Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Takumi, Polly’s Japanese male text to speech (TTS) voice. Takumi neural TTS sounds natural, friendly and smooth. With this launch, you can now select from three unique Japanese TTS voices: Mizuki […]

SageMaker Model Registry, a purpose-built service which enables customers to catalog their ML models, now provides endpoint visibility from Studio UI, ability to store custom metadata and view/store broad array of metrics for a given model. Read More for the details.

Amazon Redshift simplifies organizing, documenting, and sharing of multiple SQL queries with support for SQL Notebooks (preview) in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2. The new Notebook interface enables users such as data analysts and data scientists to author queries more easily, organizing multiple SQL queries and annotations on a single document. They can also collaborate with […]

AWS Lambda now logs the Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events, for functions running in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Customers can use the ENI ID in AWS CloudTrail data events to audit the security of their applications, and verify that only authorized functions are accessing their VPC resources […]

Amazon Fraud Detector is now in scope for AWS SOC 1 , SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports. You can now use Amazon Fraud Detector in applications requiring audited evidence of the controls in our System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting. For example, if you use AWS to detect fraud and abuse, you can use […]

Amazon Redshift has launched support for the VARBYTE data type. VARBYTE is a variable size data type for storing and representing variable-length binary strings. With this announcement, Amazon Redshift can now support variable length binary data for use with core Amazon Redshift features, SQL UDFs and SQL DDL for creating VARBYTE columns in tables. VARBYTE(n) syntax gives […]

Automated Materialized View (AutoMV) for Amazon Redshift helps lower query latency for repeatable workloads like dashboard queries minimizing the effort for manually creating and managing materialized views.  Read More for the details.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands its functionality by introducing Time Travel, a feature granting customers flexibility on their logging capabilities and enhancing their troubleshooting experience. With Time Travel, you can store and encrypt AWS DMS logs using Amazon S3, and view, download and obfuscate the logs within a certain time frame. Time Travel help […]