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AWS Week in Review – October 26, 2015

I have been traveling and got behind on my Week in Review posts. Here’s the day-by-day for late October; I’ll catch up on everything else (code, presentations, videos, events, and so forth) in the post for the week of November 9th.

Monday October 26	We announced the New EC2 Run Command for Remote Instance Management at Scale. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for Ruby, the AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS for JavaScript. Hack.FoolAround.Repeat showed you how to Grab the Internal IP of an AWS Instance. Cloud Academy reviewed Amazon Kinesis for Managed Real-time Event Processing.
Tuesday October 27	We announced an EC2 VPC VPN Update — NAT Traversal, Additional Encryption Options, and More. We announced a New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data. The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog showed you how to List Cmdlets by Service. The AWS Partner Network Blog announced Rancher Labs Support for Amazon EC2 Container Service. The AWS Security Blog announced New Tabbed Organization of Your Resources in the IAM Console. The AWS DevOps Blog announced that Videos and Slide Decks from AWS OpsWorks Sessions at re:Invent 2015 Are Now Available. CloudCheckr talked about Segmenting Your AWS Data. Cloudability showed you how to Measure Reserved Instance Profitability with the Break-even Point. The Cloud Zone talked about AWS Lambda as Cron. ParkMyCloud explained Why Scripting Isn’t the Best Way to Schedule EC2 Instance Start/Stop Times. Todd Loepke of Sungard described Object Storage as the Alternator of Cloud Computing.
Wednesday October 28	We annouonced that VPC Flow Logs are Now Available in the GovCloud (US) Region. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Taplytics: Delivering Millions Smart Push Notifications and Mobile A/B Testing Using AWS. We updated the AWS SDK for Java. The N2W Software Blog shared 3 AWS 2015 re:Invent Takeaways: Migration, Enterprise, and Up The Stack. Gathering Clouds talked about New AWS Services: What You Need to Know. Compare the Cloud shared 5 Top Tips for Winning with AWS.
Thursday October 29	We announced Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing for Amazon RDS. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Using AWS Lambda for Event-driven Data Processing Pipelines. The AWS Java Blog introduced S3 Workflows Simplified with Java 8 Streams. The AWS Partner Network Blog reviewed re:Invent 2015 Migration Services Announcements. We updated the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. Fugue claimed It’s an Emulator, Not a Petting Zoo: Emu and Lambda. Serverless Code discussed The Limits of Lambda. Marius Voila showed you How to Setup Amazon S3 Access from Specific IPs. ParkMyCloud explained How to Leverage AWS Tags for Parking.
Friday October 30	The AWS Security Blog announced that you can now Test Resource-Level Permissions Using the IAM Policy Simulator. CloudHealth Academy showed you how to Identify Underutilized AWS Resources. Authlete showed you how to combine Amazon API Gateway + AWS Lambda + OAuth.

— Jeff;

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