AWS Weekly 2016-32

Posted on 06/08/2025 by admin

06
Aug

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

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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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