AWS Week in Review – April 4, 2016

April 4

• We announced Two New Predefined Commands and an Open Source Agent for the EC2 Run Command.
• We announced Release 4.5.0 of Amazon EMR, with Spark 1.6.1, Updated Hadoop and Presto, and Support for S3 SSE-KMS.
• The AWS Compute Blog talked about Building a Dynamic DNS for Route 53 Using CloudWatch and and Lambda.
• The AWSome Blog talked about Amazon Kinesis Streams.
• BotMetric shared a Beautiful Representation of Your AWS Infrastructure.
• A three-part series from CloudCheckr talked about Making AWS Security Simple (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).
• Evident talked about Implementing the Top Ten AWS Security Best Practices.
• Cloudnaut discussed Event Driven Security Automation on AWS.

April 5

• We announced the Amazon-ECS Optimized Amazon Linux AMI.
• We announced Data Shuffling for Amazon Machine Learning.
• We announced that Amazon API Gateway Can Now Import Swagger Definitions.
• We announced Metric Based Health Checks, DNS Failover for Private Hosted Zones, and Configurable Health Check Locations for Route 53.
• My colleagues blogged about Building Bridges for Better Cancer Treatment with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
• The AWS Compute Blog discussed Indexing Amazon DynamoDB Content with Amazon Elasticsearch Service Using AWS Lambda.
• The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog shared an updated on the AWS SDK for .NET Version 2 Status.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog announced that AWS Has Signed a CJIS Memorandum with the State of Minnesota.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Automatically Delete Terminated Instances in Chef Server with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Events.
• Spotinst talked about Elastigroup & CloudFormation.
• Cloud Technology Partners shared 5 Tips for Landing a Well-Paid Cloud Job.
• DZone Cloud Zone discussed the AWS ZSH Helper.
• Yarden Eitan wrote a Guide to Moving a Flask Backend from Heroku to AWS.

April 6

• We announced that Amazon CloudWatch Logs Are Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region.
• We announced that AWS Config Rules Is Now Available in 4 New Regions: US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).
• We announced that Amazon Redshift is Now Available in the China (Beijing) Region.
• A guest post from LiveOps Cloud talked about Tapping the Billion Dollar Call-Center Market on AWS.
• The AWS Compute Blog announced some Amazon API Gateway Mapping Improvements.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Powering Smart Cities Through Connected Devices.
• Stelligent discussed Security in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• CloudCheckr talked about Optimizing Amazon DynamoDB with CloudCheckr.
• Cloud Academy continued to talked about Automating a Standalone SharePoint Farm with CFN-INIT.
• Trek10 unveiled AWSume – AWS Assume Made Awesome.
• Dius wrote about Building an Auto-Scaling R Cluster Using CfnCluster.
• TeamCity launched an AWS CodeDeploy Running Plugin.

April 7

• We launched an AWS Training Update – Revised AWS Technical Essentials and Architecting on AWS Courses.
• We announced Two New Deployment Policies and an Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 Update for Elastic Beanstalk.
• We announced that AWS IoT is Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region.
• The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Encrypt Your Amazon Redshift Loads with Amazon S3 and AWS KMS.
• The AWS Compute Blog announced that the Node.js 4.3.2 Runtime is Now Available on AWS Lambda.
• The AWS Security Blog announced Simplified Configuration of Trust Relationships in the AWS Directory Service Console.
• The AWS Security Blog answered some Frequently Asked Questions Compliance in the AWS Cloud.
• BotMetric talked about the Evolution of Agile in Enterprises Through the AWS Cloud.
• N2W Software showed you how to Create Consistent Backups Using the XFS File System and EBS Snapshots.
• 2nd Watch wondered Why Buy Amazon Web Services Through a Partner?
• Cloud Academy started a series that will explore the Components of Amazon Serverless Architecture with Amazon API Gateway.
• Cloudonaut launched New CloudFormation templates for NAT Gateway, Static Websites, and Security. They also launched New Online Training: Automatic AWS With CloudFormation.
• Flux7 talked about Updates to AWS CloudFormation: Change Sets Help to Get to the Root Cause of Stack Update Failures.

April 8

• We Announced that CloudWatch Events Now Supports Lambda Function Versions and Aliases.
• We announced that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports PostgreSQL 9.5 With Version 9.5.2, as Well as Minor Versions 9.4.7 and 9.3.1.
• Mark Litwintschik launched a 50-Node Presto Cluster on Amazon EMR.
• Sam Bashton wrote about ELK on ARK (processing 1 TB of logs on AWS per day).
• Batchly showed you how to Run Your EMR Workloads with 80% Savings.
• Michael de Silva shared a Sneak Peek of a Ruby Gem to Provision Amazon Web Services.