Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

This is the third community-driven edition of the AWS Week in Review. Special thanks are due to the 15 internal and external contributors who helped to make this happen. If you would like to contribute, please take a look at the AWS Week in Review on GitHub.

Monday September 5	John McKim wrote about GraphQL with the Serverless Framework on AWS.
Tuesday September 6	We announced that you can now Use AWS Config to View API Events Associated with Configuration Changes. We announced that the AWS SDK for C++ is Now Ready for Production Use. We announced that IAM Service Last Accessed Data is Now Available for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. The AWS Security Blog wrote about Automated Reasoning and Amazon s2n 2nd Watch wrote a post about Benchmarking Amazon Aurora. We launched a new Quick Start Reference Deployment: NGINX Plus on the AWS Cloud. Aerobatic wrote a post about their new static site CI/CD pipeline built on Docker and ECS. cloudonaut.io wrote a post about a common pitfall when creating an ACM Certificate with CloudFormation. The Cloud Academy Blog wrote a post about What You Need to Know about the AWS C++ SDK. The AWS Podcast released a new episode about the Amazon Elasticache Service. Łukasz Dorosz wrote about AWS Lambda as the website monitoring tool. The Nines Observer invited AWS Insiders to Share a Tip & Win Great Prizes.
Wednesday September 7	We launched HTTP/2 Support for CloudFront. A guest post talked about Streaming Real-time Data into an S3 Data Lake at MeetMe. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog shared a new video: Using Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) in Alexa Skills. The AWS Partner Network Blog shared a new AWS Security Competency Partner Solution: Sophos Outbound Gateway. Kabir Chandhoke wrote about Serverless Backends. Alexei Ledenev wrote about Chaos injection with network emulation – Resiliency testing of microservices. Neil Gehani wrote about In-cluster Continuous Testing Framework. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about AWS Certifications and the two corresponding Learning Paths: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate (with closed captioning in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese). CloudHealth Technologies published a blog about how to manage EBS snapshots.
Thursday September 8	We launched a New Reader Endpoint for Aurora. We announced that you can now View Information About Committed Code Changes in AWS CodePipeline. We announced Simplified Backend Feature Integration for AWS Mobile Hub. We announced that Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports the Oracle Label Security (OLS) Option. The AWS Compute Blog described A Data Sharing Playform Based on AWS Lambda The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog showed you how to Configure AWS SDK with .NET Core. The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about Using Webpack with the Amazon Cognito Identity SDK for JavaScript. The folks at the Cloudablity Blog highlighted some key AWS re:Invent 2016 events and sessions not to miss in a recent article. Softchoice wrote a blog for CloudHealth Tech about what partners should deliver.
Friday September 9	We announced that you can now Monitor and React to Deployment Changes in AWS CodeDeploy with Amazon CloudWatch Events. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog talked about a 14 Year Girl who Created a CloudStatus Alexa Skill that Benefits AWS Developers. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Integrate IoT Events into Your Analytic Platform. Flux7 listed Three AWS Service Catalog Use Cases: Migration, Replication & Experimentation. SungardAS CTOLabs wrote a blog about Launching products in AWS Marketplace Seven Essential Things You Need to Know to Publish on the AWS Marketplace.
Saturday September 10	Botmetric shared 6 AWS Cloud Security Best Practices for Dummies.
Sunday September 11	autozane.com shared Terraform version control best practices with an example done using the new Terraform s3_bucket_policy resource. J. Scott Johnson wrote a tutorial on the topic of Understanding Elastic IPs.

New & Notable Open Source

s3logs-cloudwatch is a Lambda function parsing S3 server access log files and putting extra bucket metrics in CloudWatch.

README.md is a curated list of AWS resources used to prepare for AWS certifications.

RedEye is a utility to monitor Redshift performance.

Dockerfile will build a Docker image, push it to the EC2 Container Registry, and deploy it to Elastic Beanstalk.

lambda-contact-form supports contact form posts from static websites hosted on S3/CloudFront.

dust is an SSH cluster shell for EC2.

aws-ssh-scp-connector is a utility to help connect to EC2 instances.

lambda-comments is a blog commenting system built with Lambda.

New SlideShare Presentations

Reducing Latency and Increasing Performance while Cutting Infrastructure Costs.

Real-time Data Processing Using AWS Lambda.

Getting Started with Serverless Architectures.

Introduction to AWS IoT.

How Serverless Computing Enables Microservices and Micropayment.

New YouTube Videos

AWS re:Invent 2016 Sneak Peek

New Customer Stories

MYOB uses AWS to scale its infrastructure to support demand for new services and saves up to 30 percent by shutting down unused capacity and using Reserved Amazon EC2 Instances. MYOB provides business management software to about 1.2 million organizations in Australia and New Zealand. MYOB uses a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Machine Learning to build smart applications incorporating predictive analytics and AWS CloudFormation scripts to create new AWS environments in the event of a disaster.

PATI Games needed IT solutions that would guarantee the stability and scalability of their game services for global market penetration, and AWS provided them with the most safe and cost-efficient solution. PATI Games is a Korean company primarily engaged in the development of games based on SNS platforms. AWS services including Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS (Aurora), and Amazon CloudFront enable PATI Games to maintain high reliability, decrease latency, and eventually boost customer satisfaction.

Rabbi Interactive scales to support a live-broadcast, second-screen app and voting system for hundreds of thousands of users, gives home television viewers real-time interactive capabilities, and reduces monthly operating costs by 60 percent by using AWS. Based in Israel, the company provides digital experiences such as second-screen apps used to interact with popular television shows such as “Rising Star” and “Big Brother.” Rabbi Interactive worked with AWS partner CloudZone to develop an interactive second-screen platform.

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