Deploy Remote Desktops More Easily on EC2 Windows with AWS Microsoft AD

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, now supports Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing Manager (RD Licensing). With the new release you can now enable RD Licensing in your AWS Microsoft AD domain. This reduces the effort to deploy and manage infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services in the AWS Cloud. 
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Amazon GameLift Local and Game Session Queue Improvements

Amazon GameLift Local is a client-side debugging tool that emulates a subset of the Amazon GameLift API on your local development machine. With Amazon GameLift Local, you can verify code changes in seconds, without incurring any usage charges. Amazon GameLift Local is available for Windows and Linux desktops and does not require a network connection to use. 
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AWS CloudTrail Enhances Configuration Setup

AWS CloudTrail now allows you to add data events, management events, and activity filters during the CloudTrail configuration setup in the console. With data events logging, you can record all API actions on Amazon S3 objects and receive detailed information, such as the S3 object level API activity, AWS account of the caller, and time of the API call. With management events logging, you can record operations that occur on your AWS accounts and resources, such as administrative actions to create, delete, and modify EC2 instances or user access activities. Activity filters allow you to specify read-only, write-only, or read/write account activity collection for management and data events. 
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Amazon QuickSight now available in US East (Ohio)

Amazon QuickSight is now available in US East (Ohio). New users can sign up for QuickSight with US East (Ohio) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to US East (Ohio) via the region switcher in the User Interface to provision SPICE capacity, and to enable faster and cheaper connectivity to data sources in the region. With this launch, QuickSight is now available in US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions.
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AWS Config Improves Discovery of Managed Rules

AWS Config now has a redesigned experience for discovering and setting up AWS-managed Config rules. You can now search managed rules by name, label, or description. This allows you to quickly filter rules based on services and rule descriptions. For example, you can type "EC2" in the search field to display all rules that apply to your Amazon EC2 resources. 
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Jump-start your mobile app testing on AWS Device Farm with increased free trial minutes and discounted device slots

For a limited time, get 1000 device minutes as part of your one-time free trial on AWS Device Farm, four times more than the usual 250. Furthermore, get 3 months for the price of 1 on your first device slot purchase, giving you additional time to set-up, tune, integrate, and ramp your testing efforts into your release cycle at a lower introductory cost.
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AWS Batch Managed Compute Environments Support Customer Provided AMIs

AWS Batch now supports customer provided AMIs. Previously, Managed Compute Environments launched instances of the ECS Optimized AMI. Now, when creating Managed Compute Environments, you can choose the specific AMI used by specifying the imageId. This makes it possible to change your EBS configuration, automatically mount EFS filesystems for shared storage among jobs, use local instance storage for scratch space, or configure drivers for GPU-accelerated jobs. 
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Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Automatic Request Validation

You can now configure Amazon API Gateway to automatically perform basic request validation for your APIs. This reduces the burden of needing to check for required parameters in requests made to your API and instead allows you to focus on application-specific validation efforts. Previously, you needed to manually implement basic validation of input data in your API backends, making it more likely to introduce conflicts between your validation logic and API models. 
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports search templates with Mustache

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now provides built-in support for search templates using Mustache on all Elasticsearch 5 domains. Mustache is an open-source logic-less templating engine. You can now use Mustache to build search templates, which make it easy to dynamically generate your Elasticsearch queries. Search templates can help reduce errors and save time when constructing queries. Mustache is now enabled by default on all Amazon Elasticsearch Service 5.1 domains. 
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