AWS Week in Review – August 10, 2015

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

New & Notable Open Source

• eb_deployer provides blue-green deployment for Elastic Beanstalk.
• node-aws-lambda helps you automate AWS Lambda function deployment.
• s3-fuse is a FUSE-based file system backed by S3.
• flowlogs-reader is a Python library that simplifies the retrieval of VPC Flow Logs from CloudWatch Logs.
• aws-spot-labs is a collection of tools and code samples that illustrate some EC2 Spot instance best practices.
• aws-lambda-function-sandbox-runner lets you run your AWS Lambda functions on your local computer for testing purposes.
• lambda-proc lets you run a companion process to an AWS Lambda function.
• grid is the Guardian’s new image management system.
• shell-assume-aws-role assumes an AWS IAM Role given the AWS profile and other info.
• route53-controller updates Route 53 records sets from AWS Lambda.
• CASTER is the Chrome AWS SAML Token Expiry Reminder.

New Customer Stories

• DNAnexus.
• Endemol.
• Koding.
• Remind.
• Seaco Global.

New SlideShare Content

• Getting Started with Big Data and HPC in the Cloud.
• Amazon WorkSpaces – Fully Managed Desktops in the Cloud.

New YouTube Videos

• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Automate Your Backups at Scale.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Adobe & The Future of Software as a Service.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – A Framework for Cloud IT and Business Transformation.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Recruiting: Transforming Your Career From Military to Civilian.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – AWS Direct Connect.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – AWS GovCloud (US): A Deep Dive into Compliance.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Open GIS Data.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – C2S Tech Tips.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Amazon Directory Services, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkMail, and Amazon WorkDocs.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – NASA Head in the Clouds Success Story.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Practical Steps to Hack-Proofing AWS.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – Public Sector for Rapid Innovation.
• AWS Symposium – Washington, DC – The NOAA Big Data Project: Public-Private Partnerships at Scale.
• AWS Sympostion – Washington, DC – Cloud Adoption Strategies in Higher Education.

Upcoming Events

• August 18 – Webinar – AWS Service Overview.
• August 18 – Webinar – Building Serverless Backends with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
• August 18 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Service Catalog.
• August 19 – Webinar – Introducing Amazon Aurora: A New MySQL-Compatible Database Built for the Cloud.
• August 19 – Webinar – Get insights for your app usage with Amazon Mobile Analytics.
• August 19 – Webinar – Save Up to 90% on your Amazon EC2 Bill with Spot Instances.
• August 19 – Webinar – How Audeze Headphones Doubled Their Profit in One Year Using SAP Business One on AWS – with APN Partner Vision33.
• August 19 – Meetup (Sacramento, CA) – High Availability by Design.
• August 20 – Webinar – Running Batch Jobs on Amazon EC2 Container Service.
• August 20 – Webinar – Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency.
• August 20 – Webinar – Amazon S3 Deep Dive and Best Practices.
• August 25 – Webinar – Getting Started with SAP Business Intelligence on AWS – with APN Partner YASH Technologies.
• August 26 – Webinar – Increasing Disaster Recovery Efficiencies: Deploying Oracle ASM on AWS – with APN Partner Datapipe and customer TaylorMade Golf.
• August 27 – Webinar – Setting up a Reliable Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Bamboo and AWS – with APN Partner Atlassian.
• August 27 – Meetup (Novato, CA) – Autodesk and Cyan Discuss All Things Docker.
• September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
• September 2 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Code Services – with APN Partner Stelligent.
• September 10 – Live Event (Seattle, WA) AWS Workshop and Hackathon (8 AM – 11 PM).
• September 14-18 – Live Event (New York) AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp.
• September 22 – Webinar – Scientific Computing in the Cloud: Speeding Access for Drug Discovery – with APN Partner Avere Systems and customer H3 Biomedicine.
• September 24 – Meetup (Warszawa, Poland) – AWS User Group Poland.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• August 17 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS -Technical (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 26 – Continuous Compliance and Management in the Cloud (6 PM – 9 PM).
• August 20 – Behind the Scenes with ILM Lucasfilm: “Powering the World’s Leading Visual Effects Studio” (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
• October 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

• August 17 – IAM Overview (12 PM – 1 PM).
• August 17 – IAM Best Practices (1 PM).
• August 17 – Understanding Options for Encrypting Your Data (2 – 3 PM).
• August 17 – Behind the Scenes with Rapid7 – AWS Infrastructure as Code (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• August 18 – Mastering Access Management Policies (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
• August 18 – Bring Your Own Identities – Federating Access to Your AWS Environment (1:30 PM – 3 PM).
• August 18 – Entrepreneurs Roundtable (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM).
• August 20 – AdTech Loft Talks (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• August 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
• August 24 – AWS Bootcamp – Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 25 – AWS Bootcamp – Architecting Highly Available Apps (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 25 – Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB (6:30 PM).
• September 2 – Behind the Scenes with Twilio – SMS for Humans: Using NLP for Better Text Experiences (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 24 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).

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— Jeff;

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