AWS Week in Review – July 13, 2015

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

Monday, July 13	We announced that Amazon Redshift now Supports AVRO Ingestion. We announced Amazon Wind Farm US East. An article in Forbes talked about Amazon’s Cloud Ecosystem: Where The Cloud Action Is. A post on the Cloudability Blog reviewed the AWS Summit New York: From Infrastructure to Platforms.
Tuesday, July 14	We launched CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon WorkSpaces. The AWS Java Blog talked about Invoking AWS Lambda Functions from Java. The AWS Partner Network Blog discussed Identity Federation and SSO for SaaS on AWS. The AWS Startup Collection focused the Startup Spotlight on InVision, CrowdStrike, BlueStone, and Caspida. The We Kanban Blog talked about Amazon Web Services Config. The Cloud Academy Blog showed you How to Master Amazon Authentication in 5 Steps with AWS IAM.
Wednesday, July 15	We announced a DynamoDB Update Featuring Triggers (Streams + Lambda) and a Cross-Region Replication App. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced the Amazon Cross-Platform Mobile Ads API. The AWS Big Data Blog announced Presto – The Amazon Kinesis Connector for Interactively Querying Streaming Data. The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about Securing Web Applications in AWS with Soha. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about CloudFormation and AWS Deployment Automation. The Gathering Clouds Blog explained Why AWS Marketplace is Changing the Software Industry. The Twitter Blog talked about Using Digits with Amazon Web Services. A new AWS Loft Talk covered The Story of 600,000 VMs.
Thursday, July 16	We updated the AWS SDK for Unity, AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for .Net, AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK For Ruby, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Learn How the APN Enables Consulting Partners to Build a Business on AWS. The Cloudability Blog proposed Four Tags that Every Cloud Instance Should Have. A Reddit thread in /r/aws discussed the topic of ELB Health Check Best Practices.
Friday, July 17	I published an EC2 Container Service Recap. The Guardian published a Hack Day Report: Using Amazon Machine Learning to Predict Trolling.

New SlideShare Content

• Splunk Live – Security Best Practices for AWS.
• Security & Privacy: Using AWS to Meet Requirements for HIPAA, CJIS, and FERPA.
• Building a Big Data & Analytics Platform Using AWS.
• Your First Ten Million Users with Amazon Web Services.

New Marketplace Applications

• Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance.
• LoadItAll.
• Evident Security Platform.

Upcoming Events

• July 21 – Webinar – Best Practices: AWS Redshift Optimizing Performance.
• July 22 – Webinar – Best Practices: AWS Redshift Migration and Loading Data.
• July 22 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Container Service.
• July 23 – Webinar – Best Practices: AWS Redshift Reporting and Advanced Analytics.
• July 23 – Webinar – Leveraging AWS Data to Manage Spend and Allocate Costs – with APN Partner CloudCheckr and customer Digital Globe.
• July 28 – Webinar – Best Practices: OpsWorks for Windows on AWS.
• July 28 – Webinar – Deploying line of business desktop apps using Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
• July 29 – Webinar – Overview: Build and Manage your APIs with Amazon API Gateway.
• July 29 – Webinar – Deploying and Scaling Web Application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• July 29 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Troubleshooting Operational and Security incidents in your AWS Account using CloudTrail.
• July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Device Farm.
• July 30 – Webinar – Best Practices: Real-time Data Processing with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda.
• July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon DynamoDB.
• July 29 – Webinar – Troubleshoot Operational & Security Incidents with CloudTrail.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• July 22 – A Prescription for Startup Financial Health: 8 Financial Best Practices for Startup Executives (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• July 27 – Lowering Total Cost of Ownership with AWS (3 – 4 PM).
• July 30 – Shinola Brings Back “Made in America” to Detroit with DevOps and the Cloud (6 – 8 PM).
• August 10 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 17 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS -Technical (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 20 – Behind the Scenes with ILM Lucasfilm: “Powering the World’s Leading Visual Effects Studio” (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

• 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).

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• AWS Careers.

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