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Does your operations team practice ChatOps? This brand-new term refers to the practice of conversation-driven operations using one or more “bots” that have the ability to insert notifications & status reports into the conversation and to respond to commands.

The chat environment provides real-time communication, a coherent shared view, multi-user access from web and mobile devices, access to previous messages, and so forth. Integrating bots into the conversation gives operations teams the ability to work collaboratively to understand, diagnose, and address emerging issues while simultaneously tracking changes made to the target system by way of commands directed to a bot.

New Slack Integration
In order to make it even easier for AWS customers to manage their environments in this new and innovative way, we recently launched a collection of Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda:

You can use these blueprints to build chat-based tools that participate in your own Slack conversations. The slack-echo- blueprints will help you to write bots that respond to commands; the cloudwatch-alarm-to-slack- blueprints will help you to write bots that emit status reports and notifications. Because you have the ability to give the bots access to any desired AWS APIs, you can interact with your AWS resources in any desired way. You can query their status, look for error conditions, change settings, or even create new resources.

Suppose you want to monitor an Auto Scaling group using a CloudWatch alarm, and generate a message to your ChatOps team (a Slack channel) when a limit is exceeded. The team can take a closer look at the situation, and then decide to remedy the issue by scaling up. Using the new Slack integration and various AWS services, the overall flow would look like this (red arrows represent the notification; green arrows represent the response):

In order to implement a system like this you would use a Slack webhook to post messages to the channel, along with the cloudwatch-alarm-to-slack-python blueprint. Following the directions in the blueprint, you would create a AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key, use it to encrypt the URL of the webhook, and base-64 encode it before pasting it in to the code. Then you would create an IAM Role and give it permission to call the KMS Decrypt function on the key. The event handler would then send messages to the Slack channel of your choice like this:

slack_message = {
    'channel': SLACK_CHANNEL,
    'text': "%s state is now %s: %s" % (alarm_name, new_state, reason)
}

req = Request(HOOK_URL, json.dumps(slack_message))

The handler would also need to handle any exceptions raised by the request (this is all spelled out in the blueprint).

You can also create functions that implement custom Slack commands. In order to do this, you use the Amazon API Gateway to create an HTTP endpoint for each function, and then configure your Slack channel to POST to the endpoint when the command is invoked. For example, here’s the configuration for commands named /scale and /forcealarm:

The handler function has access to the user, command, channel, and command text:

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    req_body = event['body']
    params = parse_qs(req_body)

    user = params['user_name'][0]
    command = params['command'][0]
    channel = params['channel_name'][0]
    command_text = params['text'][0]

You will need to configure the endpoint with a POST method, and set the authorization to NONE. You’ll also need to map the body of the request to JSON. The comment block at the top of each of the new blueprints contains more information on this aspect of the integration.

Share your Functions
I would love to see what kinds of cool functions you come up with. Please feel free to post your work as a comment to this post.

We continue to announce, build, and launch additional AWS regions as our customer base becomes larger, more diverse, and accustomed to running many different types of workloads in the cloud.

Hello, Canada
I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS region in Montreal, Québec, Canada in the coming year. This region will be carbon-neutral and powered almost entirely by clean, renewable hydro power.

The planned Canada-Montreal region will give AWS partners and customers the ability to run their workloads and store their data in Canada. As a reminder, we currently have 4 other regions in North America—US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), and AWS GovCloud (US)—with a total of 13 Availability Zones, plus the planned but not yet operational region coming to Ohio in 2016.

Today’s announcement means that our global infrastructure now comprises 32 Availability Zones across 12 geographic regions worldwide, with another 5 AWS regions (and 11 Availability Zones) in Canada, China, India, Ohio, and the United Kingdom coming online throughout the next year (see the AWS Global Infrastructure page for more info).

As always, we are looking forward to serving new and existing Canadian customers and to working with partners in the area. Of course, the new region will also be open to existing AWS customers who would like to process and store data in Canada.

Nous continuons d’annoncer, de développer et de lancer de nouvelles régions AWS à mesure que notre clientèle gagne en importance, en diversité et qu’elle s’habitue à exécuter plusieurs activités différentes dans le cloud.

Bonjour Canada
Je suis très heureux d’annoncer que nous ouvrirons une région AWS à Montréal, Québec, au Canada, dans l’année à venir.

Cette région sera carboneutre et alimentée presque entièrement par de l’énergie hydraulique propre et renouvelable.

