AWS Weekly 2016-28

Andreas Wittig – 18 Jul 2016

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

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Monday, July 11

Allocating costs: AWS Directory Service supporting tags.
Developing serverless applications with Python: AWS has released a developer preview of chalice, the Python Serverless Microframework.
Getting started with Docker on AWS: Arun Gupta explains how to get started with Docker for AWS.
Restricting access to S3 bucket: AWS Security Blog about restricting S3 access to a specific IAM role.

Tuesday, July 12

Automating AWS WAF configuration: AWS Security Blog explains how to use CloudFormation to deploy WAF configuration.
Querying AWS resources: Binh Le published aq, a tool to query AWS resources with SQL.

Wednesday, July 13

Securing ECS: AWS announced IAM roles for ECS tasks.
Migrating a database to the cloud: AWS Database Migration Service with continuous data replication.
Selling algorithms in a Function-as-a-Service world: Serverless Code published an interview with Diego M. Oppenheimer from Algorithmia.
Forwarding Inspector findings to ticketing system: AWS Blog wrote about forwarding warnings about your AWS infrastructure to your ticketing system by using a smart Lambda function.

Thursday, July 14

Approving deployments: Paul Duvall showed how to automate CodePipeline Manual Approvals in CloudFormation.
Overcome Serverless limitations: Using Data Streaming to extract, transform, and load data in chunks.
Add a retention policy to all your CloudWatch Log Groups: AWS Community Hero Onur ŞALK demonstrates a solution using the AWS CLI

Friday, July 15

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Written by Andreas Wittig on 18 Jul 2016

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