Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week. If you find these summaries useful, or if you have ideas for additional types of content, please feel free to leave a comment.
Monday, July 20
We announced that Amazon RDS now Supports Oracle 12.1.0.2 and Improved CloudHSM Integration.
We announced that Amazon RDS Resource Tags can now be Copied to DB Snapshots.
AWS Community Hero Eric Hammond blogged about TimerCheck.io – Countdown Timer Microservice Built On Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.
The Gathering Clouds Blog noted that Healthcare IT is Failing (And it Needs AWS).
Tuesday, July 21
A lengthy Quora thread answered the question Why do large websites such as Reddit and Netflix use AWS to host, when self hosting would be cheaper?
The AWS Startup Collection talked about Distributed Data Stores for Mere Mortals.
The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about how AWS Partners CorpInfo and CloudCheckr Work Together to Bring Value to Managed Service Customers on AWS.
The Cloud Academy Blog Discussed AWS Security: 5 Things You Need to Check Right Now.
Wednesday, July 22
We announced that DynamoDB’s Scan Operation Now Supports Consistent Reads.
We announced that Amazon Linux AMI 4.1 Kernel Packages are Now Available for Testing.
The AWS Mobile Development Blog Introduced the Transfer Utility for the AWS SDK for Android.
The AWS Partner Network Blog Announced the Inaugural International AWS MSP Partners.
The 2nd Watch Blog outlined Top Business Issues When Moving to the Cloud.
The Hack.FoolAround.Repeat Blog described Mass Update of Route53 Hostnames With New IPs from EC2 Instances.
Thursday, July 23
We announced a New CloudWatch Action – Rebooting an EC2 Instance.
We posted a tutorial to show you how to Join a Linux Instance to a Simple AD (AWS Directory Service).
A post on the AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Run R on AWS.
We updated the AWS CLI, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Ruby, AWS SDK for .NET, AWS SDK for Go, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Android.
The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Address the PCI DSS Requirements for Data Encryption in Transit Using Amazon VPC.
The AWS Startup Collection invited you to Come Rock with Us to introduce a series of live music events at the AWS Pop-up Lofts.
The Evident.io Blog Asked Is Your Cloud Future-Proof?
The Cloudability Blog discussed The Case for the Partial Upfront Reserved Instance.
Friday, July 24
We announced that Elastic MapReduce 4.0.0 With Updated Applications is Now Available.
The Cloud Academy Blog reviewed AWS Database Options.
A video posted to the Cloudability Blog showed you How to Calculate AWS Blended and Unblended Rates.
Subhasish Ghosh of 8KMiles talked about Why SAP on Amazon Web Services is Simply AWSome!!!!
New & Notable Open Source
aws-google-login allows you to log into the AWS Console with Google Apps.
aws-api-gateway-swagger-importer lets you create or update Amazon API Gateway APIs from a Swagger representation.
libqtaws is an library for consuming AWS services from Qt applications.
aws-terraform is a practical implementation of CoreOS cluster provisioning on AWS.
aws-ec2-ssh lets you retrieve all active EC2 instances and SSH to them based on tag name.
aws-cleanup cleans up unused EBS volumes, AMIs, and snapshots.
stacker is an opinionated CloudFormation stack builder.
aws-sdk-perl is an attempt to build an AWS SDK in Perl.
opsworks_cookbooks is a cookbook collection for OpsWorks.
log4net.awsKinesis is a log4net appender that writes to an AWS Kinesis stream.
node-teslakinesis streams Tesla telemetry data to AWS Kinesis.
New Customer Stories
Alert Logic.
Apeejay Stya & Svrán Group.
Coinbase.
Coursera.
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.
GumGum.
Instacart.
Lenddo.
NDTV Convergence.
New York City Department of Transportation.
Nordstrom.
Oscar Insurance.
Pinoy Travel.
Thermo Fisher Scientific.
New SlideShare Content
Batch Processing with Amazon EC2 Container Service.
Empire – Building a PaaS with Docker and AWS.
Convert Your Code into a Microservice Using AWS Lambda.
AWS Technical Day – Amazon Cognito.
AWS Technical Day – Building Your Data Warehouse with Redshift.
AWS Technical Day – Introducing Amazon API Gateway.
New YouTube Videos
Women in Tech Panel: Women Executives from AWS, Georgetown University, Navy, SAP, and Congress.
Michael Wagers, COO, Seattle Police Department shares how they’re transforming policing on the cloud.
David Ohana shares how UNICEF is reaching a global audience in a more agile and cost effective way.
