Amazon EMR now supports events and notifications with Amazon CloudWatch Events

You can now respond to Amazon EMR cluster state changes with Amazon CloudWatch Events. The new Amazon EMR event types in Amazon CloudWatch Events provide information including state and related severity for Amazon EMR clusters, instance groups, steps, and Auto Scaling policies. Using simple rules that you can quickly set up, you can match events and route them to Amazon SNS topics, AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SQS queues, streams in Amazon Kinesis Streams, or built-in targets. Additionally, you can view events for a cluster on the Cluster Details page in the Amazon EMR console.
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On-premises access to Amazon EFS via AWS Direct Connect Available in US East (N. Virginia) Region

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now allows you to access your file data in the US East (N. Virginia) region from on-premises datacenters. This new capability was announced for all other Amazon EFS regions at AWS re:Invent 2016. On-Premises access is now available in all Amazon EFS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). 
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Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached version 1.4.33

We are pleased to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached version 1.4.33. You can now launch new clusters with Memcached 1.4.33, as well as upgrade existing ones to the new version. Compared to version 1.4.24 (previous version supported by ElastiCache for Memcached), this version adds support for new commands and parameters, better management of large items (512 MB or higher), improved memory management (memory reclaim, dynamically increase memory available to Memcached), enhanced item log management, and miscellaneous bug fixes. 
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Amazon ECS Supports Windows Server Containers

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now provides beta support for Windows Server Containers. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 supports Docker, enabling Windows users to package applications into images that can be run on any Windows 2016 server. You can now use Amazon ECS to deploy and scale your Windows Containers across your Amazon EC2 Windows instances. 
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Amazon WorkMail interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server now supports a unified global address book

Amazon WorkMail interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server now allows you to use a unified global address book. A unified global address book allows all your users to access the same user information, groups, and resources, regardless of which email platform they are part of. With this capability, you can now seamlessly use both Amazon WorkMail and Microsoft Exchange Server in your organization, making it easy to start migrating your email to AWS. 
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Simulate mobile connections and conditions with AWS Device Farm

You can now simulate real-world network connections and conditions while testing your Android, iOS, and web apps with AWS Device Farm. Simply specify a network profile when scheduling an automated test run. A number of curated profiles are provided such as "Average 3G" and "Lossy WiFi," or you can create your own. The selected network profile’s parameters, which include throughput, delay, jitter, and loss, will be applied to each of your selected device’s WiFi connections for the duration of the run.
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