Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday, June 8	We announced that AWS CloudHSM is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Use Amazon Cognito and AWS Lambda to Detect Cheating. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced the the availability of Mesosphere DCOS on AWS. The AWS Security Blog discussed FERPA Compliance in the AWS Cloud. The We Kanban Blog talked about Amazon Web Services CloudTrail. The High Scalability Blog discussed Leveraging AWS to Build a Scalable Data Pipeline.
Tuesday, June 9	We announced that Amazon Redshift is Now Faster and More Cost-Effective than Ever. Gulp-aws-splash lets you build beautiful splash pages and collect email addresses. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced that the SDK Extensions Have Been Moved to Increase Modularization. Matt Wood talked about How to Rock re:Invent.
Wednesday, June 10	We announced Amazon Solar Farm US East. We announced VPC Flow Logs to Log and View Network Traffic Flows. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced an AWS Partner Success Video from Advanced APN Technology Partner Pitney Bowes. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced a New AWS Test Drive from MapR Technologies. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Building a Sports Tracking Phenomenon. The Cloudlytics Blog showed you how to Automate EC2 Monitoring & Management to Increase Efficiency & Optimize Usage. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about VPC Endpoint for Amazon S3: Simple Connectivity from AWS.
Thursday, June 11	We launched the New M4 Instance Type and a Price Reduction on M3 and C4 Instances. We Updated CloudFormation With Support for ElastiCache, S3, IAM and RDS. We announced that EC2 Container Service Supports Agent Updates through Console and CLI. We announced that you can now Attach and Detach Elastic Load Balancers from Auto Scaling Groups. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Build a Binary Classification Model with Amazon Machine Learning and Amazon Redshift. Florian Motlik of Codeship wrote about Batch Deployment in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Partner Network Blog discussed Leveraging CircleCI and AWS CodeDeploy for Continuous Integration Workflows. The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Running Your Business Applications on AWS. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon S3. The Cloudability Blog asked How do Exchange Rates Impact International AWS Customers? The Register announced that Intercloud Extends Management to AWS VMs.
Friday, June 12	The AWS Compute Blog announced some New Deployment Options for AWS Lambda. Matt Wood is Revisiting Big Data. The Gathering Clouds Blog discussed some Common Misconceptions about Auto Scaling. The Engineering at Monsanto Blog talked about etcd Clustering in AWS.

Upcoming Events

June 16 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Protecting Your Data with AWS Encryption.
June 16 – Webinar – Best Practices: Dynamic Data Ingestion with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda.
June 16 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Big Data | Data Collection & Storage.
June 17 – Webinar – Getting Started: Amazon Redshift.
June 17 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
June 17 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Hybrid Architectures.
June 18 – Webinar – Best Practices: SQL Server on Amazon RDS and EC2.
June 18 – Webinar – Getting Started: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership with AWS.
June 18 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Maximizing EC2 and EBS Performance.
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 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).
AWS Summits.