Amazon Transcribe is now available in the AWS EU (Paris), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add a speech-to-text capability to applications. Organizations can use Amazon Transcribe to create text transcripts of audio and video files quickly.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now have support for AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink is a networking technology designed to enable access to AWS services in a highly available and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS network. When you create AWS PrivateLink endpoints for ECR and ECS, these service endpoints appear as elastic network interfaces with a private IP address in your VPC.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers the option to create HLS manifests that only include I-frames. I-frames, or intra-coded frames, are single frames of video that can be displayed without referencing any other frame. Manifests built with only I-frames make it easier to enable content scrubbing with video preview on video players.

You can now launch T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL . Amazon T3 instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are ideal for database workloads with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.

T3 instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T3 instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. Amazon RDS T3 instances are configured for Unlimited mode, which means they can burst beyond the baseline over a 24-hour window for an additional charge.

Amazon RDS database instances running PostgreSQL versions 9.6.9 (and higher) and 10.4 (and higher) are supported with T3 instance types. You can easily scale up to these new instance classes by modifying your existing DB instance in the AWS RDS Management Console .

Please refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide for more details and refer to Amazon RDS Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.

AWS Systems Manager Distributor is a recently released feature that you can use to securely store and distribute software packages, such as software agents, in your accounts. Distributor integrates with existing Systems Manager features to simplify and scale the package distribution, installation, and update process. 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. 

You can now specify how AWS CloudFormation manages your resources when they need to be replaced during an update operation. Using the UpdateReplacePolicy attribute, you can specify if CloudFormation should delete, retain, or create a snapshot of old resources once the new ones have been created. The behavior defaults to delete when UpdateReplacePolicy is not specified.

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region.

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The Media2Cloud solution helps customers streamline, automate, and set up a serverless end-to-end ingest workflow to establish the necessary metadata, proxy video, and image thumbnails to manage large video content, and migrate your video assets and associated metadata to the cloud. The solution leverages the Media Analysis Solution to analyze and extract valuable metadata from your video archives using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Comprehend. Media2Cloud also includes a simple web interface that enables you to immediately start ingesting your archives and extracting metadata.