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May 12, 2023

Minor update

Updated whitepaper to expanded the available content on services.

September 28, 2022

Minor update

Fix non-inclusive language.

April 6, 2022

Whitepaper updated

Added information about AWS Application Migration Service, and updated information for Amazon ECS

December 6, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Updated information in Amazon Healthlake and Amazon VPC sections

November 9, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Added information about AWS Network Firewall

September 9, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Updated information about Amazon Connect Customer Profiles

August 26, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Added sections Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue DataBrew

July 22, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Updated navigation and organization.

April 26, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Added the following sections: AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Aurora, Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Textract, Amazon Polly, Amazon FSx, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Backup, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Organizations, AWS Security Hub, AWS Serverless Application Repository, VM Import/Export, Amazon HealthLake, Amazon EventBridge. Updated Amazon Aurora section.

March 31, 2021

Whitepaper updated

Added section on AWS App Mesh, and updated AWS System Manager content

August 25, 2020

Whitepaper updated

Added sections Amazon Appstream 2.0, AWS SDK Metrics, AWS Data Exchange, Amazon MSK, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Lex, Amazon SES, and Amazon Forecast, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), AWS Cloud Map.

May 7, 2020

Whitepaper updated

Added sections on Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), AWS Mobile Hub, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, AWS Transfer for SFTP, AWS DataSync, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and AWS RoboMaker.

January 1, 2020

Whitepaper updated

Added sections on Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and AWS Certificate Manager.

January 1, 2019

Whitepaper updated

Added sections on Amazon Athena, Amazon EKS, AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management, Amazon FreeRTOS, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Neptune, AWS Server Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon MQ, and AWS Glue.

November 1, 2018

Whitepaper updated

Added sections on Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Simple Workflow, AWS Secrets Manage, Service Catalog, and AWS Step Functions.

June 1, 2018

Whitepaper updated

Added sections on AWS CloudFormation, AWS X-Ray, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS Config, and AWS OpsWorks Stack.

April 1, 2018

Whitepaper updated

Added section on AWS Fargate.

January 1, 2018

Updates made prior to 2018:

Date Description
November 2017 Added sections on Amazon EC2 Container Registry, Amazon Macie, Amazon QuickSight, and AWS Managed Services.
November 2017 Added sections on Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Amazon CloudWatch.
October 2017 Added sections on Amazon SNS, Amazon RouteĀ 53, AWS Storage Gateway, and AWS CloudHSM. Updated section on AWS Key Management Service.
September 2017 Added sections on Amazon Connect, Amazon Kinesis Streams, Amazon RDS (Maria) DB, Amazon RDS SQL Server, AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, AWS Snowball Edge, and the Lambda@Edge feature of Amazon CloudFront.
August 2017 Added sections on Amazon EC2 Systems Manager and Amazon Inspector.
July 2017 Added sections on Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkDocs, AWS Directory Service, and Amazon ECS.
June 2017 Added sections on Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.
May 2017 Removed requirement for Dedicated Instances or Dedicated Hosts for processing PHI in EC2 and EMR.
March 2017 Updated list of services to point to AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program page. Added description for Amazon API Gateway.
January 2017 Updated to newest template.
October 2016 First publication