​​Aurora Serverless v2:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-serverless-v2-is-generally-available-instant-scaling-for-demanding-workloads/

Aurora Serverless v2 enables you to scale your database to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and cost-effectively manage the most demanding workloads. It scales database capacity in fine-grained increments to closely match the needs of your workload without disrupting connections or transactions.

If you have an existing Aurora cluster, you can create an Aurora Serverless v2 instance within the same cluster. This way, you’ll have a mixed configuration cluster where both provisioned and Aurora Serverless v2 instances can coexist within the same cluster.

Aurora Serverless v2 capacity scales up and down within the minimum 0.5 ACUs and maximum 128 ACUs configuration.

Versions supported:
🔹 PostgreSQL 13
🔸 MySQL 8.0

#Aurora #Serverless

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (April 17-23)

🔸 ACK (AWS Controllers for Kubernetes) + EKS, ECR, DynamoDB, S3, Autoscaling and API Gateway v2 + GA 👀
🔸 Amazon Linux 2022 + ECS-optimized AMI
🔸 Amplify Geo for Android + GA
🔸 Amplify Studio + GA 💪
🔸 Athena + 10 new data sources 🔥
🔸 Aurora Serverless v2 + GA 🎉
🔸 Batch + dynamically update configuration
🔸 CloudFormation + 35 new resources
🔸 Connect + API for phone numbers
🔸 DevOps Guru Proactive Insights for Serverless Applications
🔸 EC2 Auto Scaling + default instance warm-up time
🔸 EKS + OpenTelemetry Operator addon
🔸 Glue
➖ Auto Scaling + GA
➖ Interactive Sessions + GA
➖ Glue Studio Detect PII + GA
➖ Glue Studio Job Notebooks + GA
🔸 IoT TwinMaker + GA 👍
🔸 Kendra
➖ Box Connector
➖ Quip Connector
🔸 Keyspaces + Spark Cassandra connector
🔸 KMS + HMAC 👀
🔸 Macie + discovering more types of sensitive data
🔸 Migration Hub Orchestrator
🔸 Neptune
➖ Free trial 👈
➖ IAM global condition keys
➖ openCypher GA
🔸 Personalize + starting and stopping recommender
🔸 PrivateLink + Batch
🔸 QuickSight + 1-click public embedding
🔸 RDS + Multi-AZ for Outposts
🔸 Redshift Audit Logging + CloudWatch
🔸 SageMaker Serverless Inference + GA
🔸 Security Hub + cross-Region security scores and compliance statuses
🔸 Step Functions + 20 new AWS SDK integrations
🔸 Textract + Queries

🔹 Corretto 18.0.1, 17.0.3, 11.0.15, and 8u332
🔹 Launch Wizard
➖ IIS
➖ Microsoft Exchange Server
🔹 MQ + ActiveMQ 5.16.4

#AWS_week

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (April 24-30)

🔸 Audit Manager + AWS Config custom rules
🔸 CloudFormation + AWS::EC2::KeyPair 👍
🔸 Connect
➖ API to search by name, agent hierarchies, and tags
➖ PutUserStatus
➖ Search and review Voice ID results
🔸 EC2 i4i instances 💥
🔸 EC2 key pairs
➖ Retrieve public key and creation date
➖ PPK for ED25519
🔸 IAM + aws:ResourceAccount, aws:ResourceOrgPaths, and aws:ResourceOrgID 👀
🔸 Interactive Video Service + stream chat
🔸 Lambda + Insights via Application Insights
🔸 Lightsail
➖ HTTPS redirects
➖ TLS policy
🔸 MSK Serverless + GA 🎉
🔸 Network Firewall + AWS Managed Threat Signatures
🔸 Rekognition Streaming Video Events + GA 🎉
🔸 RDS
➖ IPv6 👍
➖ Query results in JSON
➖ Usage metrics against AWS service limits
🔸 SageMaker Data Wrangler
➖ Data Quality and Insights Report
➖ Random and stratified samples
🔸 SES v2 + 40MB message size
🔸 Service Catalog CDK constructs ⚠️
🔸 Snow
➖ Large Data Migration Manager
➖ Managing devices remotely
➖ Update of device certificates

🔹 Control Tower landing zone v.2.9
🔹 EKS + Karpenter v0.9.0 with Pod Affinity 👈
🔹 Launch Wizard + clone inputs for SAP
🔹 Polly + Neural TTS voice in Brazilian Portuguese
🔹 RDS for MariaDB + m6i/r6i instances
🔹 RDS for MySQL + m6i/r6i instances
🔹 RDS for PostgreSQL + m6i/r6i instances
🔹 Wavelength Zone + Toronto

#AWS_week

🔶 AWS Security Fundamentals

Self-paced course to learn fundamental AWS cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured.

https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/external/view/elearning/48/aws-security-fundamentals-second-edition

#aws

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (May 1-7)

