Customers can now connect to meetings from the Amazon Chime app or Amazon Chime SDK in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. Additionally, Amazon Chime SDK customers can connect to meetings in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions.  Read More for the details.

AWS Transfer Family now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in US and Canada commercial AWS Regions to protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Transfer Family for regulated workloads.   Read More […]

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics from text. No ML expertise required. You can use Custom Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your domain. For example, you can instantly extract product names, […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now allows you to scale your Redis Clusters up to 500 nodes. Redis (cluster mode enabled) configuration allows you to partition your data across multiple shards and offers better scalability, performance, and availability. With this announcement, you can double your cluster size from 250 nodes to 500 nodes, thereby supporting larger […]

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports IPv6 traffic for VPN connections to AWS Transit Gateway. With this launch, you can now use IPv6 addressing for traffic between your customer gateway device and your resources in AWS. If you use IPv6 addresses for your resources in Amazon Virtual Private Clouds and on-premises data center or office sites, […]

Starting today, you can enable the native desktop experience for your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. Previously, AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions only showed the windows of the applications that were launched. With this launch, you can enable Desktop View on your fleet, which provides the same desktop experience your users are used to with the existing […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) today launched the new Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia Amazon Machine Image (AMI), a new Amazon Linux 2 based AMI for the Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances on ECS. This makes it easy for customers to run Inferentia based containers on ECS using the ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI which comes pre-baked with […]

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce one such quality enhancement to our table recognition feature. The new model detects rows […]

Amazon Connect now returns agent to previous status (e.g. Available, Offline, Custom status) after hanging up an outbound call and completing after contact work from the Contact Control Panel (CCP). Previously, agent status was automatically set to Available even if agent had been in a Custom or Offline state before making the outbound call.  Read […]