AWS Week in Review – December 28, 2015

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

Monday December 28	I published podcasts from Aerobatic, Aire, Prairie Cloud, and Osper. We announced that D2 Instances are Available in AWS GovCloud (US). We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports AWS WAF, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, DynamoDB Global Secondary Indexes, S3 Replication, and CloudWatch Logs Subscriptions. We announced that you can Add or Modify Request Headers Forwarded from Amazon CloudFront to Origin. Cloud Technology Partners observed that AWS Migration Best Practices Emerge. High Scalability talked about Using AWS Lambda Functions to Create Print Ready Files.
Tuesday December 29	The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Query Routing and Rewrite: Introducing pgbouncer-rr for Amazon Redshift and PostgreSQL. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared the story of University of Pennsylvania: 100 Machines for Each Student. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Scaling on AWS to > 500K Users. The AWS Security Blog shared The Most Popular AWS Security Blog Posts of 2015. ElasticBox talked about What to Expect in Cloud Management for 2016. Cloudyn shared their 2016 Cloud Predictions. Cloud Technology Partners talked about Understanding the Limits of AWS. Cloudability shared their December in Review: New Savings Tools, New Spending Data. ParkMyCloud shared their TL;DR: Improve Cloud Management, Simplify Everything Else for 2016.
Wednesday December 30	We updated the AWS SDK for Java. We announced that Amazon Mobile Analytics Now Has REST API Support for Querying App Data. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about The AWS Military Fellowship. The AWS Startup Collection showed how to Build a Serverless Dynamic DNS System with AWS. The AWS Partner Network Blog shared The 10 Most Popular APN Blog Posts of 2015. Botmetric shared their Year in Review on the AWS Cloud. Cloud Machine Manager noted that Education is Key to Reducing Your AWS Bill.
Thursday December 31	I published podcasts from Banter, Predicsis, Peak, Urban Massage, Contentful, Babbel, and Intel IoT. The AWS Big Data Blog shared their Month in Review. CloudHealth Technologies shared their 2015 Cloud Computing Year in Review.
Friday January 1	Cloudonaut shared their AWS Year in Review.

New & Notable Open Source

awstagger is a tool for bulk adding, updating, and removing tags from AWS resources.
Clark2015_AWS can analyze neuroimaging data in the AWS cloud.
aws-reporting generates AWS usage reports.
swaggy-lambda is a tool to make serverless Swagger-based REST services using API Gateway and Lambda.
slackmessenger is a demo app for Docker, Codeship, and AWS.
apex is a minimal Lambda function manager with Go support.
fullstop performs audit reporting across multiple AWS accounts.
aws-autotranscode uses Lambda to automatically transcode incoming media using an S3 bucket.
s3-uploader is a simple file uploader for S3, written in Go.
aws-api-gateway-for-cloudformation is a set of custom resources that enables API Gateway support for CloudFormation.

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AWS Week in Review – December 28, 2015

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