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

Monday, July 25

• Service expansion: API Gateway & AWS Lambda is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Snowball is now available in EU (Frankfurt) region.
• Start and stop EC2 Instances based on tags: Creating an Enterprise Scheduler Using AWS Lambda and Tagging

Tuesday, July 26

• Developer Support plan price cut: Now starting at Math.max($29, 3% of monthly AWS spend) / month

Wednesday, July 27

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 2.3
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Native Backup/Restore with S3

Thursday, July 28

• Your AWS Account is a mess? Learn how to fix it!

Friday, July 29

• Federated users can now use AWS Management Console for up to 12 hours

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Published on 01 Aug 2016

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