AWS Week in Review – September 21, 2015

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

New & Notable Open Source

• saws is a supercharged AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
• JAWS  is the server-less application framework.
• aws-vault is a vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments.
• iamy is an IAM import and export tool.
• amazon-ecs-plugin is an EC2 Container Service plugin for Jenkins.
• calypso is a set of tools for better Docker deployments to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• s3-photo-archiver implements archival storage of photo and video media in S3.
• shepherd is a framework for building APIs using AWS API Gateway and Lambda.
• ish lets you SSH to an EC2 server based on name tag, AMI, autoscaling group, or instance ID.

New SlideShare Presentations

• Meeting Regulatory Requirements with HAQM Glacier Vault Lock.
• Running Microservices with HAQM EC2 Container Service.
• Building Your First Big Data Application on AWS.
• Best Practices: Infrastructure Deployment and Monitoring with AWS Lambda and HAQM SNS.
• Event-Driven Computing Enabled by DynamoDB Streams.
• Boot Camp – Migration to AWS.
• Masterclass Live – HAQM S3.
• Creating a Cloud First Standard.
• Masterclass – Advanced Security Best Practices on EC2.
• Startup without Servers.

New Customer Success Stories

• Canal+ -Mobile and personalized cable television offers.
• Cinémur -Mobile app to rate and comment on movies.
• Cydar -3D overlays for X-ray guided procedures.
• Eyeota – Data collection and analysis for online publishers.
• Healthcare.gov – Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
• Localytics -Marketing and analytics for major brands.
• Peak – Brain training app.
• Realeyes – Business intelligence via emotion analytics.

New YouTube Videos

• Masterclass – Advanced Security Best Practices.
• Deploying Line of Business Desktop Apps Using HAQM WAM.
• Deploying and Managing Applications in HAQM WorkSpaces.

New Marketplace Applications

• Barracuda Web Application Firewall.
• Barracuda Web Application Firewall – BYOL.
• HP StormRunner Load.
• HP LoadRunner – Community Version 1250R2.
• Visual LANSA Development Environment.
• Gazunti – GazCloud.
• Aeonix V2.4.312.
• Streamap.
• CloudLock for AWS.
• PerfAccel on Ubuntu 14.04.
• MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 7.
• MariaDB 10.0 on Debian 8.
• MariaDB 10.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.
• StackStorm Enterprise.
• Neos CMS 2.x.
• Alfresco One Enterprise 5.0.2.
• vAPV Virtual Application Delivery Controller.
• Docker Subscription for AWS (BYOL).
• Docker Engine for AWS (Business Day Support).
• Docker Trusted Registry for AWS (Business Day Support).
• SecureSphere Database Activity Monitor v11.5 for AWS (BYOL).
• SecureSphere Database Firewall v11.5 for AWS (BYOL).
• Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway (10 Tunnels).
• Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway (BYOL).
• Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway (50 Tunnels).
• Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway (5 Tunnels).
• Aviatrix Cloud Services Gateway (25 Tunnels).
• OTRS – Open Source Service Management Software.
• Awetest.
• PerfAccel.
• datavirtuality 1.8.17 (Windows Server 2012R2).
• StresStimulus Cloud Testing Solution.
• StresStimulus Cloud Testing Agent.
• LX WordNet/Natural Language Processing Server.
• ERPNext powered by Bitnami (HVM).

Upcoming Events

• September 29 – Webinar – Accelerate Onboarding to AWS with Data-Driven IT Discovery Automation – with APN Partner ATADATA.
• September 30 – Webinar – How Accolade Harnessed Big Data to Recommend Personalized Services to Their Customers – with APN Partner Talend and customer Accolade.
• October 1 – Webinar – Achieving Continuous Delivery with AWS Lambda and Codeship – with APN Partner Codeship and customer Pipedrive.
• October 1 – Meetup (South Bend, Indiana) – Michiana AWS Meetup.
• October 21 – Webinar – Securing Gene Sequencing Data on AWS for HIPAA Compliance – with APN Partner Alert Logic and customer GenomeNext.
• AWS re:Invent – Sold out, register for the live stream!

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• September 28 – AWS Bootcamp: Taking Operations to the Next Level (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 29 – Funding Options for Growing Technology Companies (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 30 – Onshape Users (6 PM – 8:30 PM).
• October 1 – Market Differentiators and Elements of API Management plus The Developer Experience – Accelerating Growth (6 PM – 9 PM).
• October 7 – re:Invent at the Loft – Keynote Live Stream (9 AM – 10:30 AM).
• October 8 – re:Invent at the Loft -Keynote Live Stream (9 AM – 10:30 AM).
• October 8 – Loft Startup Showcase (11:30 AM – 1:30 PM).
• October 8 – re:Invent at the Loft – re:Play Happy Hour (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• October 13 – Behind the Scenes with ironSource: The Road to Production with Node.js and JavaScript.
• October 19 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• October 20 – AWS Bootcamp: Getting Started with AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• October 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
• October 29 – Building Serverless Microservices with AWS Lambda (Noon – 4 PM).
• October 29 – Startup Pitch Event and Halloween Party (6:30 PM – 9:30 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

• September 28 – Onshape Users (6 PM – 8:30 PM).
• October 1 – Behind the Scenes with LearnBop – Bulletproof Blue/Green Deployments – Myths, Pitfalls and Solutions (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• October 5 – A Brief (and Thorough) Introduction to Mindfulness (1 – 2:30 PM).
• October 6 – AWS Pop-up Loft Trivia Night (6 – 8 PM).
• October 7 – AWS re:Invent at the Loft – Keynote Live Stream (11:30 AM – 1:30 PM).
• October 8 – AWS re:Invent at the Loft – Keynote Live Stream (12:00 PM – 1:30 PM).
• October 8 – AWS re:Invent at the Loft — re:Play Happy Hour! (7 – 9 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (Berlin)

• October 15 – An overview of Hadoop & Spark, using HAQM Elastic MapReduce (9 AM).
• October 15 – Processing streams of data with HAQM Kinesis (and other tools) (10 AM).
• October 15 – STUPS – A Cloud Infrastructure for Autonomous Teams (5 PM).
• October 16 – Transparency and Audit on AWS (9 AM).
• October 16 – Encryption Options on AWS (10 AM).
• October 16 – Simple Security for Startups (6 PM).
• October 19 – Introduction to AWS Directory Service, HAQM WorkSpaces, HAQM WorkDocs and HAQM WorkMail (9 AM).
• October 19 – HAQM WorkSpaces: Advanced Topics and Deep Dive (10 AM).
• October 19 – Building a global real-time discovery platform on AWS (6 PM).
• October 20 – Scaling Your Web Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk (10 AM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (London)

• September 28 – Introduction to Funding and Pitching (5 PM).
• September 29 – Masterclass Live: HAQM EC2 (10 AM).
• September 29 – AWS CodeDeploy: Getting Started (1 PM).
• September 29 – HAQM EC2 Container Service: Getting Started (3 PM).
• September 29 – Cohesive Networks – Ensuring a secure foundation for your AWS Containers (4 PM).
• September 29 – AWS for Startups (5 PM).
• September 30 – IoT Lab Session (9 AM).
• September 30 – Defining VPC Based Web Apps in AWS CloudFormation (10 AM).
• September 30 – Startup Showcase – B2B (1 PM).
• October 16 – HPC in the Cloud Workshop (2 – 4 PM).
• October 22 – Working with Planetary-Scale Open Data Sets on AWS (2 – 4 PM).

Help Wanted

• This Week’s Cloud Computing Jobs (Cloud Academy).
• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;

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