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Document history for Amazon Pinpoint

The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Pinpoint Developer Guide after December 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

  • Latest documentation update: November 16, 2023

ChangeDescriptionDate

Amazon Pinpoint has updated their user guide documentation

SMS and Voice resource management topics are now redirected to the Amazon Pinpoint SMS User Guide. For more information, see Amazon Pinpoint SMS User Guide.

February 8, 2024

Amazon Pinpoint quotas

Added quotas for Maximum number of closed days rules, Maximum length of closed day rule name, Maximum number of days between start and end time for a closed days rule and Maximum number of open hours rules. For more information, see Amazon Pinpoint quotas.

December 19, 2023

Amazon Pinpoint has updated their user guide documentation

To get the latest information regarding how to create, configure, and manage your Amazon Pinpoint SMS and voice resources, see the new Amazon Pinpoint SMS user guide.

November 16, 2023

Amazon Pinpoint quotas

Updated the quotas for UpdateEndpointsBatch, UpdateEndpoint, PutEvents, DeleteEndpoint, and GetEndpoint. For more information, see Amazon Pinpoint quotas.

September 22, 2023

Amazon Pinpoint quotas

Updated the quotas for CreateEmailTemplate, CreateSmsTemplate, CreatePushTemplate, CreateInAppTemplate, CreateVoiceTemplate, UpdateEmailTemplate, UpdateSmsTemplate, UpdatePushTemplate, UpdateInAppTemplate, UpdateVoiceTemplate and CreateImportJob. For more information, see Amazon Pinpoint quotas.

September 12, 2023

Journey and campaign execution metrics

New analytic metrics have been added for journeys and campaigns. For more information, see Journey and campaign execution metrics.

April 25, 2023

Creating an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon Pinpoint

Amazon Pinpoint now supports interface VPC endpoints. For more information, see Creating an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon Pinpoint.

April 11, 2023

Encryption in transit

Starting 2023–03–22 Amazon Pinpoint will no longer support TLS 1.0 but you can still use TLS 1.2 or later. For more information, see Encryption in transit.

March 20, 2023

Amazon Pinpoint quotas

Updated the process for requesting a quota increase for campaigns, journey's and In-app messages. For more information, see Amazon Pinpoint quotas.

December 16, 2022

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in this Region: US East (Ohio) Region.

October 5, 2022

IAM role example updates

Updated several IAM role examples throughout the document to better align with security best practices.

May 27, 2022

SMS and Voice API, version 2

Amazon Pinpoint now includes a dedicated API for sending SMS and Voice messages. This API includes new features, such as configuration sets, pools, and opt-out lists, which are helpful for customers who send SMS and voice messages transactionally. For more information, see Using the Amazon Pinpoint SMS and Voice API.

April 1, 2022

One-time password creation and validation

Amazon Pinpoint now includes a feature that generates one-time passwords (OTPs) and sends them to your users as SMS messages. It also includes an API for validating the OTP codes when your users input them into your application or site. For more information, see Sending and validating One-Time Passwords (OTPs).

November 26, 2021

In-app messages

Added information about integrating the in-app messaging capability of Amazon Pinpoint with your apps.

November 10, 2021

Code examples

Added a library of code examples for common Amazon Pinpoint operations.

November 3, 2021

Project quotas

The maximum number of Amazon Pinpoint projects remains at 100, but this quota can now be increased by opening a Service Limit Increase request with AWS Support.

October 11, 2021

Lambda policy updates.

Certain Lambda permission policies must now include an AWS:SourceAccount condition. Updated the sample policies in the Creating custom channels in Amazon Pinpoint and Customizing segments with AWS Lambda topics to meet this requirement.

October 7, 2021

UpdateEndpoint

The Amazon Pinpoint UpdateEndpoint API is now logged by CloudTrail.

November 16, 2020

Custom attributes

Amazon Pinpoint now supports 250 attributes in email messaging templates. See Quotas.

September 18, 2020

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in these Regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, Europe (London) Region, and Canada (Central) Region. Note that the Amazon Pinpoint SMS and Voice API is not available in these Regions.

September 10, 2020

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Note that the Amazon Pinpoint SMS and Voice API does not support Voice in this Region.

September 2, 2020

Campaign events

Added information about a new campaign event delivery_type parameter to Campaign events.

August 2, 2020

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Note that the Amazon Pinpoint API does not support Voice or SMS in this Region.

July 31, 2020

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

April 30, 2020

Custom channels

Updated information about creating custom channels by using Lambda functions or webhooks.

April 23, 2020

Machine learning

Added information about retrieving personalized recommendations from recommender models, and optionally enhancing those recommendations by using AWS Lambda functions.

