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AWS Service Catalog is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need. 
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Use Hosted Git Repositories from AWS CodeCommit with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

You can now create and manage Git repositories hosted by AWS CodeCommit with the Elastic Beanstalk CLI (EB CLI) for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments. You can use the CodeCommit repository to store your project code and then deploy it to your Elastic Beanstalk environment. This provides you a convenient and secure place to store and version your Elastic Beanstalk applications.
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Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Adds Sharding Support with Redis Cluster

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. Redis Cluster allows customers to run Redis workloads with up to 3.5TiB of in-memory capacity, supporting up to 20M reads per second and up to 4.5M writes per second. It also delivers up to 4x faster failover times, and includes Amazon’s enhancements to the Redis engine running on ElastiCache for improved stability and robustness, while maintaining compatibility with open-source Redis. Amazon’s fully managed Redis service is bolstered with updated AWS CloudFormation support, an easier-to-use console experience, and Redis Cluster level backup and restore.
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AWS GovCloud (US) now supports Amazon EBS encrypted boot volumes and AMI copy

Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances with encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) boot volumes in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature simplifies security compliance processes by now providing encryption for both EBS data and boot volumes using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). It can also help simplify your auditing processes because you now have the ability to ensure all data on EBS is encrypted at rest and in transit. This feature is supported with all EBS volume types.
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Introducing new Amazon EC2 X1 instance size, x1.16xlarge, and expansion of X1 instances to new regions

x1.16xlarge instances: You can now launch x1.16xlarge, the newest size of EC2 Memory Optimized instances, featuring 64 vCPUs, 976 GiB of memory, and 1 x 1,920 GB SSD storage. X1 instances are optimized for running in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. X1 instances are certified by SAP to run production environments of the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA (SoH), Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), and Data Mart Solutions on HANA on the AWS cloud. The x1.16xlarge offers half the memory of the x1.32xlarge for workloads that don’t require a full 2TB of memory.
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Announcing the Hadoop Distributed File System Support for AWS Import/Export Snowball

We are pleased to announce the launch of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) support for the AWS Import/Export Snowball client. The new HDFS support accelerates the movement of big data workloads. The Snowball client allows end users to import data directly from on premises HDFS clusters to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Big data workloads may now skip intermediary staging and go straight from HDFS to Snowball.
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