A round up of all the features & improvements released since our last update, we'll walk through the timeline to bring you up to speed on the continuous innovation at AWS.

1. Amazon Web Services Update | London
November 2012

2. Overview of new releases
Ryan Shuttleworth, Evangelist

3. >>> New features released
July
Sept Nov
7 9 6
Aug Oct
9 13

4. Let’s take a look at
them…

5. July 2012

6. Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS
Provisioned IOPS are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, high
performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on
consistent and fast response times
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Now customers who want Reserved Instances with RHEL no longer need to perform
additional steps to rebuild On-Demand RHEL AMIs before they can use them on Reserved
Instances
Announcing High I/O Instances for Amazon EC2
A new instance type that provides very high, low latency, disk I/O performance using SSD-
based local instance storage

7. Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS
>>> Provisioned IOPS are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, high
performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on
consistent and fast response times
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Now customers who want Reserved Instances with RHEL no longer need to perform
additional steps to rebuild On-Demand RHEL AMIs before they can use them on Reserved
Instances
Announcing High I/O Instances for Amazon EC2
>>> A new instance type that provides very high, low latency, disk I/O performance using SSD-
based local instance storage

8. Standard volumes Provisioned IOPS volumes
Moderate or bursty I/O Predictable, high performance I/O
requirements
You specify an IOPS rate
100 IOPS on average
Up to 2000 IOPS per volume
Burst to hundreds of IOPS
Stripe multiple volumes together to deliver
Well suited for use as boot volumes thousands of IOPS

9. Provisioned IOPS volumes
Up to Predictable, high performance I/O
EC2 1000Mbps You specify an IOPS rate
EBS-Optimized
Instance Up to 2000 IOPS per volume
Stripe multiple volumes together to deliver
thousands of IOPS

10. CloudWatch Metrics for EC2 Status Checks
These new CloudWatch metrics let you view graphs, analyze history and set alarms on
your EC2 instance’s status check results
Easily DKIM-Sign Your Emails with Amazon SES
With Easy DKIM, Amazon SES takes care of DKIM-signing your email for you, and all you
have to do is add some CNAME records to your DNS and enable signing
Announcing MFA-protected API access
You can now enforce MFA authentication for AWS service APIs via AWS Identity and
Access Management (IAM) policies.
Multiple IP Addresses for Amazon EC2 Instances in Amazon VPC
With this feature you can host multiple websites, including SSL websites and certificates,
on a single instance where each site has its own IP address

11. August 2012

12. Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support
You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in
Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports
You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types
Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps
customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier
Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon
RDS
Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP
Server and the WSGI interface

13. Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support
You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in
Amazon S3
>>> AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports
You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types
Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps
customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier
Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon
RDS
Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP
Server and the WSGI interface

14. Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com

15. Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
consolidated billing information
Division B
admin@divisionB.com
IAM User2
Dev2
Admin2

16. Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
consolidated billing information Tags: (key-
value)
Division B e.g Own=Div
Proj=R
admin@divisionB.com
IAM User2
Dev2
Admin2
Tags: Tags: Tags:
Own=Div Own=Div Own=Div
Proj=P Proj=Q Proj=R

17. Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A Division B Business Unit C
admin@opcoa.com admin@divisionB.com admin@busUnitC.com
User1 User2 User3
IAM
IAM
IAM
Dev1 Dev2 Dev3
Admin1 Admin2 Admin3
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Proj=A Proj=B Proj=C Proj=P Proj=Q Proj=R Proj=X Proj=Y Proj=Z

18. Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A Division B Business Unit C
admin@opcoa.com admin@divisionB.com admin@busUnitC.com
User1 User2 User3
IAM
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Dev1 Dev2 Dev3
Admin1 Admin2 Admin3
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Proj=A Proj=B Proj=C Proj=P Proj=Q Proj=R Proj=X Proj=Y Proj=Z

