Enable access control scenarios using Microsoft Network Policy Service with Microsoft AD

Starting today, customers using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also called Microsoft AD, now have the added permissions to install and use Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS). The new permissions grant you the rights required to register NPS in the RAS and IAS Servers security group. Once NPS is installed and registered, you can use it to enforce network access policies for client health, network connection authentication, and network access authorization by using account information stored in Microsoft AD.  
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Amazon WorkMail now supports email redirection to external email addresses

Amazon WorkMail now supports email redirection to external email addresses. You can setup email redirection rules on your desktop email application, such as Microsoft Outlook, or using the Amazon WorkMail web application. To take advantage of this feature, you will need to update Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) identity policies using the AWS Management Console for any domains that exist in your Amazon WorkMail organization. Please visit this page for more information on how to update the Amazon SES identity policy for your domain. You do not need to take any action for any new domains that you add to your Amazon WorkMail organization. 
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AWS Marketplace Announces Self-Service Listings for Software Vendors

Today, AWS Marketplace released Self-Service Listings, a new, web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings within the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that wish to list their products for sale on AWS Marketplace can log in to AMMP to view their existing product listings, create a new free listing, create a new Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) listing, or track the status of their submitted listing requests. Self-Service Listings offers workflow and collaboration tools that make AWS Marketplace product listings easier to track and manage; vendors can use the new portal to save listings in progress, collaborate internally on product listing creation, view their request history, and more.
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Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server

Amazon WorkMail now supports interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2013. Interoperability allows you to minimize disruption to your users as you migrate mailboxes to Amazon WorkMail, or use Amazon WorkMail for a subset of your corporate mailboxes. With interoperability, you can set up rich co-existence between Amazon WorkMail and Microsoft Exchange Server, which allows you to use the same corporate domain for mailboxes across both environments, and allows your users to seamlessly schedule meetings with bi-directional sharing of calendar free-busy information. 
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AWS Config launches in China (Beijing)

AWS Config is now available in the China (Beijing) region. AWS Config is a fully managed service that gives you an inventory of your AWS resources, notifies you when the configurations of your resources change, and lets you audit the history of the configurations for those resources to enable security and governance.
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New AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) makes it easier and faster to migrate on-premises servers to AWS

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. With the support of incremental replications, you can perform migrations faster while minimizing network bandwidth consumption and reducing server downtime.  
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Announcing EC2 DNS Support for Non-RFC 1918 Address Ranges

Today, we are announcing support for DNS resolution of hostnames where instances have private IP address outside of the RFC 1918 space. With this support now available natively in EC2 DNS, customers do not have to run custom DNS servers if the CIDR range for their VPC is outside of the RFC 1918 range. Previously, private DNS hostname resolution was supported only for RFC-1918 assigned private address ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.12.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16).
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