With the general availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, customers in that region can now automate the creation, sharing, copying and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS resources, saving you […]

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models (CLM) now support German and Japanese languages in both batch and streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to use pre-existing data to […]

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides APIs that enable you to programmatically manage rules for Contact Lens’ conversational analytics and third party applications (e.g., Salesforce etc.). Rules allow you to automatically categorize contacts, send notifications about customer escalations, and assign tasks when a new case is created in your third party application.  Read More for […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Europe (Paris) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of […]

Amazon EC2 customers can now use Recycle Bin for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region to recover from accidental deletions to meet their business continuity needs. With Recycle Bin, you can specify a retention time period and recover a deregistered AMI if needed, before the expiration of the retention period. A […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from […]

Today, AWS CloudFormation Hooks launches wildcard resource type for Hook configurations enabling customers to match multiple resources types. Customers can use wildcards to define resources targets for building flexible Hooks. Such Hooks can activate for resource types which are not explicitly known when the Hook was created. For example, customers can use AWS::ECR::* wildcard to […]