AWS Week in Review – June 2, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. As an experiment, I am starting to include links to a few hand-selected blog posts and articles that are 100% relevant to AWS and that happen to catch my attention. If you would like to submit a link for consideration, please send it to awseditor@amazon.com.

Monday, June 2	We released the newest copies of our SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II Security Reports covering the period from October 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. You can request a copy of the AWS SOC 1 or SOC 2 Security Reports through your AWS Business Development (BD) representative. If you do not have a BD representative you can request one here. We released the newest copy of our SOC 3 Security Report, covering the period from March 31, 2013 to March 31, 2014. We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports Multi-AZ in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region.
Tuesday, June 3	We announced that Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 AMIs are Now Available. We announced that you can now Rapidly Deploy SAP HANA on AWS With New Deployment Templates. The AWS Architecture Blog talked about Doing Constant Work to Avoid Failures. The AWS Java Blog explained how to Secure Local Development with the ProfileCredentialsProvider. The AWS Security Blog talked about Granting Users Permission to Work in the Amazon EC2 Console. The AWS Startup Blog published the story of CopperEgg and their Bootstrap to Billions on AWS. We published Episode 89 of the AWS Podcast.
Wednesday, June 4	We announced that we are Now Accepting Submissions for re:Invent 2014 Sessions. We announced that AWS OpsWorks now Supports AWS CloudTrail. The Amazon SES Blog published Part 2 of an article on Debugging SMTP Conversations – Capturing a Live Conversation. We launched Drupal Test Drives for Drupal, Drupal Commons, and OpenPublic. Kunal Anand of Prevoty published an article on The Important of AWS to Tech Startups.
Thursday, June 5	We announced a Preview of Elastic MapReduce Commands on the AWS Command Line Interface. The AWS Security Blog reviewed Some AWS SDK Security Features you Should Know About.
Friday, June 6	We launched a new AWS GovCloud (US) Test Drive for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator . The AWS Startup Blog turned the Startup Spotlight to FlyData: FlyData: Pack Your Bags We’re Moving to the Cloud. Developer Colin Percival announced that FreeBSD 9.3-BETA is now Available on EC2. Last week AWS Marketplace added new products including RDFEasy :BaseKB Gold Complete, OfficeClip Enterprise Edition for Windows, and Yhat ScienceBox.

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AWS Week in Review – June 2, 2014

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