AWS Week in Review – January 25, 2016

January 25

• We announced AWS Marketplace Support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.
• We announced that AWS CloudFormation Now Includes an Override for Failed Update Rollbacks.
• The AWS Enterprise Blog listed 4 Dos and Don’ts when Using the Cloud to Experiment.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog explained how Cloud Brings Peace of Mind to the Public Sector.
• The AWS Java Blog talked about Managing Dependencies in Gradle with AWS SDK for JAva using the Maven Bill of Materials Module.
• The AWS Security Blog explained How to Protect Sensitive Data with AWS KMS.
• Cloud Academy announced A New Lab: Advanced Roles and Group Management Using IAM.
• Rowan Udell talked about Using Apex v0.5.0 for Managing Lambda Functions.
• Kayla Comalli shared her Quick ElastiCache Setup for Redis.
• My colleague Mark Ryland talked about What HAQM Web Services Can Do For Your Agency.

January 26

• We announced that you can now Purchase Reservations for EC2 Dedicated Hosts.
• We announced that AWS Mobile Hub Now Supports Google+ Sign-In.
• The AWS DevOps Blog explained how to Optimize AWS CloudFormation Templates.
• The AWS Compute Blog showed you how to Use API Gateway Mapping Templates to Handle Changes in Your Back-end APIs.
• The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Add DNS Filtering to Your NAT Instance with Squid.
• The AWS Startup Collection explained Why Your Minimum Viable Product Must Scale.
• 2nd Watch talked about the Scheduled Reserved Instance.
• Cloud Academy reviewed AWS Security (IAM): Federated Access, Trusted Advisor, and Consolidated Billing.

January 27

• We announced EMR 4.3.0 with New and Updated Applications + Command Line Export.
• We announced that AWS CodePipeline Now Includes Support for Triggering Lambda Functions.
• We announced that AWS WAF Now Inspects the HTTP Request Body, and Also Includes a Size Constraint Condition.
• We published new What is Cloud Storage? and Cloud Data Migration pages.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog urged you to Ask Not What Your Things Can Do For You.
• Hack.FoolAround.Repeat explained How to Install AWS CodeDeploy Agent on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
• HashiCorp talked about Serving Static Sites with Fastly, S3, and Middleman.
• Cloud Machine Manager talked about The Value of AWS for Businesses.
• Codeship showed you how to Create a Serverless REST API in Minutes with the Serverless Framework.
• Colin Toh published an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Survival Guide (Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3).

January 28

• We announced an HAQM WorkSpaces Update Featuring Support for Audio-in, High DPI Devices, and Saved Registrations.
• We announced that HAQM Elasticsearch Service and HAQM CloudSearch Are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.
• We announced that AWS IoT Now Supports WebSockets, Custom Keepalive Intervals, and an Enhanced Console.
• We announced that Scheduled Auto Scaling Is Now Available in the AWS Management Console.
• We announced that the HAQM VPC NAT Gateway is Now Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region.
• We published the first AWS Enterprise Accelereator, a Standardized Architecture for NIST 800-53 on the AWS Cloud.
• I published an AWS Podcast Interview with Bob Rogers of Intel.
• The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about implementing Multi-Tenant Storage with HAQM DynamoDB.
• We updated the AWS Mobile SDK, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Android, AWS SDK for JavaScript, AWS SDK for Go, and the AWS SDK for Ruby.
• The AWS Startup Collection talked about The Demand for mHealth Applications.
• Hack.FoolAround.Repeat talked about Working with CodeDeploy and GitHub Branches.
• Spotinst can now Import AWS Autoscaling Groups or Beanstalk Environments in a Single Click.
• ParkMyCloud asked What Are AWS Scheduled Reserved Instances and Do They Save Money?
• Codeship explained How to Separate Your AWS Production and Development Accounts.

January 29

• We launched an Improved Training Course for AWS Developers.
• We updated the Trend Micro Deep Security on AWS Quick Start.
• We published a New Sample Tomcat Web Application for AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Turning HAQM EMR into a Massive HAQM S3 Processing Engine with Campanile.
• TriNimbus announced No More Excuses Canada – The AWS Cloud is Here to Stay!
• Cloudonaut showed you How to Discover Machine Learning Using the Iris Flower Data Set.
• GorillaStack launched 7 Powerful Features That Will Enhance Your AWS Auto Scaling Schedules.
• Hydras talked about Immutable S3 Buckets.

January 30

•  We published a new white paper, SaaS Solutions on AWS.

January 31

• A Cloud Guru talked about Serverless User Interfaces: Stealing the Best of Mobile for the Web.