Implementing Financial Sanctions Compliance with AWS

Safeguarding the global financial system from money laundering, which is estimated to impact 2-5% of the world’s GDP annually, is crucial. Regulatory bodies have imposed stringent penalties for violations, emphasizing the need for robust compliance measures. As financial crimes become Continue reading Implementing Financial Sanctions Compliance with AWS

How differential privacy helps unlock insights without revealing data at the individual-level

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly seeking ways to extract valuable insights from their data assets, especially when collaborating with their partners. Companies across industries such as advertising, healthcare, media, entertainment, finance, insurance, and others rely on insights generated Continue reading How differential privacy helps unlock insights without revealing data at the individual-level

5 ways AI innovations are serving food and beverage brands

Between introducing new flavors, packaging, shopper marketing or consumer engagement strategies, the food and beverage industry is no stranger to innovation. This year is no exception. With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more mainstream, food and beverage brands are stepping up Continue reading 5 ways AI innovations are serving food and beverage brands

AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy enhances privacy protection of your users data (preview)

Starting today, you can use AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy (preview) to help protect the privacy of your users with mathematically backed and intuitive controls in a few steps. As a fully managed capability of AWS Clean Rooms, no prior Continue reading AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy enhances privacy protection of your users data (preview)

AWS Clean Rooms ML helps customers and partners apply ML models without sharing raw data (preview)

Today, we’re introducing AWS Clean Rooms ML (preview), a new capability of AWS Clean Rooms that helps you and your partners apply machine learning (ML) models on your collective data without copying or sharing raw data with each other. With this new Continue reading AWS Clean Rooms ML helps customers and partners apply ML models without sharing raw data (preview)

Announcing Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 (preview)

Today we are announcing a preview of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3, a new way to query operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without needing to switch between services. You can now analyze infrequently Continue reading Announcing Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 (preview)

Analyze large amounts of graph data to get insights and find trends with Amazon Neptune Analytics

I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Neptune Analytics, a new analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to quickly analyze large amounts of graph data. With Neptune Analytics, you can Continue reading Analyze large amounts of graph data to get insights and find trends with Amazon Neptune Analytics

Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available

Today we are announcing the general availability of the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with new features. In July 2023, we introduced the preview release of the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a simple, scalable, and high-performing similarity Continue reading Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available

New generative AI capabilities for Amazon DataZone to further simplify data cataloging and discovery (preview)

Today, we are announcing a preview of an automation feature backed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) for Amazon DataZone that will dramatically decrease the amount of time needed to provide context for organizational data. The new feature can automate the Continue reading New generative AI capabilities for Amazon DataZone to further simplify data cataloging and discovery (preview)

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service, which lets you perform a search on your DynamoDB data by automatically replicating and transforming it without custom code or infrastructure. This zero-ETL integration Continue reading Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available

New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights (preview)

Today, I’m happy to share that Amazon Q in QuickSight is available for preview. Now you can experience the Generative BI capabilities in Amazon QuickSight announced on July 26, as well as two additional capabilities for business users. Turning insights Continue reading New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights (preview)

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)

We are announcing generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered call summarization in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics in preview. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this feature helps businesses improve customer experience, and agent and supervisor productivity by automatically summarizing customer service calls. Amazon Transcribe Continue reading Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data lake tables always performant. Data lakes were initially Continue reading AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available

“Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines Continue reading Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available

AWS Entity Resolution Expands Data Matching Capabilities with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0 Integrations

Launched in July 2023, AWS Entity Resolution has been helping organizations like Best Western Hotels, Merkle, ActionIQ, and Thompson Reuters to more easily match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels and data stores using advanced matching techniques Continue reading AWS Entity Resolution Expands Data Matching Capabilities with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0 Integrations

Amazon DataZone Now Generally Available – Collaborate on Data Projects across Organizational Boundaries

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DataZone, a new data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. At AWS re:Invent 2022, we preannounced Amazon DataZone, and in Continue reading Amazon DataZone Now Generally Available – Collaborate on Data Projects across Organizational Boundaries

AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023

Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023

Amazon MSK Introduces Managed Data Delivery from Apache Kafka to Your Data Lake

I’m excited to announce today a new capability of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) that allows you to continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). We use Amazon Kinesis Continue reading Amazon MSK Introduces Managed Data Delivery from Apache Kafka to Your Data Lake

How the grocery industry can innovate and transform with AWS

The grocery industry is not what it used to be. Reshaped by economics, technology, and a new generation of shoppers with different expectations and behaviors, food retailers have been challenged to deliver on their brand promises while creating competitive differentiation. Continue reading How the grocery industry can innovate and transform with AWS

Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, operates across life science, healthcare, and electronics. More than 60,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable Continue reading Data and Analytics environments at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany using AWS Services