Amazon Forecast is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers of Amazon Forecast can continue to use the service as normal. [Learn more"](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/transition-your-amazon-forecast-usage-to-amazon-sagemaker-canvas/)

# Document History for Amazon Forecast
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The following table describes important changes to the *Amazon Forecast Developer Guide*. For notifications about documentation updates, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
+ **Latest documentation update:** March 03, 2021

| Change | Description | Date | 
| --- |--- |--- |
| [Amazon Forecast is no longer available to new customers.](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers of Amazon Forecast can continue to use the service as normal. [Learn more"](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/transition-your-amazon-forecast-usage-to-amazon-sagemaker-canvas/) | July 25, 2024 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | You can now specify a custom forecast frequency. For more information, see [Creating a Predictor](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/howitworks-predictor.html#creating-predictors). | August 29, 2022 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | You can now create a What-if Analysis to explore different scenarios. For more information, see [What-if analysis](what-if). | August 22, 2022 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | You can now have Amazon EventBridge or Amazon CloudWatch Events notify you with status updates for ongoing Amazon Forecast resource jobs. For more information see [Setting Up Notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/notifications.html). | March 15, 2021 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports manually stopping the following resources: dataset import jobs, predictors, predictor backtest export jobs, forecasts, and forecast export jobs. | March 3, 2021 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports a built-in featurization that automatically incorporates historical and projected weather information into a model. For more information, see [Amazon Forecast Weather Index](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/weather.html). | December 8, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports the ability to export backtest forecasts and accuracy metrics for predictors. For more information, see [Evaluating Predictor Accuracy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/metrics.html). | November 23, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports the ability to specify predictor quantiles. For more information, see [Evaluating Predictor Accuracy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/metrics.html). | November 11, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports the CNN-QR algorithm. For more information, see [CNN-QR](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/aws-forecast-algo-cnnqr.html). | August 10, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports tagging for the following resources: dataset groups, datasets, dataset import jobs, predictors, forecasts, and forecast export jobs. For more information, see [Tagging Amazon Forecast Resources](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/tagging-forecast-resources.html). | July 9, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast now supports missing value filling for related time series datasets. For more information, see [Handling Missing Values](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/howitworks-missing-values.html). | May 14, 2020 | 
| [New Regions](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast adds support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Forecast, see the [AWS Region Table](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/) or [AWS Regions and Endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/forecast.html) in the *AWS General Reference*. | March 17, 2020 | 
| [New Region](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast adds support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. For a complete list of the AWS Regions supported by Amazon Forecast, see the [AWS Region Table](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/) or [AWS Regions and Endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/forecast.html) in the *AWS General Reference*. | January 27, 2020 | 
| [New Feature](#doc-history) | Forecast now supports the ability to specify forecast quantiles. For more information, see [CreateForecast](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/forecast/latest/dg/API_CreateForecast.html) in the Forecast API Guide. | November 22, 2019 | 
| [Amazon Forecast general availability](#doc-history) | Amazon Forecast is now available for general use. | August 21, 2019 | 
| [Amazon Forecast preview release](#doc-history) | This is the first preview release of the documentation for Amazon Forecast. | November 28, 2018 |