2017

We are excited to announce a significant change to Amazon IoT pricing that will go into effect January 1, 2018. Previously, Amazon IoT charged for the use of connectivity, messaging, Thing Shadow, Thing Registry, and Rules Engine under a bundled pricing plan. The new plan unbundles pricing by charging for these components independently. This allows you to tailor costs around your specific workload, and ensures you only pay for what you use. 

The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service scheduler now includes logic that throttles how often tasks are restarted if they repeatedly fail to launch. 

Amazon Virtual Cloud (VPC) now provides customers ability to tag Elastic IPs. With tagging support, customers can add Key and Value metadata to search, filter and organize their Elastic IPs. Tagging for Elastic IPs is available through the Amazon Web Services Console and CLI. 

The Amazon Deep Learning AMIs are now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, providing fully-configured virtual environments for AI developers and data scientists to quickly start experimenting with deep learning models.

Several enhancements have been made to the functionality and user experience of the Amazon SNS console in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a flexible, fully managed pub/sub messaging and mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. These improvements to the SNS console have made navigation and categorization of information easier, and allow you to now view up to 100,000 SNS topics, subscriptions and endpoints. You also can now run data validation for items such as resource names, ARNs and policies. 

Now, you can add additional protection to your Amazon Web Services accounts in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD, by enabling virtual multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you sign in to the Amazon Management Console. By setting up a virtual MFA, you will be required to provide a second factor of authentication during every sign-in to protect your account from unauthorized access in case your username and password has been compromised. Before you begin setting up your virtual MFA, you will need to download an application that you can use to host the virtual MFA devices. You can configure your virtual MFA on your Security Credentials tab by using the downloaded application.

Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd. (NWCD), a cloud services provider in China, today announced a strategic technology partnership and the launch of the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. NWCD operates and provides services from the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, in full compliance with Chinese regulations. Founded in 2015, NWCD is a licensed datacenter and cloud services provider, based in Ningxia, China. NWCD joins Sinnet, the operator of the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, as Amazon Web Services second operating partner in China. Through these relationships, Amazon Web Services provides its industry-leading technology, guidance, and expertise to NWCD and Sinnet, while NWCD and Sinnet operate and provide Amazon Web Services Cloud services to local customers. While the cloud services offered in both Amazon Web Services China Regions are the same as those available in other Amazon Web Services Regions, the Amazon Web Services China Regions are isolated from all other Amazon Web Services Regions and operated by Amazon Web Services Chinese partners separately from all other Amazon Web Services Regions. Customers using the Amazon Web Services China Regions enter into customer agreements with Sinnet in Beijing and NWCD in Ningxia, rather than with Amazon Web Services. Existing customers can choose the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and/or the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, by selecting either Amazon Web Services China Region directly from the Management Console, while new customers can request an account at www.amazonaws.cn to begin using either Amazon Web Services China Region.

Amazon CloudTrail now enables you to download CloudTrail account activity history from within the CloudTrail console. Previously, you could only analyze or share account activity offline by using the CloudTrail LookupEvents API, copying and pasting relevant information directly from the CloudTrail console, or searching the CloudTrail S3 bucket for the correct log files. Now, you can download your account activity to a CSV or JSON formatted files. You can use downloaded files to compare activity searches, analyze account activity with 3rd party tools, or to backup and store activity offline. Please visit Amazon CloudTrail documentation page for more information.

You can now use Amazon CloudTrail event history console page to view, search, and download the past 90 days of your account activity. You can also customize the display of columns to improve the view of your CloudTrail events.

Search time range expanded – The Amazon CloudTrail console and Amazon CLI now provide 90 days’ worth of activity, up from the previous limit of 7 days. This allows you to search a greater time range of activity recorded by CloudTrail and provides visibility into actions taken in your account through the Amazon Management Console, SDK's, and Amazon CLI. You can download a file with the full 90 days of activity, or a subset of those activities. Please visit CloudTrail documentation page for more information.

Event history adds customizable display – The CloudTrail console event history page now allows you to customize what columns are displayed in the console view. You can choose which columns to show or hide in your personalized view of event history, to better help you see the information most important to you at a glance. For more information, see the Amazon CloudTrail documentation.

These enhancements to the Amazon CloudTrail console event history page and Amazon CLI are available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.1.26 and 10.0.32. These new versions include a number of fixes and functionality improvements for the MariaDB database engine.

