Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth offers easy access to public and private human labelers and provides them with built-in workflows and interfaces for common labeling tasks to provide significant speed and cost benefits to labeling data for machine learning. SageMaker Ground Truth now offers simplified labeling workflows, support for additional labeling vendors, and has been extended to a sixth AWS region, making it even easier to build highly accurate training datasets. Successful machine learning models are built on the shoulders of large volumes of high-quality training data.

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale, has expanded its cloud extensions to ROS-Melodic users. AWS RoboMaker now provides the cloud extensions for Amazon Cloudwatch Logs for logging, Amazon Cloudwatch Metrics for monitoring, Amazon Lex for speech recognition, Amazon Polly for speech generation, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams for video streaming. For the latest ROS-Melodic packages, please visit here . 

Starting today, you can assign tags to GraphQL APIs in AWS AppSync. Tags are an easy and convenient way to categorize and track cost allocation for operations such as queries, mutations, and real-time updates.  

AWS Service Catalog now enables updating of tags on provisioned products and associated resources. With this feature you can now update tags on provisioned products to ensure that your current tagging taxonomy is applied to provisioned resources. Administrators can enable tag updating on provisioned products via a Resource Update constraint, and owners can then update their provisioned products and adjust tags. Tag-only updates will not affect running resources.

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog is used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS.

To learn more about Service Catalog Tag Update administration, please see the AWS Service Catalog Administrator Guide . To learn about how end users can now maintain tags, please see the AWS Service Catalog User Guide . 

Starting today, Amazon RDS is billed in one-second increments for database instances and attached storage. Pricing is still listed on a per-hour basis, but bills are now calculated down to the second and show usage in decimal form. There is a 10 minute minimum charge when an instance is created, restored or started.

AWS IoT Analytics today announced support for single step setup of IoT Analytics resources from AWS IoT Core, which allows you to create your IoT Analytics resources of channel, pipeline, data store, and SQL data set from IoT Core’s Rules console with just a click of a button, without manually configuring IAM role or permissions. This support comes in addition to the support of single step setup of IoT Analytics resources from the IoT Analytics console, which launched last month. Customers can now easily create IoT Analytics resources with a single step from both the IoT Analytics console and IoT Core console.

AWS IoT Analytics today announced support for single step setup of IoT Analytics resources from AWS IoT Core, which allows you to create your IoT Analytics resources of channel, pipeline, data store, and SQL data set from IoT Core’s Rules console with just a click of a button, without manually configuring IAM role or permissions. This support comes in addition to the support of single step setup of IoT Analytics resources from the IoT Analytics console, which launched last month. Customers can now easily create IoT Analytics resources with a single step from both the IoT Analytics console and IoT Core console.

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, an AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud sharing (VPC sharing) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. VPC sharing is also available in all commercial AWS Regions except in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), and China regions.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in two new AWS regions, Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt). Additionally, new language support for Spanish (ES) is now available in all regions where Amazon Transcribe is available.