Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Today we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances of ml.g4dn.12xlarge, ml.p3.8xlarge, and ml.p3.16xlarge. Multi-GPU instances accelerate machine learning model training significantly, allowing users to train more advanced machine learning models that are too large to fit into a single GPU. They also provide the flexibility to process larger batches of data such as 4k images for image classification and object detection. View the full article

Today, we are excited to announce the AWS DeepRacer League’s 2020 season is nearing the final lap with the Championship at AWS re:Invent 2020. From November 10 through December 15, there are three ways to join in the racing fun: learn how to develop a competitive reinforcement learning model through our sessions, enter and compete in the racing action for a chance to win prizes, and watch to cheer on other developers as they race for the cup. More than 100 racers have already qualified for the Championship Cup, but there is still time to compete. Log in today to qualify for a chance to win the Championship Cup by entering the Wildcard round, offering the top 5 racers spot…

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers using Amazon Kendra can easily validate the identity of individual users, as well as user groups who perform searches with the addition of secure search tokens. View the full article

Amazon Textract, a machine learning service, extracts text and other data from documents as well as tables and forms. Today, we are pleased to announce two new features: Amazon Textract now supports recognition of handwritten text from documents such as healthcare forms, prescriptions, dispute letters, tax documents, income documents, checks, claims, academic papers and many more. You can use the Detect Document Text or Analyze Document APIs to process images or PDF’s of scanned documents and extract both printed text and handwriting making it easy for you to automate almost any scanned document processing. You can also use Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I), another A…

Atlassian Managed Hosting is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from kreuzwerker, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Atlassian Managed Hosting allows customers to run all Atlassian server-deployed applications on AWS. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an assessment of existing data, onboarding, and testing to prepare for migration, product migration, and postmigration support. View the full article

Open Banking Enablement Service is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. Open Banking Enablement Service creates a strong foundation for a financial institution’s open banking journey. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an open banking transformation map and prioritized list of use cases, a detailed statement of work, a sandbox launch, and a collaborative delivery model. View the full article

Amazon QuickSight now supports Waterfall charts. Waterfall charts show how any metric is affected positively or negatively by a series of contributing factors. Dashboard authors can create a waterfall chart by choosing this new visual type from the visuals menu. See here for more details. View the full article

Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. View the full article

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds client metrics support to its WebRTC SDK in C. Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC enables developers to build web, mobile, and IoT devices application for real-time media and data streaming. Developers can use this capability to build applications for use cases such as home security and monitoring, camera-enabled doorbells, baby and pet monitoring, smart appliances, and more. Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC SDK in C enables IoT devices to securely connect with Kinesis Video Streams for peer discovery and media streaming. The client metrics allows developers to monitor and track performance of the applications built using the WebRTC SDK in C. …

Amazon Personalize now allows you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly; without any extra cost. Dynamic filters save you time by removing the need to define all possible permutations of your business rules in advance and enable you to use your most recent information to filter recommendations. You control the recommendations for your users in real-time while responding to their individual needs, preferences, and changing behavior to improve engagement and conversion. Based on over 20 years of personalization experience, Amazon Personalize enables you to improve customer engagement by powering personalized product and content recommendations, and targ…

Amazon QuickSight has added a powerful new data governance feature: Column Level Security (CLS). This feature compliments the existing Row Level Security (RLS) feature and, in combination, gives authors control over who can access what data within their visualizations. CLS enables dataset owners to apply restrictions on a per column basis. This ensures that users only see columns that they are allowed to see. For example, a dataset owner could set up their dataset so that only members of a Human Resources group could see salary information, while everyone can see less sensitive information, like first and last name. CLS can be configured on a dataset through the QuickSigh…

You can now create custom endpoints for Amazon Neptune to access your workload. Custom endpoints allow you to distribute your workload across a designated set of instances within a Neptune cluster. View the full article

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now offer Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. View the full article

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Today, we are launching support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base. Amazon Lex can be applied to a diverse set of use cases such as virtual agents, conversational IVR systems, self-service chatbots, or application bots. View the full article

