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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Feb 21 AWS CodePipeline Now Available in Europe (Paris) Region
Feb 21 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt and Paris) Regions
Feb 21 AWS AppSync Expands to Three New Regions, Adds API Key Extension Feature Blog
Feb 21 Deploy CloudStax Cache for Redis on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Feb 21 AWS CodeCommit Supports Creating and Editing Files via the Console Editor and SDKs
Feb 21 AWS Serverless Application Repository Now Generally Available Blog
Feb 20 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Adds Support for Service-Linked Roles
Feb 20 AWS OpsWorks Stacks Event Sources are now Available in Amazon CloudWatch Events
Feb 20 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in Nine Additional AWS Regions
Feb 20 Amazon Inspector Now Supports Windows Server 2016

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Compute

Date Announcement
Feb 20 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in Nine Additional AWS Regions
Feb 12 Longer Format Resource IDs are Now Available in Amazon EC2
Feb 09 Target Tracking Available for Container Service Auto Scaling in Amazon ECS Console
Feb 08 Amazon ECS Adds New Endpoint to Access Task Metrics and Metadata
Feb 05 Amazon EC2 M5 Instances Are Now Available in Additional Regions

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Storage

Date Announcement
Feb 20 AWS Trusted Advisor's S3 Bucket Permissions Check Is Now Free
Dec 13 EFS File Sync Now Available in All Amazon EFS Regions
Dec 06 Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Volumes now support 32,000 IOPS and 500 MB/s per volume.
Nov 29 Amazon Glacier Select Makes Big Data Analytics of Archive Data Possible
Nov 29 Amazon S3 Select Is Now Available in Preview

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Databases

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Releases SDKs for Python and .NET, Support for T2 Instances, and now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Feb 08 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Feb 08 Amazon DynamoDB Now Supports Server-Side Encryption at Rest
Feb 08 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Adds High Availability Support in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Feb 06 Amazon RDS and AWS Database Migration Service Support Replication from SQL Server

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Migration

Date Announcement
Feb 08 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in EU (London)
Dec 14 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in US West (Northern California) Region
Dec 14 Now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region: Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service
Dec 12 Automatic Migration Updates for AWS Migration Hub
Nov 30 Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Feb 20 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in Nine Additional AWS Regions
Feb 19 Amazon CloudFront Launches Fourth Edge Location in Seoul, South Korea
Feb 13 Network Load Balancer is Now Available in the EU (Paris) Region
Feb 08 New AWS Direct Connect sites land in Paris and Taipei
Feb 08 Elastic Load Balancing Now Supports Filtering Based on Tags

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Feb 21 AWS CodePipeline Now Available in Europe (Paris) Region
Feb 14 AWS CodeStar Now Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Feb 05 AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET version 2.0.0 (beta)
Jan 25 AWS CodeBuild Integrates with GitHub Enterprise and Supports Shallow Git Clones
Dec 21 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Builds for .NET Core 2.0

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Feb 20 AWS OpsWorks Stacks Event Sources are now Available in Amazon CloudWatch Events
Feb 15 AWS Config Adds Support for AWS WAF RuleGroups
Feb 08 AWS Shield now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail
Feb 05 Model Server for Apache MXNet Introduces ONNX Support and Amazon CloudWatch Integration
Jan 25 AWS Config Supports New Managed Rules

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Feb 21 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt and Paris) Regions
Feb 07 AWS Elemental MediaTailor Now Available in 3 Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) Regions
Feb 07 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Feb 07 AWS Elemental MediaStore Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions
Feb 06 AWS Elemental MediaLive adds Live Channel Configuration Export and Import via JSON

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Feb 20 Amazon Inspector Now Supports Windows Server 2016
Feb 15 AWS Config Adds Support for AWS WAF RuleGroups
Feb 14 Amazon Cloud Directory Regional Expansion
Feb 08 AWS Shield now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail
Feb 08 Amazon Cognito Simplifies User Migration

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Feb 16 Amazon Elasticsearch Service Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Feb 06 10x Higher API Call Rates for Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) Applications
Jan 19 Amazon Athena Engine Upgrades, Support for Lambda Expressions, and Ability to Skip Headers
Jan 16 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now Available in Three More Regions
Jan 12 AWS Glue Now Supports Scala in Addition to Python

