Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday April 4	We announced Two New Predefined Commands and an Open Source Agent for the EC2 Run Command. We announced Release 4.5.0 of Amazon EMR, with Spark 1.6.1, Updated Hadoop and Presto, and Support for S3 SSE-KMS. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Building a Dynamic DNS for Route 53 Using CloudWatch and and Lambda. The AWSome Blog talked about Amazon Kinesis Streams. BotMetric shared a Beautiful Representation of Your AWS Infrastructure. A three-part series from CloudCheckr talked about Making AWS Security Simple (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Evident talked about Implementing the Top Ten AWS Security Best Practices. Cloudnaut discussed Event Driven Security Automation on AWS.
Tuesday April 5	We announced the Amazon-ECS Optimized Amazon Linux AMI. We announced Data Shuffling for Amazon Machine Learning. We announced that Amazon API Gateway Can Now Import Swagger Definitions. We announced Metric Based Health Checks, DNS Failover for Private Hosted Zones, and Configurable Health Check Locations for Route 53. My colleagues blogged about Building Bridges for Better Cancer Treatment with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The AWS Compute Blog discussed Indexing Amazon DynamoDB Content with Amazon Elasticsearch Service Using AWS Lambda. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog shared an updated on the AWS SDK for .NET Version 2 Status. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog announced that AWS Has Signed a CJIS Memorandum with the State of Minnesota. The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Automatically Delete Terminated Instances in Chef Server with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Events. Spotinst talked about Elastigroup & CloudFormation. Cloud Technology Partners shared 5 Tips for Landing a Well-Paid Cloud Job. DZone Cloud Zone discussed the AWS ZSH Helper. Yarden Eitan wrote a Guide to Moving a Flask Backend from Heroku to AWS.
Wednesday April 6	We announced that Amazon CloudWatch Logs Are Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region. We announced that AWS Config Rules Is Now Available in 4 New Regions: US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). We announced that Amazon Redshift is Now Available in the China (Beijing) Region. A guest post from LiveOps Cloud talked about Tapping the Billion Dollar Call-Center Market on AWS. The AWS Compute Blog announced some Amazon API Gateway Mapping Improvements. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Powering Smart Cities Through Connected Devices. Stelligent discussed Security in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. CloudCheckr talked about Optimizing Amazon DynamoDB with CloudCheckr. Cloud Academy continued to talked about Automating a Standalone SharePoint Farm with CFN-INIT. Trek10 unveiled AWSume – AWS Assume Made Awesome. Dius wrote about Building an Auto-Scaling R Cluster Using CfnCluster. TeamCity launched an AWS CodeDeploy Running Plugin.
Thursday April 7	We launched an AWS Training Update – Revised AWS Technical Essentials and Architecting on AWS Courses. We announced Two New Deployment Policies and an Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 Update for Elastic Beanstalk. We announced that AWS IoT is Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Encrypt Your Amazon Redshift Loads with Amazon S3 and AWS KMS. The AWS Compute Blog announced that the Node.js 4.3.2 Runtime is Now Available on AWS Lambda. The AWS Security Blog announced Simplified Configuration of Trust Relationships in the AWS Directory Service Console. The AWS Security Blog answered some Frequently Asked Questions Compliance in the AWS Cloud. BotMetric talked about the Evolution of Agile in Enterprises Through the AWS Cloud. N2W Software showed you how to Create Consistent Backups Using the XFS File System and EBS Snapshots. 2nd Watch wondered Why Buy Amazon Web Services Through a Partner? Cloud Academy started a series that will explore the Components of Amazon Serverless Architecture with Amazon API Gateway. Cloudonaut launched New CloudFormation templates for NAT Gateway, Static Websites, and Security. They also launched New Online Training: Automatic AWS With CloudFormation. Flux7 talked about Updates to AWS CloudFormation: Change Sets Help to Get to the Root Cause of Stack Update Failures.
Friday April 8	We Announced that CloudWatch Events Now Supports Lambda Function Versions and Aliases. We announced that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports PostgreSQL 9.5 With Version 9.5.2, as Well as Minor Versions 9.4.7 and 9.3.1. Mark Litwintschik launched a 50-Node Presto Cluster on Amazon EMR. Sam Bashton wrote about ELK on ARK (processing 1 TB of logs on AWS per day). Batchly showed you how to Run Your EMR Workloads with 80% Savings. Michael de Silva shared a Sneak Peek of a Ruby Gem to Provision Amazon Web Services.