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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Sep 27 Introducing new M4 instance size, m4.16xlarge, and new region availability of M4 instances
Sep 23 Announcing Two New Edge Locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront
Sep 23 The Amazon EMR-DynamoDB Connector for Apache Hive and Apache Spark is now open-source
Sep 22 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 now available, adds Asset Builder SDK, OSVR support, new components, and more
Sep 22 AWS Well-Architected Reviews now available with the Enterprise Support Plan Blog
Sep 21 Linux Bastion Hosts on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Sep 21 Amazon EMR now supports data encryption for Apache Spark, Tez, and Hadoop MapReduce Blog
Sep 20 Oracle UTL_Mail and July 2016 PSU Patches are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Sep 20 AWS Lambda Simplifies Amazon API Gateway Integration
Sep 20 Amazon API Gateway introduces 3 new features to simplify API configuration Blog

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What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
Sep 27 Introducing new M4 instance size, m4.16xlarge, and new region availability of M4 instances
Sep 20 AWS Lambda Simplifies Amazon API Gateway Integration
Sep 12 Amazon EC2 Container Service Supports Container Logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Sep 01 Announcing Auto Scaling for Spot fleets
Aug 29 AWS Lambda Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)

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Storage & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Sep 23 Announcing Two New Edge Locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront
Sep 19 Announcing Second Edge Location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront
Sep 12 Announcing Second Edge Location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront
Sep 07 Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
Aug 30 Announcing Query String Whitelisting for Amazon CloudFront

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Databases

Date Announcement
Sep 23 The Amazon EMR-DynamoDB Connector for Apache Hive and Apache Spark is now open-source
Sep 20 Oracle UTL_Mail and July 2016 PSU Patches are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Sep 19 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zone
Sep 15 Amazon Redshift now supports Enhanced VPC Routing
Sep 14 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Enhancements: Support for new minor versions, Logical Replication, and Amazon RDS PostgreSQL as a source for AWS DMS

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Networking

Date Announcement
Aug 30 Amazon Route 53 Announces NAPTR Record Support and DNS Query Test Tool
Jul 28 Announcing DNS Resolution Support for VPC Peering
Jul 08 Build a Modular and Scalable Amazon VPC Architecture with New Quick Start
Jun 29 Announcing Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Jun 23 Introducing Amazon VPC NAT Gateway in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Sep 20 AWS CloudHSM is now available in the US West (Northern California) AWS Region
Sep 06 IAM Service Last Accessed Data Now Available for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Aug 26 Amazon Inspector Announces General Availability for Windows
Aug 18 AWS Trusted Advisor adds three new checks to verify connection redundancy for Direct Connect
Aug 11 Bring Your Own Keys to AWS Key Management Service Using the KMS Import Key Feature

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Sep 23 The Amazon EMR-DynamoDB Connector for Apache Hive and Apache Spark is now open-source
Sep 21 Amazon EMR now supports data encryption for Apache Spark, Tez, and Hadoop MapReduce Blog
Sep 16 Amazon Kinesis announces IAM role support in Kinesis Agent
Sep 15 Amazon Redshift now supports Enhanced VPC Routing
Aug 18 AWS Cost and Usage Report Data is Now Easy to Upload Directly into Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Sep 14 AWS IoT Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Aug 03 AWS IoT Announces Support for Just-In-Time Registration of Device Certificates
Jul 26 AWS IoT announces support for Thing Types in the Thing Registry
Jul 20 AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for AWS IoT and Additional Updates
Jul 08 AWS IoT Announces Java and Python Device SDKs

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Amazon Elastic Transcoder Now Publishes Operational Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Aug 31 New Amazon CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS monitors the age of the oldest message
Aug 09 Amazon Elastic Transcoder Available In The Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Jul 19 Amazon Elastic Transcoder Adds Support For WAV
Jun 28 Amazon SNS adds Worldwide SMS

