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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date	Announcement
Jan 22	AWS Trusted Advisor Expands Functionality With New Best Practice Checks
Jan 18	AWS Migration Hub Now Supports Importing On-Premises Server and Application Data to Track Migration Progress
Jan 18	Object Bounding Boxes and More Accurate Object and Scene Detection are now Available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Jan 18	Amazon Comprehend is now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail
Jan 17	AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Deploying to Amazon S3
Jan 17	AWS Secrets Manager Announces Service Level Agreement
Jan 17	Deploy Micro Focus Enterprise Server on AWS with New Quick Start
Jan 16	Amazon ECR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 16	Amazon EKS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 16	Improve Security Of Your AWS SSO Users Signing In To The User Portal By Using Email-based Verification	Blog

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Analytics

Date	Announcement
Jan 16	Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jan 16	Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Jan 14	Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 14	Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 14	Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

Application Integration

Date	Announcement
Jan 07	AWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging
Dec 19	Amazon MQ Introduces Network of Brokers Feature
Dec 19	Amazon MQ Now Supports ActiveMQ Minor Version 5.15.8
Dec 13	AWS Step Functions Now Available in EU (Paris)
Dec 13	AWS Step Functions Now Available in South America (Sao Paulo)

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)

AWS Cost Management

Date	Announcement
Nov 28	Introducing-AWS-License-Manager
Nov 19	Enhanced Forecasting Now Available in AWS Cost Explorer
Nov 15	Announcing the New AWS Cost Explorer Console
Nov 15	AWS Cost & Usage Reports Add Amazon Athena Integration, Apache Parquet Output, and Report Overwrite
Nov 13	Analyze Your Budget Performance Using New AWS Budgets History Functionality

AWS Marketplace

Date	Announcement
Jan 07	Announcing Windows Server 2019 AMIs for Amazon EC2
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 28	AWS Marketplace Makes it Easier to Build Machine Learning Applications on Amazon SageMaker
Nov 27	AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Govern Software Procurement with Private Marketplace
Nov 27	AWS Announces New Container Products in AWS Marketplace

AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date	Announcement
Jan 17	Deploy Micro Focus Enterprise Server on AWS with New Quick Start
Jan 07	Deploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start
Dec 20	New Quick Start Deploys Varnish Cache Plus (VCP) on the AWS Cloud
Dec 13	Deploy TIBCO Data Science on AWS with New Quick Start
Dec 06	Deploy Fortinet FortiGate Auto Scaling Baseline on AWS with New Quick Start

Blockchain

Date	Announcement
Nov 28	Introducing Amazon Managed Blockchain
Nov 28	Introducing Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

Business Productivity

Date	Announcement
Nov 19	Gather analytics and trigger actions on outbound mail with Lambda for WorkMail
Nov 02	Amazon WorkMail Introduces Outbound Mail Flow Rules
Oct 25	Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac
Oct 23	Amazon WorkDocs Now Lets You Control IP Address Access to Your Site
Oct 19	Amazon WorkDocs Smart Search Makes It Easier to Find Your Content

Compute

Date	Announcement
Jan 16	Amazon ECR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 16	Amazon EC2 T3 Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region
Jan 08	Amazon EC2 X1e Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region
Jan 07	AWS ParallelCluster is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Jan 07	AWS ParallelCluster is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by SINNET and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Customer Engagement

Date	Announcement
Dec 21	Amazon Connect Adds Real-Time Customer Voice Stream
Dec 19	Amazon Connect Now Supports Routing Contacts to an Individual Agent
Dec 14	Amazon Connect Adds New Contact API to Get Contact Attributes
Dec 10	Amazon Connect is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Nov 19	Amazon Connect Now Provides Contact Flow Looping

Databases

Date	Announcement
Jan 16	AWS Backup Integrates with Amazon DynamoDB for Centralized and Automated Backup Management
Jan 09	Amazon Neptune is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Dec 21	Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports M5 Instance Types
Dec 21	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports R5 Instance Types
Dec 20	Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for DynamoDB Transactions

End User Computing

Date	Announcement
Nov 20	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Dual Monitors and USB Peripherals through a Windows Client
Nov 19	Amazon WorkSpaces introduces user self-service management capabilities
Nov 15	Amazon WorkSpaces introduces bring your own license automation for Windows desktops
Oct 25	Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac
Oct 25	Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS CloudFormation Support and User Pool APIs	Blog

Developers

Date	Announcement
Dec 06	AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Nov 29	Introducing the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm	Blog
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

Developer Tools

Date	Announcement
Jan 17	AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Deploying to Amazon S3
Dec 21	New SAM PUBLISH Command Simplifies Publishing Applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository
Dec 20	Quickly Create, Build, and Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills from AWS	Blog
Dec 06	AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Dec 04	AWS X-Ray Adds the Ability to Group Traces by Root Cause

