Starting today, customers can create exports of their billing and cost management data with custom column selections and row filters using a SQL interface. Exports are delivered on a recurring basis to an Amazon S3 bucket for use with business intelligence or data analytics solutions. Customers can use Data Exports with the new Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) table, which contains the same information as the pre-existing Cost and Usage Report, but with two new columns, a queryable nested data structure, and a fixed schema.

Today we are announcing Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations across your AWS Organizations member accounts and AWS Regions, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend.

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe’s next generation, multi-billion parameter speech foundation model-powered system that expands automatic speech recognition (ASR) to over 100 languages . Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed ASR service that makes it easy for customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Our speech foundation model is trained using best-in-class self-supervised algorithms to learn the inherent universal patterns of human speech across languages and accents.

Today, AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock, making it easier to integrate generative AI capabilities into Step Functions workflows, accelerating development of generative AI applications. This launch enables you to use Step Functions to orchestrate interactions with foundation models and add in steps for human intervention, without needing to write or maintain integration code. You can leverage Step Functions Workflow Studio to visually develop, inspect, and audit user defined generative AI workflows with ease. 

Starting today, customers can now access their AWS Free Tier usage through the AWS SDK, command line, and 3rd party tools at no cost. Using this API, customers can programmatically track free tier usage against monthly usage limits, which allows customers to understand when their free usage will transition to pay-as-you-go pricing each month. This helps avoid unintended charges by comparing forecasted usage to the free tier limit for each service throughout the month. The AWS Free Tier allows customers to explore more than 100 AWS products by offering free usage each month.

AWS Glue announces preview of a new Glue Data Quality capability that uses ML-powered anomaly detection algorithms to detect hard-to-find data quality issues and anomalies. This helps customers proactively identify quality issues and fix them, so that data users can make confident business decisions.

ENA Express now supports 58 new instance types ranging from 16 to 192 vCPUs. With this launch, ENA Express is adding support for 20 new memory optimized instances, 15 new compute optimized instances, 15 new general purpose instances, and 8 new storage instances. Before today, ENA Express supported only the largest instance size, totaling 27 instances as small as 64 vCPUs.  

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Automatic Target Weights (ATW), which uses a new routing algorithm to optimize the amount of traffic sent to each target based on information available to the load balancer. With this initial launch, ALB will adjust the amount of traffic sent to each target based on implicit health information, like 5XX errors and connection errors.

Today, AWS announces the preview release of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access Polygon. Access Polygon will help developers seamlessly interact with the Polygon blockchain, a high-throughput, low fees, EVM-compatible blockchain, so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access Polygon provides serverless access to archive nodes for Polygon Proof of stake (PoS) Mainnet and Mumbai Testnet.

In 1998 there was condiderable debate about what 1999 would bring because the general economy was expected to go into recession that year. “If you look at the last ten …

The post Reality Is Not For The French appeared first on Electronics Weekly .