5/6/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/9/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Rekognition launches Face APIs version 6 for improved accuracy
Customers use Amazon Rekognition Face APIs to analyze faces within images and videos at scale without requiring any machine learning expertise. This enables use cases, such as identity verification, photo search, and media analysis. Amazon Rekognition has launched Face APIs version 6 to deliver higher accuracy for the face detection, comparison, and search features. Additionally, face detection latency has been reduced by 70%.
Amazon Connect now displays metrics within the schedule management user experience
Amazon Connect now displays scheduling metrics within the schedule management user experience to help contact center managers efficiently manage their agent’s schedules. Managers can quickly see and take action on key metrics that drive business outcomes, such as the difference between forecasted agent capacity needed and the number of agents scheduled for each 15 or 30 minute time block. These metrics are displayed adjacent to agent schedules allowing managers to make precision adjustments without the need to repeatedly switch between the scheduling and metrics screens, helping them optimize business outcomes while ensuring a balanced agent workload.
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization, from a single visual interface. SageMaker Data Wrangler runs on ml.m5.4xlarge by default. SageMaker Data Wrangler includes built-in data transforms and analyses written in PySpark so you can process large data sets (up to hundreds of gigabytes (GB) of data) efficiently on the default instance.
Amazon Chime SDK messaging features are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Region
Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging is generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.
Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are now available in more regions and bare metal sizes
Starting today, Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn are available in additional regions and bare metal sizes. X2idn instances are now available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2idn and X2iedn are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn and X2iedn instances both include up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage and up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth. X2idn offers up to 2 TiB of memory and X2iedn offers up to 4 TiB of memory. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. X2idn and X2iedn instances are SAP-Certified.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region.
Amazon EC2 M6a and C6a instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Frankfurt). Additionally, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt). M6a and C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to M5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5a instances. Both M6a and C6a instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. M6a and C6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. M6a instances are SAP-Certified and a good fit for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications, web servers, micro-services, multi-player gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. C6a instances are well suited for compute-intensive applications like batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- First in Canada — AWS Wavelength Zone opens in Toronto
- AWS Week in Review — May 2, 2022
- New — Amazon EC2 Instances (I4i) with Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
- Introducing new templates to the AWS Proton template library
- Load testing your workload running on Amazon EKS with Locust
AWS Database Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Process larger and wider datasets with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
- Fine-tune transformer language models for linguistic diversity with Hugging Face on Amazon SageMaker
- Build a custom Q&A dataset using Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to train a Hugging Face Q&A NLU model
AWS Security Blog
Open Source Project
AWS CLI
Amplify for iOS
Amazon Chime SDK React Components Library
- Release amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react@3.2.0
- amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react@3.1.0