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DevOps Practices- Two New Webinars with Puppet and New Relic

This month we are hosting two joint AWS-Partner webinars about how executing DevOps practices on AWS can automate configuration management and leave time for innovation. Many organizations adopt DevOps practices to manage their cloud and on-premises environments for greater scalability, speed, and reliability and these webinars give you a chance to hear directly from the partners and customers on how they did it.

Puppet

Puppet helped ServiceChannel automate their cloud configuration management to take advantage of the scalability of AWS, achieve greater flexibility, and improve their customers’ ability to connect and collaborate more frequently.

Webinar Topic: How ServiceChannel Automated Their AWS Environment with Puppet
Customer Presenter: Brian Engler, CIO, ServiceChannel
AWS Presenter: Kevin Cochran, Partner Solutions Architect
Partner Presenter: Chris Barker, Principal Solutions Engineer, Puppet
Time: July 20th, 2017 10am – 11am PDT | 1pm – 2pm EDT

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New Relic

New Relic helped MLBAM utilize the scalability of AWS and the visibility provided by New Relic to create the “gold standard” for digital streaming video infrastructure.

Webinar Topic: MLB Advanced Media: Delivering a Digital Experience to 25 Million Fans with New Relic and AWS
Customer Presenter: Christian Villoslada, VP of Software Engineering, MLBAM & Brandon San Giovanni, Senior Operations Manager, Core Media Operations, MLBAM
AWS Presenter: Kevin Cochran, Partner Solutions Architect
Partner Presenter: Lee Atchison, Senior Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic
Time: July 25th, 2017 10am – 11am PDT | 1pm – 2pm EDT

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AWS Online Tech Talks – July 2017

It’s unbelievable that 2017 has flown by so quickly, yet here we are already in the month of July. A little-known fact about the 7^th month of the year is that its name, July, is in honor of the Roman general, Julius Cæsar. The Roman State named the month on his behalf since it the month of his birth. Prior to this designation, the month of July was called Quintilis.

I, also, thought it was interesting to learn that in the month of July, several countries celebrate their Independence Day. These countries are the United States, Bahamas, Kiribati, São Tomé, Príncipe, Liberia, Maldives, Algeria, Cape Verde, Venezuela, Burundi, Rwanda, and Somalia. Seems that the month of July was ripe for freedom and independence for all parts of the world.

Therefore, there is a lot to celebrate in the month of July and you are free to add the celebration of learning to your July festivities with AWS Online Tech Talks. This month’s sessions brings you great technical information about Serverless Compute, Security and Identity, as well as, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence running on Amazon Web Services.

July 2017 – Schedule

Below is the upcoming schedule for the live, online technical sessions scheduled for the month of July. Make sure to register ahead of time so you won’t miss out on these free talks conducted by AWS subject matter experts. All schedule times for the online tech talks are shown in the Pacific Time (PDT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are:

Tuesday, July 11

Compute

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Managing WordPress on Amazon Lightsail

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Building a Metadata Catalog for your Data Lakes using Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Databases

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Convert and Migrate Your NoSQL Database or Data Warehouse to AWS

Wednesday, July 12

IoT

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Essential Capabilities of an IoT Cloud Platform

Storage

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon S3

Security & Identity

12:00 Noon –12:40 PM: Secure your Web Applications with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield

Thursday, July 13

Enterprise & Hybrid

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Decouple and Scale Applications Using Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS

Mobile

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Driving User Engagement with Amazon Pinpoint

Security & Identity

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Integrating Security Assessments Into Your DevOps Cycle with Amazon Inspector

Tuesday, July 25

Hands On Lab

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Hands-on Lab: Windows Workload

Enterprise & Hybrid

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: SAP Solutions on AWS for Large Enterprises and Mission Critical Applications

Serverless

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Security Best Practices for Serverless Applications

Wednesday, July 26

Hands On Lab

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Hands-on Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server in AWS

Artificial Intelligence

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Deep Learning for Data Scientists: Using Apache MXNet and R on AWS

Thursday, July 27

Big Data

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Embrace Streaming Analytics and Transform Your Business (AWS Webinar featuring Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri)

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Serverless Orchestration of AWS Step Functions

Artificial Intelligence

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Exploring the Business Use Cases for Amazon Polly

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These sessions feature live demonstrations & customer examples led by AWS engineers and Solution Architects. Check out the AWS YouTube channel for more on-demand webinars on AWS technologies.

