AWS Week in Review – November 30, 2015

November 30

• We announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 27017.
• The AWS Big Data Blog announced that Big Data AWS Training Course Gets Big Update.
• Cloudyn shared Top 7 Cloud Influencers You Need to Know About (I was happy to find my name on the list).
• Cloud Enlightened talked about Executing Ruby Code in AWS Lambda.
• Logz.io showed you How to Use AWS Elasticsearch for Log Management.
• Alooma talked about Building a Custom Analytics Solution with Amazon Redshift.

December 1

• We announced an Edge Location in Chicago for CloudFront and Route 53.
• We announced that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports Three Additional Extensions and Three New Parameters.
• The AWS Compute Blog talked about Getting Started with JAWS on Amazon Web Services.
• The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog announced New Support for Federated Users in the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you How to Migrate Amazon EC2 Instances from EC2-Classic to Amazon VPC with CloudEndure.
• The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Set Up Federated API Access to AWS by Using Windows PowerShell.
• We updated the AWS Mobile SDK, the AWS CLI, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript.
• We announced the AWS Webinars for December 2015.
• CloudEndure published the Big List of 108 Cloud Events of 2016.
• Cloud Academy discussed AWS Security: Bastion Host, NAT Instances, and VPC Peering.
• Cloudreach talked about Serverless Architectures – Scalability Without Infrastructure.
• DevOps Service listed AWS Services That Can Be Reserved and also talked about AWS VPC Basics.

December 2

• We announced that the EC2 Container Service is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
• We published a Quick Start Reference Deployment for Chef Server on AWS.
• The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog discussed Code Analyzers Added to AWS SDK for .NET.
• The AWS Mobile Development Blog published a two part series to help you Get Started with the AWS Device Farm CLI and Calabash (Part 2).
• The AWS Partner Network Blog announced Atlassian Bitbucket Support for AWS CodeDeploy.
• The AWS Startup Collection listed What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in December.
• CloudHealth Academy listed 7 Things to Consider When Selecting a Cloud Service Provider.
• Cloud Academy reviewed AWS Directory Service Simple AD – A Cloud Active Directory.
• ParkMyCloud claimed that AWS Cost Explorer Improves Cost Visibility but not Cost Control.

December 3

• We added CloudFormation Support for AWS Config, CodePipeline, EC2 Simple Systems Manager, and KMS.
• We announced Random Data Splitting and Cross-Validation Support for Amazon Machine Learning.
• The AWS DevOps Blog announced that AWS OpsWorks Now Supports Chef 12 for Linux.
• The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Migrating Metadata When Encrypting an Amazon Redshift Cluster.
• The AWS Enterprise Blog listed 11 Things to Consider When Educating Your Staff on Cloud.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog discussed Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) on AWS with Bitium.
• We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript.
• CloudCheckr announced CloudCheckr Alerts for Cost and Security.
• The Apcelent Blog showed you how to Setup AWS-EC2 Instance Management with Ansible in 10 Commands.

December 4

• We announced a New AWS Office in Istanbul, Turkey.
• The AWS PHP Developer Blog talked about Automating the Deployment of AWS Config with the AWS SDK for PHP.
• The Bitnami Blog announced that PHP 7 Has Been Released: Installers, VMs, Images, and Containers.
• Aerobatic is the easiest way to deploy and manage your static HTML website straight from Bitbucket.

December 5

• Cloud Enlightened talked about CloudFormation Parameter Grouping and Labeling.
• Tyler showed you How to Control your Nest Thermometers with Alexa on the Amazon Echo with AWS Lambda, the Nest REST API, and Alexa Skills SDK.