Oracle Amazon Linux updates

The Amazon Linux AMI repositories are available in S3, configured such that instances with EC2 IP addresses can access the repositories and download packages onto the Amazon Linux AMI instances.  Once a package has been downloaded from the Amazon Linux AMI repository to an instance, any further actions taken with that package are up to the customer who launched the instance.

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.