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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Jun 27 AWS CloudTrail Adds Amazon CloudWatch Events to the API Activity History
Jun 27 AWS Batch is Now Available in Sydney, London, Frankfurt, and Columbus
Jun 27 Amazon ECS RunTask and StartTask APIs now support additional override parameters
Jun 27 Amazon Connect adds support for seven new languages
Jun 27 Amazon Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region
Jun 27 Amazon Connect introduces a real-time performance dashboard
Jun 27 Amazon RDS Enables Encryption at Rest for Additional T2 Instance Types
Jun 27 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul
Jun 27 AWS Greengrass Available in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Jun 26 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Windows Server 2016

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Amazon Launch Update: Amazon Rekognition »
Amazon Launch Update: Amazon Rekognition
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Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) »
Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
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Announcing AWS X-Ray »
Announcing AWS X-Ray
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Amazon Polly Adds New Whispered Voice Tag, and Speech Marks for Synchronization w/Visual Animation »
Amazon Polly Adds New Whispered Voice Tag, and Speech Marks for Synchronization w/Visual Animation
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Amazon Lex Now Generally Available »
Amazon Lex Now Generally Available

What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
Jun 27 Amazon ECS RunTask and StartTask APIs now support additional override parameters
Jun 27 AWS Batch is Now Available in Sydney, London, Frankfurt, and Columbus
Jun 26 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Windows Server 2016
Jun 22 AWS Lambda Available in Canada (Central) Region
Jun 15 AWS Batch is Now Available in Tokyo

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Storage

Date Announcement
Jun 22 AWS Storage Gateway expands file gateway to run on Microsoft Hyper-V
Jun 01 Amazon Aurora Can Export Data into Amazon S3
Jun 01 Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield are now HIPAA eligible
May 23 AWS Storage Gateway now provides retrieval of archived virtual tapes in as little as 3-5 hours, adds additional virtual tape information, and adds cached volume cloning
May 23 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Now Supports Cost Allocation for Snapshots

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Databases

Date Announcement
Jun 27 Amazon RDS Enables Encryption at Rest for Additional T2 Instance Types
Jun 22 Amazon RDS Is Available on M4 Instances in the Sao Paulo Region
Jun 21 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Generally Available
Jun 16 Amazon Aurora is Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region
Jun 14 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling

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Migration

Date Announcement
Jun 01 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in new regions
May 11 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift
Apr 18 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports Vertica, Greenplum and Netezza Data Warehouses to Amazon Redshift
Apr 10 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for MongoDB and Amazon DynamoDB
Mar 28 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as a Target

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Jun 27 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul
Jun 21 Amazon Route 53 announces support for multivalue answers in response to DNS queries
Jun 01 Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield are now HIPAA eligible
May 31 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Atlanta, Columbus and Toronto
May 23 Announcing Second Edge Location in Seattle, Washington for Amazon CloudFront

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Jun 22 AWS CodePipeline Adds Ability To View History Of Pipeline Executions
Jun 22 AWS CodeBuild Now Provides Build Notifications
Jun 14 Announcing AWS CloudTrail support in AWS CodeStar
Jun 14 AWS X-Ray Supports Visualizing Node and Edge Latency Distribution
Jun 06 AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in US West (N. California), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and EU (London) Regions

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Jun 27 AWS CloudTrail Adds Amazon CloudWatch Events to the API Activity History
Jun 22 Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Hierarchy, Tagging, and Notification Support for Parameter Store
Jun 22 CloudWatch simplifies your AWS bill, bringing together CloudWatch charges under one Billing section
Jun 15 Configure Amazon CloudWatch Events as an AWS Lambda Event Source Using the Lambda Console
Jun 14 Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Support for SUSE Linux

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jun 21 AWS Announces Rate-Based Rules for AWS WAF
Jun 06 Amazon Inspector is now available in US West (Northern California)
Jun 01 Introducing AWS Certificate Manager
Jun 01 Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield are now HIPAA eligible
May 31 Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships across Hierarchies Blog

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Jun 22 Amazon Athena is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Jun 16 Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports Amazon Kinesis Firehose as a target
Jun 08 Amazon Athena is now available in Europe (Ireland)
Jun 05 Updates to Apache Spark and in-transit encryption for Presto in Amazon EMR release 5.6.0
Jun 01 Amazon QuickSight adds support for Amazon Redshift Spectrum

