Now You Can Use Amazon Cloud Directory to Help Maintain HIPAA and PCI Compliance in the AWS Cloud

Now you can use Amazon Cloud Directory, to build and run applications in the AWS Cloud that are subject to U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. Amazon Cloud Directory reduces the effort required of you to deploy compliant infrastructure for your cloud-based applications, as you manage your own HIPAA risk management programs or PCI DSS compliance certification. 
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Additional Example AWS IAM Policies Added to the IAM Documentation for you to Use and Customize

You can now more easily create fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies by using new Example Policies. The example policies in the IAM documentation include more than thirty examples to help you manage access to your AWS Cloud resources. The example policies provide you policy templates to help you specify specific resources and access conditions in your policies.
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AWS CodeDeploy Now Provides Flexible EC2 Tagging with Multiple Tag Groups

AWS CodeDeploy now supports using multiple tag groups to identify groups of EC2 instances to be included in a deployment group. This new feature allows greater flexibility and more granular control over which instances are included in your deployment groups. If you use a single tag group, any instance identified by at least one tag in the group is included in the deployment group. If you use multiple tag groups, only instances that are identified by at least one tag in each of the tag groups are included. For example, you can define a deployment group that contains only instances tagged with both ‘Application: Frontend’ and ‘Environment: Prod’. For more information, see Tagging Instances for Deployment Groups in AWS CodeDeploy
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Now available–Lumberyard Beta 1.10

We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.10, the biggest release to date for Amazon’s free AAA game engine. This release contains over 545 features, fixes, and enhancements. Some highlights include:
• Order-independent Transparency – correctly display overlapping transparent surfaces (i.e. wine glasses or ice sculptures) in your games with greater ease • Temporal Anti-Aliasing – smooth out jagged edges and other imperfections caused by real-time rendering, getting you closer to achieving film-like quality in your games • Component entity workflows – 35 improvements to help speed up your iteration time • Cloud Gems – Over 50 improvements to help you better manage your player community • Plus much more, including a brand new docking system for customizing the editor, performance enhancements to the material editor, and new cinematic features
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Amazon QuickSight Now Supports Amazon Athena in EU (Ireland), Count Distinct, and Weekly Aggregation

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight customers can now connect to Amazon Athena, our serverless, interactive query engine to analyze and visualize their data in Amazon S3 hosted in the EU (Ireland) Region. With this release, you can also use Count Distinct on your dimensions and metrics in the visualizations as well as aggregate date fields by week for SPICE data sets.
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AWS CloudTrail Adds the Ability to Download CloudTrail Account Activity History

AWS CloudTrail now enables you to download CloudTrail account activity history from within the CloudTrail console. Previously, you could only analyze or share account activity offline by using the CloudTrail LookupEvents API, copying and pasting relevant information directly from the CloudTrail console, or searching the CloudTrail S3 bucket for the correct log files. Now, you can download your account activity to a CSV or JSON formatted file. You can use the downloaded files to analyze account activity with 3rd party tools or to backup and store activity history offline. Please visit AWS CloudTrail documentation page for more information.
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