AWS UG 2018_03 What's new in AWS

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1. What’s new in AWS March 2018 Hamburg AWS UserGroup Andreas Rütten 2018-04-05
2. What’s new in AWS • Just a biased selection done myself • Way more announcements in the various official AWS blogs and feeds: ◦ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ ◦ https://aws.amazon.com/new/ ◦ http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog ◦ https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/
3. ECS Supports Container Health Checks and Task Health Management • Previously, the ECS service scheduler relied on the ELB to report container health status and to restart unhealthy containers • This required you to configure your ECS Service to use a load balancer, and only supported HTTP and TCP health-checks • Now ECS integrates with Docker container health checks to allow you to explicitly define and monitor the health of each container • Using the HEALTHCHECK command https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-ecs-supports-container-health-checks-and-task-health-mana/
4. AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and on GitHub • https://github.com/awsdocs • Over 138 developer and user guides added • Typically in Markdown or reStructuredText • Pull request will be reviewed by the service documentation team • The teams endeavor is to respond to PRs within 48 hours https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-documentation-is-now-open-source-and-on-github/
5. EC2 C5 and M5 Instances are now Available in Additional Regions • Now also available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions • C5 instances are available in 6 sizes and introduce a new larger size, c5.18xlarge, which provides 72 vCPUs and 144 GiB of memory • M5 instances are available in 6 sizes, with 2, 4, 8, 16, 48, and 96 vCPU https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-ec2-c5-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-ec2-m5-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/
6. AWS CloudTrail Log Search Using Amazon Athena • It is now easier to search CloudTrail log files using the power of Athena • CloudTrail can now automatically create the Athena table • After that CloudTrail data can directly be queried with common SQL queries within Athena https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-cloudtrail-log-search-using-amazon-athena/
7. Amazon Polly releases new SSML Breath feature • The new SSML Breath feature mimics the sound of inhalation and/or exhalation during normal speech • Appropriate breath sounds makes the Polly generated speech sound more natural https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-polly-releases-new-ssml-breath-feature/
8. Amazon ECS Service Discovery • ECS now includes integrated service discovery • ECS creates and manages a registry of service names using the Route 53 Auto Naming API • Specify health check conditions in a service's task definition • Available for Amazon ECS tasks using AWS Fargate or the EC2 launch type • A records per task IP, and SRV records per task IP + port • Demo: https://servicediscovery.ranman.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/introducing-service-discovery-for-amazon-ecs/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecs-service-discovery/
9. DynamoDB Adds Support for Continuous Backups and PITR • Point-In-Time Recovery provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table • No longer needed to schedule backups • Enable PITR on your table, and you can recover that table from backup at any point in time from the moment you enable it • Up to a maximum of the 35 preceding days https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-dynamodb-adds-support-for-continuous-backups-and-point-in-time-recovery/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-continuous-backups-and-point-in-time-recovery-pitr/
10. Misc - I • Auto Scaling in Amazon SageMaker is now Available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/02/auto-scaling-in-amazon-sagemaker-is-now-available/ • Amazon CloudWatch Events now Supports AWS Batch as an Event Target https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-cloudwatch-events-now-supports-aws-batch-as-an- event-target/ • CodePipeline Supports Push Events from Amazon S3 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-codepipeline-supports-push-events-from-amazon-s3/ • AWS Cloud9 Supports Local Debugging of AWS Lambda Functions in Python https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-cloud9-supports-local-debugging-of-aws-lambda-functio ns-in-python/ • AWS Config Notifications Are Now Integrated with CloudWatch Events https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-config-notifications-are-now-integrated-with-amazon-clo udwatch-events/