Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, users can give Amazon Transcribe Medical more information about how to process speech from audio content by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe Medical to recognize. These can be domain-specific words and phrases, such as medicine names, healthcare brands, or even terms related to procedures that aren’t already recognized out of the box.  

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds a new GetClip API that makes it easy for developers to retrieve media stored in their Kinesis video streams. Developers can use the API to synchronously generate MP4 clips for offline playback, sharing playable clips, long term archival of interesting events, file based processing via Machine Learning applications, and other use cases.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, and 9.5.21. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.  

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports them for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, 2016, 2014, and 2012 for Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions on Windows operating systems. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the immediate availability of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region, which is the first region in Italy launched by a major cloud provider. This new region is also the sixth AWS region in Europe. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, AWS now offers 24 Regions and 76 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries. The new AWS Europe (Milan) Region adds to the existing infrastructure AWS has in Italy, which includes five Edge locations (three in Milan, one in Palermo, and one in Rome) and an AWS Direct Connect Location in Milan which connects to the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

AWS Config now offers two additional conformance pack sample templates to help you manage the configuration compliance of your AWS resources across AWS accounts. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. These packs are created by authoring a YAML template that contains the list of AWS Config managed or custom rules and remediation actions.  

AWS customers are using AWS Lambda to build highly available and scalable applications without thinking about servers. Customers want to know which APN Technology Partner developer tools work best to help them easily deploy, monitor, and secure their Lambda-based workloads. Today, we launched the AWS Lambda Ready Program, part of the AWS Service Ready Program, to help customers find developer tooling solutions validated by AWS serverless experts to integrate with AWS Lambda.

AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. This feature makes it easy to set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds. Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can consume data from streaming sources likes Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, clean and transform those data streams in-flight, and continuously load the results into Amazon S3 data lakes, data warehouses, or other data stores. Customers can use this feature to process event data like IoT event streams, clickstreams, and network logs. Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue run on the Apache Spark Structured Streaming engine, so customers can use them to enrich, aggregate, and combine streaming data, as well as to run a variety of complex analytics and machine learning operations.

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Indonesia. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a consistent AWS experience.  

AWS Glue now supports serverless streaming ETL jobs. This feature makes it easy to set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare data like IoT event streams, clickstreams, and network logs and make them available for analysis in seconds. AWS Glue can now consume data from streaming sources like Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, clean and transform it in flight, then continuously load the results into Amazon S3 data lakes, data warehouses, and other data stores. AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs run on the Apache Spark Structured Streaming engine, so customers can use them to enrich, aggregate, and combine data, as well as run a variety of complex analytics and machine learning operations.