Amazon Chime SDK now supports Amazon Voice Focus background noise reduction for telephone carrier deployments. Amazon Voice Focus is an award-winning, machine-learning based noise suppression algorithm that reduces unwanted environmental noises like wind, barking dogs, keyboard typing, and car horns from phone calls. Now telecom providers can deploy background noise reduction, at scale, across their voice network for both landline and mobile subscribers.

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports S3 Replication on Outposts. This extends S3’s fully managed approach to replication to S3 on Outposts buckets, helping you meet data residency and data redundancy requirements. With local S3 Replication on Outposts, you can create and configure replication rules to automatically replicate your S3 objects to another Outpost, or to another bucket on the same Outpost. During replication, your S3 on Outposts objects are always sent over your local gateway (LGW), and objects do not travel back to the AWS Region. S3 Replication on Outposts provides an easy and flexible way to automatically replicate data within a specific data perimeter to address your data redundancy and compliance requirements.

Using Amazon S3 Object Lambda, you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST API requests to modify data as it is returned to an application. You can now use an S3 Object Lambda Access Point alias as an origin for your Amazon CloudFront distribution to tailor or customize data to end users. For example, you can resize an image depending on the device that an end user is visiting from.

We are pleased to announce the alpha release of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high throughput access, lowering compute costs for data lakes on Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and LIST. It is ideal for read-heavy data lake workloads that process petabytes of data and need Amazon S3’s high elastic throughput to scale up and down across thousands of instances.

AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available, helping customers easily find, subscribe to, and use third-party data files for faster time to insight, storage cost optimization, simplified data licensing management, and more. This feature is intended for subscribers who want to use third-party data files directly from data providers’ Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, without needing to create or manage data copies, as well as data providers who want to offer in-place access to data hosted in their Amazon S3 buckets.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) interface endpoints for Amazon S3 now offer private DNS options that can help you more easily route S3 requests to the lowest-cost endpoint in your VPC. With private DNS for S3, your on-premises applications can use AWS PrivateLink to access S3 over an interface endpoint, while requests from your in-VPC applications access S3 using gateway endpoints. Routing requests like this helps you take advantage of the lowest-cost private network path without having to make code or configuration changes to your clients.

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points now support datasets that are replicated across multiple AWS accounts. Cross-account Multi-Region Access Points simplify object storage access for applications that span both AWS Regions and accounts, avoiding the need for complex request routing logic in your applications. They provide a single global endpoint for your multi-region applications, and dynamically route S3 requests based on policies that you define. This helps you to more easily implement multi-region resilience, latency-based routing, and active-passive failover, even when data is stored in multiple accounts.

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces security analytics that provides new threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features. These capabilities help you to detect and investigate potential security threats that may disrupt your business operations or pose a threat to sensitive organizational data. 

Amazon Kendra is  an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Confluence Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Cloud.

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra SharePoint OnPrem Connectors (2013, 2016, 2019) and Subscription Edition to index and search messages from SharePoint OnPrem.