10/12/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Textract launches Custom Queries to improve information extraction for business-specific documents

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the Analyze Document API that lets you extract specific pieces of information from documents using natural language questions. Custom Queries allows customers to quickly adapt the Queries feature to meet their business-specific needs without requiring them to have machine learning expertise.

Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC

AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections)  over IPv6, at no additional cost. With this launch, and Lambda’s support for public IPv6 endpoints (inbound connections) in 2021, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms.

Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Availability Zone DNS affinity, disable connection termination for unhealthy targets, and UDP connection termination by default.

AWS Step Functions launches Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless

AWS Step Functions announces an Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless , adding support for the Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern with 6 EMR Serverless API Actions (CreateApplication, StartApplication, StopApplication, DeleteApplication, StartJobRun, and CancelJobRun).

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands content summarization and information extraction capabilities

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a service for business analysts to generate machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions without having to write a single line of code. As announced on October 5, customers can access and evaluate foundation models (FMs) to generate and summarize content.

AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Seoul, South Korea

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ICN10 data center in Seoul, South Korea. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

AWS Global Accelerator launches second Edge location in Vietnam

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new AWS edge location in Hanoi in Vietnam. This is our second Global Accelerator edge location in Vietnam. With this addition, Global Accelerator is now available through 110 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 28 AWS Regions.

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