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AWS Week in Review – September 1, 2014

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

Monday, September 1	We celebrated Labor Day in the US, and launched nothing!
Tuesday, September 2	We announced that you can now Query Your EC2 Instances Using Tag and Attribute Filtering.
Wednesday,September 3	We announced that Version 13 of Hive is now Available for Elastic MapReduce. We introduced MySQL Cache Warming for Amazon RDS. The AWS Startup Collection published part 1 of an article on Amazon Cognito & Mobile Apps. This part covers User Identity and Simple AWS Authentication.
Thursday, September 4	We invited you to Launch Your Startup at AWS re:Invent. We announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce now Supports Unlimited Steps on AMI 3.1.1+. The AWS Startup Collection talked about Startup Pitches and the Competitor in All of Us to announce an AWS Activate competition for startups that will take place in conjunction with the upcoming AWS Summit in Tel Aviv.
Friday, September 5	We added new AWS Customer Succcess Stories from PennyPop Battle Camp (mobile game powered by Amazon DynamoDB, Financial Times (global daily newspaper; data warehouse powered by Amazon Redshift), Moovit (transportation planning app for users of public transit), Poshmark (social shopping app), Topingo (restaurant order taking and inventory management), and UCAS (registration support for colleges and universities in the UK). Last week AWS Marketplace added new products including ApprenNet, Elastix Instance from Global IP Systems, and KAAZING Gateway.

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

— Jeff;

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