CloudFormation has updated support for Amazon ElastiCache resources. Source: Amazon Web Services News AWS CloudFormation Resource Coverage Updates to Amazon ElastiCache

We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Redis Cluster with Redis 3.2.4. Redis Cluster allows customers to run Redis workloads with up to 3.5TiB of in-memory capacity, supporting up to 20M reads per second and up to 4.5M writes per second. It also delivers up to 4x faster failover times, and includes Read more about Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Adds Sharding Support with Redis Cluster[…]

Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now provides additional metadata for ECR resources in the AWS Management Console and in the Describe* APIs. Source: Amazon Web Services News Amazon EC2 Container Registry Adds Additional Resource Metadata

This new Quick Start helps you deploy Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition on the AWS Cloud.   Source: Amazon Web Services News Oracle Database on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment

Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances with encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) boot volumes in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature simplifies security compliance processes by now providing encryption for both EBS data and boot volumes using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). It can also help simplify your auditing processes because you Read more about AWS GovCloud (US) now supports Amazon EBS encrypted boot volumes and AMI copy[…]

x1.16xlarge instances: 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. X1 instances are optimized for running in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. Read more about Introducing new Amazon EC2 X1 instance size, x1.16xlarge, and expansion of X1 instances to new regions[…]