AWS News Blog

AWS Weeks in Review – December 17 & 24, 2012

Due to the holidays, today’s report covers the past two weeks!

Monday, December 17	You can now copy an EBS Snapshot between AWS Regions.
Tuesday, December 18	We added an Analytics Dashboard and real-time comparison of rank expressions to Amazon CloudSearch. We added environment resource support and an updated PHP runtime to Elastic Beanstalk.
Thursday, December 20	We announced that Amazon ElastiCache now supports the Virtual Private Cloud.
Friday, December 21	We launched the new EC2 High Storage instance family. We announced that the AWS Data Pipeline is now ready for use. Elastic MapReduce now supports IAM Roles. We announced CloudFormation template editors for Visual Studio and Eclipse. We announced even more features for AWS GovCloud (US).
Thursday, December 27	We introduced Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3. We announced that AWS CloudFormation now supports EC2 block device mapping.
Friday, December 28	Amazon Elastic MapReduce can now make use of the High Storage (hs1.8xl) instances in US East (Northern Virginia).

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— Jeff;