Amazon Connect is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to eleven. You can now claim South African toll-free and local telephone numbers.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to schedule secret rotations within specific time windows. With this feature, you can limit secret rotations to specific hours on specific days. Previously, Secrets Manager supported automated rotation of secrets within the last 24 hours of specified rotation interval. With today’s launch, you no longer have to choose between the convenience of managed rotations and the operational safety of maintenance windows.

AWS Solutions has updated the Maintaining Personalized Experiences with Machine Learning solution, which is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides end-to-end automation and scheduling for your Amazon Personalize resources. This solution keeps your item and user data current and manages re-training for your models to ensure that recommendations are kept up-to-date with recent user activity and to retain their relevance for your users. This solution publishes Amazon Personalize model offline metrics to Amazon CloudWatch to provide a directional sense of the quality of your models over time.
 

AWS Solutions has updated the MLOps Workload Orchestrator (formerly known as the AWS MLOps Framework), an AWS Solutions Implementation that streamlines the pipeline deployment process and enforces architecture best practices for machine learning (ML) model model operationalization. This solution addresses common operational pain points, including model monitoring and multi-account governance, that customers face when adopting multiple ML workflow automation tools.

You can now configure AWS IoT device-specific logging using devices’ client ID, source IP, or principal ID. Until now, customers were able to configure logging at account level and for a specific thing group. Starting today, AWS IoT now also supports setting fine-grained logging level using client ID, source IP, and principal ID. This enhancement makes it easy for customers to diagnose device specific issues without having to register devices as a thing or define additional thing groups. Customers can now target very specific resources for more detailed logging.

Amazon Comprehend now supports model copy functionality which allows customers to copy Comprehend custom classification or custom entity recognition models from a source AWS account to a designated target AWS account in the same AWS region. Enterprise customers and AWS partners often use multiple AWS accounts that are provisioned based on development phases (e.g. build, test, stage, deploy), based on a business function (e.g. data science, engineering), or combination of both. Previously, custom Comprehend models could only be used in the AWS account in which it was trained. This required customers to copy their training dataset and annotations into each AWS account and train a separate model – which is time consuming, expensive, and reduces overall deployment speed.

Amazon Redshift now simplifies the use of other services such as Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora, and AWS Glue by allowing customers to create an IAM role from the Redshift console and assigning it as the default IAM role while creating an Amazon Redshift cluster. The default IAM role helps simplify SQL operations such as COPY, UNLOAD, CREATE, EXTERNAL FUNCTION, CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE, CREATE EXTERNAL SCHEMA, CREATE MODEL, or CREATE LIBRARY that accesses other AWS services by eliminating the need to specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the IAM role. The default IAM role is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions.

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