AWS Week in Review – May 5, 2014 Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 5 We announced that you can now Configure Auto Scaling Metrics With CloudFormation , and that you can also Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, Object Versioning, and Lifecycle Management for Amazon S3. We announced that the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Containers have been Updated, and now Support the R3 Instance Type. The AWS Application Management Blog published the fifth post in the Develop, Deploy, and Manage for Scale with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation series. The AWS Architecture Blog talked about Organizing Software Deployments to Match Failure Conditions. Tuesday, May 6 We announced that Amazon WorkSpaces is now Available in Europe,. We announced that you can now Provision Amazon Kinesis With AWS CloudFormation. We announced that Amazon SQS Now Supports Message Attributes. The AWS Application Management Blog talked about Customizing AWS OpsWorks with Attributes. The AWS Java Development Blog showed you how to implement Amazon S3 Client-Side Authenticated Encryption. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to use Shibboleth for Single Sign-On to the AWS Management Console. The AWS PHP Development Blog announced the Release of the Version 2.6.2 of the AWS SDK for PHP. Wednesday, May 7 We announced the AWS Webinars for May, with a Focus on Security. We announced New Scheduling Options for the AWS Data Pipeline We announced a Professional-Level Certification Exam for AWS Solutions Architects We published Amazon Machine Images for SQL Server 2014 We announced that the AWS Console Mobile Apps Now Supports Amazon S3 and Route 53 . The AWS Application Management Blog talked about Dockerizing a Python Web App. The AWS Ruby Development Blog talked about Downloading Objects from Amazon S3 Using the AWS SDK for Ruby. Thursday, May 8 We introduced Twelve New Features for Amazon Redshift We announced that Amazon CloudFront has Joined the AWS Free Usage Tier Friday, May 9 We added new AWS Customer Success Stories from Icahn School of Medicine, NTT Docomo, SoundCloud, and VCNC (Korean). This week AWS Marketplace added new products including Microstrategy Analytics Enterprise with SQL Server, F5 Big-IP, Aurora QC Pro and Syncsort Ironcluster ETL. Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed. — Jeff;