AWS Week in Review – August 31, 2015

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

Monday, August 31	The AWS Compute Blog explained The Fine Art of Node.JS Coding in AWS Lambda. We announced that you can now Subscribe to AWS Public IP Address Changes via Amazon SNS. We announced Resource-Oriented Bidding for EC2 Spot Instances. The AWS Enterprise Blog explained Why You Should Run What You Build. The We Kanban Blog talked about Elastic Beanstalk Configurations.
Tuesday, September 1	We announced Mock Integration for the Amazon API Gateway. We announced that Amazon RDS for Oracle’s Transparent Data Encryption is now Integrated with AWS CloudHSM in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Singapore) Regions. The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Get the Most Out of the Amazon S3 CLI. The AWS Startup Collection listed What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in September. The CloudHealth Technologies Blog talked about Keeping Your Cloud in Check. The Cloudability Blog counted Eight Ways to Lower Your DynamoDB Costs. The Cloud Academy Blog listed a bunch of Upcoming AWS Events. The Babbel Bytes Tech Blog chronicled the Evolution of Babbel’s Data Pipeline on AWS: From SQS to Kinesis.
Wednesday, September 2	We announced the AWS SDK for C++. We announced AWS CloudTrail Support for Amazon S3. We announced Tagging Support for AWS Storage Gateway. We announced New APN Partners to Help With Database Migrations to AWS. The NVIDIA Blog wrote about Better Beer Through GPUs. The AWS Partner Network Blog introduced the Amazon RDS Migration Tool. The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to do Performance Testing in Continuous Delivery Using AWS CodePipeline and BlazeMeter. The AWS Security Blog talked about Using AWS Services to Comply with Security Best Practices – Minus the Inordinate Time Investment. The N2WS Blog listed 3 Reasons to Automate Your Manual Redshift. The RightScale Blog announced a RightScale Product Update with UI Enhancements, Network Resources, and More. The Ylastic Blog discussed CloudTrail for S3.
Thursday, September 3	I offered a Welcome to Our New Colleagues at Elemental. I published Episode #106 of the AWS Podcast. Nick McHardy shared his Thoughts About AWS API Gateway Working with AWS Lambda. The AWS Security Blog explored and offered NIST Compliance in the AWS Cloud. The Cloudability Blog introduced New Daily Email for More Comprehensive AWS Cost Monitoring. The Cloudyn Blog helped out with Understanding AWS Spot Instances.
Friday, September 4	We published an AWS Quick Start: Magento for E-Commerce. We announced the AWS Webinars for September, 2015. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced New Alexa Skills Kit Features. The AWS Application Management Blog explained How to Package Cookbook Dependencies Locally with Berkshelf. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Using BlueTalon with Amazon EMR. The Cloud Academy Blog offered up a Hands-on Guide to Managing Elastic Beanstalk Applications.
Saturday, September 5	The AWS Compute Blog took a very detailed look at Microservices Without the Servers.

New & Notable Open Source

• awsfinder is a quick CLI tool for “quickly find X” ad hoc tasks on AWS.
• cloudcycler lets you cycle AWS resources on and off on a time-of-day basis.
• sumologic-kinesis-connector connects a Kinesis Stream to a SumoLogic Collection.
• S3QL is a filesystem that stores its data in S3 (Hacker News discussion).
• vagrant-aws-jenkins deploys a Jenkins server on AWS using Vagrant.
• aws-monitoring pushes custom metrics to CloudWatch and creates alarms on them.
• aws-services is a set of convenient microservices for managing AWS.
• RIFactor automatically refactors Reserved Instances to match running instances.
• npdynamodb is a Node.JS query builder and ORM for DynamoDB.
• ansible is a simple Ansible setup for AWS.

New Customer Success Stories

• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – predictive analysis.
• import.io – website scraping.
• Jobvite – social recruiting platform.
• polljoy – improve ratings for mobile apps in marketplaces.
• Samsung Business – mobile app store.
• Slack – messaging platform.
• VidRoll – video monetization platform.
• WOW air – website & booking engine.

