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Most Recent Announcements from AWS

Date Announcement
Dec 11 Amazon RDS Enhances Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds detailed cluster health monitoring
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds self-service updates for domains
Dec 06 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS China Regions
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
Dec 05 Amazon ECR Console Version 2
Dec 05 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Adds Auto-Failover And Backup/Restore Support for T2 Nodes 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
Nov 28 Announcing Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand
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

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Compute

Date Announcement
Dec 06 Introducing AWS PrivateLink in the AWS China Regions
Dec 05 Amazon ECR Console Version 2
Nov 19 Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited Instances Are Now Available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by SINNET and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Nov 15 Amazon ECS now allows resources tagging
Oct 16 AWS Lambda announces service level agreement

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Storage

Date Announcement
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
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
Nov 26 Amazon S3 Introduces S3 Batch Operations (Preview) for Object Management
Nov 15 Amazon S3 Block Public Access – another layer of protection for your accounts and buckets, 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
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
Dec 05 Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Adds Auto-Failover And Backup/Restore Support for T2 Nodes in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Nov 19 Amazon DynamoDB Backup and Restore Now Available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Nov 15 Amazon RDS Automated Backups Can Now Be Retained After Database Deletion

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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
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
Jul 31 Network Load Balancer is Now Available 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

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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
Oct 12 Amazon CloudWatch announces new CloudWatch Agent with SSM Integration in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Sep 11 AWS Config Introduces Tiered Pricing for AWS Config Rules in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet
Aug 16 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jun 28 AWS CloudTrail Event History Now Includes All Management Events
May 30 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Amazon CloudWatch Metrics

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Security, Identity & Compliance

Date Announcement
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
Dec 14 Now Add Additional Protection to Your AWS Accounts by enabling Virtual MFA during Sign-in

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Analytics

Date Announcement
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds self-service updates for domains
Dec 11 Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds detailed cluster health monitoring
Aug 08 Amazon Redshift Automatically Enables Short Query Acceleration in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
May 29 Amazon Elasticsearch Service Offers Additional Cost Savings with Reserved Instances in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Feb 06 10x Higher API Call Rates for Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) Applications

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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 AWS Deep Learning AMIs Now Available in the 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
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
Aug 16 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation
Jun 28 AWS Lambda Supports Amazon SQS as an Event Source
May 30 Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
Dec 14 Improved Amazon SNS Console Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet
Dec 12 What’s New: AWS and Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Ltd (NWCD) Announce a Second AWS Region in China, Now Available to Customers

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Internet of Things

Date Announcement
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
Jul 13 AWS IoT Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet

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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
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
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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