Special episode on the Tuesday of the re:Invent 2013 conference.

In this episode, we dive deep into the AWS Mobile Console; we cover a Black Belt tip from Mike Culver (former Technology Evangelist at AWS, now in a different role); we pick one of the "five things you don't know about AWS", even if they're actually nine; and we discuss re:Invent 2013. The next episode will be in Las Vegas at re:Invent! See you there!

This episode is focused on Reserved Instances (Amazon EC2), and some of the new features available, such as size modification, and AZ change.

Simon & Simone cover a lot of CloudFront news, such as content uploads, custom error pages; federated credentials for CloudFormation; Ruby SDK Core; and a black belt tip to delete a huge amount of files from S3 with a lifecycle.

This week Simon discusses AWS Glacier in light of the service being launched in the AWS Sydney Region. With an overview and some tips.

In this episode: copy DynamoDB data between regions using the AWS Data Pipeline; new ability to modify EC2 reserved instance reservations; run SLES (Suse Linux) on AWS with free usage tier.

In this episode: Redis added in Amazon ElastiCache; 21,000 IOPS for MySQL with the new CR1 instance; AWS Opsworks now available in VPC (Virtual Private Cloud).

In this episode: AWS command line interface; new read replica capabilities for Amazon RDS; DynamoDB session store for Rack applications; DynamoDB local for desktop environment.

This week Simon and Simone discuss the new EMR Best Practices whitepaper, Health Check and Zone File imports for Route 53, new EIP capabilities in VPC, 2013 PCI Compliance Package availability and finally, a black belt tip automating shutting down your bastion host.

This week Simon and Simone discuss AWS Web Identity Federation Playground, new RedShift features, Parallel Stack updates and nested templates for CloudFormation and finally push notifications to mobile devices using SNS.