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AWS Week in Review – October 12, 2015
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September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details.
Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:
New & Notable Open Source
- lambda-complex is a Node.js framework for applications that run entirely within Lambda, SQS, and other high-abstraction AWS services.
- aws-iot contains code for interacting with the AWS IoT platform.
- AWSnycast is a routing daemon for AWS route tables that simulates an Anycast-like service.
- votebot is a Slackbot that runs on AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda to support voting for things.
- acli is an alternative CLI for AWS.
- kube-cluster launches a Kubernetes cluster on AWS with 3 types of nodes.
- wacalytics is a scalable analytics microservice for AWS using S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
- live-image-resize resizes images and stores them in S3.
- play-docker-aws-tutorial is a 101-level tutorial on the use of Docker to publish Play apps to AWS.
- sheepherding is a collection of scripts that implement AWS reporting driven by Lambda.
New SlideShare Presentations
Upcoming Events
- AWS IoT Mega Contest.
- AWS Security Road Shows.
- October 21 – Webinar – Running MongoDB 3.0 on AWS.
- October 21 – Webinar – Securing Gene Sequencing Data on AWS for HIPAA Compliance – with APN Partner Alert Logic and customer GenomeNext.
- October 27 – Webinars:
- Introducing Amazon QuickSight.
- Getting Started with AWS IoT.
- Introducing Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
- October 28 – Webinars:
- Introducing Spot Blocks.
- Introducing AWS WAF.
- Introducing Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
- October 29 – Webinars:
- AWS Lambda Best Practices: Python, Scheduled Jobs, and More.
- Introducing AWS Mobile Hub.
- Introducing AWS Import / Export Snowball.
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)
- October 19 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
- October 19 – Transparency Across DevOps Culture, Process and Toolchain (7 – 9 PM).
- October 20 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
- October 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
- October 22 – IoT Hack Day Sponsored by MediaTek Labs (10 AM – 6 PM).
- October 26 – A New Way to Use EC2 – At Up to 90% Less Than On Demand Prices (3 – 4 PM).
- October 29 – Building Serverless Microservices with AWS Lambda (Noon – 4 PM).
- October 29 – Startup Pitch Event and Halloween Party (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM).
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)
- October 20 – Chef Cookbook Workflow (6:30 – 8:30 PM).
- October 22 – Programmatic Security on AWS (6:30 – 8:30 PM).
- October 26 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
- October 27 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
- October 27 – Startup Pitch Event and Halloween Party (6:30 – 9:30 PM).
- October 28 – Responsive Game Design (Noon – 1 PM).
- October 28 – A Prescription for Startup Financial Health – 8 Financial Best Practices for Startup Executives (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (Berlin) – Register Now
- October 19 – Building a global real-time discovery platform on AWS (6 PM).
- October 20 – Scaling Your Web Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk (10 AM).
- October 20 – Managing Infrastructure and Configuration with AWS OpsWorks (10 AM).
- October 20 – Deep Dive into Blue/Green Deployments on AWS (4 PM).
- October 20 – AWS OpsWorks Under the Hood (October 20th).
- October 21 – Cloud Gaming Architectures from Mobile to Social to MMO (10 AM).
- October 21 – re:Invent 2015 Revisited (10 AM).
- October 21 – Live Demo Day (2 PM).
- October 22 – AWS Pop-Up Loft Morning Shower: Microservices (8:30 AM).
- October 22 – Serverless Architecture on AWS (5 PM).
- October 22 – Berlin’s Godfather of Tech (6 PM).
- October 23 – Amazon Echo Hackathon (10 AM).
- October 23 – Convert Your Code into a Microservice using AWS Lambda (4 PM).
- October 23 – Why Load & Performance Test the Cloud? (5 PM).
- October 23 – Lessons Learned from 7 Accelerator Programs (6 PM).
- October 26 – re:Invent Recap (9 PM).
- October 26 – Funding Cycles and Term Sheets (5 PM).
- October 26 – Scaling synergy – How AWS works with VC’s (6 PM).
- October 27 – DevOps at Amazon: A Look at Our Tools and Processes (9 AM).
- October 27 – Taking Ops to the Next Level (10 AM).
- October 27 – Automating Software Deployments with AWS CodeDeploy (10 AM).
- October 27 – Releasing Software Quickly and Reliably with AWS CodePipeline (5 PM).
- October 28 – Cache is King (9 AM).
- October 28 – How to Save Costs and Mitigate Risks with Spot Instances (10 AM).
- October 28 – Running Lean & Mean on AWS: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency (5 PM).
- October 29 – Simple Security for Startups (9 AM).
- October 29 – Encryption Options on AWS (10 AM).
- October 29 – Software to Services workshop – An intro to SaaS Business with AWS (2 PM).
- October 29 – Best Practice Tech Recruiting (4 PM).
- October 29 – Mapping Traditional Security Controls to AWS (5 PM).
- October 29 – Transparency and Audit on AWS (6 PM).
- October 30 – Mobile Identity Management and Data Synchronization Using Amazon Cognito (9 AM).
- October 30 – Analyze Mobile App Data and Build Predictive Applications (10 AM).
- October 30 – Software to Services workshop – An intro to SaaS Technology with AWS (2 PM).
- October 30 – The Data Pipeline Powering EyeEm (6 PM).
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (London) – Register Now
- October 20 – An Introduction to Using Amazon Web Services and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM).
- October 21 – Startup Showcase – B2C (10 AM).
- October 21 – Chef Cookbook Workflow (6 PM).
- October 22 – AWS Security Day (10 AM).
- October 22 – Working with Planetary-Scale Open Data Sets on AWS (4 PM).
- October 23 – AWS Booktamp: Taking AWS Operations to the Next Level (10 AM).
- October 26 – Hands-on Labs Drop In (1 PM).
- October 27 – IoT Hack Day: AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series – Sponsored by Intel (10 AM).
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— Jeff;