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Welcome to part three in the AWS Certification Exam Prep Mini-Series! Whether you're an aspiring cloud enthusiast or a seasoned developer looking to deepen your architectural acumen, you've landed in the perfect spot. In this six-part saga, we're demystifying the pivotal role of a Solutions Architect in the AWS cloud computing cosmos. In this third episode, join Caroline and Dave as they host a riveting discussion with two cloud virtuosos - Anya Derbakova, a Senior Startup Solutions Architect at AWS, known for weaving social media magic, and Ted Trentler, a Senior AWS Technical Instructor with a knack for simplifying the complex. Together, they embark on a narrative journey through the clouds, sharing their personal paths to mastering AWS, elucidating the essence of the Solutions Architect role, and breaking down the AWS Certification labyrinth. Expect to uncover: Overview of Exam Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures (26% of scored test content): • Emphasis on designing scalable and loosely coupled architectures. • Introduction to API creation and management. • Utilization of AWS managed services for efficiency. • Principles of microservices design for robust applications. • Strategies for horizontal and vertical scaling. • Understanding of load balancing techniques. • Comparison of storage types: Object, Block, File. Designing Highly Available and/or Fault-Tolerant Architectures: • Exploration of AWS global infrastructure: Availability Zones, AWS Regions, Amazon Route 53. • Basics of networking concepts, including route tables. • Disaster recovery (DR) strategies: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, active-active failover, RPO, RTO. • Immutable infrastructure for consistent deployment. • Storage options and their characteristics: durability, replication. • Enhancing workload visibility with tools like AWS X-Ray. Sample Exam Question: • Scenario involving a two-tier application architecture with resilience considerations, focusing on EC2 instances across public and private subnets within a single Availability Zone. This series is your beacon through the fog of cloud computing, illuminating the path to AWS mastery. Whether you're aiming to elevate your career, transition roles, or simply quench your curiosity about the cloud, tune in to transform your understanding of AWS and gear up for success in the Solutions Architect realm. Anya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annadderbakova/ Ted on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ttrentler Ted on LinkedIn: https://linkedin/in/tedtrentler Caroline on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carolinegluck Caroline on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgluck/ Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidisbitski AWS SAA Exam Guide - https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-assoc/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate_Exam-Guide.pdf Party Rock for Exam Study - https://partyrock.aws/u/tedtrent/KQtYIhbJb/Solutions-Architect-Study-Buddy All Things AWS Training - Links to Self-paced and Instructor Led https://aws.amazon.com/training/ AWS Skill Builder – Free CPE Course - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/134/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials AWS Skill Builder – Learning Badges - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/public/learning_plan/view/1044/solutions-architect-knowledge-badge-readiness-path AWS Well-Architected Framework - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html Subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669

Welcome to episode 242 of the The Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy. This week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew, and Jonathan are talking about DoH - or DNS over HTTPS, the Digital Ocean, CISO issues, and whether employee issues over at Amazon will impact user experience. It's a quiet week, but some interesting conversations you're not going to want to miss.  Titles we almost went with this week:

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 2, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations  Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade Amazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions  AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources DynamoDB global tables is now available in all AWS Regions  Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models  How to import existing resources into AWS CDK Stacks Introducing dual-stack and IPv6-only support for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 18, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon SNS FIFO topics now support message delivery to Amazon SQS Standard queues Announcing API Gateway console refresh  Cost Anomaly Detection increases custom anomaly monitor limit to 500 Custom notifications are now available for AWS Chatbot  How to Integrate Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Articles  Building a secure webhook forwarder using an AWS Lambda extension and Tailscale Deploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKS Troubleshoot networking issues during database migration with the AWS DMS diagnostic support AMI  Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity AWS Private Certificate Authority Retail Partner Conversations: How Rokt is impacting the future of retail  Simplify access to internal information using Retrieval Augmented Generation and LangChain Agents  How to view Azure costs using Amazon QuickSight  Centralized Dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub  Benefits of Domain Registration with Amazon Route 53  Use Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) and RFC 8805 for localization of Internet content Using NAT Gateways with multiple-Amazon VPCs at scale  Navigating change: From ophthalmologist to AWS Cloud expert

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all here this week to discuss the latest news and announcements in the world of cloud and AI - including New Relic Grok, Athena Provisioned Capacity from AWS, and updates to the Azure Virtual Desktop. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week's title was SO GOOD we didn't bother with any alternates. Sometimes it's just like that, you know?  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses Amazon Pi Day, Google's upcoming I/O conference, the agricultural data manager by Microsoft, and the downturn in net profits of Oracle. They also round up cloud migrations by highlighting tools from different cloud service providers that are useful for the process. A big thanks to this week's sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week's highlights

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team sits to talk about AWS's new patching policies, the general availability of Azure OpenAI, and the role of addressing IM or access management challenges in ensuring the seamless transition to the Cloud. A big thanks to this week's sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week's highlights

The Cloud Pod recaps all of the positives and negatives of Amazon ReInvent 2022, the annual conference in Las Vegas, bringing together 50,000 cloud computing professionals.  This year's keynote speakers include Adam Selpisky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS and Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO.  Attendees and web viewers were treated to new features and products, such as AWS Lambda Snapstart for Java Functions, New Quicksight capabilities and quality-of-life improvements to hundreds of services.  Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, Peter and Special guest Joe Daly from the Finops foundation talk about the show and the announcements. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you're having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights ⏰ AWS Pricing Calculator now supports modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads. ⏰ AWS Re:Invent 2022 announcements and keynote updates. Top Quote

On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior, Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available, Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you're having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights ⏰ AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior. ⏰ Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available. ⏰ Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22. General News:

On The Cloud Pod this week, half the team whizzes through the news in record time. Plus: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Google Distributed Cloud adds AI, ML and Database Solutions, and there's another win for NetApp with Azure VMware Solution. A big thanks to this week's sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week's highlights

