A new co-host, a farewell from Simone and some great updates for customers. CloudFront support for HTTP 1.1 to the origin; Conditional writes for the Java DynamoDB Transaction Library; Obama for America on AWS.

Updates on Route 53 & CloudFormation and a special discussion about some IAM best practices for security.

New M3 instances & Price Cuts; SSD options for RedShift; Kinesis Storm Spout; EC2 Instance & Reserved Instance Usage Reports; SQS Dead Letter Queue; New SES Endpoints; New AWS Certifications.

Price reduction for the Hi1 EC2 instance; new I2 instance type is now available; AWS Direct Connect access to multiple AWS Regions in the US; geographic restriction with Amazon CloudFront.

New China region for AWS coming soon; Amazon Kinesis public beta now open; autoscaling API update; 5 new edge locations for Amazon CloudFront and Route53; a black belt tip.

This episode covers: the new Policy Simulator for AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management); search and browse metrics for Amazon CloudWatch; additional Elastic Load Balancer metrics; new G2 instance for Amazon EC2.

Simon and Simone are still catching up with a lot of new things, such as AWS Opsworks for Java; Amazon RDS for MS SQL has transparent data encryption; fine grained control for Amazon DynamoDB; developer preview of the AWS SDK for Javascript; and virtual tape libraries with AWS Storage Gateway.

Simon & Simone talk about new features for Amazon RedShift, CloudHSM, AWS Data Pipeline, and new EC2 instances (M3).

Last of the reinvent "live" updates!

Special re:Invent edition with the first day's announcements and a show floor walkthrough…