AWS Week in Review – April 20, 2015

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

Monday, April 20	We announced the NOAA Big Data Project. The AWS Java Blog discussed the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Integration with AWS OpsWorks. The AWS Architecture Blog continued with the re:viewing re:Invent series with a focus on the architecture track. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed Virtual Private Clouds and the AWS Solutions Architect Exam.
Tuesday, April 21	We updated the AWS SDK for Android. The AWS Startup Collection published an IoT Primer: Telemetry on the Cloud. The Cloudlytics Blog invited you to See What’s New in the March Release of ELB Reports. The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Digital Marketing in the Cloud. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about Elastic File System – What You Need to Know About Amazon’s New Service.
Wednesday, April 22	We posted 54 videos from the AWS Summit in San Francisco. The AWS Security Blog announced the IAM Last Access Key Used feature. The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Websites & Web Hosting in the Cloud for Digital Marketing. The Cloud Academy Blog reviewed Amazon Storage Options.
Thursday, April 23	We announced that Registration for re:Invent 2015 Opens Soon. We announced a VM Import Update, making it Faster and More Flexible, with Multi-Volume Support. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Cluster-Based Architectures Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service. The Jimdo Dev Blog talked about Simple Service Discovery Using AWS Private Hosted Zones. the 2nd Watch Blog talked about Test/Dev in the Cloud for Digital Marketing. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed AWS Tags and What Makes Using Them so Important. The EC2 Container Service Team hosted an EC2 Container Service AUAA (Ask Us Almost Anything) on Reddit. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Running a High Performance SAS Grid Manager Cluster on AWS with Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre. We updated AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for .NET, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and AWS SDK for Java. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced that SoftNAS Cloud Version 3.3 is Now Available in the AWS Marketplace. George Böhnisch explained How to Resize a gp2 Backed EBS Volume on an HVM Instance in Amazon EC2.
Friday, April 24	We added AWS Customer Succcess Stories from Arterys, Civis Analytics, Pond, QNAP and University of Maryland University College. We added to ObserveIT User Activity Session Recording, Talari Cloud Appliance CT800, Thelia, GoldDisk Plus Windows 2012 Hardened AMI, Elasticsearch + Kibana (powered by Sain3), and HiveShield to the AWS Marketplace. We added UltraCompare, UltraFinder, UltraSentry, TurboCAD LTE Pro v7, and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 to the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps. APN Premier Consulting Partner Logicworks published an AWS-powered PartyLite case study. The Cloud Academy Blog published a Brief Introduction to AWS Infrastructure Management.
Sunday, April 26	Daniel Bryant talked about Scaling Microservices at Gilt with Scala, Docker, and AWS.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, April 28 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Container Service.
Tuesday, April 28 – Webinar – Security Best Practice: Compliance beyond the Checkbox.
Tuesday, April 28 – Webinar – Deploying and Managing Applications in Amazon WorkSpaces.
Wednesday, April 29 – Webinar – Amazon Elastic File System (EFS): Scalable, Shared File Storage for EC2.
Wednesday, April 29 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS CodeDeploy.
Wednesday, April 29 – Webinar – Securely Deliver high resolution content with AWS and Wowza.
Wednesday, April 29 – Webinar – The AdRoll Monitoring Evolution: From Flying Blind to Flying by Instrument – with APN Partner Datadog and customer AdRoll.
Thursday, April 30 – Webinar -Introduction to Amazon Machine Learning.
Thursday, April 30 – Webinar -AWS Lambda: Event-driven Code for Devices and the Cloud.
Thursday, April 30 – Webinar -Easily Build and Scale Mobile Apps with AWS Mobile Services.
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AWS re:Invent.

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AWS Week in Review – April 20, 2015

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