AWS Q2 2016 Recap

Jeff Barr, Director of AWS Evangelism

(@jeffbarr)

Written more than 2,500 posts for

AWS; and1,100 on his personal blog

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Furthers developer awareness

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Previous employment: Microsoft, KnowNow, Ebyz, Akopia

Co-founder of Visix Software

Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist

Quarterly Update

New program!

Once a quarter

Highlight recent launches from that quarter

Quarterly Update

#1

Expanded Footprint and

Platform Availability

Regional updates

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now in Asia Pacific (Seoul)

Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery now in China (Beijing) Region

AWS Marketplace Metering Service now in EU (Ireland)

Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring now in the South America (Sao Paulo) and China (Beijing) Regions

AWS Certificate Manager now available in 9 additional Regions: US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo)

AWS Config launches in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Beijing (China) Region

Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions

Amazon RDS adds Multi-AZ support for SQL Server in Tokyo, Sydney and Sao Paulo AWS Regions

AWS CodeDeploy Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions

Regional updates

#2

New Services

Automatically identifies applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies and their performance profile

Involves thousands of workloads often interdependent

Simplifies cloud migration planning process

Easily integrates with cloud migration tools

Protects data with end-to-end encryption

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Certificate Manager

Easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services.

Quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals.

SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.

#3

Generally Available Services

Secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email clients

Seamlessly access email, contacts, and calendars using Microsoft Outlook, web browser, or native iOS and Android email applications

Integrate with existing corporate directory

Control both the keys that encrypt your data and the location in which your data is stored

Free 30-day trial of Amazon WorkMail for up to 25 users

Amazon WorkMail

Add and configure features to your mobile apps, including user authentication with Facebook and Google+, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, and content delivery

Easy access to testing on real devices

Analytics dashboards to track usage of your app

Added NoSQL database service

There are no additional charges for using the AWS Mobile Hub

Mobile Hub

Amazon Inspector

Improves application security and compliance

Identifies potential security issuesand vulnerabilities

Analyzes an application’s configurationand activity, looking for a wide spectrumof vulnerabilities

Reports findings with detailed recommendations for remediation

AWS Database Migration Service

Migrate your databases to AWS easily and securely with zero downtime.

Supports migrations between similar and different database platforms.

You only pay for the compute resources used during the migration process and any additional log storage

#4

Services Expanded

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Simplified, accelerated way to move on-premises data to the cloud

Maximize transfer speeds

Highly optimized network bridge

No: gateway servers, firewalls, special protocols/clients or upfront fees

Accelerates S3 uploads up to 500%

Speed Comparison tool …

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Speed Comparison

AWS Import/Export Snowball

Export

Export large amounts of data from AWS

Export from one or more S3 buckets

Service will determine how many appliances are needed

AWS Device Farm

Remote Access

Test apps as through on a device

Interact with the device via the console

Gesture, swipe and interact with devices in real time through your web browser

Amazon Aurora

Sharing DB snapshots across accounts

Cross Region replication

Sharing database snapshots across accounts

Share snapshots with other AWS accounts or make them public

Use to restore the database to an Aurora instance running in a separate AWS account in the same Region as the snapshot

Interact with the device via the console

Cross Region replication

Create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora

Improved disaster recovery capabilities

AWS announced two, new, low-cost HDD-backed storage options

Benefits include predictable performance forthroughput-intensive and big data workloadswith large data sets, large I/O block sizes and sequential I/O patterns

Persistent block-level storage volumes

Each EBS volume automatically replicatedwithin AZ to protect from component failure

Range of options for storage performancebased on workload

Amazon EBS

2 new EBS volume types introduced

X1 instances for Amazon EC2

Largest Amazon EC2 memory-optimized instance – 2 TB of memory

The most memory in any SAP-certified cloud instance

Powered by four 2.3GHz Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) processors

10GB/second of dedicated bandwidth

Ideal for running in-memory databases, big data processing engines and high-performance computing workloads

Programmable Dash Button

Programmable Dash Button

Compute

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports automatic

service scaling

Amazon EC2 run command adds document sharing

AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces managed platform updates

Networking

Amazon Route 53 announces metric based health checks,

DNS failover for private hosted zones, and configurable

health check locations

Notable, New Enterprise Features

Storage & content delivery

EBS introduces two, low-cost, high-throughput HDD volume types

AWS introduced new Amazon S3 lifecycle policies

Database

Amazon Redshift UNION ALL queries and VACUUM

commands now run up to 10x faster

Amazon Redshift improves throughput performance up to 2X

Create new Redshift data sources in Amazon Machine Learning

Now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console

Notable, New Enterprise Features

Management tools

AWS Config now provides faster recording of tag changes,

new managed rule and other usability improvements

Amazon CloudWatch Events now supported in AWS

CloudFormation templates

Notable, New Enterprise Features

Security + Identity Management

Simplified trust configuration for AWS Directory Service

Internet of Things

AWS IoT now supports integration with Amazon Machine Learning

and AWS CloudTrail

AWS IoT now offers APIs to register and use security

certificates signed by customers’ Certificate Authority (CA)

Notable, New Enterprise Features

#5

New Resources

Resources for Developers, ITDMs, Web Admins

2016 AWS Global Summit Series

United States

Santa Clara – July 13, 14

New York City – August 10, 11

Global

Mumbai – June 28

Auckland – June 29

Bangalore – June 30

London – July 6, 7

Beijing – September 7, 8

New AWS Whitepapers

Core Tenets of IoT

Use AWS Config to Monitor License Compliance on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Getting Started with Amazon Aurora

How AWS Pricing Works

aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

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