– Tara

AWS Online Tech Talks – June 2017

As the sixth month of the year, June is significant in that it is not only my birth month (very special), but it contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours. In the United States, June is also the month in which we celebrate our dads with Father’s Day and have month-long celebrations of music, heritage, and the great outdoors.

Therefore, the month of June can be filled with lots of excitement. So why not add even more delight to the month, by enhancing your cloud computing skills. This month’s AWS Online Tech Talks features sessions on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Storage, Big Data, and Compute among other great topics.

June 2017 – Schedule

Noted below are the upcoming scheduled live, online technical sessions being held during the month of June. Make sure to register ahead of time so you won’t miss out on these free talks conducted by AWS subject matter experts. All schedule times for the online tech talks are shown in the Pacific Time (PDT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are:

Thursday, June 1

Storage

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Migrating Big Data Workloads to Amazon EMR

Serverless

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building AWS Lambda Applications with the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

Monday, June 5

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Exploring the Business Use Cases for Amazon Lex

Tuesday, June 6

Management Tools

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Automated Compliance and Governance with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail

Wednesday, June 7

Storage

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Backing up Amazon EC2 with Amazon EBS Snapshots

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Intro to Amazon Redshift Spectrum: Quickly Query Exabytes of Data in S3

DevOps

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Introduction to AWS CodeStar: Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS

Thursday, June 8

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Exploring the Business Use Cases for Amazon Polly

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Exploring the Business Use Cases for Amazon Rekognition

Monday, June 12

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Exploring the Business Use Cases for Amazon Machine Learning

Tuesday, June 13

Compute

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: DevOps with Visual Studio, .NET and AWS

IoT

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Create, with Intel, an IoT Gateway and Establish a Data Pipeline to AWS IoT

Big Data

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Real-Time Log Analytics using Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Wednesday, June 14

Containers

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Batch Processing with Containers on AWS

Security & Identity

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Using Microsoft Active Directory across On-premises and Cloud Workloads

Thursday, June 15

Big Data

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building Big Data Applications with Serverless Architectures

Monday, June 19

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Deep Learning for Data Scientists: Using Apache MxNet and R on AWS

Tuesday, June 20

Storage

9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Cloud Backup & Recovery Options with AWS Partner Solutions

Artificial Intelligence

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: An Overview of AI on the AWS Platform

Tuesday, June 27

Hands On Lab

8:30 – 10:00 AM: Hands On Lab: Windows Workloads on AWS

Compute

12:00 Noon – 12:40 PM: Running a Highly Scalable Immersive Media Solution on AWS Using EC2 Spot Instances

Wednesday, June 28

Databases

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM: Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL Server on AWS

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These sessions feature live demonstrations & customer examples led by AWS engineers and Solution Architects. Check out the AWS YouTube channel for more on-demand webinars on AWS technologies.

– Tara

AWS Online Tech Talks – May 2017

Spring has officially sprung. As you enjoy the blossoming of May flowers, it may be worthy to also note some of the great tech talks blossoming online during the month of May. This month’s AWS Online Tech Talks features sessions on topics like AI, DevOps, Data, and Serverless just to name a few.

May 2017 – Schedule

Below is the upcoming schedule for the live, online technical sessions scheduled for the month of May. Make sure to register ahead of time so you won’t miss out on these free talks conducted by AWS subject matter experts. All schedule times for the online tech talks are shown in the Pacific Time (PDT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are:

Monday, May 15

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Integrate Your Amazon Lex Chatbot with Any Messaging Service

Tuesday, May 16

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 F1 Instance

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: How to Connect Your Own Creations with AWS IoT

Wednesday, May 17

Management Tools

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: OpsWorks for Chef Automate – Automation Made Easy!

