AWS Storage Gateway is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.
The AWS Storage Gateway service seamlessly enables hybrid cloud storage between on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud. It combines a multi-protocol storage appliance with highly efficient network connectivity to deliver local performance with virtually unlimited scale. You can use it in remote offices and datacenters for hybrid cloud workloads involving migration, bursting, and storage tiering, as well as to connect Amazon EC2-hosted applications to data in Amazon S3.
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AWS EdStart for EdTech Startups

AWS EdStart, a program that helps startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, is now available. The AWS EdStart program helps EdTech startups by providing AWS promotional credits and access to the same scalable technology used by established companies.
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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is Now a HIPAA Eligible Service

AWS has expanded its HIPAA Compliance Program to include Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service for reliably communicating between distributed software components and microservices – at any scale. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can now use Amazon SQS to build HIPAA-compliant applications and store and transmit messages between healthcare systems, including messages containing protected health information (PHI). Information about HIPAA eligible services on AWS can be found at our HIPAA Compliance page.
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AWS CloudFormation adds support for Amazon Cognito, EBS Elastic Volumes and updates resource coverage

CloudFormation updated support for new resources:

AWS::Cognito::IdentityPool

Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool.

AWS::Cognito::IdentityPoolRoleAttachment

Manage the role configuration for an Amazon Cognito identity pool.

AWS::Cognito::UserPool

Create an Amazon Cognito user pool.

AWS::Cognito::UserPoolClient

Create an Amazon Cognito user pool client.

AWS::Cognito::UserPoolGroup

Create a user group in an Amazon Cognito user pool.

AWS::Cognito::UserPoolUser

Create an Amazon Cognito user pool user.

AWS::Cognito::UserPoolUserToGroupAttachment

Attach a user to an Amazon Cognito user pool group.

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