Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday, June 1	We announced that you can now Run Parallel Jobs on Your Amazon EMR Cluster Using AWS Data Pipeline. We gave a heads-up on an Amazon S3 Certificate Renewal. The AWS Java Blog wrapped up their five-part series on Generating Amazon S3 Pre-Signed URLs with SSE-C. The Cloud Academy Blog asked the question Which AWS Reserved Instance Should You Choose? The Cloudyn Blog provided guidance on How to Estimate EBS Snapshot Backup Costs.
Tuesday, June 2	We announced an Amazon Kinesis Update Featuring Simplified Capture of Streaming Data. We announced that Amazon WorkDocs is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, Along With a Localized UI. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Delegate Management of Multi-Factor Authentication to AWS IAM Users. The NVIDIA Cuda Zone reviewed GPU-Accelerated R in the Cloud with Teraproc Cluster-as-a-Service. The FlyData Blog talked about How 99designs Decided to Migrate Data with FlyData. The AWS Startup Collection discussed Mobile Personalization for 125 Million Users on AWS. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about Using Python and Boto to Automate AWS Services.
Wednesday, June 3	We announced that the Developer Preview of the AWS SDK for Go is Now Available. AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond showed you How to Monitor an SNS Topic with AWS Lambda and Cronitor.io. We added aws AWS Customer Succcess Stories from Fiksu, Hitachi, PaymentSpring, Precision Exams, Speed 3D, and Yelp. We announced that you can Now Create Larger Storage Volumes (up to 16 TB) with AWS Storage Gateway. The AWS Partner Network Blog revealed some New Webcasts Available on the APN Portal for APN Partners.
Thursday, June 4	We announced CloudWatch Logs Subscriptions for Amazon Kinesis. The AWS Big Data Blog invited you to Test Drive Two Big Data Scenarios from the ‘Building a Big Data Platform on AWS’ Bootcamp. Emile Heitor showed you how to Rock Your CloudFormation with Troposphere and Boto. We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for .NET, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for Go. The Cloudability Blog discussed Factoring One-Time Fees into your AWS Cost Monitoring. The Flux7 Blog showed you how to Use Desktop as a Service to Create a Push-button Learning Lab.
Friday, June 5	I wrote about Cloud Computing, Server Utilization, and the Environment. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced that the Unity Amazon In-App Purchase v2 SDK is Ready For Your Game. The AWS Startup Collection listed What’s How at AWS Pop-up Lofts in June.
Saturday, June 6	Michael Banfield wrote about Automatically Exporting Cloudwatch Logs to S3 with Kinesis and Lambda.

Upcoming Events

June 13 – Live Event (Arlington, VA) – Amazon Developer Day.
June 18 – Webinar – How McGraw-Hill uses Sumo Logic to Troubleshoot Web Applications on AWS – with APN Partner Sumo Logic and customer McGraw-Hill Education.
June 22 – Live Event (Norway) – AWS User Group Norway.
June 23 – Webinar – HIPAA for Startups: Best Practices for Architecting in the Cloud – with APN Partner Aptible and customer TelePharm.
June 24 – Webinar – Optimize Your Reporting in Less Than 10 Minutes – with APN Partner Chartio and customer News Distribution Network, Inc. (NDN).
June 24-26 – Live Event (London, England) – Windows on AWS Bootcamp for APN Partners.
June 25 – Webinar – Accelerating and Securing Web Applications in AWS in Under 5 Minutes – with APN Partner Appcito and customer Shop Socially.
AWS Summits.
AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

June 9 – Cloud Innovation for Electronics, Semiconductor, and IoT (2 PM – 6 PM).
June 10 – AWS Educate Reception and Networking Event: Getting Started with Amazon’s Grants-Based Program and Free Tools for Students and Educators (6 PM – 9 PM).
June 11 – Big Data Analytics Loft Talks (6 – 8 PM).
June 15 – Amazon EC2 Container Service Deep Dive (1 – 2 PM).
June 16 – The Power of Logs and Machine Learning – Hosted by Splunk (11:30 AM – 4:30 PM).
June 16 -Fireside Chat with True Innovators, Jeremy Edberg (Reddit/Netflix) and Valentino Volonghi (Adroll) hosted by Dr. Werner Vogels CTO Amazon.com (6 – 9 PM).
June 17 – Hadoop Essentials with Cloudera (Noon – 4:30 PM).
June 18 – Behind the Scenes with Bugsnag: Responsive Infrastructure with AutoScaling (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
June 23 – Behind the Scenes with SignalFx-Operating a SaaS product at Scale with Microservices, DevOps, and Self-Service Monitoring ( 6 PM – 7:30 PM).
June 26 – AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series Sponsored by Intel (10 AM – 6 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

June 25 – Chef Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
June 25 – Oscar Health (6:30 PM).
June 26 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
June 29 – Chartbeat (6:30 PM).
June 30 – Picking the Right Tool for the Job (HTML5 vs. Unity) (Noon – 1 PM).
June 30 – So You Want to Build a Mobile Game? (1 PM – 4:30 PM).
June 30 – Buzzfeed (6:30 PM).
July 6 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
July 7 – Dr. Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) + Startup Founders (6:30 PM).
July 7 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
July 8 – Sumo Logic Panel and Networking Event (6:30 PM).
July 9- AWS Activate Social Event (7:00 PM – 10 PM).
July 10 – Getting Started with Amazon EMR (Noon – 1 PM).
July 10 – Amazon EMR Deep Dive (1 PM – 2 PM).
July 10 – How to Build ETL Workflows Using AWS Data Pipeline and EMR (2 – 3 PM).
July 14 – Chef Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
July 15 – Chef Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
July 16 – Science Logic (11 AM – Noon).
July 16 – Intel Lustre (4 PM – 5 PM).
July 17 – Chef Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
July 22 – Mashery (11 AM – 3 PM).
July 23 – An Evening with Chef (6:30 PM).
July 29 – Evident.io (6:30 PM).
August 5 – Startup Pitch Event and Summer Social (6:30 PM).
August 25 – Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB (6:30 PM).