Serverless

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Serverless Orchestration with AWS Step Functions

Enterprise & Hybrid

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Moving to the AWS Cloud: An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

Thursday, May 18

Compute

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Scaling Up Tenfold with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Building Analytics Pipelines for Games on AWS

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Serverless Big Data Analytics using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

Monday, May 22

Artificial Intelligence

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: What’s New with Amazon Rekognition

Serverless

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Building Serverless Web Applications

Tuesday, May 23

Hands-On Lab

8:30 – 10:00 AM: Hands On Lab: Windows Workloads on AWS

Big Data

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Streaming ETL for Data Lakes using Amazon Kinesis Firehose

DevOps

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Deep Dive: Continuous Delivery for AI Applications with ECS

Wednesday, May 24

Storage

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Moving Data into the Cloud with AWS Transfer Services

Containers

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building a CICD Pipeline for Container Deployment to Amazon ECS

Thursday, May 25

Mobile

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Test Your Android App with Espresso and AWS Device Farm

Security & Identity

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Advanced Techniques for Federation of the AWS Management Console and Command Line Interface (CLI)

Tuesday, May 30

Databases

9:00 – 10:00 AM: DynamoDB: Architectural Patterns and Best Practices for Infinitely Scalable Applications

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs

Security & Identity

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Securing Your AWS Infrastructure with Edge Services

Wednesday, May 31

Hands-On Lab

8:30 – 10:00 AM: Hands On Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server in AWS

Enterprise & Hybrid

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Best Practices in Planning a Large-Scale Migration to AWS

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Convert and Migrate Your NoSQL Database or Data Warehouse to AWS

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These sessions feature live demonstrations & customer examples led by AWS engineers and Solution Architects. Check out the AWS YouTube channel for more on-demand webinars on AWS technologies.

– Tara

AWS Online Tech Talks – April 2017

I’m a life-long learner! I try to set aside some time every day to read about or to try something new. I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, back before the Internet existed. As a teenager, access to technical information of any sort was difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. It often involved begging my parents to drive me to the library or riding my bicycle down a narrow road to get to the nearest magazine rack. Today, with so much information at our fingertips, the most interesting challenge is deciding what to study.

As we do every month, we have assembled a set of online tech talks that can fulfill this need for you. Our team has created talks that will provide you with information about the latest AWS services along with the best practices for putting them to use in your environment.

The talks are free, but they do fill up, so you should definitely register ahead of time if you would like to attend. Most of the talks are one hour in length; all times are in the Pacific (PT) time zone. Here’s what we have on tap for the rest of this month:

Monday, April 24
10:30 AM – Modernize Meetings with Amazon Chime.

1:00 PM – Essential Capabilities of an IoT Cloud Platform.

Tuesday, April 25
8:30 AM – Hands On Lab: Windows Workloads on AWS.

Noon – AWS Services Overview & Quarterly Update.

1:30 PM – Scaling to Million of Users in the Blink of an Eye with Amazon CloudFront: Are you Ready?

Wednesday, April 26
9:00 AM – IDC and AWS Joint Webinar: Getting the Most Bang for your Buck with #EC2 #Winning.

10:30 AM – From Monolith to Microservices – Containerized Microservices on AWS.

Noon – Accelerating Mobile Application Development and Delivery with AWS Mobile Hub.

Thursday, April 27
8:30 AM – Hands On Lab: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server in AWS.

10:30 AM – Applying AWS Organizations to Complex Account Structures.

Noon – Deep Dive on Amazon Cloud Directory.

I will be presenting Tuesday’s service overview – hope to “see” you there.

— Jeff;

AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks – March, 2017

Unbelievably it is March already, as you enter into the madness of March don’t forget to take some time and learning more about the latest service innovations from AWS. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices and new service features in the AWS Cloud.

