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The Complete History of AWS Outages | AWS Maniac – empty
Can AWS re:Post replace stackoverflow? – DEV Community – empty
2021 re:Invent Slackchat (with a guest appearance from Corey Quinn) – Alt + E S V – empty
A Biased Opinion on AWS Backup for VMware – empty
Jobs
If you’ve got an interesting job for this newsletter’s eminently employable subscribers, get in touch!
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The AWS Commerce Platform team is responsible for making our solutions available to customers with custom-made pricing and billing models, as well as providing functionality that allows our service teams to securely accept payments. We run massively-scaled services that enable our customers to transform their business by managing, controlling, and optimizing their IT costs. Our team is revolutionizing the way IT services are bought and sold around the world. As part of the AWS Commerce Platform team, you’ll work with a small, autonomous group that operates at the highest scale, from design to launch. You’ll have the opportunity to build products and deliver high-value features that will be used by developers, IT personnel, financial analysts, and business owners all over the world. Our team is passionate about career development through mentorship, training, and upskilling. We also support flexible schedules to help our team achieve a better work-life balance.
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will be working on the Sendcloud platform. That platform is used by our software development teams to build, test, deploy and run software themselves. Currently, we have 9 development teams and we will grow to 20 next year.The platform consists of a cloud infrastructure on AWS, the application platform on top of that (e.g. observability solutions) and the building blocks (e.g. CI templates). As a part of the SRE team your goal is to make the product development teams fully independent with a self-service, scalable platform. You will co-work with the Backend Engineers from development teams, making sure they know how to use the platform, and taking their feedback into account for further improvements.
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Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview) – empty
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance – empty
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories – empty
Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors – empty
Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand – empty
Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview – empty
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web – empty
AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions – empty
AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads – empty
AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements – empty
New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview) – empty
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data – empty
AWS Lake Formation support Governed Tables, storage optimization and row-level security – empty
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect announces new machine-learning powered call summarization – empty
Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower – empty
Amazon EC2 C5n instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region – empty
Amazon Fraud Detector is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports – empty
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP reduces minimum file system throughput capacity to 128 MB/s – empty
Amazon Location Service adds metadata help customers reduce costs – empty
Amazon Location adds Suggestion capability – empty
Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature – empty
Amazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice – empty
Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server – empty
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.13, 10.4.22, 10.3.32, 10.2.41 – empty
Amazon Redshift announces preview of Automated Materialized View – empty
Amazon Redshift launches RA3 self-service RI migration feature in the Amazon Redshift Console. – empty
Amazon Redshift launches single-node RA3.xlplus cluster – empty
Amazon Redshift announces support for VARBYTE data type – empty
Amazon Route 53 updates API actions – empty
Amazon S3 File Gateway enables administrators to force the closing of locked files – empty
Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports NFS file share auditing – empty
Introducing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender – empty
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker Clarify – empty
Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML service – empty
Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of identity documents – empty
AWS WAF adds support for CloudWatch Log and logging directly to S3 bucket – empty
AWS App2Container(A2C) now supports containerization of .NET Core / .NET 5 applications – empty
AWS AppSync now supports custom domain names for AppSync GraphQL endpoints – empty
AWS announces Construct Hub general availability – empty
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism – empty
Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink – empty
AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Germany – empty
AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs now integrates with the AWS Glue Schema Registry – empty
AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events – empty
AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Amazon EKS – empty
AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Remote Desktop Gateway – empty
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules – empty
AWS and partners of the Open 3D Foundation announce the first Stable release of Open 3D Engine – empty
Introducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers service – empty
AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview) – empty
AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview) – empty
AWS Systems Manager now supports application-level cost reporting – empty
AWS Toolkit for VS Code adds support for Amazon ECS Exec for troubleshooting Amazon ECS – empty
EKS add-ons now supports EBS CSI driver – empty
Announcing Extended Maintenance Plan for FreeRTOS – empty
Announcing a simplified FreeRTOS out-of-box AWS IoT connectivity experience – empty
New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework – empty
NICE EnginFrame adds AWS HPC cluster management with AWS ParallelCluster – empty
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports endpoint visibility, custom metadata and model metrics – empty
Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 – empty
Aruba and AWS Enhance Branch to Cloud Connectivity Performance with AWS Transit Gateway Connect – empty
Design for Excellence with Automated Manufacturing Simulation in the Cloud from aPriori – empty
Exasol Launches New SaaS Analytics Database with Support of AWS SaaS Factory – empty
Experience Digital’s Purpose-Built Assessment Tool Created Using AWS Lambda – empty
How to Support Incident Management by Reducing Alarm Fatigue with Amazon DevOps Guru – empty
Implementing Centralized Fine-Grained Access Control with Immuta and AWS – empty
Signing Data Using Keys Stored in AWS CloudHSM with Python – empty
Simplify Protection of AWS Workloads with Cohesity’s Data Management as a Service – empty
Taking the Trouble Out of Ticketing with ServiceNow and AWS Support APIs – empty
Using AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 for Private Connectivity Between Snowflake and Amazon S3 – empty
Applying Federated Learning for ML at the Edge – empty
Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute and Security – empty
Integrate Okta to Extend Active Directory Infrastructure into AWS – empty
Optimize your IoT Services for Scale with IoT Device Simulator – empty
Use a City Planning Analogy to Visualize and Create your Cloud Architecture – empty
Load CDC data by table and shape using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Dynamic Partitioning – empty
SEEK Asia modernizes search with CI/CD and Amazon OpenSearch Service – empty
Use unsupervised training with K-means clustering in Amazon Redshift ML – empty
Visualize live analytics from Amazon QuickSight connected to Amazon OpenSearch Service – empty
Centralized observability for AWS App Runner services – empty
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) annual contracts – empty
Secure end-to-end traffic on Amazon EKS using TLS certificate in ACM, ALB, and Istio – empty
Customize Amazon RDS events notification using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda – empty
Data preparation for machine learning using Amazon Timestream – empty
How BlueFin helped build a scalable IoT data platform for Walchem using Amazon Timestream – empty
Migrating from bare metal to the cloud, KIXEYE’s journey – empty
Trouble-shooting success with 1047 – empty
Chime SDK for Telemedicine Solution – empty
Driving Sustainability in Retail through Transparent Measurement – empty
Global Luxury Fashion Brand ISAIA Simplifies Omnichannel Operations with XY Retail – empty
Moving CPG ERP Systems to AWS Cloud Using Deloitte’s SAP/HANA Solutions – empty
re:Invent Top 10 Announcements for Healthcare & Life Sciences – empty
Should CPG Companies Build or Buy a Digital Commerce Solution? – empty
Top Manufacturing and Industrial Announcements at re:Invent 2021 – empty
Top re:Invent 2021 announcements for the advertising and marketing technology industry – empty
Clinical text mining using the Amazon Comprehend Medical new SNOMED CT API – empty
Plan the locations of green car charging stations with an Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithm – empty
AXS and AWS Partner Nomad deliver high-definition virtual concerts for artists on AWS – empty
BBC delivers live, UHD coverage of UEFA Euros and Wimbledon with AWS – empty
How Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval can simplify your content library supply chain – empty
re:Invent 2021 releases and launches for M&E workloads – empty
How to set up Amazon Quicksight dashboard for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SES engagement events – empty
Adding the new Suggestions API of Amazon Location Service to your website – empty
Introducing Custom Domain Names for AWS AppSync APIs – empty
Performance Benchmark – SQL Server Workload on AWS and Azure – empty
How Tyler Technologies improved access to justice during the COVID-19 pandemic using .NET on AWS – empty
Introducing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags In Preview – empty
AWS Global Accelerator Custom Routing with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service – empty
Calculating data transfer leveraging Amazon VPC flow logs – empty
Automate Amazon EKS upgrades with infrastructure as code – empty
Announcing second AWS Top Secret Region, extending support for US government classified missions – empty
Canada’s Federal Geospatial Platform supports decision-making using AWS – empty
How AWS uses AI to power interactive artwork at new Smithsonian exhibit – empty
AWS attained MTCS Level 3 certification under the new SS584:2020 standard – empty
Hardening the security of your AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application the Well-Architected way – empty
Privacy video: Innovating securely – empty
Using CloudTrail to identify unexpected behaviors in individual workloads – empty
Re:Invent 2021—Building cloud fluency today to support the builders of tomorrow – empty
Welcome to Amazon Linux 2022: setenforce 0 Edition – empty
Tools
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https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1468869671961395202?s=12 – empty
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