About NipunNipun Agarwal is a Senior Vice President, MySQL HeatWave and Advanced Development, Oracle. His interests include distributed data processing, machine learning, cloud technologies and security. Nipun was part of the Oracle Database team where he introduced a number of new features. He has been awarded over 170 patents.Links:Oracle: https://www.oracle.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. 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Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. Today's promoted episode is a returning guest with a slight difference. When last we spoke, Nipun Agarwal was a VP over at Oracle, but now—that's right. When people stay in a company long enough and perform well, they wind up getting additional adjectives in lieu of other things—Nipun, you're now a Senior VP over at Oracle. Congratulations, I think, unless that just means you've gotten older. Welcome back.Nipun: Thank you, Corey.Corey: So, now that you're at SVP level, I can ask some of the harder questions that we didn't necessarily—seem fair to get into the last time we spoke, such as what is an Oracle, and what might they do these days? For folks who have, I don't know, been living in a cave for 40 years.Nipun: Corey, glad to be back on your show. And since the last time we spoke, we have had, like, you know, a lot of enhancements and innovations, and I'll be happy to describe those in detail whenever is a good time.Corey: Absolutely so you've been focused on MySQL for a very long time. And you've been using it so long, I really should be calling it YourSQL, but that's neither here nor there. And you've also been focusing on HeatWave, which is effectively MySQL with then some—I'm just going to cheat and call it magic that is layered on top of it. That is probably a terrible descriptor of what it actually does, but understand I'm coming from a perspective where I firmly believe the best database in the world is Amazon Route 53, which is a DNS server, so people look at that and say, ‘well, that's not really what it's designed to do,' which really sounds like a ‘them' problem. And fair enough. We're going to invert it here. So, why is HeatWave a terrible DNS server? What is it exactly?Nipun: So, MySQL is the most popular database in the world—it's the most popular open-source database in the world—lots of people use it. All the major cloud vendors, they take the MySQL database, and either as is or, like, you know, with some enhancements, they offer a managed service, whether it's Amazon, Azure, Google, pretty much all the major cloud vendors. Now, MySQL has been designed and optimized for transaction processing, so it does a great job for transaction processing. But when customers need to run complex queries or when they need to run analytics, customers would have to take the data out of the MySQL database into some other database for running analytics.Corey: Let me make sure I understand your terms properly. When you say ‘transactional,' you're talking about I'm shopping for underpants on a website. I go ahead and make a purchase; that's considered a transaction, and a database change reflecting my purchase makes sense. From an analytics perspective, you're like, “All right, let's see who bought underpants during this time period.” It's effectively, usually, a small individual record versus now we're going to start doing deep dives into effectively a lot of those records in aggregate, is that directionally correct, or is my understanding more than a little flawed about things beyond DNS?Nipun: Right. What you describe is very accurate. That transaction processing is about point queries making frequent changes, whereas when we talk about analytics, it typically involves scanning a much larger amount of data to get the results, and aggregations is a very good example of that.Corey: So historically, that seems that people have used very different tooling for different sides of those. Ideally—I admit, back in the bad old days when I was a systems administrator, we were running MySQL a fair bit, and we had the primary database, which was the thing that handled all of the live transactions and the rest, and whenever we ran business reporting queries on it, it's like, “Huh, why is the website super slow?” And it didn't seem to work very well. Now, back then, at the scale we were operating at the solution was, “Ah, we're going to use a replica, and then we're going to basically beat the crap out of the replica for our reporting queries.” And if that gets a little slow and bogged down, who cares? Well, just other people running reporting queries; people can still buy underpants.So, that was the way that we handled it back then. This was a decade ago. Data sets have gotten significantly larger since then, and apparently, my way of viewing it is, as they say, quaint when they're trying not to be actively insulting. The right way to do it these days is to have completely separate systems that wind up handling those queries with different user interfaces by and large. That is, to my understanding, the rise of ‘Big Data,' and you can hear the initial caps in Big Data with people talk about it like that.Nipun: Correct. So, what you describe is absolutely correct that people would extract the data out of databases, take it to specialized databases, which are [apt 00:05:11] for running decision-making analytic processing. But the downside is that a people need to express the logic and write code to extract this data, and then customers end up with these two different databases. They got to keep the data in sync, they got to move the data periodically. So, there are a lot of, like, you know, issues in terms of having to manage two different databases, one for transaction processing, one for analytics.What we have done with HeatWave is to enhance the MySQL database service in the Oracle Cloud so that now the single MySQL database is optimized both for transaction processing as well as analytics. So, now you have a single database. And whether you want to run point queries or these aggregate queries, you can do it on the same data. So, the data remains as is. You're bringing richness of computation, richness in query processing, to the customers.Corey: One of the truisms of cloud is that it forces a reevaluation, in many cases, of things that people historically hadn't had to think about it. A classic example when I was consulting on cloud migrations, was building up costing models, as you might imagine. And my customers would ask me questions, such is, “Great. So, what's this going to cost us?” And I would come back with, “Well, okay, how many gigabytes in a given month does transfer between this database and that other database, you know, in the machine sitting right next to it?” And their response started off with a, “Why on earth do you think we would know that?” Followed by, “Wait, why do we need to know that?” Followed by, “Oh, God. It costs us to do what?”And very quickly an architectural pattern has emerged within cloud of—you know, people experience this the second time, they plan for it. And as a result, whatever database is the most cost-effective is the one that data is already in because moving data from point to point is inherently an expensive proposition. Depending on where the second point is, it can be an extortionately expensive proposition. Which means that very often, we'll start to see patterns that are, I guess, sacrificing one side of the database interaction model or the other, that transactions are going to be a little slower because you need to have it in the same place you're going to be running large scale analytics on, or alternately, analytics are going to be super crappy, just because you have to wind up querying systems during downtimes and low periods. It just becomes a giant mess, regardless of whether it's bad in one way, bad in another, or just expensive, it hasn't worked for people. And my sense is that that is what HeatWave is directly aimed.Nipun: Yes. Indeed. So, there are multiple reasons why HeatWave is being so successful. One is the case that okay, customers need a single database, instead of having multiple. The second thing is, there is absolutely no change required to MySQL applications, so the MySQL applications or MySQL compatible applications work as-is with this query [unintelligible 00:08:10] HeatWave without any change.But the third reason why this is so popular is that HeatWave has been designed from the ground up for scalability, performance, and optimized for the underlying gear, which is the underlying cloud platform. As a result, it offers a very good price-performance compared to any of the service we have run against. So, not only is it providing the benefits of having a single database, no change to the application, but also it is extremely fast and low price. And that's because a lot of technology innovations we did, like, almost like, over a decade to build this, scale our system for analytic processing, which has been optimized for the underlying cloud [commodity 00:08:55] gear.Corey: So, help me understand. Is HeatWave a, effectively, reengineering of MySQL? Is it a completely separate layer that exists distinct from an existing MySQL database? Or is it something else entirely?Nipun: So, we started off designing HeatWave separately as something ground up, which came out of many years of research and advanced developing. And once we knew that we could scale up HeatWave for analytic processing, and it is very well optimized for the underlying hardware and such. Then we did the work of enhancing the MySQL database so that it can be integrated, right? So yes, it started off as a standalone effort from the ground up so that we didn't have to, you know, [live 00:09:38] any constraints of any existing codebase, so we could design it and optimize it right from the ground up to be the best possible. But then we integrated this thing with the MySQL database so that the customers can use it without requiring any change to the application in terms of the semantics or any new syntax, right? So, there's absolutely no new syntax and no change to the semantics for existing MySQL applications. So, it gives you best of both worlds.Corey: So, this has frequently been described in the context of a competitor to very—again, forgive the Amazonian focus; that's where I spend most of my time, usually complaining about things—but it's been positioned in some ways as a competitor to things such as RDS or Aurora, as well as Redshift, or Snowflake if we're stepping slightly outside that ecosystem. The challenge that I keep running into, very often, is that when I talk to customers using those systems—and yes, those systems invariably show up on the bill as one of the big numbers, regardless of how you slice it—it feels like their use case for each of those is very different, it feels very much like half of those are aimed at purely transactional and half of them are aimed at the data warehousing story, the large amounts of data for analytics queries. And my default knee-jerk reaction, whenever someone says, “Ah, we built a thing that does both of those super well,” it's, “Yeah, I've heard this before, it was the HP multifunction printer where it does three things, none of them well.” And no one has a multifunction printer that they liked for the longest time—because it's moving parts and computers and the devil in equal measure—and it's okay, so you're trying to build something that stands between two worlds, but it's easy to come away with the conclusion, as a result, that it's not the best of breed for either use case, but rather a series of trade-offs or compromises that are made to enable both use cases. I get the sense that that is not your impression of what you've built.Nipun: Correct. And I'll give you a data point for that. In the data point is—Corey: Yay. Data I love that. As opposed to your opinion is bad because my opinion is good. No, no, coming with data is a great approach. Please continue.Nipun: [laugh]. In terms of the customers who are using or adopting MySQL HeatWave, one of the largest segments of the customers who are migrating their production workloads from other databases or other services and coming to HeatWave are AWS customers who are migrating their production workloads from RDS or Aurora and are going production with MySQL HeatWave. So, the fact that the customers are doing that is an evidence that there is some value to it. And the reasons they are doing it is absolutely no change to their application, it is faster, it is cheaper. Now, in addition, what they find is that many of these customers were moving their data from Aurora or RDS into Redshift or Snowflake for analytics. They don't need to do that, right, and that's an additional savings they get.But we have a lot of evidence that existing customers have MySQL-based services—definitely AWS, but even on other clouds—and Aurora are migrating, and that's very encouraging for us that, hey, we should be doing something right for customers to want to migrate their workloads to MySQL HeatWave.Corey: You had a couple of announcements coming out about what's new and what's coming to HeatWave, and one of the ones that we're talking about today is the idea of elasticity. Something you just said reminds me of a couple years ago when Amazon had relatively recently brought out Aurora and they said much the same thing of, “Oh, it's super-elastic. You don't have to take it down to make it bigger.” And it's great. Well, you just talked about people removing data as they migrate somewhere else, and the question I had at the time was, “Okay, great. So, that's how the database embiggens. That's great. How does it emsmallen? Does that wind up having that same elastic property?”And the response was very defensive, “Well, why would someone ever do that? Data only gets bigger.” And it's, yeah, well, you haven't worked with me in production where I accidentally drop a table now and again, and data does get smaller. And the answer for the longest time there was elasticity and auto-scaling was basically unidirectional because that's what customers are asking for. Right. So, I have to ask, when you say elasticity around HeatWave, is that unidirectional, or does it mean that oh, now there's less data, so we're going to go back down again.Nipun: It is bidirectional, so customers can upsize or they can downsize. Now, I have to say that HeatWave is a highly scalable system. And what that means is that as customers add more nodes to the cluster, the performance of the system improves almost linearly with the number of nodes which have been added. So, as a result, we have a lot of customers who start with a cluster size of certain number, and based on the workloads, they either add nodes or they reduce the number of nodes, right? So, it's a very common operation; people want to scale up and scale down.And with the real-time elasticity feature we have introduced, customers can do either operation and with absolutely no downtime. There's absolutely no time when the cluster is not available for queries or for DMLs, right? So, while the resize operation is going on, this cluster is fully available and customers can upsize to a number of nodes and downsize to any number of nodes.Corey: As it scales in or scales out, is that effectively doing its own internal sharding and rebalancing of data under the hood, invisible to customers? Is there something else going on? Like, how does this work?Nipun: Right. So, take the example that customer has, say, four nodes and they want to add two more notes. There are couple of interesting properties over here. We have a technical super-partitioning, by which we know exactly which are the blocks of data which have to be populated to the new nodes which have been added. However, one of the key design points of our elasticity is that there is no data movement between the nodes.So, all the data which has to be populated in the new nodes which are being added is fetched from the object store, the [OCI 00:15:50] object store. As a result, the existing cluster of four nodes is working as is, queries are working as is, without any degradation in performance. When the data has been populated to these additional nodes, the system then starts having the queries execute on the larger cluster. So, the smaller cluster is available all the time, then the larger clusters available, so from a user's perspective, they see absolutely no downtime. And since there is no data movement happening from the initial four nodes, there is no degradation of the existing queries which will be running on the older cluster.Corey: It's 2022 and you're announcing enhancements to a technology, so of course, it is a given that you are now talking as well about machine learning. Now, in a general sense, whenever someone says that my immediate instinctive reaction is to check my wallet in case someone is in the middle of picking my pocket because it seems like it winds up in some very weird places. What is machine learning and its applicability to HeatWave? Because generally speaking, when I look at things you can use machine learning for the answer is often finding signal from noise in large datasets and, of course, the ever-popular bias laundering. But I get the sense that neither one of those is quite what you're talking about here. What monstrosity have you built?Nipun: With MySQL HeatWave, customers are bringing in more data from either consolidating multiple MySQL databases into one, bringing workloads from other database into MySQL, but the volume of data which now customers are putting into MySQL HeatWave is growing because they want to run transaction processing, analytics all together in one database. Now, as the size of the data is growing, we are finding that many customers want to extract the data or currently need to extract the data out of the MySQL database to run machine-learning processing. So, some of the very large customers of MySQL HeatWave have been using HeatWave very successfully for transaction processing and analytics, but they had to extract the data out to some other ecosystem, to some other service for machine-learning processing. With the announcement we have made, which is HeatWave ML, we are now providing in-database support for machine learning, meaning that customers of MySQL HeatWave can do training, inference, as well as explanations, all inside MySQL HeatWave, without the data or the model ever having to leave MySQL.And this is something which is fairly unique. Apart from the Oracle database, I'm not aware of any other database, which provides in-database machine-learning capabilities, and certainly not as rich, right, which is very efficient training, inference, and explanations. And all models which are created by HeatWave ML inside MySQL HeatWave can be explained, which is a pretty important capability which enterprise customers like to have.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Sysdig. Sysdig is the solution for securing DevOps. They have a blog post that went up recently about how an insecure AWS Lambda function could be used as a pivot point to get access into your environment. They've also gone deep in-depth with a bunch of other approaches to how DevOps and security are inextricably linked. To learn more, visit sysdig.com and tell them I sent you. That's S-Y-S-D-I-G dot com. My thanks to them for their continued support of this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: What does this wind up empowering customers to do? Give an example or two, just because it's easy to talk about this stuff in the abstract as far as, “Oh, it would theoretically let someone do X, Y or Z.” But the problem I found, generally speaking, in the world of machine learning is that it is challenging to articulate it in a way that people hear the story and think, “Hey, that looks like something I might want to do.” As opposed to the common stories are, “Well, if you have a world-spanning data set and want to do this, this, and this”—like, “Well, I don't. And I don't and I don't and I don't, so what value is it to me?” What capabilities does it unlock?Nipun: Right. So, with the introduction of HeatWave, what we had said is that customers don't need multiple databases: One for transaction processing, one for analytics; they can do both transactional processing and analytics with one database, right? That's what we started off with. Now, the same thing holds true for machine learning. Current customers of most databases need to extract data out of the database for doing machine learning.And we are saying, “Hey, that's not [unintelligible 00:19:45], analytics, mixed workloads, or machine learning. Your data can all be inside MySQL, MySQL HeatWave, and you can do all the processing with that service.” Now, the kinds of capabilities customers like to have for machine learning, training as the most important one. And training is a very time-consuming operation. And typically when customers do training and they're using some other service, it's time-consuming and it is very expensive as well.One of the very interesting properties here is that when you're running machine learning inside HeatWave, you don't need to provision any additional cluster, or you don't need to have any custom gear. This machine-learning training is happening on the same cluster which the user has provisioned for analytics or for transaction processing. So, on the same hardware, on the same cluster, now they can run machine-learning processing. So, the kind of use case which you're asking is when customers have this data—and I'll walk you through an example. Take the case of credit card, right?If a bank wants to determine whether they want to, like, deny someone a credit card or approve it, it's based on some characteristics. Many of the times, people use a rule-based mechanism, but now with data-driven approaches, people want to look at a lot of data and the system makes a recommendation that yes, this person is appropriate for, like, you know, granting the loan or not. And this is something for which customers—or, like, the enterprises want to have rich models which accurately provide a characterization of the data so that they can make the right predictions. So, training is very important because you want to get the training be done right on the data because it influences the quality of the predictions which are being made. And once a prediction is made, there may be reasons, like, there could be regulatory compliance reasons because of which the enterprise may need to offer an explanation that why was the credit card denied, just to kind of make sure that there wasn't any bias or unfairness.And that's where machine-learning explanation capabilities are also very helpful. So, this is an example: when someone goes for apply for a credit card, whether it's rejected or approved. Another example is that when someone is making a call, like a marketing team is making a call, and the system want to predict that will a call lead to a successful outcome or not. That's another example. So, machine learning is being used very—now—extensively, and one of the advantages of a database is a database is where there's a lot of data, so it's a very, very good opportunity to harness this data using machine learning. Because machine learning is really tied to the richness of data and to the amount of data someone has.Corey: That makes a lot of sense. So, it's… it definitely shines a light at a, if not the easy answer for a lot of those questions, a directions that are people are going to have a better time of mapping to their specific use cases. One that I think is easier for everyone to map to a specific use case is another component of what you folks are announcing which is cost reduction, which is, to be direct, not something people generally think of Oracle as the first example of. A company that's like, “Ah, that's the thing that's going to cost me less money.” And to be clear, I have no problem with that. I pride myself on absolutely not being the least expensive answer to basically anything. But it is an interesting direction to go in. There are a few ways you can wind up saving folks money. Which path have you folks taken?Nipun: Now, there are multiple ways in which we can reduce the cost for the customer. So, one thing to realize it is MySQL customers are very cost-sensitive. And in the previous benchmarks and results we have shown, we have shown that, you know, compared to other vendors, we are significantly faster—that HeatWave significantly faster and significantly cheaper. So, we have class of customers come to us saying, “Hey, you know what? Can you trade-off some performance for even lower cost?”And the way we have done is the following: We have doubled the amount of data which can be processed on a HeatWave node. So, HeatWave is an in-memory system, so the size of the cluster depends upon the amount of data which is being processed. And it depends upon the amount of data which can be processed per node. So, if you double the amount of data that can be processed per node, it means that now customers need a cluster half the size compared to what they were doing in the past, which reduces their cost by half. Now, please note, when they're running on a cluster half the size, the amount of time it takes to run the same query will double.So, what it means is, the system is providing the same price-performance because half the cost, double the time. But it's a choice that customers have. If they still want to get the same performance [unintelligible 00:24:38] earlier, they can continue to run on the larger cluster, but now they have a choice. So, in a way, we are providing an even lower entry point for customers. That's the first part of cost savings.Corey: And that makes sense because with a lot of the workloads you see where it's nice to be able to run analytics on the same type of data, you don't need the same level of responsiveness on a lot of those queries either, where it's, “So, we're trying to get an answer to this giant analytics query.” “Okay, so great. How quickly do you need it working?” When transactions are measured in fractions of a second, the answer to analytics queries is, “Well, Tuesday would be nice. We'd like it by Tuesday if you can find a way to pull that off.”So, there's no reason to pay for near-line-rate speeds if you don't need it for a lot of those queries, which is absolutely going to be an interesting option for folks. Now, you said there was a second aspect as well.Nipun: Yes. And the second aspect is, again, for analytics, right? Customers want to run the queries, they want to run it occasionally, they don't want to run it all the time, so what we are now introducing is a feature called ‘Pause and Resume.' And what it does is that if you're not using the cluster, you can pause and the system makes a copy of the data and all the metadata associated with the data in a backup, and when the user wants, they can resume and, like, you know, fetch the data, which is still in the in-memory presentation and all the metadata associated with Autopilot. And just resume, right? So, this is another way by which customers when they're not using the cluster for some duration time, they can pause it, and for the duration they pause it, they're not being charged.Corey: I am a big believer of the number one step of cloud economics is like, “Oh, should I buy it some reservations or lock into long-term contract?” “No. You should turn things off when you're not using them.” And people look at you strange, and say, “What? You can turn things off?” And yes, you absolutely can, which makes people feel better about generally not doing it.But again, customer behaviors are usually ones that makes sense in their context. I just look at from a billing perspective, and it seems a little weird. I like the option, particularly for things that are either non-production or only going to be relevant to production during certain time windows, there are a number of areas where that begins to make an awful lot of sense, and people would do it if it didn't require backing up the database, destroying the cluster, then re-provisioning the database restoring the cluster. And, yeah, people don't generally have weeks to spend on spin-up and spin-down.Nipun: Yes, in fact, that's a very, very good observation, Corey. I want to say that many of our customers who are running their production workloads and HeatWave, they also have a test environment. And exactly on the lines of what you said, that they want to have a copy of the data in the test environment, should something bad happen, but they don't want the cluster on all the time. They just wanted for some duration of time and for them, this pause and resume will be a very good idea. And also like, you know, save them money. So, something which we have seen with many of our customers.Corey: The last component of your announcement is one that I approach with a significant amount of skepticism because every time I start drifting in this direction, one thing is for certain: It's that I'm going to get yelled at on the internet. I'm referring, of course, to benchmarking. Now, Oracle historically has been a company that prefers people not benchmark and publish results of those benchmarks, backdating into the mists of history. And the argument has always been that people don't generally tend to benchmark database workloads appropriately, due to a series of misunderstandings, and let's be clear, this stuff is complicated. And a number of companies in the space love to talk about their benchmarks are great, and when you look into it, it's okay, those numbers are great.And you sort of know that the benchmarks that didn't perform so well are not the ones that they're talking about. And then their competitor immediately winds up chiming in, where it's, “Ah, they're doing it wrong because when you do these other benchmarks, our solution winds up being better.” And it winds up in a nerd slap-fight that no one, even the participants, particularly enjoy. What makes your benchmarks interesting is that you talk through not just what the benchmark results are—because, of course, that's the entire point—you're also putting the benchmark methodology and tooling up on GitHub where people can grab it and run it themselves, and see for yourself is the entire approach. That is—how do I put this politely—that is atypical of large companies in general and Oracle in particular. What changed?Nipun: Right. So, there are three things over here, Corey, right? The first thing is, as we talked about, MySQL is the most popular open-source database in the world. Pretty much all cloud vendors, they have some version of MySQL which they're offering as a managed service, and in many cases, they're enhancing MySQL and then offering their service. So, in the context of MySQL, it becomes very important for us to give the opportunity to our customers, for them to compare which service is better for their needs.So, is more important in the context of MySQL, since everyone is offering it and some of them have derivatives, that we provide some mechanism for people to compare. So, that's the task for having a benchmark. That's the first point. Second thing is when you want to compare the performance or the cost of these, like, you know, various flavors, instead of us coming with our own, say, workloads which you see from customers, it's good to have a well-published benchmark, a well-understood benchmark, so that people can say, “Okay, you know what? Based on TPC-H, what is the performance?” Or, “On [TPC DS 00:29:54], what is the performance?”In some cases, when a benchmark isn't available, what we have done is for machine learning, we have used a bunch of open datasets and based on those open datasets, we are publishing the benchmarks to say, “Hey, we are so much faster or so much cheaper.”And then the third aspect is in terms of why we are making them all available in GitHub or open-source. That these benchmarks are a starting point, but customers will have workloads which are different from these benchmarks, so we want to provide the opportunity for the customers to first look at what is our methodology, what have we used to come up with these numbers so they can reproduce them, but, B, if their workloads are different, they can enhance or augment these benchmarks in the way they would like, and then run them to see how they compare, right? So, we want to be fully transparent about what we have done, how we have done, and let customers decide on their own which is going to be the best platform from a cost perspective, from a performance perspective. So, this is the reason why we have chosen to benchmark and GitHub, like, make available all over scripts in the open-source.Corey: One of the things I think I admire the most about that is I've always viewed benchmarks as being borderline worthless because I do not care in the slightest how your system performs on hand-selected ratings on sample data that you provide, whereas I care everything for how the system performs with my workloads and my data sets. So, unless I am talking to someone who is effectively a neutral third-party benchmark source, in which case they are immediately attacked for being shills for one company or another, and sometimes both or neither at the same time because people are terrible, but seeing how it runs on my workloads and with my constraints is the important and valuable thing. And this is the easiest I can ever see it being for getting a good representative feel for exactly how different offerings are going to perform under the specific conditions that my production environment lives within. Because it's me we're talking about the specific conditions of my production environment are, of course, terrifying.Nipun: Right. So, I want to point out, yes, one is the fact that we have made these benchmarks methodology, like, you know, very transparent, but the second aspect of that is what we talked about last time, which is MySQL Autopilot, right? This is machine-learning-based automation, data-driven-based automation. So, we are very actively working on making it easy for customers to not have to do any configuration changes or optimizations; that the system determines, based on the queries, based on the workloads, how to best tune the system, right?So, we are working in both angles: One is to make the system more intelligent, so that based on the workload, the system can optimize for the users workload, and then, B, making our approach very transparent so that customers can compare for themselves. So, we are very, very aware of this, and again, for MySQL customers, for many of these open-source customers, simplicity is very important and we are working hard to make it simpler and transparent to our users.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking me on a tour of what you're announcing today. Now, so let me ask one of the forbidden questions: What's on the roadmap? What's coming that customers can look forward to?Nipun: So, one of the things which we are working on is that there has been a very good reception of the HeatWave capabilities we have introduced, so MySQL HeatWave is one of the fastest-growing services in the Oracle Cloud. But there has been a lot of interest in customers who have been asking us to provide similar capabilities on AWS. So, this is something which we are working on; it's in the roadmap. And please stay tuned for more news on this.Corey: You can bet that I will. I really want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to basically suffer my slings and arrows, and also spend time teaching what amounts to a remedial database course to a moron. But thank you once again for being as generous with your time as you always are.Nipun: Well, thank you, Corey. It's always a pleasure to come and talk to the show. Thank you again, for the opportunity.Corey: Always. Nipun Agarwal, SVP at Oracle in charge of MySQL, YouSQL, and HeatWave. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and explain how databases always fail your personal benchmark of doing a SELECT on a terabyte of data at once.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

