Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday, May 25	We celebrated Memorial Day in the United States. We announced SSLv3 and RC4 Deprecation for Amazon SQS. AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond talked about Debugging AWS Lambda Invocations with an Echo Function.
Tuesday, May 26	We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports the g2.8xlarge Instance. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog talked about Serving Private Content Through Amazon CloudFront Using Signed Cookies. Eric Hammond noted that you can Schedule Recurring AWS Lambda Invocations with the Unreliable Town Clock. The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Launch Enterprise Workloads on AWS in 15 Minutes or Less with Quick Launch Reference Deployments. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed Amazon EBS Volumes: How to Shrink ’em Down to Size. The Cloudability Blog revealed May Feature Updates: Transaction Types, new RI Reports, and More.
Wednesday, May 27	We announced that the AWS Console Mobile App now Supports S3 Object Download. I published a comprehensive EC2 Instance History. The AWS Compute Blog discussed Service Discovery via Consul with Amazon ECS. We announced that Version 3 of the AWS SDK for PHP is now Available. The AWS Java Blog published part 4 of a series on Generating Amazon S3 Pre-signed URLs with SSE-C. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you how to Get Insights into your Mobile App Usage Patterns Using Amazon Mobile Analytics and R. The Cloud Academy Blog covered AWS Best Practices: Five Key Approaches to get you Started. We published Library Workloads on Amazon Web Services , Deep Dive: Virtual Private Cloud, Streaming Data Processing with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda, and Deep Dive: Infrastructure as Code to SlideShare.
Thursday, May 28	We announced that AWS Lambda now Supports Uploading Code from S3. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Indexing Common Crawl Metadata on Amazon EMR Using Cascading and ElasticSearch. We announced that the AWS SDK for Unity now Supports Amazon SNS. We announced that Amazon DynamoDB Supports AWS CloudTrail. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for .NET, and the AWS SDK for Unity. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Implement Federated API and CLI Access Using SAML 2.0 and AD FS. The Cake Blog shared some DynamoDB Lessons Learned. We published Industry Trends and Best Practices for Cloud Adoption to SlideShare.
Friday, May 29	The AWS Application Management Blog talked about Using CodeDeploy Environment Variables. We added Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 LTS (HVM), Mautic, Magento Powered by Installatron, and Invoice Plane to the AWS Marketplace. The We Kanban Blog talked about the Amazon Web Services Key Management Service. We published five new AWS Customer Succcess Stories videos: Yelp Cuts Test-Run Times by 90% Using AWS, Fiksu Scales to Billions of Requests for Mobile Advertising Customers, PaymentSpring Launches New Payment Service on AWS, SK Planet Quickly Accesses Global Markets Using AWS, and Precision Exams Saves 30% by Moving Database to Amazon DynamoDB. We published all of the videos from the AWS Summit 2015 in Singapore.
Saturday, May 30	The :HIPSTER_DEV_BLOG talked about Analysing DynamoDB Index Usage in Hive Queries.

Upcoming Events

June 2 – Webinar – Data Science at Pebble: Analyzing Data to Make Smarter Watches – with APN Partner Treasure Data and customer Pebble.
June 3 – Webinar – How DoubleDown Delivers Fast and Scalable Analytics Using Amazon S3 and Snowflake – with APN Partner Snowflake and customer DoubleDown.
June 13 – Live Event (Arlington, VA) – Amazon Developer Day.
June 23 – Webinar – HIPAA for Startups: Best Practices for Architecting in the Cloud – with APN Partner Aptible and customer TelePharm.
June 24-26 – Live Event (London, England) – Windows on AWS Bootcamp for APN Partners.
AWS Summits.
AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

June 1 – AWS Bootcamp Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
June 2 – AWS Security Day (Noon – 3 PM).
June 3 – AWS Security Day (Noon – 3 PM).
June 4 – AWS Pop-up Loft Pitch Event and Pre-Summer Party (6 PM – 9 PM).
June 8 – Advanced AWS Bootcamp: Taking AWS Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
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).