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We’re excited to share that Kindle Translate now supports translation between English and French!

Beta authors can now create publication-ready translations between English and French, along with existing language options.

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Today, Amazon Quick is announcing cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources. This launch enables you to query Athena data residing in a different AWS account(s) from your Quick deployment using IAM role chaining, with Athena query costs billed to the account where the data lives.

With this feature, administrators can create an Athena data source in Quick by specifying a RunAsRole in the Quick account and a ConsumerAccountRoleArn in the target account where Athena resources reside. Quick uses a role chaining mechanism first assuming the RunAsRole, then chaining into the consumer account role to execute queries. This launch supports multiple roles per consumer account(s), enabling fine-grained access segregation across teams within a single account.

This feature is now available in all supported Amazon Quick Sight regions here. For more details, read our blog post.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-quick-athena/

Amazon Quick, your AI assistant for work, now integrates with New Relic’s AI agents, enabling on-call engineers, SREs, and engineering leaders to investigate incidents, generate root cause analysis briefs, and create tracked tasks without leaving their Amazon Quick workspace.

After connecting to New Relic’s remote model context protocol (MCP) server, you can invoke New Relic’s AI agents directly from a conversational prompt in Quick – including alert insights, user impact analysis, log analysis, transaction diagnostics, and natural language NRQL queries. In a single chat exchange, you can investigate an incident across your observability data, generate a root cause analysis (RCA) document with evidence links, and send it as an email attachment. Quick Flows can also invoke New Relic AI agents to automate recurring triage runbooks or escalation workflows. Because Quick surfaces responses alongside enterprise knowledge stored in Spaces - such as runbooks, architecture docs, and on-call policies—every answer reflects both live telemetry and organizational context.

The New Relic integration with Amazon Quick is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

To get started with Amazon Quick, visit the website and sign up in minutes. To learn more about the New Relic integration, read the New Relic integration guide, and explore more Quick integrations on the integrations page.

Amazon Quick now generates dashboards from natural language prompts with Generate Analysis. You describe the dashboard you want, select up to three datasets, and review an editable plan before generation. Amazon Quick then produces organized sheets with visuals selected for your data, filter controls for exploring by different dimensions, and calculated fields such as year-over-year growth and month-over-month comparisons. Generate Analysis reduces dashboard creation from hours of manual configuration to minutes.

With Generate Analysis, you can describe goals such as "create a sales performance dashboard with revenue trends, regional comparisons, and month-over-month growth" and receive a dashboard ready for refinement. The output works with existing publishing workflows, embedding, CI/CD pipelines, and point-and-click editing.

At launch, Generate Analysis is available to Enterprise subscription/Author Pro users. Authors also have promotional access to this capability through December 2026 as part of Amazon Quick Enterprise, provided their organization has not restricted access. Generate Analysis is now generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

To learn more, see Generating an analysis with natural language prompts in the Amazon Quick User Guide. To get started, open any dataset in Amazon Quick and choose Generate analysis.

Connect Customer now supports default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact Work (ACW), enabling administrators to automatically launch a guide when an agent enters the ACW state. This eliminates the need for agents to manually navigate to the correct application during wrap-up, standardizing post-contact workflows such as logging disposition codes, updating cases, and completing follow-up actions. Organizations can improve consistency, reduce errors, and accelerate agent productivity across contact center operations.

This feature is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and . For more information, see Enable smart default guides for ACW.

Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a customer profile, not just the primary contact fields. When a profile’s contact information spans multiple time zones, the system delivers messages only during hours that fall within the configured window across every detected time zone, and skips profiles when no overlap exists. For example, if a customer has a mobile number in Eastern time and a business number in Pacific time with a 9 AM–5 PM delivery window, messages are sent only between 12–5 PM ET when both time zones overlap.

This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns is offered at no additional cost.

Connect Customer Cases now automatically reassociates cases when duplicate customer profiles are merged through Identity Resolution in Customer Profiles. When the same customer has multiple profiles—such as when they reach out through different channels or provide different contact details—Identity Resolution detects and merges those duplicates, and Cases brings all associated cases together under the unified profile. Agents see a complete case history for each customer without searching across profiles or piecing together history manually.

This feature is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town).

AWS Transform customers can now use BI migration agents to convert Tableau and Power BI dashboards to Amazon Quick Sight (BI capability of Amazon Quick) assets, helping reduce migration effort from months to days.

These agents are built by Wavicle Data Solutions, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, leveraging the AWS Transform initiative to create differentiated transformation solutions by integrating specialized agents, tools, knowledge bases, and workflow with AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities.

Four agents are available for purchase through AWS Marketplace: one Analyzer agent and one Converter agent for each BI migration source (Power BI and Tableau).

AWS Transform

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents, agentic AI systems, and continuous learning that accelerates cloud migration, legacy app modernization, and tech debt reduction.

These new BI migration agents are embedded into the AWS Transform workflow and use a chat-based interface to assess your source dashboards for migration readiness, then convert them – rebuilding datasets, calculated fields, visualizations, and filters in Amazon Quick Sight.

