Amazon Kendra GenAI Index now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions

Amazon Kendra is an AI-powered search service enabling organizations to build intelligent search experiences and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems to power generative AI applications. Starting today, AWS customers in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can use the GenAI Index for RAG and intelligent search. With the Kendra GenAI Index, customers get high out-of-the-box search accuracy powered by the latest information retrieval technologies and semantic models. Kendra GenAI Index supports mobility across AWS generative AI services like [Amazon Q Business](https://aws.amazon.com/q/business/), giving customers the flexibility to use their indexed content across different use cases. Customers can also integrate with other Bedrock Services like Guardrails, Prompt Flows, and Agents to build advanced generative AI applications. The GenAI Index supports connectors for 43 different data sources, enabling customers to easily ingest content from a variety of sources. With this launch, Amazon Kendra GenAI Index is now available in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe West (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) [AWS Regions](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/?nc1=h%5Fls). To learn more, see Kendra GenAI Index in the [Amazon Kendra Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/hiw-index-types.html). For pricing, please refer to [Kendra pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/pricing/).