AWS Week in Review – March 21, 2016

March 21

• We announced New CloudWatch Metrics for Spot Fleets.
• We announced Retry Throttling for the AWS SDK for Java.
• We announced that it is Now Easier to Connect Amazon Machine Learning to Amazon Redshift via the AWS Management Console.
• We announced that AWS Storage Gateway Now Supports up to 1 PB Virtual Tape Libraries and up to 512 TB of Stored Volumes per Gateway.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog shared Lessons Learned When Going All-In on AWS.
• The AWS Mobile Development Blog talked about Setting up Parse Server and MongoDB on AWS Using CloudFormation.
• Stelligent showed you how to Create a Cross-Account Pipeline in AWS CloudFormation.
• RightScale showed you how to Manage Cloud Costs via a Single API.
• Mark Litwintschik explored A Billion Taxi Rides on Amazon EMR running Spark.
• Cloud Academy talked about AWS Certification Exams: What to Expect.
• Jordan Farrer decided that Lambda + Alexa = VoiceOps.

March 22

• We announced Additional Pricing Options for AWS Marketplace Products.
• We announced the AWS Encryption SDK.
• We announced that Spot Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.
• We announced the Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 is Now Available.
• We announced that you can now Pay a Flat Monthly Fee for Unlimited Testing of iOS and Android Apps with AWS Device Farm.
• The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Import Zeppelin Notes from GitHub or JSON in Zeppelin 0.5.6 on Amazon EMR.
• The AWS Security Blog showed you How to Use the New AWS Encryption SDK to Simplify Data Encryption and Improve Application Availability.
• The AWS Startup Collection talked about Adapting Deep Learning to Medicine with Behold.ai.
• 2nd Watch talked about how SCOR Velogica Moved to the AWS Cloud for Better Security & SOC2.
• Flux7 shared an AWS Autoscaling Case Study.

March 23

• We launched Windows Authentication for Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
• I wrote about Airbnb – Reinventing the Hospitality Industry on AWS.
• The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog noted that NASA’s Data in in the Amazon Cloud and asked Is Yours?
• The AWS Partner Network Blog talked about Optimizing SaaS Tenant Workflows and Costs.
• TriNimbus talked about High-Caffeine Fun with AWS IoT: Introducing TriNimbus IoT Coffeebot.
• Cloudonaut explored Optional Parameters in CloudFormation.
• Dome9 shared 5 CSO Myths related to Migrating Enterprise Workloads to AWS.

March 24

• We launched an ElastiCache for Redis Update that can Upgrade Engines and Scale Up.
• We announced Support for Multiple Trails in AWS GovCloud (US).
• We announced that the APN Partner Accreditation Courses are Now Available in More Languages.
• We announced that AWS Mobile Hub Now Supports Swift.
• The AWS Big Data Blog talked about Anomaly Detection Using PySpark, Hive, and Hue on Amazon EMR.
• N2W Software listed The 5 AWS Building Blocks for Your Cloud Startup.
• Powerupcloud talked about Deployment Automation Using AWS CodeDeploy.

March 25

• We announced that Amazon RDS for Postgres Now Supports Enhanced Monitoring and can Enforce SSL Connections.
• We announced that Amazon RDS for MariaDB is Now Covered by the RDS SLA.
• The AWS Java Blog talked about Testing Lambda Function Using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse.

March 26

• Powerupcloud talked about Automating Couchbase Backups to S3 and Automating RDS Snapshots with AWS Lambda.