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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Amazon Connect Adds New Contact Attributes for System Metrics
Jun 18 New Exam Readiness Courses for AWS Cerifications
Jun 15 Amazon GuardDuty Optimizes AWS CloudTrail Analysis Reducing Cost for Customers
Jun 14 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 14 Support for JupyterHub on Amazon EMR release 5.14.0.
Jun 14 Announcing AWS DeepLens support for TensorFlow and Caffe, expanded MXNet layer support, integration with Kinesis Video Streams, new sample project, and availability to buy on Amazon.com Blog
Jun 14 Amazon GameLift introduces new game session placement metrics
Jun 14 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces support for Redis 4.0 with caching improvements and better memory management for high-performance in-memory data processing
Jun 14 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Includes All Management Events
Jun 14 Introducing AWS Landing Zone

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Compute

Date Announcement
Jun 12 Deploy Check Point CloudGuard on AWS with New Quick Start
Jun 12 Amazon ECS Adds Daemon Scheduling
Jun 11 Amazon EC2 M5 Instances Are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 11 Amazon EC2 C5 Instances Are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 07 Amazon ECS CLI Supports Docker Compose Version 3

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Storage

Date Announcement
May 31 Amazon EFS now a HIPAA-Eligible Service
May 30 Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
May 24 AWS Storage Gateway VTL Expands Backup Application Support With NovaStor DataCenter
May 09 Copying Encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots Under Custom CMK now Completes Faster With Less Storage
Apr 30 Amazon S3 Adds Support for Amazon Glacier and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access to Amazon CloudWatch Storage Metrics

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Databases

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 14 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces support for Redis 4.0 with caching improvements and better memory management for high-performance in-memory data processing
Jun 11 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is Available in the US West (N. California) Region
Jun 05 April 2018 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) Are Available for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Jun 05 Amazon Redshift Can Now COPY from Parquet and ORC File Formats

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Migration

Date Announcement
May 10 AWS Database Migration Service Supports R4 Instance Types Blog
Apr 26 AWS Database Migration Service Supports IBM Db2 as a Source Blog
Apr 26 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Apr 04 AWS Snowball Edge Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Amazon API Gateway Supports Private APIs Blog
Jun 14 Amazon CloudFront expands into Africa with a new Edge Location in Johannesburg and a new Edge Location in Bangalore
Jun 06 Application Load Balancer Adds New Security Policies Including Policy for Forward Secrecy
May 30 Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of its eighth Edge location in Tokyo, Japan
May 30 Application Load Balancer Simplifies User Authentication for Your Applications

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
May 25 AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for Windows Builds
May 16 AWS CodeBuild Supports VPC Endpoints
May 16 AWS CodeCommit Supports Branch-Level Permissions
May 08 AWS SAM CLI Simplifies Building Serverless Apps with the SAM init Command
May 04 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Local Testing and Debugging

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Jun 14 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Includes All Management Events
Jun 14 Introducing AWS Landing Zone
Jun 14 Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math Supports Bulk Transformations
Jun 14 Amazon MQ Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
Jun 13 AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports Customization

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Jun 13 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Jun 07 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Channel Alerts to AWS Management Console
Jun 04 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Adds CMAF Output
May 10 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Apr 27 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Adds Support for CMAF HLS Endpoints, with Content Protection and HDR

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jun 15 Amazon GuardDuty Optimizes AWS CloudTrail Analysis Reducing Cost for Customers
Jun 13 AWS CloudHSM is Now Available in the EU (London) Region
Jun 11 Amazon Cloud Directory Makes Tracking Information on Typed Links More Flexible
Jun 05 AWS WAF Announces Two New Features
Jun 05 Introducing Server Fleet Management at Scale

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Support for JupyterHub on Amazon EMR release 5.14.0.
Jun 13 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now Available in Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Jun 06 Amazon Athena releases support for Views
Jun 05 Amazon Redshift Can Now COPY from Parquet and ORC File Formats
May 31 Amazon QuickSight announces Pay-per-Session pricing, Private VPC Connectivity and more! Blog

