Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in 22 regions, including Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan).

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition content moderation comes with an improved model for image moderation that significantly reduces false positive rates for e-commerce, social media and online communities content, without reduction in detection rates for truly unsafe content. Lower false positive rates mean faster approvals for user uploaded content leading to a better end-user experience. Lower false positive rate also imply lower volumes of flagged images to be reviewed further, leading to a better experience for human moderators and more cost savings.

We are excited to announce support for full cluster lifecycle automation through GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A). Previously, the only mechanism for customers to perform full EKS-A cluster lifecycle operations such as provisioning, updates, and deletion was by using an Amazon command-line-interface (CLI) tool “eksctl”. Now, EKS-A supports GitOps and IaC in the EKS-A management cluster so customers can automate EKS-A workload cluster lifecycle operations including cluster creation, update, and deletion. 

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Nutanix with AHV Virtualization, which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Nutanix enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, and Apache CloudStack.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka).

Amazon Nimble Studio now supports Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots with our new Auto Backup feature, providing a simple and secure data protection solution customized for your Amazon Nimble Studio workstations. Auto Backup is intended for artists and administrators leveraging persistent storage for their workstations who wish to protect that data in the event of a recovery situation, such as data loss or misconfigured software. 

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere single-node clusters on bare metal. With single-node Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters, the cluster management components run alongside your applications on a single bare metal server.

Today, Amazon Nimble Studio announces persistent storage has moved from public preview to general availability. This means faster workstation startup times, and simplified workstation storage volume management for administrators. Additionally, Nimble Studio now supports configurable gp3 AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, providing up to a 20% lower price point per GB than existing gp2 volumes. Customers can scale volume size, IOPS (input/output operations per second) and throughput, and only pay for the resources they need.

Today, Amazon Neptune announces support for JupyterLab 3 on Neptune notebooks to boost the productivity of developers and data scientists using the Neptune Workbench. With this update, you can now launch Neptune notebooks in the AWS Management console using JupyterLab to access a modern interactive development environment (IDE) complete with developer tools such as code authoring, debugging, and support for the latest open source JupyterLab extensions. 

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports a new feature to import your on-premises virtual machine (VM) images to AWS with a console-based experience for generating Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from your VM image that you have built to meet your IT security, configuration management, and compliance requirements. With this new feature in AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator, you can automate the manual tasks like the validation of pre-requisites to save time and effort, specify correct license type for bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL) use, and easily track the status of VM import process in the console.