Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, as well as support content moderation by detecting unsafe content. Starting today, you can detect content related to ‘Violence’ and ‘Visually Disturbing” themes, such as blood, wounds, weapons, self-injury, corpses, and more. Further, Amazon Rekognition’s ability to identify ‘Explicit Nudity’ and ‘Suggestive’ content has been improved through a 68% lower false positive rate and a 36% lower false negative rate (on average). Additionally, Amazon Rekognition now supports detection of new categories of adult content, such as unsafe anime or illustrated content, adult toys, and sheer clothing.
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Publishing PostgreSQL Log Files to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
You can now publish logs from your Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility database instances to Amazon CloudWatch Logs in Amazon RDS. Supported logs include PostgreSQL system logs.
AWS IoT Device Defender Expands Globally
AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in 2 additional regions – EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the footprint to 15 AWS regions. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully-managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy for customers to manage the end to end security of their IoT fleet.
AWS Developer Series Relaunched on edX
AWS Training and Certification has re-launched the AWS Developer Series exclusively on edX. This digital series features three courses that help developers to continue building their skills to deepen their cloud expertise with AWS.
Amazon EMR now supports native EBS encryption
You can now natively encrypt EBS volumes attached to an EMR cluster. Until now, customers used LUKS over EBS volumes to encrypt data. With the current release, customers can choose either LUKS or native EBS encryption.
Amplify Framework adds local mocking and testing for GraphQL APIs, Storage, Functions, and Hosting
The Amplify Framework is an open-source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications.
Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Modify On-Demand Target Capacity
Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase models. With a single API call, you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and purchase models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.
Amazon EC2 C5 New Instance Sizes are Now Available in Additional Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, and c5.metal instance sizes are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo) Regions. The 3 new C5 instance sizes are powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (based on the Cascade Lake architecture) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.
Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Set A Maximum Price For A Fleet Of Instances
Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of EC2 capacity across different instance types, Availability Zones (AZs), and purchase options to optimize for scale, performance, and cost. Allocation strategies let you determine how EC2 Fleet should select from the instance types and AZs you have specified to fulfill the desired capacity.
Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Attribute Key Matching
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message filtering now supports attribute key matching. This feature lets you create an Amazon SNS subscription filter policy that matches incoming messages which contain an attribute key, regardless of the attribute value associated with this key. This feature lets you offload additional message filtering logic to Amazon SNS.