5/5/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/6/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon SageMaker Canvas adds new data preparation capabilities and usability updates
Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. SageMaker Canvas makes it easy to access and combine data from a variety of sources, automatically clean data and apply a variety of data adjustments, and build ML models to generate accurate predictions with a few clicks.
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, is designed to make it easy for customers to conduct scientific research and software development with quantum computers. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs, the capability to combine quantum and classical compute to explore hybrid algorithms, now supports embedded circuit simulators, improving performance by up to 10X or more. By bringing the quantum simulator closer to your classical algorithm you can reduce the simulator round-trip time compared to using Braket’s on-demand circuit simulators. This new capability can help reduce a performance bottleneck when running large volumes of quantum simulation tasks that each use only a relatively small number of qubits, typically up to ~25 qubits.
The New Amazon ElastiCache console is now available
The new Amazon ElastiCache console provides you with an intuitive way to manage ElastiCache resources with simpler navigation and richer contextual information. The new console provides a more consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles.
Amazon Interactive Video Service launches edge locations in Argentina and Chile
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first points of presence (PoPs) in Argentina and Chile located in Buenos Aires and Santiago. The new edge locations will enable streamers and viewers based in Argentina and Chile to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity.
AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store.
Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call
Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call, enabling you to add all of the parties necessary to efficiently resolve the contact. For example, to help close a mortgage transaction, an agent at a financial services company can add a mortgage broker, the customer’s spouse, a translator, and a supervisor to the call to help resolve the issue quickly. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Console.
The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale
The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale. Joining the existing AWS Panorama Appliance, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device provides customers with another choice in price and performance for computer vision use cases using AWS Panorama. Customers can work with AWS Panorama Partners to build a wide variety of solutions for CV use cases across industries such as transportation, logistics, industrial, hospitality, and more.
Amazon Lex now supports custom vocabulary
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can give Amazon Lex additional information about how to process speech input by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of domain-specific terms or unique words (e.g., brand names, product names) that are more difficult to recognize. You create the list and add it to the bot definition, so Amazon Lex can use these words when determining the user’s intent or collecting information in a conversation. This allows you to enhance speech recognition and deliver an improved end-user experience.
ACM Private Certification Authority is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM Private CA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 24. The Jakarta Region supports CAs with the private key stored in a FIPS 140-2 level 2 HSM. To learn more about the key storage certification level see the AWS Private CA Documentation.
AWS Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) are now available for builders to create application infrastructure in code that provisions cloud resources from their approved Service Catalog products. Service Catalog builders can now create their AWS CDK applications with approved constructs in familiar programming languages like Typescript and Python directly in their Integrated Development Environment. Using cdk-import, builders can access a library of Provisioning constructs in their local development environment for the AWS Service Catalog products they have access to provision which automatically include the governance that their administrators have configured.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017 CU27, and 2019 CU15
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.
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- Using embedded simulators in Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs
- Accelerate hybrid quantum-classical algorithms on Amazon Braket using embedded simulators from Xanadu’s PennyLane featuring NVIDIA cuQuantum