Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports automated data labeling for the built-in image labeling workflow for semantic segmentation. With the addition of Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London), SageMaker Ground Truth is available in 12 AWS Regions. 

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL major version 11 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure. 

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in thirteen AWS regions with the addition of Asia Pacific (Mumbai), EU (Paris), and EU (Stockholm).  

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.  

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region . Amazon’s isolated infrastructure and services are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD.  

AWS CodeBuild now provides a managed Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) build image. Previously, CodeBuild customers had to use a custom Docker image, in order to build and test for Amazon Linux environment.

Now you can simply select the build environment to be “aws/codebuild/amazonlinux2-x86_64-standard:1.0 “, when creating or updating an AWS CodeBuild Project . This new AL2 image supports polyglot builds . You can specify one or more programming language versions in your buildspec for your build needs. This is made possible by a concept called “runtime-versions”. With runtime-versions, you can also specify which major version of the runtime should be enabled for your builds. The programming languages included in this image are listed in our documentation .

Please visit our product page or the console to learn more about how to get started with AWS CodeBuild .

The PM’s idea of fast-tracking tech talent coming to the UK is being implemented by the Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  working  with the scientific  community. The visa is expected to be offered later this year. “To ensure we continue to lead the way in the advancement of knowledge, we …

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NEC and Cartivator, with backing from the Japanese government, have demo-ed a flying car. The Japan government is said to be planning for drone-based delivery services by 2023 and taxi drones by 2030. The drone has four propellors each 4-5 foot across.

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Huawei’s new OS, Harmony, is being released as an open source platform.

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