La future région de Montréal (Canada) offrira aux partenaires et aux clients d’AWS la possibilité d’exécuter leurs activités et de stocker leurs données au Canada. Je vous rappelle qu’il existe actuellement quatre autres régions en Amérique – la région USA Est (Virginie du Nord), la région USA Ouest (Californie du Nord), la région USA Ouest (Oregon) et la  région AWS GovCloud (US) – formant un total de 13 zones de disponibilité (AZ), en plus des régions planifiées en Ohio dont l’ouverture est prévue pour 2016, mais qui ne sont pas encore opérationnelles.

L’annonce d’aujourd’hui signifie que notre infrastructure mondiale compte 32 zones de disponibilité (AZ) réparties dans 12 régions du monde, en plus des 5 régions AWS (et 11 zones de disponibilité [AZ]) au Canada, en Chine, en Inde, en Ohio et au Royaume-Uni qui seront en ligne au cours de l’année prochaine (consultez la page Infrastructure mondiale AWS pour obtenir plus de renseignements).

Comme toujours, nous avons bien hâte de servir de nouveaux clients canadiens ou des clients canadiens existants et de travailler avec nos partenaires dans la région. Bien entendu, la nouvelle région sera également disponible pour les clients existants d’AWS qui souhaitent traiter et stocker des données au Canada.

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

New & Notable Open Source

• Squiss is a high-volume Amazon SQS poller for Node.js.
• Blocker is a simple AWS EBS volume plugin for Docker.
• Lambda-test is a generic repository for testing GitHub webhooks with AWS Lambda.
• Awful is a Ruby gem that provides simple AWS command line tasks and YAML persistence.
• Splunk-sqs is an SQS collector for Splunk.
• Lambda-deploy is a proof of concept for deploying Lambda with CloudFormation + Grunt + AWS + Lambda.
• Amazonica is a comprehensive Clojure client for the entire AWS API.
• Lambda6 is a simple and opinionated handler architecture for AWS Lambda using ES6.
• Go-lambda allows you to call Go GRPC services from AWS Lambda functions.
• Thingpin is a Raspberry Pi AWS IoT publisher for IoT enabled sensors.

New Customer Success Stories

• Fin Design + Effect – Visual effects and design.
• Healthdirect Australia – Deliver services across the entire country while controlling costs.
• Hiree – Expediting the hiring process and helping job-seekers to get offers.
• SEAOIL –  Move Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise resource planning system into AWS.
• Syntel – Reduce provisioning time for hardware and increase scalability.
• THRON – Platform to simplify digital content management and distribution.

New YouTube Videos

• Introduction to Amazon Route 53.
• Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
• Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB.

Upcoming Events

• January 13th – Live Event (San Francisco) – AWS Big Data Meetup.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Lofts

• What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in January.

Help Wanted

• AWS Careers.

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

— Jeff;

The AWS IoT Mega Contest (brought to you by AWS and the great team at Hackster) has been extended until January 31, 2016. We already have over 850 participants, nearly 300 project ideas, and 45 projects, but there’s still time (and room) for more.

As the name suggests, we’re looking for Internet of Things projects that make use of the new AWS IoT service.

Goodies!
Everyone who posts a completed project receives $880 worth of goodies including AWS credits, a month of AWS Support, AWS Technical Professional Training, $80 of credit for Self-Paced Labs.

The first 50 projects receive $100 in cash.

The top 10 projects (based on documentation, creativity, and practicality) will win prizes that include an Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Amazon Echo devices, and the Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition.

Getting Started
If you were lucky enough to pick up an AWS IoT Button at AWS re:Invent, you can use it as part of your project. If not, you can purchase an AWS IoT Starter Kit from one of our partners or use an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, UDOO, Teensy, or FRDM that you already own.

Now you can build your project based on one of the project ideas. Take good notes as you build it, and be sure that your submission includes high-quality images, clear instructions, a bill of materials, schematics, source code, and CAD files, as appropriate.

Some Cool Ideas
The existing participants have generated hundreds of really cool ideas. As you can see, this is not simply technology for technology’s sake. Instead, people are using AWS to solve problems that are personal and meaningful to them. They are thinking about ways to create a better, healthier environment, focusing on personal safety, and agriculture. In the best Maker fashion, people are scratching their own itch, in ways that will improve life for them, their families, and their neighbor!

Here are some of our favorite ideas:

Allergen Levels Sensory Network by Kevin Kingsbury – Create a network of air quality sensor to monitor pollen, pollution and mold in cities everywhere, processing location and data in real time.

IoT Radiation Monitor by David Fowler – IoT enabled Geiger Counter small enough to be carried in a pocket or mounted to a vehicle and used to monitors radiation levels. The device will collect data and report radiation counts with position and time stamps.

IFTTT Anything with the AWS IoT Button by Drew Alend – Trigger any IFTTT action with a click of the AWS IoT Button. If clicked than that!

