Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. With Comprehend’s Custom Entity Recognition API, you can easily build models to extract custom entities (policy numbers, part codes, serial numbers, etc.) that are tailored to your organization’s needs.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the EU (London) region. 

AWS Migration Hub now supports import of on-premises server and application data exported directly from RISC Networks, an AWS Migration Competency Partner.  

Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3. It is ideal for scenarios where you are working with large batches of data and don’t need sub-second latency. You can now configure your Batch Transform Jobs to exclude certain data attributes from prediction requests, and to join some or all of the input data attributes with prediction results. As a result, you no longer need additional pre-processing or post-processing when running batch predictions on data that is in CSV or JSON format.

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. Using hibernate, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster, and you can do this without modifying your existing applications.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. 

The Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP), a cryptography performance improvement for Amazon Corretto, is now available. Historically, Java cryptography has been CPU-intensive resulting in slow performance and elevated operational costs. ACCP updates dozens of cryptographic algorithms, accelerating cryptographic workloads.

Customers have been running Windows workloads on AWS for over a decade. We run nearly 2x more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report. Our experience running Windows applications has earned our customers’ trust and the number of AWS enterprise customers using Amazon EC2 for Windows Server has grown 5x since 2015.

Today, we are excited to announce the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency for APN Advanced Technology Partners, offering products based on varying phases of a customer’s journey to the AWS Cloud including migration assessment, migration, post-migration operational optimization, enhancement through analytics and Machine Learning, and modernization. The AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency reduces a customer’s time and effort in finding a capable and trusted APN Technology Partner for their Microsoft Workloads environment on AWS.

Interested in becoming an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner? See the requirements and next steps here.

Interested in working with an AWS Microsoft Workloads Technology Partner? See the validated AWS Microsoft Workload Technology Partners here.  

Learn more on the APN Blog . 

AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add tags to – or edit or delete tags of – multiple AWS resources at once. With Tag Editor, you can search for the resources that you want to tag, and then manage tags for the resources in your search results. Starting today, AWS Resource Groups supports 26 additional AWS resources including AWS Config Rules, AWS ElasticBeanstalk Applications, and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor supports 6 additional AWS resources including AWS CloudWatch Alarms, AWS CloudFormation Stacks.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en instances are available in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. I3en global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon, N. California) AWS regions.