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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Dec 05 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Outbound Network Access
Dec 05 Amazon EFS Introduces the Ability to Access Amazon EFS File Systems from On-premises Servers via AWS Direct Connect
Dec 05 JIRA Service Desk Data Center now available on the AWS Cloud with AWS Quick Start
Dec 05 AWS Database Migration Service Officially Supports SSL for Oracle databases
Dec 01 AWS Config now integrates with Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to provide continuous monitoring and governance of software on your EC2 instances and on-premises systems
Dec 01 AWS Lambda Supports C#
Dec 01 Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0: Stream desktop applications from AWS
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Step Functions
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Shield
Dec 01 Introducing Lambda@Edge in Preview – Run Lambda functions at AWS’s edge locations closest to your users

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What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
Dec 01 AWS Lambda Supports C#
Dec 01 Introducing Lambda@Edge in Preview – Run Lambda functions at AWS’s edge locations closest to your users
Dec 01 Price reductions for Amazon EC2 C4, M4 & T2 instances are now effective
Dec 01 Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Dec 01 AWS Lambda Supports Dead Letter Queues

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Storage

Date Announcement
Nov 30 Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
Nov 30 Announcing AWS Snowball Edge
Nov 29 AWS Storage Gateway price reductions
Nov 29 Revolutionizing S3 Storage Management with 4 new features
Nov 29 AWS Storage Gateway provides a file interface to objects in your Amazon S3 buckets

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Databases

Date Announcement
Dec 05 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Outbound Network Access
Dec 05 AWS Database Migration Service Officially Supports SSL for Oracle databases
Nov 30 Announcing PostgreSQL compatibility for Amazon Aurora
Nov 29 Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL are now HIPAA-eligible services
Nov 23 Amazon Aurora now supports T2.Medium instances

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Migration

Date Announcement
Dec 05 AWS Database Migration Service Officially Supports SSL for Oracle databases
Nov 30 Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
Nov 30 Announcing AWS Snowball Edge
Nov 17 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Adds Netezza and Greenplum Sources
Oct 24 New AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) makes it easier and faster to migrate on-premises servers to AWS

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Nov 30 Announcing Regional Edge Caches for Amazon CloudFront
Nov 23 Amazon CloudFront adds new Edge Locations in Minneapolis, MN, Berlin, Germany and our Fourth in London, England
Nov 21 Amazon Route 53 Now Supports Health Checks of IPv6 Endpoints
Nov 18 Announcing Third Edge Location in Hong Kong for Amazon CloudFront

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Announcing AWS CodeBuild
Dec 01 Announcing AWS X-Ray
Nov 17 AWS CodePipeline Available in EU (Frankfurt) Region
Nov 16 AWS CodeCommit Available in EU (Ireland) Region
Nov 14 AWS CodeCommit Available in US West (Oregon) Region

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Dec 01 AWS Config now integrates with Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to provide continuous monitoring and governance of software on your EC2 instances and on-premises systems
Dec 01 Announcing AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Dec 01 AWS CloudFormation Updated Resource Coverage
Dec 01 Introducing EC2 Systems Manager for automated configuration management of EC2 and on-premises systems
Nov 22 AWS CloudFormation Introduces Resource Specifications, Cross-Stack Reference Update, and Coverage Updates

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Shield
Nov 29 Announcing AWS Organizations, Now in Preview
Nov 16 Amazon EMR now supports fine-grained access control using cluster tags
Nov 16 Now available: IAM console updates that make it easier to create and manage users
Nov 14 Add more application support to your Microsoft AD directory by extending the schema

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Glue: Prepare and load data into data stores
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Athena: a pay-as-you-go interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL
Nov 21 Amazon EMR now supports using Amazon S3 as a data store for Apache HBase
Nov 18 Amazon Redshift introduces multibyte (UTF-8) character support for database object names and updated ODBC/JDBC
Nov 18 Amazon EMR now supports Auto Scaling and configurable scale down behavior

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Rekognition
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Polly
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Lex, now in Preview
Aug 02 Compute and Completion Time for Object Creation Now Available in the Amazon ML Console, API, and AWS SDKs
Jul 26 Now Access CloudWatch Metrics directly from the Amazon ML Console

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing Amazon Pinpoint
Dec 01 Enhanced Context for Custom Authorizers in Amazon API Gateway
Dec 01 Document Your API with Amazon API Gateway
Dec 01 Amazon API Gateway Integration with AWS Marketplace
Nov 30 Introducing AWS Mobile Hub Integration With Amazon Lex

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Step Functions
Dec 01 Enhanced Context for Custom Authorizers in Amazon API Gateway
Dec 01 Document Your API with Amazon API Gateway
Dec 01 Amazon API Gateway Integration with AWS Marketplace
Nov 21 Amazon API Gateway Available in US West (N. California)

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Messaging

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing Amazon Pinpoint
Nov 21 Amazon SES Now Offers Dedicated IP Addresses
Nov 17 Amazon SQS Introduces FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing and Lower Prices for Standard Queues
Nov 02 Amazon SES Now Provides Fine-Grained Email Sending Metrics
Aug 31 New Amazon CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS monitors the age of the oldest message

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Nov 22 Amazon WorkDocs increases default storage to 1TB, enhances commenting, and updates sync clients
Nov 21 Amazon WorkMail now allows you to use journaling to support compliance requirements
Nov 17 Amazon WorkDocs Administrative SDK is now in public preview
Oct 26 Amazon WorkMail now supports email redirection to external email addresses
Oct 25 Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Dec 01 Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0: Stream desktop applications from AWS
Nov 29 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Windows 10 desktop experience
Nov 18 Amazon WorkSpaces now allows you to access your virtual cloud desktop using Chrome and Firefox
Nov 15 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces new Graphics bundles
Oct 20 Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Nov 30 Announcing AWS Greengrass, now in limited preview
Nov 30 Announcing an Improved AWS IoT Button Developer Experience
Nov 30 Announcing the AWS IoT Button Enterprise Program, now in limited preview
Nov 29 AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, IoT Partner Solutions
Nov 22 Announcing the new AWS IoT Console, available today

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Nov 18 Amazon GameLift Adds On Demand Fleet and Instance Access
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

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Dec 05 JIRA Service Desk Data Center now available on the AWS Cloud with AWS Quick Start
Nov 29 AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, IoT Partner Solutions
Nov 29 Introducing the AWS Service Delivery Program
Nov 29 AWS Partner Network Launches New Competency, Financial Services Partner Solutions
Nov 29 The AWS Partner Network (APN) makes it easier to find the right APN Partner to engage through the Partner Solutions Finder

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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 27 Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
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
Oct 10 Introducing new Amazon EC2 X1 instance size, x1.16xlarge, and expansion of X1 instances to new regions
Sep 27 Introducing new M4 instance size, m4.16xlarge, and new region availability of M4 instances

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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
Nov 22 Now Available: Updated AWS Business and Technical Accreditations for APN Partners
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

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Support

Date Announcement
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
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

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