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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Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region

Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS Region. Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure desktop computing service which runs on the AWS cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows you to provide your users access to the documents, applications, and resources they need from the device of their choice, including Windows and Mac computers, Chromebooks, iPads, Fire tablets, and Android tablets. Amazon WorkSpaces integrates with your existing IT systems, and you can use your corporate Active Directory to provide users with seamless access to company resources. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you pay either monthly or hourly just for the desktops you launch, which helps you save money when compared to traditional desktops and on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
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Amazon WorkDocs Launches Redesigned Web Client With Improved Functionality

You can now use the redesigned Amazon WorkDocs web client as the single place to manage, share, and collaborate on documents and files. The updated Amazon WorkDocs web client offers an intuitive user interface, and includes performance enhancements and improvements to navigation designed to make Amazon WorkDocs even easier to use. The redesigned web client is now available to all new and existing Amazon WorkDocs customers. 
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New AWS Budgets features include API access, usage-based budgets, and more!

Starting today, you can take greater control of your AWS costs and resource usage with the new and enhanced features in AWS Budgets. You can now create monthly, quarterly, or annual budgets for your AWS resource usage (e.g., EC2 instance hours) or your AWS costs. In addition to accessing Budgets via the Billing & Cost Management console, you can now use the new Budgets API to create, edit, delete, and view up to 20,000 budgets per payer account.
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Amazon EC2 Now Supports Windows Server 2016

Amazon EC2 now supports Windows Server 2016 with several new AMIs, providing you with an easy and flexible way to get up and running with the latest version of Windows Server. Windows Server 2016 comes loaded with a variety of new features including Windows containers and support for Docker. The release also features a Nano Server deployment option that boots faster than the Standard Edition and uses a fraction of the disk space. By running Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2, you can combine the scale, performance and elasticity of AWS with the powerful new capabilities in this newest version of Windows Server. 
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