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On this day - January 8th

 Posted 2023-01-08

Today is the birthday of one of the most significant AWS features, the AWS Management Console! It was announced on January 8th, 2009 and was followed by many announcements as it was extended to cover more AWS services and more features. It has also evolved with several iterations of cosmetic and usability improvements.

What else happened on January 8th regarding the AWS Cloud? This page covers new service announcements, service improvements, and major events.

A total of 15 announcements were made on January 8th:

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There was just one announcement on January 8th in 2009.

AWS Management Console launched!

The web-based AWS Management Console provides a point-and-click interface to the AWS ecosystem, simply login and manage AWS resources directly from the web as an alternative to using the CLI or APIs.

Many future announcements provide details of new capabilities added to the AWS Management Console.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There was just one announcement on January 8th in 2013.

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms can shutdown Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms can trigger various actions, which now includes the ability to stop or terminate an EC2 instance. This can be used to shutdown underutilized EC2 instances.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms Service

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 8th in 2015.

AWS CloudHSM Classic and Amazon RDS for Oracle Integration

With this announcement Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) can use AWS CloudHSM Classic to manage the master encryption keys.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle Service

AWS CloudHSM Classic

AWS CloudHSM Classic Service


AWS CloudHSM and Amazon RDS for Oracle Integration

AWS provides a new API, SDK, and CLI Tools that provision and manage CloudHSM deployments and let you launch, terminate, and describe CloudHSM instances from within programs or by executing commands.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle Service


Announcing Amazon VPC ClassicLink

Amazon EC2 instance were originally all internet accessible. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allowed Amazon EC2 instances to run in private networks. Amazon VPC ClassicLink allows Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC to connect to legacy Amazon EC2 instances outside of a a VPC.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ClassicLink

Provides a bridge between Amazon EC2 Classic where every EC2 instance was exposed on the internet, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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 was just one announcement on January 8th in 2018.

Amazon SageMaker supports DeepAR Algorithm

The DeepAR forecasting algorithm, which generates accurate forecasts by learning patterns from time-series over multiple large sets of training data with related time-series, can now be used with Amazon SageMaker for model training.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a suite of services that support building, training and deploment of machine learning (ML) models.


There were 3 announcements on January 8th in 2019.

Amazon Pinpoint extends to additional AWS Regions

Amazon Pinpoint is now also available in the US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (Ireland) regions.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Pinpoint

Manages targeted, multichannel communication with customers


AWS OpsWorks Stacks supports more Linux variants

AWS OpsWorks Stacks noew supports more Linux variants under Chef 11 and Chef 12 stacks. See the announcement for specifics.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS OpsWorks Stacks

AWS OpsWorks Stacks Service


Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) available

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) allows the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools while AWS manages the underlying infrastructure. The AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) can be used to migrate workloads.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 2 announcements on January 8th in 2020.

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup targets all instances

All instances in an account in an AWS region can now managed by AWS Systems Manager using Quick Setup.

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 Translate now supports Batch Translation

A new asynchronous Batch Translation service is available in Amazon Translate that translate a large collection of text or HTML documents stored in a folder in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 4 announcements on January 8th in 2021.

AWS AppMesh is now PCI DSS certified

AWS AppMesh is now certified as a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS CloudMap is now PCI DSS certified

AWS Cloud Map is now certified as a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Apache Ranger provides access control for Amazon EMR

Apache Ranger supports the definition, enforcement, and auditing of fine-grained data access control for Amazon EMR including:

  1. database, table, and column level authorization through Hive Metastore when using Apache Spark and Apache Hive
  2. prefix and object level authorization policies when using the Amazon EMR File System (EMRFS) to access data in Amazon S3
  3. leveraging Amazon CloudWatch to capture audit logs.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS CloudFormation adds AWS DataSync support

AWS DataSync resources can now be deployed, managed, and undeployed using the AWS CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service.

See here for the official AWS press release.



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