AWS Week in Review – January 11, 2016

January 11

• We announced ClassicLink DNS Support.
• We announced that Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports t2.nano Instances and Deployment From the EC2 Container Registry.
• We updated the AWS SDK for Unity.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Landsat on AWS: Half a Year, Half a Billion Requests.
• The AWS Mobile Development Blog announced that the AWS SDK for Unity is Now Part of AWS SDK for .NET.
• Botmetric listed 6 Effective Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud.
• Cloud Academy explained how to Publish a SharePoint Farm Using CloudFormation.
• ParkMyCloud announced their Start/Stop/Snooze Instance feature.

January 12

• We updated the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS CLI, the AWS SDK for Go, the AWS SDK for Ruby, and the AWS SDK for JavaScript.
• The AWS Startup Collection talked about Scaling on AWS to More Than One Million Users.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about the 1776 Incubator, Where Revolutions Begin.
• The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog showed you how to Optimize Your Android App UI for Fire Tablets.
• Cloud Zone reviewed the SaaS Architecture for Time Series Guru.
• Gathering Clouds showed you How to Track Your AWS Costs with Tagging.

January 13

• We announced that an AWS Region in Canada is in the Works.
• We announced that Longer EC2 Resource IDs are Now Available.
• We announced a CloudFront Update – HTTPS & TLS v1.1 / v1.2 to the Origin, Add & Modify Headers.
• We announced Scheduled Reserved Instances.
• We published Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda.
• We announced Docker 1.9 Support for the EC2 Container Service.
• We published a Quick Start for the NIST 800-53 Standardized Architecture on the AWS Cloud.
• The AWS Security Blog announced that the IAM Console Now Helps Prevent You From Accidentally Deleting In-Use Resources.
• Evident talked about Securing Your Public Cloud Infrastructure on AWS.
• 2nd Watch shared some Things to Consider for the New AWS NAT Gateway.
• Cloud Academy reviewed the AWS Test Drive: Framework for Serious Development.
• Serverless Code talked about Building an Infinitely Scalable Recording Campaign for David Guetta.

January 14

• We launched CloudWatch Events to Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources.
• We announced Automated Sign-Up for AWS GovCloud (US).
• We announced that the AWS Schema Conversion Tool Now Supports PostgreSQL as a Conversion Target.
• We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Ruby.
• We updated the AWS Health and Cloud Computing page.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog shared Partner Success Stories from Logicworks and Looker.
• The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Querying Amazon Kinesis Streams Directly with SQL and Spark Streaming.
• Netflix shared some Benchmarks of Dynomite with Redis on AWS.
• 2nd Watch talked about VPC Peering via CloudFormation.
• Cloud Technology Partners published a Developer’s Guide to Cloud Application Security.
• Cloudability talked about Understanding the new Scheduled Reserved Instances from AWS.
• NVIDIA asked Can a Computer Write a Hit Musical [on AWS]?
• The BBC Internet Blog talked about Building Alerts on iPlayer A/V Consumption.

January 15

• We announced the AWS Global Summits for 2016.
• The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Quickly Explore the Chef Environment in AWS OpsWorks.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog showed how Resilience Data Analytics Tool and the Cloud Help Humans Survive and Thrive.
• Stelligent talked about Automatic AWS CodeDeploy Provisioning in CloudFormation.
• Cloud Technology Partners shared 2 Tips to Avoid Sticker Shock in the Cloud.

January 16

• Serverless Code showed you how to Get Alerts for Expiring SSL Certificates.
• Rowan Udell wrote about Scheduling Lambda Function with CloudWatch Events Using the AWS CLI.

January 17

• Serverless Code showed you how to Get Alerts for Expiring SSL Certificates and how to Schedule Events with the CloudWatch Event Console.
• HackPundit showed you how to Host Your Application in the Cloud on Amazon EC2.
• Programmer’s Trouble talked about Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M domain names, and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWS.