Amazon CloudWatch Events Service is now available in Canada (Central) AWS region.

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of CloudWatch Events in our Canada (Central) region. The Canada (Central) region provides you with a new option for end users and applications benefiting from infrastructure located in Canada. With this new region, CloudWatch Events is now operating fifteen regions worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 40. You can learn more about our growing global infrastructure footprint at our Global Infrastructure page: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/. 
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AWS Direct Connect joins growing list of HIPAA-eligible services from AWS!

AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include AWS Direct Connect as a HIPAA Eligible Service. With the addition of Direct Connect, if you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS you can now transfer large amounts of data, including Protected Health Information (PHI), into and out of AWS in a cost-effective manner designed for your security. AWS Direct Connect offers several benefits for customers: it lowers bandwidth costs out of AWS (which is valuable for applications that have bulk data transfer requirements), it offers more consistent network performance over Internet-based connections for applications that require real-time data feeds, and it provides an alternative means to connect to the AWS cloud for customers who may have security or compliance policies that prevent VPN connectivity to the cloud.
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Amazon Aurora Cuts Entry-Level Pricing in Half With Support for T2.Small Instances

Starting today, you can launch t2.small instances when using Amazon Aurora. The on-demand pricing for t2.small is half that of t2.medium, which was previously announced in November 2016. T2 instances are a cost-effective option for development/test environments and light production workloads. You can run your database on r3 class instances for larger-scale production deployment.
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AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Checks for Twelve New Service Limits, AuroraDB Availability, and EC2 Windows

AWS Trusted Advisor now provides checks for ten new Service Limits for various AWS services including Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudFormation. Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks provide visibility to your current level of AWS service utilization and service limits. Trusted Advisor now also provides a new check for Amazon Aurora DB Availability which checks that your Aurora DB cluster has both private and public instances to help you ensure that your deployments are fault-tolerant. Finally, Trusted Advisor now provides new checks for EC2 Windows for the EC2Config Agent and the EC2 Windows PV Drive verion which helps to ensure your EC2 Windos instances have the latest versions installed.
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Amazon EC2Rescue is now available

Amazon EC2 Rescue is a convenient, straightforward, GUI-based troubleshooting tool that can be run on your Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances to troubleshoot operating system-level issues and collect advanced logs and configuration files for further analysis. EC2 Rescue provides capabilities that help you simplify and expedite the troubleshooting of EC2 Windows instances. You can use EC2 Rescue in either Current Instance or Offline Instance Modes to perform a variety of diagnostic and troubleshooting tasks. EC2Rescue is available now. For more information on EC2Rescue visit our documentation page.
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