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 15 AWS CodeDeploy Introduces Deployment Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and Automatic Deployment Rollback
Sep 14 AWS CodeCommit Introduces Commit Visualizer Graph View
Sep 09 Monitor and React to Deployment Changes in AWS CodeDeploy with Amazon CloudWatch Events
Sep 08 View Information About Committed Code Changes in AWS CodePipeline
Jul 28 AWS CodeCommit Adds Commit History View

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Amazon Elastic Transcoder Now Publishes Operational Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Sep 19 AWS CloudTrail Now Records Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Launch and Termination Events
Sep 19 AWS CloudFormation Updated Support for AWS KMS, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon ECS, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Sep 19 AWS CloudFormation Introduces YAML Template Support and Cross Stack References Blog
Sep 15 AWS Service Catalog updated access policies now available

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Sep 22 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 now available, adds Asset Builder SDK, OSVR support, new components, and more
Aug 08 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.4 now available, adds Lua editor, network profiler, and more
Aug 04 GameLift Adds Game Session Search
Apr 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.2 Now Available
Apr 25 AWS CloudFormation Updates Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift Resource Support

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Sep 20 Amazon API Gateway introduces 3 new features to simplify API configuration Blog
Sep 20 AWS Lambda Simplifies Amazon API Gateway Integration
Sep 08 AWS Mobile Hub simplifies backend feature integration into existing mobile apps
Sep 01 Amazon Cognito Adds a User Import Tool and AWS CloudTrail Support for Your User Pools
Aug 29 Amazon API Gateway Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Enterprise Applications

Date Announcement
Aug 18 Amazon WorkSpaces now offers hourly pricing for all Amazon WorkSpaces bundles
Jul 21 Amazon WorkSpaces now allows you to bring your Windows 10 Desktop licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
Jun 24 Amazon WorkSpaces now comes with larger root volumes
May 17 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports tagging
Feb 25 Announcing New Regions for Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Sep 21 Linux Bastion Hosts on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Aug 09 AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Region.
Jul 05 AWS Marketplace Introduces support for ISV Sellers Based in the European Union
Jun 28 Red Hat OpenShift on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Jun 21 Docker Datacenter on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment

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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 23 AWS GovCloud (US) Receives FedRAMP High Baseline P-ATO from the JAB
May 26 AWS Config launches in AWS GovCloud (US)
Mar 24 Support for multiple trails in AWS GovCloud (US)
Mar 08 Coming Soon: AWS Config will be available in AWS GovCloud (US) in the coming months
Feb 11 VM Import Update – Faster and More Flexible, with Multi-Volume Support Now Available for AWS GovCloud (US) Customers

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Start-Ups

Date Announcement
Sep 18 We’re Back! Starting October 1st, the AWS Pop-up Loft is Relaunching in San Francisco Blog
Aug 22 AWS Pop-up Loft - Returning in the Fall Blog
May 27 Visit the AWS Pop-up Loft in San Francisco Blog
May 14 Announcing new features in AWS Activate: Startup Blog, Startup Spotlight, and the Amazon Toolbox Blog
Mar 03 Announcing new features in AWS Activate Blog

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Pricing

Date Announcement
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 the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region Blog
Jun 22 AWS Direct Connect Now Supports a Self-Service Feature for LOAs
Apr 28 Announcing 2 new AWS Direct Connect locations
Dec 09 Announcing 5 New AWS Direct Connect Locations Blog
Apr 14 Announcing AWS Direct Connect for the China (Beijing) Region

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Jul 20 Four New AWS Training Bootcamps to Help You Build Technical Skills
Jun 30 Learn AWS Security Fundamentals with Free and Online Training Blog
Jun 02 New Data Warehousing on AWS Training Available
Jun 01 AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Big Data & Analytics
Apr 07 Major Updates to AWS Technical Essentials and Architecting on AWS Courses Blog

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Aug 18 AWS Trusted Advisor adds three new checks to verify connection redundancy for Direct Connect
Jun 23 AWS Support enables tagging capabilities for Trusted Advisor
Apr 21 AWS Support API now integrated with CloudTrail

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