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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
May 12 EC2 Run Command adds document sharing capability
May 12 AWS Application Discovery Service
May 11 Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
May 10 Directory Service Console Enables DNS IP Address Updates in AD Connector
May 05 Deploy Siebel CRM Applications on Amazon RDS for Oracle
May 05 Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery now available in the Beijing (China) Region
May 04 RDS Enhanced Monitoring is now available in South America (Sao Paulo) and China (Beijing)
May 04 AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Migrations to Amazon Redshift
May 02 Announcing AWS DevDay in San Francisco
Apr 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.2 Now Available

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What's New by Category

Compute

Date Announcement
May 12 EC2 Run Command adds document sharing capability
May 11 Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
May 05 Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery now available in the Beijing (China) Region
Apr 28 Longer Format for EBS and Storage Gateway IDs
Apr 26 Announcing Support for ClassicLink over VPC Peering

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Storage & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Apr 28 Longer Format for EBS and Storage Gateway IDs
Apr 19 EBS introduces two new low-cost, high-throughput HDD volume types Blog
Apr 19 Announcing the New, Larger Capacity 80 TB Snowball Appliance Blog
Apr 19 Transfer files into Amazon S3 up to 300% faster Blog
Mar 21 AWS Storage Gateway now supports up to 1 PB virtual tape libraries and up to 512 TB of stored volumes per gateway

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Databases

Date Announcement
May 05 Deploy Siebel CRM Applications on Amazon RDS for Oracle
May 04 RDS Enhanced Monitoring is now available in South America (Sao Paulo) and China (Beijing)
May 04 AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Migrations to Amazon Redshift
Apr 29 Amazon Redshift announces Enhancements to Data Loading, Security, and SAS Integration
Apr 27 MariaDB audit plug-in now available for RDS MySQL and MariaDB

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Networking

Date Announcement
Apr 26 Announcing Support for ClassicLink over VPC Peering
Apr 21 Announcing Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in Sao Paulo Region
Apr 05 Amazon Route 53 Announces Metric Based Health Checks, DNS Failover for Private Hosted Zones, and Configurable Health Check Locations
Mar 17 Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for Amazon S3 in South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Mar 01 Announcing Support for Security Group References in a Peered VPC

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
May 10 Directory Service Console Enables DNS IP Address Updates in AD Connector
Apr 28 AWS WAF now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail
Apr 19 Amazon Inspector, Security Vulnerability Assessment Service Now Generally Available
Apr 07 Announcing Simplified Trust Configuration for AWS Directory Service
Mar 30 AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks for Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, EC2 Reserved Instances, security, and service limits

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Analytics

Date Announcement
May 04 AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Migrations to Amazon Redshift
Apr 29 Amazon Redshift announces Enhancements to Data Loading, Security, and SAS Integration
Apr 21 Apache HBase 1.2 Now Available on Amazon EMR for Realtime Access for Massive Datasets Blog
Apr 19 Amazon Kinesis Streams Introduces Time-based Shard Iterators and Shard-level Metrics
Apr 19 Amazon Kinesis Firehose adds Amazon Elasticsearch Data Ingestion and Enhanced Monitoring Features

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Apr 25 AWS IoT Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Apr 11 AWS IoT Now Supports Integration with Amazon Machine Learning and AWS CloudTrail
Apr 11 AWS IoT Now Supports Using your Own Certificates
Apr 07 AWS IoT Available in EU (Frankfurt)
Mar 16 AWS IoT integrates with Elasticsearch Service and CloudWatch

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Application Services

Date Announcement
Apr 20 Amazon Elastic Transcoder adds support for VP9
Mar 30 CloudWatch Events now Supports Amazon SQS Queue Targets
Mar 14 Amazon SES Adds Support for Custom MAIL FROM Domains
Mar 02 Amazon Simple Notification Service Now Sends Notifications for AWS Directory Service
Feb 12 Now View Amazon CloudWatch Metrics within the Amazon SQS Console

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Apr 18 AWS CodePipeline Adds Integration with AWS CodeCommit
Mar 10 AWS CodeDeploy Available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Mar 07 AWS CodeCommit Adds Repository Triggers Blog
Feb 17 AWS CodeDeploy Adds Push Notification Support Blog
Jan 27 AWS CodePipeline Adds Support for Triggering AWS Lambda Functions

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
May 12 AWS Application Discovery Service
Apr 25 AWS CloudFormation Updates Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift Resource Support
Apr 21 Amazon CloudWatch Events now supported in AWS CloudFormation templates
Apr 21 AWS Support API now integrated with CloudTrail
Apr 21 Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Apr 29 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.2 Now Available
Apr 25 AWS CloudFormation Updates Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift Resource Support
Mar 15 AWS CloudFormation Supports Amazon GameLift
Mar 15 Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.1 Now Available, Adds Component Entity System, Allegorithmic Substance Integration, FBX Importer, Mobile Support, and More
Mar 10 GameLift Expands Game Server Availability to Europe and Asia Pacific and Adds Autoscaling

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Apr 22 AWS Mobile Hub adds NoSQL database service
Apr 19 Now Available: Add user sign-up and sign-in with Cognito Identity
Apr 19 Introducing AWS Device Farm Remote Access (beta)
Apr 05 Amazon API Gateway Supports Swagger Definition Import
Mar 24 AWS Mobile Hub now supports Swift

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Enterprise Applications

Date Announcement
Feb 25 Announcing New Regions for Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager
Jan 28 Amazon WorkSpaces supports Audio-in, High DPI Devices, and Saved Registrations Blog
Jan 04 Amazon WorkMail is Now Generally Available Blog
Dec 16 Announcing New Region and Features for Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager
Oct 20 Amazon WorkSpaces Launches Connection Health Check Web Site

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Apr 25 AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps is now available in the EU (Ireland) AWS region
Dec 17 Easily Launch Select Third-Party Software on AWS, Using New Compatibility between AWS Marketplace and AWS CloudFormation Blog
Sep 30 New AWS Security Training Classes Blog
Apr 29 SAP Business One, Version for SAP HANA, on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment Blog
Apr 09 Amazon Web Services Announces the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps and Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager Blog

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Developers

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Mar 24 Support for multiple trails in AWS GovCloud (US)
Mar 08 Coming Soon: AWS Config will be available in AWS GovCloud (US) in the coming months
Feb 11 VM Import Update – Faster and More Flexible, with Multi-Volume Support Now Available for AWS GovCloud (US) Customers
Feb 11 Amazon RDS now supports R3 and T2 instance types, as well as simplified Reserved Instance purchase options in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
Jan 14 Automated Sign-Up Now Available for 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

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Dec 09 Announcing 5 New AWS Direct Connect Locations Blog
Apr 14 Announcing AWS Direct Connect for the China (Beijing) Region
Nov 10 AWS Direct Connect location in Las Vegas NV Blog

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Sep 30 New AWS Security Training Classes Blog

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Support

Date Announcement
Apr 21 AWS Support API now integrated with CloudTrail
Apr 11 AWS Support introduces operations reviews, recommendations, and reporting available through Enterprise support plan
Mar 30 AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks for Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, EC2 Reserved Instances, security, and service limits
Dec 16 AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks for CloudFront, EBS/EC2, and IAM, updates Service Limits and S3 check Blog
Sep 29 AWS Trusted Advisor adds two new checks for CloudFront

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