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Amazon Launch Update: Amazon Rekognition
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Amazon Lex Now Generally Available

Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Redshift Spectrum Now Integrates with AWS Glue
Aug 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to recover accidentally released EIPs
Aug 15 AWS CloudTrail Integration is Now Available in Amazon Lex
Aug 15 Introducing AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services
Aug 14 Use Apache Spark and Hive on Amazon EMR with the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Aug 14 Introducing AWS Glue: A Simple, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service
Aug 14 Amazon EFS Now Supports Encryption of Data at Rest
Aug 14 AWS Config Supports New Managed Rules for Securing Amazon S3 Buckets
Aug 14 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Available to All Customers
Aug 14 Announcing the new AWS CloudHSM, offering cost effective hardware key management at cloud scale for sensitive and regulated workloads

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Compute

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to recover accidentally released EIPs
Aug 11 AWS Batch Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Aug 11 Introducing AWS SAM Local, a CLI Tool to Test AWS Lambda Functions Locally Blog
Aug 10 Amazon ECS is now HIPAA Eligible
Jul 24 Tag Your Spot Fleet EC2 Instances

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Storage

Date Announcement
Aug 14 Amazon EFS Now Supports Encryption of Data at Rest
Aug 08 AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Jul 20 Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Available in EU (Frankfurt) Region
Jun 29 Sync Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Inventory Data to Amazon S3 Buckets
Jun 22 AWS Storage Gateway expands file gateway to run on Microsoft Hyper-V

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Databases

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Redshift Spectrum Now Integrates with AWS Glue
Aug 11 Amazon Redshift announces enhanced support for viewing external Redshift Spectrum tables
Aug 11 Amazon Redshift announces Federated Authentication with Single Sign-On
Aug 03 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Adds High Availability Support to the Frankfurt Region
Jul 24 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Windows Authentication in Additional Regions

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Migration

Date Announcement
Aug 14 Introducing AWS Migration Hub
Aug 08 AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Jul 12 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jun 29 AWS Database Migration Service Now Available in GovCloud
Jun 01 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in new regions

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to recover accidentally released EIPs
Jul 20 Announcing New Edge Location in Kuala Lumpur, Our First in Malaysia
Jul 17 Lambda@Edge now Generally Available
Jun 29 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
Jun 27 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Aug 10 AWS CodeDeploy Now Supports Using Application Load Balancers for Blue/Green and In-Place Deployments
Aug 10 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud as a Source Type
Aug 08 AWS X-Ray SDK for Python (Beta)
Aug 03 AWS CodeCommit Now Sends State Changes to Amazon CloudWatch Events, Saves User Preferences, and Adds Tag Details View
Aug 01 AWS CodeDeploy Now Provides Flexible EC2 Tagging with Multiple Tag Groups

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Aug 15 AWS CloudTrail Integration is Now Available in Amazon Lex
Aug 14 AWS Config Supports New Managed Rules for Securing Amazon S3 Buckets
Aug 14 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Available to All Customers
Aug 11 AWS Batch Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jul 31 Amazon Inspector and Amazon EC2 Systems Manager are now HIPAA eligible

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Aug 14 Announcing the new AWS CloudHSM, offering cost effective hardware key management at cloud scale for sensitive and regulated workloads
Aug 14 Introducing Amazon Macie for S3
Aug 10 AWS Encryption SDK now supports data key caching
Aug 09 Amazon Cloud Directory improves search performance with subdirectory queries
Aug 02 Now You Can Use Amazon Cloud Directory to Help Maintain HIPAA and PCI Compliance in the AWS Cloud

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Redshift Spectrum Now Integrates with AWS Glue
Aug 14 Use Apache Spark and Hive on Amazon EMR with the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Aug 14 Introducing AWS Glue: A Simple, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service
Aug 14 Amazon Athena Now Integrates With AWS Glue
Aug 11 Amazon Redshift announces enhanced support for viewing external Redshift Spectrum tables

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Aug 15 AWS CloudTrail Integration is Now Available in Amazon Lex
Jun 30 Amazon Lex now supports 8 kHz telephony audio for increased speech recognition accuracy
Jun 12 Amazon Rekognition Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 08 Easily recognize famous individuals and celebrities using Amazon Rekognition Blog
May 18 Amazon Polly introduces a new German female voice, Vicki Blog

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Aug 10 Amazon Cognito Launches General Availability of a Built-in Customizable User Experience for Sign-in, OAuth 2.0 Support, and Federation with Facebook, Login with Amazon, Google, and SAML providers for User Pools
Jul 20 AWS Mobile Hub enhances Cloud Logic import capabilities and releases React starter project to GitHub
Jul 11 AWS Device Farm Announces Enhanced Jenkins Support for Web Applications Testing and Additional Features
Jul 11 AWS Device Farm Announces Appium 1.6.5 Support
Jul 10 Amazon Cognito Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI Compliance, Adds a Simple Way to Sign in Users by Email Address or Phone Number, and Localizes the Management Console

