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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Feb 22 AWS Lambda Adds Enhanced Visibility into Stream-based Processing Operations
Feb 22 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.8 Now Available, Adds Cloud Gems Framework
Feb 22 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Custom Platforms
Feb 21 Amazon GameLift Supports Unreal Engine, Unity, and Custom C# and C++ Engines
Feb 21 AWS Config Rules Supports New Managed Rules
Feb 21 AWS Config Rules Available in Europe (London) Region
Feb 21 Amazon QuickSight now supports Scheduled Refresh of SPICE data
Feb 21 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports additional instance types and up to 30 TB EBS capacity per domain
Feb 20 Amazon Athena supports querying AVRO data, is available in the US East (Ohio) region and integrates with Looker.
Feb 20 AWS Marketplace Self-Service Listings Now Lets Software Vendors Edit Existing Products

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What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
Feb 22 AWS Lambda Adds Enhanced Visibility into Stream-based Processing Operations
Feb 22 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Custom Platforms
Feb 09 Attach an IAM role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance
Feb 08 AWS Storage Gateway supports running file gateway in EC2 and adds file share security options
Feb 08 Lambda@Edge adds support for Response Generation and Custom Logging

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Storage

Date Announcement
Feb 13 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Enables Live Volume Modifications with Elastic Volumes
Feb 08 AWS Storage Gateway supports running file gateway in EC2 and adds file share security options
Jan 17 Backup to AWS with CA Arcserve Backup using the Storage Gateway virtual tape library
Dec 21 Amazon Kinesis Firehose can now prepare and transform streaming data before loading it to data stores
Nov 30 Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile

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Databases

Date Announcement
Feb 16 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports from Oracle and Teradata Data Warehouses to Amazon Redshift
Feb 10 Amazon Redshift now supports encrypting unloaded data using Amazon S3 server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys
Jan 26 Amazon Redshift announces improved Workload Management console experience
Jan 26 Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Outbound Network Access Using Custom DNS Servers
Jan 23 Amazon RDS now supports Read Replicas of Encrypted Database Instances across Regions

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Migration

Date Announcement
Feb 16 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports from Oracle and Teradata Data Warehouses to Amazon Redshift
Feb 09 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in new regions
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

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Feb 13 AWS Direct Connect announces support for Link Aggregation
Feb 06 Announcing New Edge Location in Vienna, Our First in Austria
Jan 25 Announcing New Munich Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront, our 7th Edge Location in Germany
Jan 25 Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 Instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Regional Expansion
Jan 25 Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Elastic Load Balancing in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Jan 25 AWS CodeDeploy Introduces Blue/Green Deployments
Jan 24 AWS CodeCommit Adds Difference Viewing for a Commit
Jan 19 AWS CodeBuild Available in US East (Ohio) Region
Jan 11 AWS CodeCommit Supports AWS CloudTrail Logging
Dec 30 AWS CodeDeploy Enables On-Premises Server Registration with Temporary Credentials

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Feb 21 AWS Config Rules Available in Europe (London) Region
Feb 21 AWS Config Rules Supports New Managed Rules
Feb 20 Amazon CloudWatch adds Alarms on Dashboards
Feb 17 AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) Supports Inline Swagger and AWS CloudFormation Intrinsic Functions
Feb 16 AWS Config Rules Adds AWS CloudFormation Templates and a Test Mode for Rule Authoring

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Feb 15 AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports tagging of keys
Feb 13 Improve AWS services' security with multi-factor authentication (MFA) using AWS Microsoft AD
Feb 10 Amazon Redshift now supports encrypting unloaded data using Amazon S3 server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys
Feb 09 Attach an IAM role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance
Jan 26 Amazon Cloud Directory Now Generally Available

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Feb 21 Amazon QuickSight now supports Scheduled Refresh of SPICE data
Feb 21 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports additional instance types and up to 30 TB EBS capacity per domain
Feb 20 Amazon Athena supports querying AVRO data, is available in the US East (Ohio) region and integrates with Looker.
Feb 16 AWS Schema Conversion Tool Exports from Oracle and Teradata Data Warehouses to Amazon Redshift
Feb 10 Amazon Redshift now supports encrypting unloaded data using Amazon S3 server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys

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Artificial Intelligence

Date Announcement
Feb 10 Ubuntu version of AWS Deep Learning AMI Now Available
Feb 09 Estimate Age Range using Amazon Rekognition and View CloudWatch Metrics
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Rekognition
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Polly
Nov 30 Introducing Amazon Lex, now in Preview

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon API Gateway Integration with AWS Step Functions
Feb 09 Run longer tests and control test durations with AWS Device Farm
Feb 01 Amazon API Gateway is now available in the Europe (London) AWS region.
Dec 15 Amazon Cognito Adds Groups, Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control, and US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Dec 08 Simulate mobile connections and conditions with AWS Device Farm

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon API Gateway Integration with AWS Step Functions
Feb 10 AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for AWS Step Functions
Feb 01 Amazon API Gateway is now available in the Europe (London) AWS region.
Dec 01 Introducing AWS Step Functions
Dec 01 Enhanced Context for Custom Authorizers in Amazon API Gateway

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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
Jan 18 Amazon WorkDocs sync client update makes it easier to free up local storage space, and offers improved sync performance
Dec 28 Amazon WorkMail now supports a wider range of email client applications, including Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac and those that use the IMAP protocol
Dec 21 Amazon WorkMail redesigned web client offers users a better email experience
Dec 19 Amazon WorkMail interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server now supports a unified global address book
Nov 22 Amazon WorkDocs increases default storage to 1TB, enhances commenting, and updates sync clients

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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
Feb 15 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports federated access using SAML 2.0
Feb 09 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports interforest trusts with AWS Microsoft AD for easier user and directory management
Jan 31 Amazon WorkSpaces now use solid-state drives (SSD) at no additional cost
Jan 19 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Image Builder is now available
Dec 15 Amazon WorkSpaces tags now also apply to Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Dec 20 AWS IoT Available in the Ohio Region
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

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Feb 22 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.8 Now Available, Adds Cloud Gems Framework
Feb 21 Amazon GameLift Supports Unreal Engine, Unity, and Custom C# and C++ Engines
Jan 25 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.7 Now Available, Adds Deployment Tool, Asset Browser, Multiplayer Sample, Visual Studio 2015 Support, and More
Dec 06 Amazon GameLift expands to 5 more regions across Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America
Nov 18 Amazon GameLift Adds On Demand Fleet and Instance Access

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Feb 20 AWS Marketplace Self-Service Listings Now Lets Software Vendors Edit Existing Products
Feb 16 AWS Marketplace Metering Service Now Supports 14 Regions with the addition of US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), and EU (London)
Feb 10 New Quick Start deploys an architecture that supports HIPAA Phase 1 and 2 on the AWS Cloud
Feb 09 New Quick Start deploys Splunk Enterprise on the AWS Cloud
Feb 08 New Quick Start deploys Tableau Server on the AWS Cloud

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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
Dec 21 Amazon Kinesis Streams is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Dec 15 Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region
Dec 15 Now available: EC2 Convertible RIs and the RI regional benefit in AWS GovCloud (US) region
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

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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
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 13 AWS Direct Connect announces support for Link Aggregation
Dec 20 On-premises access to Amazon EFS via AWS Direct Connect Available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Dec 13 Announcing the AWS Europe (London) Region
Dec 08 Announcing the AWS Canada (Central) Region
Oct 17 Announcing the AWS US East (Ohio) 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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