AWS Week in Review - August 13th to August 19th, 2012

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

Monday, August 13	AWS updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. AWS published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com.
Thursday, August 16	AWS added additional features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database, including support for running in a VPC, support for Oracle XMLDB, and Oracle Application Express (APEX). AWS published a new white paper, the Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of Web Applications in the Cloud.
Sunday, August 19	AWS released Python support for Elastic Beanstalk including seamless integration with Amazon RDS.

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AWS Week in Review - August 20th to August 26th , 2012

 

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

Monday, August 20	AWS released Amazon Glacier, archival storage for one penny per Gigabyte per month.
Tuesday, August 21	Amazon DynamoDB now supports storage and retrieval of binary data. AWS released AWS Cost Allocation for customer bills.
Wednesday, August 22	You can now launch EC2 Cluster Compute Instances in the US West (Oregon) region.
Thursday, August 23	Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent.
Friday, August 24	This week, AWS continued to add many new products to AWS Marketplace, including two AMI-deployable CloudOptimizer products from CloudOpt Incorporated, and SaaS products Docunym, HotRiot Web Application Development Engine, Bias, and Insight. AWS is also excited to welcome our first South American vendor to AWS Marketplace, Artsoft Sistemas, who listed two versions of Fenicia this week.

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AWS Week in Review - August 27th to September 2nd , 2012

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

Monday, August 27	New AWS Report interview, Chris Wheeler discusses the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).
Friday, August 31	Amazon S3 now supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). AWS Evangelist Joe Ziegler uploaded a new presentation, Enterprise Journey to the Cloud. New AWS Report interview, Todd Fassulo of Smartsheet.

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AWS Report with Michael Kellen of Sage Bionetworks

Michael Kellen, Director of Technology of Sage Bionetworks, talks about how Sage Bionetworks, a non-profit organization that help medical research analyze data is using AWS to save costs, allowing them to focus on their core business. 

 Really interesting use of Amazon S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and the Simple Workflow Service.