The Amazon EKS Deep Learning Benchmark Utility is a new automated tool for machine learning benchmarking on Kubernetes clusters. The tool is built and open sourced by the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) team.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports using the Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) optimized for ECS, and also the Amazon EC2 A1 instance family, directly from the Amazon ECS console during cluster creation.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Amazon Transcribe enables organizations to increase the accessibility and discoverability of their audio and video content, serving a breadth of use cases. For instance, contact centers may transcribe recorded calls for downstream analysis to better understand key call drivers. Or a media house may want to generate automatic transcriptions for the purpose of subtitling video. Amazon Transcribe is available in both batch mode and real-time (streaming), while supporting a variety of languages.

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the following AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and GovCloud (US-West).

To learn more, visit the Amazon Transcribe documentation page .

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11,2, 10.7, 9.6.12, 9.5.16, and 9.4.21. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.

With this release , a new extension pgTAP , a suite of database functions that make it easy to write unit tests in psql script, is added and supported with PostgreSQL version 11.2.

Further to our previous announcement about support for Amazon S3 Import for PostgreSQL version 11.1, this release adds Amazon S3 Import support with PostgreSQL 11.2, 10.7 and later versions.

We previously announced support for Multi Major Version Upgrades to PostgreSQL 11. This release adds support for Multi Major Version Upgrades to PostgreSQL 10.7 and PostgreSQL 11.2. Please refer to the major version upgrade documentation on details around the PostgreSQL versions that are supported as source and target versions and also any limitations associated with the upgrade process.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide . See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.
 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region.

You can now modify the configuration of applications running on EMR clusters including Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Hue without re-starting the cluster. EMR Application Reconfiguration allows you to modify applications on the fly without needing to shut- down or recreate the cluster. Amazon EMR will apply your new configurations and gracefully restart the reconfigured application. Configurations can be applied through the Console, SDK, or CLI. Please visit Configuring Applications to learn more about this feature.

This feature is now available from EMR release 5.21.0 in all supported regions for Amazon EMR .

You can stay up to date on EMR releases by subscribing to the feed for EMR release notes. Use the icon at the top of the EMR Release Guide to link the feed URL directly to your favorite feed reader.

You can now use the Splunk log driver to ship container logs from AWS Fargate tasks to a Splunk endpoint. By specifying the endpoint and other log configuration while authoring task definitions, you can ingest logs generated by containers running in Fargate to Splunk. Learn more in the API Configuration documentation .

This Quick Start deploys Spotinst Ocean for Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to scale Amazon EKS clusters efficiently while optimizing for performance and cost by leveraging a variety of instance types and sizes running as Spot Instances.

Amazon SageMaker now includes enhancements to the built-in Object2Vec algorithm making it faster to train deep learning models. You can access the new features as hyperparameters from the Amazon SageMaker console or using the Amazon SageMaker Python API .

Today, AWS Amplify launched a community site to provide developers building fullstack serverless web or mobile applications an easy way to access community-generated content. The community site is fully open source allowing developers to contribute blog posts, videos, sample projects, and tutorials through GitHub pull requests. Developers interested in hosting an Amplify event or meetup will get an event starter pack that includes presentation templates, AWS credits, and free swag. Join our community today at https://amplify.aws/community .