19. Programmatic billing access
Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
S3 CSV
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A Division B Business Unit C
admin@opcoa.com admin@divisionB.com admin@busUnitC.com
User1 User2 User3
IAM
IAM
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Dev1 Dev2 Dev3
Admin1 Admin2 Admin3
Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags:
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Proj=A Proj=B Proj=C Proj=P Proj=Q Proj=R Proj=X Proj=Y Proj=Z

20. Programmatic billing access
Master Account
aws.invoices@mycompany.com
S3 CSV
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A Division B Business Unit C
admin@opcoa.com admin@divisionB.com admin@busUnitC.com
User1 User2 User3
IAM
IAM
IAM
Dev1 Dev2 Dev3
Admin1 Admin2 Admin3
Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags: Tags:
Own=OpCo Own=OpCo Own=OpCo Own=Div Own=Div Own=Div Own=BusC Own=BusC Own=BusC
Proj=A Proj=B Proj=C Proj=P Proj=Q Proj=R Proj=X Proj=Y Proj=Z

21. Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support
You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in
Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports
You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types
Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps
customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier
Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon
RDS
Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP
Server and the WSGI interface

22. Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support
You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in
Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports
You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types
Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps
customers lower costs
>>> Announcing Amazon Glacier
Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon
>>> RDS
Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP
Server and the WSGI interface

23. Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Amazon VPC and Oracle APEX, XML DB, and
Time Zones
Four features are available to you at no additional charge for all supported RDS for Oracle licensing models
in all Regions
Amazon DynamoDB Announces In-Console Item Updating
You can now also update or make copies of existing items in your tables from the AWS Management
Console
Announcing management console and two new locations for AWS Direct Connect
Manage your AWS Direct Connect service through the AWS Management Console and access two new
locations
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Lower Minimum Provisioned Table Throughput
The smallest provisioned throughput you can now request for a DynamoDB table is 1 write capacity unit
and 1 read capacity unit

24. Sept 2012

25. Amazon CloudFront Private Content Now Supported in the AWS Management
Console
You can now configure your distribution to deliver private content without having to use the
Amazon CloudFront API
Amazon RDS Oracle on t1.micro, starting at just $30 a month
The micro RDS instance is designed for test applications and low traffic applications that use Oracle
databases
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 for Amazon RDS is available for multiple editions of SQL Server including Express,
Web, Standard, and Enterprise
New High-Performance Provisioned IOPS Storage for Amazon RDS
enables you to provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) with 1TB of
storage for your new database instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Data Pump
Oracle Data Pump provides fast data movement between Oracle databases, much faster than the
original Export and Import utilities

26. Amazon CloudFront Private Content Now Supported in the AWS Management
Console
You can now configure your distribution to deliver private content without having to use the
Amazon CloudFront API
Amazon RDS Oracle on t1.micro, starting at just $30 a month
The micro RDS instance is designed for test applications and low traffic applications that use Oracle
databases
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 for Amazon RDS is available for multiple editions of SQL Server including Express,
Web, Standard, and Enterprise
New High-Performance Provisioned IOPS Storage for Amazon RDS
>>> enables you to provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) with 1TB of
storage for your new database instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Data Pump
Oracle Data Pump provides fast data movement between Oracle databases, much faster than the
original Export and Import utilities

27. Announcing RDS SQL Server, IPsec VPN, and Route Propagation Support
for Amazon VPC
Enabling RDS SQL Server for use with your VPC configurations
Amazon CloudFront Announces New Edge Location in Madrid, Spain
This is our first edge location in Spain and this new location will speed up the delivery of static,
streaming and dynamic content to end users in and around Spain
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
an online marketplace that provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses
Amazon CloudFront Announces Support for Cookies and Price Classes
Use cookies to drive dynamic content and caching strategies and restricted edge locations
based upon cost

28. Announcing RDS SQL Server, IPsec VPN, and Route Propagation Support
for Amazon VPC
Enabling RDS SQL Server for use with your VPC configurations
Amazon CloudFront Announces New Edge Location in Madrid, Spain
This is our first edge location in Spain and this new location will speed up the delivery of static,
streaming and dynamic content to end users in and around Spain
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
>>> an online marketplace that provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses
Amazon CloudFront Announces Support for Cookies and Price Classes
Use cookies to drive dynamic content and caching strategies and restricted edge locations
based upon cost

