AWS Week in Review – November 16, 2015

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

Monday November 16	The AWS Security Blog announced that the AWS Security Token Service (STS) Is Now Active by Default in All AWS Regions. Eric Hammond talked about Using AWS CodeCommit with Git Repositories in Multiple AWS Accounts. The Cloudyn Blog analyzed EC2 Price Drops over the Past 5 Years. Mislav Stipetic noted that AWS is Awesome and discussed AWS Lambda. João Parreira talked about Receiving AWS IoT Messages in Your Browser Using Websockets. We published a new whitepaper: Minimizing Variable Costs for Shared Data. The Cloud Enlightened Blog showed you how to Save AWS Costs by Scheduled Start and Stop of EC2 Instances.
Tuesday November 17	The AWS Security Blog announced a Preview of SMS MFA for IAM Users. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog published Part 3 of an article on Building Unity Games for Fire TV. The AWS Startup Collection shared Three Internal Software Tools Every Startup Should Use. Steligent shared an AWS Continuous Delivery Demo Screencast. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed AWS Network ACLs and Subnets for Network Level Security. Cloud Technology Partners noted that Stats are Wrong: The Public Cloud is Already the Norm. Segment talked about Automating Our Infrastructure to Empower Engineers. Julien Blanchard discussed Rust on AWS Lambda.
Wednesday November 18	We launched New AWS Public Data Sets – TCGA and ICGC. We launched VPC Endpoints for S3 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Building a Near Real-Time Discovery Platform with AWS. The AWS Application Management Blog reviewed AWS CloudFormation at AWS re:Invent 2015. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog Announced the Latest Alexa Fund Recipient: Sutro. The AWS Enterprise Blog claimed that You Already Have the People You Need to Succeed with the Cloud. The Amazon Simple Email Service Blog shared Top 5 Best Practices for List Management. The Botmetric Blog introduced their new Unused AWS Reserved Instance Analyzer. The CloudCheckr Blog discussed AWS Reserved Instance Purchasing. ParkMyCloud shared 5 Ways to Reduce Your AWS Spending.
Thursday November 19	We launched the AWS SDK for Go. We updated that the AWS Device Farm can now Test Web Apps on Mobile Devices. We announced an Amazon EMR Update with Apache Spark 1.5.2, Ganglia, Presto, Zeppelin, and Oozie. We announced Detailed Health Metrics in the Console for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We announced Real-Time Predictions in the Amazon Machine Learning Console. We announced that RDS PostgreSQL now Supports Point-and-Click Upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.3 to 9.4. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Discover Exclusive New Content and Webcasts on the AWS Partner Portal. We updated the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for Ruby, the AWS SDK for Java, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Build Your First Mobile App – No Coding Experience Required. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog shared a Dev Chat with NeuroNation: Driving User Engagement and Monetizaton with Amazon Underground. The AWS Startup Collection discussed SafeDK: Giving Control Back to App Developers in an SDK-Fueled World. Cloudability told you Why Your Org Needs a Reserved Instances Czar. The DZone Cloud Zone talked about ECS at Coursera: Powering a General-Purpose Near-Line Execution Microservice.
Friday November 20	We announced Saved Reports for the AWS Cost Explorer. We announced that Amazon Redshift now Supports Modifying Cluster Accessibility and Specifying Sort Order for NULL Values. The AWS Security Blog announced that AWS Completed a Successful SOC Assessment with 3 New Services in Scope. The DZone Cloud Zone talked about The Science of Saving Money on Reserved Instances. Colin Percival launched a FreeBSD AMI Builder AMI.

New & Notable Open Source

• goofyfs is a filey (their terminology) system for S3.
• aws-sdk-perl is an attempt to build a complete AWS SDK in Perl.
• aws-ses-recorder is a set of Lambda functions to process SES.
• flywheel is a proxy for AWS.
• aws-sdk-config-loader is an AWS config file loader for the CLI tools.
• caravan is a lightweight Python framework for SWF.
• rusoto is a set of AWS client libraries for Rust.
• ng-upload-s3 is an AngularJS directive to upload files directly to S3.
• aws-templates is a collection of custom CloudFormation templates.
• ec2-browser is an EC2 browser.
• Consigliere is an AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard that supports multiple accounts.

New SlideShare Presentations

• Chef Cookbook Workflow.
• Internet of Things (IoT) HackDay.
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
• Serverless Services – Amazon Lambda + API-GW.
• Amazon QuickSight.
• IT Transformation in the Public Sector (A How To Guide).
• How Students Used AWS to Predict Ebola Outbreaks.
• AWS Mobile Hub Overview.
• AWS IoT Overview.
• Easily Govern and Audit your AWS Resources.
• Cloud Adoption Best Practices – Cloudreach.
• Expanding Your Cloud Business with AWS Marketplace.
• AWSome Day Galway Intro.
• The Public Sector Opportunity with AWS.
• Blue Reater – Earth Observation in the Cloud Demo Day.
• AWS Summit (Tel Aviv):
  • Best of re:Invent 2015.
• AWS Summit (London):
  • Keynote.
  • Keynote – Lebara.
  • Gartner Keynote – The Future of Cloud IaaS.
  • Accelerate Track.
  • Programs to Enable Joint GTM with AWS.
  • What Does a Successful Partnership Look Like?
  • AWS for IoT.
  • Creating a Cloud-First Standard.
  • IT Transformation with AWS.
• AWS November Webinar Series:
  • From Local Development to Production Using the Amazon ECS CLI.
  • Using AWS Config Rules to Improve Governance over Configuration Changes to Your Resources.
  • Amazon S3: Standard-Infrequent Access.
  • Amazon QuickSight.
  • Get Started with Automated Mobile Application Testing and AWS Device Farm.

New Customer Success Stories

• Convertale -E-commerce recommendations.
• D-Link -Hosting of service portal.
• Ex Machina -Hosting of second-screen apps.
• Football Addicts -Aggregating fan opinions.
• Frontier Games -Development and hosting of video games.
• MediaTek -International service deployment.
• Meteor Development Group -Hosting the Galaxy cloud service.
• PayGate -Payment processing in South Africa.
• Redlily – Online retail in India.
• Travelbird – Online travel deals.

New YouTube Videos

• AWS Partner Success: Sumo Logic.
• Cloudticity: Amazon Web Services.

Upcoming Events

• December 1 (Meetup in Chicago, IL) – APIs and IPAs.
• December 1 (Webinar) – How the City of San Diego Created an App to Resolve Parking Issues – with APN Partner Civic Resource Group International and customer CivicSD.
• December 3 (Webinar) – Migrating Your HIPAA Compliant Healthcare Analytics to AWS – with APN Partner Cloudticity and customer Caremerge.
• December 3 (Meetup in Redwood City, CA) – Loading Data Into Redshift Simplified with Schema-on-Read ELT.
• December 8 (Webinar) – Jana’s Data Warehousing Story: Then vs. Now – with APN Partner Snowflake and customer Jana.
• December 10 (Webinar) – Secure Incoming and Outgoing Traffic to Your Web Application – with APN Partner Barracuda Networks.
• AWS Lofts:
  • San Francisco.
  • New York.

Help Wanted

• Stelligent – DevOps Automation Engineer (Advanced, Senior, Principal).
• Senior Leader: AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud).
• EC2 Systems Engineering Leader.
• Senior Software Development Manager, EC2 Networking.
• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;