Customers using the AWS Migration Hub to discover, plan, and track their migrations now have access to Migration Hub network visualization. Migration Hub network visualization is for migration experts and non-experts who want to quickly organize and validate their on-premises discovery data, and to build their migration plan.
Introducing Video On Demand on AWS Foundation
Video on Demand on AWS Foundation solution provisions the AWS services required to build scalable, distributed VOD processing and delivery workflows. This solution is designed to help you quickly get started encoding video files with AWS Elemental MediaConvert. It can be easily customized and used as the starting point to create a more complex workflow.
Amazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally available
The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) extensions module that extends the service construct in AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), is now generally available. The new Amazon ECS service construct for AWS CDK supports extensions that automatically add additional capabilities such as AWS App Mesh or FireLens to your containerized services using familiar programming languages.
Move database migration tasks from one replication instance to another
Starting today, you can easily move your database migration tasks from one replication instance to another. To move, select the migration task and provide the target replication instance details. You can access this feature using AWS DMS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. Once the migration task is moved to the target replication instance, you can resume your migration from where you left off.
AWS Launch Wizard now enables customers to further automate SAP deployments with pre and post-deployment configuration scripts
AWS Launch Wizard now enables you to deploy scripts before and after the AWS resource configuration process to customize your SAP environments.
New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Open Banking Enablement Service
Open Banking Enablement Service is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. Open Banking Enablement Service creates a strong foundation for a financial institution’s open banking journey. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an open banking transformation map and prioritized list of use cases, a detailed statement of work, a sandbox launch, and a collaborative delivery model.
Amazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languages
Amazon Textract, a machine learning service, extracts text and other data from documents as well as tables and forms. Today, we are pleased to announce two new features:
- Amazon Textract now supports recognition of handwritten text from documents such as healthcare forms, prescriptions, dispute letters, tax documents, income documents, checks, claims, academic papers and many more. You can use the Detect Document Text or Analyze Document APIs to process images or PDF’s of scanned documents and extract both printed text and handwriting making it easy for you to automate almost any scanned document processing. You can also use Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I), another AWS service, which makes it easy to build the workflows for human review of the machine learning predictions. You can log in to the Amazon Textract console to test out the handwriting feature, or check out the new demo by Amazon Machine Learning Hero Mike Chambers .
- Amazon Textract now supports processing of documents with printed text in Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French. You can start sending documents in these languages for text extraction, and Amazon Textract will automatically detect and extract the information for you.
New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Atlassian Managed Hosting
Atlassian Managed Hosting is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from kreuzwerker, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Atlassian Managed Hosting allows customers to run all Atlassian server-deployed applications on AWS. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an assessment of existing data, onboarding, and testing to prepare for migration, product migration, and postmigration support.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.7.6 / 2.5.6 / 3.2.6 now available
Patches 1.7.6 / 2.5.6 / 3.2.6 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation . You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation .
Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers using Amazon Kendra can easily validate the identity of individual users, as well as user groups who perform searches with the addition of secure search tokens.