AWS RoboMaker WorldForge now supports tag-on-create for 3D simulation worlds, world generation jobs, and world export jobs. RoboMaker WorldForge is a capability that makes it faster, easier, and less expensive to create a multitude of 3D simulation worlds for testing and training robots. By tagging worlds at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after world creation, which can save time and make it easier to manage simulation worlds. View the full article

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course. If you’re new to the cloud—whether you’re in a technical or nontechnical role—this course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud. As a result, you can build your skills and confidence while contributing to your organization’s cloud initiatives. View the full article

Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s latest Australian-English conversational voice, Olivia. Built on Amazon Polly’s neural text-to-speech technology, this new voice delivers groundbreaking improvements in speech quality, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. View the full article

AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added a new feature called Automated ABR Configuration which automatically customizes the ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) encoding configuration for each source video. Automated ABR Configuration simplifies the set up of transcoding, optimizes video quality, and reduces ABR package size. Automated ABR Configuration is available at no additional cost for MediaConvert jobs in the on-demand, Professional pricing tier. To learn more, please read the Automated ABR Configuration documentation. View the full article

Amazon Managed Services (AMS) now supports the AWS Europe (Paris) region. You can use AMS to monitor the operations of your account, including incident management, problem management, patch management, and security management for your AWS resources. In addition to operating AWS services, AMS provides a secure AWS Landing Zone, and features to help you meet compliance program requirements for HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, SOC, ISO, and PCI. View the full article

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Olivia, Polly’s first Australian English voice, available via Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS). Thanks to its unique vocal personality, the voice sounds expressive, natural and it is easy to follow. Amazon Polly customers can now enjoy a selection of three Australian English voices: Russell, Nicole and Olivia. View the full article

You can now sign up to receive event notifications on your Amazon Neptune DB clusters, DB instances, DB cluster snapshots, parameter groups, or security groups. Whenever certain events occur, event notifications can be sent in any notification form supported by the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for an AWS Region, such as an email, a text message, or a call to an HTTP endpoint. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Dallas and Miami. Wavelength Zones are now available in seven cities, including the five previously announced cities of Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Washington DC, and Atlanta. View the full article

We are pleased to announce the release of NICE DCV version 2020.2 with the following new features: DCV Session Manager - It is an optional component that provides REST APIs to create and manage the lifecycle of a session across a fleet of DCV servers. It is available at no cost for AWS customers running DCV on Amazon EC2 instances and for on-prem customers with DCV Plus and DCV Professional Plus licenses.* Improved support for high-frame rate use cases - DCV frame rate limiter is now set to 60 FPS, by default, for console sessions on servers and Amazon EC2 instances with an NVIDIA GPU. Furthermore, by enabling the new QUIC-based transport protocol, customers runnin…

Today AWS announced the availability of AWS Gateway Load Balancer, a new service that helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, visibility and others. An addition to the Elastic Load Balancer family, AWS Gateway Load Balancer combines a transparent network gateway (that is, a single entry and exit point for all traffic) and a load balancer that distributes traffic and scales your virtual appliances with the demand. View the full article

Today we introduced several new features for AWS Elemental Link along with expanded region availability. Link devices can now ingest video into all regions where AWS Elemental MediaLive is supported. View the full article

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. View the full article

Starting today, AWS Systems Manager Explorer provides a summary of AWS Config rules and associated resource compliance, to help you check overall compliance status and quickly find non-compliant resources. Systems Manager Explorer is an operations dashboard that provides a view of your operations data across your AWS accounts and Regions, helping you see where you may need to investigate and remediate operational issues. AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. View the full article

AWS Glue DataBrew is a new visual data preparation tool for AWS Glue that helps you clean and normalize data without writing code, reducing the time it takes to prepare data for analytics and machine learning by up to 80% compared to traditional approaches to data preparation. AWS Glue DataBrew features an easy-to-use visual interface that helps data analysts and data scientists of all technical levels understand, combine, clean, and transform data. View the full article

