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 Slack Connector to index and search messages from Slack.
AWS Service Catalog announces a new console feature to directly access resources within a Provisioned Product
Today, AWS Service Catalog is releasing a feature that helps to simplify builders’ access to the resources associated with their Provisioned Products. Previously, customers had to manually navigate through the AWS console to find a specific resource. With this feature, they can easily locate and access the resource of a provisioned product, right in the provisioned product detail page.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports resource and tag based access management
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access to cost anomaly monitors and alert subscriptions. You can now define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitors and alert subscriptions based on their resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these two granular access control features.
Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS voices in Catalan and Mexican Spanish
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of two voices: a Neural version of Mia, Polly’s Mexican Spanish female text to speech (TTS) voice and Arlet, a new Catalan Neural voice.
AWS Panorama now supports the ability to bring your own machine learning libraries
You can now run models and algorithms from TensorFlow, PyTorch, and OpenCV directly on the AWS Panorama Appliance GPU for low-latency use cases, such as object tracking, traffic analysis, and worker safety. AWS Panorama also supports models optimized with Nvidia TensorRT or any machine learning library with Nvidia CUDA support. Nvidia TensorRT can double the number of camera streams that can be processed simultaneously on the AWS Panorama Appliance for a given use case.
AWS Panorama applications now support receiving inbound messages over the local area network
You can now configure your AWS Panorama application to receive inbound messages over the local area network, which you can use to start, stop, or adjust your AWS Panorama application. For example, you can run an ML model to visually detect paint defects when a vehicle crosses a gate on the production line. You can also use inbound messages to serve a web application accessible from another computer on the same network for human-in-the-loop review. Using human-in-the-loop review, line operators can review anomaly detections from the ML model to ensure accuracy and flag low-accuracy results for model retraining.
AWS Panorama now supports Amazon CloudWatch alarms for application errors
You can now configure Amazon CloudWatch alarms to detect when your AWS Panorama application encounters errors. These CloudWatch alarms can help to identify emergent performance and operational issues, enabling you to troubleshoot quickly and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
AWS Support streamlines cases via Connector for Jira Service Management
Starting today, customers can use Atlassian Jira Service Management (JSM), Data Center version, as a single place to track and manage cases (incidents) from AWS Support via the AWS Service Management Connector for JSM. AWS Support enables users to create, track and resolve cases related to AWS resources in a central place, helping customers reduce the time to issue resolution. The dual sync integration between AWS Support cases and Jira Service Management incidents enables JSM users/developers to manage AWS Support cases while leveraging their existing workflows in Jira Service Management (incidents).
Bravery
The bravery of the Ukrainians is matched by the bravery of Russian protesters against the war. Dissemination of critical information about the war or Russia’s armed forces can now be punished with up to 15 years in prison. According to the independent Russian human rights media project OVD-Info, at least 13,836 people have been detained …
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Why doesn’t Microchip puts its NCO into an AVR
The world is not quite how I would like it, for many many important reasons… ….and a minor one: could Microchip please to put some of its completely brilliant 8bit peripherals into its AVR processors so that they would be available though the easy-to-programme Arduino IDE. The numerically-controlled oscillator would be a nice start – …
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