AWS Week in Review – February 27, 2017

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This edition includes all of our announcements, content from all of our blogs, and as much community-generated AWS content as I had time for. Going forward I hope to bring back the other sections, as soon as I get my tooling and automation into better shape.

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February 27

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We announced general availability for AWS Organizations – Policy Management for Multiple AWS Accounts.
We announced that you can now Manage DynamoDB Items Using Time to Live (TTL).
We announced that Amazon Aurora Release 1.11 is Now Available.
We announced EC2 Spot Advisor and Health Checks for EC2 Spot Fleets.
The AWS Database Blog showed you how to Reduce Resource Consumption by Consolidating Your Sharded System into Aurora.
The AWS Partner Network Blog showed you how to Automate Lifecycle Rules for Multipart Uploads in Amazon S3.
CloudCheckr talked about Revamping the AWS Users Group in Rochester NY.

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February 28

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We covered the AWS Hot Startups for February 2017.
The AWS Database Blog talked about Getting Started with Amazon Elasticseach Service: How Many Shards Do I Need?
Batchly talked about Spot Instances – Running for 100+ Days Without Interruption.
Cloud Academy advised you to Get Ready for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification.
cloudonaut shared New CloudFormation Templates – ECS Cluster & Service, legacy VPC wrapper, automated tests.

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March 1

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cloudncode shared Best Practices – AWS Lambda function.
Botmetric shared Don’t Let 2017 Amazon AWS S3 Outage-Like Errors Affect You Again.
N2W Software talked about The Financial Industry in the AWS Cloud.
CloudHealth showed you How to Use Lambda & EC2 to Save the Most Money.
DZone talked about Designing for AWS Outages.
Flux7 talked about Building AWS Experts: The Skills that Matter Most.

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March 2

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The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Analyze Security, Compliance, and Operational Activity Using AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena.
The AWS Windows and .NET Developer Blog shared a Preview of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017.
CloudCheckrx noted that the AWS S3 Outage Shows We’re All in This Together.
REA Group talked about Fewer AWS Accounts, Please.
Cloud Technology Partners shared Our Take on the AWS S3 Outage and also asked that you Don’t Kick the Cloud – Design for Failure!
DZone talked about Serverless Architectures on AWS.

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March 3

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I published an AWS Quick Starts Update – Tableau, Splunk, Compliance, Alfresco, and Symantec.
The AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog talked about Expanding Cybersecurity Education with the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
The AWS Partner Network Blog announced that Docker for AWS is Now Available in the AWS Marketplace.

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<td style="vertical-align: top;text-align: center">Saturday

March 4

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Powerupcloud showed you how to implement Realtime Image Moderation At Scale Using AWS Rekognition.

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March 5

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cloudncode shared an Automation tool for AWS lambda sizing.
cloudonaut launched an AWS Velocity Series by talking about EC2 based app infrastructure.

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— Jeff;

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