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Usability Improvements for AWS Management Console now available

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Today, we launched usability improvements for the AWS Management Console’s navigation header and footer. The improvements include a refreshed and responsive navigation header and footer, an easier way to add or remove services to your favorites list in the navigation header, and an increase in the number of services you see in the “Recently visited” section, from 5 to 15. Depending on your browser support, you can also access the navigation menu items using a keyboard.

Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs

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With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains , customers can use federated credentials, MFA and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Using AWS SSO , your organization’s users can sign in to Active Directory , a built-in AWS SSO directory, or another external identity provider (IdP) connected to AWS SSO and get mapped to an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Regardless of which IdP you use, AWS SSO abstracts those distinctions away, and they all work with the AWS Toolkit. For example, you can connect Microsoft Azure AD/Okta as explained in this post .

Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth training datasets for custom model training

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You can now train Custom Named Entity Recognition and Custom Classification models in Amazon Comprehend using training datasets from Amazon Sagemaker GroundTruth. You can use Comprehend’s Custom Named Entity Recognition to identify terms that are specific to your industry or organization. For example, you can instantly extract product names, financial entities or any term relevant to you from text data. Similarly, you can use Comprehend’s Custom Classification to assign categories relevant to your use case to text data.

Amazon Lex now offers language support for US Spanish

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Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can build an Amazon Lex bot in US Spanish. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.

Amazon MSK now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication with usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) can now authenticate Apache Kafka clients using usernames and passwords for new clusters, secured by AWS Secrets Manager. Username and password authentication uses SASL/SCRAM (Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism), a popular authentication mechanism supported by Apache Kafka. By storing credentials in AWS Secrets Manager, you can reduce the overhead of maintaining a traditional Apache Kafka authentication system, including: auditing, updating, and rotating client credentials. You can also centrally and securely manage credentials for multiple clusters directly from the AWS Management console. SASL/SCRAM authentication can be used in all AWS regions where MSK is available.

AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry

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AWS CloudFormation has expanded the CloudFormation Registry to include the StackSets resource type. StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and regions in a single operation. You can now model, provision, and manage your stack sets resources alongside other AWS resources through CloudFormation in a predictable and reliable way.

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