Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

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

Monday, August 17	We announced New Metrics for EC2 Container Service – Clusters & Services. We announced a New Logstash Plugin to Search DynamoDB Content Using Elasticsearch. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Migrate Your Microsoft Active Directory Users to Simple AD. To the Stars discussed The Four Horsemen (aka Considerations for Containers). The CloudCheckr Blog talked about Actionable Cost Reporting for AWS Cloud. R.I. Pienaar wrote about Translating Webhooks with AWS API Gateway and Lambda. The Cloud Health Technologies Blog wrote about Optimizing AWS RDS Reservations.
Tuesday, August 18	The AWS Mobile Development Blog introduced the new Amazon S3 Transfer Utility for iOS. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Manage Identities in Simple AD Directories. The CloudCheckr Blog talked about Cleaning House with CloudCheckr. We published a new Quick Start Reference Deployment for Microsoft Web Application Proxy and AD FS.
Wednesday, August 19	The AWS Application Management Blog showed you how to do Faster Auto Scaling in AWS CloudFormation Stacks with Lambda-Backed Custom Resources. The AWS Compute Blog discussed Better Together: Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda. We announced the New APN Competency – Mobile Solutions (also on the APN Blog). We announced that AWS CodeDeploy is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo Region). The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Understanding the AWS Security Model and Services. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed AWS IAM Security Through the Command Line and SDKs (Java, Ruby, and PHP). The Cloudability Blog discussed AWS Data Transfer Costs: What They Are and How to Minimize Them. The Ruxit Blog talked about Docker Container Monitoring in Amazon ECS Clusters.
Thursday, August 20	We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Extending Seven Bridges Genomics with Amazon Redshift and R. We announced that you can now Store and Process Graph Data Using the DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan (also on the Startup Blog). We announced the AWS Pop-up Loft in London. We announced that AWS Data Pipeline Now Supports All Amazon RDS Databases. We announced that Amazon Machine Learning is Now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Sign up for the AWS re:Invent Live Stream. The AWS Security Blog showed you how to Organize Your Permission by Using Separate Managed Policies. The Cloudyn Blog explored How Much Does it Cost to Run Relational Database Service (RDS) Options on AWS. AWS Premier Consulting Partner Logicworks wrote about 5 Real Ways to Approach Security Automation.
Friday, August 21	We announced that Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03.01 is Now Available. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced the New Alexa Lightning API. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Learn More Through APN Webcast.

New & Notable Open Source

jungle simplifies AWS command line operations.
Trycorder is a cross-account AWS data collector.
cep implements Complex Event Processing using DynamoDB Streams and Lambda.
glambda is a module for mocking and testing AWS API Gateway in conjunction with Lambda functions.
puppetlabs-aws is a Puppet module for managing AWS resources to build out infrastructure.
kinesis-tail is “tail -f” for Kinesis streams.
let-me-in adds an IP address to a Security Group to allow instance access via SSH.
connection-tracker tracks public endpoints and connections across AWS accounts using VPC Flow Logs.
aws-gpg13 is a collection of tests and CloudFormation templates to assess GPG13 compliance.
aws-sandbox defines an AWS sandbox infrastructure with Terraform.io.
eclair is a simple SSH tool for EC2.
dnachat is a lightweight chat server that runs on EC2 and uses ElastiCache for Redis.