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon Polly New Phonation Tag Enables You to Create Softer Speech
Feb 13 Now Export and Import your Amazon Lex Chatbot Schema
Feb 08 Announcing Responses Capability in Amazon Lex and SSML Support in Text Response Blog
Feb 08 Updated AWS Deep Learning AMIs With TensorFlow 1.5 and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.4
Feb 08 Voice Your Web Content with Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Dec 19 Amazon API Gateway Supports Tagging API Stages
Dec 19 Amazon API Gateway Supports Content Encoding for API Responses
Dec 19 Amazon API Gateway Supports API Keys in Custom Authorizer Responses
Dec 14 Amazon API Gateway Supports Amazon Cognito OAuth2 Scopes
Dec 06 Amazon Pinpoint Extensions (Public Beta) enables enhanced Pinpoint segmentation and to add new messaging channels to Pinpoint using AWS Lambda

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AR & VR

Date Announcement
Nov 26 Announcing Amazon Sumerian (Preview)

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Jan 24 AWS Step Functions Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Canada (Central) Regions
Nov 22 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Introduces Message Filtering
Nov 15 AWS Step Functions adds Support for Updating State Machines
Oct 19 Manage Amazon Simple Queue Service costs using Cost Allocation Tags
Aug 23 AWS Step Functions Now Available in EU (London) Region

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Feb 08 Amazon Connect Adds Speech Synthesis Markup Language Support for Amazon Lex Chatbots
Feb 06 Amazon Connect is Now ISO Compliant
Jan 26 Amazon Connect Adds Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 Available in Preview
Jan 25 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region
Dec 07 Amazon SES introduces Custom Emails Verification

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Feb 12 Amazon WorkMail Now Supports the MAPI Over HTTP Protocol
Feb 07 The Amazon WorkMail API Now Supports Exchange Web Services (EWS) Push Notifications
Dec 12 Amazon WorkMail Releases an Administrative SDK and Enables AWS CloudTrail Integration
Nov 17 Amazon WorkDocs Adds Additional Capabilities To Manage Your Feedback
Nov 14 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Is Now Available for Microsoft Windows in Preview

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager Now Supports Amazon WorkSpaces Running Windows 10
Jan 24 Amazon AppStream 2.0 is Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.
Jan 16 Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Dec 28 Amazon WorkSpaces Now Supports Configurable Storage and Switching Between Hardware Bundles
Dec 15 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Tagging to Track Your Resources

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Feb 07 AWS IoT Core Now Supports MQTT Connections with Certificate Based Client Authentication On Port 443
Dec 05 Amazon IoT Rules Engine Now Supports Error Actions
Nov 29 AWS Greengrass adds feature for Machine Learning Inference
Nov 29 AWS IoT Core Adds Enhanced Authentication Features
Nov 29 Over-the-air updates, access to local resources, and OPC-UA industrial protocol adapter now available on AWS Greengrass

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and Spot Instances Reduce Costs by up to 90%
Feb 08 Amazon GameLift Introduces Backfill Functionality to FlexMatch, the Dynamic Matchmaking Service for Multiplayer Experiences
Dec 14 Introducing Lumberyard Beta 1.12
Sep 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.11 Now Available, Adds New Animation and Visual Scripting Tools, New Cloud Gems, and More
Sep 05 Amazon GameLift available in 5 more regions across Australia, Europe and North America, now with R4 instance support and VPC peering capabilities

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Jan 19 Deploy TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Jan 12 Deploy IBM WebSphere Liberty on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
Dec 19 AWS Marketplace announces enhanced product detail pages
Dec 13 Introducing Amazon Linux 2
Nov 28 AWS Partner Network Launches New Networking Competency

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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
Feb 16 Amazon Elasticsearch Service Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Jan 26 AWS Serverless Application Model is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China (Beijing) Region
Jan 25 AWS Config Supports New Managed Rules
Jan 24 Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR Are Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Dec 21 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now Allows Customers to Tag Their Elastic IP Addresses

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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
Feb 19 Updated AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Now Available
Feb 19 Register for the new AWS Certified Developer – Associate Beta Exam
Nov 27 Free AWS digital training and new Cloud Practitioner certification
May 30 Announcing New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits
May 18 AWS Training and Certification Portal Now Live

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Sep 22 AWS Well-Architected Reviews now available with the Enterprise Support Plan Blog

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