AWS Weeks in Review – December 23 & 30, 2013 Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land over the last two weeks: Monday, December 23 The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about Retrieving Media on Android with KitKat. Thursday, December 26 The AWS Ruby Development Blog talked about Using RSpec 3. Friday, December 27 The AWS Application Management Blog discussed Resource Condition Support in the AWS CloudFormation Editor for Visual Studio. The AWS .NET Development Blog published Part 3 of an article on IAM Credential Rotation & Access Key Management for .NET Applications. We added new AWS customer success stories from Amorepacific (Korean), Astellas (Japanese), Freee (Japanese), and Nikkei (Japanese). Monday, December 30 The AWS Mobile Development Blog published Part 6 of an article on DynamoDB on Mobile, with a discussion on Global Secondary Indexes. We published a pair of new white papers: Extending Your IT Infrastructure With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and Overview of Amazon Web Services. We announced that the DynamoDB Console is now available in AWS GovCloud (US). Tuesday, December 31 The AWS Application Management Blog published A Year In Review: Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, and CloudFormation. The AWS PHP Development Blog wrapped up A Great 2013 for the AWS SDK for PHP. The AWS Ruby Development Blog talked about Ruby SDK Version 2 and Memoization, Parameter Validation, and Flexible Gem Dependencies. We published a pair of new white papers: Optimizing for Star Schemas on Amazon Redshift and Tips for Securing Your EC2 Instance. We announced that Amazon Glacier now supports Range Retrieval of Inventory. Thursday, January 2 The AWS Application Management Blog announced a Few New CloudFormation Features for the New Year. We announced Four New APIs for Auto Scaling. Friday, January 3 We added new AWS Customer Success stories from Artsy, DerbySoft, Gamegoo, Kurt Geiger, LightInTheBox, NQ Mobile, and SMiT. This week AWS Marketplace added new products including Compuware for EMR, Melio, JumpCloud, Amimoto, WAPT Cloud, Stackdriver, Hyperglance and Webuzo. Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed. — Jeff;