This "what's new" presentation was delivered to the Seattle AWS User Group on August 31, 2011.
It covers new services, new locations, and new features.
3. New Services AWS ElastiCache – Caching as a service AWS Direct Connect – Dedicated network circuit AWS CloudFormation – Template-driven site building Amazon Simple Email Service – Email delivery
4. AWS ElastiCache Caching as a service Compatible with Memcached Scalable, pay-as-you-go Complete console support
5. AWS Direct Connect From your data center to ours 1 Gbit or 10 Gbit connection Connect to: AWS public endpoints Virtual Private Cloud US East now; other locations in the works Order online
6. AWS CloudFormation Create application stack from a reusable template Declarative specification Creates resources in dependency-driven order Complete console support Predefined templates
9. Amazon Simple Email Service Easy email sending: Transactional Bulk Minimal setup Maximal scalability Deliverability management Development sandbox Request production access
10. New Regions: Tokyo Region (March 2011) GovCloud (US) Region (August 2011) ITAR compliant Access limited to US Persons Limited to US Government, state and local government, supporting contractors Over 100 federal, state, and local agencies already use AWS Complete Region List: US East, US West, GovCloud (US) Singapore, Tokyo EU West Additional Regions are in the works
11. New Features – Virtual Private Cloud VPC now available in all Regions One VPC can now span AZ’s VPC Wizard Control of network topology and routing Network ACLs at subnet level Internet access via Internet Gateway Support for NAT (Network Address Translation)
15. New Features – S3, IAM, RDS S3: Static website hosting 449 Billion objects IAM: Console support Identity federation Policy generator Relational Database Service: Support for Oracle Database 11G Support for MySQL 5.5
16. New Features – EC2 Dedicated Instances in VPC SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Windows Server 2008 R2 Spot Market now priced per AZ VM Import (Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer) Oracle Applications on EC2