Lots of updates this week as Simon does a “lightning look” as some interesting updates - with a special emphasis on getting data insights with very little work! Shownotes: Kinesis Firehose with Lambda - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/amazon-kinesis-firehose-can-now-prepare-and-transform-streaming-data-before-loading-it-to-data-stores/ Data Insights Blog Post - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/derive-insights-from-iot-in-minutes-using-aws-iot-amazon-kinesis-firehose-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/ Athena & AVRO: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/amazon-athena-supports-querying-avro-data-is-available-in-the-us-east-ohio-region-and-integrates-with-looker/ QuickSight scheduled updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/amazon-quicksight-now-supports-scheduled-refresh-of-spice-data/ CodeCommit GIT Credentials: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/aws-codecommit-introduces-git-credentials-for-user-authentication/ MySQL->MariaDB Migration: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/amazon-rds-supports-easy-migration-from-rds-mysql-to-rds-mariadb/ ECS Windows Containers: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecs-support-for-windows-containers-beta/ Schema Conversion Tool Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/aws-schema-conversion-tool-now-converts-schema-and-runs-a-migration/ Cost allocation updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/new-cost-allocation-tag-features-include-on-demand-refresh-aws-generated-tags-and-more/ Amazon Chime: https://chime.aws/ Amazon GameLift supports all C++ & C# engines including Lumberyard, Unreal Engine & Unity: https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/