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Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.
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Predicting the Future, Amazon Forecast Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Forecast, a fully managed, time series data forecasting service. Amazon Forecast uses deep learning from multiple datasets and algorithms to make predictions in the areas of product demand, travel demand, financial planning, SAP and Oracle supply chain planning and cloud computing usage.
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Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes.
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Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
Recently, Amazon announced the opening of an AWS region in the Middle East. This new region is the first for AWS in the Middle East and located in Bahrain.
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Amazon Introduces Two New Features for Polly: Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology in their Polly service in AWS, which turns text into lifelike speech. Furthermore, Amazon Polly now also offers a Newscaster speaking style.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure
Recently, Amazin announced the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an extensible open-source software development framework allowing developers to model and provision their cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.
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A Single Pane of Glass for Compliance and Security with AWS Security Hub GA
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Security Hub, a new security service that provides customers with a central place to manage security and compliance across their AWS environment.
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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Amazon Announces New Cross-Skill Conversational Model for Alexa
At Amazon's re:MARS AI conference in Las Vegas, Alexa vice president Rohit Prasad demonstrated a new conversational model for the Alexa smart assistant. In this new model, Alexa can seamlessly transition between skills and remember the context of the conversation to resolve ambiguous references.
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Amazon Updates SageMaker Ground Truth with New Labeling Features, Vendor Support and Availability
Amazon announced that SageMaker Ground Truth now offers simplified labeling workflows, support for additional labeling vendors, and is available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region – bringing the total to six supported AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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AWS Releases Enhancements to AI Services for NLP, Speech-to-Text Transcription, and Image Detection
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released new features for three of its AI services: Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe.
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Amazon Expands Its Machine Learning Offering with AWS Deep Learning Containers
Recently, Amazon introduced AWS Deep Learning Containers (AWS DL Containers), which are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks allowing customers to deploy custom machine learning environments quickly.