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Amazon Lex Now Generally Available

Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Sep 21 New Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Types for Phone numbers, Speed, and Weight, Available in Preview
Sep 21 Now Use AWS IAM to Delete a Service-Linked Role When You No Longer Require an AWS Service to Perform Actions on Your Behalf
Sep 21 AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events
Sep 21 Elastic Load Balancing: Network Load Balancer now supports load balancing to IP addresses as targets for AWS and on-premises resources
Sep 21 Now Reset Your AWS Root Account’s Lost MFA Device Faster by Using the AWS Management Console
Sep 20 AWS Greengrass is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
Sep 20 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Customer-Initiated Snapshot Upgrades for Deprecated Oracle Database Versions
Sep 20 New Kinesis Analytics stream processing functions for time series analytics, real time sessionization, and more
Sep 20 Now Specify Request Level Attributes with Amazon Lex
Sep 19 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Offers On-Demand Fleets to Help You Optimize Your Streaming Costs

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Compute

Date Announcement
Sep 18 Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Stop and Start Your Spot Instances Blog
Sep 18 AWS Config Adds Support for Auto Scaling Groups
Sep 13 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks Enhancements
Sep 13 General Availability: A new addition to the Amazon EC2 memory-optimized X1 Instance family – x1e.32xlarge
Sep 07 Amazon EC2 Container Service Now Integrated with Network Load Balancer to Support High-Throughput and Direct TCP Connections with Containers

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Storage

Date Announcement
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
Sep 12 Backup to AWS with Commvault V11 and the AWS Storage Gateway virtual tape library (VTL)
Sep 08 New Quick Start: Build a Data Lake Foundation on the AWS Cloud with AWS Services

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Databases

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Customer-Initiated Snapshot Upgrades for Deprecated Oracle Database Versions
Sep 15 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Multimedia, Spatial, and Locator Options
Sep 14 Amazon Aurora Enables Database Activity Monitoring with CloudWatch Logs
Sep 14 Amazon Redshift now supports late-binding views referencing Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum external tables
Sep 13 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Versions 5.0.4 and 5.1.2

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Migration

Date Announcement
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
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

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Sep 12 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Location in Houston, TX
Sep 12 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Location in Canberra, Australia
Sep 07 Amazon Route 53 Announces Support For DNS Query Logging
Sep 07 Amazon VPC NAT Gateways now support Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring and Resource Tagging
Sep 01 Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Announces Support For Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 15 AWS CodeDeploy Now Supports Using Network Load Balancers
Sep 14 AWS CodeBuild Now Provides Ability To Manage Secrets
Sep 08 AWS CodePipeline now provides notifications on pipeline, stage, and action status changes
Aug 30 AWS X-Ray SDK for Go (Beta)
Aug 17 AWS CodeStar is Now Available in US West (N. California) & EU (London) Regions

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 21 AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events
Sep 18 AWS Config Adds Support for Auto Scaling Groups
Sep 18 Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Run Command Adds Tag-Based Permissions and Multi-Tag Support
Sep 14 Amazon Aurora Enables Database Activity Monitoring with CloudWatch Logs
Sep 08 AWS Config Adds Support for Amazon DynamoDB Tables

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Sep 21 Now Use AWS IAM to Delete a Service-Linked Role When You No Longer Require an AWS Service to Perform Actions on Your Behalf
Sep 15 AWS IAM Policy Summaries Now Help You Identify Errors and Correct Permissions in Your IAM Policies
Sep 15 Amazon Inspector expands security assessment support for RHEL 7.4
Sep 08 Create and Manage AWS IAM Roles More Easily with the Updated IAM Console
Aug 17 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) is now available in the US West (N. California) Region

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Sep 20 New Kinesis Analytics stream processing functions for time series analytics, real time sessionization, and more
Sep 14 Amazon Redshift now supports late-binding views referencing Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum external tables
Sep 13 Amazon Kinesis Analytics improves application performance for high volume data streams
Sep 08 New Quick Start: Build a Data Lake Foundation on the AWS Cloud with AWS Services
Sep 08 AWS Glue is Now Available in the US West (Oregon) and US East (Ohio) regions

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
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
Sep 13 Announcing enhancements to the Amazon Lex test console Blog
Sep 07 Amazon Polly Adds Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) Tag
Sep 07 Export your Amazon Lex chatbot to the Alexa Skills Kit Blog

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
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.
Sep 15 Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Enhanced Request Authorizers
Sep 12 Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging
Aug 17 Amazon Cognito Is Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

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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 Increases Account Level Throttle Limits to 10,000 Requests per Second (RPS)

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Messaging

Date Announcement
Sep 12 Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging
Aug 24 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Introduces Reputation Dashboard for Email Accounts
Aug 18 Amazon SES Announces Dedicated IP Pools for sending Email Blog
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

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Sep 14 The 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 The 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 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
Aug 04 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Lets You Use Microphones with Your Streaming Applications

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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 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
May 16 Amazon GameLift Metrics Now Available in Amazon CloudWatch

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Sep 15 Deploy StorReduce on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Sep 13 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Sep 13 Deploy IBM Spectrum Scale on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Sep 12 Deploy Solace VMR on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Aug 28 VMware Cloud on AWS is now initially available in the AWS US West (Oregon) region

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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
Sep 18 AWS Config Adds Support for Auto Scaling Groups
Sep 12 AWS GovCloud (US) Receives an Impact Level 5 (IL5) Department of Defense Provisional Authorization to Support Mission-Critical Systems
Sep 08 AWS Config Adds Support for Amazon DynamoDB Tables
Sep 06 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12 and 9.3.17 in AWS GovCloud (US)
Sep 06 Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for MariaDB Achieve HIPAA Eligibility

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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
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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