Good morning everyone,
Keeping updated with latest announcements from AWS is not a simple task, and became harder during the re:Invent. Let me summarize the most important yesterday's announcements.
Keeping Time With Amazon Time Sync Service
Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/
Amazon FreeRTOS – Enabling Billions of Devices to Securely Benefit from the Cloud
Amazon FreeRTOS is an IoT microcontroller operating system that simplifies development, security, deployment, and maintenance of microcontroller-based edge devices. Amazon FreeRTOS extends the FreeRTOS kernel, a popular real-time operating system, with libraries that enable local and cloud connectivity, security, and (coming soon) over-the-air updates.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-freertos/
AWS IoT Analytics: Delivering IoT Analytics at Scale and Faster than Ever Before
AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service of AWS IoT that provides advanced data analysis of data collected from your IoT devices.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-aws-iot-analytics/
Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-comprehend-continuously-trained-natural-language-processing/
Amazon Translate – Real-time Language Translation
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-translate-real-time-text-language-translation/
Amazon Transcribe – Accurate Speech To Text At Scale
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-scalable-and-accurate-automatic-speech-recognition/
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams – Serverless Video Ingestion and Storage for Vision-Enabled Apps
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-serverless-video-ingestion-and-storage-for-vision-enabled-apps/
Amazon Rekognition Video: Deep-Learning Based Video Recognition
Amazon Rekognition Video is a new video analysis service feature that brings scalable computer vision analysis to your S3 stored video, as well as, live video streams. With Rekognition video, you can accurately detect, track, recognize, extract, and moderate thousands of objects, faces, and content from a video.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-welcoming-amazon-rekognition-video-service/
AWS DeepLens, a new video camera that runs deep learning models directly on the device.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deeplens/
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed end-to-end machine learning service that enables data scientists, developers, and machine learning experts to build quickly, train, and host machine learning models at scale. This drastically accelerates all of your machine learning efforts and allows you to add machine learning to your production applications quickly.
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/
S3 Select and Glacier Select – Retrieving Subsets of Objects
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-container-service-for-kubernetes/
AWS Fargate – Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure
More information at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/
