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AWS Week in Review – January 18, 2016
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Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:
New & Notable Open Source
- lambda-ec2-switch-timer can automatically stop and start Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Lambda.
- kinesis-deaggregation is a set of AWS Lambda modules for working with the Kinesis Producer Library.
- slackBot is a slackBot featuring AWS Lambda.
- aws-lambda-scala-example-product is an AWS Lambda function in Scala reading events from Amazon Kinesis and writing event counts to DynamoDB.
- popeye will generate an authorized_keys file from users stored in AWS IAM.
- AwsProxy is a proxy for the AWS SDK for PHP.
- aws-s3-mount can mount an s3 folder into a container and export it as a volume.
- backbeam-lambda is a set of development tools for creating web applications based on AWS Lambda.
- rom-dynamo is an AWS DynamoDB adapter for Ruby Object Mapper.
- lambda-refarch-iotbackend is an AWS Lambda reference architecture for creating an IoT backend.
New SlideShare Presentations
- Large-Scale AWS Migrations.
- Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services and Customer Case Study.
- Building an Amazon Datawarehouse and Using Business Intelligence Analytics Tools.
- Build A Website on AWS for Your First 10 Million Users.
New Customer Success Stories
- FINRA -By migrating to AWS, FINRA—the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority—has created a flexible platform that can adapt to changing market dynamics while providing its analysts with the tools to interactively query multi-petabyte data sets.
- Redfin – By using AWS, Redfin can innovate quickly and cost effectively with a small IT staff while managing billions of property records.
- Robinhood – Robinhood’s lean staff, including just two DevOps people, used AWS to create a massively scalable securities trading app with strong built-in security and compliance features that supported hundreds of thousands of users at launch.
- Zynga – By returning to AWS, Zynga is gaining greater agility, lower costs, and the freedom to experiment with new solutions to deliver world-class game experiences.
New YouTube Videos
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)
- January 26 – Behind the Scenes with Runscope.
- January 29 – Intro to AWS Lambda.
- January 29 – Container Day:
- Introduction to Docker on AWS.
- Migrating from Fleet to AWS.
- Behind the Scenes with Convox.
- February 3 – General Assembly Meet and Hire Happy Hour.
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)
- January 27 – From Monolithic to Microservices: Evolving Architecture Patterns at Gilt.
- January 28 – Building An Automated Security Fabric In The AWS Cloud with Trend Micro.
Help Wanted
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— Jeff;