Chan Cheow How shares how the Singapore Government is digitizing citizen services on the cloud.
Mark Schwartz, DHS, CIS CIO shares how agencies are modernizing and accelerating the pace of IT.
Jon Booth, CMS shares Healthcare.gov’s turnaround using cloud.
Congressman Gerry Connolly talks about progress in public services enabled by the cloud.
AWS Public Sector Symposium Keynote Featuring Teresa Carlson and Customers.
AWS NY Summit – Amazon ECS Customer Use Cases.
AWS Summit London – Peterborough City Council: Infrastructure Innovation in the Cloud.
AWS Summit London – Cork Institute of Technology: Cloud Transformation in Education.
AWS Summit London – Transport for London Infrastructure Powered by AWS.
AWS Summit London – UCAS’ Journey to the Cloud.
AWS Summit London – Makewaves Transforming Education in the Cloud.
AWS Symposium – Washington, DC.
New Marketplace Applications
DivvyCloud Enterprise.
Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition (Silver).
Bitfusion Accelerated Media Processing.
Upcoming Events
July 28 – Webinar – Best Practices: OpsWorks for Windows on AWS.
July 28 – Webinar – Deploying line of business desktop apps using Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager.
July 29 – Webinar – Overview: Build and Manage your APIs with Amazon API Gateway.
July 29 – Webinar – Deploying and Scaling Web Application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
July 29 – Webinar – Deep Dive: Troubleshooting Operational and Security incidents in your AWS Account using CloudTrail.
July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Device Farm.
July 30 – Webinar – Best Practices: Real-time Data Processing with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda.
July 30 – Webinar – Getting Started with Amazon DynamoDB.
July 29 – Webinar – Troubleshoot Operational & Security Incidents with CloudTrail.
August 19 – Meetup (Sacramento, CA) – High Availability by Design.
August 27 – Meetup (Novato, CA) – Autodesk and Cyan Discuss All Things Docker.
September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
AWS Summits – Latin America.
AWS re:Invent.
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)
July 27 – Lowering Total Cost of Ownership with AWS (3 – 4 PM).
July 30 – Shinola Brings Back “Made in America” to Detroit with DevOps and the Cloud (6 – 8 PM).
July 31 – IoT Hack Day Sponsored by MediaTek Labs (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 10 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 11 – Behind the Scenes with AdRoll – Petabyte-Scale Data Workflows with Docker, Luigi, and Spot Instances (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
August 12 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Bohemian Guitars (7 PM – 10 PM).
August 13 – Meet the Amazon Aurora Subject Matter Experts (2 PM – 4 PM).
August 13 – Programmatic Security on AWS (6 PM – 8 PM).
August 17 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS -Technical (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 26 – Continuous Compliance and Management in the Cloud (6 PM – 9 PM).
August 20 – Behind the Scenes with ILM Lucasfilm: “Powering the World’s Leading Visual Effects Studio” (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)
July 28 – Convert Your Code into a Microservice Using AWS Lambda (4 PM – 6 PM).
July 28 – Behind the Scenes with Timehop: Optimizations for Time Series Data in DynamoDB (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
July 29 – Security Threats, the Cloud, and Your Responsibilities presented by Evident.io (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
July 30 – Build Your Own Website: Making Web Development Fun & Easy (1 PM – 6 PM).
August 3 – Amazon EMR Deep Dive (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
August 5 – Startup Pitch Event and Summer Social (6:30 PM).
August 10 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 11 – AWS Bootcamp (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 12 – DynamoDB Deep Dive (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
August 12 – Behind the Scenes with Threat Stack: Building a Production Analytics System in Amazon Redshift (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
August 13 – Loft Rocks Concert Series with Controller (7 PM – 10 PM).
August 17 – IAM Overview (12 PM – 1 PM).
August 17 – IAM Best Practices (1 PM).
August 17 – Understanding Options for Encrypting Your Data (2 – 3 PM).
August 17 – Behind the Scenes with Rapid7 – AWS Infrastructure as Code (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
August 18 – Mastering Access Management Policies (12 PM – 1:30 PM).
August 18 – Bring Your Own Identities – Federating Access to Your AWS Environment (1:30 PM – 3 PM).
August 18 – Entrepreneurs Roundtable (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM).
August 20 – AdTech Loft Talks (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
August 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
August 24 – AWS Bootcamp – Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 25 – AWS Bootcamp – Architecting Highly Available Apps (10 AM – 6 PM).
August 25 – Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB (6:30 PM).
September 2 – Behind the Scenes with Twilio – SMS for Humans: Using NLP for Better Text Experiences (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
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