AWS Week in Review – March 7, 2016

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

Monday March 7	We launched Notifications for AWS CodeCommit. We announced that New AWS Accounts Now Default to Long EC2 Resource IDs. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Automate Restricting Access to a VPC by Using AWS IAM and AWS CloudFormation. Botmetric talked about Tackling AWS Security Threat Landscapes: Access Controls. CloudCheckr shared 5 Tips to Best Leverage Diverse AWS Services. CloudEndure listed the Top 5 Cloud Computing Books to Read in 2016. Cloud Academy published Part 3 of a series on Centralized Log Management with AWS CloudWatch. Trek10 talked about Lambda Fanout, What is is Good For?
Tuesday March 8	We announced Availability of t2.nano Instances in the EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. We announced you can now Run XCTest UI Tests with AWS Device Farm. The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about Modeling SaaS Tenant Profiles on AWS. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Reduce Security Threats and Operating Costs Using AWS WAF and Amazon CloudFront. N2W Software explained How to Automated Your Backup Operations in AWS. Sungard showed you How to Implement Microservices using AWS Lambda and Deploy with CloudFormation. Cloudyn explained How to Measure Your Core-Hours Costs to Gain Another Level of Cloud Cost Optimization. Cloud Academy published an Introduction and Walkthrough of AWS Config. ParkMyCloud showed you How to Manage Parking Recommendations in ParkMyCloud. Localytics wrote about Serverless Slackbots Powered by AWS.
Wednesday March 9	We announced that Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached Auto-Discovery for PHP 7. Guest posts showed you how to Use Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog and told the story of Flatiron Health – Using AWS to Help Improve Cancer Treatment. We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. 8KMiles listed 5 Reasons Why Pharmaceutical Companies Need to Migrate to the Cloud. Stelligent showed you how to Create a Pipeline Using the AWS CodePipeline Console. Spotinst talked about Implementing Blue/Green Deployments with Elastigroup on AWS. Netflix described How We Build Code at Netflix. Cloud Technology Partners shared A Bulletproof DevOps Strategy to Ensure Success in the Cloud. DZone Cloud Zone talked about Automatic Deployment Through a Bastion (Gateway) Server. Gathering Clouds talked about The #1 AWS Cloud Security Tool for Retailers and eCommerce. Gorillastack asked Is Virtual Reality The Next Frontier For Amazon Web Services To Conquer? Trek10 introduced LambdaClock. Serverworks wrote about Parallel Image Processing for Fluid Mechanics with AWS Lambda.
Thursday March 10	We announced that Amazon CloudWatch Logs now has AWS CloudTrail support and new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics. We announced that AWS CodeDeploy is Now Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. We announced that Amazon CloudWatch Logs Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. We announced that Amazon Redshift Now Supports Table Level Restore. We updated the AWS SDK for Ruby and the AWS SDK for Go. We published the Second Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 Release Candidate. The Amazon GameDev Blog announced New Regions and Autoscaling Features for Amazon GameLift. The AWS Big Data Blog shared a partner post from Attunity. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog explained How Cities Can Stop Wasting Money, Move Faster, and Innovate. The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about Architecting Microservices Using Weave Net and Amazon EC2 Container Service. James Hamilton wrote about A Decade of Innovation. ParkMyCloud showed you How to Save Money with AWS Scripting. Skeddly showed you how to Change EBS Volume Action.
Friday March 11	I reviewed some Hot Startups on AWS. Werner Vogels shared 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about the Cities of the Future, Today. 8KMiles hosted a Tweet Chat on Amazon KMS. Mark Litwintschik examined A Billion Taxi Rides on Amazon EMR Running Presto.
Saturday March 12	The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog announced that the AWS 2016 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge is Live. Toby Hede is writing The Complete and Most Excellent Micro Manual for Hosting a Static Website on AWS.
Sunday March 13	Serverless Code announced Zappa, Django, and Lambda VPC Support, discussed Using Python in the Serverless Framework, and talked about Using Scikit-Learn in AWS Lambda. Ted Timmons wrote about AWS CloudFormation, VPC NAT, and Donuts.

New & Notable Open Source

sqs-to-lambda-via-lambda implements Amazon SQS to Lambda using Lambda.
akiro magically compiles NPM packages with native extensions for Lambda.
cloudwatch-to-sumo sends metrics from CloudWatch to Sumo Logic.
awsam is an AWS Account Manager modeled after rvm.
aws-jwt-auth is an API Gateway custom authorizer to validate JWTs created by WSO2.
aws_mbedtls_mqtt is the source code to use the mbedTLS library to connect to AWS IoT.
jaxrs-lib contains Jersey and Hibernate Components for building REST APIs hosted on Elastic Beanstalk.
autosignr is a Puppet Certificate Auto-signer for AWS.
llama-cli is Chaos Llama, a tool for testing resiliency and recoverability of AWS-based architectures.
cfn-amibaker bakes EC2 AMIs using CloudFormation and Lambda.

New SlideShare Presentations

Intro to AWS IoT.

Upcoming Events

March 14th – Live Event (Seattle, Washington) – Seattle AWS Architects & Engineers – Lambda + Alexa AWS Teams.
March 15th – Live Event (San Francisco, California) – Amazon Lumberyard team at GDC 2016.
March 17th – Webinar – Security Best Practices for Retailers on AWS.
March 17th – Live Event (Netherlands) – Security in the Cloud.
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) – Inaugural Sydney Serverless Meetup.
AWS Loft – San Francisco.
AWS Loft – New York.
AWS Loft – Tel Aviv.
AWS Public Sector Events.
AWS Global Summit Series.

Help Wanted

AWS Careers.

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AWS Week in Review – March 7, 2016

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