Computer Control with AWS ioT by Alex Merchen – Turn your computer BEFORE you come to work with a simple AWS IoT Button push, and save yourself time wasted on reboot and updates.

Hello & Good Night! by Dave Mathews – The smart home has been a dream of geeks since the lightbulb was created. Now, with dozens of apps in the stores controlling vastly different “so called smart” hardware interfaces, you can have a puzzle of connectivity.  We are going to take the AWS IoT button and turn it into a one-touch off button for ALL of our smart home services – Hue, Wemo and Sonos.  The key here is that we will not need another smart home controller, but leverage the power of the AWS Cloud and software APIs for the devices!

Monitoring Food/Water Intake for Dementia Patients by Leigh Carpenter – Caring for patients suffering from dementia who don’t to keep up with consistent eating and drinking habits which hey often neglect.

Some Cool Projects
Here are some projects that have been developed around the ideas:

AWS IoT Button and Sonos by Paul Wakeford – Use the AWS IoT Button to control a Sonos music system.

Summon Uber with the new AWS IoT Dash Button – Press the button and watch for the Uber App on your phone.

AWS IoT Button for LIFX  by Daniel Porrey – Use the AWS IoT Button to control a LIFX light bulb with immediacy and efficiency.

One Button Click Artificial Intelligence Based Home Monitor by Geeve George – Build a voice assistant for home security and  monitoring while while you’re away.

Magic Mirror – Use Amazon Echo to run an image search on the web.

Real Time Crop Monitoring by Sarthak Sethi – Help farmers monitor the health of crops by tapping data and sensors, across seasons and geographies.

Some Resources
Here are some great tutorials to get you started with AWS IoT:

• Beginner’s Guide to Using Your AWS IoT Button.
• Getting Started With the AWS IoT Button (video).
• Try to connect AWS IoT Button to kintone via AWS IoT.
• Using AWS IoT Button (Japanese).

20 Days To Go
With just 20 days to go, you’ll have to hustle if you plan to create and submit a project. Go for it! Be sure to read the FAQ and the official rules (scroll down).

We are expanding the AWS footprint once again, this time with a new region in Seoul, South Korea. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Seoul) region for fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services.

New Region
The new Seoul region has two Availability Zones (raising the global total to 32). It supports Amazon EC2 (T2, M4, C4, I2, D2, and R3 instances are available) and related services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.

It also supports the following services:

• AWS CloudFormation
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon Glacier
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• Amazon Kinesis
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• VM Import

There are two edge locations in Seoul for Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront. AWS Direct Connect support is available via KINX.

This is our twelfth region (see the AWS Global Infrastructure map for more information). As usual, you can see the full list in the region menu of the AWS Management Console:

Customers
There is already a very broad base of AWS customers in Korea. Here are a couple of examples:

Samsung used AWS to build the Samsung Printing App Center. This complex app can deploy mobile printing, scanning, and copying applications to a global customer base in real time. They chose AWS in order to be cost-effective, agile, and scalable.

Nexon is Korea’s premier gaming company, providing 150 games in 150 countries. AWS allows them to address a global customer base and to experiment with different games without having to invest in local infrastructure. Their newest MMORPG game, HIT, recently achieved the number one sales rank within the Korean mobile gaming industry in a record amount of time, running 100% on AWS.

Mirae Asset Global Investments Group migrated their web properties from on-premises data centers to AWS. This allowed them to stay competitive while reducing their management costs by 50%. With the launch of the new region, they will move additional sensitive, mission-critical workloads to AWS.

Eastar Jet was the first Korean airline company to migrate workloads to the public cloud. As one of the fastest-growing low-cost carriers (4 domestic and 6 international routes), they needed to reduce costs, increase availability, and ensure reliability as the total passenger count grew to over 14 million. They plan to move additional workloads to the new region.

The Beatpacking Company runs a popular music streaming app, with traffic that sometimes surges to 300% of the usual level. Since launching on AWS in March of 2014, they have grown to over 6 million users. Despite this growth, they reduced their AWS cost per user by 97% in the past year.

Partners
We are pleased to be working with a very wide variety of partners in Korea. Here is a sampling:

• AWS Premier Consulting Partners – Megazone and GS Neotek.
• AWS Consulting Partners – BD, NDS, Hostway, Saltware, WellDataSystem, Acloud, IAANSYS, MTOS Solutions, rockPLACE, and Vsystems.
• AWS Technology Partners – Hancom, IGAWorks, PentaSecurity, Gruter, ByteCode Lab, DaliWorks, TMAXSoft, and JenniferSoft.
• AWS Managed Security Service Providers – Ahnlab, SK Infosec, and CyberOne.
• AWS Direct Connect Partners – Dreamline, Sejong Telecom, and KINX.

