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Amazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon is introducing the Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design.
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Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines
Amazon is announcing multiple capabilities for SageMaker, including expanded capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning, faster onboarding with automatic data import from local disk in SageMaker Canvas, and the testing of machine learning workflows in local environments for SageMaker Pipelines.
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Amazon's AlexaTM 20B Model Outperforms GPT-3 on NLP Benchmarks
Researchers at Amazon Alexa AI have announced Alexa Teacher Models (AlexaTM 20B), a 20-billion-parameter sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model that exhibits state-of-the-art performance on 1-shot and few-shot NLP tasks. AlexaTM 20B outperforms GPT-3 on SuperGLUE and SQuADv2 benchmarks while having fewer than 1/8 the number of parameters.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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AWS Expands Amazon Detective for Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective is a security service in AWS that allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Recently, AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Detective towards Kubernetes workloads on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.
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Amazon Introduces New APIs and SDKs for Alexa Skill Development
At Alexa Live 2022, Amazon announced new APIs and SDKs for Alexa skill developers, including the Alexa Ambient Home Dev Kit, the Alexa Connect Kit SDK for Matter, Universal Device Commands, and more.
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Amazon Connect Offers General Availability of Outbound Campaigns for Calls, Texts, and Emails
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the high-volume outbound communication capability called Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns in the Amazon Connect service - an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Generally Available as a Serverless Offering
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Serverless is generally available (GA). The offering is a serverless deployment option for customers to run big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
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Amazon EKS Blueprints Streamline Bootstrapping Kubernetes Clusters
AWS has released EKS Blueprints, a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to simplify configuring and deploying EKS clusters. EKS Blueprints are currently implemented in both HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The blueprints have support for a number of open-source add-ons including Prometheus, Nginx, and Argo CD.
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AWS Increases the Availability and Reliability of Amazon EventBridge with Global Endpoints
Recently, AWS introduced a new capability called global endpoints for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge to improve availability and reliability.
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Austrian DPA Ruling against Google Analytics Paves the Way to EU-based Cloud Services
In a recent ruling, the Austrian data regulator declared the use of Google Analytics unlawful based on EU GDPR regulation. While the ruling is very specifically argued and worded, its implications go well beyond this particular case.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Now GA: Alerting, PromQL Support, and More
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container infrastructure and application metrics for containers.
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Amazon QuickSight Q: Answers to Business Intelligence Questions
Amazon recently announced the general availability of QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the enterprise edition of the managed business intelligence service QuickSight.
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AWS Releases Amazon EKS Anywhere into General Availability
Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, with optional support offered by AWS. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EKS Anywhere.