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Document history for Amazon Personalize

The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Personalize Developer Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

New feature

All new Amazon Personalize custom solutions now use automatic training. For more information about configuring automatic training, see Configuring automatic training.

April 19, 2024

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to recommend the next best action for a user based on their behavior. For more information, see Next-Best-Action recipe.

November 26, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to include descriptive themes in batch recommendations with the help of generative AI. For information about generating batch recommendations with themes, see Batch recommendations with themes. For information about using Amazon Personalize with generative AI, see Amazon Personalize and generative AI.

November 26, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to include metadata from an Items dataset in recommendations. For information about enabling metadata for a campaign, see Enabling metadata in recommendations for a campaign. For information about enabling metadata for a recommender, see Enabling metadata in recommendations for a recommender.

November 26, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to personalize search results from OpenSearch Service. For more information, see Personalizing search results from OpenSearch.

October 16, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to import up to 100 metadata columns for Items datasets (up from 50) and 25 metadata columns for Users datasets (up from 5). For more information about Amazon Personalize limits, see Amazon Personalize endpoints and quotas.

September 5, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to personalize search results from OpenSearch. For more information, see Personalizing search results from OpenSearch (self-managed).

July 25, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to replace a dataset's schema with a new or existing one. For more information, see Replacing a dataset's schema.

July 13, 2023

New feature

If you use the User-Personalization or Personalized-Ranking recipes, Amazon Personalize batch inference jobs can now use data that you import incrementally without retraining. For information, see Getting batch recommendations.

June 30, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to filter items based on the item you specify in your request for related items recommendations. For information about filters, see Filtering recommendations and user segments.

June 21, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to filter items based on the item you specify in your request for related items recommendations. For information about filters, see Filtering recommendations and user segments.

June 21, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports private connections between a virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Personalize with an interface Amazon VPC endpoint. For more information, see Amazon Personalize and interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink).

June 12, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports configuring the columns used when training when you create a recommender or custom solution. For information about configuring columns when creating a recommender, see Creating recommenders. For information about configuring columns when creating a solution, see Configuring columns used when training.

May 30, 2023

New documentation feature

The Amazon Personalize developer guide now includes information about performing A/B testing with Amazon Personalize recommendations. For more information, see Measuring recommendation impact with A/B testing.

May 5, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports configuring how popularity influences recommendations generated by the Similar-Items recipe. For more information, see Similar Items recipe.

April 21, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to import data from 40+ sources into Amazon Personalize datasets. For more information, see Importing data using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler.

April 14, 2023

New documentation feature

The Amazon Personalize developer guide now includes a new readiness checklist. This checklist helps you prepare to use Amazon Personalize with your own data. For more information, see Readiness checklist.

February 9, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports generating insights and statistics for data that you import into datasets. For more information, see Analyzing data in datasets.

January 25, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports a new Trending-Now recipe for Custom dataset groups. For more information, see Trending-Now recipe.

January 6, 2023

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports using tags in IAM policies. For more information, see Using tags in IAM policies.

December 28, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports making adjustments to the Maximum number of interactions that are considered by a model during training quota. Additionally, the Maximum number of users that are considered by a model during training limit quota no longer applies. For more information, see Amazon Personalize endpoints and quotas.

December 15, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports creating a metric attribution to measure the business impact of recommendations. For more information, see Measuring impact of recommendations.

November 17, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize quotas for total number of active solutions, active campaigns, recommenders, and filters have now increased. Each of these quotas now apply per dataset group rather than per account. For information about quotas, see Amazon Personalize endpoints and quotas.

September 7, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize filters now consider up to 100 interactions per user per event type. For information about filters, see Filtering recommendations and user segments.

August 29, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports a new Trending now use case for the VIDEO_ON_DEMAND domain. For more information, see VIDEO_ON_DEMAND use cases.

August 17, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports promoting items in recommendations with a separate promotion filter. For information about promoting items see Promoting items in recommendations.

August 12, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports using comparison operators in filter expressions with placeholder parameters. For information about filter expressions, see Filter expressions.

August 12, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports incremental bulk updates to datasets. You can now use a dataset import job to update a dataset without replacing the existing data. For more information, see Updating existing bulk data.

August 2, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now use unstructured text metadata in different languages. For more information, see Unstructured text metadata.

June 6, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize recommenders now generate offline metrics. You can use these metrics to evaluate the performance of your recommender. For more information see Evaluating a recommender.

May 24, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability stop a recommender and restart it later. This way, you can pause recommender billing and pay for it only when you use it. For more information, see Stopping and starting a recommender.

April 20, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports using tags to categorize and manage Amazon Personalize resources. For more information, see Tagging Amazon Personalize resources.

April 7, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports specifying resources with AWS CloudFormation. For more information, see Specifying resources with AWS CloudFormation.

March 11, 2022

New documentation feature

The Amazon Personalize developer guide now includes a new Troubleshooting topic that provides answers to common questions and troubleshooting advice for error messages that you might encounter with Amazon Personalize. For more information, see Troubleshooting.

February 15, 2022

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports creating a Domain dataset group with use case optimized resources for video on demand or e-commerce domains. For more information, see Domain dataset groups.

November 29, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports creating user segments with new USER_SEGMENTATION recipes. USER_SEGMENTATION recipes generate segments of users based on item input data. For more information, see USER_SEGMENTATION recipes.

November 29, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports a new RELATED_ITEMS recommendation recipe Similar-Items. Use the Similar-Items recipe to generate recommendations for similar items based on both interactions data and item metadata. For more information, see Similar Items recipe.

October 5, 2021

New documentation feature

The Amazon Personalize developer guide now includes a getting started tutorial for using Amazon Personalize with the SDK for Java 2.x. For more information, see Getting started (SDK for Java 2.x).

August 25, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now extract meaningful information from unstructured text metadata in an Items dataset. For more information, see Items dataset.

June 9, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to stop creating a solution version (stop training a model). For more information, see Stopping the creation of a solution version.

May 20, 2021

New feature (preview release)

Amazon Personalize can now optimize a solution for an objective in addition to maximizing relevance, such as maximizing revenue. This feature is in preview release. For more information, see Optimizing a solution for an additional objective.

May 18, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now export the records in an Amazon Personalize dataset to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis and tracking. For more information, see Exporting a dataset.

April 26, 2021

New feature

Amazon Personalize now automatically updates the latest model (solution version) you trained with User-Personalization every two hours to include new data. For more information, see User-personalization recipe.

November 17, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now filter recommendations based on criteria you specify when you get recommendations. For more information, see Filtering recommendations.

November 10, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports the ability to incrementally import users and items. For more information, see Importing records incrementally.

October 2, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports a new USER_PERSONALIZATION recommendation recipe. USER_PERSONALIZATION features include modeling impression data, automatic item exploration, and automatic cold item selection. For more information, see User-personalization recipe.

August 5, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now filter recommendations based on item and user metadata using custom filter expressions. For more information, see Filtering recommendations.

July 31, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize now allows you to filter results based on which items a user has interacted with. For more information, see Filtering recommendations.

June 3, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize now exposes scores for recommended items. Scores represent the Amazon Personalize model's certainty that a user will next choose a certain item. For more information, see Getting recommendations.

April 3, 2020

New Region

Amazon Personalize adds support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Personalize, see the AWS Region table or AWS Regions and endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

January 21, 2020

New feature

Amazon Personalize can now get recommendations based on contextual metadata. For more information, see Getting recommendations.

December 19, 2019

New regions

Amazon Personalize adds support for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central) Regions. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Personalize, see the AWS Region table or AWS Regions and endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

December 18, 2019

New feature

Amazon Personalize now supports batch recommendation workflows. For more information, see Get batch recommendations.

November 14, 2019

Amazon Personalize general availability

Amazon Personalize is now available for general use.

June 10, 2019

Amazon Personalize preview release

This is the first preview release of the documentation for Amazon Personalize.

November 28, 2018