Amazon GameLift, a fully managed dedicated game server hosting solution that deploys, operates, and scales cloud servers for multiplayer games, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Game developers can now deploy instances in Osaka using GameLift multi-region fleet .

Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Celebrity Recognition makes it easy for customers to automatically recognize tens of thousands of well-known personalities in images and videos using ML. Celebrity recognition significantly reduces the repetitive manual effort required to tag produced media content and make it readily searchable. On 8/26, we launched an update for Rekognition Image where customers got higher accuracy (lower false detections and rejections) and increased coverage for global celebrities. In addition, customers got three new attributes for each celebrity recognized: presentation of gender, expression, and smile.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications without any machine learning expertise. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports batch transcription in the AWS Stockholm and Cape Town Regions. 

AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available. With the Metric Extension, customers can collect and filter aggregated App Mesh service metrics that help with debugging, simplify monitoring, and reduce usage costs. App Mesh Metric Extension is available to all customers running workloads on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and self-managed Kubernetes. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure.

You can now share your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)  with AWS Organizations and Organizational Units (OUs) . Previously, you could share AMIs only with specific AWS account IDs. To share AMIs with AWS Organizations, you had to explicitly manage sharing of AMIs with AWS accounts that were added to or removed from AWS Organizations. With this new feature, you no longer have to update your AMI permissions because of organizational changes. AMI sharing will be automatically synced when organizational changes occur. This feature helps you centrally manage and govern your AMIs as you grow and scale your AWS accounts.

Amazon Connect Chat now provides new APIs that allow you to create customized experiences for your customers by enabling you to subscribe to a real-time stream of chat messages. Using the new APIs, you can integrate Amazon Connect Chat with SMS solutions and third party messaging applications (e.g., Facebook Messenger, Twitter), enable mobile push notifications, and create analytics dashboards to monitor and track chat message activity. Messages are published via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and can be set up in a couple of clicks by going to the Amazon SNS console and creating a new SNS topic.

Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to utilize CloudFormation templates to provision and manage your application stacks comprised of Lightsail instances, disks or databases. You can also easily automate and replicate your stacks as needed. This adds a new convenient way of managing Lightsail resources in addition to the Lightsail Console and AWS CLI/SDK.

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The UK Space Agency has announced its commitment to a number of projects or initiatives designed to help tackle the issue of space debris. The three sets of projects to receive its backing address the issue of sustainable space operations and the problems caused by defunct and colliding satellites in orbit. Junk First, the space …

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Intel reached out to its developers yesterday at the outset of its two day  Innovation 2021 series of presentations. As part of its ‘developer first’ approach, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a unified Developer Zone, new oneAPI 2022 toolkits and new oneAPI Centers of Excellence designed to better enable developers to access reference designs, toolkits and …

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