Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce few quality enhancements to both our Tables and checkbox detection features.

AWS Security Hub has released 12 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, Amazon Network Firewall, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled by default. Security Hub now supports 187 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.

Today, Amazon EC2 announces automatic recovery by default, a new feature that makes it even easier for customers to recover their instance when it becomes unreachable. Automatic recovery improves instance availability by recovering the instance if it becomes impaired due to an underlying hardware issue. Automatic recovery migrates the instance to another hardware during an instance reboot while retaining its instance ID, private IP addresses, Elastic IP addresses, and all instance metadata.

AWS Glue version 2.0 now supports the AWS Glue FindMatches machine learning transform. AWS Glue FindMatches automates the process of identifying partially matching records for use cases including linking customer records, deduplicating product catalogs, and fraud detection. Using Glue 2.0, ETL jobs that perform fuzzy matching using FindMatches start in under a minute and have 1-minute minimum billing.

AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to centrally deploy and monitor Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) across all AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your AWS organization. With this release, customers will now have a single firewall management solution to deploy and manage both AWS native firewalls and Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFWs.

Starting today, you can configure your CloudFront distributions to include Server Timing headers to monitor CloudFront behavior and performance. Server Timing headers provide detailed performance information, such as whether content was served from cache when a request was received, how the request was routed to the CloudFront edge location, and how much time elapsed during each stage of the connection and response process.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. Please note 21c is already shipped with January 2022 RU.  

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and EKS API to install and manage the the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. This launch enables a simple experience for attaching persistent storage to an EKS cluster.

Today, Amazon Pinpoint launched the ability to add tags to messaging templates in the template editor. Amazon Pinpoint is an omnichannel marketing and communication service that helps customers engage their users by sending messages through targeted messaging campaigns across email, SMS, push notification, in-app, and social media channels. A tag is a label that customers can define and associate with an AWS resource. Adding a tag to a messaging template lets customers control which users can view, edit, or use specific templates. Tags can be tailored to a customer’s organizational needs, allowing customers to organize templates by areas such as purpose, owner, region, or other criteria. With Amazon Pinpoint’s new template search feature, customers can also use tags to more easily find the template they need.

Thanks to Gartner for this – the top ten semiconductor companies last year: Table 1. Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue, Worldwide, 2021 (Millions of U.S. Dollars) 2021 Rank 2020 Rank Vendor 2021 Revenue 2021 Market Share (%) 2020 Revenue 2020-2021 Growth (%) 1 2 Samsung Electronics 75,950 13.0 57,729 31.6 2 1 Intel 73,100 …

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