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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Feb 04 AppStream 2.0 enables custom scripts before session start and after session termination
Feb 04 Source code for the AWS Glue Data Catalog client for Apache Hive Metastore is now available for download
Feb 04 New Quick Start Deploys CloudLens and Eastwind on AWS
Feb 04 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Feb 04 AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 A1 Instances and EC2 G3s Instances
Feb 04 Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally
Feb 04 NICE DCV Now Supports Kerberos Authentication and Touch Input on Windows Native Clients and Web Clients When Using Windows Server
Feb 04 Amazon DynamoDB Local Adds Support for Transactional APIs, On-Demand Capacity Mode, and 20 GSIs
Jan 31 Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available Blog
Jan 29 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports SQLT Diagnostics Tool Version 12.2.180725

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Source code for the AWS Glue Data Catalog client for Apache Hive Metastore is now available for download
Jan 28 Now bring your own KDC and enable Kerberos authentication in Amazon EMR
Jan 23 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.4
Jan 23 Amazon Elasticsearch Service doubles maximum cluster capacity with 200 node cluster support
Jan 22 Introducing Python Shell Jobs in AWS Glue

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally
Jan 24 Introducing the Media2Cloud solution
Jan 24 AWS Step Functions Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 21 Amazon MQ Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 16 AWS Step Functions Now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD and AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet

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AR & VR

Date Announcement
Jun 21 Amazon Sumerian Regional Expansions
Jun 07 Amazon Sumerian Regional and Feature Expansion
May 15 Amazon Sumerian is Generally Available
Nov 26 Announcing Amazon Sumerian (Preview)

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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
Nov 28 Introducing-AWS-License-Manager
Nov 19 Enhanced Forecasting Now Available in AWS Cost Explorer
Nov 15 Announcing the New AWS Cost Explorer Console
Nov 15 AWS Cost & Usage Reports Add Amazon Athena Integration, Apache Parquet Output, and Report Overwrite
Nov 13 Analyze Your Budget Performance Using New AWS Budgets History Functionality

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Jan 07 Announcing Windows Server 2019 AMIs for Amazon EC2
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 28 AWS Marketplace Makes it Easier to Build Machine Learning Applications on Amazon SageMaker
Nov 27 AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Govern Software Procurement with Private Marketplace
Nov 27 AWS Announces New Container Products in AWS Marketplace

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Feb 04 New Quick Start Deploys CloudLens and Eastwind on AWS
Jan 17 Deploy Micro Focus Enterprise Server on AWS with New Quick Start
Jan 07 Deploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start
Dec 20 New Quick Start Deploys Varnish Cache Plus (VCP) on the AWS Cloud
Dec 13 Deploy TIBCO Data Science on AWS with New Quick Start

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Blockchain

Date Announcement
Nov 28 Introducing Amazon Managed Blockchain
Nov 28 Introducing Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

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Business Productivity

Date Announcement
Nov 19 Gather analytics and trigger actions on outbound mail with Lambda for WorkMail
Nov 02 Amazon WorkMail Introduces Outbound Mail Flow Rules
Oct 25 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac
Oct 23 Amazon WorkDocs Now Lets You Control IP Address Access to Your Site
Oct 19 Amazon WorkDocs Smart Search Makes It Easier to Find Your Content

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Compute

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Feb 04 AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 A1 Instances and EC2 G3s Instances
Feb 04 NICE DCV Now Supports Kerberos Authentication and Touch Input on Windows Native Clients and Web Clients When Using Windows Server
Jan 25 Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR now have support for AWS PrivateLink
Jan 24 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for .NET Core 2.2

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Dec 21 Amazon Connect Adds Real-Time Customer Voice Stream
Dec 19 Amazon Connect Now Supports Routing Contacts to an Individual Agent
Dec 14 Amazon Connect Adds New Contact API to Get Contact Attributes
Dec 10 Amazon Connect is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Nov 19 Amazon Connect Now Provides Contact Flow Looping

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Databases

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Amazon DynamoDB Local Adds Support for Transactional APIs, On-Demand Capacity Mode, and 20 GSIs
Jan 29 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports SQLT Diagnostics Tool Version 12.2.180725
Jan 25 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports T3 Instance Types
Jan 25 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports T3 Instance Types
Jan 23 Amazon Neptune is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region

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Developers

Date Announcement
Jan 31 Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available Blog
Dec 06 AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints
Nov 29 Introducing the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm Blog
May 02 Announcing AWS DevDay in San Francisco
Mar 14 AWS SDK for C++ - Developer Preview

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Jan 31 Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available Blog
Jan 24 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry
Jan 17 AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Deploying to Amazon S3
Dec 21 New SAM PUBLISH Command Simplifies Publishing Applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository
Dec 20 Quickly Create, Build, and Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills from AWS Blog

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End User Computing

Date Announcement
Jan 23 Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Nov 20 Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Dual Monitors and USB Peripherals through a Windows Client
Nov 19 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces user self-service management capabilities
Nov 15 Amazon WorkSpaces introduces bring your own license automation for Windows desktops
Oct 25 Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac

