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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AWS Educate Adds Cloud Learning Pathways for Students

AWS Educate, a program that helps educators and students use real-world cloud technology in the classroom, now offers students cloud learning pathways. These learning tracks are made up of 30+ hours of curriculum across job families like Cloud Architect and Software Developer. The program also offers specialty AWS Educate Badges as add-ons to the pathways, for which students can achieve competency in specializations like IoT, start-up, and gaming.
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Record and govern S3 bucket configurations with AWS Config

You can now record configuration changes to your S3 buckets with AWS Config. The detailed bucket configuration recorded by AWS Config includes the bucket policy, Access Control List (ACL), lifecycle configuration, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration and more. Review our documentation to get a full list of bucket attributes recorded by AWS Config. AWS Config provides a complete history of configuration changes for your bucket. With AWS Config, you can dive deep into how your bucket was configured at any point in time. For example, you can use the configuration history provided by AWS Config to determine how your bucket’s policy or ACL changed over time. 
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Announcing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new US East (Ohio) Region. Ohio joins Northern Virginia, Oregon, Northern California, and AWS GovCloud as the fifth AWS Region in North America and as the fourteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 38 globally. 
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