Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas Week in Review – April 21, 2014

Amazon VGT2 Las Vegas Week in Review – April 21, 2014More Info

Let’s take a brief look at the notable events that took place in the Amazon cloud ecosystem during the past week:

Monday, April 21

We introduced exciting new features for Amazon Redshift. The AWS .NET Development Blog discussed the topic of overriding endpoints in the AWS SDK for .NET. Additionally, the AWS Security Blog worked to clarify EC2 resource-level permissions.

Tuesday, April 22

We announced the ability to add tags to your Elastic Beanstalk environments. Furthermore, Amazon Kinesis API calls are now included in CloudTrail log files.

Wednesday, April 23

We rolled out AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Docker, and AWS Auto Scaling now features expanded support for dedicated instances. Also, Amazon RDS now allows upgrades from MySQL version 5.5 to 5.6 and Oracle Database version 11.2.0.4.

Thursday, April 24

We introduced backup and restore capabilities for Redis ElastiCache nodes. Improvements were made to query filtering and conditional updates for DynamoDB. Additionally, Amazon RDS now supports Oracle Database 11.2.0.4.

Friday, April 25

We shared new success stories from AWS customers such as Flipboard, Infor, Dolphin, Qihoo 360, SoundCloud, and Tiens Group. This week, the AWS Marketplace also added new products, including CKAN, piXserve, and Ubuntu Server 14.04.

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