Document History for Amazon Forecast - Amazon Forecast

Document History for Amazon Forecast

The following table describes important changes to the Amazon Forecast Developer Guide. For notifications about documentation updates, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

  • Latest documentation update: March 03, 2021

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New Feature

You can now specify a custom forecast frequency. For more information, see Creating a Predictor.

August 29, 2022

New Feature

You can now create a What-if Analysis to explore different scenarios. For more information, see What-if analysis.

August 22, 2022

New Feature

You can now have Amazon EventBridge or Amazon CloudWatch Events notify you with status updates for ongoing Amazon Forecast resource jobs. For more information see Setting Up Notifications.

March 15, 2021

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports manually stopping the following resources: dataset import jobs, predictors, predictor backtest export jobs, forecasts, and forecast export jobs.

March 3, 2021

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports a built-in featurization that automatically incorporates historical and projected weather information into a model. For more information, see Amazon Forecast Weather Index.

December 8, 2020

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports the ability to export backtest forecasts and accuracy metrics for predictors. For more information, see Evaluating Predictor Accuracy.

November 23, 2020

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports the ability to specify predictor quantiles. For more information, see Evaluating Predictor Accuracy.

November 11, 2020

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports the CNN-QR algorithm. For more information, see CNN-QR.

August 10, 2020

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports tagging for the following resources: dataset groups, datasets, dataset import jobs, predictors, forecasts, and forecast export jobs. For more information, see Tagging Amazon Forecast Resources.

July 9, 2020

New Feature

Amazon Forecast now supports missing value filling for related time series datasets. For more information, see Handling Missing Values.

May 14, 2020

New Regions

Amazon Forecast adds support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Forecast, see the AWS Region Table or AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

March 17, 2020

New Region

Amazon Forecast adds support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Forecast, see the AWS Region Table or AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

January 27, 2020

New Feature

Forecast now supports the ability to specify forecast quantiles. For more information, see CreateForecast in the Forecast API Guide.

November 22, 2019

Amazon Forecast general availability

Amazon Forecast is now available for general use.

August 21, 2019

Amazon Forecast preview release

This is the first preview release of the documentation for Amazon Forecast.

November 28, 2018