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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Oct 18 Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Encrypt your EBS volumes at launch time
Oct 18 AWS Deep Learning AMI Now Supports PyTorch, Keras 2 and Latest Deep Learning Frameworks
Oct 17 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Oct 18 AWS Marketplace: Announcing Availability of Multi-AMI Solutions.
Oct 17 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Oct 17 AWS CloudHSM is now available in the US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions.
Oct 16 Introducing Windows Server for Amazon Lightsail
Oct 16 Amazon Device Farm Launches Direct Device Access for Private Devices
Oct 16 AWS WAF Now Supports Geographic Match
Oct 16 AWS WAF Now Supports Regular Expressions (Regex)

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Compute

Date Announcement
Oct 18 Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Encrypt your EBS volumes at launch time
Oct 17 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Oct 16 Introducing Windows Server for Amazon Lightsail
Oct 16 Switch the tenancy of your VPC from Dedicated to Default instantly
Oct 13 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Ability to Update Tags

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Storage

Date Announcement
Oct 03 Amazon Glacier Launches in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Sep 27 AWS CloudTrail Adds S3 Data Events in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Sep 21 AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events
Sep 19 AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Sep 18 Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Stop and Start Your Spot Instances Blog

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Databases

Date Announcement
Oct 17 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Oct 11 Amazon RDS Reserved Instances Offer Instance Size Flexibility
Oct 11 Amazon Redshift announces support for uppercase column names
Oct 11 Amazon Redshift announces support for LISTAGG DISTINCT
Oct 05 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Amazon S3 and Azure SQL Database as Sources

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Migration

Date Announcement
Oct 10 Announcing ATADATA ATAmotion Migration Module integration with the AWS Migration Hub
Oct 05 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Amazon S3 and Azure SQL Database as Sources
Sep 19 AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Aug 29 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in Canada (Central) Region
Aug 14 Introducing AWS Migration Hub

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Oct 17 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Oct 16 Switch the tenancy of your VPC from Dedicated to Default instantly
Oct 10 Lambda@Edge Now Provides Access to Query String Parameters, Country and Device Type Headers
Oct 10 Now you can configure Amazon side private Autonomous System Number for your Virtual Private Gateway
Oct 10 Elastic Load Balancing: Application Load Balancers now support multiple SSL certificates and Smart Certificate Selection using Server Name Indication (SNI)

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Oct 11 Announcing AWS CodeStar Integration With GitHub
Oct 11 AWS CodePipeline Executions Support Push Events from AWS CodeCommit
Sep 27 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Building GitHub Pull Requests
Sep 15 AWS CodeDeploy Now Supports Using Network Load Balancers
Sep 14 AWS CodeBuild Now Provides Ability To Manage Secrets

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Oct 11 Amazon Inspector agents can now be installed via Run Command, and Amazon Inspector now supports Amazon Linux 2017.09
Oct 03 The Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Agent is Now Pre-Installed on Amazon Linux AMIs
Sep 27 AWS CloudTrail Adds S3 Data Events in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Sep 27 Amazon Chime Now Allows You to Log Console Actions Using AWS CloudTrail
Sep 26 AWS CloudFormation provides Stack Termination Protection

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Oct 17 AWS CloudHSM is now available in the US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions.
Oct 16 AWS WAF Now Supports Geographic Match
Oct 16 AWS WAF Now Supports Regular Expressions (Regex)
Oct 11 Amazon Inspector agents can now be installed via Run Command, and Amazon Inspector now supports Amazon Linux 2017.09
Oct 04 AD Connector, part of AWS Directory Service, is now available in the EU (London) Region

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Oct 17 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Oct 17 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Oct 16 Optimize your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains using slow logs
Oct 12 Amazon EMR now supports I3 instances
Oct 11 Amazon Redshift announces support for uppercase column names

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Oct 18 AWS Deep Learning AMI Now Supports PyTorch, Keras 2 and Latest Deep Learning Frameworks
Oct 12 Amazon Polly Releases Two New Voices and is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Oct 02 Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Type for Percentage Now Available in Preview; Number slot type Now Supports Decimal
Sep 21 New Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Types for Phone numbers, Speed, and Weight, Available in Preview
Sep 20 Now Specify Request Level Attributes with Amazon Lex

