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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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AWS IoT Day Recap: Eight New Powerful Features
As part of AWS re:Invent pre-event announcements, Amazon shared eight new features available within their Internet of Things platform. These new features include: secure tunneling, configurable endpoints, custom domains for configurable endpoints, enhanced custom authorizers, fleet provisioning, Alexa Voice Services (AVS) integration and AWS IoT Greengrass enhancements.
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How Monzo Isolated Their Microservices Using Kubernetes Network Policies
Monzo's security team shared their story about implementing Kubernetes network policies using Calico APIs to provide isolation among 1500 microservices.
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Amazon Announces AWS Firelens – a New Way to Manage Container Logs
Recently, Amazon announced a new log aggregation service called AWS Firelens. The service unifies log filtering and routing across all AWS container services including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
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AWS Announced Braket, a Fully-Managed Quantum Computing Service
Now in preview, Amazon Braket is a new service AWS will be offering to make it possible to build, test, and run quantum algorithms. Braket includes a development environment, support for testing quantum algorithms on simulated quantum computers, and the ability to run them on existing quantum processors.
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Unlocking Market Data, Amazon Introduces AWS Data Exchange
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new market data publisher/subscriber service called AWS Data Exchange. This service is an add-on to the existing AWS Marketplace and contains more than 1000 licensable data products from more than 80 data providers. These data feeds include both free and paid offerings that span industries such as financial services, health care, weather and mapping.
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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachCloud, a Fully-Managed Distributed SQL Database in Beta
Recently, Cockroach Labs announced the beta program of CockroachCloud, a fully-managed service for its CockroachDB distributed SQL database. With CockroachCloud, customers can provision, scale and manage a complex, highly available distributed SQL database within minutes.
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Amazon Releases the Anomaly Detection Feature for CloudWatch to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the Anomaly Detection feature in Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and management service providing customers data and insights from AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
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Reducing the Friction in Multi-Cloud Deployments, Pulumi Launches 1.0 Platform
In a recent blog post, Pulumi has announced the release of Pulumi 1.0, an Infrastructure as Code platform that allows organizations to reduce the challenges associated with managing multiple cloud deployments. Their solution includes using consistent tooling based on popular programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Go.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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Change to AWS Lambda Networking Reduces Cold Start Time for VPC Customers
AWS announced changes to how Lambda functions connect to resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This change — using pre-created network interfaces instead of network interfaces created for each function execution environment — cuts out a major factor in "cold starts" for serverless functions.
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Addressing Multi-Cloud Automation, HashiCorp Releases Terraform Cloud
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.