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Announcing AWS DeepLens support for TensorFlow and Caffe, expanded MXNet layer support, integration with Kinesis Video Streams, new sample project, and availability to buy on Amazon.com Blog
Jun 06 AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Include Horovod for Faster Multi-GPU TensorFlow Training on Amazon EC2 P3 Instances Blog
Jun 05 Amazon Polly Introduces a New French Female Voice, Léa
Jun 04 Enable Multilingual WordPress Content with the Updated Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress Blog
May 31 Amazon SageMaker Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Amazon API Gateway Supports Private APIs Blog
Apr 02 Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs
Apr 02 Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations
Apr 04 AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source
Feb 27 AWS Amplify Open Source JavaScript Library Adds React Native Push Notifications and Authentication Improvements

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AR & VR

Date Announcement
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
May 30 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Blog
May 24 Amazon Simple Queue Service Server-Side Encryption is Now Available in 13 Additional Regions Blog
May 16 Higher Throughput Workflows for AWS Step Functions
May 09 AWS Step Functions Regional Expansions
Apr 10 Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds Amazon SQS FIFO as an Event Target

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Amazon Connect Adds New Contact Attributes for System Metrics
May 22 Five New Amazon Connect Integrations from eGain, Teleopti, WEBTEXT, HERE Technologies, ServiceNow
May 10 Amazon Connect Now Supports Keypad Input with an Amazon Lex Chatbot
Mar 30 Amazon Connect Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 is Generally Available
Mar 30 Amazon Connect Automated Outbound Calling is Now Generally Available

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Jun 06 Amazon WorkDocs introduces Open with Office Online
Apr 09 Amazon WorkMail Introduces New Ways to Share Mailboxes
Apr 02 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Is Now Available for Microsoft Windows Users
Feb 28 Amazon WorkDocs Now Offers Data Retention Capabilities
Feb 22 Amazon WorkDocs Web Application Redesign Offers Users an Improved Collaboration Experience Blog

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Jun 14 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Configuring your Users' Default Application Settings
Jun 14 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Time Zone, Locale, and Language Input Settings
Jun 04 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Google Drive for G Suite
May 25 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Administrative Controls for Limiting File Movement, Clipboard, and Printing
May 15 Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Mouse Support on iPad Devices

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
May 11 Introducing Real-Time IoT Device Monitoring with Kinesis Data Analytics
May 10 Introducing the IoT Device Simulator
May 09 AWS IoT Core Now Supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Mar 29 AWS IoT Core Increases Default Limits for Customers
Feb 07 AWS IoT Core Now Supports MQTT Connections with Certificate Based Client Authentication On Port 443

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Game Development

Date Announcement
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
Feb 15 Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and Spot Instances Reduce Costs by up to 90%

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Jun 07 AWS Marketplace Launches New Website Workflow
May 10 Deploy CloudStax NoSQL DB for Apache Cassandra with New Quick Start
May 10 AWS Machine Learning for Consulting Partners Competency Blog
May 09 Deploy a Blue-Green Architecture on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
May 09 Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace Standardizes Software License Terms to Simplify and Streamline Software Procurement for Enterprise Customers

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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 14 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 14 Amazon Rekognition Launches FIPS 140-2 Validated Endpoints and Rekognition Video Expands to Additional Region
Jun 11 Amazon EC2 M5 Instances Are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 11 Amazon EC2 C5 Instances Are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jun 01 Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility is 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
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
Feb 08 New AWS Direct Connect sites land in Paris and Taipei
Feb 06 AWS Direct Connect Provides Flexibility for Balancing Data Transfer out Traffic.
Dec 21 AWS Direct Connect added two new locations in Minneapolis, MN and Bangalore, India
Dec 12 AWS Direct Connect brings the Amazon network to South Africa in Cape Town & Johannesburg
Dec 12 AWS Direct Connect added four new locations in Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and London

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Jun 18 New Exam Readiness Courses for AWS Cerifications
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
Feb 19 Updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Now Available

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Nov 18 Trusted Advisor enables automated actions and custom notifications

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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
Jun 13 Access your Reserved Instance (RI) Savings Information using AWS Cost Explorer’s RI Utilization Report
May 22 AWS CloudFormation now Supports AWS Budgets as a Resource for CloudFormation Templates, Stacks, and StackSets
May 08 Monitor your Reserved Instance coverage by receiving alerts via AWS Budgets
Apr 19 Identify Opportunities for Amazon RDS Cost Savings Using AWS Cost Explorer's Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations
Mar 20 Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations via the AWS Cost Explorer API

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