AWS Week in Review – August 17, 2015

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

Monday, August 17	We announced New Metrics for EC2 Container Service – Clusters & Services. We announced a New Logstash Plugin to Search DynamoDB Content Using Elasticsearch. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Migrate Your Microsoft Active Directory Users to Simple AD. To the Stars discussed The Four Horsemen (aka Considerations for Containers). The CloudCheckr Blog talked about Actionable Cost Reporting for AWS Cloud. R.I. Pienaar wrote about Translating Webhooks with AWS API Gateway and Lambda. The Cloud Health Technologies Blog wrote about Optimizing AWS RDS Reservations.
Tuesday, August 18	The AWS Mobile Development Blog introduced the new Amazon S3 Transfer Utility for iOS. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Manage Identities in Simple AD Directories. The CloudCheckr Blog talked about Cleaning House with CloudCheckr. We published a new Quick Start Reference Deployment for Microsoft Web Application Proxy and AD FS.
Wednesday, August 19	The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to do Faster Auto Scaling in AWS CloudFormation Stacks with Lambda-Backed Custom Resources. The AWS Compute Blog discussed Better Together: Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda. We announced the New APN Competency – Mobile Solutions (also on the APN Blog). We announced that AWS CodeDeploy is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo Region). The 2nd Watch Blog talked about Understanding the AWS Security Model and Services. The Cloud Academy Blog discussed AWS IAM Security Through the Command Line and SDKs (Java, Ruby, and PHP). The Cloudability Blog discussed AWS Data Transfer Costs: What They Are and How to Minimize Them. The Ruxit Blog talked about Docker Container Monitoring in Amazon ECS Clusters.
Thursday, August 20	We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Extending Seven Bridges Genomics with Amazon Redshift and R. We announced that you can now Store and Process Graph Data Using the DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan (also on the Startup Blog). We announced the AWS Pop-up Loft in London. We announced that AWS Data Pipeline Now Supports All Amazon RDS Databases. We announced that Amazon Machine Learning is Now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Sign up for the AWS re:Invent Live Stream. The AWS Security Blog showed you how to Organize Your Permission by Using Separate Managed Policies. The Cloudyn Blog explored How Much Does it Cost to Run Relational Database Service (RDS) Options on AWS. AWS Premier Consulting Partner Logicworks wrote about 5 Real Ways to Approach Security Automation.
Friday, August 21	We announced that Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03.01 is Now Available. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced the New Alexa Lightning API. The AWS Partner Network Blog invited you to Learn More Through APN Webcast.

New & Notable Open Source

jungle simplifies AWS command line operations.
Trycorder is a cross-account AWS data collector.
cep implements Complex Event Processing using DynamoDB Streams and Lambda.
glambda is a module for mocking and testing AWS API Gateway in conjunction with Lambda functions.
puppetlabs-aws is a Puppet module for managing AWS resources to build out infrastructure.
kinesis-tail is “tail -f” for Kinesis streams.
let-me-in adds an IP address to a Security Group to allow instance access via SSH.
connection-tracker tracks public endpoints and connections across AWS accounts using VPC Flow Logs.
aws-gpg13 is a collection of tests and CloudFormation templates to assess GPG13 compliance.
aws-sandbox defines an AWS sandbox infrastructure with Terraform.io.
eclair is a simple SSH tool for EC2.
dnachat is a lightweight chat server that runs on EC2 and uses ElastiCache for Redis.

New Customer Stories

BQool – Review and feedback management for Amazon sellers.
GULP – Human resources portal.
ITV – Test and production environments for UK commercial television.
Kit Check – IoT-driven medication tracking for hospitals.
Makewaves – Social badging platform.
Myriad Group – New social networking system + legacy system migration.
SIGMA SPORT – SaaS for athletic training data.
ThinPrint – Global printing platform.
Tullius Walden – Cloud-based German bank.

New YouTube Videos

New SlideShare Content

New Marketplace Applications

Upcoming Events

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 – Sold out, register for the live stream!

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

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 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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AWS Week in Review – August 17, 2015

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