AWS Weekly 2016-28

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

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.
• 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

• No significant news.

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