Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce a set of quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate. 

Amplify Console now provides developers a test phase as part of their continuous deployment pipeline to catch regressions and bugs before pushing code to production. The test phase can be configured in the build specification YML and can be used to run any testing framework of your choice during a build. 

DynamoDBMapper , the higher-level Java interface for Amazon DynamoDB , now helps developers ensure that transactional writes are being performed on the most recent version of an item by using optimistic locking.  

AWS IoT Things Graph is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. 

Starting today, you can create video on-demand clips or programs from an AWS Elemental MediaPackage live channel. By making a live-to-VOD request with an IN and OUT time reference along with a Channel endpoint ID, MediaPackage will create a segment accurate asset and export it to your Amazon S3 bucket. You can then ingest that asset into a MediaPackage VOD packaging group to have it available in all the same formats as the live channel. For more details, please refer to the relevant Live-to-VOD and VOD packaging documention pages.

This Quick Start automatically deploys a Boomi Molecule cluster in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who are looking for an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that can be hosted on AWS.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports PrivateLink Endpoint Policies, a capability that enables customers to better control access to Amazon ECR repositories and images using private endpoints. Previously customers were not able to explicitly define policies to deny or allow access based on IAM resource policies, but now customers can define granular, API level access to container image repositories.

AWS IQ is a new service that enables customers to quickly find, engage, and pay AWS Certified third-party experts for on-demand project work. AWS IQ offers video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, and integrated billing.  

You can now enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) capabilities for your users using AWS Client VPN and Active Directory. Enterprises can now create a second layer of defense by prompting the user for additional factor, such as verifying a push notification or an email OTP.

AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.