AWS Week in Review – August 24, 2015

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

New & Notable Open Source

• mino is a Go-based Amazon S3 client.
• awstools is a collection of handy scripts for working with AWS.
• learn_aws_lambdas shows how to use AWS Lambda functions.
• Data-Science-Tools-for-AWS is exactly what it claims to be.
• aws-snippets is a collection of handy snippets for various AWS tasks.
• AWSLauncher is a CLI tool to interact with AWS.
• remotgo sends commands over SSH to EC2 instances.
• EC2Box is a web-based SSH console to execute commands and manage multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.
• CloudProcessingEngine distributes and scales processes and workflows using AWS.
• aws-ec2-start-stop-tools are simple but useful tools to start and store EC2 instances.

New Customer Success Stories

• GoSquared (customer analytics services).
• Pacific Life Insurance (financial services and products).
• Tado (climate solutions).
• WeMade Entertainment (online game development).

New SlideShare Presentations

• Getting Started with AWS.
• Leveraging AWS to Host MSDN Licenses.
• Getting Started with AWS Service Catalog.

New YouTube Videos

• AWS GovCloud (US): An Overview.
• Introduction to Amazon EC2.
• Amazon RDS (Japanese subtitles).
• Amazon Elastic Filesystem (Japanese subtitles).

Upcoming Events

• September 1 – Meetup (Dublin, Ireland) – AWS Usergroup Ireland.
• September 2 – Webinar – Getting Started with AWS Code Services – with APN Partner Stelligent.
• September 10 – Live Event (Seattle, WA) AWS Workshop and Hackathon (8 AM – 11 PM).
• September 14-18 – Live Event (New York) AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp.
• September 22 – Webinar – Scientific Computing in the Cloud: Speeding Access for Drug Discovery – with APN Partner Avere Systems and customer H3 Biomedicine.
• September 24 – Meetup (Warszawa, Poland) – AWS User Group Poland.
• AWS Summits – Latin America.
• AWS re:Invent – Sold out, register for the live stream!

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (San Francisco)

• August 31 – Foxpass Presents: DevOps and IT Security Best Practices (6 AM – 8 PM).
• September 10 – Security Incident Response in AWS: Best Practices and Prerequistes (6 PM – 7:30 PM).
• September 11 – IoT Hack Day: AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series-Sponsored by MediaTek Labs (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 14 – AWS Bootcamp: Architecting Highly Available Applications (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 16 – ClearScale Customer Showcase + Premier Partner Party  (6 PM – 9:30 PM).
• September 17 – The Right Tool for the Right Job on AWS (4 PM – 8 PM).
• September 22 – Accelerating to the Hybrid Cloud and Reaping the Rewards (6 PM – 9 PM).
• September 25 – TechNode San Francisco Demo Day (10 AM – 5 PM).
• 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 21 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).

Upcoming Events at the AWS Loft (New York)

• September 2 – Behind the Scenes with Twilio – SMS for Humans: Using NLP for Better Text Experiences (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 3 – Introduction to AWS Mobile Services (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 3 – Intro to AWS Xamarin SDK for Mobile Services (2 PM – 5 PM).
• September 4 – Building a Mobile Game with AWS and Unity (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 8 – Infrastructure as Code (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM).
• September 8 – Behind the Scenes with Hudl: Development in the Multiverse (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 9 – AWS Lambda Overview (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 9 – AWS Lambda Deep Dive (2 PM – 5 PM).
• September 9 – Bringing Your Game to the Living Room (5 PM – 6 PM).
• September 10 – Amazon API Gateway Overview (10 AM – 1 PM).
• September 10 – Amazon API Gateway Deep Dive (2 PM – 5 PM).
• September 10 – Venture Capital Loft Talks (6:30 PM – 8 PM).
• September 14 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 15 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 16 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 17 – Chef Bootcamp: A Taste of Chef on AWS (10 AM – 6 PM).
• September 18 – Network with Amazon Business Leaders from NYC Area (6 PM – 9 PM).
• September 24 – Intro to Using AWS and the Alexa Skills Kit to Build Voice Driven Experiences + Open Hackathon (10 AM – 3 PM).
• September 24 – How to Implement Top 10 AWS Security Best Practices Evening Session with Evident.io (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
• September 25 – How to Implement Top 10 AWS Security Best Practices Day Workshop with Evident.io (10 AM – 2 PM).
• 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).

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• AWS Careers.

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— Jeff;