You can now use message filtering on Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to build simpler and more streamlined pub/sub architectures. Message filtering enables Amazon SNS topic subscribers to selectively receive only a subset of the messages they are interested in, as opposed to receiving all messages published to a topic. This new approach removes the design complexity of implementing message filtering logic in your subscribers, or message routing logic in your publisher systems. 

You can now log the execution activity of your Amazon Lambda functions with Amazon CloudTrail Lambda data events. Previously, you could only log Lambda management events, which provide information on when and by whom a function was created, modified, or deleted. Now, you can also record Lambda data events and get additional details on when and by whom an Invoke API call was made and which Lambda function was executed. All Lambda data events are delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon CloudWatch Events, which allows you to respond to events recorded by CloudTrail. For example, you can quickly determine which Lambda functions were executed in the past three days and identify the source of the Invoke API calls. You can take immediate action to restrict Invoke API calls to known users or roles if you detect inappropriate Lambda activity.

You can turn on logging for Amazon Lambda data events using the Amazon CloudTrail console, Amazon CLI, and SDKs. You can view and select which Lambda functions get logged by creating a new trail or editing an existing trail.

Please visit Amazon CloudTrail documentation page for more information.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU5 for Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise Editions on the Windows Operating Systems. You can now leverage SQL Server 2017 features such as GraphDB, Automatic Plan Correction, and Resumable Index Rebuilds on your Amazon RDS SQL Server Instances.

Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS database instances for MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and PostgreSQL database engines with up to 16TB of storage. Existing database instances can also be scaled up to 16TB storage without any downtime.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports R4 node types. R4 nodes are optimized for latency sensitive and memory intensive workloads. They come in six sizes, providing 12.3GiB to 407GiB of available in-memory capacity. By setting up a 15-shard cluster for Redis, you can scale up to 6.1TiB of in-memory capacity. Likewise, for Memcached, you can set up a 20-node cluster to support up to 8.14 TiB in-memory workloads. Equipped with the Intel Broadwell processor, and improved networking, R4 node family offers superior performance over the popular R3 node family.

You can now call a Lambda Function in the SQL statement of your rule by calling a lambda function in the SELECT statement to enrich IoT message data with external services like weather, geo-location, and maps. You can also call a lambda function from the WHERE clause to evaluate a condition with context from external services. For example, you can evaluate if the reported device position lies inside or outside a geographic area by calling an external geo-fencing endpoint like HERE maps (sample) and then triggering an SNS Action if it lies outside the area.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis introduces Online Cluster Resizing to add and remove shards from a running cluster. You can now dynamically scale-out or scale-in your Redis cluster workloads to adapt to changes in demand. ElastiCache will resize the cluster and redistribute hash slots uniformly across the new shard configuration, all while the cluster continues to stay online and serve requests. Additionally, for optimized processing, you can also rebalance a cluster and uniformly distribute the slot space, without changing the number of shards. 

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 Spot instances, low cost EC2 instances, are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

Tasks running on Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now take advantage of Amazon Web Services vpc mode for container networking. This new mode allocates an elastic networking interface to each running task, providing a dynamic private IP address and internal DNS name. This simplifies container networking operations, allowing tasks to run with full networking features on Amazon Web Services, just like EC2 instances. 

Amazon Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to triggers and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information. Amazon Lambda starts running your code within milliseconds of a trigger such as an image upload, in-app activity, website click, or output from a connected device. You can also use Amazon Lambda to create new back-end services where compute resources are automatically triggered based on custom requests. With Amazon Lambda you pay only for the requests served and the compute time required to run your code. Billing is metered in increments of 100 milliseconds, making it cost-effective and easy to scale automatically from a few requests per day to thousands per second. 

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on Amazon Lambda, or any Web application. Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. 

You can now launch Amazon Redshift clusters on our second-generation Dense Compute (DC2) nodes. DC2 is designed for demanding data warehousing workloads that require low latency and high throughput. They feature powerful Intel E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs, fast DDR4 memory, and NVMe-based solid state disks (SSDs). We’ve tuned Amazon Redshift to leverage the better CPU, network, and disk on DC2 nodes, providing up to twice the performance of DC1 at the same price. Our DC2.8xlarge instances now provide twice the memory per slice of data and an optimized storage layout with 30% better storage utilization. 

We are pleased to announce that Application Auto Scaling now supports scheduled scaling, which makes it possible to scale resources at specific preset times or intervals. Application Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale resources for Amazon Web Services services beyond Amazon EC2, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets, Amazon EMR Clusters, AppStream 2.0 fleets, and Amazon DynamoDB. 

In 2016, we introduced Convertible RIs which provide customers with the flexibility to change a RI’s instance type, OS, tenancy or payment option during its term. Today, we are announcing a support for splits & mergers to Convertible RIs.

In 2016, we introduced Convertible RIs which provide customers with the flexibility to change a RI’s instance type, OS, tenancy or payment option during its term. Today, we are announcing a support for splits & mergers to Convertible RIs.

Amazon Cognito Federated Identities is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet.

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 P3 instances, the next-generation of EC2 general-purpose GPU computing instances. P3 instances are powered by up to 8 of the latest-generation NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, and are ideal for computationally advanced workloads such as machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), scientific computing and simulations, financial analytics, image and video processing, and data compression.  

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.5.57, 5.6.37 and 5.7.19 in all Amazon Web Services Regions. These new versions include a number of fixes and functionality improvements for the MySQL database engine. 

Starting today, you can use cost allocation tags to manage your costs in Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). You can now use tags to categorize your queues, so you can easily identify their purpose and track their costs. For example, you can use tags to identify all the Amazon SQS queues for a particular department, project, or application. Once you have tagged your Amazon SQS queues, you can sign up to include usage and cost details for particular tags in your Amazon Web Services account bill. 

You can add or remove tags using the Amazon SQS management console, Amazon Command Line Interface, or API. You can assign up to 50 tags, each consisting of a key and a value, per Amazon SQS queue.

Cost allocation tagging is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet. For more information on using tagging with Amazon SQS, see Tagging your Amazon SQS Queues.

Amazon Web Services is announcing a configurable private ASN for its Direct Connect (DX) to enhance use of their Virtual Private Cloud. Users can now select a Private Autonomous System Number (or use the private ASN value provided) for the Amazon Web Services half of the external BGP session using DX private Virtual Interface. Also, they can now view the Amazon Web Services Console side ASN in the console or via APIs without downloading the router configuration details.

 

This feature is available for use in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

Today we’re announcing enhancements to Amazon RDS Reserved Instances (RIs) in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, that make them more flexible and easier to use, helping you get the most out of your RI discount. RIs give you the option to reserve a database instance for a one or three year term, and in turn receive a significant discount compared to on-demand instance pricing.

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 usage of Linux based instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved and Spot form will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds. 

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their VPCs by adding secondary IPv4 address ranges (CIDRs) to their VPCs. Customers can add the secondary CIDR blocks to the VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI after they have created the VPC with the primary CIDR block. Similar to the primary CIDR block, secondary CIDR blocks are also supported by all the Amazon Web Services services including Elastic Load Balancing and NAT Gateway.

Amazon CloudFormation now allows you to protect a stack from being accidently deleted. You can enable termination protection on a stack when you create it. If you attempt to delete a stack with termination protection enabled, the deletion fails and the stack, including its status, will remain unchanged. To delete a stack you need disable termination protection. 

Amazon CloudTrail S3 Data Events allow you to record API actions on Amazon S3 objects and receive detailed information such as the Amazon Web Services account, IAM user role, and IP address of the caller, time of the API call, and other details. You can programmatically access and act upon the Data Events after they are delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket or to Amazon CloudWatch Events. For example, you can quickly reapply the original Access Control List (ACL) on an object if the ACL of an object is modified.

Amazon Storage Gateway has added Commvault V11 as a supported backup application for use with its virtual tape library (VTL), the Tape Gateway. You can now use Commvault V11 and the Storage Gateway VTL to backup and archive application data to scalable, and cost-effective, secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier storage, while preserving established tape management processes.

Use Rollback Triggers to monitor the state of your application during the stack creation and update process. You can specify the alarms and the thresholds you want CloudFormation to monitor, and if any of the alarms are breached, CloudFormation rolls back the entire stack operation to the previous deployed state.

You can now create and manage lifecycle hooks for Auto Scaling Groups using the Amazon management console. Previously, this functionality was only available through the Amazon Web Services Application Programming Interface (API), Command Line Interface (CLI), and Amazon CloudFormation. In addition, creating lifecycle hooks is now more convenient as it can be done in the same step as creating your Auto Scaling Group using the ‘CreateAutoScalingGroup’ call through the Amazon Web Services API and CLI.

