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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date	Announcement
Apr 19	AWS Glue is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Apr 18	Amazon Aurora Serverless Supports Sharing and Cross-Region Copying of Snapshots
Apr 18	AWS License Manager is now available in GovCloud (US) Regions
Apr 18	Announcing Azure to AWS migration support in AWS Server Migration Service
Apr 18	Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS Enable Faster Migration from MySQL 5.7 Databases
Apr 18	AWS CloudFormation Coverage Updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
Apr 18	AWS CodeCommit Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Apr 18	AWS ParallelCluster 2.3.1 with enhanced support for Slurm Workload Manager is available now
Apr 18	AWS Organizations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	Blog
Apr 18	Amazon Comprehend Now Supports Confusion Matrices for Custom Classification

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Analytics

Date	Announcement
Apr 19	AWS Glue is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Apr 16	Expanding AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Apr 09	Announcing EMR release 5.22.0: Support for new versions of HBase, Oozie, Flink, and optimized EBS configuration for improved IO performance for applications such as Spark
Apr 08	Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds event monitoring and alerting support
Apr 08	Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.5

Application Integration

Date	Announcement
Apr 09	Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ Minor Version 5.15.9
Mar 25	AWS Event Fork Pipelines – Serverless Nested Applications	Blog
Mar 21	Amazon VPC Endpoints for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) are now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Mar 14	Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in EU (Stockholm) Region and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Mar 06	New Amazon SNS Console Now Available

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
Feb 05	Introducing Normalized Units Information for Amazon EC2 Reservations in AWS Cost Explorer
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

AWS Marketplace

Date	Announcement
Mar 28	AWS Makes it Easier for You to Discover Relevant Products in AWS Marketplace
Mar 11	Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports Access from Amazon Linux
Feb 05	AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available
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

AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	New Quick Start deploys Duo MFA for AWS Directory Service on the AWS Cloud
Apr 16	New Quick Start deploys Cherwell Service Management connector on the AWS Cloud
Apr 03	New Quick Start deploys a VFX burst rendering framework based on ISE recommendations on AWS
Apr 02	New AWS MSP Navigate Track	Blog
Apr 01	New Quick Start deploys SUSE Cloud Application Platform on the AWS Cloud

Blockchain

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

Business Productivity

Date	Announcement
Apr 16	Amazon WorkDocs Introduces Document Approvals
Apr 16	Amazon WorkDocs Migration Service
Feb 01	Trigger Actions on your Inbound Email with AWS Lambda for Amazon WorkMail
Feb 11	Amazon WorkMail adds 1-click DNS configuration for Route 53 custom domains
Nov 19	Gather analytics and trigger actions on outbound mail with Lambda for WorkMail

Compute

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	AWS CloudFormation Coverage Updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
Apr 18	Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be Delivered to S3 in the EU (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Regions
Apr 05	AWS Elastic Beanstalk extends Tag-Based Permissions
Apr 04	AWS Serverless Application Repository is Now Available in the EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm) Regions
Apr 04	AWS Batch now supports GPU scheduling for accelerating batch jobs

Customer Engagement

Date	Announcement
Apr 04	Amazon Connect Adds Support For Puerto Rico Phone Numbers
Mar 07	Amazon Connect Now Supports Customer Voice Stream in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region
Feb 28	Amazon Connect Simplifies Adding AWS Lambda Functions to Contact Flows
Feb 18	Amazon Connect Now Supports Additional Options When Transferring to External Phone Numbers	Blog
Dec 21	Amazon Connect Adds Real-Time Customer Voice Stream

Databases

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	Amazon Aurora Serverless Supports Sharing and Cross-Region Copying of Snapshots
Apr 18	Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS Enable Faster Migration from MySQL 5.7 Databases
Apr 16	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports Multi Major Version Upgrades to PostgreSQL 11
Apr 12	Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring Adds New Storage and Host Metrics
Apr 04	Amazon Redshift now provides more control over snapshots

Developers

Date	Announcement
Mar 21	AWS CodePipeline Adds Action-Level Details to Pipeline Execution History
Feb 13	Amazon Corretto 11 is Now in Preview
Feb 05	AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available
Jan 31	Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available	Blog
Dec 06	AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints

Developer Tools

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	AWS CodeCommit Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Apr 04	AWS Serverless Application Repository is Now Available in the EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm) Regions
Mar 25	AWS Event Fork Pipelines – Serverless Nested Applications	Blog
Mar 21	AWS CodePipeline Adds Action-Level Details to Pipeline Execution History
Mar 15	Amazon Corretto 11 is Now Generally Available

End User Computing

Date	Announcement
Apr 16	Amazon WorkDocs Introduces Document Approvals
Apr 04	Amazon WorkSpaces Adds Tagging Support for WorkSpaces Directories, Images, Custom Bundles, and IP Access Control Groups
Apr 04	Amazon WorkSpaces Adds Tagging Support for WorkSpaces Directories, Images, Custom Bundles, and IP Access Control Groups
Mar 13	Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports iPad and Android Tablets and Touch Gestures
Feb 25	Amazon WorkLink now works with Android phones

