AWS Week in Review – October 3, 2016

Twenty external and internal contributors worked together to create this edition of the AWS Week in Review. If you would like to join the party (with the possibility of a free lunch at re:Invent), please visit the AWS Week in Review on GitHub.

Monday October 3	Mistwire.com kicked off a series of articles on studying for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification. The AWS Podcast released an episode with a raft of Service updates and a Black-Belt Tip. The AWS Database Blog talked about Server-Side Scripting with Lua for ElastiCache for Redis. The A Cloud Guru blog wrote about Learning AWS — For the budget conscious The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared their AWS Public Sector Month in Review – September. The Cloudability blog answers burning questions about the new AWS Convertible Reserved Instance and Regional Benefit feature. Botmetric listed 5 Must-Address AWS Disaster Recover Challenges (for Beginners).
Tuesday October 4	I wrote about Running Express Applications on AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. We announced Automated Task and Image Cleanup for Amazon ECS. We announced support for 8 New AWS Config Rules to Govern the Configuration of Critical AWS Resources. The AWS DevOps Blog discussed AWS Config: Checking for Compliance with New Managed Rule Options. We updated the AWS Schema Conversion Tool with Support for Copying and Optimization of Legacy Schemas. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Going Serverless: Migrating an Express Application to Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The AWS Partner Network Blog discussed Cloud-Based IAM for the Modern Enterprise with OneLogin. The AWS Startup Collection blog published part 2 of Serverless Architectures with Java 8, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog wrote about An Eye on Science: How Stanford Students Turned Classwork into Their Life’s Work. The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Building Event-Driven Batch Analytics on AWS.
Wednesday October 5	We announced that the VPC NAT Gateway is Now Available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. The AWS Security Blog invited you to Meet AWS Security Team Members at Grace Hopper 2016. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Optimizing Joining Windows Server Instances to a Domain with PowerShell in AWS CloudFormation. The Cloud Academy Blog wrote a post about Cloud computing impact on business. Spotinst shared a Case Study: PubNative decreases cost by 80% using Spotinst Elastigroups for their Mesos, Spark, ElasticSearch and Presto clusters.
Thursday October 6	We announced an IPv6 Support Update for CloudFront, WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration. We announced the new CloudWatch Plugin for collectd. We announced a CloudFormation Update with Improved Permission Controls, Cross-Stack Reference Enhancements, and Resource Coverage Updates. We announced Administrator Creation of Users in Your User Pools for Amazon Cognito. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared Whiteboard with an SA: AWS Direct Connect. The AWS Enterprise Blog shared Some Tips on Cloud Migration from the Accenture AWS Business Group. The AWS Big Data Blog explained How Eliza Corporation Moved Healthcare Data to the Cloud. J. Scott Johnson wrote some more about SSH failures and the diagnostic process when OpenSSH isn’t working. The Stelligent Blog wrote about Microservices Platform with ECS. Agari published a blog on how they use CloudHealth to measure AWS usage and spend. The Cloudability blog took a closer look at the new m4.16xlarge and the new P2 instance family from a cloud cost efficiency point of view. Botmetric shared 5Ws to Rule the Amazon EC2 World.
Friday October 7	The AWS Partner Network Blog shared The Case for Investing in Cloud Automation. The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Rapidly Create Your Alexa Skill Backend with AWS CloudFormation. We launched Snowball HDFS Import. The AWS Startup Collection showed you how to Discover Business Insights with Intel & AWS Big Data and to Unlock the True Potential of the Cloud with Intel and AWS IoT. cloudonaut.io wrote about Introducing the real-time data store: Kinesis Streams. Enrico Baioni wrote about statically host on AWs a minimal wordpress website, Scott Pletcher from Applexus wrote about Integrating SAP’s IDOC interface directly with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The Cloud Academy Blog talked about the Transit VPC. ParkMyCloud urged you to Tag Your Cloud Resources to Get Organized and Get Automated.
Saturday October 8	Nothing happened!
Sunday October 9	Gorillastack talked about AWS Reserved Instances – Explore the Alternatives Before You Spend. Powerupcloud Blog talked about Getting Started with Application Load Balancer.

New AWS Marketplace Products

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New & Notable Open Source

elastic-ci-stack-for-aws is a simple, flexible, auto-scaling cluster of build agents running in your own VPC.
aws-lambda-ebs-backups contains Python scripts to be run using AWS’s Lambda service to Backup and Delete Snapshots of EBS Volumes.
load-dyno-table is a DynamoDB table loader.
letsencrypt-iam-lambda is an AWS Lambda function to take a received S3 event, and update a related certificate in AWS IAM.
sundial is a job system for Amazon EC2 Container Service that manages dependencies and scheduling.
jrestless is a frakework to help you build JAX-RS applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda.
AWSLambda_CloudFrontMetaData is a Lambda Function to extract meta data (IP version, HTTP version, and Edge location) from customer visits to CloudFront.
hologram implements easy, painless AWS credentials on developer laptops.
og-aws is a practical guide to AWS.
aws-secrets helps to manage secrets on EC2 instances with KMS encryption, IAM roles, and S3 storage.

New YouTube Videos

Upcoming Events

October 11 (Lyon, France) – AWSome Day Lyon in France.
October 11 (Redwood City, California, USA) – AWS Bay Area Meetup #21. A focus on Spinnaker from Netflix.
October 13 (Stuttgart, Germany) – Meetup #27 of the Stuttgart AWS User Group.
October 13 (Edinburgh, Scotland) – 7th AWS User Group Edinburgh Meetup.
October 13 (Birmingham, England) – AWS User Group West Midlands #8.
October 13 (Warsaw, Poland) – Meetup of the Public Cloud User Group in Warsaw, Poland.
October 14 (Seoul, Korea) – AWS Lambda Zombie Workshop.
October 18-20 (San Francisco, California, USA) – Database week at the AWS Loft.
October 19 (Seoul, Korea) – AWS Korea User Group Monthly Seminar – Database Service.
October 19 (Lyon, France) – Meetup #4 of the Lyon AWS User Group.
October 20 (Wellington, New Zealand) – AWS Wellington User Group – #11 – IoT and Serverless in the Enterprise.
October 26 (Cambridge, England) – Meetup #9 of the Cambridge AWS User Group: Everything Mobile.
October 26 (Dublin, Ireland) – Meetup #16 of the AWS User Group Network in Dublin.
November 8 (London, England) – AWS Enterprise Summit London.
November 23 (Cardiff, Wales) – Meetup #4 of the AWS South Wales User Group.

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