Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached version 1.4.34

We are pleased to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached version 1.4.34. You can now launch new clusters with Memcached 1.4.34, as well as upgrade existing ones to the new version. Compared to version 1.4.33 (previous version supported by ElastiCache for Memcached), this version includes bug fixes for improved metadata dump, logging and LRU crawler and miscellaneous enhancements. 
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The New AWS Organizations UI Makes Organizing Your AWS Accounts Easier

Today, we made it easier for you to organize your AWS accounts in AWS Organizations by using a new tree view and additional UI improvements. The new tree view enables you to browse the accounts and organizational units (OUs) in your organization and apply service control policies (SCPs) from the Organizations console. For example, you can use the tree view to see the hierarchy of OUs in your organization. You can then select a specific OU to see all its AWS accounts and then apply an SCP to those accounts. 
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AWS OpsWorks Stacks Supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs

AWS OpsWorks Stacks now supports integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. With CloudWatch Logs, you can monitor your logs, in near real-time, for specific phrases, values or metrics. Previously, you had to manually install and configure the CloudWatch Logs agents directly on your Amazon EC2 instances. Now, you can leverage the built-in integration with CloudWatch Logs to simplify multi-instance log monitoring. For example, you can now monitor your Rails logs for exceptions across your instances. After you enable CloudWatch Logs in OpsWorks Stacks, the logs will be automatically sent to CloudWatch Logs where you can set up filters to extract metrics, and generate alarms based on those metrics. To learn more about this feature, visit our documentation.
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AWS CodePipeline pricing update; each new pipeline will not be charged for first 30 days

AWS CodePipeline  will now enable customers to experiment at a lower cost. Customers can create new pipelines without incurring any charges on that pipeline for the first thirty calendar days. After that period, the new pipelines will be charged at the existing rate of $1 per active pipeline per month. The new pricing is available in all regions in which CodePipeline is available.
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AWS CloudFormation Supports YAML in CloudFormation Designer

You can now create and edit AWS CloudFormation templates in CloudFormation Designer using YAML. CloudFormation Designer allows you to create and modify CloudFormation templates using a drag-and-drop interface which automatically updates the underlying template. Previously, you could only create or edit your CloudFormation templates in JSON. Now, you can create and edit templates in both JSON and YAML using the integrated editor. You can also convert JSON templates to YAML and vice-versa. Visit here to learn more.
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Amazon QuickSight now supports KPI charts, Export to CSV and AD Connector

You can now create charts to track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), export data from analyses as CSV files, define custom ranges when importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and create aggregate filters for SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation, Engine) data sets. In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition we’ve added support for AD Connector, providing another option for on-premises Active Directory connectivity. For more information, see the latest AWS Big Data Blog post on QuickSight.
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Amazon Kinesis Firehose announces price reduction and tiered pricing plan

We are excited to announce a 17% price reduction for Amazon Kinesis Firehose from $0.035 per GB to $0.029 per GB of data ingested. We have also introduced a tiered pricing plan to further reduce prices by an additional 26% to as low as $0.020 per GB of data ingested when your data volume reaches certain tier. With these two changes, you can now save up to 43% in costs when loading streaming data using Amazon Kinesis Firehose. For more information, see our pricing page.
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Elastic Load Balancing Adds Support for Host-based Routing and Increased Rules on its Application Load Balancer

We are pleased to announce support for Host-based routing on the Application Load Balancer. Host-based routing allows you to route a request based on host field in the HTTP header. To enable you to route to multiple services or containers using domain and path, we are also increasing the numbers of rules you can create on your Application Load Balancers to 75.
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