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July 28, 2023 - Automatically Create a Dynamo DB Record from a Cognito User Pool | Amazon Web Services
July 28, 2023 - Getting Started with AWS Outposts Servers - Part 2: Activation | Amazon Web Services
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July 28, 2023 - Automatically Create a Dynamo DB Record from a Cognito User Pool | Amazon Web Services
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July 26, 2023 - Demo Video: Amazon CodeWhisperer Integration with AWS Glue Studio | Amazon Web Services
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July 26, 2023 - Amazon EC2 P5 Instances | Amazon Web Services
July 26, 2023 - Introducing AWS Entity Resolution | Amazon Web Services
July 25, 2023 - What is AWS HealthImaging? | Amazon Web Services
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AWS News & Announcements

September 8, 2023 - AWS Email Signup & Preference
August 17, 2023 - Get advanced capabilities and boost your security posture | Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)
July 26, 2023 - Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Graphics G5 instances
July 26, 2023 - Amazon Aurora MySQL 2.12 (compatible with MySQL 5.7.40) is generally available
July 25, 2023 - Amazon Chime SDK provides additional compositing options for live connector and media capture
July 25, 2023 - CloudWatch Application Insights adds monitoring for multi-app instance deployments
July 25, 2023 - Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now supports Network Load Balancers as a resource type
July 24, 2023 - Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 5.0
July 28, 2023 - Amazon CodeCatalyst supports deployments to Elastic Kubernetes Service
July 27, 2023 - Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution
July 26, 2023 - Introducing the Connect Ready Program
July 24, 2023 - Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports document compression
July 28, 2023 - AWS Database Encryption SDK for Amazon DynamoDB now generally available
July 28, 2023 - Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances
July 28, 2023 - Announcing Amazon ECS templates for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Blueprints
July 27, 2023 - Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in Hyderabad region
July 27, 2023 - Amazon EC2 G5g instances now available in Spain region
July 26, 2023 - Amazon EC2 P5 instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available
July 27, 2023 - Amazon ECS console now has enhanced support for task definition workflows
July 26, 2023 - Amazon ECS Service Discovery is now available in five additional AWS Regions
July 27, 2023 - Amazon EMR Serverless now supports retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
July 25, 2023 - Amazon EMR Serverless now supports storing logs in Amazon CloudWatch
July 25, 2023 - Amazon EMR on EC2 announces support for native LDAP authentication
July 24, 2023 - Amazon EMR launches new capabilities to enhance EMR on EC2 cluster scaling experience
July 27, 2023 - Amazon GameLift expands SDK support for Unity based game developers
July 27, 2023 - Access and Query are now generally available for Amazon Managed Blockchain
July 27, 2023 - Amazon MQ now supports customer managed configuration for RabbitMQ brokers
July 27, 2023 - Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11 and new operator policies
July 24, 2023 - Amazon Omics now provides workflow run queuing
July 26, 2023 - Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now in preview
July 25, 2023 - Personalize your search results with Amazon Personalize and OpenSearch integration
July 25, 2023 - Amazon QuickSight introduces Analysis file menu
July 25, 2023 - Amazon QuickSight now supports Snapshot Export APIs
July 26, 2023 - Amazon RDS now has a progress indicator for the storage optimization process
July 27, 2023 - Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates
July 26, 2023 - Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express version 23.1
July 27, 2023 - Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU21
July 25, 2023 - Amazon Redshift now supports querying Apache Iceberg tables
July 25, 2023 - Amazon Redshift announces automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog
July 28, 2023 - Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains
July 28, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support the G5 instance family in the South America (São Paulo region
July 26, 2023 - SDXL 1.0 foundation model from Stability AI now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
July 25, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports training ML models with different objective metrics
July 25, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports sharing ML models with Amazon QuickSight
July 25, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Document Queries powered by Amazon Textract
July 25, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports custom Amazon S3 output location for ML artifacts
July 25, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands data preparation with five new capabilities
July 24, 2023 - Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports cross account sharing, discovery and access
July 28, 2023 - Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS
July 26, 2023 - Amazon Transcribe supports Toxicity Detection for spoken conversations
July 28, 2023 - AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager
July 26, 2023 - Enable generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks
July 25, 2023 - Announcing the general availability of AWS HealthImaging
July 25, 2023 - Announcing auto-account association for AWS Billing Conductor billing groups
July 26, 2023 - Accelerate your CloudFormation authoring experience with looping function
July 24, 2023 - Access resource and stack drift information directly in AWS CloudFormation StackSets
July 24, 2023 - AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning announces AWS CloudTrail support for event history
July 24, 2023 - AWS Control Tower launches additional proactive controls
July 25, 2023 - AWS Cost Management introduces visual Savings Plans recommendations
July 25, 2023 - AWS DataSync now supports copying data to and from Azure Blob Storage
July 26, 2023 - AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lima, Peru
July 26, 2023 - AWS Entity Resolution is now generally available
July 26, 2023 - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in 5 additional Regions
July 25, 2023 - AWS Elemental MediaLive now available in additional AWS Regions
July 27, 2023 - AWS Glue now available in 2 new regions
July 26, 2023 - AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer
July 25, 2023 - AWS Glue jobs can now include AWS Glue DataBrew Recipes
July 25, 2023 - AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless
July 25, 2023 - Snowflake connectivity for AWS Glue for Apache Spark is now generally available
July 27, 2023 - AWS launches a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona
July 27, 2023 - AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports multiple spatial domains per simulation
July 27, 2023 - AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports custom container images and new clock
July 26, 2023 - Announcing AWS HealthScribe (Preview)
July 26, 2023 - IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores
July 25, 2023 - AWS IoT Core announces MQTT support for Device Location feature
July 28, 2023 - AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role
July 27, 2023 - AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11
July 28, 2023 - AWS Launch Wizard now available in Hyderabad and Dubai Regions
July 24, 2023 - AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights now includes PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications
July 24, 2023 - Announcing enhanced user interface for AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning
July 24, 2023 - AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning supports multiple override management
July 27, 2023 - AWS Health now supports delegated administrator
July 27, 2023 - AWS Enterprise On-Ramp now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
July 25, 2023 - AWS Transfer Family launches SFTP connectors
July 28, 2023 - AWS Wickr offers federated data retention for internal and external conversations
July 27, 2023 - ACE Pipeline Manager now includes an opportunity bulk import in-line editing experience
July 26, 2023 - Introducing the Amazon ECS Delivery Specialization Partners
July 26, 2023 - Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
July 28, 2023 - VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in 2 additional regions

Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 VT1 Support for Xilinx Video SDK 3.0
Amazon EMR - Support AL2023 in EMR on EKS
Amazon GuardDuty - GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring launch - Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region
Amazon Lex - Automatically generate training utterances for better intent recognition
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus - ADOT Kubernetes Metadata Enrichment
Amazon RDS - Time zone file auto upgrade for Single-tenant instances
Amazon RDS - RDS Oracle 19c July 2023 Release update
Amazon RDS - RDS Oracle July 2023 RU – China region
AWS CloudFormation - StackSets expands to Israel (Tel Aviv)

July 28, 2023 - New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights
July 27, 2023 - New Amazon EC2 Instances (C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd) Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processor with Local NVMe-based SSD Storage
July 27, 2023 - New: AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona – More Instance Types, More EBS Storage Classes, and More Services
July 26, 2023 - New – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC Applications
July 26, 2023 - AWS Entity Resolution: Match and Link Related Records from Multiple Applications and Data Stores
July 26, 2023 - Preview – Enable Foundation Models to Complete Tasks With Agents for Amazon Bedrock
July 26, 2023 - Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023
July 24, 2023 - AWS Week in Review – Redshift+Forecast, CodeCatalyst+GitHub, Lex Analytics, Llama 2, and Much More – July 24, 2023

July 26, 2023 - CVE-2023-20593

July 21, 2023 - Temporal data lake architecture for benchmark and indices analytics
July 19, 2023 - Let’s Architect! DevOps Best Practices on AWS
July 26, 2023 - Content Repository for Unstructured Data with Multilingual Semantic Search: Part 2
July 24, 2023 - Best practices for implementing event-driven architectures in your organization

July 07, 2023 - IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)
July 03, 2023 - AWS achieves its third ISMAP authorization in Japan

04/26/2022 - AWS Announces general availability of the first AWS Wavelength Zone in Canada
04/26/2022 - Amazon Connect launches API to search for users by name, agent hierarchies, and tags
04/26/2022 - Amazon SES V2 now supports email size of up to 40MB for inbound and outbound emails by default
