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I just found out that ‘galvanise’, as in to get going quickly, came from good old Galvani making muscles twitch with electricity. The metal plating thing is related. You learn something every day.

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We are making a change to how we present CloudWatch charges in your AWS bill and Cost and Usage Reports, to make it easy for you to understand your monthly CloudWatch spend. These changes will be effective in all AWS Commercial regions beginning July 2017.

Amazon Athena is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

With the latest release customers can now use Amazon Athena in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).

To learn more, please visit the Amazon Athena page.

AWS Lambda is now available in the Canada (Central) Region.

Amazon API Gateway is now available in the Canada (Central) Region.