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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Sep 21 July 2018 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) for 11g is Now Available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Sep 21 Amazon EKS Simplifies Cluster Setup with update-kubeconfig CLI Command
Sep 21 AWS Amplify Adds Support for Securely Embedding Amazon Sumerian AR/VR Scenes in Web Applications
Sep 20 Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is Generally Available Blog
Sep 20 Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Tagging for Hyperparameter Tuning Jobs
Sep 20 AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon API Gateway, Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora Serverless, Amazon ElastiCache, and more
Sep 20 Live Streaming on AWS Now Features AWS Elemental MediaLive and MediaPackage
Sep 20 Amazon EC2 Spot Console Now Supports Scheduled Scaling for Application Auto Scaling
Sep 20 AWS AppSync Launches a Guided API Builder for Mobile and Web Apps
Sep 20 AWS Database Migration Service Makes It Easier to Migrate Cassandra Databases to Amazon DynamoDB Blog

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Compute

Date Announcement
Sep 12 Deploy SIOS Protection Suite for Linux on AWS with New Quick Start
Sep 11 AWS Lambda Supports PowerShell Core Blog
Sep 06 Amazon ECS Now Allows Three Additional Docker Flags
Sep 06 AWS Batch Now Supports z1d, r5d, r5, m5d, c5d, p3, and x1e Instance Types
Sep 05 Amazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions

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Storage

Date Announcement
Sep 19 Amazon S3 Announces Selective Cross-Region Replication Based on Object Tags
Sep 18 AWS Storage Gateway Is Now Available as a Hardware Appliance Blog
Sep 12 Deploy SIOS Protection Suite for Linux on AWS with New Quick Start
Sep 05 Amazon S3 Announces New Features for S3 Select
Sep 04 Amazon S3 Adds Support for Amazon Glacier and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access to Amazon CloudWatch Storage Metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

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Databases

Date Announcement
Sep 21 July 2018 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) for 11g is Now Available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Sep 20 Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is Generally Available Blog
Sep 20 AWS Database Migration Service Makes It Easier to Migrate Cassandra Databases to Amazon DynamoDB Blog
Sep 19 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds read replica scaling for Redis Cluster
Sep 14 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Minor Version 9.6.9

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Migration

Date Announcement
Sep 20 AWS Database Migration Service Makes It Easier to Migrate Cassandra Databases to Amazon DynamoDB Blog
Sep 18 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Migrating Larger Data Volumes
Sep 18 Plan Your Migration with AWS Application Discovery Service Data Exploration
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

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Live Streaming on AWS Now Features AWS Elemental MediaLive and MediaPackage
Sep 12 Amazon CloudFront launches second Edge location in New Delhi, India
Sep 06 Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS X-Ray Blog
Aug 30 Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Available in Five Additional AWS Regions
Aug 28 AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 13 AWS CodeBuild is Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Sep 12 AWS Config Adds Support for AWS CodePipeline
Sep 06 Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS X-Ray Blog
Sep 04 AWS CodeBuild Adds Ability to Create Build Projects with Multiple Input Sources and Output Artifacts
Aug 30 AWS SAM CLI Now Supports Debugging Go Functions and Testing with 50+ Events

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 20 AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon API Gateway, Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora Serverless, Amazon ElastiCache, and more
Sep 12 AWS Config Adds Support for AWS CodePipeline
Sep 11 Introducing AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
Sep 06 Introducing AWS CloudFormation Macros
Sep 05 AWS Config Announces New Managed Rules

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Live Streaming on AWS Now Features AWS Elemental MediaLive and MediaPackage
Aug 28 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Supports Redundant Inputs for Live Channels
Aug 27 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for SCTE-35 Marker Insertion and Static Graphic Overlays
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

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Sep 12 AWS Firewall Manager Supports Scoping Policy By Accounts
Sep 10 AWS CloudHSM Now Supports On-Demand Delete Backup
Aug 31 AWS WAF Launches New Comprehensive Logging Functionality
Aug 29 Amazon GuardDuty Now HIPAA Eligible
Aug 21 AWS Key Management Service Increases API Requests Per Second Limits

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Support for TensorFlow and S3 select with Spark on Amazon EMR release 5.17.0
Sep 07 Amazon EMR now supports C5d, M5d, R5 and R5d instances.
Sep 05 New Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics capability for time-series analytics
Sep 04 AWS Glue now supports data encryption at rest
Aug 31 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Producer SDK Is Now Available For Microsoft Windows

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Sep 18 Save time and money by filtering faces during indexing with Amazon Rekognition Blog
Sep 14 Amazon Polly Adds Mandarin Chinese Language Support
Sep 10 Now Use Chainer 4.4 and Theano 1.0.2 on the AWS Deep Learning AMIs
Aug 27 New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: TensorFlow 1.10, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2, and More
Aug 23 Amazon Rekognition announces the ability to more easily manage face collections

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Sep 06 Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS X-Ray Blog
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

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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)

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Aug 30 Amazon MQ is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Aug 28 Amazon SQS Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region Blog
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

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Sep 12 Amazon Connect Adds New Contact API to Set Contact Attributes
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

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Aug 28 Amazon WorkDocs Companion 1-click Sharing
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

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Sep 17 Amazon WorkSpaces now lets you track login events using Amazon CloudWatch Events
Sep 14 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Image Sharing
Sep 05 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Persistent User Application Settings
Aug 28 Amazon WorkSpaces Now Supports Web Access for Windows 10 Desktops
Jul 31 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Aug 29 AWS IoT Core Adds New Endpoints Serving Amazon Trust Services (ATS) Signed Certificates to Help Customers Avoid Symantec CA Distrust Issues
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

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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

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Sep 13 AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency
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

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Sep 17 Deploy WordPress High Availability by Bitnami with New AWS Quick Start
Sep 13 AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency
Sep 12 AWS Serverless Navigate Program Blog
Sep 12 Deploy SIOS Protection Suite for Linux on AWS with New Quick Start
Aug 24 Deploy Three New Amazon Connect Integrations from CallMiner, Aspect Software, and Acqueon

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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 Server Migration Service Adds Support for Migrating Larger Data Volumes
Sep 04 Application Auto Scaling Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Aug 20 Four Additional AWS Services Now Offer FIPS Compliant End Points in AWS GovCloud (US)
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

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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

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
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
Aug 09 AWS Direct Connect live in Denmark and Norway
Feb 08 New AWS Direct Connect sites land in Paris and Taipei

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Sep 05 Announcing Major Updates to 3 AWS Classroom Training Courses
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

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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

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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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