AWS Elastic Beanstalk Extensions for Amazon EFS

AWS Elastic Beanstalk extends support to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). You can now create and mount Amazon EFS file systems from within Elastic Beanstalk environments. Using the Elastic Beanstalk extensions for Amazon EFS, you can more easily deploy and scale applications that require shared, scalable, and highly available persistent storage.
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Elasticsearch 5 now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Your analytics and search applications can now benefit from Amazon Elasticsearch Service’s support for Elasticsearch 5 and Kibana 5. Elasticsearch is a popular search and analytics engine for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch Service delivers Elasticsearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads.
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Amazon Cloud Directory Now Generally Available

Amazon Cloud Directory enables you to build flexible cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions. With Cloud Directory, you can create directories for a variety of use cases, such as organizational charts, course catalogs, and device registries. While traditional directory solutions, such as Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) and LDAP-based directories, limit you to a single hierarchy, Cloud Directory offers you the flexibility to create directories with hierarchies that span multiple dimensions. For example, you can create an organizational chart that can be navigated through separate hierarchies for reporting structure, location, and cost center.
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Apache Spark 2.1.0 and updates to Apache Hive and Hue now available on Amazon EMR release 5.3.0

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (2.1.0), Apache Hive (2.1.1), Apache Flink (1.1.4), Hue (3.11.0), and Apache Oozie (4.3.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.3.0. Apache Spark 2.1.0 resolves over 1,200 tickets, including better SparkR support for machine learning algorithms, improvements to Structured Streaming, and performance enhancements for Spark SQL. Hue 3.11.0 adds improvements to the SQL editor with a new autocompleter and a more advanced results grid. Flink 1.1.4, Hive 2.1.1, and Oozie 4.3.0 all have various improvements and bug fixes.
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AWS CloudTrail Adds AWS Managed Services, AWS CodeCommit, and Amazon GameLift to the API Activity History

AWS CloudTrail, a service that continuously monitors and logs your AWS account activity, now allows AWS Managed Services, AWS CodeCommit, and Amazon GameLift to be viewed in the API Activity History. These services were previously available in the S3 bucket log files and are now visible using the CloudTrail console API Activity History page. This allows you to search for create, modify, and delete event activity from these services using a set of predefined filters. For read-only API activity, go to your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Please visit AWS CloudTrail product page for more information.
 
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Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Outbound Network Access Using Custom DNS Servers

In December 2016 we added support for Outbound Network Access from Amazon RDS for Oracle instances. This change enabled your database to communicate with external servers and send emails using the utl_smtp package. Name resolution during outbound network access always used Amazon’s DNS service in your VPC. Today we are adding support for custom DNS servers.
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