Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that enables you to automatically extract text and data, including from tables and forms within scanned documents and images. As a managed service, Textract delivers continuous improvements over time. Today, we are pleased to announce that we delivered enhancements to the underlying machine learning models resulting in a decrease of 20% in average latency when calling both the synchronous and asynchronous APIs. These improvements apply to the DetectDocumentText API and AnalyzeDocument APIs. 

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now allows you to import custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics into Amazon S3. You can specify the custom dimensions and metrics that you want to import while mapping source fields to the destination fields during flow set up and AppFlow will transfer records, including these dimensions and metrics, during flow execution.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate capacity providers is now supported in AWS CloudFormation, which makes it easier to manage and run Amazon ECS tasks across Fargate and Fargate Spot. You can now use CloudFormation to automate the management of Fargate capacity providers, associate them with ECS clusters, and specify capacity provider strategies at the cluster and service level by using a CloudFormation template. 

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce two new courses for Game Tech: Using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ for Game Servers and Game Server Hosting with Amazon EC2. These digital courses are designed for game developers who want to host their game servers on AWS. Each course will help you make a decision about using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to deliver the desired player experience while meeting your business needs.

Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports Lambda user-defined functions (UDFs) enabling you to use an AWS Lambda function as a UDF in Amazon Redshift . This functionality enables you to write custom extensions for your SQL query to achieve tighter integration with other services or third-party products. For example, you can write Lambda UDFs to enable external tokenization of data by integrating with vendors like Protegrity , or access other services such as Amazon DynamoDB or Amazon SageMaker in your Redshift query.

You can now create Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL read replicas for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This helps minimize downtime when migrating live workloads from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL, keeping instances in sync until you’re ready to move your applications and users to Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL.

This new digital course, Advanced Testing Practices using AWS DevOps Tools, teaches you how to improve application reliability and security by integrating and automating testing into your AWS DevOps pipelines. This advanced course is designed for DevOps engineers and developers who have significant experience with DevOps methodology and practices.

Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks to explore datasets and build models. Starting today, you can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with your own images.

AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers. These summaries provide you an overview of all events detected by AWS Shield, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other volumetric anomalies, for each of your accounts and for all events detected and mitigated on AWS. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate capacity providers is now supported in AWS CloudFormation, which makes it easier to manage and run Amazon ECS tasks across Fargate and Fargate Spot. You can now use CloudFormation to automate the management of Fargate capacity providers, associate them with ECS clusters, and specify capacity provider strategies at the cluster and service level by using a CloudFormation template.