12/7/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/8/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Egypt

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Egypt.

Recycle Bin for Amazon Machine Images is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Amazon EC2 customers can now use Recycle Bin for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region to recover from accidental deletions to meet their business continuity needs. With Recycle Bin, you can specify a retention time period and recover a deregistered AMI if needed, before the expiration of the retention period. A recovered AMI would retain its attributes such as tags, permissions, and encryption status, which it had prior to deletion, and can be used immediately for launches. AMIs that are not recovered from the Recycle Bin are permanently deleted upon expiration of the retention time.

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports Apache Iceberg table format

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to create feature groups in the offline store in Apache Iceberg table format. The offline store contains historical ML features, organized into logical feature groups, and is used for model training and batch inference. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets such as the offline store. It manages large collections of files as tables and supports modern analytical data lake operations optimized for usage on Amazon S3.

Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift Serverless in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central) AWS regions

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications.

Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn Instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Europe (Paris) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of EC2 storage optimized instances.

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

With the general availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, customers in that region can now automate the creation, sharing, copying and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS resources, saving you time and money.

Amazon Transcribe now supports Custom Language Models for German and Japanese languages

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models (CLM) now support German and Japanese languages in both batch and streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to use pre-existing data to build a custom speech engine for your specific batch and streaming transcription use cases. No prior machine learning experience is required to create your CLM.

Target multiple resources type with wildcard configuration for AWS CloudFormation Hooks

Today, AWS CloudFormation Hooks launches wildcard resource type for Hook configurations enabling customers to match multiple resources types. Customers can use wildcards to define resources targets for building flexible Hooks. Such Hooks can activate for resource types which are not explicitly known when the Hook was created. For example, customers can use AWS::ECR::* wildcard to define a Hook that triggers for all resource types under Amazon ECR.

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect launches APIs to manage rules

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides APIs that enable you to programmatically manage rules for Contact Lens’ conversational analytics and third party applications (e.g., Salesforce etc.). Rules allow you to automatically categorize contacts, send notifications about customer escalations, and assign tasks when a new case is created in your third party application.

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

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