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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Dec 11 AWS Certificate Manager Now SOC & PCI Eligible
Dec 11 Additional AI Language Services Are Certified as PCI DSS Compliant
Dec 11 Amazon CloudFront announces ten new Edge locations in North America, Europe, and Asia
Dec 11 Amazon RDS Enhances Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service achieves HIPAA eligibility, PCI and ISO compliance
Dec 10 Amazon RDS Supports Publishing PostgreSQL Log Files to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Dec 10 Alexa for Business Adds WPA2 Enterprise Wi-Fi Support for Shared Echo Devices Blog
Dec 10 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region
Dec 10 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Dec 10 AppStream 2.0 introduces APIs to simplify app entitlements and enable delivery of virtualized apps

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service achieves HIPAA eligibility, PCI and ISO compliance
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 29 Introducing Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) in Public Preview
Nov 27 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Now Supports Java-based Stream Processing Applications
Nov 20 Amazon Redshift announces Deferred Maintenance and Advance Event Notifications

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Dec 05 Amazon MQ Now Supports Resource Tagging
Dec 05 Amazon MQ Now Supports PCI and ISO Compliance Programs
Nov 29 AWS Step Functions Adds Eight More Service Integrations Blog
Nov 20 Amazon MQ Introduces Support for SOC Compliance Program
Nov 15 Amazon SNS Adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE)

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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
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
Nov 13 Analyze Your Budget Performance Using New AWS Budgets History Functionality

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 28 AWS Marketplace Makes it Easier to Build Machine Learning Applications on Amazon SageMaker
Nov 27 AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Govern Software Procurement with Private Marketplace
Nov 27 AWS Announces New Container Products in AWS Marketplace
Nov 13 Deploy IBM Blockchain Platform for AWS with New Quick Start

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Nov 26 AWS IoT Service Delivery Program
Nov 19 Deploy a self-service cloud analytics solution with Informatica, Tableau, and AWS services
Nov 14 Deploy F5 BIG-IP VE on the AWS Cloud with new Quick Start
Oct 30 New Quick Start builds a CI/CD pipeline to test AWS CloudFormation templates using AWS TaskCat
Oct 29 Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server on AWS with Updated Quick Start

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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
Dec 07 Announcing latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.0.23.4 with support for Luxion Keyshot
Dec 07 Introducing Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances, Our Most Powerful GPU Instance Yet
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Dec 05 Amazon ECR Console Version 2
Dec 04 Amazon Virtual Private Clouds can now be shared with other AWS Accounts

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Dec 10 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region
Dec 10 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Nov 19 Amazon Connect Now Provides Contact Flow Looping
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries

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Databases

Date Announcement
Dec 11 Amazon RDS Enhances Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
Dec 10 Amazon RDS Supports Publishing PostgreSQL Log Files to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Nov 29 AWS Step Functions Adds Eight More Service Integrations Blog
Nov 28 Announcing the Public Preview of Amazon RDS on VMware
Nov 28 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand

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End User Computing

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Dual Monitors and USB Peripherals through a Windows Client
Nov 19 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces user self-service management capabilities
Nov 15 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces bring your own license automation for Windows desktops
Oct 25 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac
Oct 25 Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS CloudFormation Support and User Pool APIs Blog

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Developers

Date Announcement
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
May 02 Announcing AWS DevDay in San Francisco
Mar 14 AWS SDK for C++ - Developer Preview
Nov 19 AWS SDK for Go - General Availability Blog
Aug 05 Welcome New AWS Community Heroes Blog

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Dec 04 AWS X-Ray Adds the Ability to Group Traces by Root Cause
Nov 29 AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Nested Applications Using the AWS Serverless Application Repository
Nov 27 The AWS Developer Tools Improve Continuous Delivery Support for AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS
Nov 20 AWS X-Ray Adds the Ability to Group Traces

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Nov 13 Massive Memory Refactor introduced in Lumberyard 1.16 – Available Now Blog
Sep 27 Amazon GameLift is Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Jul 27 New Cloud Gems in Lumberyard Beta 1.15 — Available Now Blog
Jun 14 Amazon GameLift introduces new game session placement metrics
May 11 Major Updates Come to Script Canvas with Lumberyard Beta 1.14 – Available Now Blog

