News For Dev-ops

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. We are excited to announce multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input. The transcripts provide alternate interpretations of the user's speech input. Each transcript is associated with a confidence score that indicates the likelihood of a match. The transcripts along with the confidence scores can be used to enhance the conversation design. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 11:21PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to configure your chat duration from 1 hour to 7 days. This enables you to define how long your customers have to resume a chat interaction before it expires. To configure the duration of chats in Amazon Connect, simply add an optional, new parameter when calling the StartChatContact API to create a new chat contact. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 10:23PM

AWS Lambda has launched improved auto scaling for Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka as event sources to improve performance and help lower costs for customers. Lambda starts with one consumer and checks the OffsetLag metric (measure of backlog at source) every minute and scales up or down every 3 minutes. Lambda allows up to one consumer per partition per topic for a Kafka cluster. Previously, Lambda used to start connection with Kafka clusters at 50% of maximum number of consumers, check for OffsetLag, and scale up consumers every 15 minutes. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 10:38PM

AWS Step Functions Local, a runtime for debugging and testing state machine based workflows locally, is now designed to support mocking for service integrations, allowing you to run state machines without the need to call downstream services. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 07:51PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka  (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to provision storage throughput for Amazon MSK, enabling customers with high throughput workloads to seamlessly scale I/O without having to provision additional brokers. By provisioning up to 1000 MiB/s of throughput to Amazon MSK storage volumes, you can scale I/O requirements past 250 MiB/s without having to provision additional brokers. When configured, you pay a low rate for the amount of storage throughput provisioned in the clusters. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 06:14PM

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a capability of Amazon SageMaker  that accelerates your machine learning workflows with one-click access to popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 16 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 04:42PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers improved visibility into the progress of blue/green deployments to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. This includes visibility into the completion of different steps within an update, such as creation and deletion of instances, and the progress of shard migration. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 04:35PM