Starting today, AWS AppSync is available in three new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain) and China (Ningxia). View the full article

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for the latest Memcached version 1.6.6. This version brings a number of enhancements, such as improved memory management reducing the memory usage from idle client connections and lowers the risk of memory fragmentation from large number of connections. Additionally, this version introduces the experimental meta protocol and meta commands. View the full article

You can now use the updated Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) console in the AWS Europe (Milan), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (“NWCD”) and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., Ltd. (“Sinnet”). The updated console makes it even easier for you to create and manage your file system resources. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can create file systems configured with the recommended settings in just a few clicks and you can customize your view to quickly find information you’re looking for. You can also monitor your file system’s behavior u…

You can now take automatic backups of your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems with AWS Backup in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) regions, directly using the Amazon EFS console or API. Automatic backups for Amazon EFS further simplifies backup management of your file systems by enabling you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. View the full article

AWS CodePipeline Source Action now supports cloning of AWS CodeCommit repositories. With this improvement, when you define a Source Action, CodePipeline will clone the CodeCommit git repository to fetch the commit history and metadata. View the full article

We’ve updated the Amazon S3 console to make it even easier for you to manage your storage. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, the updated Amazon S3 console now simplifies common tasks by presenting contextual information about your storage resources and other S3 features throughout the console. Some key changes include streamlining the work to copy bucket settings when creating new buckets, indicating the bucket level settings you have permissions to change, improving the performance of uploads, and having a new page that gives more visibility into upload progress. View the full article

FreeRTOS version 202011.00 is now available with refactored IoT and AWS libraries: coreMQTT, coreJSON, corePKCS11, and AWS IoT Device Shadow, in addition to the FreeRTOS kernel and FreeRTOS+TCP library. These refactored libraries have been optimized for modularity and memory usage for constrained microcontrollers, and have undergone code quality checks (e.g. MISRA-C compliance, Coverity static analysis), and memory safety validation with the C Bounded Model Checker (CBMC) automated reasoning tool. For more details on these libraries and other features of this release, see the 202011.00 release blog on FreeRTOS.org. View the full article

This free new digital training curriculum explains how to modernize a legacy, monolithic application by transforming it into a microservices-based application that uses serverless, scalable, and fully managed databases. The two-hour fundamental curriculum includes three self-paced modules with video demonstrations. It is designed for data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects. View the full article

AWS Training and Certification has launched two new self-paced digital courses, Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management and AWS IoT: Developing and Deploying an Internet of Things, on edX and Coursera. Designed for application developers, the IoT course helps you utilize AWS IoT services to build, test, and distribute applications to simulated devices. You’ll also learn how to use analytics tools to collect, process, and analyze data from IoT devices. View the full article

Starting today, you can privately connect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. View the full article

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now provides Infrastructure Auto-Tagging feature for automated tagging of AMS infrastructure provisioned for management purposes. View the full article

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of our brand-new British Newscaster speaking style voice – Amy. The speaking style mimics a formal and authoritative British newsreader and it is the result of our latest achievements in Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology. View the full article

This new on-demand digital course provides a deep dive into AWS IAM and best practices for using IAM policies. The one-day advanced course is designed for security professionals with a working knowledge of AWS and it includes five learning modules, video demonstrations, assessments, and three optional self-paced labs. View the full article

Now you can export your Amazon DynamoDB table data to your data lake in Amazon S3, and use other AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Lake Formation to analyze your data and extract actionable insights. No code-writing is required. View the full article

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you update and store common data between multiple rows efficiently by using static columns. View the full article

Today, we are excited to announce our next AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, Keep Calm and Model On. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get hands-on using a musical keyboard and the latest generative AI techniques to expand their skills. Chartbusters is a global competition where developers use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions and compete to showcase their machine learning and generative AI skills for a chance to win prizes. In this challenge, developers can experiment with our newly launched Transformers algorithm which allows developers to extend an input melody by up to 30 seconds. Entries are due by January 31, 2021. Learn more …

