AWS Week in Review – April 11, 2016

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

Monday April 11	We announced that the AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Advanced Table and Schema Mapping. We announced that you can Easily Create New Amazon Redshift Datasources in Amazon ML by Copying Existing Datasource Settings. We updated the Amazon Kinesis Agent with New Datapreprocessing Features. We updated the ECS CLI, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript. We announced that AWS Premium Support Now Includes Operations Reviews, Recommendations, and Reporting. Botmetric talked about Eliminating Single Points of Failures on AWS Cloud. DZone Cloud Zone talked about Sending Amazon CloudWatch Logs to Loggly with AWS Lambda. Gorillastack announced New Features for AWS Cost Management. You can now Monitor AWS GovCloud (US) with Datadog. Trivento shared their AWS Lambda Insights. Matt Weagle discussed Sparta: A Go Framework for AWS Lambda.
Tuesday April 12	I wrote about Box Zones – Giving Enterprises Control Over Data Location Using AWS. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog explained how High Performance Cloud Computing Supports Disease Prevention. The AWS Enterprise Blog listed some Common Responsibilities for Your Cloud Center of Excellence. Stelligent showed you how to Find Security Problems Early in the Development Process of a CloudFormation Template with cfn-nag. Botmetric explained how Effectively Planning AWS Reserved Instances Optimizes Cloud Costs by 5x. Cloudyn explained How to Stay up to Date with Public Cloud Pricing. Cloud Academy explained Why You Should Study AWS DevOps. Cloudability provided some directions for Getting to the Bottom of Unexpected Cloud Cost Spikes. Gathering Clouds talked about Continuous Compliance and the Art of AWS Cloud Security Automation. CloudyCluster helps you to build Self Service HPC Clusters.
Wednesday April 13	The AWS Compute Blog talked about Building Enterprise-Level Web Applications on AWS Lambda with the DEEP Framework. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced the Hackster.io Alexa Skills Contest. 8KMiles showed how to use PowerShell to Automate AWS Security Groups. Evident talked about Automating Critical AWS Security Operations. Cloud Academy introduced Cloud Academy Learning Paths for AWS.
Thursday April 14	The AWS Partner Network Blog described AWS CodeDeploy Deployments with Hashicorp Consul. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Enable Windows Integrated Authentication for RDS for SQL Server Using On-Premises Active Directory. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Exploring Geospatial Intelligence using SparkR on Amazon EMR. Stelligent described Using Stubs for the AWS SDK for Ruby. Fugue talked about Regions Beyond Regions: Global Cloud Infrastructure Expansions. N2WS talked about Consistent Backup in Large EC2 Windows Environments. Mark Litwintschik analyzed A Billion Taxi Rides: AWS S3 Versus HDFS. Evident peeked Inside the CIS Cloud Security Benchmark for AWS. Cloud Academy published an Introducing to Amazon CloudFront and Content Delivery Systems. Cloudonaut showed you how to Manage AWS EC2 SSH Access with IAM. Gorillastack shared 7 Weird Tips to Reduce Your AWS Bill. ParkMyCloud shared a Rant Against Unnecessary AWS Scripting.
Friday April 15	The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Use Your Own Certificate with AWS IoT. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog reviewed The Evolution of High Performance Computing. Botmetric saw that AWS Cloud Unveiled its New Weapon to Win Cloud Wars. Trivento explored AWS Lambda and the API Gateway.
Saturday April 16	Botmetric explained why DevOps in AWS Cloud is a Match Made in Heaven.
Sunday April 17	Spotinst showed you how to Put your Elastic Load Balancer and Auto Scaling on Cruise Control with Elastigroup. Cloudability shared Two Solutions for Tagging Elusive EBS Volumes.

New & Notable Open Source

• cfn-include implements a Fn::Include for CloudFormation templates.


• TumblessTemplates is a set of CloudFormation templates for quick setup of the Tumbless blogging platform.


• s3git is Git for cloud storage.


• s3_uploader is an S3 file uploader GUI written in Python.


• SSH2EC2 lets you connect to EC2 instances via tags and metadata.


• lambada is AWS Lambda for silly people.


• aws-iam-proxy is a proxy that signs requests with IAM credentials.


• hyperion is a Scala library and a set of abstractions for AWS Data Pipeline.


• dynq is a DynamoDB query library.


• cloud-custodian is a policy rules engine for AWS management.

New SlideShare Presentations

• AWS Summit (Chicago):
  
  
  
  • Announcements for Mobile Developers.
  
  
  • AWS Data Transfer Services.
  
  
  • Containers and the Evolution of Computing.
  
  
  • Getting Started with AWS IoT.
  
  
  • Automating Security Operations on AWS.
  
  
  • Getting Started with Amazon Enterprise Applications.
  
  
  • Getting Started with Amazon EC2 and AWS Compute Services.
  
  
  • Big Data Architectural Patterns and Best Practices on AWS.
  
  
  • Security & Cloud Adoption for the Enterprise. Not If. When.
  
  
  • Building and Realizing the Economic Case for the AWS Cloud.
  
  
  • Building Your First Big Data Application on AWS.
  
  
  • Building Your Practice on AWS.
  
  
  • Getting Started with AWS Database Migration Service.
  
  
  • Getting Started with Amazon Machine Learning.
  
  
  • Women in Technology: Supporting Diversity in a Technical Workplace.
  
  
  • DevOps on AWS: Deep Dive on Continuous Delivery and the AWS Developer Tools.
  
  
  • Deep Dive on Microservices and Amazon ECS.
  
  
  • Creating Your Virtual Data Center.
  
  
  • AWS Application Discovery Service.
  
  
  • Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
  
  
  • Amazon EBS Deep Dive.
  
  
  • Deep Dive and Best Practices for Real-Time Streaming Applications.
  
  
  • Deploying a Disaster Recovery Site on AWS.
  
  
  • Deep Dive on Amazon S3.
  
  
  • Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora.
  
  
  • Another Day, Another Billion Packets.
  
  
  • Getting Started with Amazon QuickSight.
  
  


• Deep Dive: Amazon DynamoDB.


• AWS for Startups.


• Deep Dive: EC2 Container Service.


• Amazon EC2 Masterclass.


• AWS in Financial Services.


• AWS Value Proposition.


• Modern BI in the Cloud with Tableau Server on Amazon EC2.


• Securing Gene Sequencing Data on AWS with Alert Logic.


• Agile BI in the Cloud.

New Customer Success Stories

• Airbnb.


• amaysim.


• AsiaInfo.


• Avira.


• Canon.


• e-Travel.


• Fugro Roames.


• Hello Inc.


• KKBOX.


• Rednun.


• Sage Human Capital.


• Thrive Market.


• V Air.

New YouTube Videos

• Introducing Amazon Inspector.


• Amazon Kinesis Firehose – Load Data into Amazon Elasticsearch Domains.


• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.


• AWS Snowball – 80 TB Snowball Device.


• AWS Cloud Data Migration Services.


• AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Managed Platform Updates.


• Maximizing Your Organization's Potential with AWS.


• Are Your Cloud Workloads Secure?


• How to Set Up Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies.


• Introducing New Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies.


• 2016 AWS Public Sector Summit.

Upcoming Events

• AWS Partner Webinars – April.


• April 29 – Live Event (Singapore) – AWS Partner Summit.


• AWS Zombie Microservices Roadshow.

Help Wanted

• AWS Careers.

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

- Jeff;