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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
May 24 Amazon Inspector Adds Ability to Run Security Assessments on Amazon EC2 Instances Without Adding Tags
May 24 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Apache Tomcat v8.5 and Apache HTTP Server v2.4
May 24 AWS Storage Gateway VTL Expands Backup Application Support With NovaStor DataCenter
May 24 Application Load Balancer Announces Slow Start Support for its Load Balancing Algorithm
May 24 The AWS Organizations Console is Now Available in Eight New Languages
May 24 Amazon Simple Queue Service Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in 13 Additional Regions Blog
May 23 PostgreSQL 10 now Supported in Amazon RDS for AWS GovCloud (US)
May 23 AWS AppSync is now in new regions and adds OIDC authorization support
May 23 Amazon Aurora Publishes General, Slow Query and Error Logs to Amazon CloudWatch
May 23 AWS Batch is now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

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Compute

Date Announcement
May 24 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Apache Tomcat v8.5 and Apache HTTP Server v2.4
May 23 AWS Batch is now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
May 22 Amazon ECS Service Discovery Supports Bridge and Host Container Networking Modes
May 17 Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
May 17 Introducing Amazon EC2 C5d Instances

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Storage

Date Announcement
May 24 AWS Storage Gateway VTL Expands Backup Application Support With NovaStor DataCenter
May 09 Copying Encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots Under Custom CMK now Completes Faster With Less Storage
Apr 30 Amazon S3 Adds Support for Amazon Glacier and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access to Amazon CloudWatch Storage Metrics
Apr 04 AWS Storage Gateway VTL (Tape Gateway) is available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Apr 04 Amazon S3 Select Is Now Generally Available Blog

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Databases

Date Announcement
May 23 PostgreSQL 10 now Supported in Amazon RDS for AWS GovCloud (US)
May 23 Amazon Aurora Publishes General, Slow Query and Error Logs to Amazon CloudWatch
May 23 Amazon Redshift Adds New CloudWatch Metrics for Easy Visualization of Cluster Performance
May 22 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports X1 and X1e Instance Types in AWS GovCloud (US)
May 22 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports New X1 and X1e Instance Types

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Migration

Date Announcement
May 10 AWS Database Migration Service Supports R4 Instance Types Blog
Apr 26 AWS Database Migration Service Supports IBM Db2 as a Source Blog
Apr 26 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Apr 04 AWS Snowball Edge Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
May 24 Application Load Balancer Announces Slow Start Support for its Load Balancing Algorithm
May 16 EC2 VPN Update – Custom PSK, Inside Tunnel IP, and SDK Update Available for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
May 14 Lambda@Edge Adds Support for Node.js v8.10
Apr 25 Amazon CloudFront launches a third Edge location in Singapore and second Edge location in Taipei
Apr 10 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now Supports AWS PrivateLink Blog

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
May 16 AWS CodeBuild Supports VPC Endpoints
May 16 AWS CodeCommit Supports Branch-Level Permissions
May 08 AWS SAM CLI Simplifies Building Serverless Apps with the SAM init Command
May 04 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Local Testing and Debugging
May 01 AWS CodePipeline Supports Push Events from GitHub via Webhooks

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
May 22 AWS CloudFormation now Supports AWS Budgets as a Resource for CloudFormation Templates, Stacks, and StackSets
May 18 AWS CloudFormation Supports FIPS 140-2 Validated API Endpoints in US Regions
May 15 AWS Systems Manager Helps You Collect Inventory on All Managed Instances in a Single Click
May 09 Amazon ECS Adds SSM Parameter for Launching ECS-Optimized EC2 Instances using AWS CloudFormation
May 09 AWS Auto Scaling Scaling Plans Can Now be Created Using AWS CloudFormation Blog

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Media Services

Date Announcement
May 10 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Apr 27 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Adds Support for CMAF HLS Endpoints, with Content Protection and HDR
Apr 16 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for RTMP and RTMPS Outputs
Mar 29 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Introduces Basic Pricing Tier
Mar 21 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Ability to Edit Inputs and Input Security Groups

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
May 24 Amazon Inspector Adds Ability to Run Security Assessments on Amazon EC2 Instances Without Adding Tags
May 24 The AWS Organizations Console is Now Available in Eight New Languages
May 22 Amazon Macie Adds New Dashboard Making It Easier to Identify Publicly Accessible Amazon Simple Storage Service Objects
May 17 Amazon Cognito Now Supports the Capability to Add Custom OIDC-providers
May 17 Quickly Identify When Your IAM User Last Used An Access Key in AWS GovCloud (US)

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Analytics

Date Announcement
May 23 Amazon Redshift Adds New CloudWatch Metrics for Easy Visualization of Cluster Performance
May 11 Introducing Real-Time IoT Device Monitoring with Kinesis Data Analytics
May 10 Stream Real-Time Data in Apache Parquet or ORC Format Using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
May 10 AWS Glue is now available in the EU (London) AWS Region
May 07 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Application Monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
May 21 Easily Access Amazon SageMaker Example Notebooks Through the Jupyter Interface
May 16 New Developer Preview: Use Amazon Polly Voices in Alexa Skills
May 15 Optimized TensorFlow 1.8 Now Available in the AWS Deep Learning AMIs to Accelerate Training on Amazon EC2 C5 and P3 Instances
May 10 Amazon Connect Now Supports Keypad Input with an Amazon Lex Chatbot
May 10 AWS Machine Learning for Consulting Partners Competency Blog

