Starting today, Amazon Inspector is available to customers in the Europe (Stockholm) region. With the addition of this region, Inspector is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and AWS GovCloud (US-East).  

AWS Device Farm is an app testing service that lets you test your Android, iOS, and web apps , on a massive collection of real mobile devices hosted in the AWS Cloud. You can use one of the supported automation test frameworks to parallelly test your app on many devices, or you can use Device Farm’s Remote Access (manual testing) feature to gesture, swipe, and interact, with the device in real time directly from your web browser.  

Starting today, you can create custom usage forecasts using AWS Cost Explorer to gain a line of sight into your future usage patterns. Cost Explorer’s usage forecasts use a machine learning algorithm that learns your historical usage trends and uses that information to provide a forecast of your future usage. Using these forecasts, you can better understand your expected cost trends and monitor your key usage patterns (for example, storage, data transfer, or running hours). Please note that you can generate your usage forecasts and explore your cost and usage data programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer API .

AWS CodePipeline is now a HIPAA Eligible Service. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using AWS CodePipeline for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you do not have a BAA in place with AWS or have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. With Comprehend’s Custom Entity Recognition API, you can easily build models to extract custom entities (policy numbers, part codes, serial numbers, etc.) that are tailored to your organization’s needs.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the EU (London) region. 

AWS Migration Hub now supports import of on-premises server and application data exported directly from RISC Networks, an AWS Migration Competency Partner.  

Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3. It is ideal for scenarios where you are working with large batches of data and don’t need sub-second latency. You can now configure your Batch Transform Jobs to exclude certain data attributes from prediction requests, and to join some or all of the input data attributes with prediction results. As a result, you no longer need additional pre-processing or post-processing when running batch predictions on data that is in CSV or JSON format.

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. Using hibernate, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster, and you can do this without modifying your existing applications.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.