AWS Week in Review – November 17, 2014

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

Monday, November 17	The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced AWS Toolkit support for Visual Studio Community 2013. The Trend Micro Blog published a sweet AWS re:Invent Wrap Up. Network Work published a re:Cap of AWS re:Invent: 10 Cool new Amazon Cloud Features. EnterpriseTech wrote about A Rare Peek Into the Massive Scale of AWS. This is a detailed review of the content contained in the AWS Innovation at Scale talk given by James Hamilton at re:Invent.
Tuesday, November 18	We announced that Amazon Redshift is now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. An article in the AWS Ruby Development Blog talked about Using Resources. The AWS Mobile Development Blog published Part 3 of an series on Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication – Roles and Policies. The AWS Startup Collection published Part of a guide to Amazon Simple Notification Service Mobile Push Self-registration for iOS. An entertaining post on the Evident.IO Blog talked about AWS re:Covery 2014 – Now to start that training regimen to prepare for re:Invent 2015. See you there!. Gigaom published an AWS re:Invent 2014: Highlights and Analysis.
Wednesday, November 19	We announced a Price Reduction and new Features for CloudSearch. We updated the EC2 IP Public Address Ranges. There are now 10,261,276 addresses spread across the public AWS Regions. The AWS PHP Developer Blog provided a nice Recap of AWS re:Invent 2014 with a focus on PHP. A post on the AWS Security Blog announced that Federated Users Can Now Access the AWS Support Center. The N2W Blog published part 2 of their series of posts on How To Backup and Recover SharePoint in the AWS Cloud.
Thursday, November 20	We announced an Amazon Zocalo update, with Support for Mobile Apps and 5 TB Files. We announced an Amazon AppStream update that provides Access Windows Apps on Chromebooks, MacBooks, Kindle Fires, and More. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog summarized the .NET Demos at re:Invent 2014. The AWS Ruby Development Blog discussed the New Waiters Feature. A post on the AWS Startup Collection recapped the Startup Launch Announcements at AWS re:Invent. A guest post on the AWS Enterprise Blog talked about Accenture and AWS. The Trend Micro Blog published a nice AWS re:Invent Round Up. A post on the Cloudability Blog listed Three Must-Watch re:Invent Talks from Companies Nailing AWS Cost Management. A post on the Flux7 Blog told you What AWS Users Must Know to Plan for Agile Infrastructure. Tim Anderson published Quick Reflections on Amazon re:Invent, Open Source, and Amazon Web Services.
Friday, November 21	We announced the New APN (AWS Partner Network) Blog. We announced that the AWS Public IP Address Ranges Are Now Available in JSON Format. A detailed post on the AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Visualize Real-time, Geotagged Data with Amazon Kinesis. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog offered you Free Video Training – Everything You Need to Know about Building Apps for the Fire Phone. The CloudCheckr Blog offered some more AWS re:Invent 2014 Highlights. The Cloudability Blog recapped the Cloudability Session at re:Invent 2014. We added a plethora of products to AWS Marketplace during AWS re:Invent including Barracuda Load Balancer ADC, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series NG Firewall, Fortigate-VM, Check Point Virtual Appliance for AWS – R77.10, Trend Micro Deep Security, Sophos Secure OS, HyTrust DataControl for AWS, KeyNexus HSM Encryption Key Storage & Management, Alliance Key Manager for Amazon Web Services, Lumeta Enterprise Situational Intelligence (ESI), and Aegify Security-Scanning.

Here are some of the events that we have on tap for the next week or two (visit the AWS Events page for more):

Thursday, November 27 – Live Event – AWS Interact | Milan
December 1-5 – Webinar Series – AWS APAC Webinar Week
Tuesday, December 2 – Live Event AWS Interact | Barcelona
Tuesday, December 2 – Webinar – AWS Cloud for Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness, & Interagency Collaboration
Thursday, December 4 – Webinar – Introduction to High Performance Computing on Amazon Web Services
Thursday, December 4 – Webinar – What is Cloud Computing with AWS?
Friday, December 12 – Live Event – Cloud School in London.
Thursday, December 18 – Live Event (San Francisco) – AWS Loft Startup Holiday Celebration & Pitch Event

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

— Jeff;

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AWS Week in Review – November 17, 2014

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