Amazon IXD – VGT2 Las Vegas Week in Review – November 7, 2016

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Let’s take a moment to recap the highlights from the world of AWS last week. Special thanks to the 17 contributors, both internal and external, who submitted their pull requests!

Monday, November 7

• We introduced a new feature in CloudWatch that allows users to jump from metrics directly to related logs.
• A Quick Start Reference Deployment for CI/CD on Microsoft Windows in AWS was published.
• Users can now Test Drive Amazon Kinesis Firehose with built-in sample data.
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
• The AWS Compute Blog discussed real-world scalability scenarios within AWS.
• The blog also demonstrated how to run Swift web applications using Amazon ECS.
• A series on migrating Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise workloads to Amazon RDS commenced on the AWS Database Blog.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog paid tribute to Veterans Day.
• A new series titled “Getting Hands-On with Serverless Framework v1” began with Part 1: Redirects, by Sam Thompson from GorillaStack.
• An episode of the AWS Podcast highlighted various recent service updates.
• Mistwire.com wrapped up its series on the 8 Domains of the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification Exam.
• A collaboration by Zoey Grant and Michael Lee explored how to leverage AWS new P2 instances for deep learning applications.
• An article by Jenna Roberts focused on securing your AWS account with CloudFormation.
• AWS Community Hero, Eric Hammond, discussed executing aws-cli commands within AWS Lambda functions.
• Flux7 analyzed the intersection of DevOps, DaaS, and AWS WorkSpaces for enhanced self-service across organizations.

Tuesday, November 8

• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared case studies demonstrating how the cloud efficiently scaled to meet Election Day demands.
• The AWS Security Blog revealed security and compliance sessions at re:Invent 2016 with available seats.
• The AWS Startup Collection highlighted how Crimson Hexagon boosted productivity by 82%.
• Carl Nordenfelt launched lulo, a plugin engine for AWS Lambda-based AWS CloudFormation CustomResources.
• CloudHealth Technologies released a statement on how it optimizes cloud infrastructure through integrated performance metrics.
• Kim Schmidt added a new video to her Amazon Aurora Deep Dive Video Section 2.0 (Architecture): Video 2.8, focusing on Amazon Aurora’s performance.
• Kim Schmidt, alongside five other contributors, published a white paper on Business Intelligence and Big Data on AWS.
• Noah Zoschke from Convox explained the importance of encryption at rest using KMS.
• Batchly shared strategies on reducing EMR costs by utilizing AWS Spot Instances.
• Spotinst introduced a new feature for console – Spot Market Scoring.
• Trek10 discussed serverless architectures catered to IoT applications.

Wednesday, November 9

• The AWS Compute Blog provided insights on building serverless applications in AWS Mobile Hub with newly added cloud logic and user sign-in features.
• We announced Cloud Logic, email and password sign-in, and SAML authentication for AWS Mobile Hub.
• The AWS DevOps Blog shared guidance on deploying a Spring Boot application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• Cloudonaut.io offered their perspective on serverless architecture.
• Spotinst examined blended EC2 clusters and provided an AWS case study featuring Inneractive, along with details on EC2 Container Service.
• 2nd Watch outlined the top five pitfalls to avoid at AWS re:Invent 2016.
• DZone Cloud Zone released a getting started video for Docker on AWS.
• ParkMyCloud addressed whether their service supports AWS Reserved Instances.

Thursday, November 10

• We launched a new Burst Balance Metric for SSD (gp2) volumes.
• A guest post discussed genome engineering applications as early adopters of the cloud.
• The AWS Compute Blog elaborated on simplifying distributed deep learning processes.
• The AWS Security Blog outlined how to assign permissions using new AWS managed policies tailored for job functions.
• The Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog provided instructions on setting up Amazon API Gateway as a proxy for debugging account linking.
• The Cloudability Blog analyzed the cost efficiency of the new EC2 x1.16xlarge instance.
• The Cloud Academy Blog detailed a successful Parse Server migration on AWS.
• Brian Beach shared a sample application using the Simple Email Service (SES).
• Botmetric presented five essential AWS security best practices, geared towards beginners.
• CloudCheckr offered a roundup of AWS re:Invent focused on unified cloud governance.
• Cloudyn prepared for the cloud event of the year.

Friday, November 11

• We announced that AWS Educate is now accessible to U.S. veterans.
• AWS Snowball received HIPAA eligibility recognition.
• The Amazon Kinesis Streams Console now allows configuration of data retention and shard-level metrics.
• New features for Amazon Redshift included data compression, connection management, and data loading enhancements.
• We opened our fourth edge location in Japan for Amazon CloudFront.
• Amazon RDS now supports version 9.6.1 of PostgreSQL.
• The AWS Big Data Blog highlighted AWS Big Data & Machine Learning sessions at re:Invent 2016.
• N2WS listed five backup sessions at AWS re:Invent worth attending this year.
• RightScale announced product updates, including support for P2 instances in Cloud Analytics and the addition of new AWS regions.
• Kim Schmidt contributed another video on Amazon Aurora’s performance benchmarking in the Deep Dive Video Section 2.0 (Architecture): Video 2.9.

Saturday, November 12

• Eric Hammond discussed the infrastructure upgrade for the Alestic.com Blog.
• AHEAD explored deploying coded infrastructure with their cloud management portal.
• DZone Cloud Zone shared strategies for enhancing AWS security posture.

Sunday, November 13

• The AWS Compute Blog listed sessions on AWS Lambda at re:Invent 2016.
• Serverless Code detailed utilizing Lambda for production-to-staging data pipelines to improve CI/CD environments.
• REA Group discussed the integration of Reactive Streams with DynamoDB.
• DZone Cloud Zone reviewed “The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services.”

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