AWS Services : New Services and and updates

Here are the number and an example of significant services and updates since 2008:
1. 2008 : 24 news services and features including Amazon EBS, Amazon CloudFront and EC2 Availability Zones
2. 2009 : 48 news services and features including Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC, Amazon EMR, and EC2 Auto Scaling.
3. 2010 : 61 new services and features including Amazon SNS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon IAM, and AWS Singapore Region.
4. 2011 : 82 new services and features including AWS San Paulo Region, AWS Oregon Region, AWS Tokoyo Region, and Amazon Oracle RDS.
5. 2012 : 159 new services and features including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Glacier, AWS Marketplace, and Amazon Storage Gateway.
6. 2013 : 245+ new services and features including AWS China Region, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Workspaces, and Amazon Kinesis.

Blocking traffic from specific countries

There is nothing 'out of  the box' from AWS.  You can do this with CloudFront’s private content feature, but still need to use a their-party geo-ip database like Maxmind.  There is a tutorial here last: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/guest-post-geo-blocking-content-with-amazon-cloudfront.html.

Cross region AWS Services

There are a few AWS services that are cross region:

• IAM
• Cloud Front
• Route 53