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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Jul 26 Introducing AWS Config Dashboard
Jul 25 Amazon WorkDocs Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI DSS Compliance
Jul 25 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Graphics Applications
Jul 25 AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF now available in US West (N. California) Region
Jul 25 AWS CloudFormation Supports Multiple Account and Region Provisioning with StackSet
Jul 25 AWS CodeStar is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), & Europe (Frankfurt) Regions
Jul 24 Tag Your Spot Fleet EC2 Instances
Jul 24 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Windows Authentication in Additional Regions
Jul 24 The AWS Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu is now available with CUDA 8, Ubuntu 16, and the latest versions of deep learning frameworks
Jul 24 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft Active Directory Domains

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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
Jul 24 Tag Your Spot Fleet EC2 Instances
Jul 21 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Go 1.8 and Node.js version 8.
Jul 20 Amazon EC2 X1 Instances are now available in China (Beijing) and South America (São Paulo) Regions
Jul 17 Lambda@Edge now Generally Available
Jul 13 Introducing Amazon EC2 G3 Instances, the next-generation of GPU-powered instances for graphics-intensive applications

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Storage

Date Announcement
Jul 20 Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Available in EU (Frankfurt) Region
Jun 29 Sync Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Inventory Data to Amazon S3 Buckets
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

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Database

Date Announcement
Jul 24 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Windows Authentication in Additional Regions
Jul 20 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12 and 9.3.17
Jul 14 Amazon RDS Adds Oracle SE2 License Included Option in AWS GovCloud
Jul 13 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enterprise Edition with License Included Announces Expanded Availability
Jul 12 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation

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Migration

Date Announcement
Jul 12 AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jun 29 AWS Database Migration Service Now Available in GovCloud
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

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Jul 20 Announcing New Edge Location in Kuala Lumpur, Our First in Malaysia
Jul 17 Lambda@Edge now Generally Available
Jun 29 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
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

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Jul 25 AWS CodeStar is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), & Europe (Frankfurt) Regions
Jun 29 AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline are Now Available in US West (San Francisco), EU (London), and Canada (Central) Regions
Jun 29 AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) Regions
Jun 29 Announcing .NET Core Support for AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeStar
Jun 22 AWS CodePipeline Adds Ability To View History Of Pipeline Executions

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Jul 26 Introducing AWS Config Dashboard
Jul 25 AWS CloudFormation Supports Multiple Account and Region Provisioning with StackSet
Jul 19 AWS CloudTrail Adds S3 Data Events in Canada (Central) and EU (London) Regions
Jul 14 AWS CloudFormation adds two new features: Client Request Token and support for Quick-Create links in the CloudFormation console
Jul 12 Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports AWS CodePipeline as a target

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jul 25 AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF now available in US West (N. California) Region
Jul 20 The AWS IAM Console Now Remembers Your Preferences for Table Column Selections and Policy Viewing and Editing
Jul 17 Now You Can Use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory to Help Maintain HIPAA and PCI Compliance in the AWS Cloud
Jul 06 Increase the Redundancy and Performance of Your AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory by Deploying Additional Domain Controllers
Jul 06 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) is now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Jul 20 Amazon EMR now supports launching clusters with custom Amazon Linux AMIs
Jul 19 Announcing the new Amazon Kinesis Firehose management console
Jul 18 Amazon Kinesis Streams Server-Side Encryption Now Available Broadly
Jul 14 Read-replica support for Apache HBase on S3 and Apache Flink 1.3.0 in Amazon EMR release 5.7.0
Jul 06 Amazon QuickSight now supports visualizing S3 Analytics data with 1-click

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Jun 30 Amazon Lex now supports 8 kHz telephony audio for increased speech recognition accuracy
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

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Jul 20 AWS Mobile Hub enhances Cloud Logic import capabilities and releases React starter project to GitHub
Jul 11 AWS Device Farm Announces Enhanced Jenkins Support for Web Applications Testing and Additional Features
Jul 11 AWS Device Farm Announces Appium 1.6.5 Support
Jul 10 Amazon Cognito Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI Compliance, Adds a Simple Way to Sign in Users by Email Address or Phone Number, and Localizes the Management Console
Jun 22 Amazon API Gateway Available in Canada (Central) Region

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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
Jul 20 Amazon SNS Console Improvements Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
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

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Jul 25 Amazon WorkDocs Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI DSS Compliance
Jul 05 Amazon WorkMail Now Allows You to Configure Email Flow Rules
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

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Jul 25 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Graphics Applications
Jul 24 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Microsoft Active Directory Domains
Jul 21 Amazon WorkSpaces Achieves HIPAA Eligibility and PCI Compliance
Jun 28 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces new workstation class Power bundles
Jun 19 Amazon WorkSpaces adds new security features to manage which client devices can access WorkSpaces

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Jul 13 The AWS IoT console is now available in Simplified Chinese, French, and Japanese
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

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Contact Center

Date Announcement
Jul 21 Amazon Connect is Now PCI DSS Compliant
Jun 30 You can now use Amazon Lex chatbots with Amazon Connect contact centers Blog
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

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Jun 29 Amazon GameLift Fleet Creation Logs
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

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Jul 19 AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to the Product Support Connection
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

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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
Jul 26 Introducing AWS Config Dashboard
Jul 20 Amazon SNS Console Improvements Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jul 14 Amazon RDS Adds Oracle SE2 License Included Option in AWS GovCloud
Jul 13 Introducing Amazon EC2 G3 Instances, the next-generation of GPU-powered instances for graphics-intensive applications
Jul 06 AWS Config Tracks Changes to AWS CloudFormation Stacks

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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
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
Jul 19 Sixth AZ in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Jun 29 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
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

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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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