All processing runs within your AWS account; no data leaves your environment.

After conversion, your Amazon Quick administrators assign dashboard ownership to BI authors for validation and publishing.

Once migrated, your teams can take advantage of Amazon Quick's AI-powered workflows, including natural-language business questions, automated research, and data-driven actions.

Availability

The BI migration agents are available through AWS Marketplace in US East (N. Virginia).

They support Quick Sight asset creation in all commercial regions where Amazon Quick Sight is available.

To get started, subscribe through AWS Marketplace (Power BI or Tableau) or contact your AWS account team to explore available programs for free or discounted Amazon Quick migrations.

Read more in this blog post.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/quick-bi-migration/

AWS Transform customers can now use BI migration agents to convert Tableau and Power BI dashboards to Amazon Quick Sight (BI capability of Amazon Quick) assets, helping reduce migration effort from months to days. These agents are built by Wavicle Data Solutions, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, leveraging the AWS Transform initiative to create differentiated transformation solutions by integrating specialized agents, tools, knowledge bases, and workflow with AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities. Four agents are available for purchase through AWS Marketplace: one Analyzer agent and one Converter agent for each BI migration source (Power BI and Tableau).

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents, agentic AI systems, and continuous learning that accelerates cloud migration, legacy app modernization, and tech debt reduction. These new BI migration agents are embedded into the AWS Transform workflow and use a chat-based interface to assess your source dashboards for migration readiness, then convert them – rebuilding datasets, calculated fields, visualizations, and filters in Amazon Quick Sight. All processing runs within your AWS account; no data leaves your environment. After conversion, your Amazon Quick administrators assign dashboard ownership to BI authors for validation and publishing. Once migrated, your teams can take advantage of Amazon Quick’s AI-powered workflows, including natural-language business questions, automated research, and data-driven actions.

The BI migration agents are available through AWS Marketplace in US East (N. Virginia). They support Quick Sight asset creation in all commercial regions where Amazon Quick Sight is available. To get started, subscribe through AWS Marketplace (Power BI or Tableau) or contact your AWS account team to explore available programs for free or discounted Amazon Quick migrations. Read more in this blog post.

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Today, Amazon Quick introduces new and upgraded Microsoft 365 extensions in preview for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, enabling Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ Microsoft 365 environments.

These extensions allow you to use AI to perform complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, and creating presentation-ready decks.

The Microsoft Excel extension helps with complex spreadsheet analysis, creating pivot tables and charts, and importing and cleaning data. The Microsoft PowerPoint extension helps you create and refine presentations from Quick data using organization-defined templates. Updates to the Microsoft Word extension include the ability to generate formatted documents with Word primitives, make sweeping edits with track changes enabled, and participate as a reviewer in comments.

These extensions transform daily work across teams. Finance teams can build complex models by describing what they need, and sales teams can draft proposals that automatically pull from CRM data. Marketing teams can create branded presentations without manual formatting, legal teams can streamline contract reviews, and IT teams can automate routine data analysis that previously required manual effort.

Amazon Quick extensions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).

Start working with Amazon Quick by signing up for an account. To learn more about Amazon Quick, visit the Quick website, and install extensions on the Quick download page.

Quick Sight in Amazon Quick now supports custom sort for filter controls, giving authors control over how values appear in dropdown and list controls. Previously, filter control values were always sorted alphabetically. With custom sort, authors can arrange values to match business logic or rank them by a related metric, so the most relevant options appear first.

Custom sort applies to dropdown and list controls, both single-select and multi-select. Authors can choose ascending, descending, or a fully user-defined order for controls with manually entered values. For controls tied to a dataset column, authors can sort by that column or by a different field using aggregation functions like Sum, Average, Count, Min, and Max. For example, a priority field can be ordered as Critical, High, Medium, Low instead of alphabetically, or a list of product categories can be ranked by total revenue so top sellers surface first.

This feature is now available in all Amazon Quick regions where Quick Sight is supported. Learn more about sorting filter control values in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/quick-filter-control-sort/

We have made improvements to our translation service, and more eBooks are now eligible for Kindle Translate. To check which of your eBooks are now eligible, go to your KDP Bookshelf and create a translation.

For more information about Kindle Translate eligibility, visit Kindle Translate Eligibility and Troubleshooting. To learn more, visit Beta: Kindle Translate.

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Today at the What’s Next with AWS, Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, Colleen Aubrey, SVP Amazon Applied AI Solutions, Julia White, CMO of AWS, and OpenAI leaders discussed how they and their customers are changing how businesses operate with agents.

Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event:

Amazon Quick is an AI assistant for work that connects to all of them, learns what matters to you, and takes action on your behalf. Starting today, you can use the new desktop app, sign up for Free and Plus pricing plans, generate visual assets in the chat, and easily connect Quick to even more apps.