29. Oct 2012

30. AWS Storage Gateway Announces Gateway-Cached Volumes
Gateway-Cached volumes enable you to store primary data in Amazon S3 via the standard Internet
Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
Billing Alerts Now Available for Consolidated Billing Linked Accounts
Billing alerts now support the individual accounts that are linked to a consolidated bill in your
organization
Amazon VPC now Supports Micro Instances
availability of Micro (t1.micro) instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
SAP HANA One Now Available on AWS Marketplace
SAP’s in-memory database and platform, is certified to run on AWS and is available today for
immediate purchase via AWS Marketplace

31. AWS CloudFormation Supports RDS DB Parameter Groups and Provisioned IOPS
CloudFormation now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB parameter groups
and provisioned IOPS for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes and Amazon RDS DB
Instances
Announcing Amazon EC2 Spot Bid Statuses
You can now see detailed information on why your Spot bid states have (or have not) changed, why your
Spot instances were terminated or interrupted, and how to optimize your Spot bids to get them fulfilled
Amazon RDS for MySQL Now Supports Read Replica Promotion
This option stops replication and converts the Read Replica in its existing state into a “standalone” DB
Instance
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SSL
You can now use SSL to encrypt SQL Server connections between your applications and your RDS SQL
Server instances

32. AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users
WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control
for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites
A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator
Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages
to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files
Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web
servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS
With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost

33. AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users
WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control
for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites
A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator
Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages
to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files
>>> Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web
servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS
With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost

34. AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users
WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control
for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites
A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator
Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages
to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files
Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web
servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
>>> AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS
With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost

35. Nov 2012

36. Amazon CloudSearch Adds Features for Tuning Result Ranking
Amazon CloudSearch users can now use field weighting and query time rank expressions to fine-tune their
search results
Amazon CloudSearch Announces Free Trial Program and a Price Reduction
For a limited time, AWS is offering a free trial program for Amazon CloudSearch that enables new users to
set up fully-functional search domains that they can use for up to 30 days at no charge
Announcing New Improvements to Amazon DynamoDB
BatchGetItem API will now support strongly consistent reads. Can now update the provisioned capacity of
up to 10 tables simultaneously.
Removed the limit on the minimum percentage change when updating your DynamoDB table's provisioned
capacity

37. Amazon CloudSearch Adds Features for Tuning Result Ranking
>>> Amazon CloudSearch users can now use field weighting and query time rank expressions to fine-tune their
search results
Amazon CloudSearch Announces Free Trial Program and a Price Reduction
>>> For a limited time, AWS is offering a free trial program for Amazon CloudSearch that enables new users to
set up fully-functional search domains that they can use for up to 30 days at no charge
Announcing New Improvements to Amazon DynamoDB
BatchGetItem API will now support strongly consistent reads. Can now update the provisioned capacity of
up to 10 tables simultaneously.
Removed the limit on the minimum percentage change when updating your DynamoDB table's provisioned
capacity

38. Introducing the AWS SDK for PHP 2
The AWS SDK for PHP 2 has been completely re-written to embrace modern PHP coding patterns and
better integrate with popular PHP community frameworks (Guzzle, Symphony2)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC
Elastic Beanstalk supports Ruby applications and frameworks that run on the Passenger application server
and supports VPC Integration
Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume
Doubling the previously available performance delivered from a single volume

39. Introducing the AWS SDK for PHP 2
The AWS SDK for PHP 2 has been completely re-written to embrace modern PHP coding patterns and
better integrate with popular PHP community frameworks
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC
>>> Elastic Beanstalk supports Ruby applications and frameworks that run on the Passenger application server
and supports VPC Integration
>>> Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume
Doubling the previously available performance delivered from a single volume

40. >>> New features released
July
Sept Nov
7 9 6
Aug Oct
9 13

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