I have shared below the schedule for the live, online technical sessions scheduled for the month of March. Remember these talks are free, but they fill up quickly so register ahead of time. The online tech talks scheduled times are shown in Pacific Time (PT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are as follows:

Tuesday, March 21

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Deploying a Data Lake in AWS

Databases

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Optimizing the Data Tier for Serverless Web Applications

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: One Click Enterprise IoT Services

Wednesday, March 22

Databases

10:30 – 11:30 AM: ElastiCache Deep Dive: Best Practices and Usage Patterns

AI

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: A Deeper Dive into Apache MXNet on AWS

Thursday, March 23

IoT

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Developing Applications with the IoT Button

Compute

10:30 – 11:30 AM: Automating Management of Amazon EC2 Instances with Auto Scaling

Friday, March 24

Compute

10:30 – 11:30 AM: An Overview of Designing Microservices Based Applications on AWS

Monday, March 27

AI

9:00 – 10:00 AM: How to get the most out of Amazon Polly, a text-to-speech service

Tuesday, March 28

Compute

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Getting the Most Out of the New Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Enhancements

Getting Started

12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM: Getting Started with AWS

Wednesday, March 29

Security

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Best Practices for Managing Security Operations in AWS

Storage

10:30 – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon S3

Big Data

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Log Analytics with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Kinesis

Thursday, March 30

Storage

9:00 – 10:00 AM: Active Archiving with Amazon S3 and Tiering to Amazon Glacier

Mobile

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon Cognito

Compute

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Building a Development Workflow for Serverless Applications

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These technical sessions are led by AWS solutions architects and engineers and feature live demonstrations & customer examples. You can also check out the AWS on-demand webinar series on the AWS YouTube channel.

– Tara

AWS Online Tech Talks – February 2017

The New Year is underway, so there is no better time to dive into learning more about the latest AWS services. Each month, we have a series of webinars targeting best practices and new service features in AWS Cloud.

February Online Tech Talks (formerly known as Monthly Webinar Series)

I am excited to share the webinars schedule for the month of February. Remember all webinars noted are free, but they may fill up quickly so be sure to register ahead of time. Webinars are typically one hour in length and scheduled times are in Pacific Time (PT) time zone.

Webinars featured this month are as follows:

Tuesday, February 14

Mobile

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Test your Android App with Espresso and AWS Device Farm

Wednesday, February 15

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Amazon Elasticsearch Service with Elasticsearch 5 and Kibana 5

Mobile

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Deep Dive on AWS Mobile Hub for Enterprise Mobile Applications

Thursday, February 16

Security

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: DNS DDoS mitigation using Amazon Route 53 and AWS Shield

Tuesday, February 21

Databases

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Best Practices for NoSQL Workloads on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Consolidate MySQL Shards Into Amazon Aurora Using AWS Database Migration Service

IoT

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Getting Started with AWS IoT

Wednesday, February 22

IoT

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Best Practices with IoT Security

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Migrate from SQL Server or Oracle into Amazon Aurora using AWS Database Migration Service

Wednesday, February 23

Enterprise / Training

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: How to Prepare for AWS Certification and Advance your Career

Storage

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Elastic File System

Databases

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM: Optimize MySQL Workloads with Amazon Elastic Block Store

Wednesday, February 24

Big Data

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Deep Dive of Flink & Spark on Amazon EMR

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Deep Dive on Amazon Redshift

The AWS Online Tech Talks series covers a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These technical sessions are led by AWS solutions architects and engineers and feature live demonstrations & customer examples. You can check out the AWS online series here and the AWS on-demand webinar series on the AWS YouTube channel.

– Tara W.

AWS Webinars – January 2017 (Bonus: December Recap)

Have you had time to digest all of the announcements that we made at AWS re:Invent? Are you ready to debug with AWS X-Ray, analyze with Amazon QuickSight, or build conversational interfaces using Amazon Lex? Do you want to learn more about AWS Lambda, set up CI/CD with AWS CodeBuild, or use Polly to give your applications a voice?

