Amazon RDS Reserved Instances Offer Instance Size Flexibility

Today we’re announcing enhancements to Amazon RDS Reserved Instances (RIs) that make them more flexible and easier to use, helping you get the most out of your RI discount. RIs give you the option to reserve a database instance for a one or three year term, and in turn receive a significant discount compared to on-demand instance pricing.
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Amazon Redshift announces support for LISTAGG DISTINCT

The LISTAGG aggregate function orders the rows for each group in a query according to the ORDER BY expression, then concatenates the values into a single string. With the new DISTINCT argument, you can now eliminate duplicate values from the specified expression before concatenating the values into a single string. For more information, see LISTAGG Function in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.
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Amazon Redshift announces support for uppercase column names

You can now specify whether column names returned by SELECT statements are uppercase or lowercase. With this feature, you can now set a session-based parameter to enable your case-sensitive applications to easily query Amazon Redshift. For more information, see describe_field_name_in_uppercase in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide. 
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Announcing AWS CodeStar Integration With GitHub

AWS CodeStar, which enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS, now integrates with GitHub. Starting now, each AWS CodeStar project template will provide you an option to use GitHub as your version control system for the software projects you build with AWS.

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Systems Manager document now available for installing Amazon Inspector agents, and Amazon Inspector now supports Amazon Linux 2017.09.

We are thrilled to announce another way for customers to install the Amazon Inspector agent on their EC2 instances. Customers can now use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager (SSM) Run Command to install the Inspector agent on a single instance or groups of instances. Previously, customers who wanted to install the Amazon Inspector agent on a fleet had to either manually install, or build their own installation script. With this launch, customers can use the AmazonInspector-ManageAWSAgent Systems Manager Document in Run Command. You can target instances you wish to install it on either by using tags or by providing instance ids. As an example, if you wanted to install the agent on all instances in an Inspector assessment target, you can specify the same tags used for creating that assessment target.  
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Amazon CloudFront continues to add capacity to the Nordics, Western Europe, and Western United States with new locations in Stockholm, London, and Dallas!

The Amazon CloudFront team is excited to announce three additional Points of Presence located in Stockholm, London, and Dallas. Stockholm now has three Points of Presence, London now has five, and Dallas has four! These three network additions continue to expand Amazon CloudFront’s capacity in each region, ensuring that each end user’s experience is reliable, secure, and fast.

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