AWS Training and Certification has launched AWS Cloud for Technical Professionals, a new self-paced digital course available exclusively on Trailhead, the Salesforce learning platform. Recommended for technical learners who are new to the AWS Cloud or are interested in building their AWS Cloud skills, this course covers AWS fundamental concepts such as Regions, Availability Zones, and Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Today we are announcing a price reduction of up to 18% on all ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances in Amazon SageMaker, making them an even more cost-effective solution to meet your machine learning needs. The new price reductions will be effective Oct 1st 2020 and will apply to ml.p3 and ml.p2 instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks, On-Demand Notebooks, Processing, Training, Real-Time Inference, and Batch Transform.

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the new version of Chef Automate for its fully managed service. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer.

AWS Client VPN is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. This increases global coverage of AWS Client VPN, which offers region support in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm), North America (N. Virginia, Northern California, Ohio, Oregon). With this launch, AWS Client VPN is now available in a total of 15 Regions. 

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. With this launch, AWS DMS now supports Amazon S3 folder partitions based on transaction commit dates when using Amazon S3 as a target. Using date-based folder partitioning, you can write data from a single source table to a time-hierarchy folder structure in Amazon S3. By partitioning the S3 folder, you can better manage your S3 objects, limit the size of each S3 folder, and optimize data lake queries or other subsequent operations.

You can now manage access to Contact Trace Records (CTRs), Call Recordings, and Chat Transcripts in the Contact Search page of your Amazon Connect instance using agent hierarchies. Agent hierarchy is an Amazon Connect feature that allows administrators to group users together. Now they can use these groups to control access to results in the contact search experience. For example, administrators can grant supervisors the permission to view the contacts handled by only the agents in their hierarchy, and no others. This feature provides you with the flexibility to help meet your enterprise security and compliance standards.

Amazon EC2 has the cloud’s broadest and most capable portfolio of hardware-accelerated instances featuring GPUs, FPGAs, and our own custom ML inference chip, AWS Inferentia. G4dn instances offer the best price/performance for GPU based ML inference, training less-complex ML models, graphics applications others that need access to NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN and NVENC.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers support for InSync FrameFormer frame rate conversion. With this feature, you can use InSync FrameFormer technology to perform broadcast-quality, motion-compensated frame rate conversions between international broadcast frame rates or between broadcast and film frame rates. This allows you to create high-quality video output files even when complex frame rate conversions are required.

Starting today, customers can choose to further protect their recommendation data generated by AWS Compute Optimizer by exporting to S3 buckets encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Keys (CMKs).  

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Nielsen SID/TIC watermarking for mezzanine and OTT content delivery. This feature enables the application of Nielsen watermarks to encoded audio streams that can be detected by metering equipment to track the number of viewers, type of viewing equipment, and consumption methods. Once content is encoded with SID/TIC unique identifiers, the job record and log is packaged and saved for easy transfer to Nielsen where the content is registered. Registered content can be metered across different device types and consumption methods through Nielsen analysis, enabling you to track your viewership and content impact.