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Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Adds Automated Reasoning Checks in Sydney
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers Automated Reasoning checks, utilizing formal verification to mathematically validate AI model outputs, a significant advancement over traditional sampling. This new capability enhances AI safety by reducing hallucinations, policy violations, and ambiguity, particularly benefiting regulated industries like finance and healthcare. The feature provides up to 99% accuracy with provable assurance, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and can be accessed via the Bedrock console or SDK.
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AWS Amazon Connect Customer Competency Launched
AWS has launched the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization recognizing partners with expertise in customer experience transformations using Amazon Connect. This Competency aims to help customers identify skilled partners for migrating legacy contact centers and implementing AI-native solutions. It replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027, offering customers confidence in validated partners.
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AWS Glue Data Catalog adds IAM authorization for S3 Tables, Iceberg views in GovCloud
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports IAM-based authorization for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views, simplifying permission management for analytics services. This feature allows unified permissions across storage, catalog, and query engines, enhancing integration with services like Athena and EMR. It is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and offers optional integration with AWS Lake Formation for finer-grained access control.
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Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed encryption keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt their data using their own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys. This provides enhanced security control and audit capabilities for organizations with strict compliance needs, enabling them to manage encryption for their business intelligence data. The feature is generally available and requires keys to be in the same AWS account and region as QuickSight resources, supporting only symmetric KMS keys.
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AWS Security Hub Extended adds 21 partner solutions in 9 categories
AWS Security Hub Extended now offers 21 curated partner solutions across nine security categories, including new additions for endpoint, identity, and data security. This expansion provides customers greater flexibility in selecting solutions tailored to their enterprise needs, with unified billing and support benefits. The new solutions are available today in all commercial AWS Regions, enabling better risk identification and response across security domains.
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