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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Nov 07 CloudWatch releases the ability to pivot from Metrics to Logs
Nov 07 CI/CD Pipeline for Microsoft Windows on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Nov 07 Test drive Amazon Kinesis Firehose using built-in sample data
Nov 07 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Nov 03 Now run real-time stream processing at scale with Apache Flink on Amazon EMR
Nov 03 AWS CodePipeline Introduces AWS CloudFormation Deployment Action Blog
Nov 03 Continuously Deliver Changes to AWS CloudFormation Stacks with AWS CodePipeline Blog
Nov 03 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.6 now available, introduces Twitch Metastream and more
Nov 02 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 11g to 12c Major Version Upgrade
Nov 02 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region

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What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
Nov 01 Introducing New Amazon Linux Container Image for Cloud and On-Premises Workloads
Oct 28 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 and New Instance Types
Oct 27 Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Oct 25 Announcing regional expansion of Amazon EC2 instances
Oct 24 New AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) makes it easier and faster to migrate on-premises servers to AWS

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Storage & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Nov 07 Test drive Amazon Kinesis Firehose using built-in sample data
Nov 02 Backup to AWS with HP Data Protector 9.07 using Storage Gateway VTL
Oct 18 Record and govern S3 bucket configurations with AWS Config
Oct 18 Amazon Aurora New Features: AWS Lambda Integration and Data Load from Amazon S3 to Aurora Tables
Oct 12 AWS GovCloud (US) now supports Amazon EBS encrypted boot volumes and AMI copy

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Databases

Date Announcement
Nov 07 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Nov 02 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 11g to 12c Major Version Upgrade
Oct 31 Amazon Redshift now available in South America (São Paulo) Region
Oct 18 Amazon Aurora New Features: AWS Lambda Integration and Data Load from Amazon S3 to Aurora Tables
Oct 17 Announcing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

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Networking

Date Announcement
Oct 25 Amazon Route 53 Now Supports DNS Queries over IPv6 Networks
Oct 05 Introducing Amazon VPC NAT Gateway in the South America (São Paulo) Region
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

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Nov 02 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region
Oct 26 Enable access control scenarios using Microsoft Network Policy Service with Microsoft AD
Oct 06 Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
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

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Nov 07 Test drive Amazon Kinesis Firehose using built-in sample data
Nov 03 Now run real-time stream processing at scale with Apache Flink on Amazon EMR
Oct 31 Amazon Redshift now available in South America (São Paulo) Region
Oct 17 Announcing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Sep 30 Amazon Redshift introduces new data type to support time zones in time stamps

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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
Nov 02 Amazon SES Now Provides Fine-Grained Email Sending Metrics
Sep 30 Amazon Elastic Transcoder Available In The Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
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

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Nov 03 Continuously Deliver Changes to AWS CloudFormation Stacks with AWS CodePipeline Blog
Nov 03 AWS CodePipeline Introduces AWS CloudFormation Deployment Action Blog
Oct 26 AWS CodePipeline Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Oct 20 AWS CodePipeline Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Oct 13 Use Hosted Git Repositories from AWS CodeCommit with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Nov 07 CloudWatch releases the ability to pivot from Metrics to Logs
Nov 03 Continuously Deliver Changes to AWS CloudFormation Stacks with AWS CodePipeline Blog
Nov 03 AWS CodePipeline Introduces AWS CloudFormation Deployment Action Blog
Nov 02 Amazon CloudWatch Events is now available in the China (Beijing) AWS region
Nov 01 CloudWatch extends Metrics retention and new User Interface

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Nov 03 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.6 now available, introduces Twitch Metastream and more
Sep 29 Amazon Game Studios Announce Breakaway
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

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Oct 06 Introducing a Node.js Library for Porting Express Applications to Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Oct 06 Amazon Cognito introduces administrator creation of users in Your User Pools
Sep 29 Amazon Cognito available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt) regions
Sep 20 Amazon API Gateway introduces 3 new features to simplify API configuration Blog
Sep 20 AWS Lambda Simplifies Amazon API Gateway Integration

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Enterprise Applications

Date Announcement
Oct 26 Amazon WorkMail now supports email redirection to external email addresses
Oct 25 Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server
Oct 20 Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region
Oct 20 Amazon WorkDocs Launches Redesigned Web Client With Improved Functionality
Aug 18 Amazon WorkSpaces now offers hourly pricing for all Amazon WorkSpaces bundles

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Nov 01 Swift Web Applications on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Nov 01 AWS Marketplace Announces Product Support Connection
Oct 25 AWS Marketplace Announces Self-Service Listings for Software Vendors
Oct 12 Oracle Database on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
Oct 10 Bitbucket Data Center and JIRA Software Data Center on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployments

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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
Oct 19 AWS Educate Adds Cloud Learning Pathways for Students
Oct 12 AWS GovCloud (US) now supports Amazon EBS encrypted boot volumes and AMI copy
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)

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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
Oct 17 Announcing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Jun 27 Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region Blog
Jun 22 AWS Direct Connect Now Supports a Self-Service Feature for LOAs
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
Oct 24 First AWS Certification Study Guide Now Available
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

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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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