You can now monitor bytes, packets, active connections and several other metrics for NAT Gateways via CloudWatch console and Amazon CLI. You can setup CloudWatch Alarms to notify you of crossing thresholds. All metrics are provided with a 1 min frequency. For more information about the metrics, see Monitoring Your NAT Gateway with Amazon CloudWatch. 

We are excited to announce that you can now add horizontal annotations to your graphs and dashboards in CloudWatch. 

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to add a short description to individual security group rules. Using this functionality, customers can add details like when and why a certain security group rule was created or updated. This functionality simplifies management of security groups as customers no longer need to maintain this information outside of Amazon Web Services using spreadsheets or documents.

You can now create Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances with up to 16TB of storage, up from 4TB. The new storage limit is available when using the Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose (SSD) storage types. In addition, the range for the IOPS to Storage (GB) Ratio has been increased from 10:1 to 50:1.

You can now launch G3 instances, the latest generation of Amazon EC2 Accelerated Compute Instances. G3 instances make it easy to procure a powerful combination of GPU, CPU, and host memory for workloads such as 3D rendering, 3D visualizations, graphics-intensive remote workstations, video encoding, and virtual reality applications.

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 P2 instances are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.

VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB enables you to have all network traffic between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon DynamoDB stay within the Amazon Web Services cloud instead of traversing the public internet.

Amazon Virtual Cloud (VPC) now provides customers an opportunity to recover EIPs that they might have released accidentally. The released EIPs are available for recovery as long as they are not assigned to a different customer. The sooner customers try to recover their EIPs, the better are the chances of recovering them. Customers can recover their EIPs via CLI by using the allocate-address command and specifying the IP address using the --address parameter.

Amazon Web Services CloudTrail Event History is now available to all customers. CloudTrail Event History (formerly known as API Activity History) lets you view, search, and download your recent Amazon Web Services account activity. This allows you to gain visibility into your account actions taken through the Amazon Management Console, SDKs, and CLI to enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your Amazon Web Services account.

Previously, you could only view your account activity by setting up CloudTrail for your account. Now, you can view the past 7 days of CloudTrail Event History immediately through the Amazon Web Services CloudTrail console and Amazon Web Services CLI without setting up CloudTrail. You can still set up CloudTrail to deliver your CloudTrail events to Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon CloudWatch Events if you want to archive, analyze, and respond to changes in your Amazon Web Services resources. Please visit Amazon Web Services CloudTrail documentation page for more information.

You can now launch M4 instances when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server in the China (Beijing) Region Operated by Sinnet. Amazon RDS is a managed database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

You can now configure policies to automatically add (scale out) and terminate (scale in) nodes in your Amazon EMR cluster. Amazon EMR can programmatically scale out applications like Apache Spark and Apache Hive to utilize additional nodes for increased performance and scale in the number of nodes in your cluster to save costs when utilization is low. Your cluster can scale based on Amazon CloudWatch metrics provided by Amazon EMR, including YARN utilization metrics.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to create a new default VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI. With this release, customers no longer need to contact Amazon Web Services support if the default VPC has been deleted, as they can create a new default VPC by using this self-service feature. Customers can also take remedial actions against accidental deletion of default VPCs, by automating creation of a new default VPC using the API.

We are excited to announce that CloudWatch now supports High-Resolution Custom Metrics and Alarms, enabling you to monitor custom applications and infrastructure in near real-time, down to per-second resolution. 

You can now launch X1 instances, the latest generation of Amazon EC2 instances optimized to run large-scale, enterprise-class, in-memory applications. X1 instances are ideal to run in-memory databases such as SAP HANA and host memory intensive and latency sensitive workloads such as Apache Spark, and Presto. X1 instances are also ideal for generating real time analytics, processing giant graphs using Neo4j or Titan, or creating enormous caches.  

Starting today, when you create a new DynamoDB table using the Amazon Management Console, the table will have Auto Scaling enabled by default.  DynamoDB Auto Scaling automatically adjusts read and write throughput capacity, in response to dynamically changing request volumes, with zero downtime. 

Amazon Direct Connect is announcing general availability of Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for customers’ physical connections to the Amazon Web Services (Beijing Region) Operated by Sinnet. Amazon Direct Connect customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metrics to monitor their physical connections, and use Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to notify them of changes in their physical Amazon Direct Connect connection and to trigger actions with the help of Amazon SNS topics.