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Jun 22 Amazon API Gateway Available in Canada (Central) Region
Jun 08 AWS Step Functions Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Increases Account Level Throttle Limits to 10,000 Requests per Second (RPS)
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Enables Customization of Error Responses
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Available in South America (São Paulo) Region

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Messaging

Date Announcement
Aug 01 Amazon SES Introduces Open and Click Metrics for Tracking Customer Engagement
Jul 20 Amazon SNS Console Improvements Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 15 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is Now a HIPAA Eligible Service
Jun 14 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Now Available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region
Jun 09 Amazon Pinpoint Adds SMS Text Messages and Email Support to Provide Multi-channel Messaging, Campaigns and Analytics

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Jul 25 Amazon WorkDocs Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI DSS Compliance
Jul 05 Amazon WorkMail Now Allows You to Configure Email Flow Rules
Jun 05 Amazon WorkDocs Administrative SDK adds APIs to access and update metadata, tags, and comments
May 24 Amazon WorkDocs now supports file lock and unlock when you’re editing content
May 10 Amazon WorkMail now offers an SMTP gateway for sending email

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Aug 04 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Lets You Use Microphones with Your Streaming Applications
Jul 25 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Graphics Applications
Jul 24 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft Active Directory Domains
Jul 21 Amazon WorkSpaces Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI Compliance
Jun 28 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces new workstation class Power bundles

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Jul 13 The AWS IoT console is now available in Simplified Chinese, French, and Japanese
Jun 27 AWS Greengrass Available in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Jun 07 Announcing availability of the AWS IoT Button in Europe
Jun 07 AWS Greengrass is Now Generally Available
Jun 05 AWS IoT Now Supports Integration with Salesforce IoT Cloud

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Contact Center

Date Announcement
Aug 03 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region
Jul 21 Amazon Connect is Now PCI DSS Compliant
Jun 30 You can now use Amazon Lex chatbots with Amazon Connect contact centers Blog
Jun 27 Amazon Connect adds support for seven new languages
Jun 27 Amazon Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Aug 01 Now available–Lumberyard Beta 1.10
Jun 29 Amazon GameLift Fleet Creation Logs
May 16 Amazon GameLift Metrics Now Available in Amazon CloudWatch
Apr 25 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.9 Now Available, Adds Player Account Cloud Gem, Improved Component Entity System, Particle Editor Updates, and More
Apr 11 Amazon GameLift Local and Game Session Queue Improvements

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Aug 10 AWS Marketplace cost and usage data now available in AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and the AWS Cost & Usage Reports
Aug 10 Software from AWS Marketplace vendors now available to be deployed into the AWS GovCloud (US) region
Aug 03 AWS Marketplace Self-Service Listings Adds Support for SaaS Software Scenarios
Aug 02 New Quick Start: Build a Data Lake Foundation on the AWS Cloud with Apache Zeppelin, Amazon RDS, and Other AWS Services
Jul 19 AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to the Product Support Connection

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Developers

Date Announcement
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
Jun 03 AWS SDK for Go - Developer Preview

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to recover accidentally released EIPs
Aug 14 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Available to All Customers
Aug 10 Updates to Apache Spark and Apache Hive in Amazon EMR release 5.8.0
Aug 10 Software from AWS Marketplace vendors now available to be deployed into the AWS GovCloud (US) region
Jul 31 AWS CloudTrail Adds the Ability to Download CloudTrail Account Activity History

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Startups

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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
Dec 09 Announcing AWS Price List API, Programmatic Access to AWS Prices Blog
Aug 12 New Free Tier Usage Monitoring – View Your Current and Forecasted Free Tier-eligible Service Usage
Jun 29 New Forecasting Capability in Cost Explorer – View Forecasted Costs together with Historical Costs
Jun 29 AWS Introduces Budgets – A Simple Way to Manage your AWS Costs
Jun 18 Get Billed and Pay in Canadian Dollars
Apr 08 Introducing Cost Explorer: View and analyze your historical AWS spend
Jan 21 Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Blog

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Jul 19 Sixth AZ in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Jun 29 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
Jun 27 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul
Jun 16 Third AZ in EU (Frankfurt) Region
May 31 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Atlanta, Columbus and Toronto

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
May 30 Announcing New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits
May 18 AWS Training and Certification Portal Now Live
Mar 08 Updated Training Course: Big Data on AWS
Nov 22 Now Available: Updated AWS Business and Technical Accreditations for APN Partners
Oct 24 First AWS Certification Study Guide Now Available

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Nov 18 Trusted Advisor enables automated actions and custom notifications
Sep 22 AWS Well-Architected Reviews now available with the Enterprise Support Plan Blog
Sep 15 Enterprise Support customers now receive credits toward self-paced training

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