files, all from the same conversation. Visual creation is currently available in preview.
Whether you need to generate an executive briefing from meeting notes, create a deck to review quarterly sales trends, build a spreadsheet in Excel or produce an infographic that brings your data to life, Quick handles the end-to-end creation process within your existing chat workflow. This capability is ideal for business analysts, product managers, marketing, finance, and operations teams who need to quickly transform data and insights into shareable, presentation-ready materials without switching tools.

Document creation is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is currently supported. Visual creation (preview) is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.
You can sign up for an account and start working with Quick for free; no AWS account or credit card is required. To get started with document and visual creation, open a chat conversation and describe whatever you need created. To learn more, see the Amazon Quick User Guide .