AWS Deep Learning AMIs now available in 4 new US and AP regions

You can now use the AWS Deep Learning AMIs with Apache MXNet v0.10 and TensorFlow v1.1 for Amazon Linux and Ubuntu in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are also available in the following public AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland).
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AWS Partner Network Introduces new AWS Competency for top Education Partners

The AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS World Wide Public Sector Partner Program is thrilled to announce the addition of the AWS Education Competency to the Competency program. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated industry expertise and readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices.
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Amazon Pinpoint Adds SMS Text Messages and Email Support to Provide Multi-channel Messaging, Campaigns and Analytics

Starting today Amazon Pinpoint adds SMS Text and Email Messaging support in addition to Mobile Push Notifications, providing developers, product managers and marketers with multi-channel messaging capabilities to drive user engagement in their applications. Pinpoint also enables backend services and applications to message users directly and provides advanced user and app analytics to understand user behavior and messaging performance.
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AWS Trusted Advisor Now Checks for Public Snapshots of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data

AWS Trusted Advisor now helps you better secure your data by alerting you whenever it detects a public snapshot of your Amazon EBS or Amazon RDS data.
For example, if an Amazon EBS volume snapshot is made public, AWS Trusted Advisor will identify that public snapshot and provide you with an alert so that you can investigate whether it was done intentionally.
These new checks are available to all AWS customers at no additional charge. Business and Enterprise support customers can use these new checks to enable automated actions via Trusted Advisor’s integration with CloudWatch Events.
For more information about AWS Trusted Advisor, visit Trusted Advisor Best Practices (Checks).
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Amazon Athena is now available in Europe (Ireland)

Amazon Athena is now available in the Europe (Ireland) region.
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
With the latest release customers can now use Amazon Athena in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more, please visit the Amazon Athena page.
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