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Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region.

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On December 15 2022, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched support for AWS Lambda aliases as Refactor Spaces Service endpoints. You can now use Lambda aliases with Refactor Spaces to route traffic to specific versions of a Lambda function and configure provisioned concurrency to mitigate Lambda cold starts.

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Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced a new feature that enables customers to add automated safeguards for Amazon ECS service rolling updates. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This enables you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.

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Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler, based on AWS Solutions’ Instance Scheduler. Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler provides a user interface in the console which enables you to easily configure schedules for your instances to optimize compute capacity and save costs across accounts and Regions in your Organization. In this way, you can ensure that EC2 instances only run when they are really needed. For example, you can schedule that targeted instances stop running outside of weekly business hours, during weekends or bank holidays. To learn more, visit this blog.

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You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow.

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Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. On 11/23/2022, we launched an update to the machine learning model of Amazon Rekognition Labels Image to add 600 labels and improve the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We also added an ability to organize label results by “aliases” and “categories” and support filtering of results.

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You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region.

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AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

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AWS Glue crawlers now have enhanced support for Linux Foundation Delta Lake tables, increasing operational efficiency to extract meaningful insights from analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue. This feature enables analytics services scan Delta Lake tables without requiring the creation of manifest files by Glue crawlers. Newly cataloged data is now quickly made available for analysis using your preferred analytics and machine learning (ML) tools. 

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You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges, see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports Read Replicas. Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for RDS database (DB) instances. They provide the option to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas of a given source DB instance and serve high-volume application read traffic from multiple copies of your data, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput. Read replicas can also be promoted when needed to become standalone DB instances.

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AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. You may now configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints within the Africa (Cape Town) region.

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AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) regions. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can create user identities directly in IAM Identity Center or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With IAM Identity Center, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a portal for access to all of their assigned AWS accounts and cloud applications.

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AWS IoT Device Client introduces a new version 1.8 which provides docker images, PowerPC architectures support, and an implementation to use the new “AWS Run-Command” Job Template. 

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Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

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Amazon FinSpace now provides customers with additional user activity monitoring options through logging of web application and data access events to AWS CloudTrail. Amazon FinSpace is a managed analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark Engine with Capital Markets Time Series Analytics Library. When a user takes an action in the FinSpace web application or uses data stored in their FinSpace Environment, an event is published to their FinSpace environment’s audit repository. It can then be viewed using the Audit Reports viewer hosted in the FinSpace web application. This provides FinSpace administrators a convenient way to quickly view user activity and data access.

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Today we announce the general availability of Renate, an open-source Python library for automatic model re-training. The library implements continual learning algorithms to train deep neural networks incrementally when new data becomes available.

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We are excited to announce the general availability of Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal prediction, that can be applied to any trained neural network to obtain calibrated uncertainty estimates. The library further supports a number of Bayesian inference methods that can be applied to deep neural networks written in Flax.

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With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in AWS Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, customers in these regions can save up to 75% on storage costs for Amazon EBS Snapshots that they rarely access and intend to retain for more than 90 days. Amazon EBS Snapshots are incremental in nature, storing only the changes since the last snapshot. This makes them cost-effective for daily and weekly backups that need to be accessed frequently. If you have snapshots that you access every few months or years, and would like to retain them long-term for legal or compliance reasons, you can use Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive to store full, point-in-time snapshots at a lower cost than what you would incur if stored in the standard tier.  

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