Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, customers can centralize content from over 40+ data sources and make it discoverable, with the launch of the Amazon Kendra connector library.
AWS announces Amazon Redshift ML (preview)
Amazon Redshift ML makes it possible for data warehouse users such as data analysts, database developers, and data scientists to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. Amazon Redshift is the most widely used cloud data warehouse and, with Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, using SQL and without moving your data or learning new skills.
Introducing Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Easily and quickly bring machine learning applications to market
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you easily and quickly bring machine learning (ML) applications to market using pre-built solutions for common use cases and open source models from popular model zoos.
Amazon Kendra launches incremental learning
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, Amazon Kendra will use incremental learning to continuously optimize search results based on end-user search patterns and feedback.
Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index – automatically include local weather to increase your forecasting model accuracy
We’re excited to announce the Amazon Forecast Weather Index, which can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information to your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing requirements and energy consumption needs; however, acquiring, cleaning, and effectively using live weather information for demand forecasting is challenging and requires ongoing maintenance. With this launch, you can now include 14-day weather forecasts for US and Europe locations with one click to your demand forecasts.
AWS announces AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager is a new service that helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards. Audit Manager automates evidence collection to make it easier to assess whether your policies, procedures, and activities, also known as controls, are operating effectively. When it is time for an audit, AWS Audit Manager helps you manage stakeholder reviews of your controls and enables you to build audit-ready reports with much less manual effort and in less time.
Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports new capabilities to maintain model quality in production
Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor continuously monitors machine learning models for concept drift (i.e. changes in data distribution and characteristics over time) and alerts you if there are any deviations so you can take remedial action. Starting today, you can also use Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor to detect drift in model quality, bias, and feature importance. With these new fully managed capabilities, SageMaker Model Monitor helps you maintain high quality machine learning models in production.
Amazon Kendra adds Google Drive connector
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Google Drive repositories using Amazon Kendra’s new built-in Google Drive connector.
AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Audit Manager for simplified security posture management
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Audit Manager, which helps simplify how you assess risk and monitor your compliance with regulations and industry standards. AWS Audit Manager is a new service that helps you continuously audit your AWS usage and automates evidence collection to make it easier for you to assess whether your policies, procedures, and activities are operating effectively. Using a prebuilt or customized framework, you can launch an Audit Manger assessment to begin collecting and organizing evidence, such as Security Hub findings, in accordance with the requirements of an industry standard or regulation, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or the Center for Internet Security (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark standard. With Audit Manager, you can focus on reviewing the relevant evidence to ensure your controls are working as intended and build audit-ready reports with much less manual effort. For more information on AWS Audit Manager, see their documentation here .