Offices and Support
We opened an AWS office in Seoul in 2012. This office supports enterprises, government agencies, academic institutions, small-to-mid size companies, startups, and developers. The full range of AWS Support options is also available.

Compliance
Every AWS region is built and designed to meet rigorous compliance standards including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS Level 1 (to name a few); see the AWS Compliance page for more info.

AWS implements an Information Security Management System (ISMS) that is independently assessed by qualified third parties. These assessments address a wide variety of requirements which are communicated by making certifications and audit reports available, either on our public-facing website or upon request.

As customer trust is our top priority, AWS adopts global privacy and data protection best practices. Our most recent example of this commitment is our validation by an independent third party attesting that we align with ISO 27018 – the first international code of practice to focus on protection of personal data in the cloud. This demonstrates to customers that AWS has a system of controls in place specifically to address the privacy protection of their content.

For more information on how we handle data privacy, take a look at our Data Privacy FAQ.

Use it Now
This new region is open for business now and you can start using it today! If you are able to read Korean and want to know more about this region, please visit the new Seoul Region microsite. You’ll find additional information about the new region, documentation on how to migrate, customer use cases, information on training and other events, and  a list of AWS Partners in Korea.

The AWS Cost Explorer (read The New Cost Explorer for AWS to learn more) is a set of a tools that help you to track and manage your AWS costs. Last year we added saved reports, budgets & forecasts, and additional filtering & grouping dimensions.

Today we are adding EC2 usage data to Cost Explorer, along with additional dimensions for filtering and grouping:

• The EC2 cost data is now broken down into three elements: EC2 instances (EC2-Instances), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and Elastic Block Store (EBS).
• You can now filter, group, and view costs on additional dimensions, including Instance Type and Region.

Here’s a screen shot of the new usage data and dimensions:

The new features are available now and you can start using them today. To learn more, read about Analyzing Your Costs with Cost Explorer.

I am happy to be able to announce that we are making yet another EC2 price reduction!

We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for C4 and M4 instances running Linux by 5% in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.

We are also reducing the On-Demand, Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for R3 instances running Linux by 5% in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Brazil) regions.

Finally, we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved instance prices for R3 instances running Linux by 5% in the AWS GovCloud (US) regions.

Smaller reductions apply to the same instance types that run Windows, SLES, and RHEL in the regions mentioned.

Changes to the On-Demand and Dedicated host pricing are retroactive to the beginning of the month (January 1, 2016); the new Reserved instance pricing is in effect today. During the month, your billing estimates may not reflect the reduced prices. They will be reflected in the statement at the end of the month.

The new AWS Price List API will be updated later in the month.

If you are keeping score, this is our 51^st price reduction!

— Jeff;

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

New & Notable Open Source

• awstagger is a tool for bulk adding, updating, and removing tags from AWS resources.
• Clark2015_AWS can analyze neuroimaging data in the AWS cloud.
• aws-reporting generates AWS usage reports.
• swaggy-lambda is a tool to make serverless Swagger-based REST services using API Gateway and Lambda.
• slackmessenger is a demo app for Docker, Codeship, and AWS.
• apex is a minimal Lambda function manager with Go support.
• fullstop performs audit reporting across multiple AWS accounts.
• aws-autotranscode uses Lambda to automatically transcode incoming media using an S3 bucket.
• s3-uploader is a simple file uploader for S3, written in Go.
• aws-api-gateway-for-cloudformation is a set of custom resources that enables API Gateway support for CloudFormation.

New Customer Success Stories

• Azim Premji Foundation.
• CardFlight.
• Dato.
• FernsNPetals.
• Medscheme.
• MovieStarPlanet.
• Scholastic.
• Supercell.
• ZengaTV.

New YouTube Videos

• Introduction to Amazon Route 53.
• Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
• Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB.

Help Wanted

• Software Development Engineer – EC2 Windows.
• AWS Careers.

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

— Jeff;

I first wrote about Amazon WorkMail last year when we made it available in preview form. At the time, I noted that Amazon WorkMail is a managed calendaring and email solution that runs in the Cloud and works with your existing desktop and mobile clients. In my initial post (Amazon WorkMail – Managed Email and Calendaring in the AWS Cloud) I discussed Workmail’s security features and controls. These include location control, encryption of stored data, message scanning for spam & virus protection, and policies & actions for controlling mobile devices.

Now Generally Available
I am happy to be able to announce that Amazon WorkMail is now generally available in three AWS regions (US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland)).

