Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations. 

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now expands support for Channel Identification to streaming audio transcription. With Channel Identification, you can process live audio from multiple channels, and produce a single transcript of the conversation with channel labels. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring SQL Server native backups onto DB instances that have read replicas configured. Previously, the read replica would need to be removed before restoring the native backup file onto your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. SQL Server backup files stored in your Amazon S3 bucket can now be restored directly on DB instances with read replicas.

You can now identify and mask personally identifiable information (PII) from text documents using Amazon Comprehend. Amazon Comprehend uses machine learning to detect PII information that can be used to identify any individual such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and email addresses. You can use Amazon Comprehend’s PII API synchronously and asynchronously to detect PII and mask it from text documents. 

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202009.00 is now available with refactored MQTT, JSON, and AWS IoT Device Shadow libraries optimized for memory usage and modularity, and it includes dependent libraries added via GitHub submoduling. The refactored libraries have gone through code quality checks including for GNU Complexity , MISRA coding standard , Coverity static analysis , and C Bounded Model Checker (CBMC) automated reasoning tool to ensure memory safety and functional correctness proof. This release also includes updates to C-SDK versioning. For more details on the updated versioning and 202009.00 release, see README and Changelog .

Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Vertical Trail, an AWS Data & Analytics Competency Partner. Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub includes everything you need to get an effective data science environment up and running. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers immersion workshops, design, customizations, and deployment of your custom Troodon Analytics Hub on AWS.  

AWS Budgets allows you to monitor your cloud costs and usage, as well as utilization and coverage for your purchased Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. You can receive notifications when costs and usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted thresholds, and/or when your utilization or coverage falls under your target thresholds.

The AWS Snowcone service is now available for order for customers in the EU (Ireland) Region. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcone to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline (by shipping the device to AWS) or online (by using AWS DataSync) on Snowcone to send the data to AWS over the network.

Today we are excited to announce AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI), a network technology for reliably transporting uncompressed live video between applications. AWS CDI uses advanced, high-performance features available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types that support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Using AWS CDI, you can send video reliably between applications with network latency as low as 8 milliseconds, which is less than one frame of video in duration. In addition, AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports AWS CDI inputs, enabling higher-quality and lower latency inputs for live cloud transcoding. Please visit the MediaLive pricing page for detailed pricing when using an AWS CDI input for video ingest into MediaLive.

AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ experts can now easily share their public profiles via a custom, short URL. Public profiles showcase an expert’s AWS Certifications and professional experience.