AWS Week in Review – July 6, 2015

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

Monday, July 6	The AWS PHP Developer Blog showed you how to Reduce Composer Issues on Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector. The CloudBees Blog talked about Continuous Delivery with CloudBees Jenkins Platform and AWS Lambda. The Cloudyn Blog published part 2 of a series on 6 AWS Cloud Storage Cost Use Cases. The Flux7 Blog reviewed AWS Security Best Practices: What Enterprises Need to Know About Open Source TLS. Larry Land wrote about how to Run Your Own High-end Cloud Gaming Service on EC2.
Tuesday, July 7	We announced an Auto Scaling Update, with New Scaling Policies for More Responsive Scaling. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog showed you how to Use the New Import Cmdlets for Amazon EC2. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Bringing Hardware to Life with SnowShoe Stamp. The Cloud Academy Blog listed Free E-Book Downloads for AWS Certification.
Wednesday, July 8	We announced that you can now Create Write-Once-Read-Many Archive Storage with Amazon Glacier. We announced Sending Authorization for the Amazon Simple Email Service. We announced that the EC2 Container Service now Supports UDP. We announced the New APN Security Competency. The AWS Partner Network Blog introduced the AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Program.
Thursday, July 9	We announced the New AWS Partner Program for SaaS. We announced the Amazon API Gateway. We announced that AWS CodeCommit is Now Available. We announced that AWS CodePipeline is Now Available. We announced that the AWS Service Catalog is Now Available. We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for .NET, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS SDK for Java. The [mobdistblog] invited you to Build Engaging Second Screen Experiences for Amazon Fire TV with the new Amazon Fling SDK. The AWS Application Management Blog talked about Integrating AWS CodeCommit with Review Board and Integrating AWS CodeCommit with Jenkins. The AWS Compute Blog published a series on Continuous Integration/Deployment for AWS Lambda Functions with Jenkins and Grunt (Part 1, Part 2). The AWS Partner Network Blog talked SaaS Integration that Benefits End Customers on AWS – Atlassian and Boundary. The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Promote Software Standardization, Compliance, and Cost Management with AWS Service Catalog. The Thinking Mobile Blog talked about Increasing the Stability of your Enterprise Systems Running in the AWS Cloud.
Friday, July 10	The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Building Scalable and Responsive Big Data Interfaces with AWS Lambda. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced a Wide Range of AWS Test Drives to Meet Business Needs. The Stelligent Blog noted that AWS CodePipeline Released, and There was Much Rejoicing. The Cloud Academy Blog noted that you can Write Your AWS Lambda Functions in Java. The Gathering Clouds Blog talked about Security and Advanced Automation in the Enterprise.
Saturday, July 11	The AWS Compute Blog talked about SquirrelBin: A Serverless Microservice Using AWS Lambda and Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Clojure. The AWS Compute Blog published some AWS NY Summit Presentations & Videos. Aaron Wilson talked about Building Team Swim Lanes in the Cloud with AWS Service Catalog.

New & Notable Open Source

• Cloudsploit Scans runs against an AWS account and return a series of potential misconfigurations and security risks.

New AWS Marketplace Applications

• Data Federation, Address Management, and Advanced Data Integration (Pitney Bowes).
• Atlas Server (MapBox).
• MapLarge Geocoding Engine (MapLarge).
• Droneware and Knowvation (PTFS).
• MobileFabric Developer & Express & SaaS (Kony).
• Chef Server 12 (Chef).
• Barracuda NG Firewall HVM (Barracuda).
• VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 2 (Palo Alto).
• ASAv (Cisco ASA).
• Actifio Sky (Actifio).
• Matillion ETL for Redshift (Matillion).
• Clarity (Tibco).

New Slideshare Content

• Amazon EMR Masterclass.
• Amazon Machine Learning – Empowering Developers.
• Architecting for Greater Security on AWS.
• AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeCommit.
• AWS Power Tools.
• Creating a Cloud Standard.
• EBS Deep Dive.
• Deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at Scale.
• DevOps at Amazon: A Look at our Tools and Processes.
• DevOps in the Public Sector.
• Enhanced Security and Compliance with AWS.
• Enterprise IT in the Cloud.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Integration.
• Security is Job Zero.
• Introduction to AWS Services and Cloud Computing.
• Architecting for Greater Security.
• The Pace of Innovation at AWS.
• Managing the Life Cycle of IT Products.
• Protecting Your Microsoft Workloads with High Availability and Reliability.
• Scaling by Design: AWS Web Services Patterns.

Upcoming Events

• July 14 – Webinar – Securing Web Applications on the Cloud with the AWS Shared Security Model – with APN Partner Alert Logic UK.
• July 14 – Webinar – How a Candy Manufacturer Runs SAP HANA for Analytics on the AWS Cloud – with APN Partner Protera Technologies.
• July 15 – Webinar – Delivering Corporate eLearning in the Cloud with AWS – with APN Partner Lambda Solutions and customer STEP Energy.
• , July 23 – Webinar – Leveraging AWS Data to Manage Spend and Allocate Costs – with APN Partner CloudCheckr and customer Digital Globe.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• July 15 – Container Day:
  • Intro and Deep Dive into EC2 Containers (1 PM – 2 PM).
  • Tutorial: Run Your Service with Amazon EC2 Container Service (2 – 3 PM).
  • Build Your PaaS on AWS with ECS (3-4 PM).
  • Batch Processing with Amazon EC2 Container Service (4 – 6 PM).
• July 16 – AWS Security the DevOps Way with Evident.io (6 – 8 PM).
• 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 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).

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• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;