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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	AWS CodeBuild Adds Build Monitoring and Notification with Amazon CloudWatch
Jul 19	Amazon Redshift announces free upgrade for DC1 Reserved Instances to DC2
Jul 19	AWS Fargate Available in Singapore, Sydney, and Frankfurt Regions
Jul 19	Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK Enhancements
Jul 19	AWS SAM CLI Launches New Commands to Simplify Testing and Debugging Serverless Applications
Jul 19	AWS Device Farm Adds Integration with AWS CodePipeline
Jul 19	Announcing the New AWS Free Tier Widget on the AWS Billing Dashboard
Jul 19	Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region	Blog
Jul 19	Amazon MQ Now Supports AWS CloudTrail
Jul 18	Amazon RDS Performance Insights on RDS for PostgreSQL

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Compute

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region	Blog
Jul 17	Announcing Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Preview)
Jul 13	Amazon EC2 AMIs with .NET Core Now Support .NET Core 2.1
Jul 12	Introducing Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS Snapshots
Jul 10	Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Adds New Features and Performance Improvements

Storage

Date	Announcement
Jul 17	Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance
Jul 17	New SBE1 Amazon EC2 instances for AWS Snowball Edge	Blog
Jul 13	Amazon EFS Achieves PCI DSS Compliance
Jul 12	Amazon EFS Now Supports Provisioned Throughput
Jul 11	Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region

Databases

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Amazon Redshift announces free upgrade for DC1 Reserved Instances to DC2
Jul 19	Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK Enhancements
Jul 18	Amazon RDS Performance Insights on RDS for PostgreSQL
Jul 11	Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Minor Version 9.6.8
Jul 09	Publish Logs from Amazon RDS for Oracle to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Migration

Date	Announcement
Jul 17	New SBE1 Amazon EC2 instances for AWS Snowball Edge	Blog
Jul 12	AWS Migration Hub Gives You More Migration Tracking Options With The Addition of RiverMeadow
Jun 28	AWS Database Migration Service Can Start Replication Anywhere in a Transaction Log	Blog
May 10	AWS Database Migration Service Supports R4 Instance Types	Blog
Apr 26	AWS Database Migration Service Supports IBM Db2 as a Source	Blog

Networking & Content Delivery

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region	Blog
Jul 17	Announcing Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Preview)
Jul 13	Amazon API Gateway Increases API Limits
Jul 12	Amazon API Gateway Supports Request/Response Parameters and Status Overrides
Jul 12	Amazon CloudFront announces four new Edge locations, including its first location in Cape Town, South Africa

Developer Tools

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	AWS CodeBuild Adds Build Monitoring and Notification with Amazon CloudWatch
Jul 19	AWS SAM CLI Launches New Commands to Simplify Testing and Debugging Serverless Applications
May 25	AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for Windows Builds
May 16	AWS CodeBuild Supports VPC Endpoints
May 16	AWS CodeCommit Supports Branch-Level Permissions

Management Tools

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	AWS CodeBuild Adds Build Monitoring and Notification with Amazon CloudWatch
Jul 19	Amazon MQ Now Supports AWS CloudTrail
Jul 18	AWS Systems Manager Run Command Now Streams Output to Amazon CloudWatch Logs	Blog
Jul 18	AWS Systems Manager Automation Conditional Branching for Step Failure
Jul 13	AWS Service Catalog Now Supports Service Catalog Resources in CloudFormation

Media Services

Date	Announcement
Jul 18	AWS Elemental MediaStore Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Jul 02	AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Supports Resource Tags
Jun 27	AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in South America (São Paulo) Region
Jun 20	AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Console and API-Based Reserved Pricing for Channel Inputs and Outputs
Jun 13	AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region

Security, Identity & Compliance

Date	Announcement
Jul 12	Delegate Permission Management to Employees by Using IAM Permissions Boundaries
Jul 11	AWS Secrets Manager Now Supports AWS PrivateLink
Jul 06	Automate Amazon GuardDuty Provisioning Over Multiple Accounts and Regions with AWS CloudFormation StackSets Integration
Jun 28	Amazon Macie Adds Support for Service-Linked Roles
Jun 27	Amazon Inspector Now Provides an Exclusion List that Details Errors to Help Resolve Assessment Run Issues

Analytics

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Amazon Redshift announces free upgrade for DC1 Reserved Instances to DC2
Jul 18	Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in EU (Frankfurt)
Jul 13	AWS Glue now provides additional ETL job metrics
Jul 13	Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports configuring data enrichment from the AWS Management Console
Jul 12	Support for Hue 4.2.0 and Oozie 5.0.0 on Amazon EMR release 5.15.0

