Release: AWS SDK for Java 1.3.20

The Reserved Instance Marketplace now provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses and organizations. Customers can browse the Reserved Instance Marketplace to find an even wider selection of Reserved Instance term lengths and pricing options sold by other AWS customers.

As your needs change, the Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the flexibility to sell the remainder of your existing Reserved Instances at the price you select. After a buyer purchases your Reserved Instance and AWS receives payment, funds will be deposited via ACH wire transfer into your bank account and you will receive an email notification.

You can also now shop the Reserved Instance Marketplace to purchase Reserved Instances outside the standard one-year and three-year term lengths. Amazon EC2 Instances purchased on the Reserved Instance Marketplace offer the same capacity reservations as Reserved Instances purchased directly from AWS.

For more information, see the Reserved Instance Marketplace.

With this release, you can now create IPsec VPN connections to Amazon VPC using static routing configurations. Before today, VPN connections required the use of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). We now support both types of connections and are excited to announce that you can now establish connectivity from devices that do not support BGP, including Cisco ASA and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

For more information, see the Amazon VPC Release Notes.

The Amazon DynamoDB client in the SDK has been updated with

• New BatchLoad operation in DynamoDBMapper to load multiple rows of data from Amazon DynamoDB in one request.
• Support for limits and exclusive start keys for pagination in the Amazon DynamoDBMapper class.

A NullPointerException that could occur in some cases for invalid input when marshalling a request for Amazon DynamoDB has been correct to return a more meaningful exception instead of an NPE.