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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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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