With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now insert SCTE-35 markers into the the source of a live channel. SCTE-35 markers are used to signal opportunities to insert ads or local programming into streams. You can also add and remove static graphic overlays on channels. These overlays can be used to add digital on-screen graphics, such as channel logos, to live streams.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with newer versions of the following deep learning frameworks and interfaces: TensorFlow 1.10 optimized for AWS for higher performance, Horovod 0.13.11 with OpenMPI 3.1.0 optimized for distributed multi-GPU TensorFlow training on Amazon EC2 P3 instances, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2  optimized for model training on Amazon EC2 P3 instances, Chainer 4.3.1 , and Keras 2.2.2 .  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

You can now index your thing groups within your AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Index, allowing you to quickly find your thing groups based upon name, attribute, description, and/or parent group name. For example, you can query your fleet index to find your groups that have a firmware version attribute between V1 – V4, or find all child groups under your “TestDevices” parent group.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the US West (N. California) and EU (London) Regions. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to an Amazon DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You also can use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability.

Global tables build upon the global footprint of DynamoDB to deliver a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database. Global tables enable you to replicate table updates automatically across the AWS Regions you select, and you can set them up with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK . There are no upfront costs or long-term commitments required. You pay only for the resources you provision.

With this launch, DynamoDB global tables are now available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), and EU (London) Regions.

For global tables pricing in the EU (London) and US West (N. California) Regions, see Global Tables Pricing .

Bodil Sonesson will bring her IoT savvy to Swedish lighting company Fagerhult starting Oct. 8.

You can now containerize your custom analysis code, automate its execution on a set schedule, and analyze only the incremental data you need when you need it.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now supports running containers on GPU-enabled EC2 instances.

Today, Amazon Lightsail announces a significant price drop of up to 50% for all of its virtual server plans. Now, you can run a full virtual server, including SSD disk and a healthy allowance of free data transfer, starting at $3.50/month. As a Lightsail customer, you’ll automatically benefit from the new, lower prices, with no action required. The new prices apply to all Lightsail instances starting August 1, 2018.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now has an updated EKS-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and CloudFormation template that make it easier to provision worker nodes for your Amazon EKS cluster on AWS.