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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Amazon CloudFront by launching six new Edge locations Blog
Nov 20 Amazon CloudFront announces support for Origin Failover Blog
Nov 20 Amazon CloudFront announces support for the WebSocket protocol Blog
Nov 20 Amazon Neptune Now Supports HTTPS for Encrypted Client Connections
Nov 20 Monitor and Visualize Training Metrics of your Machine Learning Models with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon CloudWatch
Nov 20 Amazon SageMaker is now integrated with Apache Airflow
Nov 20 Amazon SageMaker Announces Several Enhancements to the Built-In TensorFlow and Chainer Containers
Nov 20 Amazon CloudWatch Introduces Automatic Dashboards to Monitor all AWS Resources
Nov 20 AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors
Nov 20 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports R5 Instance Types

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Compute

Date Announcement
Nov 20 AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors
Nov 20 AWS Batch Now Supports Multi-Node Parallel Jobs
Nov 20 Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs is now Amazon Elastic Graphics
Nov 19 AWS Lambda supports Kinesis Data Streams Enhanced Fan-Out and HTTP/2 for faster streaming
Nov 19 AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Node.js 10

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Storage

Date Announcement
Nov 15 Introducing Amazon S3 Block Public Access – another layer of protection for your accounts and buckets Blog
Nov 13 AWS Storage Gateway Virtual Tape Library Expands Support of Common Backup Applications
Nov 12 Introducing AWS CloudFormation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies
Nov 12 Amazon S3 Cross Region Replication is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Nov 08 Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for copying EBS volume tags to EBS snapshots

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Databases

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Amazon Neptune Now Supports HTTPS for Encrypted Client Connections
Nov 20 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports R5 Instance Types
Nov 20 Amazon Redshift announces Deferred Maintenance and Advance Event Notifications
Nov 20 AWS AppSync Launches Pipeline Resolvers, Delta Sync, and Aurora Serverless Support Blog
Nov 19 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds auto-failover and backup/restore support for T2 nodes

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Migration

Date Announcement
Nov 19 AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support For AMI Encryption
Nov 19 AWS Server Migration Service Now Supports Resuming Failed Replication Jobs
Nov 16 AWS Server Migration Service Now Supports Hourly Replication Intervals
Oct 02 AWS Migration Hub Saves Time Migrating with Application Migration Status Automation
Sep 20 AWS Database Migration Service Makes It Easier to Migrate Cassandra Databases to Amazon DynamoDB Blog

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Amazon CloudFront by launching six new Edge locations Blog
Nov 20 Amazon CloudFront announces support for Origin Failover Blog
Nov 20 Amazon CloudFront announces support for the WebSocket protocol Blog
Nov 19 Amazon Route 53 Announces Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Simplifying DNS for Hybrid Cloud
Nov 16 Amazon API Gateway Enables API Publishers to Deploy the Serverless Developer Portal from the AWS Serverless Application Repository

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Nov 19 AWS CodePipeline Now Executes Faster and Supports More Pipeline Actions Per Stage
Nov 16 AWS Serverless Application Repository Supports Amazon Route 53, Amazon SQS, AWS Glue, AWS IAM, AWS Step Functions and More
Nov 14 Introducing Amazon Corretto (Preview)
Nov 12 AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Cross-Region Actions
Oct 26 AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Amazon API Gateway Authorizers

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Amazon CloudWatch Introduces Automatic Dashboards to Monitor all AWS Resources
Nov 20 Introducing AWS Systems Manager Distributor
Nov 20 Amazon CloudWatch Launches Ability to Add Alarms on Metric Math Expressions
Nov 19 AWS Config Now Supports Multi-Account, Multi-Region Aggregation of Resource Configuration Data
Nov 19 AWS CloudTrail Adds Support for AWS Organizations

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Media Services

Date Announcement
Nov 15 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Extends Live Channel Archive Window to 14 Days
Nov 14 AWS Elemental MediaTailor Adds Support for Multi-Period DASH
Nov 08 AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Input Switching for Live Channels
Nov 07 AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Oct 24 AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Synchronizes Redundant Pipelines Using Input Timecode

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Nov 19 Use AWS Secrets Manager Client-Side Caching Libraries to Improve the Availability and Latency of Using Your Secrets Blog
Nov 16 Amazon Cloud Directory now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Nov 15 Amazon GuardDuty Adds Three New Threat Detections
Nov 15 Easily Tag Secrets and Configure Rotation of Secrets from the Secrets Manager Console
Nov 15 An Easier Way to Manage Your IAM Users and Roles by Using Tags

