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Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a new version of the Internet Protocol that uses a larger address space than its predecessor IPv4. With IPv6 support, you will be able to meet the requirements for IPv6 adoption set by governments, remove the need for IPv6 to IPv4 translation software or systems, and benefit from IPv6 extensibility, simplicity in network management, and additional built-in support for security
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Amazon Cognito introduces administrator creation of users in Your User Pools

With this launch, administrators and developers can create users in an Amazon Cognito user pool. A user pool is a fully managed user directory that makes it easy to add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web apps. Use the new AdminCreateUser API to set up accounts for new users and send them a customized invitation with their user name and a temporary password. You can also use this feature to control membership in a user pool by only allowing administrators to create users or also allowing users to sign themselves up.
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Introducing a Node.js Library for Porting Express Applications to Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda

You can now use aws-serverless-express, an open source Node.js library, to simplify the migration of your Express web applications and REST APIs to a serverless architecture. The library is built using features from Amazon API Gateway that allow you to preserve your API routes in your existing web application frameworks without having to redefine API methods or their integration behavior on API Gateway.
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AWS CloudFormation Adds Improved Permissions Controls, Cross-Stack Reference Enhancements, and Resource Coverage Updates

You can now allow AWS CloudFormation to assume service roles which determine what CloudFormation is allowed to do with your stack. A service role is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role which can be assigned permissions that determine which AWS resources CloudFormation can create, update, or delete. For example, you could create a service role that only allows CloudFormation to perform actions with Amazon EC2. Previously, CloudFormation would use the default permissions from the user credentials you used to access CloudFormation. Using service roles with CloudFormation, you can now more easily set granular permissions to CloudFormation for different AWS accounts or IAM users. To get started, you can set a service role when creating, updating, or deleting a stack. You will also need permission to pass the role to CloudFormation. Learn more about this feature in the documentation.
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Amazon CloudWatch Releases CloudWatch collectd Plugin

Amazon CloudWatch announces the availability of an open source collectd output plugin to simplify sending custom metrics to CloudWatch. collectd is a popular, open-source daemon that gathers system statistics for a wide variety of applications. The CloudWatch collectd plugin can be used on both AWS and non-AWS environments to gather host and application metrics such as memory and disk usage for a variety of applications such as Apache, NXGINX, MySQL, etc. The metrics gathered by collectd will be published as custom metrics to CloudWatch. These collectd metrics can then be used to set up alarms for triggering notification and auto-scaling actions or saved to dashboards for quick viewing in CloudWatch. 
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Introducing Amazon VPC NAT Gateway in the South America (São Paulo) Region

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the South America (São Paulo) region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet.
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8 new Config Rules to govern the configuration of critical AWS resources

AWS Config launched 8 new managed rules that automatically evaluate the configuration of important AWS resources:

IAM Password Policy: Checks whether the password policy for IAM Users meets the specified criteria. This rule codifies best practices, and you can further strengthen the policy.
RDS encryption: Checks whether storage encryption is enabled for your RDS DB Instances. Optionally, you can specify the KMS Key ID that should be used.
RDS Multi-AZ: Checks whether high availability is enabled for your RDS DB Instances.
RDS Backup: Checks whether RDS DB Instances have backups enabled. You can also check for expected backup windows and retention policies.
EBS Optimized EC2 Instances: Checks whether EBS optimization is enabled for EC2 Instance types that can be EBS optimized. This rule ensures best I/O performance for EBS volumes attached to these instances.
EC2 Instance Type: Checks whether EC2 Instances are of the specified set of types. For example, all EC2 Instances must be of type t2.small or m4.large.
Approved AMIs by ID: Checks whether running EC2 Instances are using the approved set of AMI IDs.
Approved AMIs by Tag: Checks whether running EC2 Instances are using the set of AMIs specified by Tag key/value on these AMIs.

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool Copies Schemas and Optimizes for the Cloud

We are pleased to announce that you can now use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to copy your existing database schema from a legacy database to a new database on EC2 or RDS for homogeneous replications. The conversion engine has also been enhanced to offer even more automated conversions should you wish to switch from a commercial database to a cloud-native, open-source solution.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder Available In The Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert source media files into formats that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. It manages all aspects of the media transcoding process for you transparently and automatically. There’s no need to administer software, scale hardware, tune performance, or otherwise manage transcoding infrastructure. You simply create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats, which means that you don’t need to guess about which settings work best on particular devices. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console. 
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