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AWS Week in Review – October 8, 2012

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

Monday, October 8	Our friends at AWS Partner 8KMiles released a new presentation, Email Architecture using Amazon SES.
Tuesday, October 9	We added two new checks to the AWS Trusted Advisor – S3 Bucket Policy and Idle Elastic Load Balancer. I posted another episode of The AWS Report, Balan Subramanian talked about the Amazon Simple Workflow Service.
Wednesday, October 10	We introduced lots of new features for AWS GovCloud (US). We announced that AWS is now used by more than 300 government agencies and 1500 educational institutions. We published a number of new AWS case studies including Automobil Lamborghini, Avianca, Politechnico di Milano, Shaw Media, and Swisstopo. We added SSL support to Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
Thursday, October 11	Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports promotion of read replicas. Version 2012.09 of the Amazon Linux AMI is now available.
Friday, October 12	This week AWS Marketplace added many new listings including Openbravo, Splunk Storm, iMeet, and ERP Oracle in the Cloud.
Sunday, October 14	We now provide console and API access to EC2 Spot Instance Bid Status.

Stay tuned for another week!

— Jeff;

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