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Apr 02 Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs
Apr 02 Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations
Apr 04 AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source
Feb 27 AWS Amplify Open Source JavaScript Library Adds React Native Push Notifications and Authentication Improvements
Jan 17 Amazon API Gateway Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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AR & VR

Date Announcement
May 15 Amazon Sumerian is Generally Available
Nov 26 Announcing Amazon Sumerian (Preview)

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
May 24 Amazon Simple Queue Service Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in 13 Additional Regions Blog
May 16 Higher Throughput Workflows for AWS Step Functions
May 09 AWS Step Functions Regional Expansions
Apr 10 Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds Amazon SQS FIFO as an Event Target
Apr 10 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now Supports AWS PrivateLink Blog

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
May 22 Five New Amazon Connect Integrations from eGain, Teleopti, WEBTEXT, HERE Technologies, ServiceNow
May 10 Amazon Connect Now Supports Keypad Input with an Amazon Lex Chatbot
Mar 30 Amazon Connect Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 is Generally Available
Mar 30 Amazon Connect Automated Outbound Calling is Now Generally Available
Mar 15 Three New Amazon Connect Integrations Offer Contact Center Solutions from Qualtrak Solutions, VoiceBase, and Perficient

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Apr 09 Amazon WorkMail Introduces New Ways to Share Mailboxes
Apr 02 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Is Now Available for Microsoft Windows Users
Feb 28 Amazon WorkDocs Now Offers Data Retention Capabilities
Feb 22 Amazon WorkDocs Web Application Redesign Offers Users an Improved Collaboration Experience Blog
Feb 12 Amazon WorkMail Now Supports the MAPI Over HTTP Protocol

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
May 15 Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Mouse Support on iPad Devices
May 02 Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Canada Region
Mar 28 Amazon Workspaces is now Available in the Asia Pacfic (Seoul) Region
Mar 28 Amazon AppStream 2.0 is Now Available in the AWS Germany (Frankfurt) Region
Mar 26 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Enables Custom Branding

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
May 11 Introducing Real-Time IoT Device Monitoring with Kinesis Data Analytics
May 10 Introducing the IoT Device Simulator
May 09 AWS IoT Core Now Supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Mar 29 AWS IoT Core Increases Default Limits for Customers
Feb 07 AWS IoT Core Now Supports MQTT Connections with Certificate Based Client Authentication On Port 443

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Game Development

Date Announcement
May 11 Major Updates Come to Script Canvas with Lumberyard Beta 1.14 – Available Now Blog
May 10 Introducing Amazon GameLift Target Tracking for Autoscaling Blog
Mar 15 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.13 Adds Text to Speech Customizability, Cloud Gem Cross-Communication and PhysX Support
Feb 15 Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and Spot Instances Reduce Costs by up to 90%
Feb 08 Amazon GameLift Introduces Backfill Functionality to FlexMatch, the Dynamic Matchmaking Service for Multiplayer Experiences

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
May 10 Deploy CloudStax NoSQL DB for Apache Cassandra with New Quick Start
May 10 AWS Machine Learning for Consulting Partners Competency Blog
May 09 Deploy a Blue-Green Architecture on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
May 09 Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace Standardizes Software License Terms to Simplify and Streamline Software Procurement for Enterprise Customers
May 03 Updated Quick Start for Tableau Server on the AWS Cloud Supports Linux

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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
May 23 PostgreSQL 10 now Supported in Amazon RDS for AWS GovCloud (US)
May 22 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports X1 and X1e Instance Types in AWS GovCloud (US)
May 17 Quickly Identify When Your IAM User Last Used An Access Key in AWS GovCloud (US)
May 16 Amazon RDS SQL Server Adds High Availability Support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
May 16 EC2 VPN Update – Custom PSK, Inside Tunnel IP, and SDK Update Available for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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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
Feb 08 New AWS Direct Connect sites land in Paris and Taipei
Feb 06 AWS Direct Connect Provides Flexibility for Balancing Data Transfer out Traffic.
Dec 21 AWS Direct Connect added two new locations in Minneapolis, MN and Bangalore, India
Dec 12 AWS Direct Connect brings the Amazon network to South Africa in Cape Town & Johannesburg
Dec 12 AWS Direct Connect added four new locations in Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and London

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Apr 23 Announcing the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam
Apr 13 Announcing 4 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services
Mar 19 Take AWS Training Courses on edX and Udemy Blog
Feb 19 Updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Now Available
Feb 19 Register for the new AWS Certified Developer – Associate Beta Exam

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Nov 18 Trusted Advisor enables automated actions and custom notifications
Sep 22 AWS Well-Architected Reviews now available with the Enterprise Support Plan Blog

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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
May 22 AWS CloudFormation now Supports AWS Budgets as a Resource for CloudFormation Templates, Stacks, and StackSets
May 08 Monitor your Reserved Instance coverage by receiving alerts via AWS Budgets
Apr 19 Identify Opportunities for Amazon RDS Cost Savings Using AWS Cost Explorer's Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations
Mar 20 Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations via the AWS Cost Explorer API
Mar 13 Manage your Amazon RDS, Redshift, and ElastiCache Reservations via the Reserved Instance (RI) Coverage Report in AWS Cost Explorer

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