Data providers who use AWS data Exchange to license their data can now choose whether to enable auto-renewals when creating a public or private offer. When the auto-renewals option is enabled by the data provider, data subscribers can choose whether or not their subscription automatically renews when it expires. Before the launch of this feature, all public products supported auto-renewals. This new functionality gives providers the flexibility to choose when to enable auto-renewals, enabling them to list products that are not intended to be renewed (such as trial or static historical data products). View the full article

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AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 as a target. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. Using DMS, you can now perform live migrations to Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 from MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, or any AWS DMS supported source including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SAP ASE and Microsoft SQL Server databases with minimal downtime. View the full artic…

Data subscribers that acquire data products on AWS Data Exchange using Private Offers can now configure those subscriptions to automatically renew, enabling seamless continuity of their data subscriptions without interruptions in their data feeds. Data providers that want to give their customers the option to auto-renew their subscription on the AWS Data Exchange platform can do so during the private offer creation process. Subscribers are able to view their auto-renew setting for each subscription in the Subscriptions section of the AWS Data Exchange console, where they can turn it on or off at any time. View the full article

Subscribers and providers can now use AWS Data Exchange Private Products to exchange private or custom-made data products. Starting today, qualified data providers interested in offering their data to specific customers or partners can now use AWS Data Exchange Private Products to package, deliver, and bill for their products without having to build, operate, and maintain any data delivery infrastructure. Subscribers that need data products specifically made for them and not intended for the general public can use AWS Data Exchange Private Products to have that data delivered to them in the cloud. With the launch of Private Products, subscribers can use AWS Data Exchange …

Today, we are excited to announce a Transformers-based algorithm in AWS DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get hands-on using a musical keyboard and the latest generative AI techniques to expand their skills. Transformers are state-of-the-art models that work on sequential data such as text, stock values, music, and genome sequences. With the newly launched Transformers feature, developers can iteratively extend a melody in AWS DeepComposer to create new and longer compositions. View the full article

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers improve application performance and reduce costs by pinpointing an application’s most expensive line of code, and providing recommendations on how to improve code to save money. View the full article

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, now supports storage quotas. With storage quotas, you can monitor and control user- and group-level storage consumption on your file systems to ensure that no user or group consumes excessive amounts of capacity. Storage quotas are ideal for storage administrators who manage multi-user file systems such as user shares for data scientists, computational engineers, and genomics researchers. View the full article

AWS DataSync now enables you to have more granular control over the portion of network bandwidth used to transfer your data. In addition to the existing capability allowing you to set a maximum network bandwidth limit per task, you can now increase or decrease this limit while the task is running. This enables you to minimize impact on other users or applications when a task spans multiple days. View the full article

Now you can control connection pool configuration in your mesh and leverage outlier detection functionality that simplifies implementing circuit breaker capabilities and helps to build applications resilient to connection errors. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to provide high availability for your applications. View the full article

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a fully managed service that provides shared file storage built on Windows Server, today announced that you can now access file systems using any Domain Name System (DNS) name of your choosing. Each Amazon FSx file system has a default DNS name for accessing it. Starting today, you can now also associate alternate DNS names for accessing your file systems. View the full article

AWS Storage Gateway now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway, enabling you to optimize network use between your data center and AWS for data synchronization. View the full article

Amazon S3 Replication now provides detailed metrics and notifications to monitor the status of object replication between buckets. You can monitor replication progress by tracking bytes pending, operations pending, and replication latency between your source and destination buckets using the S3 management console or Amazon CloudWatch. You can also set up S3 Event Notifications to receive replication failure notifications to quickly diagnose and correct configuration issues. S3 Replication metrics and notifications help you closely monitor replication progress. Previously, S3 Replication metrics and notifications were available with S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC). Be…

AWS Transfer Family now supports creating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) hosted server endpoints in centrally managed and shared Amazon VPC environments, helping you meet your compliance requirements as you segment your AWS environment using tools such as AWS Landing Zone for security, cost monitoring, and scalability. View the full article

