Musical keyboards and AI on Kubernetes: AWS fires off first salvo of re:Invent updates – SiliconANGLE

Amazon Web Services Inc.s big re:Invent conference officially kicked off today in Las Vegas and the cloud giant has wasted no time today, announcingan array of services and features headlined by new artificial intelligence offerings.

First up is Amazon Transcribe Medical, an AI transcription service that enables medical professionals to dictate notes and record patient conversations. Its AWS attempt to free up some of the several hours per day that the average primary care physical spends on administrative tasks such as data entry.

Amazon Transcribe Medical is provided as an application programming interface that can be plugged into healthcare services. Its compliant with the HIPAA medical data protection regulation, automatically adds pronunciation marks into transcribed text where appropriate and, according to AWS, supports virtually any device that has a microphone. That means developers couldtheoreticallybring it tosmart speakers such as Amazons Echo devices, which are already finding usein some medical settings.

SageMaker is an AWS service that allows developers to build and train AI models withoutmanaging theinfrastructure below. Now, software teams can carry outSageMaker projects via Kubernetes thanks to a set of new operators that the cloud giant is rolling out.

Each Amazon SageMaker Operator for Kubernetes provides you with a native Kubernetes experience for creating and interacting with your [SageMaker] jobs, either with the Kubernetes API or with Kubernetes command-line utilities such as kubectl, AWS senior product manager Aditya Bindal explained in a blog post.

SiteWise, AWS service for analyzing data from industrial equipment, is getting a new visualization tool that displaysoperational information in graphs. Its available as a browser-based applicationunder the name SiteWise Monitor. A plants maintenance team can use it to build dashboards that shows how often each piece of equipment is down due to technical issues, while a business analyst at the same facility could visualize factory output.

SiteWise Monitorhas arrived as part of abroader update to the service that brings other analytics features, too. Chief among them is a new digital twins capability. Companies can now take sensor measurements from physical assets such as a production line and create a digital copy, or twin, of the hardware that lets analysts virtually experiment with new ways to optimize operations.

Copies of Windows Server and Linux running on AWS instances need to be updated when theres a new version available just like the operating system of a physical server. Administrators typically either perform the task manually or create custom scripts to automate the process, but AWS claims thatEC2 Image Builderoffers a better way.

The newly revealed service provides a graphical interface for handling operating system updates. Administrators can use EC2 Image Builder to customize Windows Server and Linux distributionupdatesas needed, testthe new version to see if works and then automatically deploy the update to their companies cloud environments.

Topping off the list of new offerings unveiled during AWS midnight announcement bonanza is DeepCompose, a AI-powered musical keyboard. The device allows developers to familiarize themselves with machine learning by building and training models that generate music. AWS now offers no fewer than three differentAI learning devices: DeepComposer joins the recently upgraded DeepRacerremote-controlled model car and the DeepLens camera.

Lastly, AWS also rolled out several smaller enhancements, including new features for managing software licenses companies use on its cloud platform.

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