Maps and location

Amazon Location Service launches an interactive API Playground featuring Places, Routes and Maps APIs

Amazon Location Service now offers a complete, interactive API Playground that lets developers explore and test every Places, Routes, and Maps API visually without writing code.

Amazon Location Service now supports POI category and density filtering in map styles

Today, Amazon Location Service adds per-category and density-based Point of Interest (POI) filtering to its maps. Developers gain server-side control over the density of POIs and which categories of places appear on a map.

Amazon Location Service adds Search Nearby support for GrabMaps in Southeast Asia

Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery with GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Regions.

Amazon Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options

Today, Amazon Location Service announced new enhancements to its Places APIs that give developers greater control over address name formatting, multilingual address, travel-optimized POI search, and drive-through data.

Amazon Location Service announces public transit and intermodal routing

Amazon Location Service today announced support for public transit and intermodal routing in the Routes API.

Amazon Location Service now offers bulk address validation for the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom

Amazon Location Service now offers bulk address validation for the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Amazon Location Service announces enhanced map styling with contour line density, traffic visualization, and 3D terrain

Amazon Location Service today announced new map styling capabilities, providing developers with greater control over terrain visualization, traffic display, and immersive 3D experiences.

Amazon Location Service now supports GrabMaps with enhanced APIs for Southeast Asia

Amazon Location Service now supports GrabMaps with simplified APIs that eliminate upfront resource creation, making it faster to build maps, places, and routing applications with high-quality Southeast Asian data.

Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance

Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and agent skill in the open Agent Skills format, usable by any compatible agent.