Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a service for business analysts to generate machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions without having to write a single line of code. As announced on October 5, customers can access and evaluate foundation models (FMs) to generate and summarize content. 

AWS Step Functions announces an Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless , adding support for the Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern with 6 EMR Serverless API Actions (CreateApplication, StartApplication, StopApplication, DeleteApplication, StartJobRun, and CancelJobRun).

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ICN10 data center in Seoul, South Korea. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. 

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Availability Zone DNS affinity, disable connection termination for unhealthy targets, and UDP connection termination by default.

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the Analyze Document API that lets you extract specific pieces of information from documents using natural language questions. Custom Queries allows customers to quickly adapt the Queries feature to meet their business-specific needs without requiring them to have machine learning expertise.

Starting today, AWS Lambda’s support for Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6 is available 6 additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE). 

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

The post What caught your eye this week? (Raspberry Pi IPO, Scalable grippers, Thermal imagery) appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 (4G) as a desk top computer almost every day, and it is excellent. Early on, to put an end to annoying pauses in response, …

The post Hands on with a Raspberry Pi 5 appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

When William Gladstone was Chancellor of the Exchequer he visited the laboratory of a famous experimental scientist. Gladstone listened to the scientist’s account of his work on electromagnetic induction, then …

The post Fable: The Chancellor and the Scientist appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Developers working in technology and art have joined forces to thwart criminals and to brighten up photo voltaic panels in street furniture. Caroline Hayes reports from CSEM. Art appreciation may …

The post Putting the AI into art investigation appeared first on Electronics Weekly .