Amazon Aurora Supports Fast Database Cloning

Amazon Aurora MySQL users can now create quick, efficient database clones. Following on the heels of the original database cloning announcement in June 2017, copy operation time has been substantially reduced so entire multi-terabyte database clusters can be cloned in minutes.
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Now Generally Available: Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs. Elastic GPUs allow you to easily attach low-cost graphics acceleration to a wide range of EC2 instances over the network. Simply choose an instance with the right amount of compute, memory, and storage for your application, and then use Elastic GPUs to add the GPU resources needed to accelerate the graphics performance of your application for a fraction of the cost of standalone graphics instances.
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Integration App for AWS Managed Services is available for ServiceNow

The AWS Managed Services (AMS) Integration App for ServiceNow provides an out-of-the-box integration between ServiceNow and AMS. By installing the app, customers can interact with AMS from ServiceNow without a custom API integration. This app makes it easier for enterprise users to manage their operational processes via a single interface and get a unified view of AMS resources in their enterprise configuration management database (CMDB). 
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their VPCs by adding secondary IPv4 address ranges (CIDRs) to their VPCs. Customers can add the secondary CIDR blocks to the VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI after they have created the VPC with the primary CIDR block. Similar to the primary CIDR block, secondary CIDR blocks are also supported by all the AWS services including Elastic Load Balancing and NAT Gateway.
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AWS Server Migration Service is now available in Canada (Central) Region

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is now available to customers in the Canada (Central) region. AWS Server Migration Service is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.  
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Amazon EFS now Supports Additional Permissions for Finer-Grained Control of Directory and File Access

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports the use of setgid and sticky bit special permissions on directories. This new capability allows you to further customize access permissions for shared directories across a set of file system users. When the setgid permission is set on a directory, files created in the directory belong to the group associated with the directory (instead of the group to which the user creating the file belongs). The sticky bit is used to restrict deletion and renaming of files to the owner of the file or directory or to the root user.
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Improvements to How You Sign In to Your AWS Account

You will now see improvements to the way you sign in to your AWS account. You can sign in as your account’s root user or an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user from the AWS Management Console’s homepage. You no longer have to use an account-specific URL to sign in as an IAM user. However, the account-specific URL you have used in the past to sign in will continue to work.
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