January Webinars
In our continued quest to provide you with training and education resources, I am pleased to share the webinars that we have set up for January. These are free, but they do fill up and you should definitely register ahead of time. All times are PT and each webinar runs for one hour:

January 16:

9:00 AM – Announcing AWS X-Ray: Analyze and Debug Your Applications.
10:30 AM – Announcing Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility.
Noon – Introducing Amazon QuickSight: Business Analytics for Everyone.

January 17:

January 18::

9:00 AM- Announcing Amazon Lightsail: Launch and Manage Simple Virtual Private Servers.
10:30 AM – Deep Dive on AWS Lambda.
Noon – Announcing AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate.

January 19:

9:00 AM – Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Instances – Featuring New Instances.
10:30 AM – Announcing AWS Greengrass: Use AWS Lambda and AWS IoT on Your Device.

January 20

December Webinar Recap
The December webinar series is already complete; here’s a quick recap with links to the recordings:

December 12:

December 13:

December 14:

December 15:

December 16:

— Jeff;

PS – If you want to get a jump start on your 2017 learning objectives, the re:Invent 2016 Presentations and re:Invent 2016 Videos are just a click or two away.

AWS Webinars – October and November 2016

Are you keeping up with the latest developments in AWS-land? Do you have a good understanding of Amazon Redshift, Amazon ECS, and Amazon Cognito? Do you know what IoT is all about, and do you have firm grasp of the best security practices for your cloud workloads? Do you understand the EC2 Spot Market, and do you know how to use it to your advantage?

In pursuit of our focus on training and education, I am pleased to share the webinars that we have on tap for October and November. These are free, but they do fill up and I suggest that you register ahead of time. All times are PT and each webinar runs for one hour:

October 25

9:00 AM – Amazon ECS Deep Dive.
10:30 AM – Real-time Data Processing using AWS Lambda.
Noon – Fast Data at Scale with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

October 26

9:00 AM – Add User Sign-In and Management to Your Apps with Amazon Cognito.
10:30 AM – Getting Started: Storage with Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier.
Noon – Build Scalable and Secure Mobile Applications with AWS.
1:30 PM – Amazon Redshift Deep Dive.

October 27

10:30 AM – The Lifecycle of an AWS IoT Thing – From Manufacture to Retirement.
Noon – Best Practices for IoT Security in the Cloud.

November 2

11:00 AM – Migrate your Existing Express Applications to AWS Lambda.

November 8

9:00 AM – Getting Started with AWS.
10:30 AM – Setup Preconfigured Protections on AWS WAF.
Noon – RDS for Oracle and SQL Server: Simplifying Your Database Management and Reducing Total Cost of Ownership.

November 9

9:00 AM – Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks.
Noon – Best Practices for Protecting Cloud Workloads.

November 10

— Jeff;

PS – Don’t forget our upcoming re:Invent 2016 Preparation Webinars!

