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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Apr 23 Announcing the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam
Apr 19 AWS CloudHSM is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Apr 19 Introducing AWS Blockchain Templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric Blog
Apr 19 Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with support for Array data types
Apr 19 Identify Opportunities for Amazon RDS Cost Savings Using AWS Cost Explorer's Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations
Apr 19 Amazon EC2 now Offers Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux 2 AMIs
Apr 19 Amazon DynamoDB Encryption at Rest Now Available in Additional Regions
Apr 19 Troubleshoot Domain Name System (DNS) Easily in AWS Managed Microsoft AD
Apr 19 New AWS Services Enable Multi-account Capabilities Through AWS Organizations
Apr 18 Introducing the Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA) Blog

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Compute

Date Announcement
Apr 19 Amazon EC2 now Offers Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux 2 AMIs
Apr 10 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now Supports AWS PrivateLink Blog
Apr 10 Amazon ECS provides ECS-Optimized AMI metadata via SSM Parameters
Apr 09 Amazon EC2 C5 Instances Are Now Available in Seoul and Tokyo Regions
Apr 09 Amazon EC2 M5 Instances Are Now Available in Tokyo and São Paulo Regions

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Storage

Date Announcement
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
Apr 04 Announcing S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, a New Amazon S3 Storage Class Blog
Apr 04 File Gateway Supports Amazon S3 One Zone-IA
Apr 04 AWS Snowball Edge Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

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Databases

Date Announcement
Apr 19 Amazon DynamoDB Encryption at Rest Now Available in Additional Regions
Apr 18 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Apr 10 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Fast Database Cloning
Apr 09 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Introduces New CPU Utilization Metric For Better Visibility Into Redis Workloads
Mar 29 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22 for Commercial Regions

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Migration

Date Announcement
Apr 04 AWS Snowball Edge Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Mar 05 AWS Snowball Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Mar 01 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region Blog
Feb 08 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in EU (London)

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Apr 10 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now Supports AWS PrivateLink Blog
Apr 09 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the EU (Paris) Region
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

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Mar 28 AWS CodeBuild Now Available in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Paris) Regions
Mar 22 AWS CodePipeline Supports Push Events from Amazon S3
Feb 21 AWS CodePipeline Now Available in Europe (Paris) Region
Feb 14 AWS CodeStar Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Feb 05 AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET version 2.0.0 (beta)

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Apr 10 Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds Amazon SQS FIFO as an Event Target
Apr 04 New Multi-Account, Multi-Region Data Aggregation Capability in AWS Config
Apr 04 Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math Blog
Apr 02 Amazon CloudWatch Adds Route 53 Logs to Vended Logs
Mar 29 AWS Config Notifications Are Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events

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Media Services

Date Announcement
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
Mar 21 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Available in Five New Regions
Mar 21 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (São Paulo) Regions

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Apr 19 AWS CloudHSM is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Apr 19 Troubleshoot Domain Name System (DNS) Easily in AWS Managed Microsoft AD
Apr 19 New AWS Services Enable Multi-account Capabilities Through AWS Organizations
Apr 13 Announcing 4 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services
Apr 04 Introducing AWS Secrets Manager

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Apr 19 Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with support for Array data types
Apr 18 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Apr 10 AWS Glue now supports Apache Spark 2.2.1
Apr 10 AWS Glue now supports Timeout Values for ETL jobs
Apr 10 Support for Spark 2.3.0 on Amazon EMR Release 5.13.0

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Apr 10 AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Optimized TensorFlow 1.7 for Faster Training on Amazon EC2 C5 and P3 Instances
Apr 09 Amazon Polly Increases Character Limits
Apr 04 Amazon Transcribe is Now Generally Available Blog
Apr 04 Amazon Translate is Now Generally Available Blog
Apr 04 Amazon SageMaker has Open Sourced TensorFlow 1.6 and Apache MXNet 1.1 Docker Containers with Support for Local Mode, and More Instance Types Across All Modules

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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
Nov 26 Announcing Amazon Sumerian (Preview)

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
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
Mar 12 Amazon SNS Introduces New Message Filtering Operators Blog
Jan 24 AWS Step Functions Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Canada (Central) Regions
Nov 22 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Introduces Message Filtering Blog

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
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
Mar 05 Amazon Connect is Now SOC Compliant
Feb 08 Amazon Connect Adds Speech Synthesis Markup Language Support for Amazon Lex Chatbots

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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
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
Mar 08 Amazon WorkSpaces Reduces User Fees for Qualified Education Institutions
Feb 23 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Copying Images Across AWS Regions

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
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
Dec 05 Amazon IoT Rules Engine Now Supports Error Actions
Nov 29 AWS Greengrass adds feature for Machine Learning Inference
Nov 29 AWS IoT Core Adds Enhanced Authentication Features

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Game Development

Date Announcement
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
Dec 14 Introducing Lumberyard Beta 1.12
Sep 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.11 Now Available, Adds New Animation and Visual Scripting Tools, New Cloud Gems, and More

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Feb 22 Support for Apache Hadoop 2.8.3 and Presto Integration with EMRFS on Amazon EMR Release 5.12.0.
Jan 19 Deploy TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Jan 12 Deploy IBM WebSphere Liberty on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Dec 19 AWS Marketplace announces enhanced product detail pages
Dec 13 Introducing Amazon Linux 2

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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
Apr 19 AWS CloudHSM is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Apr 18 Introducing the Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA) Blog
Apr 18 Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region with twice the performance as DC1 at the same price
Apr 19 AWS EdStart Global Launch
Mar 28 AWS Storage Gateway Available in GovCloud (US)

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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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