AWS Week in Review – March 14, 2016

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.

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

Monday March 14	We announced that the Developer Preview of AWS SDK for C++ is Now Available. We celebrated Ten Years in the AWS Cloud. We launched Amazon EMR 4.4.0 with Sqoop, HCatalog, Java 8, and More. The AWS Compute Blog announced the Launch of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. The Amazon Simple Email Service Blog annouced that Amazon SES Now Supports Custom Email From Domains. The AWS Java Blog talked about Using Amazon SQS with Spring Boot and Spring JMS. The AWS Partner Network Blog urged you to Take Advantage of AWS Self-Paced Labs. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog showed you how to Retrieve Request Metrics from the AWS SDK for .NET. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog announced the New Amazon-Busan Cloud Innovation and Technology Center. We announced Lumberyard Beta 1.1 is Now Available. Bometric shared AWS Security Best Practices: Network Security. CloudCheckr listed 5 AWS Security Traps You Might be Missing. Serverless Code announced that ServerlessConf is Here! Cloud Academy launched 2 New AWS Courses – (Advanced Techniques for AWS Monitoring, Metrics and Logging and Advanced Deployment Techniques on AWS). Cloudonaut reminded you to Avoid Sharing Key Pairs for EC2. 8KMiles talked about How Cloud Computing Can Address Healthcare Industry Challenges. Evident discussed the CIS Foundations Benchmark for AWS Security. Talkin’ Cloud shared 10 Facts About AWS as it Celebrates 10 Years. The Next Platform reviewed Ten Years of AWS And a Status Check for HPC Clouds. ZephyCloud is AWS-powered Wind Farm Design Software.
Tuesday March 15	We announced the AWS Database Migration Service. We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Amazon GameLift. The AWS Partner Network Blog reminded everyone that Friends Don’t Let Friends Build Data Centers. The Amazon GameDev Blog talked about Using Autoscaling to Control Costs While Delivering Great Player Experiences. We updated the AWS SDK for JavaScript, the AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for Go. Calorious talked about Uploading Images into Amazon S3. Serverless Code showed you How to Use LXML in Lambda. The Acquia Developer Center talked about Open-Sourcing Moonshot. Concurrency Labs encouraged you to Hatch a Swarm of AWS IoT Things Using Locust, EC2 and Get Your IoT Application Ready for Prime Time.
Wednesday March 16	We announced an S3 Lifecycle Management Update with Support for Multipart Upload and Delete Markers. We announced that the EC2 Container Service is Now Available in the US West (Oregon) Region. We announced that Amazon ElastiCache now supports the R3 node family in AWS China (Beijing) and AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. We announced that AWS IoT Now Integrates with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and CloudWatch. We published the Puppet on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment. We announced that Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. I wrote about Additional Failover Control for Amazon Aurora (this feature was launched earlier in the year). The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Set Up Uninterrupted, Federated User Access to AWS Using AD FS. The AWS Java Blog talked about Migrating Your Databases Using AWS Database Migration Service. We updated the AWS SDK for Java and the AWS CLI. CloudWedge asked Cloud Computing: Cost Saver or Additional Expense? Gathering Clouds reviewed New 2016 AWS Services: Certificate Manager, Lambda, Dev SecOps.
Thursday March 17	We announced the new Marketplace Metering Service for 3rd Party Sellers. We announced Amazon VPC Endpoints for Amazon S3 in South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). We announced AWS CloudTrail Support for Kinesis Firehose. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you How to Analyze a Time Series in Real Time with AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams. The AWS Enterprise Blog showed you How to Create a Cloud Center of Excellence in your Enterprise, and then talked about Staffing Your Enterprise’s Cloud Center of Excellence. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you How to Analyze Device-Generated Data with AWS IoT and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Stelligent initiated a series on Serverless Delivery. CloudHealth Academy talked about Modeling RDS Reservations. N2W Software talked about How to Pre-Warm Your EBS Volumes on AWS. ParkMyCloud explained How to Save Money on AWS With ParkMyCloud.
Friday March 18	The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog told you how AWS GovCloud (US) Helps ASD Cut Costs by 50% While Dramatically Improving Security. The Amazon GameDev Blog discussed Code Archeology: Crafting Lumberyard. Calorious talked about Importing JSON into DynamoDB. DZone Cloud Zone talked about Graceful Shutdown Using AWS AutoScaling Groups and Terraform.
Saturday March 19	DZone Cloud Zone wants to honor some Trailblazing Women in the Cloud.
Sunday March 20	Cloudability talked about How Atlassian Nailed the Reserved Instance Buying Process. DZone Cloud Zone talked about Serverless Delivery Architectures. Gorillastack explained Why the Cloud is THE Key Technology Enabler for Digital Transformation.

