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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Apr 13 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Database Storage Size up to 64TiB in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD
Apr 09 Amazon CloudFront is now available in Mainland China
Apr 05 AWS Elemental MediaConvert is Now Available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Apr 04 AWS IoT Core Launches the Authentication and Credential Provider Feature in the AWS China (Beijing) Region Operated by Sinnet
Apr 01 AWS Direct Connect now in Shanghai and Shenzhen
Mar 28 Announcing the Ability to Pick the Time for Amazon EC2 Scheduled Events
Mar 27 AWS Announces the General Availability of the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Mar 22 Generate Fleet Metrics with New Capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Mar 14 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in EU (Stockholm) Region and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Mar 12 AWS Config Rules are now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD

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Compute

Date Announcement
Apr 09 Amazon CloudFront is now available in Mainland China
Feb 25 Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Feb 21 AWS Elastic Beanstalk announces major enhancements to Windows Server platform V2
Feb 12 Amazon EC2 Announces the Availability of C5, C5d, R5, and R5d Instances in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Apr 09 Amazon CloudFront is now available in Mainland China

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Storage

Date Announcement
Mar 27 AWS Announces the General Availability of the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Dec 04 Amazon S3 Inventory adds Apache Parquet output format in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by SINNET, and in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Dec 03 Amazon EBS Increases Performance of General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volumes
Nov 27 New Amazon S3 Features that Simplify the Use of the Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Class for Archival Workloads are now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Nov 27 Amazon S3 Object Lock is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD

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Databases

Date Announcement
Mar 07 Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Amazon S3 Integration for Data Ingress and Egress Capabilities
Feb 28 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for Redis 5.0.3 and the ability to change Redis command names in beijing and ningxia
Dec 14 Amazon Redshift announces Elastic resize: Add and remove nodes in minutes
Dec 11 Amazon RDS Enhances Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
Dec 06 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up to 250 Nodes Per Cluster in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD

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Migration

Date Announcement
Nov 01 AWS Snowball Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 08 AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool are Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jun 28 AWS Snowball Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Mar 29 AWS Server Migration Service is now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jan 25 AWS Server Migration Service is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet

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Networking & Content Delivery

Date Announcement
Apr 01 AWS Direct Connect now in Shanghai and Shenzhen
Feb 25 Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Dec 06 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS China Regions
Oct 11 AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Sep 27 Amazon API Gateway adds support for OpenAPI 3.0 API specification in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD

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Developer Tools

Date Announcement
Sep 12 AWS CodeBuild is Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
May 25 AWS SAM CLI Simplifies Building Serverless Apps with the SAM init Command
Mar 29 AWS CodeDeploy Available in China (Beijing) Region

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Management Tools

Date Announcement
Mar 12 AWS Config Rules are now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Mar 07 AWS Config Increases Default Limit for AWS Config Rules in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Feb 25 Amazon VPC Flow Logs can now be delivered to S3 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Feb 12 Amazon CloudWatch Introduces CloudWatch Dashboards to Monitor all AWS Resources
Dec 19 Amazon CloudWatch Launches Ability to Add Alarms on Metric Math Expressions

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jan 24 Easier Way To Access Your IAM User's Security Credentials In The AWS Console
Jul 13 Delegate Permission Management to Employees by Using IAM Permissions Boundaries
Jun 20 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
May 03 Quickly Identify When Your IAM User Last Used An Access Key
Apr 25 Easier way to control access to AWS region using IAM policies

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Feb 07 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments
Jan 23 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.4
Jan 16 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Dec 14 Amazon Redshift announces Elastic resize: Add and remove nodes in minutes
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds detailed cluster health monitoring

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Machine Learning

Date Announcement
Nov 14 Amazon Polly is now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Sep 20 New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: TensorFlow 1.10, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2, and More
Sep 20 AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Aug 06 New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: Optimized TensorFlow 1.9 with Horovod, Apache MXNet 1.2 with Keras 2, Upgraded NVIDIA stack, and More
Apr 30 AWS Deep Learning AMIs Include Optimized TensorFlow 1.7 for Faster Training on Amazon EC2 Instances, Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet

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Mobile Services

Date Announcement
Sep 27 Amazon API Gateway adds support for OpenAPI 3.0 API specification in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Jul 17 Amazon API Gateway Increases API Limits in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet; and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Apr 02 Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations
Apr 11 Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs
Nov 13 Amazon API Gateway is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Mar 14 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in EU (Stockholm) Region and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Mar 05 AWS Step Functions Adds Tag-Based Permissions
Feb 05 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Multiple String Values in Blacklist Matching
Aug 16 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jun 28 AWS Lambda Supports Amazon SQS as an Event Source

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Mar 22 Generate Fleet Metrics with New Capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Dec 20 AWS IoT Device Management Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet
Nov 15 AWS IoT Improves the Ability to Ingest Device Data at a Lower Cost in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Dec 29 Announcing a new pricing plan for AWS IoT
Nov 20 Amazon IoT Rules Engine Now Supports Calling Lambda Function from Rule SQL

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AWS Marketplace & Partners

Date Announcement
Oct 25 Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Minor Versions 5.5.57, 5.6.37 and 5.7.19 in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet

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Government & Public Sector

Date Announcement
Mar 27 AWS Announces the General Availability of the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 14 AWS China (Beijing) Region Operated by Sinnet Makes AWS CloudTrail Event History Available to All Customers

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Global Infrastructure

Date Announcement
Apr 01 AWS Direct Connect now in Shanghai and Shenzhen
Oct 11 AWS Direct Connect now Supports Jumbo Frames for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic
Jul 13 AWS Direct Connect now provides Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
Feb 13 AWS Direct Connect announces support for Link Aggregation

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