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July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn't really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode. News Finally in Sydney Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9 AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source Amplify AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify Other Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs Containers Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21 Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades Amazon EKS now supports Multus Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits EC2 & VPC Instances Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events Auto Scaling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in Other Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs) AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints Dev & Ops Dev Tooling EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications CDK/CloudFormation Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012 AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances Other AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics Security AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring Data Storage & Processing AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2 Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling EBS AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs Athena Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI S3 AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control Redshift Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions Glue AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables Snow Family AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AI & ML Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2 SageMaker Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2 Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times Kendra Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector Other Cool Stuff IoT AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available AWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregations Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise) Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3 The rest The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance AWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policies AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available Introducing AWS for Health Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News Blog CloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHub Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released. News Finally in Sydney Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions AWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions Serverless API Gateway Amazon API Gateway custom domain names now support multi-level base path mappings Lambda AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images (General Availability) Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x Step Functions AWS Step Functions adds new data flow simulator for modelling input and output processing EventBridge Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge Amplify Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM) AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment Containers eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode AWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver EC2 & VPC Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena MacSec Encryption for some Direct Connect (apologies, linking to this prevents the podcast from getting published :shrug:) New AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management AWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job level AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwide Amazon EC2 enables replacing root volumes for quick restoration and troubleshooting Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2 AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Windows operating system Dev & Ops Dev Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Predictable Pricing Model Up To 90% Lower and Python Support Moves to GA | AWS News Blog Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio AWS CodeDeploy improves support for EC2 deployments with Auto Scaling Groups AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications - public preview Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK | AWS Compute Blog Proton AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments AWS Proton adds an API to cancel deployments CloudFormation You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support Now reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versions You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets Control Tower AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols AWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setup Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverability Customers can now use ServiceNow to track operational items related to AWS resources AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Explorer now integrate with AWS Security Hub for diagnosis and remediation of security findings Security Firewalls How to Get Started with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC | AWS News Blog Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control | AWS News Blog AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting Identity Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user's IAM role activity to their corporate identity Other AWS Config launches the ability to track and visualize compliance change history of conformance packs AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity Data Storage & Processing Glue Detect outliers and use dedicated transforms to handle outliers in AWS Glue DataBrew AWS Glue DataBrew now supports time-based, pattern-based and customizable parameters to create dynamic datasets AWS announces preview of AWS Glue custom blueprints AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning AWS announces data sink capability for the Glue connectors AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow to connect to data from SaaS (Software as a Service) applications and AWS services (in Preview) Redshift AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) – A Speed Boost for Your Amazon Redshift Queries | AWS News Blog Announcing cross-VPC support for Amazon Redshift powered by AWS PrivateLink Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partners Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native JSON and semi-structured data support EMR Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types Amazon EMR Studio is now generally available Athena Announcing general availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMaker User Defined Functions (UDF) are now generally available for Amazon Athena RDS Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Extended Events Amazon RDS on VMware networking now simplified and more secure Other Amazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BI AWS Ground Station now supports data delivery to Amazon S3 Amazon ElastiCache now supports publishing Redis logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Kinesis Data Firehose AI & ML SageMaker Decrease Your Machine Learning Costs with Instance Price Reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker | AWS News Blog New options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions ( EventBridge) Other Detect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally available Amazon Fraud Detector now supports Batch Fraud Predictions Get estimated run time for forecast creation jobs while using Amazon Forecast Amazon Kendra launches dynamic relevance tuning Other Cool Stuff WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally Available Amazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client application IVS Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3 Connect Amazon Connect launches audio device settings for the custom Contact Control Panel (CCP) Amazon Connect allows contact center managers to configure agent settings in a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP) Other AWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure tools for simulation jobs Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updates Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reports AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time | AWS News Blog Announcing open source robotics projects for AWS DeepRacer Announcing Moving Graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards Amazon Nimble Studio – Build a Creative Studio in the Cloud | AWS News Blog AWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snow jobs The Nanos AWS Console Mobile Application adds support 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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the future of the podcast and how they'll know they've made it when listeners use Twitter to bombard Ryan with hatred when he's wrong.  A big thanks to this week's sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week's highlights Amazon gives Justin a long overdue birthday present. Google wants to educate the people. Azure has a new best friend but could they be a wolf in sheep’s clothing? General News: Goodbye, Friend The Apache foundation has decided to send Mesos to the attic. This makes us sad because we loved the concept. Amazon Web Services: Happy Birthday, Justin New AWS WAF Bot Control to reduce unwanted website traffic. This is great! AWS is releasing the Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS firewall to defend against DNS-level threats. Pricing is interesting on this one. AWS launches CloudWatch Metric Streams. After years of complaints, they're finally fixing this issue.  AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms. Nice price cut! AWS Direct Connect announces MACsec encryption for dedicated 10Gbps and 100Gbps connections at select locations. AWS has fulfilled their promise to Justin — three years later. Amazon announces new predictable pricing model up to 90% lower and Python Support moves to GA for CodeGuru Reviewer. If this goes down next week, blame Ryan.  Google Cloud Platform: So Pretty Google is releasing an open-source set of JSON dashboards. This is super important.   Google announces free AI and machine learning training for fraud detection, chatbots and more. We recommend you check these out.   Google Clouds Database Migration Service is now generally available. Everything is so beautiful on paper.    Google introduces request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs. This just reinforces the fact that we don't know how Cloud Spanner works.   Azure: Best Friends Microsoft’s new low-code programming language, Power FX, is in public preview. Terrible name. Microsoft announces new solutions for Oracle WebLogic on Azure Virtual Machines. They're running WebLogic on Azure because of some product requirement.    The U.S. Army moves Microsoft HoloLens-based headset from prototyping to production phase. You don't get JEDI, but you get HoloLens! Microsoft launches Azure Orbital to deepen the value chain for geospatial earth imagery on cloud. Reminded us to watch Lord of War again, it's a good movie. Oracle: Win Dinner With Larry Oracle offers free cloud migration to lure new customers. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will fly you to his private island — but if you don't sign up, you have to make your own way back.  Oracle and Microsoft expand interconnection to Frankfurt, adding a third location in EMEA. Don't invite Oracle into your data center.   TCP Lightning Round Anyone who makes fun of the Canadian accent wins so Justin takes this week's point and the lead, leaving scores at Justin (5), Ryan (3), Jonathan (5).  Other headlines mentioned: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports node image autoupgrade in public preview Public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) run-command feature  Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now generally available Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting Amazon EKS is now FedRAMP-High Compliant AWS Budgets announces CloudFormation support for budget actions AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverability AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console Amazon EC2 now allows you to copy Amazon Machine Images across AWS GovCloud, AWS China and other AWS Regions AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels  Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for Canada  Things Coming Up Public Sector Summit Online — April 15–16 Discover cloud storage solutions at Azure Storage Day — April 29 AWS Regional Summits — May 10–19 AWS Summit Online Americas — May 12–13 Microsoft Build — May 19–21 (Digital) Google Financial Services Summit — May 27th  Harness Unscripted Conference — June 16–17 Google Cloud Next — Not announced yet (one site says Moscone is reserved June 28–30) Google Cloud Next 2021 — October 12–14, 2021 AWS re:Invent — November 29–December 3 — Las Vegas Oracle Open World (no details yet) 

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This episode is sponsored by Cloud Academy - get 50% off their monthly price by using the unique code "LEARNAWS" during checkout at https://cloudacademy.comTwitter feedback @original_homAmazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Amazon Route 53 is fully compliant with IPv6 as well.

