Adventure Through the Amazon: AWS Week in Review

Here's the first community-driven edition of the AWS Week in Review. In response to last week's blog post (AWS Week in Review – Coming Back With Your Help!), 9 other contributors helped to make this post a reality. That's a great start; let's see if we can go for 20 this week.

Monday August 22	The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about how Acquia (an APN Technology Partner), Leverages AWS to Achieve FedRAMP Compliance. The Backspace Blog wrote about front-end security of applications Shared Responsibility – Stopping threats at the source and techniques you can use in your applications to prevent threats reaching AWS. The Cloudability Blog shows AWS users how to use resource-level analytics to identify their most expensive resources, and how to use these insights to optimize cloud costs.
Tuesday August 23	The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog wrote about our new AWS Tools for PowerShell Core module and published the first release to the PowerShell Gallery. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog wrote about new support for publishing ASP.Net Core applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog published a Global Nonprofit Leadership Summit Recap. The AWS Mobile Development Blog announced that AWS Mobile Hub Helper Code for iOS is Now Available on GitHub. The Cloud Kinetics Blog wrote about their new Arcus Region Migration Services (ARMS) for migration across AWS Regions and also published a quick reach video.
Wednesday August 24	We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports Nginx Proxy Server with Tomcat. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Redirection in a Serverless API with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog talked about Customizing ASP.NET Core Deployments. The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about Tracking and Remembering Devices Using Amazon Cognito Your User Pools. Stelligent started their series on containerized CI solutions in AWS by showing you How to Run Jenkins in Amazon ECS. The Batch.ly blog released a new feature that helps AWS users to optmize AWS reserved instance utilization with machine learning.
Thursday August 25	The AWS Big Data Blog discussed Data Lake Ingestion & Automatic Partitioning of Hive External Tables with AWS. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog discussed Multiple Application Support for .NET and Elastic Beanstalk. The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about What's New with Our AWS Big Data Competency Partners. The AWS Security Blog recapped AWS Security Blog Posts from June, July, and August. Envato Explained How They Moved Their Entire Network of E-commerce Websites to AWS Skyliner published No Way Out But Through, a blog post about how their experiences at Etsy, Stripe, and Yammer influenced the design of their new AWS launch and deploy product.
Friday August 26	The AWS Startup Collection explained how to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Building Serverless Microservices. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog talked about Custom Elastic Beanstalk Application Deployments. We announced the release of CfnCluster 1.3 and general availability of Amazon Inspector for Windows. We launched the SpaceNet on AWS Public Data Set (1,900 kilometers of 50 cm satellite imagery). The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Code Smart Home Skill Adapter Directives Using Node.js and also started a series on Building Retroids with GameMaker: Studio.
Sunday August 28	Carl Nordenfelt blogged about Lambda Container Monitoring.