Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that enables customers to automatically extract text and data, including from tables and forms within scanned documents and images. As a fully managed service, Textract delivers continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce a few quality enhancements to both our Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature […]

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enhances its debugging capability by embedding AWS X-Ray traces to help you trace ‘ canary runs’ and determine the root cause of the failure. When a canary has tracing enabled, traces are sent for calls made by the canary. Canaries with tracing enabled appear on the service map in both CloudWatch ServiceLens […]

AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore), and South America (São Paulo). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which AWS custom-designed to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud.   Read More for the details.

Starting today, you can queue purchases of Savings Plans by specifying a time of your choosing in the future to execute those purchases. Read More for the details.

You can now use Amazon Redshift to run read queries against tables in your Amazon S3 data lake with open source Apache Hudi or Delta Lake. Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a feature of Amazon Redshift, enables you to query your S3 data lake directly from your Redshift cluster without first loading the data into it, minimizing […]

Amazon Corretto 15 is now generally available. This version supports the latest Java feature release JDK 15 and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 15 here. Read More for the details.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.   Read More for the details.

For the second time in 2020, Amazon Connect is announcing outbound telephony cost decreases across six countries in Europe. Starting September 1st, Amazon Connect, an easy to use contact center service, decreased the following outbound telephony rates in the EU Central (Frankfurt) and EU West (London) regions for the following six countries:  Read More for […]

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce native support for media files in AMR, AMR-WB, Ogg and WebM format by Amazon Transcribe. Previously, you were required to convert these file formats into supported formats […]

You can now run Amazon Elastic Container Service tasks in the two AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles. With Amazon ECS/EC2 on Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive applications closer to end-users in Los Angeles. Once you have opted in for using AWS Local Zones, you can create a VPC and subnet in the local […]