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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster Using Amazon EKS with New Quick Start
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 14 AWS Transfer for SFTP is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Feb 14 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) adds DynamoDB transactions support for Python and .NET
Feb 13 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports PostgreSQL 10.6
Feb 13 Amazon EKS Releases VPC CNI plugin v1.3.2 with Enhancements for P3dn Instances
Feb 13 Amazon Corretto 11 is Now in Preview
Feb 13 Amazon AppStream 2.0 is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Feb 13 Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Cloud Expands to Seven New AWS Regions

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Introducing AWS Solutions
Feb 13 Amazon MSK expands its open preview into Ohio and Ireland AWS regions, and adds support for Apache Kafka 2.1.0
Feb 12 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Announces Support for Custom Amazon S3 Prefixes
Feb 07 Amazon Athena is now available in GovCloud (US-West)
Feb 07 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Feb 07 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in 15 AWS Regions
Feb 05 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Multiple String Values in Blacklist Matching
Feb 04 Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally
Jan 24 Introducing the Media2Cloud solution
Jan 24 AWS Step Functions Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

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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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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

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Feb 12 New AWS Digital Badges Unveiled to Showcase your AWS Certified Status
Feb 05 AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available
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

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Feb 12 Deploy the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform on AWS with New Quick Start
Feb 11 New AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Validation Checklist Blog
Feb 11 Deploy IBM Cloud Private on AWS with New Quick Start
Feb 04 New Quick Start Deploys CloudLens and Eastwind on AWS
Feb 04 Quick Start Update: Active Directory Domain Services on the AWS Cloud

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Blockchain

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

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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

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Compute

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Introducing AWS Solutions
Feb 13 Introducing Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
Feb 12 Amazon EC2 Announces the Availability of C5, C5d, R5, and R5d Instances in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Feb 06 Announcing a 25% price reduction for Amazon EC2 X1 Instances in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region
Feb 04 Amazon ECS now provides enhanced support for GPU-enabled EC2 instances

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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

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Databases

Date Announcement
Feb 14 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) adds DynamoDB transactions support for Python and .NET
Feb 13 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports PostgreSQL 10.6
Feb 12 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Versions 18.1 and 18.2
Feb 08 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports January 2019 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)
Feb 07 AWS AppSync is now Available in EU (London) Region

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Developers

Date Announcement
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
Nov 29 Introducing the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm Blog

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
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
Jan 24 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry
Jan 17 AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Deploying to Amazon S3

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End User Computing

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Amazon AppStream 2.0 is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Jan 23 Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
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

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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

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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

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Introducing Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
Feb 08 AWS Management Console now supports one-click switching between accounts in AWS GovCloud (US)
Feb 07 Amazon Athena is now available in GovCloud (US-West)
Feb 06 AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IKEv2
Feb 06 AWS Glue is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

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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

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Enhanced Content Moderation is now available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Feb 06 Amazon Polly is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Jan 24 Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports TFRecord Format
Jan 18 New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: Updated Elastic Inference for TensorFlow, TensorBoard 1.12.1, and MMS 1.0.1
Jan 18 Amazon Elastic Inference Now Supports TensorFlow 1.12 with a New Python API for Deploying TensorFlow Models

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Management & Governance

Date Announcement
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 07 AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise Now Support AWS CloudFormation
Jan 25 AWS Systems Manager Distributor is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jan 24 Amazon CloudWatch Agent Adds Support for Procstat Plugin and Multiple Configuration Files

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Introducing AWS Solutions
Feb 07 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports Resource Tagging
Jan 25 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds I-Frame-Only HLS Manifests and JPEG Outputs
Jan 18 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for AWS CloudTrail
Jan 15 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Adds IMF Input and Enhances Caption Burn-In Support

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Migration & Transfer

Date Announcement
Feb 14 AWS Transfer for SFTP is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
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

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Introducing AWS Solutions
Feb 11 Amplify Framework Adds Support for Multiple Environments, Custom Resolvers, Larger Data Models, and IAM Roles Including MFA Blog
Feb 07 AWS AppSync is now Available in EU (London) Region
Jan 10 AWS Device Farm Now Supports Appium Node.js and Appium Ruby
Jan 02 Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Cloud Expands to Seven New AWS Regions
Feb 06 AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IKEv2
Feb 06 Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations across United States and France
Feb 04 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Jan 24 Network Load Balancer Now Supports TLS Termination Blog

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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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Robotics

Date Announcement
Nov 26 AWS RoboMaker Blog

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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)

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Feb 08 Amazon GuardDuty Adds Three New Threat Detections
Jan 24 Find And Update Access Keys, Password, And MFA Settings Easily Using The AWS Management Console
Jan 24 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry
Jan 22 Amazon Cognito Is Now Available In The AWS Canada (Central) Region
Jan 22 Amazon Cognito Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

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Startups

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Storage

Date Announcement
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 14 Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Feb 13 Amazon EFS Introduces Lower Cost Storage Class Blog
Feb 06 Amazon FSx for Lustre Offers New Options and Faster Speeds for Working with S3 Data
Jan 23 Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is Available in the AWS Europe (London) Region

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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

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Feb 12 New AWS Digital Badges Unveiled to Showcase your AWS Certified Status
Feb 04 New AWS Certification Policies Offer Customers More Choices and Flexibility
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

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