New SlideShare Content

• Introducing Amazon Aurora.
• Amazon EC2 Spot.
• Amazon S3 Deep Dive and Best Practices.
• Running Batch Jobs on Amazon EC2 Container Service.
• Analyze Mobile Data and Build Predictive Applications.

New YouTube Videos

• Getting Started with AWS Directory Service.
• An Engineer’s Tour of the Internet of Things.
• How APIs Will Wrangle the IoT’s Coming Data Tsunami.
• Benefits of the PaaS Approach to IoT.

New Marketplace Applications

• BodySYS.
• IOMAD powered by System Sector.
• SEOTOASTER powered by System Sector.
• Codeanywhere.
• SAP IQ.
• Cognizant Engagement Catalyst.
• StackStorm.
• OpMon.
• WebSphere MQ v 8.0.0.3.
• eFront LMS powered by System Sector.
• FortiDirector.
• Kong.
• Magento+Memcached+HHVM+LAMP+Webmin Package powered by SAIN3.
• Magento + Redis + HHVM + LAMP + Webmin Package powered by SAIN3.
• Vidfy.
• BLISS GEO APP.

Upcoming Events

• September 10 – Live Event (Seattle, WA) AWS Workshop and Hackathon (8 AM – 11 PM).
• September 14-18 – Live Event (New York) AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp.
• September 22 – Webinar – Scientific Computing in the Cloud: Speeding Access for Drug Discovery – with APN Partner Avere Systems and customer H3 Biomedicine.
• September 24 – Meetup (Warszawa, Poland) – AWS User Group Poland.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent – Sold out, register for the live stream!

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• September 10 – Security Incident Response in AWS: Best Practices and Prerequistes (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 11 – IoT Hack Day: AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series-Sponsored by MediaTek Labs (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 16 – ClearScale Customer Showcase + Premier Partner Party (6 PM – 9:30 PM).
• September 17 – The Right Tool for the Right Job on AWS (4 PM – 8 PM).
• September 22 – Accelerating to the Hybrid Cloud and Reaping the Rewards (6 PM – 9 PM).
• September 25 – TechNode San Francisco Demo Day (10 AM – 5 PM).
• September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 29 – Funding Options for Growing Technology Companies (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 30 – Onshape Users (6 PM – 8:30 PM).
• October 1 – Market Differentiators and Elements of API Management plus The Developer Experience – Accelerating Growth (6 PM – 9 PM).
• October 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

• September 8 – Infrastructure as Code (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM).
• September 8 – Behind the Scenes with Hudl: Development in the Multiverse (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 9 – AWS Lambda Overview (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 9 – AWS Lambda Deep Dive (2 PM – 5 PM).
• September 9 – Bringing Your Game to the Living Room (5 PM – 6 PM).
• September 10 – Amazon API Gateway Overview (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 10 – Amazon API Gateway Deep Dive (2 PM – 5 PM).
• September 10 – Venture Capital Loft Talks (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 14 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 15 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 16 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 17 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 18 – Network with Amazon Business Leaders from NYC Area (6 PM – 9 PM).
• September 24 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
• September 24 – The Life of a Click: How Hearst Publishing Manages Clickstream Analytics with AWS (3 – 4 PM).
• September 24 – How to Implement Top 10 AWS Security Best Practices – Day Workshop with Evident.io (10 AM – 2 PM).
• September 24 – How to Implement Top 10 AWS Security Best Practices – Evening Session with Evident.io (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
• September 28 – Onshape Users (6 PM – 8:30 PM).
• October 1 – Behind the Scenes with LearnBop – Bulletproof Blue/Green Deployments – Myths, Pitfalls and Solutions (6:30 PM – 8 PM).

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• Cloud Academy Blog: This Week’s Cloud Computing Jobs.
• AWS Careers.

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