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Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds Routing to Amazon EC2 Run Command

Amazon CloudWatch Events now supports Amazon EC2 Run Command as an event target. This allows you to route system events that describe changes in your AWS environment to Run Command for processing. Run Command, a part of Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, provides a simple way of remotely executing common administrative tasks like running scripts, installing software, and managing patches. Now, you can perform ad-hoc actions through Run Command on your instances based on changes in your AWS environments. For example, you can now collect instance logs when instances in an Auto Scaling group are terminated by creating a CloudWatch Events rule with Auto Scaling as the source and Run Command as the target. To learn more, see the CloudWatch Events documentation here.
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Amazon EMR announces instance fleets for Amazon EC2 Spot instances and Spot blocks

Amazon EMR now supports a variety of new Amazon EC2 Spot instance management features with instance fleets. Instead of specifying a specific Amazon EC2 instance type for an Amazon EMR instance group or Amazon EC2 availability zone for your Amazon EMR cluster, you can now provide a list of possible choices and allow Amazon EMR to automatically select an optimal combination. When creating clusters with instance fleets, Amazon EMR can now automatically provision Spot capacity across a variety of instance types, select optimal Amazon EC2 availability zones, and blend Spot and On-Demand capacity to minimize overall cost.
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Announcing AWS Marketplace Tax Calculation Service

AWS Marketplace is pleased to announce the availability of a new Tax Calculation Service (TCS) for software vendors. If you are a software vendor that sells products on AWS Marketplace, you can now choose to enroll your paid product listings in TCS for automatic U.S. sales tax calculation on all of your AWS Marketplace transactions. For products enrolled in TCS, AWS Marketplace calculates and collects U.S. sales & use tax on software purchases based on settings and input provided by you.  AWS Marketplace disburses collected taxes to you along with a detailed tax report to help you meet your tax obligations. This feature is available to any AWS Marketplace software vendor who determines that they have obligations to pay U.S. sales tax.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Now Available in the Europe (London) and Canada (Central) Regions

We are excited to announce availability of Amazon Elasticsearch Service in the Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. With the addition of these two regions, Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now available in 14 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions. 
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Deep Learning AMI release v1.2 for Ubuntu and Updated AWS CloudFormation Template Now Available

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, CNTK, and Caffe, on the AWS Deep Learning AMI v1.2 for Ubuntu, including Keras, available in the AWS Marketplace. The Deep Learning AMI v1.2 for Ubuntu is designed to continue to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for deep learning applications running on Amazon EC2. The latest MXNet release (v0.9.3), included with this AMI v1.2, adds several enhancements including a faster new image processing API that enables parallel processing, improved multi GPU performance, and support for new operators. This AMI includes the following framework versions: Apache MXNet: v0.9.3; Tensorflow v1.0.0; Caffe release: rc5; Theano: rel 0.8.2; Keras: 1.2.2; CNTK: v2.0 beta12.0; and Torch: master branch. The Deep Learning AMI includes Jupyter notebooks with Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 kernels, Matplotlib, Scikit-image, CppLint, Pylint, pandas, Graphviz, Bokeh Python packages, Boto and Boto 3 and the AWS CLI. The DL AMI also comes packaged with Anaconda 2 and Anaconda 3 Data Science platform. You can start using the Deep Learning AMI release v1.2 in the AWS Marketplace, today. 
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Amazon ElastiCache Launches Enhanced Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports enhanced Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing. In October 2016, we launched support for Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. In addition to scaling your Redis workloads across up to 15 shards with 3.5TiB of data, it also allowed creating cluster-level backups, which contain snapshots of each of the cluster’s shards. With this launch, we are adding the capability to restore a backup into a Redis Cluster with a different number of shards and slot distribution, allowing you to resize your Redis workload. ElastiCache will parse the Redis key space across the backup’s individual snapshots, and redistribute the keys in the new Cluster according to the requested number of shards and hash slots. Your new cluster can be either larger or smaller in size, as long as the data fits in the selected configuration.
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AWS Step Functions Adds Customized Error Handling for AWS Lambda Functions

AWS Step Functions now gives you more flexibility in how AWS Lambda function error messages are handled in your workflow so you can improve the resiliency of serverless applications. Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly. With Step Functions, you can create state machines to orchestrate multiple Lambda functions and build multi-step serverless applications. 
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