Game Development

Date	Announcement
Dec 18	Major Slice Workflow Improvements come to Lumberyard Beta 1.17 – Now Available	Blog
Dec 14	Amazon GameLift Updates Server SDK for Compatibility with Unity 2018, Unreal 4.21, and Visual Studio 15 2017
Nov 13	Massive Memory Refactor introduced in Lumberyard 1.16 – Available Now	Blog
Sep 27	Amazon GameLift is Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Jul 27	New Cloud Gems in Lumberyard Beta 1.15 — Available Now	Blog

Global Infrastructure

Date	Announcement
Dec 12	Announcing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Oct 11	AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Aug 28	AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai
Aug 27	New AWS Direct Connect locations in Paris and Taipei
Aug 13	AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO

Government & Public Sector

Date	Announcement
Jan 16	Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Jan 04	Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances are Now Available in Additional AWS Regions
Dec 21	AWS Elemental MediaConvert is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Dec 20	Usability Improvements for AWS Management Console now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Dec 19	Support Center Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Internet of Things

Date	Announcement
Dec 19	AWS IoT Device Defender Adds Support for Two New Security Metrics
Dec 17	Introducing AWS CloudFormation Template Support for AWS IoT Analytics
Nov 28	AWS IoT Greengrass Now Supports Amazon SageMaker Neo and ML Inference Connectors on Edge Devices
Nov 26	AWS IoT Things Graph, Now in Preview
Nov 26	AWS IoT Greengrass Extends Functionality with Connectors to External Applications, Hardware Root of Trust Security, and Isolation Configurations

Machine Learning

Date	Announcement
Jan 18	Object Bounding Boxes and More Accurate Object and Scene Detection are now Available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Dec 13	New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: PyTorch 1.0, MXNet 1.3.1, Chainer 5.1, and CUDA 10
Dec 13	Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Now Supports Early Stopping of Training Jobs	Blog
Dec 05	AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now FedRAMP-High Compliant in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East)

Management & Governance

Date	Announcement
Jan 11	AWS Config adds support for AWS Service Catalog
Jan 08	AWS OpsWorks Stacks Now Supports Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2018.03, and Ubuntu 18.04
Dec 20	Quickly Create, Build, and Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills from AWS	Blog
Dec 19	Support Center Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018

Media Services

Date	Announcement
Jan 15	AWS Elemental MediaConvert Adds IMF Input and Enhances Caption Burn-In Support
Dec 21	AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for Timed ID3 Metadata Insertion for HLS Streams
Dec 21	AWS Elemental MediaConvert is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Dec 12	AWS Elemental MediaStore Now Supports Delete Lifecycle Policies
Dec 06	AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports AWS Elemental MediaConnect Flows as Inputs

Migration & Transfer

Date	Announcement
Jan 18	AWS Migration Hub Now Supports Importing On-Premises Server and Application Data to Track Migration Progress
Dec 06	AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Multi-Server Migration
Nov 26	AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Is Now Generally Available
Nov 26	Introducing AWS DataSync: A Service to Simplify, Automate, and Accelerate Online Data Transfer
Nov 20	AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized to More than Double Computing Power for Edge Applications in Disconnected Environments

Mobile Services

Date	Announcement
Jan 10	AWS Device Farm Now Supports Appium Node.js and Appium Ruby
Jan 02	Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement
Dec 18	Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Building Real-Time Two-Way Communication Applications with WebSocket APIs	Blog
Nov 26	Introducing the AWS Amplify Console
Nov 16	Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries

Networking & Content Delivery

Date	Announcement
Jan 02	Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement
Dec 20	Amazon Route 53 Adds Alias Record Support For API Gateway and VPC Endpoints
Dec 18	Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Building Real-Time Two-Way Communication Applications with WebSocket APIs	Blog
Dec 14	AWS Shield Adds Advanced DDoS Protection for AWS Global Accelerator
Dec 13	Amazon SQS now Supports Amazon VPC Endpoints using AWS PrivateLink

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

Robotics

Date	Announcement
Nov 26	AWS RoboMaker	Blog

Satellite

Date	Announcement
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 27	Announcing AWS Ground Station (Preview)

Security, Identity & Compliance

Date	Announcement
Jan 17	AWS Secrets Manager Announces Service Level Agreement
Dec 20	AWS Firewall Manager Available in Four Additional Regions
Dec 20	The AWS WAF Security Automations solution now includes a monitoring dashboard
Dec 19	AWS CloudHSM is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018

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

Storage

Date	Announcement
Jan 16	Amazon EBS Integrates with AWS Backup to Protect Your Volumes
Jan 16	AWS Storage Gateway Integrates with AWS Backup to Protect Volumes Managed through Volume Gateway
Jan 16	Introducing Amazon Elastic File System Integration with AWS Backup
Jan 02	Amazon EFS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 07	Amazon EMR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

Support

Date	Announcement
Dec 19	Support Center Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Aug 06	AWS Personal Health Dashboard Now Supports Fine-Grained Access Control Via IAM Policy Conditions
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

Training & Certification

Date	Announcement
Jan 02	Announcing the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Beta Exam
Dec 19	Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 26	Machine Learning on AWS: New Training, Certification, and Exam Prep Offerings	Blog
Oct 11	Announcing More Flexibility for AWS Certification Exams
Oct 03	Major Updates to Two AWS Classroom Training Courses

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