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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Aug 22 AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store features are now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 22 AWS IoT Adds the Ability to Configure Quality of Service (QoS) for Republish Action
Aug 21 Amazon DynamoDB now helps you monitor as you approach your account limits in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Aug 20 AWS Storage Gateway Now Supports Tag-On Create and Tag-Based Access Control in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 now supports Diagnostic Interrupts
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Set A Maximum Price For A Fleet Of Instances in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 20 AWS Storage Gateway Now Supports Tag-On Create and Tag-Based Access Control in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Modify On-Demand Target Capacity in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 15 Amazon EMR now supports C5, C5d, R5, and R5d instances in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 15 Amazon Elasticsearch Services announces support for Elasticsearch versions 6.8 and 7.1 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD

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Compute

Date Announcement
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 now supports Diagnostic Interrupts
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Set A Maximum Price For A Fleet Of Instances in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 20 Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Modify On-Demand Target Capacity in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jul 29 Amazon EC2 Spot Now Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jul 19 Introducing New Instance Sizes for Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 Instances in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD

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Storage

Date Announcement
Aug 20 AWS Storage Gateway Now Supports Tag-On Create and Tag-Based Access Control in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
Jul 25 Amazon S3 support for percentiles on Amazon CloudWatch Metrics is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD
Jul 23 Amazon S3 SSE-KMS Encryption is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD
Jul 18 AWS Storage Gateway now supports Amazon VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
Jun 25 Encryption of new EBS volumes by default in an account within a region 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
Jul 29 Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL-Compatibility now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jul 25 Amazon RDS for Oracle M5 and T3 instances types are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.
Jul 19 Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 25 unique items and 4 MB of data per transactional request in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jul 18 Amazon RDS now supports Encryption using keys managed in AWS Key Management Service in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD
Jun 27 Amazon RDS now supports Storage Auto Scaling 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
Aug 06 Amazon API Gateway now supports secured connectivity between REST APIs and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 26 Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol Blog
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
May 23 Amazon VPC Endpoints Now Support Tagging for Gateway Endpoints, Interface Endpoints, and Endpoint Services
Apr 01 AWS Direct Connect now in Shanghai and Shenzhen

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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
Aug 22 AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store features are now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 04 Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
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

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
Jun 25 Encryption of new EBS volumes by default in an account within a region is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 25 Launching of Encrypted EBS backed EC2 instances from unencrypted Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 06 AWS KMS is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
May 17 Create Fine-grained Session Permissions Using IAM Managed Policies
Jan 24 Easier Way To Access Your IAM User's Security Credentials In The AWS Console

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Aug 15 Amazon EMR now supports C5, C5d, R5, and R5d instances in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Aug 15 Amazon Elasticsearch Services announces support for Elasticsearch versions 6.8 and 7.1 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jul 31 Amazon EMR announces Support for Multiple Master nodes to enable High Availability for EMR applications in all supported regions for Amazon EMR, including AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jul 26 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers improved performance at lower costs with C5 and R5 instances in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Jun 18 Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD

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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
Aug 06 Amazon API Gateway now supports secured connectivity between REST APIs and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 06 Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
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

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Application Integration

Date Announcement
Aug 08 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Attribute Key Matching in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
May 31 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Now Available in the AWS China Beijing (BJS) Region (Operated by SINNET), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), GovCloud (US-East), and GovCloud (US-West)
May 23 AWS Step Functions Callback Patterns for Workflows is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD and in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
May 21 Amazon SNS Adds Support for Cost Allocation Tags in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
May 08 AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Workflow Execution Events in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
Aug 22 AWS IoT Adds the Ability to Configure Quality of Service (QoS) for Republish Action
Aug 14 AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management Available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD
Jun 28 AWS IoT Greengrass is Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
Mar 22 Generate Fleet Metrics with New Capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Jan 10 AWS IoT Core now enables customers to store messages for disconnected devices

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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
May 31 Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Now Available in the AWS China Beijing (BJS) Region (Operated by SINNET), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), GovCloud (US-East), and GovCloud (US-West)
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 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering is now available in AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions
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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AWS Cost Management

Date Announcement
May 07 AWS Linked Account Bills now Reflect an Account’s Unblended Costs

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