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We are excited to announce that you can now manage the listeners, SSL certificates, and SSL ciphers for your Elastic Load Balancers from within the AWS Console. This enhancement makes it even easier to get started with Elastic Load Balancing and simpler to maintain a highly available application using Elastic Load Balancing. While this functionality has been available via the API and command line tools, we heard from many customers that it was critical to be able to use the AWS Console to manage these settings on existing load balancers.

With this update, you can add a new listener with a front-end protocol/port and back-end protocol/port after your load balancer has been created. If the listener uses encryption (HTTPS or SSL listeners), then you can create or select the SSL certificate (if applicable), and SSL ciphers and protocols to accept. For an existing load balancer, you can now update the certificate directly from the console or alter the SSL protocols and ciphers presented to clients.

In addition to the AWS Console updates, we have also expanded IPv6 support for Elastic Load Balancing to include the US West (Northern California) and US West (Oregon) regions.

To learn more, visit the Elastic Load Balancing page or view the Elastic Load Balancing Developer Guide.

We are pleased to announce support for running Amazon RDS MySQL Read Replicas in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Read Replicas provide the capability to scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB Instance for read-heavy database workloads. Read replicas in Amazon VPC provide you read scalability inside Amazon VPC environments.

Amazon VPC allows you to define a virtual network topology and customize the network configuration to closely resemble a traditional network that you might operate in your own datacenter. You can now take advantage of the manageability, availability and scalability benefits of Amazon RDS DB Instances in your own isolated network.

To learn more about running Amazon RDS DB Instances in Amazon VPC, visit the Amazon RDS User Guide and Amazon RDS FAQs.

We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the EU (Ireland) region. Developers can now leverage the service in the US East (North Virginia) region, the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, and the EU (Ireland) region.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides an easy way for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application health monitoring.

Elastic Beanstalk currently supports Java applications running on the familiar Apache Tomcat stack, .NET applications running on IIS 7.5, and PHP applications running on the Apache HTTP Server stack. Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy and manage your applications using a set of tools, including the AWS Management Console, Git deployment and the command line interface, the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, and the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. With Elastic Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling.

There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk – you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications. To get started, visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now supports domain verification. Now, instead of needing to verify each email address you want to send from, you can simply verify your entire domain and send from any email address on it.

You can verify any domain in the Amazon SES tab of the AWS Management Console, or you can verify domains via the API. You can use whichever method works best for you. This feature is also integrated with Amazon Route 53 so that you can verify any domain you manage with Amazon Route 53 with a few clicks of your mouse.

To make Amazon SES even easier to use, we have also expanded the number of verified email addresses and domains that you can have in your account from 100 to 1,000.

We encourage you to try this new feature today, and let us know what you think by visiting the Amazon SES forum. For more information, please refer to the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

We’re very excited to announce that you can now use Amazon CloudFront to deliver dynamic content. This new capability gives you a simple, cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of your dynamic websites. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with dynamic applications running in Amazon EC2 or your origin running outside of AWS without any custom coding or proprietary configurations, making the service simple to deploy and manage. And, there are no additional costs beyond Amazon CloudFront’s existing low prices for data transfer and requests, and no long-term commitments for use.

Amazon CloudFront can now deliver all of your content, including the dynamic portions of your site that change for each end-user. First, you can configure multiple origin servers for your Amazon CloudFront distribution. This allows you the flexibility to keep your content in different origin locations without the need to create multiple distributions or manage multiple domain names on your website. Second, you can include query string parameters to help customize your web pages for each viewer. Third, you can configure multiple cache behaviors for your download distribution based on URL patterns on your website. These cache behaviors give you granular control over how you want Amazon CloudFront to cache different portions of your website. In addition, Amazon CloudFront has implemented several performance optimizations that accelerate the delivery of your dynamic website from the origin to your end users. These performance improvements include maintaining persistent connections with the origin and other network path optimizations to speed up the delivery of dynamic content.

You can get started at aws.amazon.com/cloudfront with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Learn more about Amazon CloudFront’s support for dynamic content on the AWS blog or by visiting the Amazon CloudFront page.