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  4. AWS Monthly Review — March 2016

AWS Monthly Review — March 2016

March has blown past! Catch your breath and have a look at what's happened during AWS's tenth anniversary month.

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AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during this past month.

Announcements and News

  • Happy Birthday AWS, 10 years of Cloud Computing. (AWS Blog Post)
  • Referencing Security Groups in peered VPCs is possible even if the VPCs belong to different accounts. (Official Announcement)
  • Long EC2 instance and reservation IDs are default for new accounts in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and EU (Frankfurt). (Official Announcement)
  • t2.nano available in all public regions. (Official Announcement)
  • API Gateway and Lambda available in EU (Frankfurt). (Official Announcement)
  • EC2 Container Registry Available in US West (Oregon) and US East (N. Virginia). (Official Announcement)
  • New Metering Service for AWS Marketplace allows to charge software based on usage. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
  • New CloudWatch metrics providing insight into EC2 Spot fleets. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
  • ElastiCache allows on-the-fly engine upgrades for Redis. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
  • New CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instances show the number of incoming and outgoing network packets (NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut). (Official Announcement)
  • Enhanced Monitoring for RDS instances with Postgres engine adds additional metrics collected by agents on the database instances. (Official Announcement)
  • Preview before updating a stack with new change sets for CloudFormation. (Official Announcement and AWS Blog Post)
  • Additional checks for Trusted Advisor: leaked EC2 access keys, EC2 reserved instance expiration, and more. (Official Announcement)
  • CloudWatch Events add SQS as possible target. An event is able to trigger Lambda, SNS, or SQS now. (Official Announcement)

Read on

  • Learn more about AWS with our book Amazon Web Services in Action
  • Avoid Sharing Key Pairs for EC2
  • Optional Parameter in CloudFormation
  • Introducing the Object Store: S3

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Anything missing? Looking forward to your feedback! @andreaswittig or andreas@widdix.de.

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