Lambda@Edge Now Provides Access to Query String Parameters, Country and Device Type Headers

Lambda@Edge enables you to personalize content with low latency, without having to manage origin servers. Starting today, Lambda@Edge makes it even easier to further personalize your content by giving you access to additional attributes of the request. You can now access query string parameters, country and device type headers in your AWS Lambda functions. With this capability, for instance, you can redirect your end users to country or language specific versions of your website based on your end user’s location from where the request was made.  
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Elastic Load Balancing: Application Load Balancers now support multiple SSL certificates and Smart Certificate Selection using Server Name Indication (SNI)

We are pleased to announce support for multiple SSL certificates on Application Load Balancers using Server Name Indication (SNI). You can now host multiple secure (HTTPS) applications, each with its own SSL certificate, behind one load balancer. This greatly simplifies application management as many secure applications or multi-tenant SaaS applications can run behind the same load balancer. 
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Quick Start Update: Deploy Magento on the AWS Cloud with Amazon Aurora

AWS is pleased to release a major update to the Magento Quick Start reference deployment. This update adds support for Amazon Aurora as a relational database option, deployed using Amazon Relational Database System (Amazon RDS), in addition to Amazon RDS MySQL. The Quick Start also includes enhancements to the networking infrastructure through the deployment of Linux bastion hosts.
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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) releases SDK for Node.js, support for R4 instances and general availability in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (São Paulo) regions

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), today announced the release of the following:

SDK for Node.js.
General availability in two new regions, Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (São Paulo). DAX is already available in US East (N. Virginia), EU (Ireland), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (N. California.

Support for new R4 instances in US East (N. Virginia), EU (Ireland), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (São Paulo). R4 is the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized instances, with 2X the cache sizes of current R3 instances, well-suited for memory-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads such as DAX.

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Support for Apache Livy, Hue 4.0.1, and Presto 0.184 on Amazon EMR release 5.9.0

You can now use Apache Livy (0.4) and new versions of Hue (4.0.1), Presto (0.184), Flink (1.3.2) and Apache Pig (0.17) on Amazon EMR release 5.9.0. Apache Livy is an application that enables you to submit, interact with, and manage Apache Spark applications over a REST interface. Hue 4.0.1 includes a redesigned interface and new SQL editor, interactive Spark notebook, and an improved job browser UI. Also, Apache Spark on release 5.9.0 now uses SSL instead of 3DES for in-transit encryption for the block transfer service, giving performance enhancements when using Amazon EC2 instance types with AES-NI. Additionally, we have added several enhancements to Spark to improve resilience and performance during Auto Scaling.
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