You can now use the SELECT INTO OUTFILE S3 SQL statement to query data from an Amazon Aurora database cluster and save it directly into text files in an Amazon S3 bucket. This means you no longer need the two-step process of bringing the data to the SQL client and then copying it from the client to Amazon S3. It’s an easy way to export data selectively to Amazon Redshift or any other application.
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AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is now available to customers in EU (Frankfurt) and GovCloud (US) regions. 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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Today we launched the public beta of new features for Amazon Cognito User Pools that enable web and mobile app developers to easily add a sign in user experience and integrate SAML-based identity providers (IdPs). Now Amazon Cognito provides built-in user forms for sign up and sign in along with OAuth2 support. You can customize the built-in user experience and add it to your app with just a few lines of code. Your users can sign-in with your own user directory provided by Cognito User Pools or through corporate IdPs such as Microsoft Active Directory through SAML 2.0 federation.
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AWS Config now supports tracking of Amazon CloudWatch alarm configurations. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. You can use CloudWatch to access up-to-the-minute statistics, collect metrics, and set alarms for your metric data to help you troubleshoot, spot trends, and take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment. With this integration, you can now use Config to view the historical configuration of your CloudWatch alarms and review all changes that occurred to them. For example, you can now determine why CloudWatch alarms did not get triggered and receive Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications when your alarm configurations change.
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AWS has expanded its HIPAA Compliance Program to include Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield as HIPAA eligible Services. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can now use Amazon CloudFront to accelerate the delivery of protected health information (PHI), Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration for faster transfers of PHI to and from Amazon S3, AWS WAF to protect your web applications from common web exploits, and AWS Shield to safeguard your web applications running on AWS from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Information on HIPAA eligible services on AWS can be found at our HIPAA Compliance page.
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The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) has introduced AWS X-Ray support. You can now configure the X-Ray tracing mode for your Lambda functions within your SAM template. X-Ray helps you analyze and debug distributed applications. With X-Ray, you can identify the root cause of performance issues and errors in your Lambda functions. Learn more in our documentation.
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Your analytics and search applications can now benefit from support for Elasticsearch 5.3 and Kibana 5.3 in Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Elasticsearch is a popular search and analytics engine for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch Service delivers Elasticsearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server now allows you to easily stop and start your database instances. This makes it easy and affordable to use databases for development and test purposes, where the database is not required to be running all of the time.
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AWS Batch is now available in the US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions.
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Starting today, you can create and search relationships across hierarchies in Amazon Cloud Directory by using typed links. With typed links, you can build directories that can be searched across hierarchies more efficiently by filtering your queries based on relationship type. Typed links also enable you to model different types of relationships between objects in different hierarchies and to use relationships to prevent objects from being deleted accidentally.
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