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AWS Week in Review – December 1, 2014

Let’s take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week:

Monday, December 1	We added new AWS Customer Succcess Stories from Aon Benfield Securities (financial services), AudioCodes (VoIP infrastructure), Browan Communications (broadband products and services), Devicescape (telcom management), Goodman Group (property management), HG Data (competitive intelligence), Magisto (video creation and sharing), McCormick (international flavors), and myThings (advertising technology). An interesting Quora discussion started with the question Why did Koding move away from containers and Docker to virtual machines?.
Tuesday, December 2	We announced that we are Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model. We announced that AWS Data Pipeline API Calls are now Available in CloudTrail Log Files. The AWS Ruby Development Blog published their AWS re:Invent 2014 Ruby Recap. The AWS Startup Collection revealed What’s Hot at the AWS Pop-up Loft in December. A post on the CloudCheckr Blog talked about Understanding the New AWS Reserved Instances. A post with the same name (but an entirely different focus) also appeared on the Cloudability Blog.
Wednesday, December 3	A post on the Flux7 Blog talked about Building a Continuous Integration Environment in AWS.
Thursday, December 4	We announced an Amazon Kinesis Update, with a New High-Throughput PutRecords Function. We announced an AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction. The AWS Java Blog published their AWS re:Invent 2014 Recap. The Cloudability Blog talked about Cloud Cost Revelations of 2014.
Friday, December 5	The AWS Security Blog unveiled A Simple Way to Export Your IAM Settings. A post on the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Blog offered Free Video Training – Top Tips for Getting Your Android Apps Running on Amazon Fire TV. A post on the AWS Big Data Blog measured the Impact of Using Latest-Generation Instances for Your Amazon EMR Job.

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— Jeff;

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