The Media Analysis Solution is a reference implementation that helps customers process, analyze, and extract meaningful data from their audio, image, and video files. The solution combines Amazon Rekognition, to provide highly accurate object, scene and activity detection; facial analysis and recognition; and celebrity detection in videos and images, Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service, and Amazon Comprehend, which provides automatic transcription of audio files and extraction of key phrases and entities from transcripts, to quickly and seamlessly obtain key details from their media files in their AWS accounts without machine learning expertise. The solution also includes a web-based user interface that customers can use to upload and search their media files in their AWS accounts.

Today we are adding Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to our list of HIPAA Eligible Services.

This Quick Start deploys AWX on the AWS Cloud, for users who want to run and manage an Ansible infrastructure on AWS.

Application Load Balancer now supports authentication of user requests when accessing web-based applications through social Identity Providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon or enterprise Identity Providers such as ActiveDirectory and PingFederate. With this, developers can now focus on building applications for their customers by offloading the responsibility of authentication to the Application Load Balancer, while benefiting from its scale, availability, and reliability.

As enterprises are enabling their employees to access cloud-based apps from any location, identity-based security has become even more crucial. With authentication available on Application Load Balancer and integrated with Amazon Cognito , users can now be authenticated through any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect protocol or SAML2.0 or social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. If you already have a custom identity provider solution that is OpenID Connect-compatible, Application Load Balancer can also authenticate users by directly connecting with that Identity Provider. To learn more about the feature, please try the Elastic Load Balancing demo .

Support for user authentication in Application Load Balancer with Cognito-supported Identity Providers is available in all AWS regions that are supported by Amazon Cognito . Support for user authentication by directly integrating your OpenID Connect Identity Provider with Application Load Balancer is available in all AWS regions globally except in the China regions (Beijing and Ningxia). To learn more, please visit the Elastic Load Balancing documentation page .

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. 

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the performance of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) when using subscription filter policies. 

Amazon Neptune — now generally available — is a fast, reliable graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF), and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin 3.3.2 and SPARQL 1.1.

Auto Recovery is an Amazon EC2 feature that is designed to increase instance availability. Auto Recovery is now available for Dedicated Instances in all AWS Regions. You can now automatically recover Dedicated Instances when a system impairment is detected. This feature recovers the instance on different underlying hardware and reduces the need for manual intervention. 

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of an eighth Edge location in Tokyo, Japan. The addition of another Edge location continues to expand CloudFront’s capacity in the region, allowing us to serve increased volumes of web traffic.

For a full list of CloudFront’s global network, see the CloudFront Details webpage .

Compact ultraviolet LEDs will enable new approaches to sterilization and disinfection applications, and the potential of that market has led Luminus Devices to add shorter-wavelength UV-C devices to its portfolio.