AWS Week in Review – September 27, 2016

Fourteen (14) 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 September 26	The AWS Podcast released an episode interviewing Abby Fuller from Startup www.airtime.com. The AWS Enterprise Blog talked about Getting Started with the Cloud. The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Create a Custom AMI with Encrypted Amazon EBS Snapshots and Share It with Other Accounts and Regions. The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog wrote about Exatype: Cloud for HIV Drug Resistance Testing. The Backspace Blog wrote about using CloudFront with next generation frameworks for dynamic data in Super Fast Dynamic Websites with CloudFront, EC2 and NodeJS – Part 1. The A Cloud Guru blog wrote about AWS Certification: How many candidates will pass today? Powerupcloud showed you how to Automate Multiple Domains Migration to Route53 using Nodejs. Stelligent Blog wrote about One-Button Everything in AWS. CloudCheckr wrote about Concrete Steps to Reduce Public Cloud IaaS Expenses. Soenke Ruempler blogged about New AWS CloudFormation YAML syntax and variable substitution in action. AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond provided a guide to deleting a Route 53 hosted zone and all DNS records using aws-cli. The AWS Database Blog talked about Configuring the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Cloudadvisors wrote about Docker on AWS with ECS and ECR(Part 1). Flux7 showed you How to Convert a CloudFormation Template from JSON to YAML.
Tuesday September 27	We announced the M4.16xlarge Instance Type. We announced that the Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 is Now Available. We shared the AWS Hot Startups for September 2016. We announced the AWS Pop-up Loft and Innovation Lab in Munich. Sander van de Graaf wrote about How to build a Serverless Screenshot Service with Lambda. The AWS Startup Collection blog wrote about Serverless Architectures with Java 8, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB in part 1 of their series. The Batchly blog wrote about 4 points to consider in your spot bidding strategy. The Concurrency Labs Blog wrote about How to Operate Reliable AWS Lambda Applications in Production.
Wednesday September 28	Trainline Engineering wrote about Trainline Environment Manager. The AWS Partner Network Blog wrote about The Evolution of Managed Services in Hyperscale Cloud Environments. We announced the AWS Answers page for help architecting your solutions. vBrownBag continues its AWS-SA Associate Certification Exam Study Webinar Series, this time covering Domain 4.0 with Zach Zeid of Ahead. ParkMyCloud listed 5 Reasons to Turn Your Cloud Servers Off When You’re Not Using Them. Thinking Aloud discussed Securing SQL Server in EC2: Certificates, Ports, and Gotchas. Parsec described The Technology Behind A Low Latency Cloud Gaming Service.
Thursday September 29	We announced that an AWS Region is Coming to France in 2017. We launched the P2 Instance Type, with up to 16 GPUs. We made an EC2 Reserved Instance Update, featuring Convertible RIs and a Regional Benefit. We welcomed the Fall 2016 AWS Community Heroes. We announced the First Annual Alexa Prize – $2.5 Million to Advance Conversational AI. We announced that Amazon Cognito is Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions. Erik Meinders wrote a blog Serverless EC2 scheduler using Lambda and Cloudwatch events.. CloudHealth Technologies published a 2-part blog on the new RI types and features. This is Part 1. Cloudadvisors wrote about Docker on AWS with ECS and ECR(Part 2) The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog wrote about Whiteboard with an SA: Tags. We published The ISV Business Case for Building SaaS on Amazon Web Services (AWS), an August 2016 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of AWS. Flux7 wrote A Review of AWS CloudFormation Cross-Stack References.
Friday September 30	I advised you to Prepare for re:Invent 2016 by Attending our Upcoming Webinars. We announced that Amazon Redshift has a New Data Type with Support for Time Zones in Time Stamps. We announced that Amazon Elastic Transcoder is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. CloudHealth Technologies published a 2-part blog on the new RI types and features. This is Part 2. We enabled P2 instance support in CfnCluster. Details here. The Customer Success Team at Cloudability explains how Amortizing Reserved Instance Costs Works, and why it can matter to your organization. SingleStone Consulting wrote about secrets management in AWS with KMS and S3. cloudonaut.io” wrote about marbot, our submission to the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition.
Saturday October 1	Andrej Kazakov wrote about Elasticsearch in AWS Scott Johnson wrote a tutorial on how to use Ansible to automate installation of the CloudWatch Memory Monitoring scripts.
Sunday October 2	Colin Percival wrote about EC2-related improvements in the upcoming FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.

New & Notable Open Source

dynamodb-continuous-backup sets up continuous backup automation for DynamoDB.
lambda-billing uses NodeJS to automate billing to AWS tagged projects, producing PDF invoices.
vyos-based-vpc-wan is a complete Packer + CloudFormation + Troposphere powered setup of AMIs to run VyOS IPSec tunnels across multiple AWS VPCs, using BGP-4 for dynamic routing.
s3encrypt is a utility that encrypts and decrypts files in S3 with KMS keys.
lambda-uploader helps to package and upload Lambda functions to AWS.
AWS-Architect helps to deploy microservices to Lambda and API Gateway.
awsgi is an WSGI gateway for API Gateway and Lambda proxy integration.
rusoto is an AWS SDK for Rust.
EBS_Scripts contains some EBS tricks and triads.
landsat-on-aws is a web application that uses Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda to create an infinitely scalable interface to navigate Landsat satellite data.