• Quick’s new desktop app (Preview): You can create a personalized experience by staying connected to your local files, calendar, and communications without opening a browser.
• New Free and Plus pricing plans for Quick: You can sign up within minutes using your personal email address or existing Google, Apple, Github, or Amazon credentials—no AWS account required.
• Generate visual assets on the fly: Available today, Quick now lets you create polished documents, presentations, infographics, and images directly from the chat interface, no design skills or hours of formatting required.
• Easily connect Quick to even more apps: Also available today, Quick is expanding its native integrations to include Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, Dropbox, and Microsoft Teams.

To learn more, visit the About Amazon News post.

Amazon Connect is expanding from a single product into a set of four agentic AI solutions designed to work within your existing workflows: Amazon Connect Decisions (supply chains), Talent (hiring), Customer (customer experience), and Health (health care).

• Amazon Connect Decisions is a supply chain planning and intelligence solution that shifts teams from crisis management to proactive planning and decisioning. AI teammates, combining 30 years of Amazon operational science and 25+ specialized supply chain tools, adapt to your business, learn from your team, and continuously improve your operations.
• Amazon Connect Talent (Preview) is an agentic AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, science-backed assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters hire high quality candidates faster while providing applicants with a flexible interview experience that reduces human preconceptions.
• Amazon Connect Customer, previously known as Amazon Connect, delivers intelligent, personalized customer experiences across voice, chat, and digital channels. Amazon Connect Customer now offers new configuration capabilities that enable organizations to set up conversational AI in weeks, not months, and configure experiences without technical expertise.
• Amazon Connect Health delivers agentic patient verification, appointment management, patient insights, ambient documentation, and medical coding — giving patients faster access to care, clinicians more time for care, and staff capacity for specialized work.

To learn more, visit the About Amazon News post.

AWS and OpenAI expanded partnership

AWS and OpenAI are bringing the latest OpenAI models to Amazon Bedrock, launching Codex on Amazon Bedrock, and launching Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI (all in limited preview), giving enterprises the frontier intelligence they want on the infrastructure they trust.

• OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock (Limited preview): The latest OpenAI models, including GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, will be available in preview on Amazon Bedrock. Use OpenAI’s frontier models through the same Bedrock APIs you already rely on, with unified security, governance, and cost controls. No additional infrastructure to configure, no new security model to learn.
• Codex on Amazon Bedrock (Limited preview): You can access the OpenAI coding agent within the AWS environments where they already operate at scale. You can authenticate using their AWS credentials, process inference through Amazon Bedrock infrastructure, and apply Codex usage toward their AWS cloud commitments. Codex on Bedrock is available through the Bedrock API, starting with the Codex CLI, the Codex desktop app, and Visual Studio Code extension.
• Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI (Limited preview): Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents combines frontier AI models with trusted AWS infrastructure, enabling customers to quickly and easily build production-ready OpenAI-powered agents in the cloud. It is built with the OpenAI harness, which is engineered to unlock the full potential of OpenAI frontier models, delivering faster execution, sharper reasoning, and reliable steering of long-running tasks.

To learn more, visit the AWS What’s New post and About Amazon News post.

Starting today, new Free and Plus pricing plans for Amazon Quick allow you to sign up in minutes using your personal email address or existing Google, Apple, Github, or Amazon credentials—no AWS account required. A guided onboarding experience helps you find value in less than 5 minutes, with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, operations, and more.

Amazon Quick is an AI assistant that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes—for you and your entire team. Quick connects with all your applications, tools, and data, creating your own personal knowledge graph that learns your priorities, preferences, and network. It doesn’t just answer your questions; it knows how you want to work. Give it a task and it takes action—scheduling meetings, sending emails, and following up on action items. Whether you’re a seller looking to prioritize leads and generate personalized outreach to top prospects or a marketing manager looking to optimize campaign performance, Quick learns what matters to you and your team, grounds every answer in your real business data, and goes beyond answers: scheduling, building deliverables, and acting on your behalf.

You can sign up for an account and start working in Amazon Quick in minutes. By the end of the day, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it. Amazon Quick is also available through Professional and Enterprise plans that include additional agentic/business intelligence capabilities, enterprise governance, support for any number of users, and more. To compare plans, visit the Amazon Quick pricing plans page. Visit Signing up at quick.aws.com documentation.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-free-plus/

Today, AWS announces new features in preview for Amazon Quick, allowing users to create custom web applications in minutes using natural language. Creating internal tools and web applications typically requires developer resources or technical skills, but with this new capability, any user can simply describe what they need and get a fully interactive application—no coding required. These applications connect to live data sources, implement complex workflows, embed AI-powered features, and can be published and shared with your team in one click.

Whether you’re a sales leader wanting to create an application for pipeline review by pulling data from a CRM and other business applications in real time, or a finance manager looking to simplify monthly close by aggregating information from QuickBooks, Excel, and internal systems, Quick allows anyone to create applications that will drive their business forward using a simple prompt.

Amazon Quick is an AI assistant for work that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes — for you and your entire team. You can sign up for an account and start working with Amazon Quick for free; no AWS account or credit card is required. A guided onboarding experience helps you find value in less than 5 minutes, with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, HR, and more. To learn more about building applications in Quick, visit the product documentation or Amazon Quick product page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/custom-applications/