This Quick Start deploys Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) VPX on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes. This Quick Start is for users who want to build and test a proof of concept or to create a production-ready solution with a highly available deployment of Citrix ADC VPX as a front end for their web applications. 

You now can benefit from the 99.999% DynamoDB availability SLA more easily by adding global tables replicas to your existing, single-region tables with a few clicks in the DynamoDB console. Previously, you could only create new DynamoDB global tables. For existing tables, you can now easily create a hot standby for disaster recovery, or you can extend your existing tables to additional AWS Regions to support latency-sensitive applications, without taking any downtime on your table. In addition, you benefit from efficiency improvements that can reduce replicated writes consumed by up to 50 percent.

Today, AWS X-Ray is launching trace maps, which enables you to visually map the end to end path of a single request.  

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you include instance weights in Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that are configured to provision and scale across multiple instance types. Instance weights define the capacity units that each instance type would contribute to your application’s performance, providing greater flexibility for instance type selection that can be included in your ASG. 

Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC) is a new feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA). S3 RTC helps customers meet compliance or business requirements for data replication, and provides visibility into the replication process with new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you safely and securely recycle instances in an Auto Scaling group (ASG) at a regular cadence. The Maximum Instance Lifetime parameter helps you ensure that instances are recycled before reaching the specified lifetime, giving you an automated way to adhere to your security, compliance, and performance requirements. You can either create a new ASG or update an existing one to include the Maximum Instance Lifetime value of your choice between seven and 365 days.

We are pleased to announce Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption at rest through AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and node-to-node encryption, enabling organizations to host sensitive workloads with stringent security and compliance requirements. 

You can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems that span AWS Availability Zones (AZs), making it easy to deploy Windows file storage in AWS with high availability and redundancy across multiple AZs. Multi-AZ file systems are designed to provide continuous availability to data, even in the event that an AZ is unavailable—supporting business-critical workloads such as business applications, web serving environments, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports Data Deduplication, reducing storage costs by 50-60% for general file shares.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, now supports user storage quotas, enabling storage administrators to monitor and control user-level storage consumption on their file systems.