AWS Week in Review – January 4, 2016

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

New & Notable Open Source

• Squiss is a high-volume Amazon SQS poller for Node.js.
• Blocker is a simple AWS EBS volume plugin for Docker.
• Lambda-test is a generic repository for testing GitHub webhooks with AWS Lambda.
• Awful is a Ruby gem that provides simple AWS command line tasks and YAML persistence.
• Splunk-sqs is an SQS collector for Splunk.
• Lambda-deploy is a proof of concept for deploying Lambda with CloudFormation + Grunt + AWS + Lambda.
• Amazonica is a comprehensive Clojure client for the entire AWS API.
• Lambda6 is a simple and opinionated handler architecture for AWS Lambda using ES6.
• Go-lambda allows you to call Go GRPC services from AWS Lambda functions.
• Thingpin is a Raspberry Pi AWS IoT publisher for IoT enabled sensors.

New Customer Success Stories

• Fin Design + Effect – Visual effects and design.
• Healthdirect Australia – Deliver services across the entire country while controlling costs.
• Hiree – Expediting the hiring process and helping job-seekers to get offers.
• SEAOIL –  Move Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise resource planning system into AWS.
• Syntel – Reduce provisioning time for hardware and increase scalability.
• THRON – Platform to simplify digital content management and distribution.

New YouTube Videos

• Introduction to Amazon Route 53.
• Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose.
• Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB.

Upcoming Events

• January 13th – Live Event (San Francisco) – AWS Big Data Meetup.

Upcoming Events at the AWS Lofts

• What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in January.

Help Wanted

• AWS Careers.

Stay tuned for next week! In the meantime, follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the RSS feed.

— Jeff;

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