Game Development

Date	Announcement
Mar 18	Amazon GameLift Realtime Servers Now in Preview
Mar 14	Over 190 updates come to Lumberyard Beta 1.18 – Available Now	Blog
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

Global Infrastructure

Date	Announcement
Mar 25	Announcing Multi-Account Support for Direct Connect Gateway
Mar 06	Announcing the new AWS Direct Connect Console
Feb 22	Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports On-Premises Access to File Systems and Supports Access Across AWS VPCs, Accounts, and Regions
Dec 12	Announcing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Oct 11	AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic

Government & Public Sector

Date	Announcement
Apr 19	AWS Glue is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Apr 18	AWS License Manager is now available in GovCloud (US) Regions
Apr 18	AWS CodeCommit Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Apr 18	AWS Organizations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	Blog
Apr 17	AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Internet of Things

Date	Announcement
Mar 22	Generate Fleet Metrics with New Capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management	Blog
Mar 19	AWS IoT Device Tester v1.1 is Now Available for AWS IoT Greengrass v1.8.0
Mar 15	AWS IoT Greengrass Adds New Connector for AWS IoT Analytics, Support for AWS CloudFormation Templates, and Integration with Fleet Indexing
Mar 12	AWS IoT Analytics now supports Single Step Setup of IoT Analytics Resources
Mar 07	AWS IoT Greengrass Introduces New Networking Configurations and Group Permission Settings

Machine Learning

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances are Now Available in the Europe (Dublin) AWS Region
Apr 17	Amazon Polly Adds Arabic Language Support
Apr 16	NICE DCV Introduces MacOS Native Client
Apr 10	Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Greater Control of Root Access to Notebook Instances	Blog
Apr 10	Amazon SageMaker Now Offers Reduced Prices in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions

Management & Governance

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	AWS CloudFormation Coverage Updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
Apr 04	AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Enables Session Encryption Using Customer Keys
Apr 02	Amazon CloudWatch Launches Search Expressions
Mar 22	Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Supports AWS CloudTrail Logging

Media Services

Date	Announcement
Apr 08	AWS Elemental MediaStore Now Supports Chunked Object Transfer to Enable Ultra-Low Latency Video Workflows
Apr 08	Speed Up Video Processing With New Accelerated Transcoding in AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Apr 05	AWS Elemental MediaLive Offers Lower Cost Live Channels with Single-Pipeline Option
Apr 05	AWS Elemental MediaPackage and MediaTailor improve support for DASH Endpoints and Monetization
Mar 14	AWS Elemental MediaConnect is Now Available in Six Additional Regions

Migration & Transfer

Date	Announcement
Apr 16	Amazon WorkDocs Migration Service
Apr 09	AWS simplifies replatforming of Microsoft SQL Server databases from Windows to Linux
Mar 27	AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports AWS PrivateLink
Feb 28	Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services
Feb 22	AWS Server Migration Service

Mobile Services

Date	Announcement
Apr 05	AWS Amplify Console Now Supports Deploying Fullstack Serverless Applications with a Single Click
Apr 05	Amplify Framework Simplifies Configuring OAuth 2.0 Flows, Hosted UI, and AR/VR Scenes for Mobile and Web Apps
Mar 20	AWS Config Adds Support for Amazon API Gateway
Mar 14	Amplify Framework Adds Enhancements to Authentication for iOS, Android, and React Native Developers	Blog
Feb 13	Introducing AWS Solutions

Networking & Content Delivery

Date	Announcement
Apr 18	Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be Delivered to S3 in the EU (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Regions
Apr 17	AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Apr 16	AWS Client VPN is Now Available in Four Additional AWS Regions
Apr 04	Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is Now Available in Four Additional Regions
Apr 03	Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be Delivered to S3 in AWS Govcloud (US) Regions

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
Apr 04	AWS RoboMaker now supports the Gazebo 9 engine
Mar 25	AWS RoboMaker announces new build and bundle feature that makes it up to 10x faster to update a simulation job or a robot	Blog
Mar 18	AWS RoboMaker Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Feb 21	AWS RoboMaker now supports new languages, tagging, and AWS CloudFormation
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
Apr 18	AWS Organizations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	Blog
Apr 05	AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now available in five additional regions
Apr 04	AWS Secrets Manager is Now Available in the EU (Paris) Region
Mar 28	AWS Key Management Service Increases API Requests Per Second Limits
Mar 28	AWS Key Management Service increases the default limits for keys, aliases, and grants

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
Apr 04	Amazon FSx for Lustre is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Apr 04	Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Apr 04	AWS Backup is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions
Mar 27	AWS Announces the General Availability of the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class in all Commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US)	Blog
Mar 27	AWS Storage Gateway Service Integrates Tape Gateway with Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class	Blog

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
Apr 16	Announcing the New AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Exam
Apr 08	AWS Certification Triples its Testing Locations, Making it Even More Convenient to Get Certified
Apr 01	New AWS Fundamentals: Building Serverless Applications Course on Coursera
Mar 15	Now Available: New AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Certification	Blog
Feb 18	Announcing Updated Professional-Level AWS Certification Exams

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