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In this 1 hour-long themed episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we sail to the Edge and demystify many of the core concepts that occur before end-user requests are made. We start the show setting a foundation of Domain Name System (DNS), why it is important, before talking about Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable cloud DNS Service. It is also a full featured DNS service that is API, SDK, and CLI driven. We then introduce the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and talk about Amazon CloudFront which speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content. Amazon CloudFront also delivers the content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. Amazon CloudFront allows you to run AWS Lambda functions at the edge. Lambda@Edge is an extension of AWS Lambda which lets you execute functions and customize the content Amazon CloudFront delivers. Before closing out, we talk about AWS Global Accelerator, a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Dean Samuels - Lead Technologist, ASEAN, AWS Resources: Amazon CloudFront - https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ Amazon Route53 - https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ AWS Global Accelerator - https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/ AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series http://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Summit Online on-demand - http://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online AWS Events and Webinars - http://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete perform a tech round up from May through to June of 2020 There is now an ability to provide Direct Connect testing, You can noow use the Resiliency Toolkit to test the resiliency of their Direct Connect connections. The Fail over testing feature enables customers to test resiliency by disabling one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface, or AWS Direct Connect API. Shield Advanced now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected. When you turn on proactive engagement, the DRT will directly contact you if an Amazon Route 53 health check associated with your protected resource becomes unhealthy during an event that's detected by Shield Advanced. Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions Amazon MSK now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades We spoke about the AWS Transfer family and you can now use the source IP as an additional factor of authentication A raft pf Ec2 updates including the availability of the Graviton 2 based instances Finally Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems

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In this Episode of AWS TechChat, I cover some of the missed but very important updates that occurred in the last few months (November 2019 to January 2020) whilst we embraced re:Invent 2019. The show starts with the introduction of AWS Lambda Destinations. It’s a new feature of Lambda that provides visibility into a Lambda functions invocation and routes the execution results to AWS services, which simplifying event-driven applications when a function is invoked asynchronously, I pivot to a raft of EC2 updates, starting with some house keeping with longer Amazon EC2 Resource IDs. From now until the end of April 2020, you can test your systems with the longer format and opt in when you are ready but after April 2020. All new resources will be created with longer resource IDs by default. It applies only to new resources and i encourage you test out before April 2020. Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are now having new Amazon EC2 instance types available for you. Saving you money and increasing performance. I also touch on how the credit system works on our T instances. Next, I introduce an entirely new service - AWS Data Exchange, which is a new service that makes it easy to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Before jumping in to five FSx for Windows updates around De-Duplication, Encryption, PowerShell, Smaller Volume Sizes and File Share Witnesses for SQL, I talk about Amazon GuardDuty. You can now export findings from across regions and also export findings from all associated member accounts and all AWS regions to a single S3 bucket. To close out the show, I share a unique but important update on Amazon Route53. It now supports overlapping name spaces, simplifying complex AWS accounts Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: Introducing AWS Lambda Destinations https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-aws-lambda-destinations/ Longer Format Resource IDs are Now Available in Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/longer-format-resource-ids-are-now-available-in-amazon-ec2/ Amazon ElastiCache now supports T3-Standard cache nodes https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-elasticache-now-supports-t3-standard-cache-nodes/ RDS New Instance Types https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-additional-instance-sizes/ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Maximum Instance Lifetime https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-max-instance-lifetime Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Instance Weighting https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-instance-weighting/ Introducing AWS Data Exchange https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/introducing-aws-data-exchange/ Amazon GuardDuty Supports Exporting Findings to an Amazon S3 Bucket https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-guardduty-supports-exporting-findings-to-an-amazon-s3-bucket/ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports Data Deduplication, reducing storage costs by 50-60% for general file shares https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-fsx-windows-file-server-supports-data-deduplication-reducing-storage-costs/ Amazon Route 53 Now Supports Overlapping Namespaces For Private Hosted Zones https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-route-53-now-supports-overlapping-namespaces-for-private-hosted-zones/ AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Innovate AIML Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/ AWS Innovate DeepRacer Challenge https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/deepracer/

This podcast takes a closer look at VMware Cloud on AWS from a consultants point of view. Having rolled up his sleeves and got under the bonnet of VMware Cloud on AWS, Xtravirt consultant, James Kilby, explains how his own views and opinions of VMware Cloud on AWS have changed since it first emerged on the hybrid cloud scene. Take a listen if you are keen to:Learn more about possible use cases for VMware Cloud on AWS (from being a popular choice for businesses looking to meet temporary bursts in demand, to its more obscure disaster avoidance as-a-service capabilities)Understand the true cost of VMware Cloud on AWS and decide for yourself whether it’s expensive or a great investmentGet an independent point of view on the speed of deploying VMware Cloud on AWSKnow more about VMware Cloud on AWS pricing – the pricing options available and how to make them work for your businessLearn more about some of the native AWS services and benefits they can bring, e.g. Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and AWS LambdaKnow what you need to consider before getting started with VMware Cloud on AWSTo find out more about VMware Cloud on AWS go to https://xtravirt.com/vmc-aws See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every AWS service is designed to be highly available, but a small number of what we call Tier 0 services get extra-special attention. Come hear lessons from how AWS has built and architected Amazon Route 53 and the AWS authentication system, designed to survive cataclysmic failures, enormous load increases, and more. We cover our approach to redundancy and resilience at the infrastructure, software, and team levels, and we get into how the teams tasked with keeping the internet running manage themselves and still keep up with the pace of change that AWS customers demand.

The launch of Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints and forwarding rules has opened up a variety of exciting new options for managing DNS resolution, especially in hybrid cloud environments. This session gives a quick overview of the product before taking a deep dive into the design of Route 53 Resolver, including how it complements Route 53 private DNS and best practices to achieve availability and performance. We also dive into some new patterns that are emerging with services such as AWS Transit Gateway, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

In this round-up episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Tom come at you with raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in September and October in the year 2019. They started the show with an announcement around Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Single Region Replication, with this feature you can now automatically and asynchronously replicate newly uploaded S3 objects to a destination bucket in the same AWS Region. Just remember you need to enable versioning. There is now a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, G4 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, which are the Most Cost-effective GPU Platform for Machine Learning Inference and Graphics Intensive Applications. You can find them in limited regions. Limits are changing on Amazon EC2. We have made them easier with vCPU based on demand limits. Much easier to manage. All you need to do is remember you have two limits post-October 21. One limit that governs the usage of standard instance families (A,C,D,H,I,M,R,T, and Z) and the default limit is 1152 vCPU. The other limit for the specialized instance families of F, G, P, and X instances that is 128vCPU. Check out the NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB, a great new tool designed to help simplify working with Amazon DynamoDB, and the Amazon DynamoDBMapper class in the Java SDK has been updated to support optimistic locking. Private EndPoints and API Gateway, it is now a thing. You can now associate one or more VPC Endpoints to a private API, and Amazon API Gateway will create and manage Amazon Route 53 alias records necessary for easily invoking the Private APIs. Finally, they closed the show out with two things Shane like - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code with the former now providing IntelliSense for Amazon ECS. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Tom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: Amazon S3 introduces Same-Region Replication - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-s3-introduces-same-region-replication/ Amazon EC2 Instance History https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-history/ Amazon ECS adds support for G4 Instance type https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-ecs-adds-support-g4-instance-type/ vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/vcpu-based-on-demand-instance-limits-are-now-available-in-amazon-ec2/ AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports vCPU-Based On-Demand Instance Limit Monitoring - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/aws-limit-monitor-now-supports-vcpu-based-on-demand-instance-limit-monitoring/ NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.html DynamoDBMapper now supports optimistic locking for Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/dynamodbmapper-now-supports-optimistic-locking-for-amazon-dynamodb-transactional-api-calls/ Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Invoking Private APIs - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-api-gateway-simplifies-invoking-private-apis/ Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/ Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-elastic-container-service-now-supports-intellisense-in-visual-studio-code/ AWS Events: AWSome Day Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

Join Dr. Pete and Shane as they cover the core concepts on how you can get a website and email service up and running on AWS. In part 1 of this two-part series, they lay a technical foundation and cover domain registration, and DNS in general with Amazon Route 53, an awesome awesome DNS service. They then speak about web-hosting and touched on the various options you have in AWS before transitioning to MX records and Amazon WorkMail for email hosting.

