AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from Amazon S3 for File Gateway, providing you 4x faster access to data managed through the gateway.  

We’re pleased to announce a free new digital course from AWS Training and Certification: Amazon FSx for Lustre Primer. This course explains how to get started with Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed file system service for machine learning, high performance computing, and other workloads.

Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Textract from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR), to identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without leaving the AWS network.

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to deploy patches automatically to instances running any current versions of Ubuntu. Until now, Patch Manager supported current versions of Ubuntu up to 18.04. With this release, Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu’s latest version – Ubuntu 20.04.  

The AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This solution helps you solve for several real-time streaming use cases like capturing high volume application logs, analyzing clickstream data, continuously delivering to a data lake to name a few. To provide flexibility to adapt to different use cases and business needs, this solution offers two deployment options. Developers can use this solution to test new service combinations as the basis for their production environment, or to improve an existing application they have already implemented.

On August 31st, AWS Solutions announced the launch of a new solution, Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning. This Solution helps brand-conscious customers understand the contextualization of the hottest topics being actively discussed. This solution ingests large-scale customer feedback and performs real-time analytics using machine learning to separate signal from the noise that goes beyond the basic aggregation of sentiment analysis. This allows organizations to deepen the understanding of their customers opinions, identify new opportunities, and react quickly to change. 

Today, we are reducing the price of AWS IoT Events. AWS IoT Events is a fully managed service that makes it easy to detect and respond to changes indicated by IoT sensors and applications. For example, you can use AWS IoT Events to detect malfunctioning machinery, a stuck conveyor belt, or a slowdown in production output. When an event is detected, AWS IoT Events automatically triggers actions or alerts so that you can resolve issues quickly, reduce maintenance costs, and increase operational efficiency.  

Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milan).

With this Amplify CLI release, you can now assign tags to Amplify-generated AWS resources (such as AppSync, S3 etc.). Tags are key-value pairs that allow you to categorize your resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation in your organization.