AWS Week in Review – July 27, 2015

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

New & Notable Open Source

• Convox lets you launch a private cloud in minutes.
• codepipeline-opsworks-deployer is a A custom action built on Lambda to deploy to OpsWorks from AWS Code Pipeline.
• cwlogs-s3 is a gem to download CloudWatch logs and upload to S3 for processing.
• aws-elasticache-cluster-client-memcached-for-php is an enhanced PHP library to connect to ElastiCache clusters.
• grunt-aws-lambda is a Grunt plugin to assist in developing functions for AWS Lambda.
• rom-dynamo is a DynamoDB adapter for Ruby Object Mapper.
• stack-manager is a tool to manage AWS CloudFormation stacks using Twig templates.
• CloudTrailViewer is a Java desktop tool for viewing AWS CloudTrail log files.
• awful is a Ruby gem that provides simple AWS command line tasks and YAML persistence.
• aws-el connects to the AWS API via Python (Boto)  and Emacs Lisp (EPC).

New SlideShare Content

• AWS Summit – EC2 Avanzado (Spanish).
• Getting Started with AWS Device Farm.
• Introduction to DynamoDB.
• Amazon Redshift Best Practices – Migration and Loading Data.
• Amazon Redshift Best Practices – Reporting and Advanced Analytics.
• Amazon Redshift Best Practices – Optimizing Performance.
• AWS OpsWorks for Windows Server.
• Deploying Line of Business Desktop App Using Amazon WAM.
• AWS Technical Day – EC2 Container Service – Managing Docker-Enabled Apps in EC2.
• AWS Technical Day – Run Large Scale Workloads Cost Effectively in the Cloud with EC2 Spot Instances.

New Marketplace Applications

• Bitfusion Accelerated Media Processing.
• PCI Hardened Ubuntu.
• PCI Hardened Ubuntu with Apache.
• Aquator.

New YouTube Videos

• AWS Loft Talks – The Story of 600,000 VMs.
• Tel Aviv Summit: AWS Innovation in the Datacenter.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Intel on AWS.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon EFS Demo.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon Machine Learning Demo.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Keep Startup DNA as Your Business Grows.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon Redshift.
• Tel Aviv Summit: AWS Command Line Interface.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon VPC and AWS Direct Connect.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon DynamoDB.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Amazon Kinesis.
• Tel Aviv Summit: IoT on AWS Demo.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels.
• Tel Aviv Summit: AWS Elastic Beanstalk Demo.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Enterprise IT in the Cloud.
• Tel Aviv Summit: Hybrid Infrastructure Integration.
• Best Practices for SQL Server on Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2.

Upcoming Events

• August 3-7 – Live Event – AWS/Trek10 Indiana Roadshow.
• August 18 – Webinar – AWS Service Overview.
• August 18 – Webinar – Building Serverless Backends with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
• August 18 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Service Catalog.
• August 19 – Webinar – Introducing Amazon Aurora: A New MySQL-Compatible Database Built for the Cloud.
• August 19 – Webinar – Get insights for your app usage with Amazon Mobile Analytics.
• August 19 – Webinar – Save Up to 90% on your Amazon EC2 Bill with Spot Instances.
• August 19 – Meetup (Sacramento, CA) – High Availability by Design.
• August 20 – Webinar – Running Batch Jobs on Amazon EC2 Container Service.
• August 20 – Webinar – Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency.
• August 20 – Webinar – Amazon S3 Deep Dive and Best Practices.
• August 27 – Meetup (Novato, CA) – Autodesk and Cyan Discuss All Things Docker.
• September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
• September 24 – Meetup (Warszawa, Poland) – AWS User Group Poland.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• 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)

• 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

• Director, AWS Elastic Block Storage Engineering (New Storage Product).
• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;

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