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Oct 16 Amazon Device Farm Launches Direct Device Access for Private Devices
Sep 27 Amazon Pinpoint broadens reach of multi-channel messaging with new support for Amazon Device Messaging, Baidu Cloud Push, and APNs Sandbox and .p8 token authentication for APNs
Sep 26 Amazon Cognito Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools and Enrich Pinpoint Campaigns
Sep 19 AWS Mobile Hub releases React Native starter project with helper code to GitHub
Sep 18 AWS Device Farm Launches ‘Custom Artifacts’ to Give Developers Flexibility in Customized Logs/Reports.

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Sep 15 Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Enhanced Request Authorizers
Aug 23 AWS Step Functions Now Available in EU (London) Region
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 Enables Customization of Error Responses

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Messaging

Date Announcement
Oct 11 Amazon SES Introduces Email Templates for Sending Personalized Email
Sep 27 Amazon Pinpoint broadens reach of multi-channel messaging with new support for Amazon Device Messaging, Baidu Cloud Push, and APNs Sandbox and .p8 token authentication for APNs
Sep 26 Amazon Cognito Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools and Enrich Pinpoint Campaigns
Sep 12 Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging
Aug 24 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Introduces Reputation Dashboard for Email Accounts

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Sep 14 Amazon WorkDocs Activity Feed Now Allows Administrators to Track Actions in Their WorkDocs Site
Sep 13 Amazon WorkMail Adds Two New Features: Send as Aliases and support for S/MIME Signing and Encryption
Sep 06 Amazon WorkDocs SDK Now Supports OAuth 2.0 For User Authorization in Third Party Applications
Sep 05 Amazon WorkSpaces users can now use Amazon WorkDocs Drive
Aug 24 Amazon WorkDocs Makes it Easy to Share Content with Anyone Using “Share a Link”

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Sep 29 Amazon AppStream 2.0 APIs can now programmatically manage your image builders
Sep 19 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Offers On-Demand Fleets to Help You Optimize Your Streaming Costs
Sep 05 Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 Graphics Design, a New, Lower Cost Instance Type for Streaming Graphics Applications
Sep 05 Amazon WorkSpaces users can now use Amazon WorkDocs Drive
Sep 05 Amazon WorkSpaces is Available in the EU (London) Region

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Sep 20 AWS Greengrass is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
Sep 08 IoT Device SDK For Python - Now With Greengrass Discovery
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

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Contact Center

Date Announcement
Sep 13 Amazon Connect Achieves HIPAA Eligibility
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

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Sep 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.11 Now Available, Adds New Animation and Visual Scripting Tools, New Cloud Gems, and More
Sep 05 Amazon GameLift available in 5 more regions across Australia, Europe and North America, now with R4 instance support and VPC peering capabilities
Aug 16 Introducing FlexMatch, the Latest Addition to Amazon GameLift’s Matchmaking Services Blog
Aug 01 Now available–Lumberyard Beta 1.10
Jun 29 Amazon GameLift Fleet Creation Logs

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Oct 18 AWS Marketplace: Announcing Availability of Multi-AMI Solutions.
Oct 06 Quick Start Update: Deploy Magento on the AWS Cloud with Amazon Aurora
Oct 04 Use New Quick Start to Deploy a SaaS Identity and Isolation Solution with Amazon Cognito in the AWS Cloud
Sep 25 Now view Apache Spark application history and YARN application status in the Amazon EMR console
Sep 15 Deploy StorReduce on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start

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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
Oct 16 Switch the tenancy of your VPC from Dedicated to Default instantly
Oct 10 Now you can configure Amazon side private Autonomous System Number for your Virtual Private Gateway
Oct 04 Amazon EC2 instances now support Microsoft SQL Server 2017
Oct 02 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs in AWS GovCloud (US)
Sep 27 AWS CloudTrail Adds S3 Data Events in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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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
Sep 12 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Location in Houston, TX
Sep 12 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Location in Canberra, Australia
Aug 31 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Location in Boston, MA
Jul 19 Sixth AZ in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Jun 29 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring

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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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