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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Reduced Pricing for AWS P3 Reserved Instances is now available in the 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
Jun 17 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU) in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 11 AWS Marketplace is Now Available in China to Accelerate Cloud Innovation for Customers
Jun 10 Resource level policies for Amazon CloudWatch Alarms is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD
Jun 10 Amazon RDS for Oracle R5 instances types are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
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
Jun 06 Amazon EBS encryption is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 06 Amazon EC2 Announces Host Recovery
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

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Compute

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Reduced Pricing for AWS P3 Reserved Instances is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Apr 09 Amazon CloudFront is now available in Mainland China
Mar 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering is now available in AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions
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

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Storage

Date Announcement
Jun 06 Amazon EBS encryption is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
May 29 AWS Storage Gateway Service Adds Capability to Move Virtual Tapes from Amazon S3 Glacier to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
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

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Databases

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Jun 17 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU) in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Jun 10 Amazon RDS for Oracle R5 instances types are now available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Jun 05 Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL increases maximum storage size and I/O performance in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD
Apr 30 Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing 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
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
Apr 01 AWS Direct Connect now in Shanghai and Shenzhen
Mar 07 AWS PrivateLink now Supports Access Over VPC Peering is now available in AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions
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

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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
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
Feb 12 Amazon CloudWatch Introduces CloudWatch Dashboards to Monitor all AWS Resources

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
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
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

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Jun 18 Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Jun 05 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 6.7 in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
May 29 Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports SQL querying in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Apr 08 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.5
Apr 08 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds event monitoring and alerting support

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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
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
Apr 11 Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs

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Application Integration

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)
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
Apr 04 Amazon SNS Now Supports VPC Endpoint Policies

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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
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

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