Amazon EMR now supports launching clusters with custom Amazon Linux AMIs

You can now create Amazon EMR clusters with custom Amazon Machine Images (AMI) running Amazon Linux. This enables you to preload additional software on your AMI and use AMIs that you customize and control. You can also encrypt the Amazon EBS root volume of your AMIs with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys. Additionally, you can now adjust the Amazon EBS root volume size for instances in your Amazon EMR cluster. Previously, this was fixed at 10 GiB.  
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Amazon SNS Console Improvements Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Several enhancements have been made to the functionality and user experience of the Amazon SNS console in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a flexible, fully managed pub/sub messaging and mobile notifications service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients. These improvements to the SNS console have made navigation and categorization of information easier, and allow you to now view up to 100,000 SNS topics, subscriptions and endpoints. You also can now run data validation for items such as resource names, ARNs and policies.
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AWS Mobile Hub enhances Cloud Logic import capabilities and releases React starter project to GitHub

AWS Mobile Hub released enhancements to the project import feature today, allowing a developer to import Cloud Logic functions through the one-click import from GitHub feature.  With the Cloud Logic import feature, developers can also specify environment variables and CORS settings, allowing for the same code to be used for multiple functions with different settings (for example, test vs. production workloads or CRUD API for different tables within a DynamoDB database). The Cloud Logic import feature will also provide appropriate authorization for a linked Amazon DynamoDB database and Amazon API gateway, taking care of all resource deployments, service connections and IAM configuration with a single command. 
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Sixth AZ in US East (N. Virginia) Region

Six Availability Zones (AZs) are now available for customers in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. As customers in the US and across the globe continue to grow their usage of AWS, we will continue to expand our infrastructure to meet their needs. This launch brings AWS’s global AZ total to 44 AZs within 16 geographic Regions around the world, with announced plans for 14 more AZs and five more Regions.
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Announcing the new Amazon Kinesis Firehose management console

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to prepare and load real-time streaming data into AWS. The Kinesis Firehose management console is the primary tool for creating and managing Kinesis Firehose delivery streams. Today we have launched the redesigned Kinesis Firehose management console to make it even easier to use.
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AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to the Product Support Connection

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 3,800 software listings from popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced an update to the Product Support Connection “PSC”, which allows customers to optionally provide identifying information (name, contact details, location, job title, and company name) in the AWS Marketplace website for product support purposes to help get better support by letting sellers more easily verify your identity. In this updated feature release, customers will see the new seller support ID field, if the seller is enrolled in PSC and has chosen to enable that field, as an additional piece of data that can be entered, edited, or deleted when filling out their contact details.  
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