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Jun 12 Amazon Rekognition Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 08 Easily recognize famous individuals and celebrities using Amazon Rekognition Blog
May 18 Amazon Polly introduces a new German female voice, Vicki Blog
Apr 19 Amazon Lex Now Generally Available Blog
Apr 19 Detect explicit or suggestive adult content using Amazon Rekognition Blog

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Jun 22 Amazon API Gateway Available in Canada (Central) Region
Jun 13 AWS Mobile Hub Adds Deploy to Mobile Hub Support Directly from GitHub
Jun 09 Amazon Pinpoint Adds SMS Text Messages and Email Support to Provide Multi-channel Messaging, Campaigns and Analytics
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Enables Customization of Error Responses
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Increases Account Level Throttle Limits to 10,000 Requests per Second (RPS)

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Application Services

Date Announcement
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 Enables Customization of Error Responses
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Increases Account Level Throttle Limits to 10,000 Requests per Second (RPS)
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Available in South America (São Paulo) Region

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Messaging

Date Announcement
Jun 15 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is Now a HIPAA Eligible Service
Jun 14 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Now Available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region
Jun 09 Amazon Pinpoint Adds SMS Text Messages and Email Support to Provide Multi-channel Messaging, Campaigns and Analytics
Jun 08 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing are Now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region
May 23 Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Jun 05 Amazon WorkDocs Administrative SDK adds APIs to access and update metadata, tags, and comments
May 24 Amazon WorkDocs now supports file lock and unlock when you’re editing content
May 10 Amazon WorkMail now offers an SMTP gateway for sending email
Apr 25 Amazon WorkDocs iOS App Now Lets You Save Files Directly to WorkDocs, and Open Files Stored in Your WorkDocs Account Using Other Apps on Your Device
Mar 23 Amazon WorkDocs Administrative SDK is now generally available

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Jun 19 Amazon WorkSpaces adds new security features to manage which client devices can access WorkSpaces
Jun 15 Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces built-in user management and web portals for users
Jun 01 Amazon WorkSpaces now offers a Free Tier for new customers
May 26 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to use your VPC security groups to control network traffic
May 18 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers persistent storage for end users’ files, backed by Amazon S3

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Jun 27 AWS Greengrass Available in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Jun 07 Announcing availability of the AWS IoT Button in Europe
Jun 07 AWS Greengrass is Now Generally Available
Jun 05 AWS IoT Now Supports Integration with Salesforce IoT Cloud
Mar 07 AWS IoT Available in EU (London)

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Contact Center

Date Announcement
Jun 27 Amazon Connect adds support for seven new languages
Jun 27 Amazon Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region
Jun 27 Amazon Connect introduces a real-time performance dashboard
Mar 28 Introducing Amazon Connect

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Game Development

Date Announcement
May 16 Amazon GameLift Metrics Now Available in Amazon CloudWatch
Apr 25 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.9 Now Available, Adds Player Account Cloud Gem, Improved Component Entity System, Particle Editor Updates, and More
Apr 11 Amazon GameLift Local and Game Session Queue Improvements
Feb 22 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.8 Now Available, Adds Cloud Gems Framework
Feb 21 Amazon GameLift Supports Unreal Engine, Unity, and Custom C# and C++ Engines

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Jun 23 Deploy a Data Warehouse on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Jun 14 AWS Partner Network Introduces new AWS Competency for top Education Partners
Jun 07 SaaS Sellers in AWS Marketplace can now log metering records with AWS CloudTrail
Jun 07 AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, Storage Consulting Partner Solutions
Jun 07 AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, Security Consulting Partner Solutions

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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
Jun 12 Amazon Rekognition Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 08 AWS Config Rules Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jun 02 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New PostgreSQL Minor Versions in the GovCloud Region
Jun 01 Introducing AWS Certificate Manager
Jun 01 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in new regions

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Start-Ups

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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
Jun 27 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul
Jun 16 Third AZ in EU (Frankfurt) Region
May 31 Announcing New AWS Direct Connect Locations in Atlanta, Columbus and Toronto
May 23 Announcing New Direct Connect Locations in Marseille, France and Warsaw, Poland
May 15 Announcing New Direct Connect Locations in Philadelphia, PA and Newark, NJ

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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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