Amazon IoT is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet.

Auto Scaling now supports a new type of scaling policy called target tracking scaling policies that you can use to set up dynamic scaling for your application in just a few simple steps. Adding Auto Scaling to your application is one way to maximize the benefits of Amazon Web Services. Auto Scaling helps you build systems that respond to changes in demand by automatically launching or terminating Amazon EC2 instances based on conditions that you define. This dynamic scaling helps to improve application availability and reduce costs. For example, you can use Auto Scaling to automatically launch EC2 instances for your Auto Scaling group when demand increases to help maintain performance, and terminate instances when demand drops to save money.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) and Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) are now available in the China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet.

Amazon ECS is a container management service for deploying and scaling Docker containers in production. Amazon ECR is a container registry for you to easily store, manage, and share large numbers of container images.

We are making a change to how we present CloudWatch charges in your Amazon Web Services bill and Cost and Usage Reports, to make it easy for you to understand your monthly CloudWatch spend. These changes will be effective in all Amazon Web Services Regions, including BJS operated by Sinnet, beginning July 2017.

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the China (Beijing) Region Operated by Sinnet. NAT Gateway is a highly available Amazon managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet.

Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server now allows you to easily stop and start your database instances. This makes it easy and affordable to use databases for development and test purposes, where the database is not required to be running all of the time.

Today we are announcing that Amazon EBS now supports cost allocation tags for EBS snapshots within the Amazon Web Services Billing and Cost Management Dashboard. Using cost allocation tags, you can now classify snapshot costs to match the needs of your business for better transparency and visibility. You can use this feature to allocate snapshot costs to internal teams or to provide accurate reports for customer billing. With this additional information, you can better manage your snapshot costs.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is now available in the China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet.

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new Amazon S3 console to all users. The new Amazon S3 console provides a new user interface, a streamlined user experience, and introduces user interface support for two new S3 features – object-level tagging and storage analytics. Many S3 users having been experiencing the new Amazon S3 console by opting-in as part of our original launch of the new Amazon S3 console on 29th, November 2016. Now all S3 users get this experience without any additional work. 

You can now define Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to provide control over which Auto Scaling resources users can access, and the actions that they are permitted to perform on these resources. Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you define. You can use Auto Scaling to help ensure that you are running your desired number of Amazon EC2 instances. With resource-level permissions, you can enable different users within an organization, such as application developers and IT specialists, to access and modify Launch Configurations and Auto Scaling groups with appropriately configured permissions.

Amazon EC2 now offers SQL Server Enterprise Edition in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region Operated by Sinnet running on any instance type with a minimum of 4 vCPUs, including M4, R4, and several other instance types. You can now launch SQL Server Enterprise on Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server 2016 operating systems.

Amazon CodeDeploy is now available in the China (Beijing) Amazon Web Services region.

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports enhanced Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing. In October 2016, we launched support for Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. In addition to scaling your Redis workloads across up to 15 shards with 3.5TiB of data, it also allowed creating cluster-level backups, which contain snapshots of each of the cluster’s shards. With this launch, we are adding the capability to restore a backup into a Redis Cluster with a different number of shards and slot distribution, allowing you to resize your Redis workload. ElastiCache will parse the Redis key space across the backup’s individual snapshots, and redistribute the keys in the new Cluster according to the requested number of shards and hash slots. Your new cluster can be either larger or smaller in size, as long as the data fits in the selected configuration.

Today, we are announcing enhancements to Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) that make them more flexible and easy to use, helping you get the most out of your RI discount.

Today we are introducing the Elastic Volumes feature for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). This new capability allows you to modify configurations of live volumes with a simple API call or a few console clicks. Elastic Volumes makes it easy to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of any new or existing current generation volume with no downtime or performance impact. You can streamline and automate changes using Amazon CloudWatch with Amazon Lambda where available (Amazon Lambda is not available in the Beijing Region as of the date of this post). With Amazon EBS you can provision the capacity and performance you need today with the confidence that you can make modifications in the future as your business needs change.

We are excited to announce support for 1G and 10G Link Aggregation Groups (LAG). Customers in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing Region), operated by Sinnet can start using LAG to link existing connections on the same Amazon Web Services device, or request new connections. Users who wish to purchase multiple ports, but treat them like a single managed connection can now use our LAG feature to do just this. In addition to ordering and managing bundles, you can now see when your ports fall on the same router so you can manage your network availability.