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Game Development

Date Announcement
Dec 18 Major Slice Workflow Improvements come to Lumberyard Beta 1.17 – Now Available Blog
Dec 14 Amazon GameLift Updates Server SDK for Compatibility with Unity 2018, Unreal 4.21, and Visual Studio 15 2017
Nov 13 Massive Memory Refactor introduced in Lumberyard 1.16 – Available Now Blog
Sep 27 Amazon GameLift is Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Jul 27 New Cloud Gems in Lumberyard Beta 1.15 — Available Now Blog

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Dec 12 Announcing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Oct 11 AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Aug 28 AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai
Aug 27 New AWS Direct Connect locations in Paris and Taipei
Aug 13 AWS Direct Connect now in Kansas City, MO

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Jan 25 AWS Systems Manager Distributor is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jan 23 Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Jan 16 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Jan 04 Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances are Now Available in Additional AWS Regions

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Dec 19 AWS IoT Device Defender Adds Support for Two New Security Metrics
Dec 17 Introducing AWS CloudFormation Template Support for AWS IoT Analytics
Nov 28 AWS IoT Greengrass Now Supports Amazon SageMaker Neo and ML Inference Connectors on Edge Devices
Nov 26 AWS IoT Things Graph, Now in Preview
Nov 26 AWS IoT Greengrass Extends Functionality with Connectors to External Applications, Hardware Root of Trust Security, and Isolation Configurations

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Jan 24 Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports TFRecord Format
Jan 18 New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: Updated Elastic Inference for TensorFlow, TensorBoard 1.12.1, and MMS 1.0.1
Jan 18 Amazon Elastic Inference Now Supports TensorFlow 1.12 with a New Python API for Deploying TensorFlow Models
Jan 18 Object Bounding Boxes and More Accurate Object and Scene Detection are now Available for Amazon Rekognition Video
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018

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Management & Governance

Date Announcement
Jan 25 AWS Systems Manager Distributor is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Jan 24 Amazon CloudWatch Agent Adds Support for Procstat Plugin and Multiple Configuration Files
Jan 23 Introducing AWS CloudFormation UpdateReplacePolicy Attribute
Jan 22 AWS Config Increases Default Limits for AWS Config Rules
Jan 22 AWS Systems Manager State Manager Now Supports Management of In-Guest and Instance-Level Configuration

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Jan 25 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds I-Frame-Only HLS Manifests and JPEG Outputs
Jan 18 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for AWS CloudTrail
Jan 15 AWS Elemental MediaConvert Adds IMF Input and Enhances Caption Burn-In Support
Dec 21 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for Timed ID3 Metadata Insertion for HLS Streams
Dec 21 AWS Elemental MediaConvert is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

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Migration & Transfer

Date Announcement
Jan 18 AWS Migration Hub Now Supports Importing On-Premises Server and Application Data to Track Migration Progress
Dec 06 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Multi-Server Migration
Nov 26 AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Is Now Generally Available
Nov 26 Introducing AWS DataSync: A Service to Simplify, Automate, and Accelerate Online Data Transfer
Nov 20 AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized to More than Double Computing Power for Edge Applications in Disconnected Environments

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Jan 10 AWS Device Farm Now Supports Appium Node.js and Appium Ruby
Jan 02 Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement
Dec 18 Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Building Real-Time Two-Way Communication Applications with WebSocket APIs Blog
Nov 26 Introducing the AWS Amplify Console
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Feb 04 Inter-Region VPC Peering is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Jan 24 Network Load Balancer Now Supports TLS Termination Blog
Jan 24 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry
Jan 02 Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement
Dec 20 Amazon Route 53 Adds Alias Record Support For API Gateway and VPC Endpoints

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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

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Robotics

Date Announcement
Nov 26 AWS RoboMaker Blog

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Satellite

Date Announcement
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 27 Announcing AWS Ground Station (Preview)

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jan 24 Find And Update Access Keys, Password, And MFA Settings Easily Using The AWS Management Console
Jan 24 AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry
Jan 22 Amazon Cognito Is Now Available In The AWS Canada (Central) Region
Jan 22 Amazon Cognito Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement
Jan 17 AWS Secrets Manager Announces Service Level Agreement

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Storage

Date Announcement
Jan 23 Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is Available in the AWS Europe (London) Region
Jan 22 AWS Storage Gateway Announces Increased Throughput Performance for Tape Gateway
Jan 22 AWS Storage Gateway Introduces Volume Detach and Attach Feature to Easily Move Volumes Between Different Host Platforms
Jan 16 Amazon EBS Integrates with AWS Backup to Protect Your Volumes
Jan 16 AWS Storage Gateway Integrates with AWS Backup to Protect Volumes Managed through Volume Gateway

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Support

Date Announcement
Dec 19 Support Center Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Aug 06 AWS Personal Health Dashboard Now Supports Fine-Grained Access Control Via IAM Policy Conditions
Jun 13 AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports Customization
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

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Jan 02 Announcing the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Beta Exam
Dec 19 Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018
Nov 26 Machine Learning on AWS: New Training, Certification, and Exam Prep Offerings Blog
Oct 11 Announcing More Flexibility for AWS Certification Exams
Oct 03 Major Updates to Two AWS Classroom Training Courses

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