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Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) last week announced the first Windows Server 2019 machine images (AMIs) for Windows Server 2019. The latest edition of Microsoft's flagship back-end server OS  debuted  last October, shortly after which users started  asking  about corresponding AMIs with queries such as: "I am wondering if there is an ETA for a Windows Server 2019 AMI by Amazon?" There was no definitive answer to those questions until a Jan. 7  post  announcing the arrival. "Windows Server 2019 comes loaded with a variety of new features including smaller and more efficient Windows containers, support for Linux containers for application modernization and App Compatibility Feature on Demand," the post said. The AMIs run on the platform's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service and available EC2 instances include: Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V Windows Server 2019 with Containers Windows Server 2019 with Select Language Packs Wi

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched several enhancements to SageMaker, its machine learning platform, at this week's re:Invent conference. The company announced the general availability of  SageMaker Ground Truth , a service that promises to reduce the manual labor and costs associated with labeling data in preparation for machine learning training. SageMaker Ground Truth lets users tap "human annotators" (whether they're from a third-party provider, the  Amazon Mechanical Turk  crowdsource service or their own workforce) to do part of the labeling tasks. The service then uses that human-labeled data as a guide to do the rest of the work, greatly reducing the time it takes to finish the dataset and potentially slashing costs by up to 70 percent, according to AWS'  announcement . "Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth can optionally use active learning to automate the labeling of your input data. Active learning is a machine learning technique that identifies da