New & Notable Open Source

Tumbless is a blogging platform based only on S3 and your browser.
aws-amicleaner cleans up old, unused AMIs and related snapshots.
alexa-aws-administration helps you to do various administration tasks in your AWS account using an Amazon Echo.
aws-s3-zipper takes an S3 bucket folder and zips it for streaming.
aws-lambda-helper is a collection of helper methods for Lambda.
CloudSeed lets you describe a list of AWS stack components, then configure and build a custom stack.
aws-ses-sns-dashboard is a Go-based dashboard with SES and SNS notifications.
snowplow-scala-analytics-sdk is a Scala SDK for working with Snowplow-enriched events in Spark using Lambda.
StackFormation is a lightweight CloudFormation stack manager.
aws-keychain-util is a command-line utility to manage AWS credentials in the OS X keychain.

New SlideShare Presentations

New Customer Success Stories

AdiMap measures online advertising spend, app financials, and salary data. Using AWS, AdiMap builds predictive financial models without spending millions on compute resources and hardware, providing scalable financial intelligence and reducing time to market for new products.
Change.org is the world’s largest and fastest growing social change platform, with more than 125 million users in 196 countries starting campaigns and mobilizing support for local causes and global issues. The organization runs its website and business intelligence cluster on AWS, and runs its continuous integration and testing on Solano CI from APN member Solano Labs.
Flatiron Health has been able to reach 230 cancer clinics and 2,200 clinicians across the United States with a solution that captures and organizes oncology data, helping to support cancer treatments. Flatiron moved its solution to AWS to improve speed to market and to minimize the time and expense that the startup company needs to devote to its IT infrastructure.
Global Red specializes in lifecycle marketing, including strategy, data, analytics, and execution across all digital channels. By re-architecting and migrating its data platform and related applications to AWS, Global Red reduced the time to onboard new customers for its advertising trading desk and marketing automation platforms by 50 percent.
GMobi primarily sells its products and services to Original Design Manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers in emerging markets. By running its “over the air” firmware updates, mobile billing, and advertising software development kits in an AWS infrastructure, GMobi has grown to support 120 million users while maintaining more than 99.9 percent availability
Time Inc.’s new chief technology officer joined the renowned media organization in early 2014, and promised big changes. With AWS, Time Inc. can leverage security features and functionality that mirror the benefits of cloud computing, including rich tools, best-in-class industry standards and protocols and lower costs.
Seaco Global is one of the world’s largest shipping companies. By using AWS to run SAP applications, it also reduced the time needed to complete monthly business processes to just one day, down from four days in the past.

New YouTube Videos

Upcoming Events

March 22nd – Live Event (Seattle, Washington) – AWS Big Data Meetup – Intro to SparkR.
March 22nd – Live Broadcast – VoiceOps: Commanding and Controlling Your AWS environments using Amazon Echo and Lambda.
March 23rd – Live Event (Atlanta, Georgia) – AWS Key Management Service & AWS Storage Services for a Hybrid Cloud (Atlanta AWS Community).
April 6th – Live Event (Boston, Massachusetts) AWS at Bio-IT World.
April 18th & 19th – Live Event (Chicago, Illinois) – AWS Summit – Chicago.
April 20th – Live Event (Melbourne, Australia) – Inaugural Melbourne Serverless Meetup.
April 26th – Live Event (Sydney, Australia) – AWS Partner Summit.
April 26th – Live Event (Sydney, Australia) – Inaugural Sydney Serverless Meetup.
ParkMyCloud 2016 AWS Cost-Reduction Roadshow.
AWS Loft – San Francisco.
AWS Loft – New York.
AWS Loft – Tel Aviv.
AWS Zombie Microservices Roadshow.
AWS Public Sector Events.
AWS Global Summit Series.

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AWS Week in Review – March 14, 2016

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