2017_launches.txt

RDS:
Amazon RDS Now Supports Database Storage Size up to 16TB and Faster Scaling for MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and PostgreSQL Engines
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora now supports Auto Scaling for Aurora Replicas
Amazon Aurora (MySQL) Doubles Maximum Write Throughput with Support for R4 Instances
Amazon Aurora (MySQL) Speeds Join Queries by More than 10x with Asynchronous Key Prefetch
Amazon Aurora Supports Fast Database Cloning

Amazon Lex Now Generally Available

DynamoDB:
VPC Endpoints for Amazon DynamoDB Now Generally Available
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Generally Available
Amazon DynamoDB now supports automatic item expiration with Time-to-Live (TTL)

Chime:
Announcing Amazon Chime: Frustration-free online meetings with exceptional audio and video quality
Amazon Chime Now Allows Applications to Post Messages to Chat Rooms Using Incoming Webhooks
Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling

Data:
Introducing AWS Glue: A Simple, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service


SQS:
Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Now Available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region

SNS:
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Introduces Message Filtering
Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging

Serverless/Edge/AI:
Lambda@Edge now Generally Available
Lambda@Edge Now Supports Content-Based Dynamic Origin Selection, Network Calls from Viewer Events, and Advanced Response Generation
Amazon Rekognition announces real-time face recognition, Text in Image recognition, and improved face detection
New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners
Amazon API Gateway Supports Regional API Endpoints
Amazon Cognito Launches General Availability of a Built-in Customizable User Experience for Sign-in, OAuth 2.0 Support, and Federation with Facebook, Login with Amazon, Google, and SAML providers for User Pools
AWS X-Ray Makes AWS Lambda Request Tracing Generally Available
AWS Lambda Raises Default Concurrent Execution Limit
AWS X-Ray Now Generally Available
AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.6

Devops:
Announcing AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs
Create a New Default VPC using AWS Console or CLI
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Hierarchy, Tagging, and Notification Support for Parameter Store
Amazon Route 53 announces support for multivalue answers in response to DNS queries
Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 Instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Regional Expansion
Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Elastic Load Balancing in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)


Compute:
Announcing Amazon EC2 per second billing
Now Available: Amazon EC2 I3 Instances, next-generation Storage Optimized High I/O instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 G3 Instances, the next-generation of GPU-powered instances for graphics-intensive applications
Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 C5 Instances, the next generation of Compute Optimized instances
Spot Fleet can now auto-attach instances to your load balancers and scale down to 0 target capacity
Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Stop and Start Your Spot Instances
Announcing improved networking performance for Amazon EC2 instances
Now Generally Available: Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs
Amazon EC2 F1 Instances, Customizable FPGAs for Hardware Acceleration Are Now Generally Available
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Enables Live Volume Modifications with Elastic Volumes
Attach an IAM role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance


Connect:
You can now use Amazon Lex chatbots with Amazon Connect contact centers
Amazon Lex now supports 8 kHz telephony audio for increased speech recognition accuracy




NOAA’s GOES-R Series Weather Satellite Imagery is Now on AWS
USAspending.gov data available via Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

AWS Cryptography announces AWS Encryption SDK for Python




Announcing Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), Delivering up to 10X Faster Query Performance

Introducing Amazon Connect