Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service which enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, with custom machine learning models which can be created in Amazon Personalize, with no prior machine learning experience. Today, we’re pleased to announce support for contextual recommendations, through which you can improve relevance of recommendations by generating them within a context, for instance device type, location, time of day, etc. Contextual information is also useful in personalization for new/unidentified users even when the past interactions of these users are not known.

AWS IoT Greengrass expands its language support to include Node.js 12, enabling you to deploy Lambda functions written using this language version to IoT Greengrass cores.  

Amazon Neptune now supports copying snapshots (created either automatically or manually) across regions. AWS customers are interested in building applications that run in more than one public AWS Region . Now customers can use cross-region snapshot copies with Neptune to simplify and streamline the data manipulation operations associated with building and running global graph applications using both Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and RDF/SPARQL.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region.

Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the AWS China (Beijing), operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD, regions. Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT operating system for microcontrollers that extends the FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries for security, connectivity, and updateability to make small, low-powered edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Amazon FreeRTOS is open source, free to download and use, and provides everything you need to easily program connected microcontroller-based devices and collect data from them for IoT applications, and helps you scale those applications across millions of devices. 

Amazon Personalize is now available in 3 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central). Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service which enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, with custom machine learning models which can be created in Amazon Personalize, with no prior machine learning experience. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Starting today, when transcribing audio, you can instruct Amazon Transcribe to automatically mask or remove specific terms from the output transcripts based on a vocabulary that you specify. For example, you can use a vocabulary filter to automatically remove profane words from the transcription results for content moderation. You do not need to scrub inappropriate content from each transcript anymore. You can create a vocabulary filter once and apply it to all your transcription jobs. You can also create multiple vocabulary filters and choose which one should be used for a particular transcription job.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to restrict access to your Kubernetes cluster’s public endpoint by specifying allowed IPv4 address ranges in CIDR notation. This allows you to implement network-based access control to your public endpoint.

Application Auto Scaling now publishes notifications to the AWS Personal Health Dashboard and AWS Health API when a scale-out operation for one of your Amazon DynamoDB Tables or Global Secondary Indexes is prevented because a DynamoDB throughput service limit has been reached. This gives you actionable feedback to request a service-limit increase.

Application Auto Scaling now publishes to Amazon EventBridge when a scaling policy scales your resource to the configured maximum. You may have set a maximum bound for cost control, this event notification gives you the visibility to check in and ensure that operating at maximum bound does not pose an availability risk for your application. This notification is available for all resource types that are supported for automatic scaling by Application Auto Scaling, including Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet requests, ECS services, DynamoDB tables and global secondary indexes, Aurora replicas, EMR clusters, Sagemaker endpoint variants, AppStream 2.0 fleets, Comprehend document classification endpoints, and AWS Lambda functions with provisioned concurrency.