Starting today, you can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Quick Create from the Amazon EC2 Launch Instance Wizard to create new file systems using the recommended settings without having to leave the Amazon EC2 console. You can then immediately add your newly created file system to the EC2 instance you are launching and it will be automatically mounted on your instance after it has launched. View the full article

AWS DataSync can now transfer billions of files or objects between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, with just a few clicks in the DataSync console. This enables you to easily replicate data between your managed file systems for business continuity, as well as copy portions of your data to different buckets or file systems as needed by evolving application requirements. View the full article

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering now supports automatic data archiving to further reduce storage costs by up to 95% when objects become rarely accessed over long periods of time. The S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class is the first and only cloud storage that automatically optimizes customers’ storage costs. S3 Intelligent-Tiering delivers milliseconds latency and high throughput performance for frequently and infrequently accessed data in the Frequent and Infrequent Access Tiers, and now the lowest storage costs in the cloud when data is rarely accessed in the Deep Archive Access Tier. View the full article

AWS Backup adds support for Amazon FSx file systems, automating policy-based backup and restore capabilities for Amazon FSx as well as streamlining compliance and data protection for Amazon FSx customers. You can now create, manage, and restore Amazon FSx backups directly from the AWS Backup console for both Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems. View the full article

AWS Storage Gateway introduces file-level upload notifications for File Gateway, enabling you to trigger automated workflows in the cloud and easily process on-premises file data stored with AWS as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) objects. View the full article

AWS Snowball Edge now supports the ability to import virtual machine (VM) images as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) into your Snowball Edge device after it has been deployed to your edge location, reducing the time it takes to add or update AMIs at the edge from days to minutes. This feature is available for the Snowball Edge Compute Optimized and Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device types and is available in all AWS Regions where these device types are available, and at no additional cost. View the full article

AWS Storage Gateway introduces access-based enumeration for File Gateway, enabling you to protect sensitive information by allowing you to prevent users from seeing SMB file shares, folders, and files that they would not be able to open based on their access permissions. View the full article

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports the use of Amazon FSx for Windows File Server in Amazon ECS task definitions. With this capability, you can now use persistent, shared storage across ECS containers. Customers can use Amazon FSx for their Windows containers in task definitions compatible with the EC2 launch type. Amazon ECS tasks using Amazon FSx will automatically mount the file systems specified by the customer in the task definition and make them available to the containers in the task across all availability zones in an AWS Region. View the full article

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) now supports the creation and retention of EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). In addition to defining policies that provide a simple, automated way to back up data stored on EBS volumes, you can now create policies targeting EC2 instances to create EBS-backed AMIs. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to manage your AMIs. Nor will you need to manually delete associated snapshots once an AMI has been de-registered. View the full article

AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems, including Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. Previously, you were able to run instances on Snowball devices using either the Ubuntu or CentOS Linux operating systems. Now, with support for Windows, you can run your Windows-based workloads at the edge on Snowball Edge Compute Optimized and Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. View the full article

AWS Storage Gateway now supports local storage cache of up to 64 TB for Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway, enabling low-latency access to larger working datasets at your premises. Now, you can easily scale your gateway’s local cache to manage more of your application data closer to your on-premises applications and users. View the full article

Today, we are reducing the price of Amazon EBS Cold HDD (sc1) volumes by 40%, or an estimated $160 for each 16TB sc1 volume. View the full article

Amazon S3 Object Ownership is now generally available with the addition of support for AWS CloudFormation. S3 Object Ownership is a new S3 feature that enables bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects that are uploaded to their buckets by other AWS Accounts. This helps you to standardize ownership of new objects in your bucket, and to share and manage access to these objects at scale via resource-based policies such as a bucket policy or an access point policy. Whether your S3 bucket receives data from other AWS accounts, or stores output from AWS services like AWS CloudTrail, S3 Object Ownership simplifies the work of creating and maintaining shared dat…

Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that provides an overview into the history of neural networks used for sequence modeling and the origins of Transformers. To learn the concepts of generative AI, developers can use easy-to-consume, bite-sized learning capsules in the AWS DeepComposer console. In this new learning capsule, developers will learn about the kind of problems sequence modeling is used to solve, the history of sequence modeling neural networks, and why Transformers are the new standard for solving sequence modeling problems. Transformers are a machine learning architecture model designed to handle sequential data. With this new model, devel…

With AWS introducing new budget actions, customers now have better control of the spending on their AWS account. AWS customers would now be able to define the action they wish to take if their budget exceeds the threshold. View the full article

Next-Generation Landing Zone (NGLZ) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from AllCloud, an AWS Migration, AWS DevOps, and AWS Security Competency Partner. NGLZ provides an enterprise-scale governance and security framework for a cloud migration or any modernization journey. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers technical design sessions and NGLZ framework deployment. View the full article

The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce v5.7 that enables you to easily integrate Amazon Connect with Salesforce Service Cloud to build innovative customer experiences is now localized in nine new languages: Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, German, (Simplified/Traditional) Chinese, and Japanese. This means contact center agents and supervisors can now use the Amazon Connect Contact Control Panel (CCP) within Salesforce Service Cloud to receive calls, chat with contacts, transfer them to other agents, and perform other key tasks using their native language. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides a discount tier for pricing of US toll-free numbers in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. With the discount tier, you automatically get a 35% discount after claiming in excess of 1,000 toll-free numbers per month, lowering the rate to $0.039 per number per day. For example, if you have 5,000 toll-free phone numbers, the first 999 are priced at our standard rate of $0.06 per number per day, and the next 4,001 numbers will be at the discounted rate of $0.039 per number per day. View the full article

Amazon EventBridge now supports Event Replay, which makes event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing developers an easy way to replay past events. Event replay enables developers using Amazon EventBridge to build applications with the confidence that they can quickly recover from errors in their code, and the ability to easily extend their existing applications to add new functionality. View the full article

Amazon WorkDocs now supports the ability to change the color theme (Light or Dark) directly in the WorkDocs iOS app. With this release, you are provided full control to manage the WorkDocs specific color theme within your WorkDocs iOS setting menu independently from your device’s system wide light or dark appearance setting. By default, the Amazon WorkDocs iOS app will follow you device’s appearance; however, at any time you can override your Amazon WorkDocs application appearance by setting the theme to Light or Dark in the settings. See the user guide for specific details. View the full article

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Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. You can now delete Amazon Fraud Detector models, event types, entity types, outcomes, labels, and variables. You can also remove an imported AWS SageMaker model from Amazon Fraud Detector (while keeping the model’s endpoint available within SageMaker). In addition, the Amazon Fraud Detector console now lists associated resources so you can more easily discover where a particular resource is utilized across the service. For example, you can view which Models and Detectors are using a particu…

Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-five languages – is now enabling you to tag content so that it isn’t translate. Now, customer can wrap the text that need not be translated in a HTML element span and set translate attribute to “no”. This is available for both real-time and asynchronous batch API. View the full article

With Amazon DynamoDB global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to DynamoDB tables for fast read and write performance. All of your data in DynamoDB is encrypted by default using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Starting today, you can now choose a customer managed key for your global tables, giving you full control over the key used for encryption of your DynamoDB data replicated using global tables. Customer managed keys also come with full AWS CloudTrail monitoring so you can view every time the key was used or accessed. View the full article

Amazon EventBridge now supports Event Replay, which makes event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing developers an easy way to replay past events. Event replay enables developers using Amazon EventBridge to build applications with the confidence that they can quickly recover from errors in their code, and the ability to easily extend their existing applications to add new functionality. View the full article

The new console for Amazon SQS is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The SQS console now simplifies development and production workflows by creating a new user experience. View the full article

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Confluence Cloud repositories using Kendra's new built-in Confluence Cloud connector. View the full article

Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers savings of up to 72% on your Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate type usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term. When you purchase a Savings Plan, you will be charged the discounted Savings Plans price for your usage up to your commitment. View the full article

