Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that extracts text and structured data from any document or image, now offers specialized support for invoices and receipts. Until today, these important documents were difficult to process at scale because they do not follow set design rules, and often require context to interpret correctly. For example, customers might need to extract the vendor name from the Amazon logo at the top of an invoice even though it is not labeled “Vendor: Amazon”. Now with Textract, customers can extract explicitly labeled data, implied data, and line items from itemized list of goods or services from almost any invoice or receipt without any templates or configuration.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_proctab extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_proctab is a collection of stored functions that can access the operating systems process table so that system statistics can be queried through the database. pg_proctab functions make it easier to collect data on your PostgreSQL database including up-to-date information on processor and I/O statistics on SQL queries which makes troubleshooting easier.

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Denver. Customers can now use the new Local Zone to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in the Denver metro area.

We’re excited to announce the launch of MLOps Engineering on AWS, a three-day classroom training course from AWS Training and Certification. This course will help ML data platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and developers/operations staff responsible for operationalizing ML models bring DevOps-style practices into the building, training, and deployment of ML models. 

AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams, routing, load balancing, and other networking use cases by enabling instances on a Snowball device to have direct access to an external network. By providing instances with layer 2 network access without any intermediary translation or filtering, customers gain increased flexibility over the network configuration of their Snowball devices along with improved network performance, enabling use cases that were previously not possible. 

The Amazon Virtual Andon solution provides a scalable digital Andon system to optimize factory floor processes, reduce issue resolution time, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues. The solution provides a workflow to help users monitor manufacturing workstations for events, log events, and then route specific events to the correct engineer for resolution. The solution is fully customizable and allows users to update available issue types and root causes as processes evolve and change.

The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin now supports running more pods per node on AWS Nitro based EC2 instance types. To achieve higher pod density, the VPC CNI plugin leverages a new VPC capability that enables IP address prefixes to be attached to EC2 instances.

AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs that customers can use to identify when their Amazon EBS snapshots are accessed using the ListSnapshotBlocks, ListChangedBlocks, GetSnapshotBlock, or PutSnapshotBlock APIs by users in their AWS account. These data events are delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon CloudWatch Events, and help customers’ security and operations teams detect unauthorized access and take immediate action. Until now, customers could use management events logged in AWS CloudTrail to identify when EBS snapshots were created, copied, or shared with other AWS accounts. With this new capability, customers can also identify when users in their AWS account access Amazon EBS snapshots at the block level using EBS direct APIs.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now gives you the ability to send live video from your mobile applications to an Amazon IVS channel as an input for a live stream using the Amazon IVS mobile broadcast SDK for Android and iOS.

AWS Network Firewall is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up or maintain the underlying infrastructure. AWS Network Firewall is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager to provide you with central visibility and control of your firewall policies across multiple AWS accounts.