Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Today, we are launching support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base. Amazon Lex can be applied to a […]

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course. If you’re new to the cloud—whether you’re in a technical or nontechnical role—this course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud. As a result, you can build your skills and confidence while […]

Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin version 1.7 is now the default for newly created Amazon EKS clusters. Read More for the details.

AWS RoboMaker WorldForge now supports tag-on-create for 3D simulation worlds, world generation jobs, and world export jobs. RoboMaker WorldForge is a capability that makes it faster, easier, and less expensive to create a multitude of 3D simulation worlds for testing and training robots. By tagging worlds at the time of creation, you can eliminate the […]

Amazon Connect enables customers to use Amazon Polly’s latest Australian-English conversational voice, Olivia. Built on Amazon Polly’s neural text-to-speech technology, this new voice delivers groundbreaking improvements in speech quality, making automated conversations sound more lifelike by improving the pitch, inflection, intonation, and tempo. Read More for the details.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added a new feature called Automated ABR Configuration which automatically customizes the ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) encoding configuration for each source video. Automated ABR Configuration simplifies the set up of transcoding, optimizes video quality, and reduces ABR package size. Automated ABR Configuration is available at no additional cost for MediaConvert jobs […]

Amazon Managed Services (AMS) now supports the AWS Europe (Paris) region. You can use AMS to monitor the operations of your account, including incident management, problem management, patch management, and security management for your AWS resources. In addition to operating AWS services, AMS provides a secure AWS Landing Zone, and features to help you meet […]

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Olivia, Polly’s first Australian English voice, available via Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS). Thanks to its unique vocal personality, the voice sounds expressive, natural and it is easy to follow. Amazon Polly customers can now enjoy […]

You can now send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to a destination of your choice by using AWS Lambda Extensions. AWS Lambda Extensions are a new way for monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools to integrate with Lambda, and today, you can use extensions that send logs to the following providers: Datadog, New Relic, […]