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AWS Week in Review – August 3, 2015

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

Monday, August 3
Tuesday, August 4
Wednesday, August 5
Thursday, August 6
Friday, August 7

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

New SlideShare Content

New Marketplace Applications

New YouTube Videos

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)

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

Help Wanted

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.