Simon takes you through the December updates to finish up 2018! Shownotes: Topic || Customer Engagement 0:23 Amazon Pinpoint Announces Event-Based Campaigns, Driving Personalization and Engagement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-pinpoint-announces-event-based-campaigns-driving-personalization-and-engagement/ Amazon Pinpoint Announces a New Email Deliverability Dashboard to Help Customers Reach their Users' Inboxes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-pinpoint-announces-a-new-email-deliverability-dashboard-to-help-customers-reach-their-users-inboxes/ Amazon Connect Adds New Contact API to Get Contact Attributes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-connect-adds-new-contact-api-to-get-contact-attributes/ Topic || Storage 2:05 Amazon S3 Inventory adds Apache Parquet output format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-s3-announces-parquet-output-format-for-inventory/ AWS Storage Gateway Increases File Gateway Performance - Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-storage-gateway-announces-increased-throughput-and-adds-new-/ Topic || Networking & Content Delivery 3:32 Amazon Virtual Private Clouds can now be shared with other AWS Accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-virtual-private-clouds-can-now-be-shared-with-other-aws-accounts/ Introducing AWS Client VPN to Securely Access AWS and On-Premises Resources | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/introducing-aws-client-vpn-to-securely-access-aws-and-on-premises-resources/ New AWS Direct Connect locations in Silicon Valley and Stockholm | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/new-aws-direct-connect-locations-silicon-valley-stockholm/ Amazon CloudFront announces ten new Edge locations in North America, Europe, and Asia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/cloudfront-dec2018-10-edge-locations/ Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Building Real-Time Two-Way Communication Applications with WebSocket APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-api-gateway-launches-support-for-websocket-apis/ Amazon Route 53 Adds Alias Record Support For API Gateway and VPC Endpoints | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-route-53-adds-alias-record-support-for-api-gateway-and-vpc-endpoints/ Topic || Database 7:41 Introducing Workload Qualification Framework to Project Plan Your Database Migrations to AWS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/introducing-workload-qualification-framework-to-plan-your-database-migration-projects/ AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for Parallel Full Load and Enhanced LOB Migration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-database-migration-service-adds-support-for-parallel-full-load/ Amazon RDS Enhances Automatic Minor Version Upgrades | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-rds-enhances-auto-minor-version-upgrades/ Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports R5 Instance Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-rds-postgresql-now-supports-r5-instance-types/ Amazon RDS Supports Publishing PostgreSQL Log Files to Amazon CloudWatch Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-rds-supports-postgresql-logfiles-publish-to-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Counter Metrics for Aurora PostgreSQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-rds-performance-insights-supports-counter-metrics-for-aurora-postgresql/ Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 10.6, 9.6.11, 9.5.15, and 9.4.20 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-rds-postgresql-supports-minor-version-106/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports PostgreSQL 10.5 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-aurora-postgresql-supports-postgresql-105/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Adds Query Plan Management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-aurora-postgresql-compatibility-adds-query-plan-management/ Announcing the New Amazon DynamoDB Key Diagnostics Library | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-the-new-amazon-dynamodb-key-diagnostics-library/ Amazon DynamoDB Increases the Number of Global Secondary Indexes and Projected Index Attributes You Can Create Per Table | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-dynamodb-increases-the-number-of-global-secondary-indexes-and-projected-index-attributes-you-can-create-per-table/ Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for DynamoDB Transactions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-adds-support-for-dynamodb-transactions/ Amazon MQ Now Supports ActiveMQ Minor Version 5.15.8 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-mq-now-supports-activemq-minor-version5-15-8/ Topic || Compute 14:13 Amazon ECR Console Version 2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ecr-console-version-2/ Amazon ECR now allows Repository Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ecr-now-allows-repository-tagging/ Amazon EC2 Introduces Partition Placement Groups | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ec2-ntroduces-partition-placement-groups/ AWS Auto Scaling is Now Available in 8 more Regions Worldwide and Offers Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-auto-scaling-is-now-available-in-8-more-regions-worldwide/ Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances are Now Available in Additional AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ec2-c5d-m5d-and-r5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-aws-regions/ AWS Fargate Platform Version 1.3 Adds Secrets Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-fargate-platform-version-1-3-adds-secrets-support/ Amazon EKS Adds Managed Cluster Updates and Support for Kubernetes Version 1.11 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-eks-adds-managed-cluster-updates-and-support-for-kubernetes/ AWS Server Migration Service Adds Support for Multi-Server Migration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-server-migration-service-adds-support-for-multi-server-migration/ AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 C5n Instances Featuring 100 Gbps of Network Bandwidth | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-batch-now-supports-amazon-ec2-c5n-instances-featuring-100-gbps-of-network-bandwidth/ AWS Batch Now Supports Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-batch-now-supports-amazon-ec2-p3dn-instances/ New AWS ParallelCluster Features | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/new-aws-parallelcluster-features/ New SAM PUBLISH Command Simplifies Publishing Applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/sam-publish-command-simplifies-publishing-apps-to-serverless-application-repository/ AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Tag-Based Permissions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-elastic-beanstalk-adds-tag-based-permissions/ Topic || Developer Tools 20:39 AWS X-Ray Adds the Ability to Group Traces by Root Cause | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-xray-adds-the-ability-to-group-traces-by-root-cause/ AWS CodePipeline Supports VPC Endpoints | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-codepipeline-supports-vpc-endpoints/ AWS CloudFormation macros can now be used in templates with nested stacks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-cloudformation-macros-can-now-be-used-in-templates-with-nest/ Quickly Create, Build, and Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills from AWS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/quickly-create-build-and-deploy-amazon-alexa-skills-from-aws/ Topic || Machine Learning 22:07 Amazon Transcribe now supports speech-to-text in French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-transcribe-now-supports-speech-to-text-in-french-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese/ Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance 22:27 AWS IAM Console Now Available In German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Traditional Chinese | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/iam-console-available-in-new-languages/ Automate AWS IAM Permissions Analysis Using the New IAM Access Advisor APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/iam_access_advisor_apis/ Introducing Notifications for New Amazon GuardDuty Finding Types and Feature Releases | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/Introducing-Notifications-for-New-Amazon-GuardDuty-Finding-Types-and-Feature-Releases/ AWS Organizations Supports AWS License Manager Cross Account Sharing Capabilities | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-organizations-supports-aws-license-manager/ AWS Shield Adds Advanced DDoS Protection for AWS Global Accelerator | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-shield-adds-advanced-ddos-protection-for-aws-global-accelerator/ AWS Systems Manager Automation Now Supports at Scale Action | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/AWS-Systems-Manager-Automation-Now-Supports-at-Scale-Actions/ AWS Service Catalog – Integration with AWS Organizations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-service-catalog-announces-integration-with-aws-organizations/ The AWS WAF Security Automations solution now includes a monitoring dashboard | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/the-aws-waf-security-automations-solution-now-includes-a-monitoring-dashboard/ Announcing rule group exception for Managed Rules for AWS WAF | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-rule-group-exception-for-managed-rules-for-aws-waf/ AWS Firewall Manager Available in Four Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-firewall-manager-now-available-in-four-more-regions/ Topic || Application Integration 26:59 Amazon SQS now Supports Amazon VPC Endpoints using AWS PrivateLink - Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-sqs-vpc-endpoints-aws-privatelink/ Amazon MQ Introduces Network of Brokers Feature | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-mq-introduces-network-of-brokers-feature/ Topic || Desktop & App Streaming 27:27 AppStream 2.0 introduces APIs to simplify app entitlements and enable delivery of virtualized apps | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/appstream-2-0-introduces-apis-to-simplify-app-entitlements-and-e/ Topic || Analytics 28:10 Support for Spark 2.4.0, and Hue 4.3.0 on Amazon EMR release 5.20.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/support-for-spark-240-hue-430-on-amazon-emr-release-5200/ Amazon Redshift now runs VACUUM DELETE automatically | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-redshift-automatic-vacuum/ Topic || Internet of Things 29:41 Introducing AWS CloudFormation Template Support for AWS IoT Analytics | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/introducing-aws-cloudformation-template-support-for-aws-iot-analytics/ AWS IoT Device Defender Adds Support for Two New Security Metrics | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-iot-device-defender-adds-support-for-two-new-security-metrics/ MediaTek MT7697H System on Chip is Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/mediatek-mt7697h-system-on-chip-qualified-amazon-freertos/ Topic || Other 30:35 Announcing Programmatic Access to AWS Pricing Information in China via the AWS Price List API | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-aws-price-list-api-availability-in-china/ Introducing the Media Services Application Mapper | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/introducing-the-media-services-application-mapper/ New Quick Start Deploys Varnish Cache Plus (VCP) on the AWS Cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/new-quick-start-deploys-varnish-on-aws/ Announcing 15 Free Digital Training Courses on New AWS Services Launched at re:Invent 2018 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-15-free-digital-training-courses-on-new-aws-services-launched-at-re-invent-2018/

Joining host Shane in the latest episode of AWS TechChat is special guest Tom McMeekin, Solution Architect, AWS. Shane and Tom discuss updates to Amazon Route 53, support for DNS resolution over inter region VPC, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS CloudFormation.

여섯 번째 에피소드에서는 KT 서울 서북부 통신 장애, AWS re:Invent 2018 이야기를 했습니다. 게스트: @riseshia 참가자: @seapy, @raccoonyy, @nacyo_t 조선닷컴 - 회원이 올린 요리법 210만건… 재가공해 1조원 기업으로(쿡패드 소개 기사, 2015) 한경닷컴 - 통신관 79m 화재에 마비된 서울 도심…백업 없는 ‘초연결사회’ 연합뉴스 - 황창규 KT 회장 “적극적 보상안 마련…전국 시설 점검할 것”(종합) 식당-편의점 카드결제 마비… 자영업자들 “주말 장사 망쳐” 분통 한경닷컴 - KT 화재로 경찰 내부통신도 ‘먹통’, “무전으로만 112지령 전달” 치안 공백 우려 Chosunbiz - ‘2시간 반 장애’ SKT, 730만명에 이틀치 요금 보상 “1개월 요금 감면”…KT 화재, 첫번째 보상안 나왔다 - Chosunbiz > 테크 > ICT/미디어 KT 화재로 119 신고도 ‘먹통’…70대 여성 사망 > 뉴스광장 1부 > 사회 > 뉴스 - KBSNEWS 10년 제자리 중요통신시설 관리기준 “등급 재조정 시급” re:Invent 2018 Keynotes 일: 미드나잇 매드네스(Midnight Madness) 월: 먼데이 나이트 라이브(Monday Night Live) 화: 파트너 키노트 수: AWS CEO 키노트 목: Amazon CTO 키노트 YouTube - AWS re:Invent 2018 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis AWS DeepRacer Amazon.com: AWS DeepRacer YES24 - 파이썬과 케라스로 배우는 강화학습 AWS re:Invent 특집 온라인 세미나 - 12월 12일 Amazon DynamoDB 업데이트 – 글로벌 테이블 및 온 디맨드 백업 기능 출시 AWS Amazon Personalize AWS Marketplace: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence AWS Amazon Textract 쿡패드의 최근 마이크로서비스 사례(일본어) Amazon Route 53 자동 이름 지정, 5개의 추가 리전에서 사용 가능 Cloud Map - Service discovery for cloud resources AWS App Mesh - Monitor and Control Microservices - Amazon Web Services AWS Outposts Overview page AWS 자격증 – 자격증 시험 준비 AWS 자격증 – 자격증 혜택 Google Map - Fullerton 일본 훗카이도 지진 정전사태에서 비상 전기로 60시간 운영한 데이터 센터 - YouTube JapanContainerDays v18.12

Learn how the world's third-largest ticketing company uses AWS Service Catalog to automate its entire PCI-compliant platform to better manage peak demand during major concert ticket sales for some of the world's largest venues, including the 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. In this session, Deloitte's Zack Levy and Ticketek CTO Matt Cudworth discuss taking automation to another level-from manually managing ‘hot shows' to using AWS Service Catalog to automate multiple AWS services (Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Amazon VPC, Amazon ELB, and AWS CloudFormation), enabling Ticketek to scale and run multiple hot shows concurrently across multiple jurisdictions. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Simon takes you through lots of great new features and capabilities for customers, and also a special call out for listeners attending AWS re:Invent to get some AWS Podcast swag! Shownotes with timestamps: 1:42 Compute In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-milan-italy/ AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-govcloud-us-east-now-open/ Amazon EC2 now offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/Amazon-EC2-now-offers-On-Demand-Capacity-Reservations/ Introducing Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing_amazon_ec2_instances_featuring_amd_epyc_processors/ Amazon ECS-CLI Supports Private Registry Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-ecs-cli-supports-private-registry-authentication/ Amazon EKS now supports additional VPC CIDR blocks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-eks-now-supports-additional-vpc-cidr-blocks/ AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Amazon API Gateway Authorizers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sam-supports-amazon-api-gateway-authorizers/ 6:04 Cost Management Introducing the New AWS Budgets Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/introducing-the-new-aws-budgets-console/ AWS now Supports SEPA Direct Debit Payments in Europe | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sepa-support/ Amazon API Gateway Announces Tiered Pricing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/api-gateway-announces-tiered-pricing/ AWS IoT Core Improves the Ability to Ingest Large Amounts of Device Data at a Lower Cost | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-iot-core-improves-ability-to-ingest-large-amounts-of-data/ Access Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations for All of Your Linked Accounts From a Central Location | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/central-location-for-accessing-ri-purchase-recommendations-for-all-accounts/ Monitor Your Amazon Elasticsearch Reserved Instance Utilization and Coverage Using AWS Budgets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/monitor-your-amazon-elasticsearch-ri-using-aws-budgets/ Amazon EC2 Spot Console now Provides Access to Spot Savings Information | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-EC2-Spot-Console-now-Provides-Access-to-Spot-Savings-Information/ 10:15 Machine Learning Amazon Translate now offers 113 new language pairs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-translate-now-offers-113-new-language-pairs/ Amazon Polly Adds Italian and Castilian Spanish Voices, and Mexican Spanish Language Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-polly-adds-italian-and-castilian-spanish-voices-and-mexican-spanish-language-support/ Amazon Rekognition Announces More Accurate Object and Scene Detection, Can Now Locate Objects in Your Images | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-rekognition-announces-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-can-now-locate-objects-in-your-images/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Pipe Mode for Datasets in CSV Format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-pipe-mode-for-datasets-in-csv-form/ Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports AWS KMS Based Encryption | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-batch-transform-now-supports-aws-kms-based-encr/ Now Clone a Hyperparameter Tuning Job through the Amazon SageMaker Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/now-clone-a-hyperparameter-tuning-job-through-the-amazon-sagemak0/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Apache MXNet 1.3 and TensorFlow 1.11 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-apache-mxnet-1-3-and-tensorflow-1-/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Incremental Learning for Image Classification and Object Detection Algorithms | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-incremental-learning-for-image-cla/ Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-batch-transform-now-supports-amazon-virtual-pri/ Now Use Chainer 5.0 on AWS Deep Learning AMIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/chainer5-0_launch_deep_learning_ami/ Introducing Machine Learning for Telecommunication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-machine-learning-for-telecommunication/ 15:14 Storage Amazon EFS now Supports AWS VPN and Inter-Region VPC Peering | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-efs-now-supports-aws-vpn-and-inter-region-vpc-peering/ Amazon Elastic File System Now Supports 512 Locks per File | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-elastic-file-system-now-supports-512-locks-per-file/ Amazon S3 Management Console is Now Available in Five New Languages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-s3-console-is-now-available-in-five-new-languages/ Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for copying EBS volume tags to EBS snapshots | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-adds-support-for-copying-ebs-volume-tags-to-ebs-snapshots/ 16:23 Networking Announcing the general availability of Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bring-your-own-ip-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud/ Amazon API Gateway Launches the Serverless Developer Portal | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-api-gateway-launches-the-serverless-developer-portal/ Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS WAF | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-api-gateway-adds-support-for-aws-waf/ Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations across North America, Europe, and Asia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/cloudfront-nov6-launch/ Amazon Route 53 Releases Interactive Map for Traffic Flow Geoproximity Routing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-route-53-releases-interactive-map-for-traffic-flow-geoproximity-routing/ 19:17 Databases Amazon ElastiCache Now Supports the Next Generation General-Purpose and Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 Nodes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon_elasticache_now_supports_the_next_generation_general-purpose_and_memory-optimized_amazon_ec2_m5_and_r5_nodes/ New – Redis 5.0 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-redis-5-0-compatibility-for-amazon-elasticache/ Amazon RDS Enables Stopping and Starting of Multi-AZ Database Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-stop-and-start-of-multi-az-instances/ Amazon RDS for MySQL,MariaDB and PostgreSQL Now Supports Database Storage Size up to 32TiB | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-mysql-mariadb-postgresql-32tib-support/ Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-now-supports-mysql-8/ Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-now-supports-mariadb-10_3/ PostgreSQL 11 is Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/postgresql-11-available-in-rds-database-preview/ Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enhances Backup and Restore Capabilities | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-enhances-backup-and-restore-capabilities/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports M5 Instance Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-oracle-supports-m5-instances/ Amazon RDS Performance Insights is Generally Available on RDS for Oracle | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-performance-insights-is-generally-available-on-rds-for-oracle/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Oracle Java | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-oracle-java/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Extended Data Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-extended-data-types/ Amazon RDS Now Sends Events to Amazon CloudWatch Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-now-sends-events-to-amazon-cloudwatch-events/ Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Always On Availability Groups | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-alwayson-availability-groups/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports IAM Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-aurora-postgresql-supports-iam-authentication/ 24:37 Management Tools New – CloudFormation Drift Detection - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudformation-drift-detection/ New AWS CloudFormation Management Console Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/new-aws-cloudformation-management-console-now-available/ AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon Secrets Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route53, Amazon Cloudwatch alarms and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-cloudformation-coverage-updates-for-amazon-secrets-manager--/ Introducing AWS CloudFormation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-policies/ New Quick Start builds a CI/CD pipeline to test AWS CloudFormation templates using AWS TaskCat | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/new-quickstart-builds-cicd-pipeline-to-test-cloudformation-templates-using-taskcat/ Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds the Ability to Share Events Across All Accounts in an Organization | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-cloudwatch-events-adds-the-ability-to-share-events-across-all-accounts-in-an-organization/ Easily Monitor Security Events of Your AWS Managed Microsoft AD Using Amazon CloudWatch Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/easily-monitor-security-events-of-your-aws-managed-microsoft-ad-using-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ 27:41 Business Productivity Amazon WorkDocs Now Lets You Control IP Address Access to Your Site | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-workdocs-control-ip-address-access/ Alexa for Business now enables third party device makers to have their products be managed as shared devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/alexa-for-business-now-enables-third-party-device-makers-to-have/ Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS CloudFormation Support and User Pool APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/introducing-amazon-appstream-2-0-aws-cloudformation-support-and-/ Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-workdocs-drive-available-for-mac/ 28:30 Security AWS Firewall Manager Now Supports Multiple AWS WAF Rule Groups | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/firewall-manager-now-supports-multiple-aws-waf-rulegroups-per-policy/ AWS Single Sign-On Now Enables You to Optimize How Long You can Access AWS Accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-single-sign-on-now-enables-you-to-optimize-how-long-you-can-access-aws-accounts/ AWS Single Sign-On Adds More Pre-Integrated Business Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-single-sign-on-adds-more-pre-integrated-business-applications/ Amazon GuardDuty Optimizes AWS CloudTrail Analysis Reducing Cost for Customers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-guardduty-optimizes-aws-cloudtrail-analysis-reducing-cost-for-customers/ Amazon Inspector Launches Agentless Network Assessments | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-inspector-launches-agentless-network-assessments/ Amazon Inspector Adds Amazon EC2 Instance Details to Security Findings | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-inspector-adds-amazon-ec2-instance-details-to-security-findings/ Centralized Logging Now Leverages Amazon Cognito for User Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/centralized-logging-now-leverages-amazon-cognito-for-user-authentication/ AWS Key Management Service Has a New Console Experience | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-key-management-service-has-a-new-console-experience/ 32:13 Analytics Amazon QuickSight adds support for Top N Filters, Cascading Parameter Controls, and JSON Parsing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-quickSight-now-supports-top-bottom-filters-cascading-parameter-controls-and-json-parsing-on-data-sources/ Amazon EMR now supports a public EMR artifact repository for Maven builds | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-emr-now-supports-a-public-EMR-artifact-repository-for-maven-builds/ Amazon EMR now supports G3, H1, and Z1d instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-emr-now-supports-g3-h1-z1d-instances/ Support for Flink 1.6.0, Zeppelin 0.8.0, and S3 Select with Hive and Presto on Amazon EMR release 5.18.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/support-for-flink-160-zeppelin-080-and-s3-select-with-hive-and-presto-on-amazon-emr-release-5180/ Stream data from Microsoft Windows based services using the Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/stream-data-from-microsoft-windows-based-services-using-the-amazon-kinesis-agent-for-microsoft-windows/ 33:36 Customer Engagement Amazon Pinpoint announces support for transactional emails and the addition of rich email analytics dashboards | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-pinpoint-announces-support-for-transactional-emails-and-t/ 34:33 Application Integration Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions - Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sqs-fifo-asia-pacific-tokyo-sydney/

