Simon walks you through some great new things you can use on your projects today!

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Amazon Lightsail Announces 50% Price Drop and Two New Instance Sizes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-lightsail-announces-50-percent-price-drop-and-two-new-instance-sizes/
Introducing Amazon EC2 T3 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/introducing-amazon-ec2-t3-instances/
Amazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-ec2-m5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/
Amazon EC2 C5d Instances are Now Available in Tokyo and Sydney Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-ec2-c5d-instances-are-now-available-in-tokyo-and-sydney-regions/
AWS Batch Now Supports z1d, r5d, r5, m5d, c5d, p3, and x1e Instance Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-batch-now-supports-z1d-r5d-r5-m5d-c5d-p3-and-x1e-instance-types/
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for in-place version upgrades for Redis Cluster | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-elasticache-for-redis-adds-support-for-in-place-version-upgrades-for-redis-cluster/
Introducing AWS CloudFormation Macros | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/introducing-aws-cloudformation-macros/
AWS CloudFormation Now Supports AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-cloudformation-now-supports-aws-privatelink-/
New Amazon EKS-optimized AMI and CloudFormation Template for Worker Node Provisioning | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/new-amazon-eks-optimized-ami-and-cloudformation-template-for-worker-node-provisioning/
Amazon EKS Supports GPU-Enabled EC2 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-eks-supports-gpu-enabled-ec2-instances/
Introducing Amazon EKS Platform Version 2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/introducing-amazon-eks-platform-version-2/
Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ecs-service-discovery-now-available-in-frankfurt--tokyo--/
AWS Fargate Now Supports Time and Event-Based Task Scheduling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-fargate-now-supports-time-and-event-based-task-scheduling/
Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with improved performance when retrieving results | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-athena-streaming-jdbc-driver/
AWS Key Management Service Increases API Requests Per Second Limits | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-key-management-service-increases-api-requests-per-second-limits/
Use Amazon DynamoDB Local More Easily with the New Docker Image | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/use-amazon-dynamodb-local-more-easily-with-the-new-docker-image/
Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-available-in-additional-regions/
Performance Insights Supports Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/performance-insights-supports-amazon-relational-database-service-for-mysql/
AWS Glue now supports data encryption at rest | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-glue-now-supports-data-encryption-at-rest/
Deploy an AWS Cloud environment for VFX workstations with new Quick Start | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/deploy-an-aws-cloud-environment-for-vfx-workstations-with-new-quick-start/
New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: TensorFlow 1.10, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2, and More | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/new-in-dl-amis-tensorflow1-10-pytorch-with-cuda9-2/
Amazon Rekognition announces the ability to more easily manage face collections | https://aws.amazon.