Okay. Hello, Cloud Gurus, how y'all doing?
I'm Scott Pletcher and welcome to another enchanting episode of AWS This
Week, complete with that fresh new year glow. This week,
Amazon SNS gets support for Kinesis Data Firehose,
AWS announces some new programs for nonprofits,
and the re:Invent train just keeps on a rollin' right into 2021. Plus,
in what might be a series first, I mentioned some other cloud providers. I know,
shocking.
All right here on this maybe controversial yet oh so informative
AWS This Week.
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Cloud computing has been tremendously beneficial to many nonprofit organizations
and AWS has a long history of supporting the nonprofit sector through
programs like AWS Imagine Grant and AWS Cloud Credit for
Research,
not to mention the countless sponsorships and events over the years. Recently,
AWS announced the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program,
which provides qualified nonprofit entities with $2,000 in
cold, hard, AWS promotional credits.
These credits can be applied towards AWS usage fees and are intended to help
qualified nonprofits get started on their cloud journey.
If you are a part of a nonprofit and would like to apply for the program,
we'll include the link down below.
Amazon Simple Notification Service now supports Kinesis Data Firehose
as a delivery destination.
Amazon SNS messages are supposed to be short-lived. They notify,
maybe retry for a little while, then they go away,
but sometimes you might need to capture those notifications for more
longterm purposes like analytics, archiving, or compliance.
Through this new integration,
you can easily route SNS messages directly to Kinesis Firehose,
and then onto any of the end points that firehose supports such as S3,
Redshift, Elasticsearch, or other third-party providers,
all without a bit of code. In years past,
we'd now be firmly in what I refer to as the re:Invent hangover,
trying to process all those new announcements and soberly re-evaluating whether
all that swag was truly worth the barrage of emails now filling our
inboxes.
Even though the music has stopped and the house lights were turned on for 2020,
re:Invent is not ready to go home just yet.
Over 200 new sessions were released between January 12th and January 14th,
covering a wide variety of topics.
Industry-specific sessions for media and entertainment, financial services,
and the public sector were announced, as were plenty of other sessions,
covering a variety of AWS services and customer experiences.
If you missed these sessions live most seem to be available on demand as part of
your re:Invent registration.
You'll be able to relive your re:Invent 2020 experience via the event website
until the end of January,
when most of the content will be moved over to the AWS YouTube channel.
If one of your new year's resolutions is to broaden your cloud horizons,
you might want to check out this month's Cloud Guru challenge hosted by yours
truly. Our theme this month is multi-cloud,
and this challenge requires that you dive into at least three different cloud
providers to accomplish the mission.
So if you wanted an excuse to learn about Azure Functions, Alibaba Cloud, OSS,
or IBM Watson,
follow the link down below for my blog post with all the sordid details.
And don't worry, I won't tell AWS.
And that my friends is all the AWS news that's fit to print this week.
Stay safe, take care of one another and keep being awesome Cloud Gurus.
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