Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday January 4	We announced that Amazon WorkMail is Now Generally Available. The AWS Enterprise Blog talked about Creating a Culture of Experimentation Enabled by the Cloud. CloudCheckr shared some Cloud Predictions for 2016. Cloud Academy explored Six Cloud Computing Myths. Cloud Zone talked about Provisioning AWS CodePipeline with CloudFormation.
Tuesday January 5	We announced an EC2 Price Reduction for C4, M4, and R3 Instances. We announced an AWS Cost Explorer Update, with Access to EC2 Usage Data. We updated the AWS CLI and the AWS SDK for JavaScript. The AWS Partner Network Blog explained How to Prepare Your Business and Technical Teams on AWS. The AWS Startup Collection shared Questions to Ask and What You Should Hear When Hiring a Cloud Engineer. Cloud Academy showed you how to Create an IAM Policy.
Wednesday January 6	We announced that the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is Now Open. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Android, and the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared New Tools for Using Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data on AWS. The AWS Security Blog encouraged you to Adhere to IAM Best Practices in 2016. Cloud Academy talked about Migrating Data to AWS Using the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. Codeship showed you how to Maintain Infrastructure with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation.
Thursday January 7	We announced Queue Hopping for Amazon Redshift. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Running an External Zeppelin Instance Using S3 Backed Notebooks with Spark on Amazon EMR. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about how Cloud is the New Normal. Bronze Drum Consulting Solutions talked about Extending C++ Quant Libraries to AWS. CloudHealth talked about Breaking Down Blended Costs for AWS EC2 Reserved Instances. Serverless Code showed you how to Integrate Convox and PaperTrail with Lambda. Cloud Zone shared a Basic Intro to Amazon ECS, Route 53, DynamoDB, and Kinesis Firehose.
Friday January 8	We updated the Alexa Skills Kit so that you can Build a Trivia Skill in Under an Hour. Botmetric listed 5 Simple Tactics to Optimize AWS Cloud Costs in 2016. DC Solution Factory shared a Web Application Hosting pattern. Steligent talked about Provisioning Custom CodePipeline Actions in CloudFormation. Gathering Clouds discussed AWS Lambda, Echo, and the Future of Cloud Automation.

New & Notable Open Source

Squiss is a high-volume Amazon SQS poller for Node.js.
Blocker is a simple AWS EBS volume plugin for Docker.
Lambda-test is a generic repository for testing GitHub webhooks with AWS Lambda.
Awful is a Ruby gem that provides simple AWS command line tasks and YAML persistence.
Splunk-sqs is an SQS collector for Splunk.
Lambda-deploy is a proof of concept for deploying Lambda with CloudFormation + Grunt + AWS + Lambda.
Amazonica is a comprehensive Clojure client for the entire AWS API.
Lambda6 is a simple and opinionated handler architecture for AWS Lambda using ES6.
Go-lambda allows you to call Go GRPC services from AWS Lambda functions.
Thingpin is a Raspberry Pi AWS IoT publisher for IoT enabled sensors.

New Customer Success Stories

Fin Design + Effect – Visual effects and design.
Healthdirect Australia – Deliver services across the entire country while controlling costs.
Hiree – Expediting the hiring process and helping job-seekers to get offers.
SEAOIL – Move Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise resource planning system into AWS.
Syntel – Reduce provisioning time for hardware and increase scalability.
THRON – Platform to simplify digital content management and distribution.

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