Machine Learning

Date	Announcement
Jul 17	Amazon SageMaker Supports High Throughput Batch Transform Jobs for Non-Real Time Inferencing
Jul 17	Amazon Polly Now Supports Input Character Limit of 100K and Stores Output Files in S3
Jul 17	Amazon Polly Now Lets You Define the Maximum Amount of Time for Speech to Complete
Jul 05	AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Chainer 4.2, Keras 2.2, and MXNet Model Server 0.3
Jun 27	Amazon SageMaker is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region

Mobile Services

Date	Announcement
Jul 13	Amazon API Gateway Increases API Limits
Jul 12	Amazon API Gateway Supports Request/Response Parameters and Status Overrides
Jul 11	Amazon API Gateway Usage Plans Now Support Method Level Throttling
Jun 27	AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway are Now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 27	AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway are Now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD

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)

Application Integration

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Amazon MQ Now Supports AWS CloudTrail
Jul 11	AWS Step Functions Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Jun 29	Amazon MQ Introduces Four New Broker Instances
Jun 28	AWS Step Functions Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jun 27	Amazon MQ is Now Available in the US West (N. California) Region

Customer Engagement

Date	Announcement
Jul 02	Amazon Connect Adds New Dynamic Outbound Caller ID
Jun 25	Amazon Connect Now Supports Amazon Lex in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region
Jun 18	Amazon Connect Adds New Contact Attributes for System Metrics
Jun 18	Amazon Pinpoint Now Includes Phone Number Validate	Blog
May 22	Five New Amazon Connect Integrations from eGain, Teleopti, WEBTEXT, HERE Technologies, ServiceNow

Business Productivity

Date	Announcement
Jun 21	Amazon WorkDocs Collaborative Editing powered by Hancom Thinkfree Office Online	Blog
Jun 06	Amazon WorkDocs introduces Open with Office Online
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

Desktop & App Streaming

Date	Announcement
Jun 26	AWS Introduces Amazon Linux WorkSpaces
Jun 14	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Configuring your Users' Default Application Settings
Jun 14	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Time Zone, Locale, and Language Input Settings
Jun 04	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Google Drive for G Suite
May 25	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Administrative Controls for Limiting File Movement, Clipboard, and Printing

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

Game Development

Date	Announcement
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
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%

AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date	Announcement
Jul 18	Deploy Aviatrix FQDN Egress Filtering on AWS with New Quick Start
Jul 12	AWS Marketplace Helps Customers Quickly Map Products in Their Existing Software Inventory
Jun 28	Quick Start update: SAP HANA with high availability on the AWS Cloud
Jun 20	SaaS and API products now available in AWS Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US)
Jun 07	AWS Marketplace Launches New Website Workflow

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

Government & Public Sector

Date	Announcement
Jul 17	Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance
Jul 17	New SBE1 Amazon EC2 instances for AWS Snowball Edge	Blog
Jul 12	New AWS Public Datasets Available from Allen Institute for Brain Science, NOAA, Hubble Space Telescope, and Others
Jul 05	Tag-On Create for Amazon EC2 & Amazon EBS is now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jul 02	VPC Endpoints for Amazon DynamoDB Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Startups

Date	Announcement
Sep 21	New AWS Pop-up Loft Opens in Berlin	Blog
Aug 20	AWS Pop-Up Loft \| London
May 19	The AWS Pop-up Loft Comes to New York
Sep 18	We’re Back! Starting October 1st, the AWS Pop-up Loft is Relaunching in San Francisco

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

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

Training & Certification

Date	Announcement
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
Mar 19	Take AWS Training Courses on edX and Udemy	Blog
Feb 19	Updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Now Available

Support

Date	Announcement
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
Nov 18	Trusted Advisor enables automated actions and custom notifications

AWS Cost Management

Date	Announcement
Jul 19	Announcing the New AWS Free Tier Widget on the AWS Billing Dashboard
Jul 11	Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations for your Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch Reservations using AWS Cost Explorer
Jun 27	Linked Accounts can now Access AWS Cost Explorer’s Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations
Jun 20	Automatically Refresh your AWS Cost & Usage Report when Charges Related to Previous Months are Detected
Jun 13	Access your Reserved Instance (RI) Savings Information using AWS Cost Explorer’s RI Utilization Report

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