On January 6th in 2011

Existing Premium Support plan prices have been reduced by by 50% and two new support plans have been added.

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On January 6th in 2015

Using the “Switch Role” page in the AWS Management Console in conjunction with an AWS IAM Role in the account that you want to switch to allows you to switch between accounts without providing user name and password every time you want to switch.

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM manages access to AWS resources via policies which are assigned to users, groups and roles.

Amazon RDS MySQL or PostgreSQL databases now support data-at-rest encryptions using AWS Key Management Service customer managed keys. Not only is the database instance encrypted, so are any automated backups, read replicas, and snapshots.

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On January 6th in 2020

Customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) to their on-premises networks using an AWS Direct Connect connection via a star topology provided by AWS Transit Gateway in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region in multiple AWS Regions.

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On January 6th in 2021

FreeRTOS now includes pre-configured projects that emulate real microcontroller (MCU) cores in software using the QEMU open source emulator. Running FreeRTOS in an emulator makes it easier to test applications using the actual binary code that will run on your MCU device, without having physical access to the MCU device.

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Amazon CloudSearch has updated the existing search instances with new instances that provide better availability and performance at the same pricing. The new instances are one to one replacements, but leverage newer generation EC2 instances underneath.

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Salesforce Pardot is a marketing automation solution from Salesforce. This new feature in AppFlow makes it easy for customers to configure data transfers with Salesforce Pardot in just a few clicks.

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Amazon AppFlow

Streamlines the movement of data between SaaS solutions and AWS services

Previously, you could only specify 20 instance types in a mixed instances policy, but the limit has been raised to allow p to 40 instance types when you first create an Auto Scaling group, and when you update existing Auto Scaling groups. By using a variety of instance types, you can maintain your workload’s availability as you can provision your application’s resources across more Spot instance pools per Availability Zone and reduce the chance of getting insufficient capacity error in case of On-Demand. Running your application’s resources across diverse Spot instance pools also allows you to further reduce your operating costs over time.

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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 Glue DataBrew jobs can now be used within AWS Step Functions to prepare data in analytics and machine learning workflows. This saves you time and allows you to orchestrate cleaning and data normalization steps into your analytics and machine learning workflows.

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When a service provider confirms ownership of a public domain then uses that name as part of the private name when defining the service, the service consumer can ’enable Private DNS Name’ when configuring the endpoint and access the service using the name specified by the service provider.

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Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) makes it possible to use Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to send email through publicly-routable IP addresses already assigned to an organization. This means emails are more likely to arrive in the inbox, and less likely to end up in the spam folder.

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Amazon Comprehend supported multi-class custom classification with a single label. Now, with multi-label classification it is possible to train models and classify documents with more than one label.

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Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend using machine learning (ML) natural-language processing (NLP) to extract key phrases, entities and sentiment from text.

Change Calendar is a new component of the AWS Systems Manager that helps you prevent changes to your AWS resources during inconvenient times, for example when high volume is expected such as during a public marketing promotion, or sports event.

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Amazon Automotive will be exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the Las Vegas Convention Center starting Jan 7th, 2021. AWS technologies on display include Amazon QLDB, AWS Data Exchange, Amazon Personalize, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Rekognition.

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Amazon Rekognition

Provides image recognition capability for images (in batch or real-time) and video that provides a analysis of the content such as real-world objects, faces, celebrities, and path mapping.

On January 6th in 2022

Kubernetes uses a flat networking model that requires each pod to receive an IP address. This simplified approach enables low-friction porting of applications from virtual machines to containers, but requires a significant amount of IP addresses that many private IPv4 networks are not equipped to handle. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6, enabling customers to scale containerized applications on Kubernetes far beyond limits of private IPv4 address space, while achieving high network bandwidth with minimal complexity.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon's managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform

The Node.js 14 runtime in AWS Lambda now support code packaged as ECMAScript modules. This allows Lambda customers to consume a wider range of JavaScript packages in their Lambda functions. In addition, Lambda customers can now take advantage of ‘top-level await’, a Node.js 14 language feature.

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AWS CloudFormation Registry has expanded to include support for 37 new resource types (refer to the complete list below) between November and December 2021, bringing the total to 170 AWS services spanning over 830 resource types, plus over 40 third-party resource types.

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AWS SAM and AWS CDK are both open-source frameworks for building applications using infrastructure as code (IaC). With this release, you can use AWS SAM CLI to run local testing on Lambda functions and REST APIs on API Gateway defined using the AWS CDK.

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AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Service

You can now access your instance’s tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. Accessing tags from your instance metadata, avoids the need to use the DescribeInstance or DescribeTag API calls to retrieve tag information.

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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 Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) now supports JSON output format for QLDB Exports, in addition to existing Amazon Ion output format. Customers can select JSON when requesting an export and will receive journal data in newline-delimited JSON format.

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Fine-grained access control adds several capabilities to help you have better access control over the data stored in your domain. Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports enabling fine-grained access control on existing domains.

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With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups.

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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 EMR on EKS enables customers to easily run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDE) such as EMR Studio.

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

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

Instead of a default of 5, you can now configure the maximum batching size to use when resolving a recurring field with an AWS Lambda resolver or a Direct AWS Lambda resolver in AWS AppSync, and you can now enable batching on your Direct Lambda resolvers without writing a single line of velocity template language (VTL) by configuring the maximum batching size on your resolver.

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