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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Mar 18 Announcing the renewal command for AWS Certificate Manager
Mar 18 Amazon Rekognition Launches Enhanced Face Analysis
Mar 18 Amazon GameLift Realtime Servers Now in Preview
Mar 18 AWS RoboMaker Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Mar 18 Introducing Amazon Chime Voice Connector
Mar 18 Introducing Amazon Chime Business Calling
Mar 18 Amazon WorkDocs Drive now supports offline content and offline search
Mar 15 Now Available: New AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Certification Blog
Mar 15 AWS IoT Greengrass Adds New Connector for AWS IoT Analytics, Support for AWS CloudFormation Templates, and Integration with Fleet Indexing
Mar 15 Amazon Neptune Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Mar 14 AWS Glue enables running Apache Spark SQL queries
Mar 11 Tag-on Create and Tag-Based IAM Application for Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Mar 11 Support for Flink 1.7.0 on Amazon EMR release 5.21.0
Mar 15 Use AWS Secrets Manager to Rotate Credentials for Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Redshift Blog
Mar 05 Amazon Athena is now available in Canada (Central) Region

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Mar 14 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in EU (Stockholm) Region and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Mar 06 New Amazon SNS Console Now Available
Mar 05 AWS Step Functions Adds Tag-Based Permissions
Feb 28 Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services
Feb 27 Amazon MQ is Now Available in the Europe (London) Region

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AR & VR

Date Announcement
Jun 21 Amazon Sumerian Regional Expansions
Jun 07 Amazon Sumerian Regional and Feature Expansion
May 15 Amazon Sumerian is Generally Available
Nov 26 Announcing Amazon Sumerian (Preview)

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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
Feb 05 Introducing Normalized Units Information for Amazon EC2 Reservations in AWS Cost Explorer
Nov 28 Introducing-AWS-License-Manager
Nov 19 Enhanced Forecasting Now Available in AWS Cost Explorer
Nov 15 Announcing the New AWS Cost Explorer Console
Nov 15 AWS Cost & Usage Reports Add Amazon Athena Integration, Apache Parquet Output, and Report Overwrite

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Mar 11 Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports Access from Amazon Linux
Feb 12 New AWS Digital Badges Unveiled to Showcase your AWS Certified Status
Feb 05 AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available
Jan 07 Announcing Windows Server 2019 AMIs for Amazon EC2
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Mar 06 White Company & Piksel Retail Case Study Blog
Mar 04 Introducing new AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Partner Solutions Blog
Feb 28 Quick Start for Portworx PX-Enterprise on Kubernetes on AWS
Feb 26 Introducing ACE Opportunity Referrals & ACE Tool Enhancements Blog
Feb 20 AWS Quick Starts for Atlassian products now auto-detect existing infrastructure

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Blockchain

Date Announcement
Nov 28 Introducing Amazon Managed Blockchain
Nov 28 Introducing Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Nov 19 Gather analytics and trigger actions on outbound mail with Lambda for WorkMail
Nov 02 Amazon WorkMail Introduces Outbound Mail Flow Rules
Oct 25 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac
Oct 23 Amazon WorkDocs Now Lets You Control IP Address Access to Your Site
Oct 19 Amazon WorkDocs Smart Search Makes It Easier to Find Your Content

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Compute

Date Announcement
Mar 12 Amazon EC2 M5a and R5a Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions
Mar 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering
Mar 07 Announcing the Preupgrade Assistant to Migrate to Amazon Linux 2 From Amazon Linux AMI
Mar 07 Amazon ECS Introduces Enhanced Container Dependency Management
Mar 05 AWS ParallelCluster support for Amazon FSx Lustre

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Mar 07 Amazon Connect Now Supports Customer Voice Stream in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region
Feb 28 Amazon Connect Simplifies Adding AWS Lambda Functions to Contact Flows
Feb 18 Amazon Connect Now Supports Additional Options When Transferring to External Phone Numbers Blog
Dec 21 Amazon Connect Adds Real-Time Customer Voice Stream
Dec 19 Amazon Connect Now Supports Routing Contacts to an Individual Agent

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Databases

Date Announcement
Mar 15 Amazon Neptune Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Mar 13 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt) with R5 Instances
Mar 13 Amazon Neptune Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Mar 13 PostgreSQL 11 now Supported in Amazon RDS
Mar 11 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports In-region Read Replicas with Active Data Guard for Read Scalability and Availability

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Developers

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Amazon Corretto 11 is Now in Preview
Feb 05 AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available
Jan 31 Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available Blog
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Nov 29 Introducing the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm Blog

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Mar 15 Amazon Corretto 11 is Now Generally Available
Mar 08 Automate Releases to the AWS Serverless Application Repository using AWS CodePipeline
Mar 07 AWS CodeCommit Supports VPC Endpoints
Mar 05 Amazon Corretto 11 is Now Available as a Release Candidate
Feb 28 Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services

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End User Computing

Date Announcement
Mar 13 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports iPad and Android Tablets and Touch Gestures
Feb 25 Amazon WorkLink now works with Android phones
Feb 13 Amazon AppStream 2.0 is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Jan 23 Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Nov 20 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Dual Monitors and USB Peripherals through a Windows Client

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Mar 18 Amazon GameLift Realtime Servers Now in Preview
Mar 14 Dynamic Vegetation, Layers, and more come to Lumberyard Beta 1.18 – Available Now Blog
Mar 14 Over 190 updates come to Lumberyard Beta 1.18 – Available Now Blog
Dec 18 Major Slice Workflow Improvements come to Lumberyard Beta 1.17 – Now Available Blog
Dec 14 Amazon GameLift Updates Server SDK for Compatibility with Unity 2018, Unreal 4.21, and Visual Studio 15 2017

