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AWS Week in Review – March 28, 2016

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

Monday March 28	The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Easily Identify Your Federated Users by Using AWS CloudTrail. BotMetric continued their series of posts on AWS Security Best Practices with two new posts: Data Security and Detective Services. Evident discussed Programmatic Security Automation for AWS. Cloud Academy shared some tips designed to help you to Pass the AWS DevOps Pro Exam. Cloudonaut explored Amazon S3 as an Object Store. Gorillastack explained Why You Should Move Compute to Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The Register reviewed Amazon WorkSpaces Two Years On.
Tuesday March 29	We launched Change Sets for AWS CloudFormation. We announced that Amazon Redshift Now Supports Using IAM Roles With COPY and UNLOAD Commands. We announced that AWS WAF Now Supports a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Match Condition. A guest post explained how the Experiment that Discovered the Higgs Boson Uses AWS to Probe Nature. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced a New Alexa Skills Kit Template – A Step-by-step Guide to Build a Fact Skill. The AWS Big Data Blog discussed Crunching Statistics at Scale with SparkR on Amazon EMR. The AWS Compute Blog discussed Cloudmicro for AWS: Speeding up Serverless Development at the Coca-Cola Company. The AWS Partner Network Blog introduced Amazon VPC for On-Premises Network Engineers (this is Part 1 of a series). The AWS Security Blog showed How to Detect and Automatically Revoke Unintended IAM Access with Amazon CloudWatch Events. The AWS Startup Collection showed how to Trigger Lambda Functions via Text Messages. Stelligent continued their series on serverless delivery with two new posts: Bootstrapping the Pipeline and Orchestrating the Pipeline. RightScale explained how to Understand Your Effective Cloud Costs with Markups and Markdowns. Sungard talked about Lambda Formation: Rocket Fuel for AWS CloudFormation.
Wednesday March 30	We announced that CloudWatch Events now Supports Amazon SQS Queue Targets. We added Four New Checks to AWS Trusted Advisor. The Amazon GameDev Blog shared some Reflection on GDC 2016. The ABC Developer Blog talked about Configuration Management for both Onsite and in the Cloud. CloudNative introduced Yeobot to manage multiple AWS accounts. N2W Software compared AWS Backup vs. Traditional Backup: 6 Fundamental Differences. Netflix talked about Global Cloud – Active-Active and Beyond. Cloudability compared t2.large to m4.large EC2 Instances. Skeddly described a Near-Zero-Cost Insurance Policy Against Unused EC2 Instances. Dome9 advised you to Lift and Shift to the Public Cloud with Security in Mind.
Thursday March 31	We announced that Amazon Aurora is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. We announced that AWS Config is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. We announced that EC2 Container Registry is Now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. We announced that Amazon RDS Now Has Multi-AZ support for SQL Server in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. We announced Automatic Retargeting of Auto Scaling Spot Instances. We announced Updated CloudFormation Support for S3, Lambda, and Amazon EMR. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog announced New ASK Features: Standard Home Card with Image Support. The AWS DevOps Blog invited you to Explore Continuous Delivery in AWS With the Pipeline Starter Kit. The AWS Big Data Blog asked Will Spark Power the Data Behind Precision Medicine? The AWS JavaScript Blog announced Support for Promises in the AWS SDK for JavaScript. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog explained how Time to Science and Time to Results are Transforming Research in the Cloud. BotMetric discussed The Importance of Using AWS for Disaster Recovery.
Friday April 1	We announced that the RDS Console Now Supports Cluster View for Amazon Aurora. We announced that Amazon RDS Now Supports January PSU Patches, Improved Custom Oracle Directories, and Read Privileges Support. The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Color-Code Your AWS OpsWorks Stacks for Better Instance and Resource Tracking. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog described a Mission to Make the World a Safer Place Through Crowdsourced Intelligence. The AWS Startup Collection announced the Return of the London Loft.
Sunday April 3	Rowan Udell talked about Visualizing EC2 Security Groups.

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— Jeff;

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