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On this day - January 9th

 Posted 2023-01-09

What happened on January 9th regarding the AWS Cloud?

This page covers 17 announcements upto 2022, including new service announcements, service feature announcements, price reductions, AWS Management Console updates, regional releases, new language support, and major events.

A total of 17 announcements were made on January 9th:

Quiz of the Day for January 9th

Click here for the "Quiz of the Day" which covers some of the 17 announcements from January 9th.


There was just one announcement on January 9th in 2013.

64KB payloads supported by Amazon SNS

Payload limits for Amazon SNS were 32KB, but with this announcement it has been doubled to 64KB. This aligns with the Amazon SQS payload limit of 64KB

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.

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.


There was just one announcement on January 9th in 2017.

EC2 Classic Elastic IP Addresses can be used with Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

The same internet facing Elastic IP Addresses that were used with EC2 Classic can now be used to connect to EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), providing a migration path from EC2 Classic to VPCs that doesn’t involve changing IP addresses.

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 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Provides private networking capability spanning multiple availability zones and supporting subnets, routing, network access control groups, security groups and gateways.

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)


There were 3 announcements on January 9th in 2018.

Rekognition extends to Ohio

Amazon Rekognition is now available in the US East (Ohio) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

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.


Ruby programming language support added for AWS X-Ray SDK

Ruby applications can now emit information to the AWS X-Ray service.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS X-Ray

Provides tracing of service invocations in distributed applications for observability, allowing users to diagnose issues or optimize their service interactions.


AWS IAM Management Console language support extended to Korean

The IAM console now supports:

  • English
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
  • Korean

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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


There were 4 announcements on January 9th in 2019.

Neptune extends to Sydney

The Amazon Neptune graph database is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Neptune

A serverless, fully-managed, graph database that can be accessed via Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, W3C’s SPARQL, and Neo4j's openCypher.


Amazon DocumentDB a target for AWS Database Migration Service

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now a target for the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). This allows migration from any AWS DMS supported source including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SAP ASE and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon DocumentDB from MongoDB replica sets, sharded clusters, using live migrations or with minimal downtime.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with existing MongoDB applications and tools.

See here for the official AWS press release.


EKS extends to Seoul

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon's managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform


There were 8 announcements on January 9th in 2020.

Public Roadmap available for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

The public roadmap for AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be found on GitHub here.

See here for the official AWS press release.


More granular AWS CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon SQS

Amazon CloudWatch metrics at a 1-minute interval are now available at no additional cost for Amazon SQS.

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.


Enabling Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics access to VPC-based resources

Now in all regions where Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is enabled, applications running on the service can connect to a private subnet in the VPC and access resources (such as RDS databases) in the VPC.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Kinesis

A suite of streaming data services, including a video streaming service.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Provides private networking capability spanning multiple availability zones and supporting subnets, routing, network access control groups, security groups and gateways.


Lustre Clients provided by Amazon

An open-source Lustre client is required for accessing Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems. Rather than downloading, installing an patching these clients from the OS providers (e.g. RedHat, CentOS or Ubuntu), the latest versions can be downloaded from the AWS Repository for Lustre Clients.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Redshift Spectrum launches in China

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

Extends Amazon Redshift with access to data stored in Amazon S3.


Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints extends to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Region

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Region.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon WorkSpaces Migrate and WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol announcements

The Amazon WorkSpaces migrate feature allows:

  • user volume data transfer to a new bundle. This feature allows users to migrate Amazon WorkSpaces from the Windows 7 Experience to the Windows 10 Desktop
  • migration from a PCoIP WorkSpace to a WSP (WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol) accessible WorkSpace

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon Builders Library language support

The Amazon Builders’ Library is now available in 16 different languages:

  • Arabic
  • Indonesian
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Vietnamese
  • Turkish
  • Russian
  • Thai
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional
  • English.

See here for the official AWS press release.



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