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AWS Week in Review – July 16, 2012

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

Tuesday, July 17	We reminded you to get ready to register for AWS re:Invent. The Amazon Simple Email Service now supports Simple DKIM signing. Minutes later, developer Andy Chilton updated his Awssum node.js library to support this important new feature. We released a new episode of The AWS Report: Erica Brescia of BitNami.
Wednesday, July 18	We now have High I/O EC2 Instances with 2 TB of SSD-backed storage. Watch EC2 Principal Product Manager Deepak Singh talk about this new instance type. We released a new blog post on scaling with Amazon SQS. You can now monitor EC2 Instance Status Metrics.
Thursday, July 19	There are some new CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Microsoft Windows.
Friday, July 20	This week AWS Marketplace added a bunch of new products. Some highlights include Appcelerator Cloud Services (services for app developers), Qloudstat SaaS analytics, and MetaFlows Security System a tool to help detect and prevent cyberattacks. We also added Riverbeds Stingray Traffic Manager products, in varying capacities and configurations.

Stay tuned for another exciting week!

— Jeff;

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