Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Recent Announcements. G4 instances are optimized for machine learning application deployments (inference), such as image classification, object detection, recommendation engines, automated speech recognition, and language translation that need access to low level GPU software libraries. G4 instances are supported with the Amazon ECS GPU-optimized AMI Version 20190913 and higher.  To get started with adding a GPU instance to your ECS cluster, visit the Amazon ECS documentation. To learn more about Amazon ECS, visit our product page.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Textract for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you don't have a BAA in place with AWS, or if you have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.  For information and best practices about configuring AWS HIPAA Eligible Services to store, process, and transmit PHI, see the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services Whitepaper. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can now use custom certificates in AWS Glue when using JDBC connections to connect to your data sources from Glue ETL jobs and crawlers. You may decide to use custom certificates because you already obtained a certificate from a third-party issuer, or because the default certificates supported by AWS Glue do not meet your requirements. Previously, you were only able to use the default certificates supported by AWS Glue.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon ECS SHA Tracking provides visibility and identification to track where container images are deployed by using task state change events emitted to CloudWatch Events. SHA Tracking is integrated with Amazon ECR, ECS, Fargate and CloudWatch Events to support application lifecycle operations. Past deployments can be analyzed to identity when, where and how long applications have run for better adoption tracking using CloudWatch Events. Clusters, containers and application images can be correlated for full patch auditing support when applications are updated to ensure your users have a consistent experience. You can get started with SHA Tracking by ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Based on the next generation AWS Nitro System, M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances make 100 Gbps networking available to network-bound workloads without requiring customers to use custom drivers or recompile applications. Customers can also take advantage of this improved network performance to accelerate data transfer to and from Amazon S3, reducing the data ingestion time for applications and speeding up delivery of results. M5n, M5dn, R5n, R5dn instances are powered by custom second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.1 GHz. They also provide support for the new Intel Vector ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Session APIs allow you to manage a dynamic conversation on the client by defining the dialog state, slot values, prompts, and attributes. With the addition of checkpoint support you can now remember a point in the conversation. Checkpoints allow you to easily switch to an appropriate point in the conversation after a digression.   You can add a checkpoint using the Amazon Lex SDKs. The PutSession API can be used to add a checkpoint. You can define up to three checkpoints in a session. The capability is now available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Once you create tags for your RDS DB instances, you can separate RDS backup charges in AWS Cost Explorer according to the tags of the corresponding DB instances. When you view your Cost and Usage Report (CUR), you’ll find that the ResourceId for each RDS ChargedBackup line contains the name of the corresponding DB instance, and tags associated with the DB instance are marked in additional columns. Note that detailed backup charges have been activated as of October 8, 2019. Your RDS backup charges prior to this date will continue to show up as a single line ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Private APIs enable you to securely expose REST APIs to resources only within your VPC or to those connected to your data centers via AWS Direct Connect. If you have existing Edge Optimized or Regional APIs in API Gateway, you can convert them to Private APIs. The VPC Links feature allows you to create REST APIs in front of your secured VPC resources without exposing them to the internet. Visit our documentation to learn more about Private APIs and Private Integrations in Amazon API Gateway. You can use this feature in all regions where API Gateway Private ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. To use these new built-in workflows, you can chain an existing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth labeling job into a verification or adjustment job, or you can easily import your existing labels for a verification or adjustment job. These features are supported for bounding boxes and semantic segmentation labels.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. As customers scale up their number of instances and accounts, security administrators find it difficult to maintain a central view of their security posture across their entire organization. With AWS Firewall Manager support for security groups, administrators now have the ability to centrally create common security groups across the organization and enforce them consistently even as new accounts and resources are created. Administrators can also create audit policies to define what security group rules can or cannot be created across ... Read More