March 4, 2020

Security

Added a Security chapter, which provides information about various security controls and features of Amazon Pinpoint.

February 4, 2020

Journeys

Added information about using Amazon Pinpoint journeys to develop automated workflows that perform messaging activities for projects. Also added information about querying analytics data for a subset of metrics that apply to journeys.

October 31, 2019

Analytics

Added procedures that explain how to query analytics data for campaigns and transactional messages, and added information about using query results.

October 17, 2019

Analytics

Added information about querying analytics data for a subset of metrics that apply to transactional email and SMS messages.

September 6, 2019

Code examples

Added code examples that you can use to send transactional push notifications using all of the services that Amazon Pinpoint supports.

July 30, 2019

Analytics

Added information about querying analytics data for a subset of metrics that apply to projects (applications) and campaigns.

July 24, 2019

Segments

Added a tutorial that describes a solution for importing customer data into Amazon Pinpoint from external systems, such as Salesforce or Marketo.

May 14, 2019

Regional availability

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions.

April 25, 2019

Using postman with Amazon Pinpoint

Added a tutorial that describes how to use Postman to interact with the Amazon Pinpoint API.

April 8, 2019

Tagging

Added information about tagging Amazon Pinpoint resources.

February 27, 2019

SMS registration

Added a Tutorials chapter, and added a tutorial that describes how to create a solution that handles SMS user registration.

February 27, 2019

Code examples

Added code examples in several programming languages that show you how to send email, SMS, and voice messages programmatically.

February 6, 2019

Earlier updates

The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Pinpoint Developer Guide through December 2018.

Change Description Date
Regional availability Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the AWS US West (Oregon) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. December 21, 2018
Voice channel

You can use the new Amazon Pinpoint voice channel to create voice messages and deliver them to your customers over the phone. Currently, you can only send voice messages by using the Amazon Pinpoint SMS and Voice API.

November 15, 2018
Europe (Ireland) Availability Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region. October 25, 2018
Events API Use the Amazon Pinpoint API to record events and associate them with endpoints. August 7, 2018
Code examples for defining and looking up endpoints Code examples are added that show you how to define, update, delete, and look up endpoints. Examples are provided for the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Java, and the Amazon Pinpoint API. For more information, see Defining your audience to Amazon Pinpoint and Accessing audience data in Amazon Pinpoint. August 7, 2018
Endpoint export permissions Configure an IAM policy that allows you to export Amazon Pinpoint endpoints to an Amazon S3 bucket. May 1, 2018
Phone number verification for SMS Use the Amazon Pinpoint API to verify a phone number to determine whether it is a valid destination for SMS messages. April 23, 2018
Updated topics for Amazon Pinpoint integration Integrate Amazon Pinpoint with your Android, iOS, or JavaScript application by using AWS SDKs or libraries. March 23, 2018
AWS CloudTrail logging Added information about logging Amazon Pinpoint API calls with CloudTrail. February 6, 2018
Updated service quotas Updated Amazon Pinpoint quotas with additional information about email quotas. January 19, 2018
Public beta for Amazon Pinpoint extensions Use AWS Lambda functions to customize segments or create custom messaging channels. November 28, 2017
Push notification payload quotas The quotas include payload sizes for mobile push messages. October 25, 2017
Updated service quotas Added SMS and email channel information to Amazon Pinpoint quotas. October 9, 2017
ADM and Baidu mobile push Update your app code to handle push notifications from the Baidu and ADM mobile push channels. September 27, 2017
User IDs and authentication events with Amazon Cognito user pools. If you use Amazon Cognito user pools to manage user sign-in in your mobile apps, Amazon Cognito assigns user IDs to endpoints, and it reports authentication events to Amazon Pinpoint. September 26, 2017
User IDs Assign user IDs to endpoints to monitor app usage from individual users. Examples are provided for the AWS Mobile SDKs and SDK for Java. August 31, 2017
Authentication events Report authentication events to learn how frequently users authenticate with your app. Examples are provided in Reporting events in your application. August 31, 2017
Updated sample events The example events include events that Amazon Pinpoint streams for email and SMS activity. June 08, 2017
Android session management Manage sessions in Android apps by using a class provided by the AWS Mobile Hub sample app. April 20, 2017
Updated monetization event samples The sample code is updated for reporting monetization events. . March 31, 2017
Event streams You can configure Amazon Pinpoint to send your app and campaign events to an Kinesis stream. March 24, 2017
Permissions See How Amazon Pinpoint works with IAM for information about granting access to Amazon Pinpoint for AWS users in your account and users of your mobile app. January 12, 2017
Amazon Pinpoint general availability This release introduces Amazon Pinpoint. December 1, 2016