04/25/2022 - Amazon Redshift launches RA3 instances in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions
04/25/2022 - Announcing consolidated view of Lambda Insights via Application Insights
04/25/2022 - Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
04/25/2022 - Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
04/22/2022 - AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server
04/22/2022 - AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server
04/22/2022 - Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2022 AMI now available in preview
04/22/2022 - Amazon Connect launches API to claim and configure phone numbers programmatically
04/22/2022 - Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
04/22/2022 - AWS Batch adds improvements to UpdateComputeEnvironment API
04/21/2022 - Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available
04/21/2022 - Announcing sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue
04/21/2022 - Amazon QuickSight 1-click public embedding available now in preview
04/21/2022 - Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.16.4
04/21/2022 - AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports live sources in Channel Assembly
04/21/2022 - Amazon Kendra releases Box Connector to enable search on documents in Box Enterprise repository
04/21/2022 - EKS add-ons support for the OpenTelemetry Operator is now generally available
04/21/2022 - Amazon Neptune now offers a free trial
04/21/2022 - Announcing interactive, notebook-based job authoring in AWS Glue
04/21/2022 - Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data
04/21/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is now generally available
04/21/2022 - Announcing general availability of AWS Glue Interactive Sessions
04/21/2022 - AWS Amplify Studio Figma-to-React code capabilities are now generally available
04/21/2022 - New data source connectors generally available for Amazon Athena
04/21/2022 - Amazon DevOps Guru now provides Proactive Insights to flag issues early on AWS Serverless Applications
04/21/2022 - Amazon Textract launches new Queries feature within Analyze Document API
04/21/2022 - Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for Android
04/21/2022 - Autoscaling in AWS Glue is now Generally Available
04/21/2022 - AWS IoT TwinMaker is now generally available
04/21/2022 - Amazon Chime SDK achieves FedRAMP High authorization
04/20/2022 - Amazon Personalize now supports starting and stopping recommenders
04/20/2022 - EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you set a default instance warm-up time for all instance scaling and replacement actions
04/20/2022 - Introducing Migration Hub Orchestrator, a new migration orchestration feature in AWS Migration Hub
04/20/2022 - Amazon Neptune now supports global condition keys in AWS IAM policies
04/20/2022 - AWS Transit Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
04/20/2022 - AWS Step Functions expands support for over 20 new AWS SDK integrations
04/20/2022 - AWS Announces General Availability of openCypher support for Amazon Neptune
04/20/2022 - AWS Key Management Service introduces new HMAC API
04/20/2022 - AWS Security Hub launches cross-Region security scores and compliance statuses
04/20/2022 - Amazon Relational Database Service now supports Multi-AZ deployments on AWS Outposts for High Availability
04/19/2022 - ACK Controllers for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Application Autoscaling and AWS API Gateway v2 now generally available
04/19/2022 - AWS Marketplace customers can now modify their AMI and Container upfront contract pricing based subscriptions
04/19/2022 - The next generation of FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions
04/19/2022 - Amazon Corretto announces quarterly updates
04/19/2022 - Introducing 35 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry
04/19/2022 - Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions
04/19/2022 - Amazon Polly Launches a new Austrian German Neural Text-to-Speech voice
04/19/2022 - AWS DataSync is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
04/19/2022 - Amazon Redshift announces new enhancements for Audit Logging
04/19/2022 - Amazon Interactive Video Service console and APIs now available in four additional regions
04/19/2022 - Amazon Keyspaces now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily
04/19/2022 - Amazon Kendra releases Quip Connector to enable document search in Quip repository
04/18/2022 - Amazon Interactive Video Service launches edge locations in Indonesia and the Philippines
04/18/2022 - AWS Batch adds support for AWS PrivateLink
04/15/2022 - Introducing DevSecOps Solutions from AWS DevOps Competency Partners
04/15/2022 - Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Coralogix
04/15/2022 - Configurable cipher suites now available for Amazon Aurora MySQL
04/14/2022 - Introducing Enterprise Container Management Solutions from AWS Container Competency Partners
04/14/2022 - Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for additional statistics
04/14/2022 - AWS Single Sign-On launches configurable synchronization for Microsoft Active Directory
04/14/2022 - Introducing the Amazon CloudFront Ready Program
04/13/2022 - AWS Fargate now delivers faster scaling of applications
04/13/2022 - AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
04/12/2022 - Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP introduces a single Availability Zone deployment option
04/12/2022 - Announcing the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0
