AWS What's new? - AWS UGS 13.10.2016

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1. AWS – What‘s new Source: https://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2016/
2. Availability of Snowball in EU (Frankfurt)
3. Update to Developer Support plan A new pricing model for Developer Support plan has been launched, reducing the entry cost from $49 per month to $29 per month.
4. Changing VPC of RDS instances You can now easily change the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) used by your Amazon RDS DB instance. You can specify a new VPC for an existing DB instance deployed in Single-AZ configuration by using the Amazon RDS Management Console, the Amazon RDS API, or the AWS Command Line Tools.
5. CloudFormation support Amazon Certificate Manager ECS AutoScaling KMS Aliases EC2 Spot instances
6. CloudFormation - YAML Templates You can now create YAML-formatted templates to describe your AWS resources and properties in AWS CloudFormation. Now, you have the option to use either YAML-formatted templates or JSON-formatted templates to model and describe your AWS infrastructure. YAML-formatted CloudFormation templates follow the same anatomy as existing JSON- formatted templates and support all the same features.
7. JSON vs. YAML
8. CloudFormation - Cross Stack References You can now also create cross stack references that let you share outputs from one stack with another stack. This lets you share things such as IAM roles, VPC information, and security groups. You can simply export values from one stack and import them to another stack using the new ImportValue intrinsic function.
9. CloudFormation – Fn::Sub CloudFormation has introduced a new intrinsic function, Fn::Sub. This function substitutes variables in an input string with values that you specify. Old: {“Fn::Join“:[““,[“Prefix“,{“Ref“:“Variable“},“Suffix“]]} New: {“Fn::Sub“: “Prefix${Variable}Suffix“} Yaml: !Sub Prefix${Variable}Suffix
10. CloudFormation – Permission Control 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 IAM role which can be assigned permissions that determine which AWS resources CloudFormation can create, update, or delete. 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.
11. Application Load Balancer Launch of a new Application Load Balancer for the Elastic Load Balancing service designed to improve flexibility and performance applications. This new load balancer, which also supports the WebSocket protocol and HTTP/2, operates at the application layer and provides content-based routing support. The Application Load Balancer supports dynamic port bindings to route traffic to ECS Tasks regardless of the actual port they were started on.
12. Amazon API Gateway Usage Plans Amazon API Gateway now supports API usage plans. You can now easily define plans for third-party developers by associating them with individual API keys. This allows you to configure which APIs the caller can access as well as define throttling and request quota limits. You can also extract utilization data on a per API key basis to analyze API usage and generate billing documents.
13. Introducing Amazon Kinesis Analytics General availability of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a fully managed service for continuously querying streaming data using standard SQL. With Kinesis Analytics, you can write standard SQL queries on streaming data and gain actionable insights in real-time, without having to learn any new programming skills.
14. IPv6 support for several services oS3 and S3 Transfer Acceleration oCloudFront oWeb Application Firewall
15. Amazon EC2 Container Registry Expansion to US West (N. California) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) EU (Frankfurt)
16. Hourly pricing for Amazon WorkSpaces
17. CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
18. API Gateway features to simplify API configuration Amazon API Gateway now supports three new features that make it easy to integrate APIs with AWS Lambda and HTTP endpoints. Support for catch-all path variables. You can define routes such as /store/{proxy+} Support for a new method type called ANY. You can use the catch-all ANY method to define the same integration endpoint for all requests (GET, POST, etc). Use a new proxy integration type for Lambda functions and HTTP endpoints. Lambda function proxy integrations apply a default mapping template to send the entire request to your functions, and it automatically maps Lambda output to HTTP responses. HTTP proxy integrations simply pass the entire request and response directly through to your HTTP endpoint.
19. Introducing new instance sizes Announcment of the availability of the m4.16xlarge, the largest instance size in the latest generation of EC2 General Purpose instances, featuring 64 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory. 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.
20. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances You can now choose to reserve instances without capacity reservation so the discount applies to instances in all AZs. Introducing a new RI type called Convertible RIs. Convertible RIs provide customers with additional RI flexibility for still a very significant discount (~45% on average). With Convertible RIs, customers now have the option at any time to change the instance family, OS, or tenancy associated with their RI.