We continued to add features to Amazon WorkMail during the preview, with a focus on security, ease of use, and migration. Here’s a summary:

Integration with KMS – You (the email administrator) can use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to create and manage the keys that are used to encrypt data at rest. To learn more, read How Amazon WorkMail Uses AWS KMS.

Certifications – Amazon WorkMail has achieved the ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 certifications. You can learn more about these certifications on the AWS Cloud Compliance page.

Regional Data Control – You can choose the region where you want to store your mailboxes and be confident that the stored data will not leave the region. For more information, take a look at Amazon WorkMail Regions and Endpoints.

Easy Setup – By using Amazon WorkMail in conjunction with Simple AD, you can be up and running with a modest number of clicks, generally in 10 minutes or less. Read Getting Set Up to learn more.

Additional Client Support – Amazon WorkMail now supports clients that run on OS X, including Apple Mail and Outlook. It also supports clients that use the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol including iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry 10. To learn more, read about Desktop Clients and Mobile Clients (there’s also a web application).

Resource Creation – Users can now create and book resources such as meeting rooms and equipment. Read Working with Resources to learn more.

Migration & Interoperability – Amazon WorkMail now includes a migration tool that you can use to migrate existing mailboxes to Amazon WorkMail (see Migrating Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes to Amazon Workmail for more info).

In the Works
We are working on interoperability support that will allow users of  Amazon WorkMail to benefit from a single Global Address Book, and to access free/busy calendar information across both environments. I’ll have more information on this feature in the near future.

We are also working on an email journaling feature. This feature will allow you to use your existing email archiving system to capture and preserve all Amazon WorkMail communication.

Getting Started
Amazon WorkMail costs $4 per user per month, including 50 GB of mailbox storage per user (see the Workmail Pricing page for details). There’s also a 30-day free trial for up to 25 users.

You can read Getting Started with Amazon Workmail to learn how to put WorkMail to use in your organization.

For my final batch of 2015 podcasts, I spoke with representatives of Banter, Predicsis, Peak, Urban Massage, Contentful, Babbel, and Intel IoT. As always, the “Episode” links go directly to the audio files. You can also find several subscription options on the AWS Podcast page.

Episode 127
For Episode 127, I interviewed Diego Villareal (CEO and Co-founder) of Banter!, a discovery platform app that provides real-time updates on nightlife options. In the podcast they discussed how to differentiate from competitors, strategies for building your app’s audience, and how Banter! has evolved since it launched on AWS.

Episode 128
For Episode 128, I interviewed Jean Louis Fuccellaro (CEO) and Bastien Murzeau (CTO) of Predicsis, a French-based startup. Predicsis offers businesses the opportunity to enhance customer performance through machine learning and big data. Listen as they discuss how the guys decided to tackle the problem of customer churn with machine learning and AWS.

Episode 129
For Episode 129, I interviewed Bertrand Lamarque (Director of Engineering) and Itamar Lesuisse (CEO) of Peak, a London-based startup bringing the latest advancements in brain training to mobile. Learn how Peak has changed since they started, and how they use data to make decisions about their product.

Episode 130
For Episode 130, I interviewed Giles Williams, co-founder and CTO of Urban Massage, a UK-based on-demand massage service app. We discused how Urban Massage is changing the online massage booking space, the company’s origins, how the business works, and how AWS powers their application behind the scenes.

Episode 131
For Episode 131, I interviewed interviews Paolo Negri co-founder and CTO of Contentful, a Berlin-based startup that has their API first content management system running on AWS. Listen in as we discuss the API first development model, what’s next for Contentful, and advice for aspiring and would-be entrepreneurs.

Episode 132
For Episode 132, I interviewed Boris Diebold (EVP Engineering) and Christian Hillemeyer (Director PR) of Babbel, a language learning company running on AWS. Listen as they discuss how Babbel started, the pivot from their original idea, and how their company makes learning a new language fun, easy, and effective.

Episode 133
For Episode 133, I interviewed Rose Schooler, vice president of the Internet of Things Group and general manager of IoT Strategy and Technology Office at Intel Corporation. We discussed the current state of IoT, practical applications, and business benefits. Learn how IoT is solving real, tangible business problems, with specific use cases such as an IoT-connected rice farm! You can hear how Intel’s Internet of Things Group offers products and solutions to help IoT become a reality for customers in three areas:  things, network, and cloud.

Thanks Again
Wrapping up 2015, I would like to thank all of my guests, and all of my colleagues on the AWS Podcast team for their patience, hard work, support, and enthusiasm! We are working on our plans for 2016, so (as always) stay tuned for more!