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Oct 11 AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Aug 28 AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai
Aug 27 New AWS Direct Connect locations in Paris and Taipei
Aug 13 AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO
Aug 09 AWS Direct Connect live in Denmark and Norway

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Dec 04 Amazon S3 Inventory adds Apache Parquet output format
Nov 28 Coming Soon – S3 Glacier Deep Archive for Long-Term Data Retention Blog
Nov 26 AWS Announces Amazon S3 Object Lock in all AWS Regions Blog
Nov 26 Introducing Amazon EC2 C5n Instances Featuring 100 Gbps of Network Bandwidth
Nov 26 AWS Announces New Amazon S3 Features that Simplify the Use of the Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Class for Archival Workloads in All AWS Regions Blog

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Nov 28 AWS IoT Greengrass Now Supports Amazon SageMaker Neo and ML Inference Connectors on Edge Devices
Nov 26 AWS IoT Things Graph, Now in Preview
Nov 26 AWS IoT Greengrass Extends Functionality with Connectors to External Applications, Hardware Root of Trust Security, and Isolation Configurations
Nov 26 Introducing AWS IoT Events, Now Available in Preview
Nov 26 AWS IoT Device Tester, Now Available

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Dec 05 AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now FedRAMP-High Compliant in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East)
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 28 Announcing AWS Inferentia: Machine Learning Inference Chip
Nov 28 Introducing Amazon Forecast – Now in Preview Blog
Nov 28 Introducing AWS DeepRacer Blog

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Management & Governance

Date Announcement
Dec 07 AWS CloudFormation macros can now be used in templates with nested stacks
Dec 06 AWS Service Catalog Announces Integration with AWS Organizations
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 29 AWS Well-Architected Tool Now Available
Nov 27 Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics Blog

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Dec 06 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports AWS Elemental MediaConnect Flows as Inputs
Dec 04 AWS Elemental MediaLive Supports Redundant HLS Outputs in Top-Level Manifest
Nov 27 Introducing AWS Elemental MediaConnect
Nov 15 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Extends Live Channel Archive Window to 14 Days
Nov 14 AWS Elemental MediaTailor Adds Support for Multi-Period DASH

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Migration & Transfer

Date Announcement
Dec 06 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Multi-Server Migration
Nov 26 AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Is Now Generally Available
Nov 26 Introducing AWS DataSync: A Service to Simplify, Automate, and Accelerate Online Data Transfer
Nov 20 AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized to More than Double Computing Power for Edge Applications in Disconnected Environments
Nov 19 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support For AMI Encryption

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Nov 26 Introducing the AWS Amplify Console
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon API Gateway Enables API Publishers to Deploy the Serverless Developer Portal from the AWS Serverless Application Repository
Nov 13 AWS Amplify adds support for Authentication and Data access for iOS and Android developers Blog

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Dec 11 Amazon CloudFront announces ten new Edge locations in North America, Europe, and Asia
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Dec 04 Amazon Virtual Private Clouds can now be shared with other AWS Accounts
Nov 29 Application Load Balancer can now Invoke Lambda Functions to Serve HTTP(S) Requests Blog

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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
Nov 26 AWS RoboMaker Blog

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Satellite

Date Announcement
Dec 04 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
Dec 11 AWS Certificate Manager Now SOC & PCI Eligible
Dec 07 Automate AWS IAM Permissions Analysis Using the New IAM Access Advisor APIs
Dec 06 Introducing Notifications for New Amazon GuardDuty Finding Types and Feature Releases
Dec 04 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 28 Introducing AWS Security Hub Blog

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Startups

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Storage

Date Announcement
Dec 04 Amazon S3 Inventory adds Apache Parquet output format
Dec 03 Amazon EBS Increases Performance of General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volumes
Nov 28 Coming Soon – S3 Glacier Deep Archive for Long-Term Data Retention Blog
Nov 28 Amazon EFS now Supports 1000 File Systems per Account
Nov 28 Amazon EFS now Supports Access Across Accounts and VPCs

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Mar 09 AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Checks for Ten New Service Limits, AuroraDB Availability, and EC2 Windows

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Oct 03 Major Updates to Two AWS Classroom Training Courses
Sep 05 Announcing Major Updates to 3 AWS Classroom Training Courses
Jun 18 New Exam Readiness Courses for AWS Certifications
Apr 23 Announcing the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam
Apr 13 Announcing 4 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services

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