AWS Week in Review – March 16, 2015

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

Monday, March 16	We announced that the EC2 Container Service is now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region. We published the Second Release Candidate of the Amazon Linux AMI. We updated the AWS SDK for Unity.
Tuesday, March 17	The AWS Security Blog announced some Planned Upgrades to IAM Policy Validation. Kevin Cantwell recapped One Year of DynamoDB at TimeHop.
Wednesday, March 18	A post on the AWS Security Blog reminded Amazon RDS Customers to Update Their SSL Certificates by March 23, 2015. Aptuz Technology Solutions shared 6 Reasons Why We Chose AWS. A post on the AWS Enterprise Blog reviewed Trading Technologies: A Financial Service Firm’s Journey to the Cloud. We announced an Amazon RDS Update – Version 9.4.1 of PostgreSQL is Now Available. We announced Auto Scaling Support for Multiple Subnets per Availability Zone. We announced an Elastic Load Balancing Security Update. The Gathering Clouds Blog listed 3 Steps to Resilient AWS Deployments.
Thursday, March 19	We announced that Larger (16 TB) and Faster (20,000 IOPS) EBS Volumes are Now Available. We announced that Amazon WorkDocs is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. We announced that Amazon Mobile Analytics Now Supports JavaScript Apps. The AWS Mobile Development Blog showed you How to Use Amazon Mobile Analytics with your JavaScript Enabled Apps. The AWS Startup Collection pointed the Startup Spotlight at Quixey, Docker, Lyft, ShowShoe, and Zuora. The AWS Partner Network Blog revealed New APN Tools to Syndidate AWS Content on Your Website. The developers at Applied Trust published Traildash, a dashboard for AWS CloudTrail logs. We updated the AWS SDK for Java, AWS CLI, AWS SDK for .NET, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS SDK for JavaScript, and the AWS SDK for Ruby. N2W published How-to Backup Active Directory on the AWS Cloud (Part 1). Cloud Academy announced Two New Cloud Academy Courses: AWS Database and AWS Networking Fundamentals.
Friday, March 20	We announced that you can now Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the US West (Northern California) Region. We Updated the Amazon SNS Console. A post on the AWS Big Data Blog talked about Launching and Running an Amazon EMR Cluster inside a VPC. A post on the AWS Ruby Development Blog announced the new AWS-SDK-Railed Gem. Evident.io published Top 10 AWS Security Best Practices: #6 – Rotate all the Keys Regularly. I published Episode #103 of the AWS Podcast, featuring an interview with Aarti Arianna of HeartGLO. The Cloud Academy Blog asked AWS Solutions Architect Associate Level Exam: When Will You Be Ready? We added StorReduce for Amazon S3 to AWS Marketplace. It is available for 100 TB, 200 TB, 500 TB, 1 PB, and 2 PB editions. We added seven new videos: Working at AWS UK and Ireland, University of Notre Dame Migrates Website to AWS and Lowers its Operational Costs by 40%, JWT Saves 63% on its Backup Solution Running with CTERA on AWS, Simple Builds PCI-Compliant IT Environment on AWS, GLHC Connects Over Six Million Patient Records with Over 120 Hospitals by Using AWS, Crittercism Monitors Over 1 Billion Mobile Apps Using AWS, and Omnifone Stores 3 PB of Data and Streams over 38 Million Songs by Using AWS. An active Reddit thread on /r/aws discussed AWS Tagging Standards.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, March 24 – Webinar – Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on AWS.
Wednesday, March 25 – Webinar – Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
Thursday, March 26 – Webinar – Migrating Windows Server 2003 applications to Windows Server 2008/2012 on AWS with APN Partner AppZero.
Thursday, March 26 – Webinar – – Saving at Scale: How Adobe Manages a Massive Reserved Instance Portfolio – with APN Partner Cloudability and customer Adobe.
Monday, March 30 – Live Event (San Francisco) – IoT Hack Day: AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series – Sponsored by Spark.
Monday, March 30 – Webinar – Getting to 1.5M Ads/Sec: How DataXu Manages Big Data – with APN Partner Qubole and customer DataXu.
Tuesday, March 31 – Webinar – Cloud E-Discovery: Solving the Right Problems with a Modern Approach – with APN Partner Zapproved and customer Raytheon.
Thursday, April 2 – Webinar – Strategies for Securing Hybrid Workloads with Level 3 and Cisco.
Wed, April 8 @ 10 am PT – Webinar – Refining Raw Data for Complete Customer Insight with Amazon Redshift and Pentaho – with APN Partner Pentaho and customer Lucky Group
AWS Summits.
April 12-16 – Live Event (Chicago, Illinois) – AWS at HIMSS15.
April 13-16 – Live Event (Las Vegas, Nevada) – AWS at NAB 2015.
Friday, April 17 – Webinar – The Power of Automated Cloud DR – With APN Partner CloudVelox.
April 21-23 – Live Event (Boston, Massachusetts) – AWS at Bio-IT World 2015.
AWS Summits.