Category Archives: AWS

Enjoy the latest updates from AWS!

AWS Lambda Supports Node.js v8.10

Amazon EBS Adds Support for Tagging EBS Snapshots Upon Creation and Resource-Level Permissions

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source

Amazon S3 Select Is Now Generally Available

Announcing S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, a New Amazon S3 Storage Class

Amazon EFS Now Supports Encryption of Data in Transit

AWS Storage Gateway VTL (Tape Gateway) is available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

AWS Snowball Edge Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

Amazon API Gateway Supports Resource Policies for APIs

Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Route 53 Logs to Vended Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math

New Multi-Account, Multi-Region Data Aggregation Capability in AWS Config

Introducing AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority

Introducing AWS Firewall Manager

Introducing AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon SageMaker has Open Sourced TensorFlow 1.6 and Apache MXNet 1.1 Docker Containers with Support for Local Mode, and More Instance Types Across All Modules

Amazon Rekognition Improves Accuracy of Real-Time Face Recognition and Verification

Amazon Translate is Now Generally Available

Amazon Transcribe is Now Generally Available

Apache MXNet Model Server Adds Container Support for Scalable Model Serving

AWS Glue is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS region

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Simplifies User Authentication and Access for Kibana with Amazon Cognito

Amazon WorkDocs Drive Is Now Available for Microsoft Windows Users

AWS Greengrass ML Inference – Now Generally Available

The latest certification from AWS is here and it represents your foundation for all other AWS certifications. My latest podcast gives you all the details! 

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I got this podcast idea from my friend Chris Riling at Cisco Systems. He was curious about AWS Certifications! Enjoy!

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• Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations via the AWS Cost Explorer API
• Announcing Amazon EC2 AMIs with .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Docker, Ruby 2.5, and EC2 Instance Types in Additional Regions
• Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB Minor Versions 10.0.34, 10.1.31 and 10.2.12
• AWS CodePipeline Supports Push Events from Amazon S3
• Simplify User Logon Names in AWS Managed Microsoft AD
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics can Now Detect Hotspots in Real-Time Data Streams
• Discover savings opportunities by using the new Reserved Instance (“RI”) Coverage Reports in AWS Cost Explorer
• Introducing the AWS IoT Framework for Automotive Grade Linux
• Introducing the Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics Solution

A service of AWS that fails to get a ton of attention is Service Catalog. This service seeks to enable organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. It permits organizations to centrally manage their commonly deployed IT services and can help maintain appropriate governance and compliance.

The idea is your end users (IT staff) can quickly deploy the IT services they need that you have approved and that they will do so following the constraints that you have set.

Benefits include:

• Standardization – you can place restrictions on the types and configurations of AWS resources launched
• Self-service discovery and launch – permit users to browse listings of services and applications available to them, and to launch them as provisioned products
• Fine-grained access control – IAM users and groups form the basis of permissions for the resources listed in the catalogs
• Extensibility and version control – products can be added to various portfolios from a single copy, and versioning updates all copies

AWS Service Catalog terminology:

• Products – an IT service that you want to make available for deployment on AWS. It can consist of AWS resources such as EC2 instances, storage volumes, databases, monitoring configurations, and networking components. You create products through the import of CloudFormation templates.
• Portfolios – a collection of products along with configuration information.
• Versioning – Service Catalog allows you to manage multiple versions of products in your catalog.
• Constraints – Template and Launch constraints allow you to carefully control deployments.
• Stack – as mentioned above, the building block for the Products are CloudFormation stacks.

Here are the exciting developments at AWS for the week of 3/20/2018!

• Amazon EC2 C5 Instances are now Available in Additional Regions
• Amazon EC2 M5 Instances are now Available in Additional Regions
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Available in US West (Northern California) Region
• Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Minor Versions 5.5.59, 5.6.39 and 5.7.21
• CloudFront now Supports ECDSA Certificates for HTTPS Connections to Origins
• Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Releases API for Managing Health Status of Service Instances
• AWS CloudTrail Log Search Using Amazon Athena
• Amazon Inspector Now Supports Amazon Linux 2
• Elasticsearch 6.2 is now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Amazon SNS Introduces New Message Filtering Operators
• Manage your Amazon RDS, Redshift, and ElastiCache Reservations via the Reserved Instance (RI) Coverage Report in AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Checks for Ten New Service Limits, AuroraDB Availability, and EC2 Windows
• AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) Supports Additional Amazon API Gateway Features

You might also be interested in the upcoming AWS Tech Talk announcements!

• AWS Online Tech Talks