AWS CodeCommit now supports emoji reactions to comments on pull requests and commits. With this launch, a developer can quickly react to a comment by clicking on the emoji icon in the comment to see a list of supported emojis. They can then choose an emoji from the list that represents their feedback about the comment. CodeCommit records the selected emoji as a reaction to that comment. The list of supported emojis includes popular reactions such as thumbs-up and thumbs-down, smiley face, heart, and ship-it.

Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Starting today, you can automate four common media analysis tasks – detection of black frames, end credits, shot changes, and color bars using fully managed, ML-powered APIs from Amazon Rekognition Video.

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available in the EU (Stockholm) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Region Table. 

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data. Starting today, Amazon DocumentDB offers sixteen additional in Amazon CloudWatch.

Modern marketers look to data to understand their customers to deliver the right message, on the right channel, at the right time. These marketers require messaging tools that can execute across multiple channels at scale and analytics tools to gain insights from customer engagement. 

AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility.  

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters, a monthly challenge where developers use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions and compete to top the charts and win prizes. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get started with machine learning and generative AI techniques. The first AWS DeepComposer Chartbuster challenge titled “Bach to the Future” launches today and ends on July 16th, 2020. To participate in the challenge, developers will first need to use the autoregressive CNN algorithm , a new generative AI algorithm available in the AWS DeepComposer console to create compositions in the style of Bach. Next, they will need to submit the compositions to SoundCloud using AWS DeepComposer to be added to a custom playlist. AWS will announce the top 10 ranked compositions from the “Bach to the Future” challenge on July 21st, 2020 in an AWS ML blog post.  

The Multi-Region Application Architecture solution helps demonstrate a fault-tolerant application with easy failover to a backup region. This solution leverages Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cross-Region replication and Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables to asynchronously replicate application data between the primary and secondary AWS Region. A sample photo sharing web application is also deployed in each region to serve as a visual demonstration of the solution’s back-end layers and to verify that regional failover is working. 

We’ve recently added AWS Solutions Constructs to the AWS Solutions Library. AWS Solutions Constructs are pre-built, multi-service architecture patterns that allow customers to quickly assemble well-architected applications using familiar programming tools. 

You can now tag your AWS Cloud Map namespaces and services through the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK). AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, or any other cloud resource. Your application can then discover the location and metadata of cloud resources associated with these custom names via AWS SDK or by making authenticated API calls.