AWS Week in Review – January 19, 2015

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

Monday, January 19	We announced Auto-Recovery for EC2. We announced that Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. We announced Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing Support in ClassicLink. We updated the Enterprise Backup and Recovery (On Premises to AWS) Guide. The R Shiny EC2 Bootstrap Guide helps you to install the R environment and the Shiny server on EC2. Some recent posts on the MediaMath Developer Blog talked about Breaking the Logjam (Using Kinesis), VPCs, JumpBoxes, and NATs, and VPNs, Security Groups, and More.
Tuesday, January 20	We announced the Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge). We announced that you can now Monitor JSON-Formatted Logs With CloudWatch. We announced New Training to Help you Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level Exam. We published an AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment for Exchange Server 2013. We announced an Amazon Cognito Update with Sync Store Access, Improved Console, and More. We updated the AWS SDK for JavaScript, the AWS SDK for .NET, the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS SDK for Ruby, the AWS SDK for Android, We uploaded the Getting Started With Amazon Web Services Webcast slides to SlideShare. A post on the AWS Security Blog announced that AWS Now Offers a Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Workbook. A post on the AWS Startup Collection talked about Using Containers to Build a Microservices Architecture. A post on the Cloud Academy Blog provided advice on Architecting on AWS – Design for Graceful Service Degradation.
Wednesday, January 21	We announced the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-In Update. A post on the AWS DevOps Blog talked about Tracking the Cost of your AWS CloudFormation Stack. Josh Padnick published Part 1 of the Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on Amazon Web Services. We updated the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) with enhanced support for Amazon EMR and Amazon Cognito. A post on the Periscope Blog talked about Demystifying Redshift — What’s Up with My Disks? Paul Ford told the story of How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian. A post on the CloudNative Blog talked about AWS S3 Performance Tuning. A post on the Cloudability Blog talked about Mastering the new Reserved Instance Types with Cloudability.
Thursday, January 22	We introduced Action Links for AWS Trusted Advisor. We announced Customizable Security Groups and Multiple Task Instances for Amazon EMR. We announced that Route 53 now Supports Internationalized Domain Names for Domain Registration. A post on the AWS Startup Collection told the story of Crittercism and How They Scaled to Handle Mobile Performance Issues for One Billion Users. A post on the Gathering Clouds Blog provided recommendations for Improving the End User Experience with Amazon Web Services. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog published Part 2 of a series on Making Games for Amazon Appstore (Part 1 is also interesting).
Friday, January 23	We announced that you can now Offload Ruby Background Jobs to EC2 Instances by Using Amazon Simple Workflow. We updated the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS. A post on the AWS DevOps Blog revealed many Best Practices for Deploying Applications on AWS CloudFormation Stacks. A post on the Evident.io Blog provided advice on Avoiding the Top 5 Most Common AWS Security Risks. New products added to the AWS Marketplace include Qualcomm Qizx (NoSQL database), Cassandra 1-Click Cluster Cloudata Manager (1-click orchestration of Cassandra clusters), updated application servers from Zend, and over 20 new open source applications from Softaculous.

Coming Soon:

January 26th – Live Event (Seattle) – Tracking, Allocating and Optimizing AWS Spend.
January 26th – Webinar – Build Agile Applications in AWS Cloud.
January 29th – Live Event (San Francisco) – AWS HealthTech Day at the AWS Pop-up Loft.
January 29th – Webinar – Build Agile Applications in AWS Cloud for Government.
February 2nd – Live Event (Vancouver, Canada) – Vancouver AWS User Group (I’ll be speaking).
March 5th – Live Event (Scotland) – AWS User Group Scotland.

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

— Jeff;

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AWS Week in Review – January 19, 2015

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