Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which makes it easy to create highly accurate machine learning (ML) models without requiring any ML expertise, now includes deep learning models, enabling you to quickly and accurately make predictions in a wide variety of deep learning applications. 

Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new and easier self-service experience for independent software vendors (ISVs) to add new versions and update product information on their container product listings. AWS Marketplace is consistently improving the way that sellers can keep their products up-to-date. With this release, ISVs with container products can now rapidly update and adjust their listing on their own. AWS Marketplace has made it easier for ISVs to publish new container images and Helm charts by hosting dedicated ECR repositories for their product.

Today, the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing availability for attribute-based access control (ABAC) to allow the use of tags and aliases in policy conditions for IAM policies and AWS KMS key policies. Attribute-based access control is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on tags which can be attached to users and AWS resources. KMS additionally supports the use of key aliases in policy conditions.

Customers of EC2 Image Builder can now build and test container images compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. As a result, EC2 Image Builder can be used to automate the building of both – Virtual Machine and container images with similar workflows.

Amazon SQS now supports a preview of a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 3000 messages per second per API action. This is a tenfold increase compared to current SQS FIFO queue throughput quota.

You can now configure your Amazon Lex chatbot to improve engagement with customers who speak Latin American Spanish or German. Amazon Lex allows you to create intelligent conversational chatbots that can be used with Amazon Connect to automate high volume interactions without compromising customer experience. Customers can perform tasks such as changing a password, requesting a balance on an account, or scheduling an appointment using natural conversational language. Customers can say things like “I need help with my device” instead of having to listen through and remember a list of options like press 1 for sales, or press 2 for appointments.  

AWS Cloud Map is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions.  

Today, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for Amazon Route 53. You can now enable DNSSEC signing for all existing and new public hosted zones, and enable DNSSEC validation for Amazon Route 53 Resolver. Amazon Route 53 DNSSEC provides data origin authentication and data integrity verification for DNS and can help customers meet compliance mandates, such as FedRAMP.

Today we are announcing AWS Well-Architected Guidance Engine (WAGE), a feature in the AWS Management Console that helps you determine next steps, best practices, and make choices so you can make the most of AWS. WAGE enables you to receive prescriptive guidance in the console based on questions and answers you provide. Each WAGE scenario is similar to a decision tree, and built and reviewed by AWS experts.

Amazon SageMaker now supports ml.p4d instances, the next generation of GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for machine learning (ML) training in the cloud for applications such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, genomics research, and more.