Colm MacCárthaigh is a Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS provides on demand cloud computing services to individuals, companies and governments around the world. If you're a customer of AWS, Colm has probably had a hand in the services you use - his past projects include Route53, Cloudfront and Elastic Load Balancer. If you like open source software, Colm was heavily involved in the original Apache HTTP Server and more recently was the driving force behind the release of s2n, a popular open source C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol. If you're a fan of Irish folk music, Colm is part of several bands of such sorts and plays both in Seattle and on the road. If you're concerned about privacy and human rights, Colm is the founding director of Digital Rights Ireland and remains active on issues concerning privacy and immigration. I could go on but I think suffice to say, Colm is a man of many talents and interests. I'm super excited to have Colm on the show, not just because he's a great person to have a conversation with but also because he was my very first guest in my internal podcast at Amazon. Colm was kind enough to talk to me some two years ago then and is repeating that kindness once again by coming on to Folk Stories. A note that this talk does get slightly technical in a few places (what happens when two engineers talk about engineering) but I would consider the majority of this talk to be accessible regardless of your technical background. There are also show notes for everything we talked about if you want to find out more. In today's episode, we talk about what its like to be a principal software engineer at Amazon, why Colm went back to school despite having a good job and solid technical skills and matters of music and activism. Thanks for listening and if you want to leave feedback or nominate folks to the show, please send emails to feedback(at)folkstories.org Notes a day in the life of a principal software engineer blockchain and being unburdened from the man prioritizing projects and themes in past work going back to school: motivation and learnings thoughts on dev ops thoughts on engineering and healthy team dynamics juggling writing code with principal responsibilities activism and digital rights Irish folk music and finding inspiration Links Some tech projects Colm has been involved in Amazon CloudFront: Highly programmable, secure content delivery network (CDN) Elastic Load Balancer: Scalable load balancing for L4 and L7 applications Amazon Route 53: Highly Available DNS as a service Apache HTTP Server Project: the most popular web server on the internet since 1996 s2n: s2n is a C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols that is designed to be simple, small, fast, and with security as a priority Links to technical concepts discussed Blockchain: open distributed ledger that can record transactions between multiple parties Dev Ops Introduction to Computer Networking: self paced Stanford class on computer networking Cryptography: practice and study of techniques for secure communications Regions and Availability Zones: Concepts relating to how AWS places and isolates its services Everything else Travel Ban: executive order issued by Donald Trump that limits immigration from a number of Muslim-majority countries Digital Rights Ireland: dedicated to defending Civil, Human and Legal rights in a digital age Tulip Mania Prince: American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker Contact Colm's Twitter: @colmmacc

Simon walks you through some great new things you can use on your projects today! Shownotes: Amazon Lightsail Announces 50% Price Drop and Two New Instance Sizes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-lightsail-announces-50-percent-price-drop-and-two-new-instance-sizes/ Introducing Amazon EC2 T3 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/introducing-amazon-ec2-t3-instances/ Amazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-ec2-m5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/ Amazon EC2 C5d Instances are Now Available in Tokyo and Sydney Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-ec2-c5d-instances-are-now-available-in-tokyo-and-sydney-regions/ AWS Batch Now Supports z1d, r5d, r5, m5d, c5d, p3, and x1e Instance Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-batch-now-supports-z1d-r5d-r5-m5d-c5d-p3-and-x1e-instance-types/ Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for in-place version upgrades for Redis Cluster | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-elasticache-for-redis-adds-support-for-in-place-version-upgrades-for-redis-cluster/ Introducing AWS CloudFormation Macros | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/introducing-aws-cloudformation-macros/ AWS CloudFormation Now Supports AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-cloudformation-now-supports-aws-privatelink-/ New Amazon EKS-optimized AMI and CloudFormation Template for Worker Node Provisioning | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/new-amazon-eks-optimized-ami-and-cloudformation-template-for-worker-node-provisioning/ Amazon EKS Supports GPU-Enabled EC2 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-eks-supports-gpu-enabled-ec2-instances/ Introducing Amazon EKS Platform Version 2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/introducing-amazon-eks-platform-version-2/ Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ecs-service-discovery-now-available-in-frankfurt--tokyo--/ AWS Fargate Now Supports Time and Event-Based Task Scheduling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-fargate-now-supports-time-and-event-based-task-scheduling/ Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with improved performance when retrieving results | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-athena-streaming-jdbc-driver/ AWS Key Management Service Increases API Requests Per Second Limits | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-key-management-service-increases-api-requests-per-second-limits/ Use Amazon DynamoDB Local More Easily with the New Docker Image | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/use-amazon-dynamodb-local-more-easily-with-the-new-docker-image/ Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-available-in-additional-regions/ Performance Insights Supports Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/performance-insights-supports-amazon-relational-database-service-for-mysql/ AWS Glue now supports data encryption at rest | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-glue-now-supports-data-encryption-at-rest/ Deploy an AWS Cloud environment for VFX workstations with new Quick Start | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/deploy-an-aws-cloud-environment-for-vfx-workstations-with-new-quick-start/ New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: TensorFlow 1.10, PyTorch with CUDA 9.2, and More | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/new-in-dl-amis-tensorflow1-10-pytorch-with-cuda9-2/ Amazon Rekognition announces the ability to more easily manage face collections | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-rekognition-announces-the-ability-to-more-easily-manage-face-collections/ Amazon SageMaker Supports TensorFlow 1.10 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-sagemaker-supports-tensorflow-1-10/ Amazon SageMaker Supports A New Custom Header For The InvokeEndPoint API Action | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-sagemaker-supports-a-new-custom-header-for-the-invokeendp/ Amazon FreeRTOS Over-the-Air Update Feature Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-freertos-over-the-air-update-feature-generally-available/ Announcing New Custom Analysis Features for AWS IoT Analytics with Custom Container Execution for Continuous Analysis | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/announcing-new-features-for-aws-iot-analytics-including-custom-container-execution/ AWS IoT Device Management Now Allows Thing Groups Indexing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-iot-device-management-now-allows-thing-groups-indexing/ AWS IoT Core Adds New Endpoints Serving Amazon Trust Services (ATS) Signed Certificates to Help Customers Avoid Symantec Distrust Issues | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-iot-core-adds-new-endpoints-serving-amazon-trust-services-signed-certificates-to-help-customers-avoid-symantec-distrust-issues/ AWS WAF Launches New Comprehensive Logging Functionality | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-waf-launches-new-comprehensive-logging-functionality/ AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-direct-connect-now-in-dubai/ New AWS Direct Connect locations in Paris and Taipei | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/new-aws-direct-connect-locations-paris-taipei/ Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Available in Five Additional AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-route-53-auto-naming-available-in-five-additional-AWS-regions/ Amazon S3 Announces New Features for S3 Select | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-s3-announces-new-features-for-s3-select/ AWS Systems Manager Automation Now Supports Calling AWS APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/AWS_Systems_Manager_Automation_Now_Supports_Invoking_AWS_APIs/ AWS Serverless Application Repository Adds Sorting Functionality and Improves Search Experience | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-serverless-application-repository-adds-sorting-and-improves-search/ AWS SAM CLI Now Supports Debugging Go Functions and Testing with 50+ Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-sam-cli-supports-debugging-go-functions-and-testing-for-additional-events/ AWS X-Ray Adds Support for Controlling Sampling Rate from the X-Ray Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-xray-adds-support-for-controlling-sampling-rate-from-the-xray-console/ Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS X-Ray | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-api-gateway-adds-support-for-aws-x-ray/ AWS CodeBuild Adds Ability to Create Build Projects with Multiple Input Sources and Output Artifacts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-codebuild-adds-ability-to-create-build-projects-with-multiple-input-sources-and-output-artifacts/ Announcing the AWS Amplify CLI Toolchain | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/annoucing-aws-amplify-cli-toolchain/ New Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics capability for time-series analytics | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/new-amazon-kinesis-data-analytics-capability-for-time-series-analytics/ Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Producer SDK Is Now Available For Microsoft Windows | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-windows/ AWS Config Announces New Managed Rules | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-config-announces-new-managed-rules/ Deploy Three New Amazon Connect Integrations from CallMiner, Aspect Software, and Acqueon | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/deploy-three-new-amazon-connect-integrations-from-callminer-aspect-acqueon/

