AWS Weekly 2016-25

Andreas Wittig – 28 Jun 2016

A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week.

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Monday, June 20

AWS announced EC2 is now supporting SQL Server 2016.
AWS Blog published a guest post: Zynga Gets in the Game with Amazon Aurora.
Software Engineering Daily is discussing Serverless Code.

Tuesday, June 21

AWS Blog announced EBS is supporting cross-account copying of encrypted snapshots now.
AWS Security announced their new Twitter handle @AWSSecurityInfo.
APN Blog presented the quick start for Docker Datacenter (DDC).

Wednesday, June 22

AWS announced OpsWorks supports CentOS 7.
AWS is offering self-service for Direct Connect LOAs.
AWS added failed action retry to CodePipeline.
AWS announced IAM is offering service last accessed data in South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul).
Serverless Code argued Docker isn’t serverless.

Thursday, June 23

AWS announced Trusted Advisor supports filtering results by resource tags.
AWS announced AWS CodePipeline Available in EU (Ireland) Region
AWS introduced SAML identity providers for Cognito.
AWS announced AWS Lambda and API Gateway are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney).
AWS released NAT Gateway in Asia Pacific (Seoul).
AWS Compute Blog explained Content Replication Using AWS Lambda and Amazon S3.
AWS opened public registration for re:Invent in Las Vegas.

Friday, June 24

AWS increased root volume capacity from 60 to 80 GB for WorkSpaces.
Cloud Academy Blog explained How Does Cloud Computing Work?
Cloud Zone published a step-by-step guide to getting Elasticsearch configured on EC2.
Serveless Zone is collecting serverless stories from the community.

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Written by Andreas Wittig on 28 Jun 2016

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