We are excited to announce the launch of normalized model scores in Amazon Fraud Detector (Preview). Customers use scores to sideline high risk events, while allowing low risk events to pass with no friction. Prior to this launch, score distributions could shift between models, forcing customers to manually analyze the distributions and update their business logic (e.g. rules) to account for these shifts. 

AWS WAF now supports inspecting the X-Forwarded-For (XFF), True-Client-IP, or other custom header that includes the originating IP address of a client connecting to your application through an HTTP proxy or a third-party CDN. With this feature, you can reference these headers to write rate-based rules, geographic match rules, or IP match rules, allowing you to take action on IPs that are found within these headers. Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported. 

AWS IoT Core is announcing a new feature called named shadow, which allows you to create multiple shadows for a single IoT device. A device’s shadow is a JSON document that is used to store and retrieve state information for a device. 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve updated AWS WAF Security Automations, a reference implementation that makes it easier for customers to configure WAF rules to protect web applications running in AWS. 

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate forecasts without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast can be used in a wide variety of use cases, including product demand forecasting, inventory planning, workforce planning and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting.  

Amazon Comprehend now supports real time Custom Entity Recognition. You can use the real time Custom Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your domain in real time. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant to you from unstructured text documents. Prior to this launch, Custom Entity Recognition identified business-specific entities in text documents asynchronously. Now, customers can choose real time or asynchronous Custom Entity Recognition depending on their use case.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that makes it easy to collect data from your industrial equipment, model your physical assets, processes and facilities, quickly compute common industrial performance metrics, and create fully managed web applications to help analyze industrial equipment data, prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce production inefficiencies.

You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and may help support your local data compliance obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances to meet the needs of your users. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time recovery (PITR) . 

Today, AWS announces Systems Manager Opscenter availability to customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. OpsCenter helps you view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to your environment from a central location. OpsCenter presents operational issues in a standardized view, along with contextually relevant data to help you with the diagnosis and remediation of them. You can associate AWS Systems Manager Automation documents for easier remediation and also specify deduplication logic to filter repetitive operational issues.