Every year 10s of thousands of AWS customers and prospect customers desend on Las Vegas. For those of us to don’t make the trek Amazon live streams the the daily Key Notes. Those are where AWS announces it’s newest products and changes. Each year I build a list before November as AWS has a tendency to leak smaller items. This year my wish list for AWS was as follows:
- Mixing sizes and types in ASG - Announced
- DNS fixed for Collapsed AD - Announced
- Cross regional replication for Aurora PostGreSQL - Regions expanded still waiting on the cross regions to be announced
- Lambda and more Lambda integrations - Announced
- AWS Config adding machine learning based on account.
- Account level S3 bucket control - Partly Announced
- 40Gbps Direct Connect
There a lot of announcements, far too many to recap if interested in them all go read the AWS News Blog. I do like to find two announcements which shock me and two things that seem interesting.
The two items which shocked me were:
- DynamoDB added transactional support (ACID). This means someone could build an e-commerce or banking application which requires consistent transactions on dynamoDB.
- AWS Outposts and AWS RDS on VMware allows you to deploy AWS on-premise and AWS will manage this for you. I can only assume this is to help with migrations or workloads so sensitive they can’t move off-premise. It would be interesting to see how AWS manages storage capacity and compute resources as many companies struggle with these and how the management model will work. However, given the push to move away from traditional data centers, so reserves that course. It will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next year and what services this provides a company migrating to the cloud.
On my passions is security, so the two things which interested me are
- AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower - I consider these one thing as they will be used in tandem. Control Center will provide security launch zone for an organization while AWS Security Hub will provide governance and monitoring of security
- The ARM processor in the a1 instances which Amazon developed internally. Based on pricing these instances seem to offer cost advantages to the existing instance types.
What did you find interesting, amusing or shocking? What were you looking for which wasn’t announced?
Every year 10s of thousands of AWS customers and prospect customers desend on Las Vegas. For those of us to don’t make the trek Amazon live streams the the daily Key Notes. Those are where AWS announces it’s newest products and changes. Each year I build a list before November as AWS has a tendency to leak smaller items. This year my wish list for AWS was as follows:
- Mixing sizes and types in ASG - Announced
- DNS fixed for Collapsed AD - Announced
- Cross regional replication for Aurora PostGreSQL - Regions expanded still waiting on the cross regions to be announced
- Lambda and more Lambda integrations - Announced
- AWS Config adding machine learning based on account.
- Account level S3 bucket control - Partly Announced
- 40Gbps Direct Connect
There a lot of announcements, far too many to recap if interested in them all go read the AWS News Blog. I do like to find two announcements which shock me and two things that seem interesting.
The two items which shocked me were:
- DynamoDB added transactional support (ACID). This means someone could build an e-commerce or banking application which requires consistent transactions on dynamoDB.
- AWS Outposts and AWS RDS on VMware allows you to deploy AWS on-premise and AWS will manage this for you. I can only assume this is to help with migrations or workloads so sensitive they can’t move off-premise. It would be interesting to see how AWS manages storage capacity and compute resources as many companies struggle with these and how the management model will work. However, given the push to move away from traditional data centers, so reserves that course. It will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next year and what services this provides a company migrating to the cloud.
On my passions is security, so the two things which interested me are
- AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower - I consider these one thing as they will be used in tandem. Control Center will provide security launch zone for an organization while AWS Security Hub will provide governance and monitoring of security
- The ARM processor in the a1 instances which Amazon developed internally. Based on pricing these instances seem to offer cost advantages to the existing instance types.
What did you find interesting, amusing or shocking? What were you looking for which wasn’t announced?
