Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Starting today, you have the ability to mask commonly understood profane terms and prevent them from appearing in your translations. By default, Amazon Translate chooses clean words for your translation output. In cases where profane words appear in the translated output, you can now choose to mask the profane words and phrases with a grawlix string “?$#@$”. This 5-character sequence is used for each profane word or phrase, regardless of the length or number of characters. 

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation on two new resources: contact flow and contact flow module. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to help you deploy these Amazon Connect resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use these templates to maintain consistency across Amazon Connect instances. For more information, see Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. With media capture pipelines, developers can capture the contents of their Amazon Chime SDK meetings to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. Developers can now use media capture pipelines with Amazon S3 buckets which use server side encryption with customer managed keys using Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS), to help support your encryption requirements.

AWS DataSync now supports copying data to and from Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable storage for compute workloads. Using DataSync, you can quickly and securely perform data movement tasks such as moving data from one FSx for Lustre file system to another, migrating your on-premises data to your FSx for Lustre file system, or copying data between your FSx for Lustre file system and other AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. You can also use DataSync for ongoing data transfers between on-premises storage and AWS for processing.

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports new recommendations that help you simplify your SQL Server optimization on Amazon EC2. The checks inspect your SQL Server workloads and automatically lists your SQL Server instances that need optimization. You can then take recommended actions to reduce costs and improve security. You can find the details of the three checks below.

1. Amazon EC2 Instances with Microsoft SQL Server End of Support – Checks the SQL Server versions for Amazon EC2 instances and alerts you if the versions are near or have reached the end of support. For example, SQL Server 2012 Extended Support will end on July 12, 2022. You can find the flexible migration and upgrade options on AWS through check recommendations.
2. Amazon EC2 Instances Over-provisioned for Microsoft SQL Server – Checks your Amazon EC2 instances that are running SQL Server and alerts you if an instance exceeds the SQL Server software vCPU limit. For example, An instance with SQL Server Standard edition can use up to 48 vCPUs. An instance with SQL Server Web can use up to 32 vCPUs.
3. Amazon EC2 Instances Consolidation for Microsoft SQL Server – Checks your Amazon EC2 instances and alerts you if your instance has less than the minimum number of SQL Server licenses. You can consolidate smaller SQL Server instances to help lower costs.

Porting Assistant for .NET now supports .NET 6 as a target framework and porting of certain ASP.NET Web Forms application configurations to ASP.NET Core Blazor framework. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate select Web Forms view/UI layer files, page life-cycle events, and application life cycle events to the cross-platform Blazor Framework. Developers can use the Porting Assistant for .NET standalone tool  or Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension to modernize their Web Forms applications. This release also enables developers to port their applications to the latest Long Term Support release .NET 6, in addition to .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5 target versions.

AWS Well-Architected now supports four new AWS Trusted Advisor checks as a unified home of best practice recommendations to identify the most impactful risks and take action to mitigate them. The new checks are:

1. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for cost optimization
2. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance efficiency
3. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for security
4. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for reliability

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports near real-time data ingestion from Segment  and Shopify . Use existing Segment data sources  to ingest customer information such as name, email address, and phone number into Amazon Connect. Once your connectors are configured, customer profiles are created and updated in near real-time for new customer actions such as new customer registration, change in contact information, and new order transactions. When a customer calls in, Customer Profiles identifies the customer and presents the agent with latest and most up to date customer information to help them service the customer.

AWS Transfer Family is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in GovCloud(US-West) and GovCloud(US-East).

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