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 EC2 storage optimized instances. 

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 build a custom speech engine for your specific batch and streaming transcription use cases. No prior machine learning experience is required to create your CLM.

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. 

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 time and money.

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to create feature groups in the offline store in Apache Iceberg table format. The offline store contains historical ML features, organized into logical feature groups, and is used for model training and batch inference. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets such as the offline store. It manages large collections of files as tables and supports modern analytical data lake operations optimized for usage on Amazon S3.

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Egypt.

Thanks to VPN Overview for this one – the 15 songs which have been longest in the Spotify top 200 list: Top 15 songs with the longest streak on Spotify 200 Chart Rank Song Artist Streak (days) Streams 1 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 1008 1,671,604 2 Sweater Weather The Neighbourhood 719 1,845,229 3 Levitating Dua …

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Having spent $200 billion to develop a chip industry with little to show for it, China is now embarking on a $56 billion, Huawei-led move to revive its dream of advanced chip-making. Construction at the shuttered DRAM fab Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. (JHICC) has resumed, reports the Nikkei. JHICC had to shut when US …

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Reflex Aerospace, the German startup satellite manufacturer, has announced it has raised €7 million in a first funding round. The company – along with Mynaric, Isar Aerospace and SES – is part of the joint venture UNIO, which aims to build a European satellite constellation for broadband internet access. This was actually the first of …

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The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope got its next official launch this week, when director-general Philip Diamond travelled to the site where SKA-Low (below) will be built in Western Australia and council chair Catherine Cesarsky went to the SKA-Mid (right) site in South Africa’s Northern Cape. “The SKA project has been many years in the …

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