Simon takes you through a great list of new services, functions and capabilities - hopefully something for everyone! Shownotes: AWS Global Infrastructure: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ Amazon EFS Now Supports Provisioned Throughput | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-efs-now-supports-provisioned-throughput/ Amazon EFS Achieves PCI DSS Compliance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-efs-achieves-pci-dss-compliance/ Amazon EC2 P3 instances, one of the most powerful GPU instances in the cloud, now available in 6 additional regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-p3-instances-now-available-in-6-additional-regions/ New SBE1 Amazon EC2 instances for AWS Snowball Edge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/new-sbe1-instances-for-snowball-edge/ Introducing Amazon EC2 R5 Instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-ec2-r5-instances/ Introducing Amazon EC2 z1d Instances with a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-ec2-z1d-instances/ Amazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-m5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/ Amazon EC2 C5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-c5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/ Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Adds New Features and Performance Improvements | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-f1-instances-adds-new-features-and-performance-improvements/ Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Supports Two New Allocation Strategies: On-Demand Prioritized List, and Lowest Price | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-fleet-now-supports-two-new-allocation-strategies/ Amazon EC2 Nitro System Based Instances Now Support Faster Amazon EBS-Optimized Instance Performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-nitro-system-based-instances-now-support-faster-ebs-optimized-performance/ Access Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations for your Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch Reservations using AWS Cost Explorer | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/reserved-instance-purchase-recommendations-redshift-elasticache-elasticsearch-reservations/ AWS Systems Manager Run Command Now Streams Output to Amazon CloudWatch Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-run-command-streams-output-to-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ AWS Systems Manager Automation Conditional Branching for Step Failure | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-automation-conditional-branching-for-step-failure/ Amazon EKS AMI Build Scripts Available on GitHub | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-eks-ami-build-scripts-available-on-github/ Add Scaling to Services You Build on AWS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/add-scaling-to-services-you-build-on-aws/ Announcing Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Preview) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/announcing-bring-your-own-ip-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-preview/ Introducing Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS Snapshots | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-for-ebs-snapshots/ Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3-announces-increased-request-rate-performance/ Amazon CloudFront announces four new Edge locations, including its first location in Cape Town, South Africa | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/cloudfront-capetown-launch/ Amazon CloudFront announces nine new Edge locations globally across major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/cloudfront-nine-edge-locations-july2018/ Amazon Route 53 Expands Into Africa With New Edge Locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-route-53-expands-into-africa-with-new-edge-locations-in-cape-town-and-johannesburg/ Amazon API Gateway Increases API Limits | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-api-gateway-increases-api-limits/ Amazon API Gateway Usage Plans Now Support Method Level Throttling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/api-gateway-usage-plans-support-method-level-throttling/ Amazon API Gateway Supports Request/Response Parameters and Status Overrides | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/api-gateway-supports-request-response-parameters-and-status-overrides/ Automate Amazon GuardDuty Provisioning Over Multiple Accounts and Regions with AWS CloudFormation StackSets Integration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/automate-amazon-guardduty-provisioning-over-multiple-accounts-and-regions-with-aws-cloudformation-stacksets-integration/ AWS Secrets Manager Now Supports AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-secrets-manager-now-supports-aws-privatelink/ AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, and adds labeling for easy configuration updates | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-parameter-store-integrates-with-aws-secrets-manager-and-adds-parameter-version-labeling/ Delegate Permission Management to Employees by Using IAM Permissions Boundaries | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/delegate-permission-management-to-employees-by-using-IAM-permissions-boundaries/ AWS Lambda Supports .NET Core 2.1 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/lambda-supports-dotnetcore-twopointone/ AWS Glue now provides additional ETL job metrics | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-now-provides-additional-ETL-job-metrics/ AWS Glue now supports reading from Amazon DynamoDB tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-now-supports-reading-from-amazon-dynamodb-tables/ The Data Lake Solution Now Transforms and Analyzes Data | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/the-data-lake-solution-now-transforms-and-analyzes-data/ AWS Marketplace Helps Customers Quickly Map Products in Their Existing Software Inventory | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-marketplace-helps-customers-quickly-map-products-in-their-existing-software-inventory/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Resource Tags for More Efficient Access Control | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-resource-tags-for-more-efficient-access-control/ Amazon SageMaker Supports High Throughput Batch Transform Jobs for Non-Real Time Inferencing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-high-throughput-batch-transform-jobs-for-non-real-time-inferencing/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Pipe Input Mode for Built-In TensorFlow Containers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-pipe-input-mode-for-built-in-tensorflow-containers/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports k-Nearest-Neighbor and Object Detection Algorithms | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-knn-and-object-detection-algorithms/ Amazon SageMaker Announces Several Enhancements to Built-in Algorithms and Frameworks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-announces-enhancements-for-built-in-algorithms-and-frameworks/ AWS Service Catalog Now Supports Service Catalog Resources in CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-service-catalog-now-supports-service-catalog-resources-in-cloudformation/ Kinesis Video Streams now supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to playback live and recorded video from devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/kinesis-video-adds-hls-support/ Amazon Polly Now Lets You Define the Maximum Amount of Time for Speech to Complete | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-polly-now-lets-you-define-the-maximum-amount-of-time-for-speech-to-complete/ Amazon Polly Now Supports Input Character Limit of 100K and Stores Output Files in S3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-polly-now-supports-input-character-limit-of-100k-and-stores-output-files-in-s3/ Amazon Polly Adds Bilingual Indian English/Hindi Language Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-polly-adds-bilingual-indian-english-hindi-language-support/ Amazon Translate Adds Six New Languages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-translate-adds-six-new-languages/ Amazon Transcribe Now Lets You Designate Your Own Amazon S3 Buckets to Store Transcription Outputs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-transcribe-now-lets-you-designate-your-own-amazon-s3-buckets-to-store-transcription-outputs/ Amazon Comprehend Now Supports Syntax Analysis | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-comprehend-now-supports-syntax-analysis/ Amazon Rekognition Increases Accuracy of Text-in-Image | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-rekognition-increases-accuracy-of-text-in-image/ AWS AppSync releases enhanced no-code GraphQL API builder, HTTP resolvers, and new built-in scalar types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-appsync-releases-enhanced-capabilities-nocode-graphql/ Introducing the Serverless Bot Framework | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-the-serverless-bot-framework/ AWS SAM CLI Launches New Commands to Simplify Testing and Debugging Serverless Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-sam-cli-launches-new-commands/ AWS Device Farm Adds Integration with AWS CodePipeline | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-device-farm-adds-integration-with-aws-codepipeline/ Amazon Aurora Serverless Brings Serverless Computing to Relational Databases | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-aurora-serverless-brings-serverless-computing-to-relational-databases/ Amazon RDS now Provides Best Practice Recommendations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-rds-recommendations/ Copying Amazon RDS Encrypted Snapshots across Regions now Completes Faster with Less Storage | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/rds-crossregion-incremental-encrypted-snapshots/ Amazon RDS Performance Insights on RDS for PostgreSQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/rds-performance-insights-on-rds-for-postgresql/ Performance Insights is Available for Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/performance-insights-is-available-for-amazon-aurora-with-mysql-compatibility/ Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK Enhancements | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator--dax--sdk-enhancements/ Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for Encryption at Rest | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator--dax--adds-support-for-encryption-at/ Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Now Available in Three Additional Asia Pacific Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-regional-expansion/ Amazon Redshift announces free upgrade for DC1 Reserved Instances to DC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon_redshift_announces_free_upgrade_for_dc1_reserved_instances_to_dc2/ Amazon Redshift now provides customized best practice recommendations with Advisor | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-now-provides-customized-best-practice-recommendations-with-advisor/ Amazon Redshift now supports current and trailing tracks for release updates | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-now-supports-current-and-trailing-tracks-for-release-updates/ Amazon Redshift announces new metrics to help optimize cluster performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-announces-new-metrics-to-help-optimize-cluster-performance/ Amazon Redshift announces support for lateral column alias reference | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-redshift-announces-support-for-lateral-column-alias-reference/ Amazon Redshift automatically enables short query acceleration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-redshift-automatically-enables-short-query-acceleration/ Amazon Redshift announces support for nested data with Redshift Spectrum | 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Josh and Kurt talk about the Amazon Route 53 incident and what it really means for the modern infrastructure. Complaining nobody is using DNSSEC or securing BGP aren't the right conversations to be having. Reality must be considered in any honest conversation about these topics.

After reading articles by Doug Madory, and by Louis Poinsignon, here are some notes I observed and learned.[What happened in this incident?]Hackers somehow made some BGP routers of “eNet” to falsely announce that they own the following 5 IP subnets, which are indeed NOT belonging to “eNet”. The true owner is Amazon. To be more specific, they are for Amazon’s Route 53 DNS name resolution services.205.251.192.0/24205.251.193.0/24205.251.195.0/24205.251.197.0/24205.251.199.0/24The registered domain server for domain “MyEtherWallet.com” is hosted on Amazon Route 53.Hackers also somehow embedded malicious DNS server (or servers, I really don’t know) also inside service network of “eNet”.After that, any affected clients’ DNS query for domain “MyEtherWallet.com” would hit hacker’s malicious DNS server. Of course, malicious DNS server would respond with false IP addresses, and those false IP addresses are indeed hacker’s own web servers.At this moment, clients thought they were accessing “MyEtherWallet.com”, and they indeed were accessing hacker’s web servers.[Which clients are affected?]I believe all clients inside “eNet”, and any clients in other Internet Service Providers who trusted “eNet”’s false announcements, would be affected as well.[Network “eNet” should have been compromised for enough time]To falsely announce BGP routes, we must either change configurations of hardware routers, or BGP route servers (maybe on Linux).For me, to configure BGP correctly on a couple of Cisco routers is already a heavy task. It’s not easy. To modify existing BGP configurations to inject false announcements without getting noticed, or without breaking anything at the same time, is even a more difficult task for me.I really don’t think it would be easier to achieve the same results by working on BGP route servers.Moreover, hackers even embedded DNS server inside “eNet”’s service network. I really believe hackers had already controlled most of the hardware routers and some hardware servers, maybe for quite a long time, long enough for them to do all such modifications.I really think some hackers involved in this incident are quite skillful at network hardware maybe Cisco’s or Juniper’s. They could also be CCIEs.[BGP Injection, instead of BGP Leak]So, the last thing I want to say is, I would rather call this incident as BGP injection, instead of BGP leak.Why?If I hear someone says BGP Leaks, I would feel maybe some unknown bugs inside BGP protocol or some configuration errors caused this incident. As far as I understand now, I really think the false BGP announcements are “intentional”. I would rather say it is BGP Injection.Although no strong security mechanisms are defined in BGP protocol itself, in this case BGP protocol is not to blame.Flowers of East Asian sage, around Zhoumei Xian Zai Gang Park (洲美蜆仔港公園)Taipei City, Taiwan.One more thing…Amazon is also not to blame for this incident. Clients’ DNS query packets never reached Amazon at all.I suggest Internet Service Providers should pay more attention to the security of their service infrastructure. Don’t become another “eNet”.I also suggest Internet Service Providers should review their incoming BGP policy. In this case, some ISPs other than “eNet” were also affected because their BGP routers “trusted” “eNet”’s false announcements. They affected their own customers and forwarded that false information on at the same time.

我在ITHOME得知這個事件。綜合Doug Madory，還有Louis Poinsignon的這兩篇文章，我來整理發生了什麼事。「中島公園」的秋意濃日本札幌市【駭客的目標】駭客想要欺騙MyEtherWallet.com網站的用戶，改連接到駭客另外準備好的網站。我用瀏覽器作為例子，當不知情的用戶，瀏覽器網址列輸入「MyEtherWallet.com」打開的時候，會以為連接到官方的伺服器。實際上，連線到駭客自己準備好了的伺服器。另外一個背景資訊是，MyEtherWallet.com網站的服務，是架設在Amazon AWS雲運算服務上面的。他們DNS的地址解析，也是直接租用Amazon AWS上面的 Route 53服務。【什麼是Amazon Route 53?】對於一般的用戶來說，Amazon Route 53就是DNS解析服務。但是對於網站業者來說，Route 53是一個智慧型的DNS解析服務。網站伺服器通常都分布在全世界各地。Route 53能夠動態地針對目前各網站伺服器的負載、是否在線的狀態，或是所指定好的規則，針對不同的用戶端DNS請求，回應不同的IP地址。簡單的說，就是Amazon所提供的，全世界都可連接的負載均衡(Global Server Load-balancing)服務。補充一個背景資訊，提供Amazon Route 53服務的伺服器本身的主要公開IP地址，是包含在下面這五個公開地址段裡面。205.251.192.0/24205.251.193.0/24205.251.195.0/24205.251.197.0/24205.251.199.0/24換句話說，任何用戶的電腦，在解析MyEtherWallet.com的時候，都會向這五個地址段裡面的DNS伺服器，發出DNS解析請求封包。【BGP協議快速回顧】BGP協議所執行的工作，就是網路業者內部、或不同業者和業者之間的網路硬體，來交談和探知不同的IP地址段(IP Prefix)，分別由那些網路業者所擁有。這個IP地址段誰擁有的資訊，可以讓網路業者的網路硬體，知道不同目的地地址的封包，應該分別往哪個下一站送出。簡單地說，例如網路業者A宣稱擁有IP地址段X，所有參與BGP協議的網路硬體，都會將封包往趨近業者A的方向送出。因此，如果這個資訊是錯誤的，封包就會被往錯誤的方向送出。【駭客做了什麼】駭客想辦法讓美國eNet這家網際網路業者，透過BGP協議，偽冒Amazon的身分，宣稱擁有前面提到的Amazon Route 53的五個IP地址段的路由資訊。換句話說，受害用戶的解析DNS請求，會改成往eNet這家業者的網路送出。我的判斷，eNet業者網路裡面，一定也存在駭客準備好的DNS解析伺服器，IP地址剛好就設定成前面提到的五個地址段內的地址，因此，這些伺服器，可以攔截到受害用戶的DNS解析請求。當然，駭客伺服器回應的解析結果，就是駭客自己準備好了的網站伺服器IP地址。目前已知，這些駭客準備好的網站伺服器，都不在美國國內。另外，只要相信了eNet所宣稱資訊的其他業者，他們的網路用戶，只要打開MyEtherWallet.com網址，受害的結果都是一樣的。因此，駭客的確達到他們設計的目標。One more thing…雖然還沒有足夠證據明確指控，我幾乎可以確定，駭客已經差不多控制了 eNet這個網路業者。不只是能夠產生偽冒的BGP資訊，同時還在eNet網路內部植入了有問題的DNS名稱解析服務。因此，選擇足夠安全的網際網路業者，其實遠比想像中重要。另外，MyEtherWallet.com雖然租用了Amazon.com的各種服務，整個駭客的過程，其實都跟Amazon無關。封包根本就還沒有進入Amazon，就被往駭客的DNS服務送過去。

