AWS News Blog
AWS Week in Review – July 20, 2015
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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. If you find these summaries useful, or if you have ideas for additional types of content, please feel free to leave a comment.
New & Notable Open Source
- aws-google-login allows you to log into the AWS Console with Google Apps.
- aws-api-gateway-swagger-importer lets you create or update Amazon API Gateway APIs from a Swagger representation.
- libqtaws is an library for consuming AWS services from Qt applications.
- aws-terraform is a practical implementation of CoreOS cluster provisioning on AWS.
- aws-ec2-ssh lets you retrieve all active EC2 instances and SSH to them based on tag name.
- aws-cleanup cleans up unused EBS volumes, AMIs, and snapshots.
- stacker is an opinionated CloudFormation stack builder.
- aws-sdk-perl is an attempt to build an AWS SDK in Perl.
- opsworks_cookbooks is a cookbook collection for OpsWorks.
- log4net.awsKinesis is a log4net appender that writes to an AWS Kinesis stream.
- node-teslakinesis streams Tesla telemetry data to AWS Kinesis.
New Customer Stories
- Alert Logic.
- Apeejay Stya & Svrán Group.
- Coinbase.
- Coursera.
- Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.
- GumGum.
- Instacart.
- Lenddo.
- NDTV Convergence.
- New York City Department of Transportation.
- Nordstrom.
- Oscar Insurance.
- Pinoy Travel.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific.
New SlideShare Content
- Batch Processing with Amazon EC2 Container Service.
- Empire – Building a PaaS with Docker and AWS.
- Convert Your Code into a Microservice Using AWS Lambda.
- AWS Technical Day – Amazon Cognito.
- AWS Technical Day – Building Your Data Warehouse with Redshift.
- AWS Technical Day – Introducing Amazon API Gateway.
New YouTube Videos
- Women in Tech Panel: Women Executives from AWS, Georgetown University, Navy, SAP, and Congress.
- Michael Wagers, COO, Seattle Police Department shares how they’re transforming policing on the cloud.
- David Ohana shares how UNICEF is reaching a global audience in a more agile and cost effective way.
- Chan Cheow How shares how the Singapore Government is digitizing citizen services on the cloud.
- Mark Schwartz, DHS, CIS CIO shares how agencies are modernizing and accelerating the pace of IT.
- Jon Booth, CMS shares Healthcare.gov’s turnaround using cloud.
- Congressman Gerry Connolly talks about progress in public services enabled by the cloud.
- AWS Public Sector Symposium Keynote Featuring Teresa Carlson and Customers.
- AWS NY Summit – Amazon ECS Customer Use Cases.
- AWS Summit London – Peterborough City Council: Infrastructure Innovation in the Cloud.
- AWS Summit London – Cork Institute of Technology: Cloud Transformation in Education.
- AWS Summit London – Transport for London Infrastructure Powered by AWS.
- AWS Summit London – UCAS’ Journey to the Cloud.
- AWS Summit London – Makewaves Transforming Education in the Cloud.
- AWS Symposium – Washington, DC.
New Marketplace Applications
- DivvyCloud Enterprise.
- Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition (Silver).
- Bitfusion Accelerated Media Processing.
Upcoming Events
- July 28 – Webinar – Best Practices: OpsWorks for Windows on AWS.
- July 28 – Webinar – Deploying line of business desktop apps using Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
- July 29 – Webinar – Overview: Build and Manage your APIs with Amazon API Gateway.
- July 29 – Webinar – Deploying and Scaling Web Application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- July 29 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Troubleshooting Operational and Security incidents in your AWS Account using CloudTrail.
- July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Device Farm.
- July 30 – Webinar – Best Practices: Real-time Data Processing with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda.
- July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon DynamoDB.
- July 29 – Webinar – Troubleshoot Operational & Security Incidents with CloudTrail.
- August 19 – Meetup (Sacramento, CA) – High Availability by Design.
- August 27 – Meetup (Novato, CA) – Autodesk and Cyan Discuss All Things Docker.
- September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
- AWS Summits – Latin America.
- AWS re:Invent.
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)
- July 27 – Lowering Total Cost of Ownership with AWS (3 – 4 PM).
- July 30 – Shinola Brings Back “Made in America” to Detroit with DevOps and the Cloud (6 – 8 PM).
- July 31 – IoT Hack Day Sponsored by MediaTek Labs (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 10 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 11 – Behind the Scenes with AdRoll – Petabyte-Scale Data Workflows with Docker, Luigi, and Spot Instances (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
- August 12 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Bohemian Guitars (7 PM – 10 PM).
- August 13 – Meet the Amazon Aurora Subject Matter Experts (2 PM – 4 PM).
- August 13 – Programmatic Security on AWS (6 PM – 8 PM).
- August 17 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS -Technical (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 26 – Continuous Compliance and Management in the Cloud (6 PM – 9 PM).
- August 20 – Behind the Scenes with ILM Lucasfilm: “Powering the World’s Leading Visual Effects Studio” (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
- September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
- September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)
- July 28 – Convert Your Code into a Microservice Using AWS Lambda (4 PM – 6 PM).
- July 28 – Behind the Scenes with Timehop: Optimizations for Time Series Data in DynamoDB (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
- July 29 – Security Threats, the Cloud, and Your Responsibilities presented by Evident.io (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
- July 30 – Build Your Own Website: Making Web Development Fun & Easy (1 PM – 6 PM).
- August 3 – Amazon EMR Deep Dive (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
- August 5 – Startup Pitch Event and Summer Social (6:30 PM).
- August 10 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 11 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 12 – DynamoDB Deep Dive (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
- August 12 – Behind the Scenes with Threat Stack: Building a Production Analytics System in Amazon Redshift (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
- August 13 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Controller (7 PM – 10 PM).
- August 17 – IAM Overview (12 PM – 1 PM).
- August 17 – IAM Best Practices (1 PM).
- August 17 – Understanding Options for Encrypting Your Data (2 – 3 PM).
- August 17 – Behind the Scenes with Rapid7 – AWS Infrastructure as Code (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
- August 18 – Mastering Access Management Policies (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
- August 18 – Bring Your Own Identities – Federating Access to Your AWS Environment (1:30 PM – 3 PM).
- August 18 – Entrepreneurs Roundtable (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM).
- August 20 – AdTech Loft Talks (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
- August 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
- August 24 – AWS Bootcamp – Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 25 – AWS Bootcamp – Architecting Highly Available Apps (10 AM – 6 PM).
- August 25 – Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB (6:30 PM).
- September 2 – Behind the Scenes with Twilio – SMS for Humans: Using NLP for Better Text Experiences (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
Help Wanted
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— Jeff;