You can now use AWS Service Quotas to view and manage your Amazon EMR service limits, also known as quotas, from a central location via the AWS console, API, or AWS CLI. Using AWS Service Quotas, you can view your service limits in one place and eliminate the need to go to multiple sources or maintain your own list. View the full article

AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced features to improve configuration and metrics of containers: environment files, secret versions and JSON keys, granular network metrics, and more metadata. View the full article

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup now enables you to target your setup to a specific resource group in an AWS account. Now, with a single click you can enable operational actions, such as patch compliance scanning and instance inventory collection, on a logical grouping of resources such as an application or environment. View the full article

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ as an event source to give customers more choices for messaging services to use with their serverless application. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers. View the full article

You can now enable Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots, ensuring that EBS volumes restored from FSR-enabled snapshots instantly receive full provisioned performance. You can enable FSR for an additional hourly charge to your regular snapshot cost for each Availability Zone (AZ) in which FSR is enabled. This new capability enables you to restore multiple volumes from a snapshot without the need to initialize volumes yourself. Improved and predictable performance helps with use cases such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), backup & restore, test/dev volume copies, and booting from custom AMIs. View the full article

AWS Client VPN is a managed, scalable, virtual private network service that enables users to securely access both AWS resources and on-premises networks. View the full article

Starting October 1st, Amazon Connect, an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center service, decreased the outbound telephony rate in the EU Central (Frankfurt) and EU West (London) regions for calls to Poland by 68% from $0.1217 per minute to $0.0390 per minute. View the full article

Starting today, you can configure Amazon CloudWatch alarms to automatically create operational issues in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. This enables operations engineers and IT professions to view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to AWS resources from a central place, helping reduce time to issue resolution. Amazon CloudWatch enables you to collect monitoring data for AWS resources and applications, and allows you to generate alarms based on configured thresholds. View the full article

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202011.00 now includes refactored coreHTTP, AWS IoT Device Defender, and AWS IoT Jobs libraries alongside of the existing coreMQTT, coreJSON, and AWS IoT Device Shadow libraries. All libraries have been optimized for memory usage and modularity, and have undergone code quality checks (e.g. MISRA-C compliance, Coverity static analysis), and validation of memory safety with the C Bounded Model Checker (CBMC) automated reasoning tool. For more details, see the README and Changelog files. View the full article

Starting today, you can proactively manage the EC2 Spot Instance lifecycle by using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. Capacity Rebalancing helps you maintain workload availability by proactively augmenting your fleet with a new Spot Instance before a running instance receives a two-minute interruption notice. Previously, EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet replaced Spot Instances only after they were interrupted. Now, with Capacity Rebalancing, these services attempt to proactively replace Spot Instances when they receive the new EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation, rather than waiting until they receive…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now supported with AWS Wavelength Zones. Customers can now reserve capacity for their Amazon EC2 instances for any duration. View the full article

You can now store streaming data for up to one year in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Long term retention of streaming data enables you to use the same platform for both real-time and older data retained in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. For example, you can train machine learning algorithms for financial trading, marketing personalization, and recommendation models without moving the data into a different data store or writing a new application. You can also satisfy certain data retention regulations, including under HIPAA and FedRAMP, using long term retention. You only pay for data stored and retrieved without provisioning additional storage or compute resources. View t…

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the ability for independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide tags corresponding to the metered usage of their software. Customers can enable the vendor provided tags as cost allocation tags to gain visibility into third-party software spend. View the full article

Starting today, you can proactively rebalance your workloads running on EC2 Spot Instances without having to wait until the Spot Instance receives a two minute Instance interruption notice. You now have access to a new feature called “EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation”, a signal that notifies you when a Spot Instance is at elevated risk of interruption. The signal can arrive sooner than the two minute Spot Instance interruption notice, giving you the opportunity to proactively rebalance your workload to new or existing Spot Instances that are not at elevated risk of interruption. For example, you can start checkpointing your work early to save as much state as possibl…