Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is now supported on additional select non-Nitro instance types. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows you to replicate the network traffic from EC2 instances within your VPC to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents and IVR systems.

Amazon Timestream has added new capabilities to its SQL query language to enable customers to gain deeper insights from their time series data by running cross table queries and queries with advanced time series functions. Starting today, customers can also gain more transparency into the query execution statistics, to better understand the cost and duration of a running query. Lastly, the implementation of Amazon Timestream’s JDBC Driver is now available under the Apache 2.0 License on GitHub , so customers can contribute new features and enhancements to the JDBC driver.

AWS Data Exchange now allows subscribers to export full data set revisions to Amazon S3 in a single export job. Starting today, subscribers who want to export all assets within a data set revision can do so using the AWS Data Exchange console or programmatically using the AWS Data Exchange API . This functionality eliminates the need to set-up and maintain code when configuring the export of revisions with many assets. For customers who have subscribed to 3rd party data sets containing hundreds or thousands of assets in individual revisions, this feature materially simplifies the receipt and ingestion of data.

We’re excited to announce a free new digital curriculum: Managing Amazon Simple Storage Service. This advanced 150-minute curriculum covers techniques to simplify the management of Amazon S3 storage. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons, video demonstrations, a self-paced lab, and quizzes. The self-paced lab costs up to 15 USD per lab (this cost is not included with free digital training on aws.training).

AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration easier so that you can start analyzing your data and putting it to use in minutes instead of months.

You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region.  

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new Transformer notebook on GitHub. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get hands-on with the latest generative AI techniques expand their machine learning skills. The Transformer is a state-of-the-art model that works with sequential data such as genomic data or stock prices. By using a mechanism called attention, the algorithm attempts to learn the relationships between the different data points so it can generate better predictions. In the AWS DeepComposer Music studio, the Transformers feature will allow you to iteratively extend a melody to create new and longer compositions. Learn more about the Transformer technique in the learning capsule in the AWS DeepComposer Console.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you automate table creation by supporting point-in-time recovery (PITR) and tag settings in AWS CloudFormation.

Persistent Digital Bank and Credit Union Solution (PDBCUS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Persistent Systems, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. PDBCUS will enable you to deploy new digital banking capabilities including customer onboarding, digital deposits, loan account opening, and automated credit decisioning. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers discovery, onboarding, configuration, and deployment.