AWS Monthly Review - March 2016 - Free Exam Prep By IT Professionals | CertificationTest

AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during past month.

Announcements and News

Happy Birthday AWS, 10 years of Cloud Computing. (AWS Blog Post)
Referencing Security Groups in peered VPCs is possible even if the VPCs belong to different accounts. (Official Announcement)
Long EC2 instance and reservation IDs are default for new accounts in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and EU (Frankfurt). (Official Announcement)
t2.nano available in all public regions. (Official Announcement)
API Gateway and Lambda available in EU (Frankfurt). (Official Announcement)
EC2 Container Registry Available in US West (Oregon) and US East (N. Virginia). (Official Announcement)
New Metering Service for AWS Marketplace allows to charge software based on usage. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
New CloudWatch metrics providing insight into EC2 Spot fleets. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
ElastiCache allows on-the-fly engine upgrades for Redis. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
New CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances show the number of incoming and outgoing network packets (NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut). (Official Announcement)
Enhanced Monitoring for RDS instances with Postgres engine adds additional metrics collected by agents on the database instances. (Official Announcement)
Preview before updating a stack with new change sets for CloudFormation. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
Additional checks for Trusted Advisor: leaked EC2 access keys, EC2 reserved instance expiration, and more. (Official Announcement)
CloudWatch Events add SQS as possible target. An event is able to trigger Lambda, SNS, or SQS now. (Official Announcement)