We’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Clarify supports online explainability by providing explanations for machine learning (ML) model’s individual predictions in near real-time on live endpoints. SageMaker Clarify gives ML developers greater visibility into their training data and models so they can identify potential bias and explain predictions. ML models may consider some feature inputs more strongly than others when generating predictions. SageMaker Clarify provides scores detailing which features contributed the most to your model’s individual prediction after the model has been run on new data. These details can help determine if a particular input features has more influence on the model predictions than expected. You can view these details for each prediction in real-time via online explainability or get a report in bulk that utilize batch processing of all the individual predictions. This new feature reduces latency for explanations from minutes to seconds or less. The possibilities for real-time explanations are broad. For example, customer service representatives can better understand the reasons why a customer may churn when they call for help resolving a problem in real time. As the representative learns more about the nature of the customer’s issue and enters that data, real-time explanations can provide updated reasoning for suggested resolutions.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are adding formality customization support for Dutch, Korean, and Mexican Spanish. We are also adding support for asynchronous batch translation. Now you can customize the formality of your translated output to suit your communication needs.

AWS Local Zones are now available in Delhi and Taipei. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer policy generation has expanded support to identify actions used from over 140 services to help developers create fine-grained policies based on their AWS CloudTrail access activity. New additions include actions from services such as AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Queue Service. When developers request a policy, IAM Access Analyzer gets to work and generates a policy by analyzing their AWS CloudTrail logs to identify actions used. For example, developers using AWS CloudFormation to set up resources need to provide CloudFormation permissions to create resources. They can use policy generation to create a fine-grained policy and limit CloudFormation role’s permissions to only those necessary to deploy a given template. The generated policy makes it easier for developers to grant only the required permissions to run their workloads.

AWS Config now supports 15 more resource types including AWS DataSync, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), AWS AppSync, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EC2, and AWS AppConfig. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1].

In addition to US East (Ohio) Region, Amazon Pinpoint is available in US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London) Regions. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can engage your customers by segmenting your audience, building personalized content, creating targeted campaigns and journeys, and gathering actionable insights using email, SMS, voice, push notification, in-app messaging, and custom channels.

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Mexico in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions by 69% for DID Inbound calls from $0.0070 to $0.0022 per minute, 61% for Toll Free Inbound calls from $0.055 to $0.021 per minute and 77% for Outbound calls from $0.033 to $0.0075 per minute.

Customers using Atlassian Jira Service Management (JSM), Data Center version can respond, investigate and resolve incidents affecting their AWS-hosted applications via AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager and the AWS Service Management Connector. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for AWS applications and resources, that helps to automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. With the Incident Manager integration with JSM, customers can now automate their incident response plans in Incident Manager and automatically synchronize their incidents into JSM. This feature enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues without disrupting existing workflows in JSM.

It’s that time of year – Droidcon London 2022 is heading into town, for what is the UK’s largest Android event for developers.

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The MEPs’ vote yesterday to mandate the use of the USB-C charger socket for mobile device raises sone interesting thoughts of which the first one is: for how long? It’s probably not beyond the wit of man to develop a better charging socket than USB-C. If a better socket is devised, would this mean the …

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