Earlier this year, Amazon DynamoDB released Time-to-Live (TTL), which automatically deletes expired items from your tables, at no additional cost. TTL eliminates the complexity and cost of scanning tables and deleting items that you don’t want to retain, saving you money on provisioned throughput and storage.

Starting today AWS Mobile Hub has added new features making it easier for JavaScript developers to build cloud-enabled mobile web or hybrid apps for both testing and production environments.

AWS Lambda is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region.

Amazon Inspector is now available in the US West (Northern California) region.

Amazon API Gateway has raised the default limit on requests made to your API to 10,000 requests per second (RPS) from 1,000 RPS. The burst limit has been raised to 5,000 requests across all APIs in your account from the original limit of 2,000 requests. API Gateway throttles requests to your API to prevent it from being overwhelmed by too many requests. To raise the default limit, contact AWS Support .

Amazon API Gateway is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region.

You can now create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Spot fleet directly from the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) console. Amazon EC2 Spot instances allow you to bid on spare Amazon EC2 compute capacity, allowing operating cost reductions of 50-90% compared to EC2 On-Demand instances.

CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

You can now customize the default responses returned by Amazon API Gateway for API requests that are not successfully forwarded to your integration backend. You can modify each part of the response generated by API Gateway, such as HTTP status code, header, or response body.

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