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On this day - January 5th

 Posted 2023-01-05

What happened on January 5th regarding the AWS Cloud?

This page covers new service announcements, service improvements, and major events that took place on January 5th from 2009 to 2022, a total of 25 announcements!

A total of 25 announcements were made on January 5th:

Quiz of the Day for January 5th

On this day, an AWS leader received an award, so today’s quiz includes questions about the AWS leadership team, past and present.

Click here for the "Quiz of the Day".


There was just one announcement on January 5th in 2009.

Werner Vogels gets Award

InformationWeek names Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) Chief of the Year. He worked with Andy Jassy, Charlie Bell and Adam Selipsky to create AWS.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 4 announcements on January 5th in 2016.

New features available in AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer added several new features:

  • EC2 usage data is available and can be grouped and filtered, by:
    • instance type
    • Elastic Load Balancing
    • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Regional filtering across all resources

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Block storage designed to work with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.


Price reductions on EC2 instances

AWS are reducing the price of C4, M4 and R3 instances by 5%, whether on-demand, reserved, or dedicated host. The price change applies to different regions, so read the announcement carefully!

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.


AWS Management Console now supports AWS Data Pipeline import

AWS Data Pipeline pipeline definitions can now be imported from definitions stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or a local device.

See here for the official AWS press release.


EC2 Spot Instance termination notices

Spot instances are a low cost means to compute capacity, but that benefit comes with a downside, they can be taken if the spot price changes. Now, when a spot instance is marked for termination, the instance metadata service is updated to reflect that. The instance has two minutes to perform a graceful shutdown before it is terminated.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.


There were 3 announcements on January 5th in 2017.

Amazon Inspector supports Ubuntu 16.04 and Scheduled Assessments

Amazon Inspector is now able to run assessments on the Ubuntu 16.04 Linux OS on Amazon EC2 instances.

Also enabled is the ability to schedule assessments using an AWS Lambda blueprint and a cron schedule.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS Batch now Generally Available

The AWS Batch service is now available in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS Service Catalog available in new AWS Regions

The AWS Service Catalog is now available in the Canada and London (eu-west-2) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 2 announcements on January 5th in 2018.

Amazon RDS upgrades MariaDB

Amazon RDS now supports Maria DB v10.2.11, which offers a number of enhancements for better performance and scalability in addition to new SQL features and a new default storage engine (InnoDB).

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MariaDB

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MariaDB Service


New edge locations added for Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront connects the AWS network to the internet at edge locations. Six new edge locations have been added to CloudFront, reducing the distance that network traffic must travel over the internet before reaching the AWS network.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 3 announcements on January 5th in 2021.

New Contact Search page for Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect launches a new enhanced user interface for searching contacts.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Tiered pricing for Amazon SQS

Tiered pricing reduces the cost as resource consumption increases over tiers, as opposed to the previous pricing model, which charged a flat price for API requests.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.


New AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Certification Exam

There is a new beta exam for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate certification featuring which now adds exam labs that allow candidates to showcase their skills by building solutions using the AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 12 announcements on January 5th in 2022.

Amazon Snowcone expands to new region

AWS Snowcone is now available in the us-east-2 (London) AWS region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Snowcone

AWS Snowcone Service


Amazon OpenSearch Service now runs OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.1

In this first upgrade since the announcement on September 8th 2021, the new version of the service provides several new capabilities, including:

  • Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) for improved fault-tolerance
  • Machine learning based anomaly detection for historical data
  • alerting policies that evaluate against aggregations grouped by a unique field value

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon EMR on EKS simplified debugging

Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Service

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon's managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform


AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), which allows users to create, or connect, workforce identities in AWS once and manage access to AWS accounts or cloud applications centrally across an AWS organization, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon RDS Proxy available in more AWS Regions

Amazon RDS Proxy, is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases, is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy Service


AWS CloudTrail Lake launched

AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed audit and security lake that supports immutably storage, aggregation, and querying of activity logs for operational troubleshooting, security investigation, and auditing.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS GovCloud (US) Regions now support Amazon Chime SDK meetings

Each AWS GovCloud (US) Region now includes an API endpoint which can create Amazon Chime SDK meetings in either AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon CloudWatch Logs uses AWS Organizations for cross account Subscriptions

CloudWatch Logs subscription filters are used to share log data with other AWS accounts. Organization ID or Organization Path may now be used in destination access policies.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images

Customized container images, a functionality that helps customers customize the Docker container image used for running Apache Spark applications, can be used on Amazon EMR on EKS for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Service

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon's managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform


AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry

AWS IoT Device Management Jobs now supports a new Job execution retry configuration, enabling developers to increase success rates of large scale deployments by ensuring automatic redeployment of failed job executions.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon RDS for Oracle updates available

Amazon RDS for Oracle updates are available for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. Some Oracle versions now use Oracle Releate Updates (RUs) instead of Patch Set Updates (PSUs).

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle Service


AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift goes GA

AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift allows users to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse that contains third-party data from AWS Data Exchange.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Redshift

A Postgres-compatible columnar analytics database.



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