Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday January 11	We announced ClassicLink DNS Support. We announced that Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports t2.nano Instances and Deployment From the EC2 Container Registry. We updated the AWS SDK for Unity. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Landsat on AWS: Half a Year, Half a Billion Requests. The AWS Mobile Development Blog announced that the AWS SDK for Unity is Now Part of AWS SDK for .NET. Botmetric listed 6 Effective Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud. Cloud Academy explained how to Publish a SharePoint Farm Using CloudFormation. ParkMyCloud announced their Start/Stop/Snooze Instance feature.
Tuesday January 12	We updated the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for Go, the AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Scaling on AWS to More Than One Million Users. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about the 1776 Incubator, Where Revolutions Begin. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Optimize Your Android App UI for Fire Tablets. Cloud Zone reviewed the SaaS Architecture for Time Series Guru. Gathering Clouds showed you How to Track Your AWS Costs with Tagging.
Wednesday January 13	We announced that an AWS Region in Canada is in the Works. We announced that Longer EC2 Resource IDs are Now Available. We announced a CloudFront Update – HTTPS & TLS v1.1 / v1.2 to the Origin, Add & Modify Headers. We announced Scheduled Reserved Instances. We published Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda. We announced Docker 1.9 Support for the EC2 Container Service. We published a Quick Start for the NIST 800-53 Standardized Architecture on the AWS Cloud. The AWS Security Blog announced that the IAM Console Now Helps Prevent You From Accidentally Deleting In-Use Resources. Evident talked about Securing Your Public Cloud Infrastructure on AWS. 2nd Watch shared some Things to Consider for the New AWS NAT Gateway. Cloud Academy reviewed the AWS Test Drive: Framework for Serious Development. Serverless Code talked about Building an Infinitely Scalable Recording Campaign for David Guetta.
Thursday January 14	We launched CloudWatch Events to Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources. We announced Automated Sign-Up for AWS GovCloud (US). We announced that the AWS Schema Conversion Tool Now Supports PostgreSQL as a Conversion Target. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. We updated the AWS Health and Cloud Computing page. The AWS Partner Network Blog shared Partner Success Stories from Logicworks and Looker. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Querying Amazon Kinesis Streams Directly with SQL and Spark Streaming. Netflix shared some Benchmarks of Dynomite with Redis on AWS. 2nd Watch talked about VPC Peering via CloudFormation. Cloud Technology Partners published a Developer’s Guide to Cloud Application Security. Cloudability talked about Understanding the new Scheduled Reserved Instances from AWS. NVIDIA asked Can a Computer Write a Hit Musical [on AWS]? The BBC Internet Blog talked about Building Alerts on iPlayer A/V Consumption.
Friday January 15	We announced the AWS Global Summits for 2016. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Quickly Explore the Chef Environment in AWS OpsWorks. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog showed how Resilience Data Analytics Tool and the Cloud Help Humans Survive and Thrive. Stelligent talked about Automatic AWS CodeDeploy Provisioning in CloudFormation. Cloud Technology Partners shared 2 Tips to Avoid Sticker Shock in the Cloud.
Saturday January 16	Serverless Code showed you how to Get Alerts for Expiring SSL Certificates. Rowan Udell wrote about Scheduling Lambda Function with CloudWatch Events Using the AWS CLI.
Sunday January 17	Serverless Code showed you how to Get Alerts for Expiring SSL Certificates and how to Schedule Events with the CloudWatch Event Console. HackPundit showed you how to Host Your Application in the Cloud on Amazon EC2. Programmer’s Trouble talked about Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M domain names, and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWS.

New & Notable Open Source

Sparta helps you to build & deploy Go functions in AWS Lambda.
Apex is a new serverless architecture for AWS Lambda.
AWSResco is a standalone SPA (Single Page Application) to get instance and reservation cost info for running infrastructure.
Bragg is a web framework for Lambda.
Kinesis-common is a common Java package for interacting with Kinesis.
aws-cloud-examples is a collection of files (CloudFormation templates) for testing and developing on AWS.
mock-aws-s3 is a simple interface that mocks the AWS SDK for Node.js.
Vominator is a CLI tool for managing AWS resources at scale.
get-aws-pricing queries AWS pricing information using the Price List API.
s3-utilities is a tool for undeleting files, folders, and entire buckets from S3 versioned buckets.