AWS Week in Review – August 3, 2015

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

New & Notable Open Source

• STUPS is a PaaS for multiple autonomous teams atop AWS.
• Hyperion provides a Scala library and abstractions for AWS Data Pipeline.
• hugo-lambda uses AWS Lambda to run the Hugo static site generator.
• Elastiquartz is a cron job scheduler for AWS (cron file in S3, messages sent to SQS).
• aws-must is manages CloudFormation templates.
• awscw-custom-metrics lets you configure custom metrics and send them to AWS.
• cljs-lambda provides utilities to deploy Clojurescript functions to Lambda.
• awsDynamoDBAndroid is an Android client for DynamoDB.
• Horizon is a node.js web application pattern for AWS with zero servers to maintain.

New Customer Stories

• AdRoll.
• DoApp.
• Flitsmeister.
• Instructure.
• Ivy Tech Community College.
• King County.
• Pixels.
• Stanford University.
• Tigerspike.
• Wehkamp.

New SlideShare Content

• Real-time Data Processing with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda.

New Marketplace Applications

• US Geocoding (MapLarge).
• SAS University Edition.
• TIBCO Clarity.

New YouTube Videos

• Introduction to AWS Pricing.
• UMUC Builds New Analytics Platform Using Amazon Redshift.
• AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration.
• Microsoft ADFS and AWS IAM.
• Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Consulting.
• Stephen Garden, CorpInfo.
• Neil Miles, Smart421.
• The Benefits of Connected Care (Gerry Miller, Cloudtricity).

Upcoming Events

• August 13 – Meetup (Istanbul, Turkey) – AWS Meetup #2.
• 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 – 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 27 – Meetup (Novato, CA) – Autodesk and Cyan Discuss All Things Docker.
• September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
• September 10 – Live Event (Seattle, WA) AWS Workshop and Hackathon (8 AM – 11 PM).
• 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 11 – Behind the Scenes with AdRoll – Petabyte-Scale Data Workflows with Docker, Luigi, and Spot Instances (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• August 12 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Bohemian Guitars (7 PM – 10 PM).
• August 13 – Meet the Amazon Aurora Subject Matter Experts (2 PM – 4 PM).
• August 13 – Programmatic Security on AWS (6 PM – 8 PM).
• 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 10 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 11 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
• August 12 – DynamoDB Deep Dive (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
• August 12 – Behind the Scenes with Threat Stack: Building a Production Analytics System in Amazon Redshift (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
• August 13 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Controller (7 PM – 10 PM).
• 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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• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;

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