AWS Week in Review – April 25, 2016

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

Monday April 25	We announced updated AWS CloudFormation Support for EC2, ECS, Lambda, and GameLift. We announced that AWS IoT is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. We announced that AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps is Now Available in the EU (Ireland) AWS Region. The AWS DevOps Blog talked about AWS CodeDeploy Deployments with HashiCorp Consul. The AWS Big Data Blog invited you to Sharpen Your Skill Set with Apache Spark. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with Serverless Microservices. The AWS Enterprise Blog described Your Enterprise's Flywheel to the Cloud. The AWS Partner Network Blog continued to talk about Amazon VPC for On-Premises Network Engineers. Zach Kolleger shared his slides for AWS Lambda: Running Code Without Servers.
Tuesday April 26	We announced ClassicLink Support for VPC Peering. We announced that Amazon RDS MySQL Now Supports Point-And-Click Upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7. We published a new whitepaper, Core Tenets of IoT. The Amazon GameDev Blog announced that Lumberyard Beta 1.2 is Now Available. I shared the story of Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analysis at Cloud Academy. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Building, Testing and Deploying Java applications on AWS Lambda using Maven and Jenkins. The AWS Partner Network Blog shared the 2016 AWS Partner Summit Sydney Recap. We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. Cloud Academy announced a New Course: Working with Amazon DynamoDB. DZone Cloud Zone showed you how to Simplify Your AWS Config with Cumulus. ParkMyCloud shared their AWS Chicago Summit 2016 Recap. Alex Ough wrote about Multi-Region Replication and Failover with Amazon RDS for MySQL – For Encrypted Databases.
Wednesday April 27	We announced that the MariaDB Audit Plug-in is Now Available for RDS MySQL and MariaDB. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog talked about Submitting an Alexa Skill for Certification. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Optimizing Disk Usage on Amazon ECS. The AWS Developer Blog continued a series on Serverless Service Discovery. Part 3 covered Registration and Part 4 covered the Registrar. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog announced that New Transport for London Open Data Sets Are Now Available. The AWS Security Blog explained How to Set Up Federated Single Sign-On to AWS Using Google Apps. Cloud Academy showed you how to Earn More Money Working with Cloud Computing. Cloudonaut showed you how to Avoid Security Credential on GitHub. Flux7 discussed Improved Security with AWS CodeCommit. Gorillastack launched Insights for Amazon Web Services. High Scalability explained The Platform Advantage of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Localytics talked about Testing AWS Scala Microservices. Trek10 discussed Cleaning up Old Docker Images from ECR, the Easy Way. Contentful shared some DevOps Gold Nuggets: Scaling Down Gracefully with AWS Lambda and HAProxy. Noah Zoschke listed The Seven Biggest Challenges of Deployment to AWS. Appaloose Store discussed Codeless API Reshaping with AWS API Gateway.
Thursday April 28	We announced that Longer EBS and Storage Gateway IDs are Now Available. We announced Two New Direct Connect Locations (Portland and Singapore). We announced that AWS WAF is Now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail. I shared the story of Autheos – At the Nexus of Marketing and E-Commerce. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Process Encrypted Data in Amazon EMR with Amazon S3 and AWS KMS. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog asked If Every Government is a Sensor, What Does That Mean for Management? The AWS Security Blog explained How to Import IP Address Reputation Lists to Automatically Update AWS WAF IP Blacklists. The AWS Startup Collection provided advice on Optimizing Latency and Bandwidth for AWS Traffic. We updated the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. Gathering Clouds noted that More Enterprises Are Running Microsoft Applications on AWS Cloud. Thinking Aloud showed how to Graphically Deregister AWS AMis and Associated S3 Snapshots.
Friday April 29	The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog reminded you to Remember the Alamo: A Story Bigger than Texas. We updated the Amazon WorkSpaces Client.
Saturday April 30	Secret agent Nate Turner explained How Amazon ECS Makes Container-Driver Service Delivery Enjoyable.
Sunday May 1	Gorillastack listed 5 Things We Learned at the AWS Sydney Summit. PowerupCloud showed you how to Autoscale Using Custom CloudWatch Metrics.

New & Notable Open Source

• dynamodb-lambda-autoscale autoscales DynamodB using an AWS Lambda function.


• chaos-lambda randomly terminates EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling Group during business hours.


• local-node-lambda lets you run Lambda functions locally.


• node-lambda is a command line tool to locally run and then deploy Node.js applications to Lambda.


• patrol-rules-aws is a set of rules implemented using lambda-cfn that monitors AWS infrastructure for best practices, security, and compliance.


• checkall runs commands against every EC2 instance within an account.


• lambda-dynamodb-local is a container-based local runtime for Lambda & DynamoDB.


• aws-lambda-rdbms-integration integrates Lambda with relational databases.


• AWSTrycorder is a cross-account data collector for AWS.


• ssh-everywhere integrates ssh and tmux with the AWS CLI to create tmux sessions with a pane for each EC2 instance.

New SlideShare Presentations

• AWS Summit Manila:
  
  
  
  • Opening Keynote – Dr. Werner Vogels.
  
  
  • Amazon EC2.
  
  
  • Amazon Redshift.
  
  
  • DevOps on AWS.
  
  
  • Big Data Architectural Patterns.
  
  
  • Cloud First New Architecture.
  
  
  • AWS Lambda and Serverless Cloud.
  
  
  • Value, TCO & Cost Optimization.
  
  
  • Startup Showcase – Mojang.
  
  
  • The Lean Enterprise.
  
  

New Customer Success Stories

• ACTi Corporation.


• Bandai Namco Studios.


• Duolingo.


• Gannett.


• GE Oil & Gas.


• HERE.


• Kellogg's.


• RWE Czech Republic.

Upcoming Events

• May 5 – Live Event (Palo Alto, CA) – AWS Big Data Meetup – Machine Learning in the Cloud.


• May – AWS Partner Webinars.


• AWS Zombie Microservices Roadshow.

Help Wanted

• AWS Careers.

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- Jeff;