Amazon SageMaker is now available in Middle East (Bahrain) Region.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) customers can now use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to configure and deploy ECS patterns into their CloudFormation stacks. This allows users to quickly create highly integrated applications while abstracting away details of how the infrastructure is stitched together. Leaving the infrastructure configuration details to AWS, customers can focus more on building their applications.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 z1d instances are available in AWS US East (Ohio), and AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul) regions 

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. 

Today, we’re excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2 and new Instance Types. With this update, it’s easier and more cost efficient to:

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in the Middle Eastern (Bahrain) region. Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Alexa users can now inform meeting participants that they are running late to a meeting or event on the calendar, by saying “Alexa, I’m running late.” Customers can also specify how late they expect to be by saying “Alexa, I’ll be 10 min late for my next meeting.” Alexa will send a short email to all meeting participants, informing them of the delay after confirming the meeting the customer is referring to.

AWS License Manager has enhanced the application search experience, allowing you to easily identify Microsoft Windows and SQL Server instances that are using Amazon provided software licenses. With the new capability, AWS License Manager enables you to filter your search results based on whether you are using bring-your-own-license (BYOL) instances or the License Included instances provided by Amazon. This capability is available for Windows Server Datacenter Edition, SQL Server Enterprise Edition, SQL Server Standard Edition, and SQL Server Web Edition products.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. The real-time transcription service now supports Australian English, which expands upon the existing support for US English, British English, French, Canadian French, and US Spanish languages. The new language support expands the markets served by Amazon Transcribe to enable use cases in contact centers, media and entertainment, education, and gaming, to reach a broader global audience.

Amazon Elastic Inference has introduced new Elastic Inference Accelerators called EIA2, with up to 8GB of GPU memory. Customers can now use Amazon Elastic Inference on larger models or models that have larger input sizes for image processing, object detection, image classification, automated speech processing and natural language processing and other deep learning use cases.