AWS Week in Review – April 11, 2016

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.

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

New & Notable Open Source

• cfn-include implements a Fn::Include for CloudFormation templates.
• TumblessTemplates is a set of CloudFormation templates for quick setup of the Tumbless blogging platform.
• s3git is Git for cloud storage.
• s3_uploader is an S3 file uploader GUI written in Python.
• SSH2EC2 lets you connect to EC2 instances via tags and metadata.
• lambada is AWS Lambda for silly people.
• aws-iam-proxy is a proxy that signs requests with IAM credentials.
• hyperion is a Scala library and a set of abstractions for AWS Data Pipeline.
• dynq is a DynamoDB query library.
• cloud-custodian is a policy rules engine for AWS management.

New SlideShare Presentations

• AWS Summit (Chicago):
  • Announcements for Mobile Developers.
  • AWS Data Transfer Services.
  • Containers and the Evolution of Computing.
  • Getting Started with AWS IoT.
  • Automating Security Operations on AWS.
  • Getting Started with Amazon Enterprise Applications.
  • Getting Started with Amazon EC2 and AWS Compute Services.
  • Big Data Architectural Patterns and Best Practices on AWS.
  • Security & Cloud Adoption for the Enterprise. Not If. When.
  • Building and Realizing the Economic Case for the AWS Cloud.
  • Building Your First Big Data Application on AWS.
  • Building Your Practice on AWS.
  • Getting Started with AWS Database Migration Service.
  • Getting Started with Amazon Machine Learning.
  • Women in Technology: Supporting Diversity in a Technical Workplace.
  • DevOps on AWS: Deep Dive on Continuous Delivery and the AWS Developer Tools.
  • Deep Dive on Microservices and Amazon ECS.
  • Creating Your Virtual Data Center.
  • AWS Application Discovery Service.
  • Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
  • Amazon EBS Deep Dive.
  • Deep Dive and Best Practices for Real-Time Streaming Applications.
  • Deploying a Disaster Recovery Site on AWS.
  • Deep Dive on Amazon S3.
  • Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora.
  • Another Day, Another Billion Packets.
  • Getting Started with Amazon QuickSight.
• Deep Dive: Amazon DynamoDB.
• AWS for Startups.
• Deep Dive: EC2 Container Service.
• Amazon EC2 Masterclass.
• AWS in Financial Services.
• AWS Value Proposition.
• Modern BI in the Cloud with Tableau Server on Amazon EC2.
• Securing Gene Sequencing Data on AWS with Alert Logic.
• Agile BI in the Cloud.

New Customer Success Stories

• Airbnb.
• amaysim.
• AsiaInfo.
• Avira.
• Canon.
• e-Travel.
• Fugro Roames.
• Hello Inc.
• KKBOX.
• Rednun.
• Sage Human Capital.
• Thrive Market.
• V Air.

New YouTube Videos

• Introducing Amazon Inspector.
• Amazon Kinesis Firehose – Load Data into Amazon Elasticsearch Domains.
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.
• AWS Snowball – 80 TB Snowball Device.
• AWS Cloud Data Migration Services.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Managed Platform Updates.
• Maximizing Your Organization’s Potential with AWS.
• Are Your Cloud Workloads Secure?
• How to Set Up Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies.
• Introducing New Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies.
• 2016 AWS Public Sector Summit.

Upcoming Events

• AWS Partner Webinars – April.
• April 27 – Live Event (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – AWS Meetup.
• April 29 – Live Event (Singapore) – AWS Partner Summit.
• AWS Zombie Microservices Roadshow.

Help Wanted

• AWS Careers.

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

— Jeff;

Modified 01/05/2021 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this post have been updated or removed from the original post.