AWS Weekly 2016-27

Andreas Wittig – 11 Jul 2016

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

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Monday, July 4

Selling software: AWS Marketplace supports ISV sellers based in the EU.

Wednesday, July 6

Adding a manual approval to your deployment pipeline: AWS announced manual approval actions for CodePipeline.
Ensuring encryption: AWS Security Blog explains
How to Prevent Uploads of Unencrypted Objects to Amazon S3.
Building a cloud-native URL shortener: AWS Compute blog shows how to implement a URL shortener based on Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and CloudFront..
Managing compliance rules: AWS DevOps Blog explains
How to Centrally Manage AWS Config Rules across Multiple AWS Accounts.

Thursday, July 7

Traveling to the past: AWS announces integration between CloudTrail and Config allowing you to access historical state of resources linked to CloudTrail event.
Cleaning up Config recorder: AWS adds the possibility to delete configuration recorders by using the CLI or SDK.
Running a CI system on Lambda: Michael Hart released LambCI, a serverless build system.

Friday, July 8

Connecting your IoT devices with IoT Gateway: AWS released Device SDKs for Python and Java.
Setting up a modular and scalable networking environment: AWS announces a new Quick Start for VPC.
Defining your multi-container environment with Docker Compose: ECS adds support for Docker Compose (v2) via CLI.
Converting media files: Cloud Academy blogs explains what you can achieve with Elastic Transcoder.
Invalidating your DynamoDB cache: we have written about serverless cache invalidation with DynamoDB Streams, Lambda, and ElastiCache.

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Written by Andreas Wittig on 11 Jul 2016

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