AWS Weekly 2016-32

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

Monday, August 8

• Expanding to Canada: new edge locations for CloudFront (CDN) in Montreal and Toronto.
• Announcing regional expansion of EC2 instance types: C4 in South America (Sao Paulo), D2 in US West (N. California)
• Updating runtime environment: PHP 7 is now available on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Tuesday, August 9

• Timothy Prickett Morgan on First, Kill All The Servers
• CloudFormation got even better: Supports AWS Certificate Manager, Service Auto Scaling in ECS, and enhances CloudFront and EFS support
• AWS is announcing Cost allocation tags for your Amazon CloudFront distributions
• Cloud Academy published 5 Insider Tips for AWS Recertification
• Building for failure: High Scalability wrote about 10 Gameday Failure Testing Scenarios From Obama For America

Wednesday, August 10

• We published how to Create a serverless RESTful API with the Serverless Framework
• Jeff Barr announced the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition

Thursday, August 11

• Big announcements during Werner’s keynote at AWS Summit in New York
• EBS snapshot prices reduced by 47% in all regions
• Increased maximum provisioned IOPS for EBS Volumes: 50 IOPS per GiB instead of 30 IOPS per GiB
• AWS is introducing the Application Load Balancer which allows load balancing on Layer 7: content-based routing, web sockets and HTTP/2, and improved metrics
• Another AWS Summit announcement: Limit access to your API Gateway with Usage Plans
• Great news: Kinesis Analytics is available for everybody allowing you to analyze streaming data with SQL.
• Must be 2016: S3 supports IPv6 all other services will follow.
• BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): Key Management Service supports importing your keys now.
• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a FedEx truck: AWS announced a job management API as well as an S3 adapter for their Snowball data devices.

Friday, August 12

• Boring day without any news from the AWS community …

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