Amazon Connect customers can now use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) when using an Amazon Lex chatbot in their contact center, allowing them to personalize conversations with end users by modifying the chatbot voice. Using SSML tags, you can customize and control aspects of speech, such as pronunciation, volume, and speech rate. 

You can now define a response for your Amazon Lex chatbot directly from the AWS Management Console . A response consists of messages dynamically selected from a group of pre-defined messages, populated by the developer. Messages in these message groups can be simple text, or you can use custom markup. In addition, you can also display a response card as part of the response. The responses capability simplifies building dynamic conversations with Amazon Lex.  In addition, you can use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) in a text response.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with TensorFlow 1.5, and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.4, with support for NVIDIA CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 drivers. AMI users can now take advantage of the mixed precision training on the V100 Volta GPUs powering EC2 P3 instances. In our earlier tests for TensorFlow 1.5 on Volta , training the ResNet-50 benchmark with synthetic ImageNet data in FP16 mode on a p3.8xlarge instance was 1.8x times faster than training with TensorFlow 1.4.1.  

Starting today, you can migrate your existing application users to Amazon Cognito user pools more easily. User pools are managed user directories that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. Now, you can migrate users automatically the next time they log into your application while enabling users to continue using their existing passwords. 

You can now log all your API calls to AWS Shield through AWS CloudTrail, the AWS service that records API calls for your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail logs can be used to enable security analysis, track changes to your AWS resources, and aid in compliance auditing. Integrating AWS Shield and CloudTrail lets you determine which requests were made to the AWS Shield API, the source IP address from which each request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and more. 

You can now query task metadata and container-level Docker statistics for tasks that are launched using the awsvpc network mode. This gives you a straightforward way to get environmental data such as task, container, and image ID, as well as check the status and health of running containers and tasks.

Today, Amazon GameLift introduces backfill functionality for FlexMatch, a powerful matchmaking service that enables you to match players together based on rules you define. Whether you choose to build your matches based on player skill, latency, or some other custom criteria, FlexMatch allows you to build robust and flexible matchmaking pipelines to suit your desired gaming experience. 

Today AWS Direct Connect has landed a second site in Paris at Equinix PA3, Paris, France following the region launch in December 2017. It will be found on the Management Console under the EU (Paris) Region. AWS Direct Connect also launched its first site in Taiwan at Chief Telecom LY, Taipei. In the Management Console, Taipei is located in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. With global access enabled for AWS Direct Connect, these sites can reach AWS resources in any global AWS region using global public VIFs and Direct Connect Gateway. 

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