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Mar 06 Announcing the new AWS Direct Connect Console
Feb 22 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports On-Premises Access to File Systems and Supports Access Across AWS VPCs, Accounts, and Regions
Dec 12 Announcing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Oct 11 AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Aug 28 AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Mar 13 AWS WAF Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Mar 13 Amazon Comprehend is now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Mar 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering
Feb 25 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Feb 15 Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Mar 15 AWS IoT Greengrass Adds New Connector for AWS IoT Analytics, Support for AWS CloudFormation Templates, and Integration with Fleet Indexing
Mar 12 AWS IoT Analytics now supports Single Step Setup of IoT Analytics Resources
Mar 07 AWS IoT Greengrass Introduces New Networking Configurations and Group Permission Settings
Dec 19 AWS IoT Device Defender Adds Support for Two New Security Metrics
Dec 17 Introducing AWS CloudFormation Template Support for AWS IoT Analytics

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Mar 18 Amazon Rekognition Launches Enhanced Face Analysis
Mar 15 Now Available: New AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Certification Blog
Mar 14 Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Multi-Category Bounding Boxes and New UI Templates for Custom Workflows
Feb 13 Enhanced Content Moderation is now available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Feb 06 Amazon Polly is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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Management & Governance

Date Announcement
Mar 14 AWS Systems Manager Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Mar 05 AWS Systems Manager now supports on-premises instance management for large hybrid environments
Feb 28 Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services
Feb 28 AWS CloudFormation Coverage Updates for AWS RAM, AWS Robomaker, Amazon ApiGateway, and more
Feb 28 AWS Systems Manager State Manager Enables Document Sharing Across Accounts

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Mar 13 Detailed Job Progress Status and Server-Side S3 Encryption Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Mar 08 AWS Elemental MediaLive Simplifies Sending Live Streams to AWS Elemental MediaPackage
Mar 07 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports Pausing Channel Delivery on a Schedule
Mar 05 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for Encrypted HLS and VPC Inputs
Mar 04 AWS Elemental MediaConvert is Now Available in the EU (Paris) Region

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Migration & Transfer

Date Announcement
Feb 28 Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services
Feb 22 AWS Server Migration Service
Feb 14 AWS Transfer for SFTP is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Jan 18 AWS Migration Hub Now Supports Importing On-Premises Server and Application Data to Track Migration Progress
Dec 06 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Multi-Server Migration

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Mar 14 Amplify Framework Adds Enhancements to Authentication for iOS, Android, and React Native Developers Blog
Feb 13 Introducing AWS Solutions
Feb 11 Amplify Framework Adds Support for Multiple Environments, Custom Resolvers, Larger Data Models, and IAM Roles Including MFA Blog
Feb 07 AWS AppSync is now Available in EU (London) Region
Jan 10 AWS Device Farm Now Supports Appium Node.js and Appium Ruby

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Mar 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering
Mar 06 Announcing the new AWS Direct Connect Console
Feb 25 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Feb 22 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports On-Premises Access to File Systems and Supports Access Across AWS VPCs, Accounts, and Regions
Feb 13 Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Cloud Expands to Seven New AWS Regions

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Pricing

Date Announcement
Apr 20 Use the Enhanced AWS Price List API to Access AWS Service- and Region-Specific Product and Pricing Information Blog
Mar 20 Discover savings opportunities by using the new Reserved Instance (“RI”) Coverage Reports in AWS Cost Explorer
Dec 14 Track your Reserved Instance (RI) Utilization in AWS Cost Explorer
Dec 12 New Cost Allocation Tag features include on-demand refresh, AWS-generated tags and more!
Sep 19 New Filtering Options for AWS Cost Explorer

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Robotics

Date Announcement
Mar 18 AWS RoboMaker Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Feb 21 AWS RoboMaker now supports new languages, tagging, and AWS CloudFormation
Nov 26 AWS RoboMaker Blog

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Satellite

Date Announcement
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 27 Announcing AWS Ground Station (Preview)

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Mar 18 Announcing the renewal command for AWS Certificate Manager
Mar 14 Amazon Inspector adds support for Amazon EC2 A1 instances
Mar 15 Use AWS Secrets Manager to Rotate Credentials for Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Redshift Blog
Feb 21 AWS Shield Increases Default Resource Limits For Advanced Protection
Feb 08 Amazon GuardDuty Adds Three New Threat Detections

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Startups

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Storage

Date Announcement
Mar 13 Amazon FSx for Lustre is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Mar 13 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Mar 11 Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports Access from Amazon Linux
Feb 28 Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services
Feb 25 AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance is now available in Europe, and adds more storage and networking options

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Support

Date Announcement
Dec 19 Support Center Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Aug 06 AWS Personal Health Dashboard Now Supports Fine-Grained Access Control Via IAM Policy Conditions
Jun 13 AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports Customization
Nov 20 AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Service Limit Dashboard and CloudWatch Metrics
Jun 09 AWS Trusted Advisor Now Checks for Public Snapshots of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Mar 15 Now Available: New AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Certification Blog
Feb 18 Announcing Updated Professional-Level AWS Certification Exams
Feb 12 New AWS Digital Badges Unveiled to Showcase your AWS Certified Status
Feb 04 New AWS Certification Policies Offer Customers More Choices and Flexibility
Jan 02 Announcing the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Beta Exam

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