7/18/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Llama 2 foundation models from Meta now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Starting today, Llama 2 foundation models from Meta are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 2 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.
Amazon Corretto July, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.
Introducing Analytics on Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access to rich insights and prebuilt dashboards related to Lex conversations, intents, slots, and utterances.
Amazon Connect launches pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics
Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how long it took for an agent to first greet the customer on chat. For example, using these metrics, customers can create custom dashboards to analyze if an agent’s average handle time is high due to higher than expected agent talk time, and if so, provide agent coaching to improve.
Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in the Europe (Paris) and Middle East (Dubai) regions.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Microsoft AD authentication in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Authentication with Microsoft Active Directory for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions.
AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now PCI DSS Compliant
AWS Mainframe Modernization is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, enabling customers to use AWS Mainframe Modernization for applications that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS.
Karpenter now supports Windows containers
Today, AWS announced Windows support on Karpenter (Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually adjusting the compute capacity of their clusters, overprovisioning compute to meet rapidly changing demand, or creating multiple EC2 Autoscaling Groups (ASGs).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- [Event Report] Introducing Updates and Doing a Little Bit of DiveDeep on AWS Time #31 (6/29)
- AWS Weekly — Week 2023/7/10
- Deploying and benchmarking YOLOV8 on GPU-based edge devices using AWS IoT Greengrass
- Information on the release of materials and videos for the AWS Black Belt webinar in June 2023
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Automate secure access to Amazon MWAA environments using existing OpenID Connect single-sign-on authentication and authorization
- Introducing field-based coloring experience for Amazon QuickSight
Containers
AWS Database Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS HPC Blog
AWS for Industries
- Why Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) should migrate and build onto AWS
- AppsFlyer Report on State of eCommerce app marketing in 2023
- Scalable rig-report-processing solution on AWS
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Enhance Amazon Lex with conversational FAQ features using LLMs
- Enhance Amazon Lex with LLMs and improve the FAQ experience using URL ingestion
- Build an email spam detector using Amazon SageMaker
- Llama 2 foundation models from Meta are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog
- How quirion created nested email templates using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
- How quirion sends attachments using email templates with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Networking & Content Delivery
- Integrating AWS Verified Access with device trust providers
- Deploying hybrid networks using AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect