Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables.  Read More for the […]

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, today announced new Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage options that make it even more cost effective to power any compute workload with a fast, shared file system. When creating shared file systems for compute workloads, you can now choose between existing SSD storage options […]

Amazon EC2 G4 instances which provide industry’s most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 22.  Read More for the details.

Starting today, you can stop and restart your workflows in AWS Glue giving you more control over the orchestration of your Glue ETL workloads. Additionally, you can specify the maximum number of concurrent runs for your Glue workflow. Read More for the details.

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. You can read more about the custom runtimes in the AWS Lambda documentation.  Read More for the details.

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Go on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. You can read more about the Go programming model in the AWS Lambda documentation. Read More for the details.

You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using Java 8 (Corretto). Amazon Corretto 8 is a no-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 8 that comes with long-term support. Lambda functions written in Java 8 (Corretto) run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. You can read more about the Java programming model in […]

Amazon S3 Access Points now support the Copy API, allowing customers to copy data to and from access points within an AWS Region. S3 Access Points simplify managing data access at scale for applications using shared data sets on S3, such as usage and transaction logs for analytics, and post-processing. S3 Access Points are unique hostnames […]

Amazon Forecast uses machine learning to generate accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience for inventory planning, workforce planning, energy demand forecasting and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting. This technology has been developed from over 20 years of forecasting at Amazon.com. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service, so there are no servers to […]