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Amazon Redshift announces Deferred Maintenance and Advance Event Notifications
Nov 20 Analyze live video at scale in real-time using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and Amazon SageMaker
Nov 20 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds self-service updates for domains
Nov 20 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds detailed cluster health monitoring
Nov 19 Amazon EMR introduces EMR Notebooks: A managed analytics environment based on Jupyter Notebooks

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Nov 20 Monitor and Visualize Training Metrics of your Machine Learning Models with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon CloudWatch
Nov 20 Amazon SageMaker is now integrated with Apache Airflow
Nov 20 Amazon SageMaker Announces Several Enhancements to the Built-In TensorFlow and Chainer Containers
Nov 19 Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Object2Vec and IP Insights Built-in Algorithms
Nov 19 Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Now Supports Warm Start for Hyperparameter Tuning Jobs

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon API Gateway Enables API Publishers to Deploy the Serverless Developer Portal from the AWS Serverless Application Repository
Nov 13 AWS Amplify adds support for Authentication and Data access for iOS and Android developers Blog
Nov 08 Amazon API Gateway Announces Tiered Pricing

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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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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Nov 15 Amazon SNS Adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE)
Nov 08 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions
Oct 02 Amazon MQ is Now HIPAA Eligible
Sep 27 Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ Minor Version 5.15.6
Aug 30 Amazon MQ is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

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Customer Engagement

Date Announcement
Nov 19 Amazon Connect Now Provides Contact Flow Looping
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 16 Amazon Pinpoint Now Enables Customers to Deliver Voice Messages to Their Users in Over 200 Countries
Nov 06 Amazon Pinpoint announces support for transactional emails and the addition of rich email analytics dashboards
Oct 19 Amazon Connect Now Supports Service-Linked Roles

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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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Desktop & App Streaming

Date Announcement
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
Oct 25 Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS CloudFormation Support and User Pool APIs Blog

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Nov 19 AWS IoT Device Management Now Provides New Features for Fleet Indexing and Jobs
Nov 19 AWS IoT Now Supports Resource Tagging
Nov 16 Deploy AWS IoT Camera Connector on AWS with New Quick Start
Nov 14 AWS IoT Analytics Adds Support for Germany. Now Available in Frankfurt Region
Nov 08 AWS IoT Core Improves the Ability to Ingest Large Amounts of Device Data at a Lower Cost

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Game Development

Date Announcement
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
Jun 14 Amazon GameLift introduces new game session placement metrics
May 11 Major Updates Come to Script Canvas with Lumberyard Beta 1.14 – Available Now Blog

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AWS Marketplace

Date Announcement
Nov 13 Deploy IBM Blockchain Platform for AWS with New Quick Start
Oct 17 AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Pay For What You Use with SaaS Contracts
Oct 16 Customize Your Payment Frequency and More with AWS Marketplace Flexible Payment Scheduler
Oct 08 Consulting Partners Can Now Resell Software Solutions Available in AWS Marketplace
Sep 13 AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

Date Announcement
Nov 19 Deploy a self-service cloud analytics solution with Informatica, Tableau, and AWS services
Nov 14 Deploy F5 BIG-IP VE on the AWS Cloud with new Quick Start
Oct 30 New Quick Start builds a CI/CD pipeline to test AWS CloudFormation templates using AWS TaskCat
Oct 29 Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server on AWS with Updated Quick Start
Oct 23 Deploy Tableau Server for healthcare on the AWS Cloud with new Quick Start

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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
Nov 19 AWS Systems Manager Automation Now Supports Multi-Account and Multi-Region Actions Blog
Nov 16 Amazon Cloud Directory now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Nov 15 Introducing Amazon S3 Block Public Access – another layer of protection for your accounts and buckets Blog
Nov 12 Announcing the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Nov 12 Amazon S3 Cross Region Replication is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

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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

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
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
Aug 09 AWS Direct Connect live in Denmark and Norway

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Training & Certification

Date Announcement
Oct 03 Major Updates to Two AWS Classroom Training Courses
Sep 05 Announcing Major Updates to 3 AWS Classroom Training Courses
Jun 18 New Exam Readiness Courses for AWS Certifications
Apr 23 Announcing the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam
Apr 13 Announcing 4 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services

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Support

Date Announcement
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
Mar 09 AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Checks for Ten New Service Limits, AuroraDB Availability, and EC2 Windows

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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
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
Nov 08 Monitor Your Amazon Elasticsearch Reserved Instance Utilization and Coverage Using AWS Budgets

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