AWS Weekly 2016-33

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

Monday, August 15

• Authorizing everything: Ben Rady (Author of Serverless Single Page Apps, Pragmatic Bookshelf) published The Real Revolution of Serverless is Auth, Not Microservices
• Controlling containers: ECS supports Networking Modes and Memory Reservation now
• Expanding service availability: EC2 Container Registry now available in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Frankfurt)
• Reducing latencies and increasing fault tolerance: AWS OpsWorks adds endpoints in the same region as your stack
• Mapping objects: AWS announced a data mapping abstraction for DynamoDB written in Ruby called aws-record
• Organizing resources: AWS increased the limit of tags per resource from 10 to 50

Tuesday, August 16

• Refreshing network basics: APN Blog is giving an introduction to AWS Networking for Developers
• Planning for DDoS: AWS updated the AWS Best Practices for DDoS
  Resiliency Whitepaper

Wednesday, August 17

• Resolving names: AWS Compute Blog explains how to setup a secondary DNS in a VPC using Lambda and Private Hosted Zones
• Comparing costs: trek10 compares Lambda Pricing in Context

Thursday, August 18

• Monitoring scaling infrastructures: AWS announced free and enhanced CloudWatch metrics for Auto Scaling Groups
• Analyzing your AWS bill: AWS announced ability to upload billing data directly to Redshift and QuickSight
• Expanding service availability: AWS Config is available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) now
• Ensuring connectivity: AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks to verify HA for Direct Connect
• Renting a virtual desktop for a short time: AWS announced Hourly pricing model for AWS WorkSpaces
• Advancing load balancing: AWS DevOps Blog introduces the Application Load Balancer
• Writing IAM Policies is hard: we announced our Complate IAM Reference
• Going serverless: TJ Holowaychuk has noted Do’s and Don’ts of AWS Lambda

Friday, August 19

• Setting up Continuous Delivery: we announced our CloudFormation template containing a Jenkins environment

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