04/12/2022 - You can now automatically attach Amazon FSx file systems to new Amazon EC2 instances you create in the new EC2 launch experience
04/12/2022 - Amazon EFS integration with the new and improved launch experience on the EC2 Console
04/12/2022 - Amazon Connect Wisdom now supports PrivateLink
04/11/2022 - Amazon WorkSpaces launches new Graphics G4dn bundles to improve performance and optimize costs
04/11/2022 - Amazon Personalize now supports resource tagging
01/31/2022 - AWS Step Functions adds mocking support for testing workflows locally
01/31/2022 - Amazon Lex launches multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input
01/31/2022 - Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models support custom VPC and KMS settings
01/31/2022 - Improved progress updates for blue/green deployments in Amazon OpenSearch Service
01/31/2022 - AWS Lambda auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources
01/31/2022 - Amazon Connect Chat now supports a configurable chat duration of up to 7 days
01/31/2022 - Amazon MSK now offers the ability to scale storage throughput up to 1000 MiB/s per broker
01/28/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for datasets up to 100 GB
01/28/2022 - Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Honeycomb
01/28/2022 - AWS Cloud Map API now supports IPv6
01/28/2022 - AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables monitoring of service usage quota in Amazon CloudWatch
01/28/2022 - AWS Systems Manager now supports higher concurrency for Automation executions
01/28/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for Apache Parquet file format
01/27/2022 - Amazon QuickSight adds comparative and cumulative date/time calculations
01/27/2022 - Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
01/27/2022 - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now support PostgreSQL 14
01/27/2022 - Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle
01/27/2022 - AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions
01/27/2022 - Amazon AppFlow now supports bi-directional transfer of data between SAP applications and AWS
01/27/2022 - AWS IoT Greengrass is now available in Canada (Central) region
01/27/2022 - Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink
01/27/2022 - Amazon EC2 G4dn instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka)
01/27/2022 - AWS announces the launch of prediction explanations for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
01/26/2022 - Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports custom vocabulary for tuning transcription accuracy
01/26/2022 - Amazon MQ is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate
01/26/2022 - Amazon MQ is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate
01/26/2022 - Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images
01/26/2022 - Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
01/26/2022 - Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
01/26/2022 - Introducing Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances
01/25/2022 - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
01/25/2022 - Announcing Amazon Elastic File System Replication
01/25/2022 - Lightsail CDN now supports Lightsail Container Services as origins
01/25/2022 - Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 2 additional regions
01/25/2022 - AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business
01/25/2022 - Amazon Chime SDK now supports video background replacement
01/25/2022 - Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to grow your SSD storage capacity
01/25/2022 - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Africa (Cape Town)
01/24/2022 - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24; Amazon RDS on Outposts supports new PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5 and 12.9
01/24/2022 - Amazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloads
01/24/2022 - AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports 4K frame sizes and 10-bit color in the AV1 output format
01/24/2022 - Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trial
01/24/2022 - Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce
01/21/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing
01/21/2022 - AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
01/21/2022 - Amazon FinSpace managed Apache Spark clusters now support Apache Spark 3
01/21/2022 - Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes
01/21/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control
01/20/2022 - Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled
01/20/2022 - AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health
01/20/2022 - Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled
01/20/2022 - Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
01/20/2022 - Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists in the AWS China (Beijing), AWS China (Ningxia), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
01/20/2022 - Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
01/20/2022 - AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration
01/20/2022 - AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources
01/20/2022 - Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect
01/20/2022 - Announcing Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
01/19/2022 - Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
01/19/2022 - AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
01/19/2022 - Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
01/19/2022 - AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub
01/19/2022 - Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases
01/18/2022 - Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 and 2017
01/18/2022 - Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds service monitoring for Microsoft Active Directory and SharePoint
01/18/2022 - Amazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configuration
01/18/2022 - Amazon EMR Studio is now available in US West (N. California)
01/18/2022 - AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks
01/18/2022 - Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles and Minneapolis
01/18/2022 - Now remediate operational issues faster by executing AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Slack
01/18/2022 - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
01/18/2022 - Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.26
01/18/2022 - AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
01/18/2022 - Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs
01/18/2022 - Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
01/14/2022 - Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console
01/14/2022 - Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
01/14/2022 - Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5 instance types in new region
01/13/2022 - AWS Outposts now FedRAMP authorized
01/13/2022 - AWS Systems Manager announces support for categorizing documents of type Command Document
01/13/2022 - Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports new API endpoints
01/13/2022 - Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logs
01/13/2022 - AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
01/13/2022 - Amazon Pinpoint launches journey endpoint re-evaluation logic for the Contact Center activity
01/12/2022 - Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console
01/12/2022 - AWS Launch Wizard now supports scaling HANA based SAP deployments to meet increased performance requirements
01/12/2022 - AWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivity
01/11/2022 - AWS Fargate is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
01/11/2022 - Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio
01/11/2022 - Announcing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instances
01/11/2022 - AWS AppSync now supports cache entry eviction for server-side data caching
01/11/2022 - AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2
01/11/2022 - Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules
01/11/2022 - Amazon Kendra launches support for query language
01/11/2022 - AWS Launch Wizard now adds AWS Service Catalog integration for Microsoft SQL Server deployments
01/10/2022 - AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containers
01/10/2022 - Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Lex
01/10/2022 - Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances
01/10/2022 - Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
01/10/2022 - Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks in EMR Studio
01/10/2022 - Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports New Minor Versions 5.7.36, and 8.0.27
01/10/2022 - Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)
01/10/2022 - AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures
01/07/2022 - AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
01/07/2022 - Amazon EC2 C6g and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in additional regions.
01/07/2022 - AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
01/07/2022 - Amazon AppStream 2.0 now provides application entitlements for SAML 2.0 federated user identities
01/07/2022 - EMR Studio is now upgraded to JupyterLab v3.1.4
01/07/2022 - Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SSAS Multidimensional
01/07/2022 - Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
01/06/2022 - AWS AppSync now supports configurable batching sizes for AWS Lambda resolvers and Direct AWS Lambda resolvers
01/06/2022 - Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints
01/06/2022 - Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
01/06/2022 - Amazon QLDB now supports JSON output format for exports
01/06/2022 - Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains
01/06/2022 - Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
01/06/2022 - Introducing 37 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry
01/06/2022 - Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
01/06/2022 - AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
01/05/2022 - Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
01/05/2022 - Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c
01/05/2022 - AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments
01/05/2022 - Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account Subscriptions
01/05/2022 - Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
01/05/2022 - Amazon Chime SDK meetings now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
01/05/2022 - Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake
01/05/2022 - AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
01/05/2022 - Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging
01/05/2022 - Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical data
01/05/2022 - Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift (Preview)
01/05/2022 - Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions
01/05/2022 - AWS Snowcone is now available in AWS Europe (London)
01/04/2022 - Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions
01/04/2022 - AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway

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