AWS Week in Review – December 14, 2015

December 14

• We announced Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes.
• We updated the DynamoDB Backend for Titan to Version 1.0.
• We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition Two (BYOL) and October 2015 PSU.
• The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Set up the Jenkins Plugin for AWS CodeDeploy.
• The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to implement Continuous Delivery for a PHP Application Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Solano Labs.
• The AWS Big Data Blog discussed Performance Tuning Your Titan Graph Database on AWS.
• The AWS Security Blog announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 9001 Has 10 New Services in Scope.
• Botmetric shared 21 AWS Cloud Security Best Practices You Must Know.
• TriNimbus talked about Streamlining Internal Processes to Realize the Full Value of IaaS / AWS.

December 15

• We announced that EC2 Run Command is Now Available for Linux Instances.
• We announced that the T2.Nano Instances are Now Available.
• We announced Enhancements to the AMI Copy Service.
• I published Four New AWS Podcasts: Compgun, Primadesk, SkinnyPrice, and Cameron Peron.
• We updated the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS SDK for JavaScript, the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for Ruby. and the AWS SDK for Go.
• The AWS Command Line Tool Blog invited you to Super-Charge Your AWS Command-Line Experience with aws-shell.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog wondered What Does it Mean to be a Next-Generation Managed Service Provider?
• The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog published Part 4 of a series on Building Unity Games for Fire TV.
• The AWS Compute Blog talked about Using API Gateway Stage Variables to Manage Lambda Functions.
• The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Automatically Update Your Security Groups for Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF by Using AWS Lambda.
• The AWS Startup Collection talked to bitmovin: Improving Video Quality on the Web.
• BitNami announced that the New Amazon T2.Nano Instances Are Now Supported.
• Cloud Academy discussed AWS AMI Virtualization Types: HVM vs. PV.
• Cloud Machine Manager listed 6 Cloud Computing Experts You Need to Know About (I am honored to be on that list).
• ParkMyCloud asked Can You “ec2-describe” Your Problem?
• The Grav Blog talked about Fast Free Grav Development on EC2.
• The Riot Games Engineering Blog talked about Moving Mountains of Data to AWS.
• Gofore wrote about Going Serverless with Amazon S3 and Lambda.

December 16

• We announced an AWS Trusted Advisor Update – New and Updated Checks.
• We announced that the EC2 Container Service is Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region.
• I shared the InfoWorld Review – Amazon Aurora Rocks MySQL.
• We announced that the AWS Service Catalog is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
• The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to View AWS CodeDeploy Logs in the Amazon CloudWatch Console.
• The AWS Compute Blog showed you How to Use AWS Lambda with Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks.
• The new AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog explained how MPAC Achieved Over 75% Savings.
• The AWS Security Blog described Another Way to Remove Unnecessary Permissions in Your IAM Policies by Using Service Last Access Data.
• Cloudonaut shared their SaaS Architecture: TimeSeries.Guru.
• Cloud Zone noted that Amazon Released Flowchart-Style Traffic Management with Traffic Flow.
• Gathering Clouds observed that The Cloud Does Not Just “Work.”

December 17

•  We announced AWS Cost and Usage Reports for Comprehensive and Customizable Reporting.
• We announced an AWS CloudTrail Update – Turn on in All Regions & Use Multiple Trails.
• We announced Gzip Support for Amazon CloudFront.
• We announced AWS Marketplace Support for Clusters and AWS Resources.
• We announced that you can Now Create up to 500 Security Groups per VPC.
• We updated the AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for Go.
• The AWS Enterprise Blog talked about how AWS Marketplace Continues to Make Using the Cloud Easier.
• We announced the new Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway.
• James Hamilton talked about VPC Nat Gateways: Transactional Uniqueness at Scale.
• The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog talked about Contributing to the AWS SDK for .NET.
• The AWS Java Blog discussed Tuning the AWS SDK for Java to Improve Resiliency.
• The AWS Startup Collection published Part 2 of a series on Scaling on AWS.
• Cloud Academy talked about SELinux to Improve the Security of Your EC2 Servers.
• Cloudability wrote about Drilling into the new AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
• HackPundit wrote about Amazon SES Undetermined Bounce Handling.

December 18

• We announced Enhanced Monitoring for Amazon RDS (MySQL 5.6, MariaDB, and Aurora).
• We announced that AWS Config Rules is Now Available in US East (Northern Virginia).
• We announced that AWS IoT is Now Generally Available.
• We announced that Amazon API Gateway Now Supports API Definition Import and Export.
• The AWS DevOps Blog talked about Using Custom JSON on AWS OpsWorks Layers.
• The AWS DevOps Blog talked about Building Continuous Deployment on AWS with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Data Driven Politics.

December 19

• Cloud Enlightened showed you how to Send Responses Back to CloudFormation Custom Resources From Python Lambda Functions.