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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	AWS Systems Manager Adds Insights and 1-Click Remediation to Help Manage Inventory Collection
Aug 16	Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Auto Scaling Replicas
Aug 16	AWS Device Farm now Allows you to Customize the Test Environment
Aug 16	AWS CloudFormation Supports AWS Systems Manager Secure String Parameters in CloudFormation Templates
Aug 16	Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation	Blog
Aug 16	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds the Ability to Review Configuration Changes
Aug 16	Deploy Corda Enterprise on AWS with New Quick Start
Aug 16	Now Easily Create Rate-Based Rules and Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with AWS Shield Advanced
Aug 16	Amazon Quicksight Launches Support for Email Reports and Data Labels	Blog
Aug 16	Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Regional Expansion

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Compute

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds the Ability to Review Configuration Changes
Aug 15	AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for PHP 7.2
Aug 09	Amazon ECS Now Supports Docker Volumes and Volume Plugins
Aug 08	Amazon EC2 C5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions
Aug 08	Amazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions

Storage

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	Deploy Corda Enterprise on AWS with New Quick Start
Aug 16	Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Regional Expansion
Aug 15	Deploy Amazon SageMaker and a Data Lake on AWS for Predictive Data Science with New Quick Start
Aug 15	Amazon EFS Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Aug 08	Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3

Databases

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Auto Scaling Replicas
Aug 16	Deploy Corda Enterprise on AWS with New Quick Start
Aug 14	Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
Aug 09	Amazon Aurora Serverless Brings Serverless Computing to Relational Databases	Blog
Aug 09	Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for Encryption at Rest

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
Aug 15	Amazon CloudFront expands in Nordics with first Edge locations in Norway and Denmark
Aug 13	AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO
Aug 09	AWS Direct Connect live in Denmark and Norway
Aug 08	Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3
Jul 31	AWS Security Token Service Now Supports AWS PrivateLink in US West (Oregon) Region

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
Aug 16	AWS CloudFormation Supports AWS Systems Manager Secure String Parameters in CloudFormation Templates
Aug 16	Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation	Blog
Aug 15	Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Aug 09	AWS Config Adds Support for AWS Systems Manager Patch Compliance and Association Compliance
Aug 09	AWS CloudTrail Adds VPC Endpoint Support to AWS PrivateLink

Media Services

Date	Announcement
Aug 15	AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in US West (N. California) Region
Aug 13	AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Supports Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) Encoding
Aug 08	AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Aug 03	Automatically Create Amazon CloudFront Distributions for AWS Elemental MediaPackage Channels from the AWS Management Console
Jul 25	AWS Elemental MediaTailor Now Available in US West (Oregon) Region

Security, Identity & Compliance

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	Now Easily Create Rate-Based Rules and Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with AWS Shield Advanced
Aug 13	Amazon Inspector Adds CIS Benchmark Support for Additional Linux Operating Systems
Aug 09	Amazon Inspector Now Supports Security Assessments for Debian
Aug 09	Easily automate secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager by deleting secrets without a recovery window
Aug 07	AWS Config Adds Support for AWS Shield

Analytics

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	Amazon Quicksight Launches Support for Email Reports and Data Labels	Blog
Aug 14	Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports zero downtime, in-place version upgrades
Aug 14	Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch versions 5.6 and 6.3
Aug 08	Amazon QuickSight now Supports Table Calculations and Minute Level Aggregation
Aug 08	Amazon Redshift automatically enables short query acceleration

Machine Learning

Date	Announcement
Aug 15	Deploy Amazon SageMaker and a Data Lake on AWS for Predictive Data Science with New Quick Start
Aug 08	Amazon Rekognition is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions	Blog
Aug 06	Amazon Rekognition Increases Accuracy of Text-in-Image
Aug 02	Amazon Polly Adds Bilingual Indian English/Hindi Language Support	Blog
Jul 25	Introducing the Serverless Bot Framework

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 31	Amazon MQ Now Supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Jul 25	Amazon MQ is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
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

Customer Engagement

Date	Announcement
Aug 04	Amazon Connect Now Lets You Transfer Calls Between Queues Automatically
Jul 31	Amazon Connect Adds User Management API
Jul 30	Amazon Connect Now Supports Using Cross-Region Amazon Lex Bots
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

Business Productivity

Date	Announcement
Jul 24	Amazon WorkDocs iOS Files Integration
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

Desktop & App Streaming

Date	Announcement
Jul 31	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business
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

Internet of Things

Date	Announcement
Aug 15	AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Aug 10	AWS IoT Core Increases Default Limits for Customers
Jul 31	AWS IoT Rules Engine Now Supports Step Functions Action
Jul 24	AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management Now HIPAA Eligible
May 11	Introducing Real-Time IoT Device Monitoring with Kinesis Data Analytics

Game Development

Date	Announcement
Jul 27	New Cloud Gems in Lumberyard Beta 1.15 — Available Now	Blog
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

AWS Marketplace

Date	Announcement
Aug 07	AWS Nonprofit Competency Launch	Blog
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

AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date	Announcement
Aug 16	Deploy Corda Enterprise on AWS with New Quick Start
Jul 18	Deploy Aviatrix FQDN Egress Filtering on AWS with New Quick Start
Jul 12	Deploy McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator on AWS with New Quick Start
Jun 19	Deploy Jupiter on AWS with New Quick Start
Jun 12	Deploy Check Point CloudGuard on AWS with New Quick Start

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
Aug 15	Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Aug 15	AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Aug 01	AWS Storage Gateway Expands Support of AWS Key Management Service, Improving Encryption Capabilities
Jul 25	Amazon GuardDuty Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jul 17	Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance

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

Global Infrastructure

Date	Announcement
Aug 13	AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO
Aug 09	AWS Direct Connect live in Denmark and Norway
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

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
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
Mar 09	AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Checks for Ten New Service Limits, AuroraDB Availability, and EC2 Windows

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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