AWS Week in Review – August 18, 2014 Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 18 We announced that the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Agent is now Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. A post on the High Scalability blog asked (and answered) the question “What would you build if you could process 1 Million database transactions per second for just $1.68/hr?” The answer included an EC2 instance (c3.8xlarge) and the Aerospike NoSQL database. Tuesday, August 19 We announced an Amazon SNS Update, with Support for Large Topics and MPNS Authenticated Mode. I published a personal blog post to commemorate My First 12 Years at Amazon.com. Paul Coady of Backspace.Technology published a tutorial to help you Learn AWS Cognito with the Node.js JavaScript SDK. The AWS Java Blog showed you how to Determine an Application’s Current Region. The AWS Startup Collection talked about CoreOS And Startup Infrastructure That Scales. Wednesday, August 20 We announced New SSL Features for CloudFront – Session Tickets, OCSP Stapling, and Perfect Forward Secrecy. Thursday, August 21 We announced that DISA Has Authorized AWS as the First Commercial Cloud Approved for Sensitive Workloads. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Construct Your Own Launch Stack URL. The AWS Java Blog introduced AWS Ant Tasks, a new AWS Labs project. We updated the EC2 Public IP Address Ranges. There are now 9,306,922 addresses in the published ranges. Friday,August 22 We announced that the AWS Pop-up Loft will Return in the Fall. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Move Big Data Into the Cloud Using Signiant SkyDrop. We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now Supports ELB Connection Draining and Cross-Zone Load Balancing. Last week AWS Marketplace added new products including OpenVPN Access Server , F-Switch, and Citrus Cloud from FPT Software. Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed. — Jeff;