Many customers want a disaster recovery environment, and they want to use this environment daily and know that it's in sync with and can support a production workload. This leads them to an active-active architecture. In other cases, users like Netflix and Lyft are distributed over large geographies. In these cases, multi-region active-active deployments are not optional. Designing these architectures is more complicated than it appears, as data being generated at one end needs to be synced with data at the other end. There are also consistency issues to consider. One needs to make trade-off decisions on cost, performance, and consistency. Further complicating matters is the variety of data stores used in the architecture results in a variety replication methods. In this session, we explore how to design an active-active multi-region architecture using AWS services, including Amazon Route 53, Amazon RDS multi-region replication, AWS DMS, and Amazon DynamoDB Streams. We discuss the challenges, trade-offs, and solutions.

In this mid-level architecture session, we cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS's highly available DNS service. Learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS. Learn also how to configure DNS failover using health checks, how and when to use private DNS within your VPC, and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2's DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network. We also walk through how to use Traffic Flow to manager traffic to your applications' globally distributed endpoints to optimize for constraints such as endpoint load, the health of your resources, geographic restrictions, and internet latency.

Running WordPress site in the cloud across multiple instances can create a never-ending list of challenges in order to keep your site running optimally. Administration of unpredictable code updates or theme changes can create a never-ending litany of manual or programmatic updates to every single Amazon EC2 instance hosting WordPress. Come join us in this deep dive session, where we detail how you can leverage EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon CloudFront. We explore how to take advantage of Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as shared storage to deliver a highly available and massively scalable infrastructure that can dynamically scale up or down to automatically adjust to unpredictable traffic demands. We also share best practices, provide performance tuning hints, and describe cost optimization techniques throughout.

This session provides an overview of IPv6 and covers key aspects of AWS support for the protocol. We discuss Amazon S3 and S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF, Amazon Route 53, AWS IoT, Elastic Load Balancing, and the virtual private cloud (VPC) environment of Amazon EC2. The presentation assumes solid knowledge of IPv4 and these AWS services.

Simon takes a walk through LOTS of the updates that have been happening for AWS Customers. Shownotes New – Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-now-allows-customers-to-expand-their-existing-vpcs/ New – Descriptions for Security Group Rules - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-descriptions-for-security-group-rules/ New – Stop & Resume Workloads on EC2 Spot Instances - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-stop-resume-workloads-on-ec2-spot-instances/ Amazon VPC NAT Gateways now support Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring and Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-vpc-nat-gateways-now-support-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring-and-resource-tagging/ AWS VPN Update – Custom PSK, Inside Tunnel IP, and SDK update | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/aws-vpn-update-custom-psk-inside-tunnel-ip-and-sdk-update/ Elasticsearch 5.5 now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/elasticsearch-5_5-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Announces Support For Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-route-53-traffic-flow-announces-support-for-geoproximity-routing-with-traffic-biasing/ New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/ Now Available – EC2 Instances with 4 TB of Memory - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ec2-instances-with-4-tb-of-memory/ Use OpenCL Development Environment with Amazon EC2 F1 FPGA Instances to accelerate your C/C++ applications, also F1 instances are now available in US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/use-opencl-development-environment-with-amazon-ec2-f1-fpga-instances-to-accelerate-your-c-c-plus-plus-applications-also-f1-instances-are-now-available-in-us-west-oregon-and-eu-ireland-regions/ Announcing: React Native Starter Project with One-Click AWS Deployment and Serverless Infrastructure - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/announcing-react-native-starter-project-with-one-click-aws-deployment-and-serverless-infrastructure/ Announcing enhancements to the Amazon Lex test console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/announcing-enhancements-to-the-amazon-lex-test-console/ Announcing support for synonyms and slot value validation on Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/announcing-support-for-synonyms-and-slot-value-validation-on-amazon-lex/ Now Specify Request Level Attributes with Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/now-specify-request-level-attributes-with-amazon-lex/ New Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Types for Phone numbers, Speed, and Weight, Available in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-amazon-lex-built-in-slot-types-for-phone-numbers-speed-and-weight-available-in-preview/ Export your Amazon Lex chatbot to the Alexa Skills Kit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/export-your-amazon-lex-chatbot-to-the-alexa-skills-kit/ Apple Core ML and Keras Support Now Available for Apache MXNet - AWS AI Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/apple-core-ml-and-keras-support-now-available-for-apache-mxnet/ AWS CodePipeline now provides notifications on pipeline, stage, and action status changes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-codepipeline-now-provides-notifications-on-pipeline-stage-and-action-status-changes/ Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-pinpoint-introduces-two-way-text-messaging/ Amazon Cognito Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools and Enrich Pinpoint Campaigns | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-cognito-integrates-with-amazon-pinpoint-to-add-analytics-for-user-pools-and-enrich-pinpoint-campaigns/ Amazon Redshift now supports late-binding views referencing Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum external tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-redshift-now-supports-late-binding-views-referencing-amazon-redshift-and-redshift-spectrum-external-tables/ Custom Artifacts on AWS Device Farm - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/custom-artifacts-on-aws-device-farm/ Amazon Aurora Can Migrate Encrypted Databases from Amazon RDS for MySQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-aurora-can-migrate-encrypted-databases-from-amazon-rds-for-mysql/ Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Raspbian OS and Raspberry Pi Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-raspbian-os-and-raspberry-pi-support/ AWS Greengrass is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-greengrass-is-available-in-asia-pacific-tokyo-region/ AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudtrail-enables-option-to-add-all-amazon-s3-buckets-to-data-events/ Amazon Kinesis Analytics improves application performance for high volume data streams | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-kinesis-analytics-improves-application-performance-for-high-volume-data-streams/ New Kinesis Analytics stream processing functions for time series analytics, real time sessionization, and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-kinesis-analytics-stream-processing-functions-for-time-series-analytics-real-time-sessionization-and-more/ AWS CloudFormation provides Stack Termination Protection | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudformation-provides-stack-termination-protection/

Join host Dr Pete in the latest episode of AWS TechChat, as he shares the information and updates around VMware on AWS, improvements to signing into your AWS Account, Amazon Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon SES, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Lex, New Quick Starts on deploying IBM MQ on AWS and deploying NGNIX Plus on the AWS Cloud.

This episode takes you through a collection of handy updates to existing services, and a new Security whitepaper. Shownotes: AWS CodePipeline: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-codepipeline-adds-ability-to-view-history-of-pipeline/ AWS Budgets: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/new-filtering-options-and-linked-account-access-in-aws-budgets/ AWS Service Catalog: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-service-catalog-tagoptions-library-creates-a-better-way-to-govern-your-aws-footprint/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-route-53-announces-support-for-multivalue-answers-in-response-to-dns-queries/ AWS Direct Connect: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-direct-connect-now-provides-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring/ More .NET Core Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/announcing-net-core-support-for-aws-codebuild-and-aws-codestar/ AWS Price Reduction: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-reduction-sql-server-standard-edition-on-ec2/ AWS CloudFormation Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/07/aws-cloudformation-coverage-updates-for-amazon-api-gateway--amazon-ec2--amazon-emr--amazon-dynamodb-and-more/ AWS WAF Rate-Based Rules: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/protect-web-sites-services-using-rate-based-rules-for-aws-waf/ Using AWS WAF To Mitigate OWASP Top 10 : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prepare-for-the-owasp-top-10-web-application-vulnerabilities-using-aws-waf-and-our-new-white-paper/ Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-api-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards/

In the latest episode of AWS TechChat, Dr.Pete welcomes Olivier Klein as the new co-host. The hosts kick off the episode with, information and updates around Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), AWS Config, Amazon Kinesis, New Quick Start, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon Athena, Amazon Route 53 and wrap it up with an Amazon Connect demo.

At Dynatrace, we challenged ourselves to build a virtual team member to help operations teams run large-scale cloud infrastructures. Think J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man, but for operations. We built our cloud infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, and Auto Scaling groups for real-time scalability, Amazon Route 53 for instant customer access, Amazon Echo and Alexa for voice interaction, AWS Lambda for fast prototyping of the human-interaction layer, and Amazon DynamoDB for handling complex conversations. In this session, we will also discuss how we extend the service by using Amazon Machine Learning and AWS IoT to more naturally integrate our virtual assistant into the real world.

Whether you’re running a simple website, a mobile app, or a suite of business applications, DNS is a fundamental part of any architecture in the cloud. In this mid-level architecture session, we’ll cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS’s highly-available DNS service. You’ll learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS; how to configure DNS failover using health checks; how and when to use private DNS within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC); and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2’s DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network.

When D2L first moved to the cloud, we were concerned about being locked-in to one cloud provider. We were compelled to explore the opportunities of the cloud, so we overcame our perceived risk, and turned it into an opportunity by self-rolling tools and avoiding AWS native services. In this session, you learn how D2L tried to bypass the lock but eventually embraced it and opened the cage. Avoiding AWS native tooling and pure lifts of enterprise architecture caused a drastic inflation of costs. Learn how we shifted away from a self-rolled 'lift' into an efficient and effective 'shift' while prioritizing cost, client safety, AND speed of development. Learn from D2L's successes and missteps, and convert your own enterprise systems into the cloud both through native cloud births and enterprise conversions. This session discusses D2L’s use of Amazon EC2 (with a guest appearance by Reserved Instances), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon ElastiCache.

At re:Invent 2016, we are launching AWS Shield, a managed DDoS protection service. With AWS Shield, you can help protect Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route 53 resources from DDoS attacks. In addition to introducing AWS Shield, this session presents some of the things we do behind the scenes to detect and mitigate Layer 3/4 network attacks and highlights ways you can use this new service to protect against Layer 7 application attacks.

As companies grow and expand their global footprint, it becomes increasingly critical to make systems highly available while also improving responsiveness to end-users. Companies are choosing to place their applications closer to end-users to improve performance, which introduces the complications of how to route end-user traffic to the most appropriate endpoints and how to most efficiently route traffic within internal systems.

Ian Ward, Platform and Security Engineer from Mapbox, discusses how the AWS global edge network helps improve the availability and performance of delivering hundreds of billions of map tiles to hundreds of millions of end users across the globe on mobile devices, in cars, and over the web. In this session, Ian shares insights on how Mapbox manages day-to-day edge operations using Amazon CloudFront logs, dashboards, and ad hoc queries, and how Mapbox has configured CloudFront with dozens of behaviors and origins to customize their content delivery. Mapbox has grown from using a single AWS region to using several regions, so Ian also explains how his team uses Amazon Route 53 and open source tools to simplify complexity around regional failover, and how Mapbox leverages AWS WAF to deter attacks and abuse.

Recently, AWS announced support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for several AWS services, providing significant capabilities for applications and systems that need IPv6. This session provides an overview of IPv6 and covers key aspects of AWS support for the protocol. We discuss Amazon S3 and S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF, Amazon Route 53, AWS IoT, Elastic Load Balancing, and the virtual private cloud (VPC) environment of Amazon EC2. The presentation assumes solid knowledge of IPv4 and those AWS services.

Recorded live in Las Vegas! Simon covers some AWS updates prior to a BIG week at AWS Re:Invent. Including ALB, S3, Glacier, IoT, Aurora and more! Shownotes: ALB/ELB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/application-performance-percentiles-and-request-tracing-for-aws-application-load-balancer/ Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-aurora-for-dev-test-workloads-with-new-t2-medium-db-instance-class/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-route-53-announces-self-service-tool-to-associate-amazon-vpcs-and-private-hosted-zones-that-are-created-with-different-aws-accounts/ SQL Server Enterprise Edition: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/sql-server-enterprise-is-now-available-with-amazon-ec2-in-expanded-regions-and-for-more-instance-types/ AWS Storage Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glacier-price-reductions/