AWS Week in Review – April 27, 2015

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

Monday, April 27	We announced Improved JSON Editing and Key Condition Expressions for DynamoDB. We announced Vault Access Policies for Amazon Glacier. We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The Realestate.com.au Tech Blog announced Bash-my-aws: CloudFormation for Infrastructure Jockeys. We updated the AWS SDK for .NET, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS SDK for Java, and AWS SDK for JavaScript. The AWS Java Blog showed you how to Generate Amazon S3 Pre-signed URLs with SSE. The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about Building a Successful Oracle AWS Test Drive. The AWS Security Blog discussed Using AWS in the Context of CESG UK’s Cloud Security Principles. The Cloud Academy Blog published Amazon Machine Learning: Use Cases and a Real Example in Python. The Cloudability Blog reviewed AWS Summit Sydney: Stormy Weather and Cloudy Forecasts.
Tuesday, April 28	We announced that you can now Run Docker Apps Locally Using the Elastic Beanstalk (EB) CLI. We announced the AstroCompute in the Cloud Grants Program. We announced an Amazon WorkDocs Update Featuring Flexible Permissions and Sharing with Groups. A post on the AWS Big Data Blog talked about Building a Numeric Regression Model with Amazon Machine Learning. The AWS Security Blog announced that the 2015 AWS Summit Security Presentations Are Now Available. Matthew D Fuller posted CloudWatch-Buddy, a Node.js Module for sending metrics and logs to CloudWatch. The AWS Startup Collection shined the AWS Startup Spotlight on Poshmark, ClassPass, Headout, and VSCO. Onur Şalk described some Amazon Web Services Storage Gateway Maintenance Tasks. The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Running Enterprise Ecommerce Platforms on Amazon Web Services and Digital Marketing – Content Delivery in the Cloud. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about Amazon Web Services Security: Using the Built-in Features.
Wednesday, April 29	The Fruux Blog announced the release of EC2DNS 2.0 – DNS for EC2. We published a New AWS Quick Start – SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced the Availability of AWS Accreditation Courses in Seven Languages. The RightScale Blog shared Hard Lessons: 4 Reasons to Use SaaS for Cloud Management.
Thursday, April 30	We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now Supports PHP 5.6, and that Multi-Container Docker Environments are now Available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The AWS Mobile Development Blog announced Twitter and Digits Support for Amazon Cognito and some Improvements in the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity. We updated the AWS Storage Gateway with support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor versions 2012 and 2012 R2. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced that Modularization has been Released to Nuget in Preview. The AWS Enterprise Blog advised you to Be Wary of Analysis Paralysis When Using the Cloud and to Make Automation a Key Part of your Cloud Strategy. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Running Services Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service. The N2WS Blog showed you How to Backup Cassandra Hosted on AWS Cloud. The RightScale Blog showed you how to See All Your AWS Costs. The 2nd Watch Blog showed you how to Integrate VMware (vRealize) and AWS Public Cloud with the 2nd Watch vRealize Plugin. The Flux7 Blog presented Amazon Kinesis: A Use Case. The Yelp Engineering Blog described Mycroft – Load Data into Redshift Automatically. The Boxfuse blog published a two part series on deployment of the Dropwizard Unikernel on AWS. Part 1 shows how to get Up and Running; part 2 adds an Automated Maven Build.
Friday, May 1	The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about how Lifesum is Using Amazon Mobile Analytics for user Engagement and Growth. The 2nd Watch Blog provided A Peek Inside How Companies Are Using Amazon’s $6 Billion Cloud. The Send With Us Blog shared their PostgreSQL to DynamoDB migration story. We added three new videos: Introduction to Amazon Web Services Partner Network, AWS Summit 2015 London Keynote (Werner Vogels), and Hitachi Uses AWS Training & Certification to Educate its Staff. We added Objects and WordPress Powered by AMIMOTO (HVM) to the AWS Marketplace.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, May 7 -Webinar – NOAA Big Data Project: AWS Data Alliance Information Session.
Tuesday, May 19 – Webinar – Industry Trends and Best Practices for Cloud Adoption.
Tuesday, May 19 – Webinar – Getting Started: AWS Services Overview.
Tuesday, May 19 – Webinar – Getting Started: Storage with Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier.
Wednesday, May 20 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon Web Services.
Wednesday, May 20 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Infrastructure as Code.
Wednesday, May 20 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon EMR.
Thursday, May 21 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users.
Thursday, May 21 – Webinar – Streaming Data Processing with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda.
Thursday, May 21 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud.
Friday, May 22 – Webinar – Best Practices: Control Access Authentication and Authorization with AWS IAM.
Tuesday, May 26 – Live Event – AWS User Group Norway – Designing for Elasticity on AWS.
AWS Summits.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft

Monday, May 4 – May the Fourth Be With You – Loft Movie Day: The Empire Strikes Back.
Friday, May 8 – AWS Pop-up Loft Ping-Pong Tournament.
Monday, May 11 –Advanced AWS Bootcamp – Taking AWS to the Next Level.
Tuesday, May 12 –Chef Bootcamp – A Taste of Chef on AWS.
Tuesday, May 12 –Behind the Scenes with Offerletter.io – How Not to Lose a Million Dollars -An Engineers Guide to negotiating Salary and Equity.
Wednesday, May 13 –A Taste of Chef on AWS.
Thursday, May 14 – Chef Ask an Architect.
Thursday, May 14 – Internet of Things Loft Talks.
Friday, May 15 – Chef Bootcamp – A Taste of Chef on AWS.
Monday, May 18 – AWS Bootcamp – Architecting Highly Available Applications on AWS.
Tuesday, May 19 – AWS Lambda Bootcamp.
Friday, May 22 –AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series.
Thursday, May 28 – Build Your Own Website: Making Web Development Fun and Easy.

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AWS Week in Review – April 27, 2015

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