Amazon Web Services has launched many enhancements, price reductions, updates, features to existing products in July 2013 out of which the major was "New edge locations for AWS in India (Mumbai and Chennai)". You can get a brief description of these in attached document.
1. JULY IN AWS
Jul 08, 2013
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Announces Visual Watermarking and
Other Enhancements
Amazon Elastic Transcoder has recently been armored with three new
enhancements:
Visual Marketing: Overlay upto 4 images on your video which can be used
for watermarking your videos.
Maximum Video Bit rate parameter: Control instantaneous bit rate in
videos for playback specification.
Maximum Frame Parameter: Specify maximum frame rate for videos to
limit it in devices where it may exceed.
Announcing Resource-Level Permissions for Amazon EC2 and
Amazon RDS
These new features will give you more granular visibility and control over
your development, test, staging and production deployments on EC2 and
RDS.
You can now construct fine-grained AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) policies for EC2 and RDS to control which users are authorized to
perform what actions on a given set of resources.
Jul 09, 2013
Price Reductions on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances
There is a huge price reduction of up to 80% on Amazon EC2 Dedicated
Instances.
Here are the details:
Dedicated Per Region Fee - An 80% price reduction from $10 per hour to
$2 per hour in any Region where at least one Dedicated Instance of any
type is running.
Dedicated On-Demand Instances - A reduction of up to 37% in hourly
costs. For example the price of an m1.xlarge Dedicated Instance in the US
East (Northern Virginia) Region will drop from $0.840 per hour to $0.528
per hour.
2. Dedicated Reserved Instances - A reduction of up to 57% on the
Reserved Instance upfront fee and the hourly instance usage fee. Dedicated
Reserved Instances also provide additional savings of up to 65% compared
to Dedicated On-Demand instances.
To learn more about Dedicated Instances and to see a complete list of prices,
please visit theAmazon EC2 Dedicated Instances page.
Jul 12, 2013
Amazon Elastic MapReduce introduces MapR M7 support
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is now available with MapR7. For customers
looking to deploy HBase, M7 offers seamless splits, no compactions, instant
recovery from failure, point-in-time recovery, full HA, mirroring, and
consistent low latency.
Learn More >>
Jul 17, 2013
Introducing an Updated Elastic Beanstalk Management Console
AWS is now ready with updated management console for AWS Elastic
Beanstalk. The updated management console simplifies creating and
configuring Elastic Beanstalk environments. In addition, you can now
configure your environment to run inside an Amazon VPC, an isolated virtual
network where your AWS resources run.
Try the new Elastic Beanstalk management console.
Jul 24, 2013
AWS OpsWorks supports Chef 11 and custom Amazon Machine
Images
These new features make it easy to manage applications when you are
working on OpsWorks.
Chef 11: With this update, you can use Chef 11 features in your recipes and
a broader set of community cookbooks. New stacks will now support Chef 11
by default.
Custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs): You can now use custom
Amazon Machine Images (AMI) with AWS OpsWorks. Custom AMIs let you
save the state of an Amazon EC2 instance including any software packages
that you require in your desired configuration.
Learn More
3. Introducing Version 2 of the AWS SDK for .NET (Developer Preview)
The Version 2 SDK adds support for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps,
helping Windows developers use the AWS cloud from these new platforms.
The SDK also adopts the .NET task-based asynchronous pattern; which
simplifies making asynchronous calls with the new
sync and awaits keywords.
To explore the new SDK, visit the SDK page.
Jul 28, 2013
Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 Add India Edge Locations in
Chennai and Mumbai
These new edge locations help lower latency and improve performance for
your end users. These two sites bring the total number of AWS edge locations
to 42 worldwide.
The locations in India support all CloudFront and Route 53 capabilities,
including delivery of your entire website (including dynamic content), live and
on-demand streaming media, and security features like custom SSL
certificates.
To learn more about CloudFront and the pricing for India edge locations,
please visit the Amazon CloudFront detail page.
Jul 29, 2013
Announcing AWS Self-Paced Labs
AWS hands-on training labs are designed to help you test products, acquire
new skills, and gain practical experience working with AWS technologies.
Available anywhere, anytime, you have freedom to take self-paced labs on-
demand and learn at your own pace.
To learn more about the AWS Self-Paced Labs,
visit http://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs.
Jul 30, 2013
Elastic Load Balancing adds support for Proxy Protocol
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) now supports Proxy Protocol version 1. This
feature allows you to identify the client’s connection information when using
TCP load balancing, providing additional insight into visitors to your
applications.
To learn more, visit our AWS blog or the Elastic Load Balancing Development
Guide.
4. Jul 31, 2013
Amazon Redshift - New features and built-in functions
Amazon RedShift is now upgraded with new features. It is simplified loading
with support for scientific notation, automatic detection of date and time
formats and seconds or milliseconds since epoch. We’ve improved
compression with byte dictionary encoding of VARCHAR columns, query
flexibility with functions for SHA1, MD5, time zone conversions, and workload
management with support for setting maximum query execution times for
queues.
To learn more about Amazon Redshift and its new features visit the Amazon
Redshift product detail page and documentation.
Aug 01, 2013
Amazon Simple Workflow launches AWS Flow Framework for Ruby
Amazon has announced the availability of the AWS Flow Framework for Ruby,
an ease of use library that makes it faster and easier to build applications
with Amazon Simple Workflow (Amazon SWF). Developers can use Amazon
Simple Workflow to coordinate, audit, and scale work on one or more
machines – in the AWS cloud or other data centers.
To learn more about the service, visit the the Amazon SWF page.
Aug 02, 2013
Amazon Elastic MapReduce now supports Hive 0.11.0 and Pig 0.11.1
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) now supports Hive 0.11.0 and Pig 0.11.1.
These new versions of Hive and Pig provide performance improvements and
offer multiple new features including new operators and data types as well as
bug fixes.
To learn more about these updates, or for more information on Hive or Pig,
please see the Hiveor Pig sections of the Amazon EMR documentation.