🔸 AMB (Amazon Managed Blockchain) + Goerli for Ethereum
🔸 AppConfig Feature Flag Lambda Extension + Arm/Graviton2
🔸 Braket Hybrid Jobs + embedded circuit simulators
🔸 CodeGuru Reviewer + suppress recommendations
🔸 Compute Optimizer + 4 new Trusted Advisor checks 👍
🔸 Connect
➖ Schedule Manager + displays metrics
➖ StopContact
➖ Up to 6 participants on a customer service call
🔸 EKS console + info about the Kubernetes resources 👀
🔸 IoT Secure Tunneling + single-use token and token rotation
🔸 Kinesis Video Streams + image extraction
🔸 Lex + custom vocabulary
🔸 Outposts + RDS storage autoscaling
🔸 Quicksight line chart + 2 500 → 10 000 data points
🔸 RDS for PostgreSQL + cascading read replicas for 14.1+ 👈
🔸 RDS Performance Insights + custom time window
🔸 SageMaker Canvas + new data preparation features
🔸 SAM CLI + X-Ray
🔸 Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for AWS CDK

🔹 ElastiCache + new console
🔹 Panorama + Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70
🔹 RDS for SQL Server + SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017 CU27, and 2019 CU15
🔹 Rekognition + Face API version 6
🔹 SageMaker Data Wrangler + M5/R5 instances

#AWS_week

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (May 8-14)

🔸 Amplify Android Library + Kotlin
🔸 Athena + Hive views
🔸 Backup Audit Manager + compliance status for VMware Virtual Machines
🔸 CloudWatch
➖ AMI events 👍
➖ CloudWatch Synthetics + canary resources deletion
➖ Prometheus usage metrics
➖ Secrets Manager usage metrics
🔸 EC2 NitroTPM & UEFI Secure Boot + GA 🎉
🔸 EKS Anywhere + curated packages 👀
🔸 EFS + locks per connection 8192 → 65536
🔸 GameKit for Unreal Engine + Android, iOS, and MacOS 🎉
🔸 IoT SiteWise + BatchGetAssetPropertyValueHistory, BatchGetAssetPropertyValue, and BatchGetAssetPropertyAggregates
🔸 Lambda + Node.js 16 💥
🔸 Lex + phrase hints
🔸 PrivateLink + IPv6 💪
🔸 SSO + delegated admin 👈
🔸 VPC
➖ Multiple IPv6 CIDR blocks ⚠️
➖ Traffic Mirroring + GWLB

🔹 FreeRTOS + Espressif, NXP and STMicroelectronics
🔹 SageMaker Notebook Instances + ml.g5 & Python 3.8
🔹 Step Functions + new console

#AWS_week

Зеркало официальных провайдеров для terraform, доступное с российских и белорусских адресов: https://registry.comcloud.xyz/

DevOpsDays Ukraine May 17-18, online talks:

🔹 Incident Response: Moving Beyond the Reaction — Emily Freeman (AWS)
🔸 Navigating Complexity of Decision-Making for Resilient Data Architectures — Lena Hall (AWS)

Join us: https://devopsdays.com.ua

​​AWS drawing and diagramming tools:

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/#Drawing_and_diagramming_tools

#design

Amazon EKS cheat sheet:

https://tutorialsdojo.com/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-eks/

🔸 Components
🔸 Storage
🔸 Networking
🔸 Security
🔸 Monitoring
🔸 Pricing

#EKS

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (May 15-21)

🔸 ADOT (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry) + metrics
🔸 App Mesh + IPv6 👍
🔸 Backup
➖ FSx for NetApp ONTAP 🎉
➖ FSx for OpenZFS 🎉
🔸 Chime SDK + video background replacement and blur on iOS and Android
🔸 Control Tower
➖ Concurrent operations for all optional guardrails
➖ Existing security and logging accounts 👀
🔸 EC2 Auto Scaling + metric data from the previous 14 days for Predictive Scaling
🔸 EC2 i4i.metal instances 🎉
🔸 Encryption SDK for .NET + GA
🔸 Glue
➖ Glue Studio Visual Job API + GA
➖ KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM
🔸 Kendra + Jira connector
🔸 QuickSight 1-click public embedding + GA
🔸 Redshift
➖ Isolation level SERIALIZABLE for concurrent transactions
➖ Linear learner algorithm with Redshift ML
🔸 Resilience Hub + ECS, Route 53, DRS, Backup, and Terraform
🔸 SSM Incident Manager + automatically create incidents  in other regions, populate runbook parameters with incident metadata, and collect resource information

🔹 CloudWatch Console + new dashboard widgets
🔹 MQ + RabbitMQ 3.9.16 & 3.8.30
🔹 Kubeflow v1.4.1

#AWS_week

​​Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances - c7g:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-powered-by-aws-graviton3-processors/

c6g.medium $0.034 Up to 10 Gigabit
c7g.medium $0.0363 Up to 12.5 Gigabit

c6g.large $0.068 Up to 10 Gigabit
c7g.large $0.0725 Up to 12.5 Gigabit
c6a.large $0.0765 Up to 12.5 Gigabit
c6i.large $0.085 Up to 12.5 Gigabit

And also: 👇

▫️ Free trial on t4g.small instances (Again! The fourth 🔥 time!) for up to 750 hours/month until the end of this year (December 31, 2022)! 💪

#EC2

​​CDK Day May 2022:

https://cdkday.com

Track 1️⃣ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kY7o3De_9A
Track 2️⃣ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7bNVT4W1g
Track 3️⃣ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8tO-ymVQPg

Join us right now!

#CDK

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (May 22-28)

🔸 AMG + version 8.4 & creating Grafana API tokens
🔸 Backup Audit Manager + S3 & Storage Gateway
🔸 CloudFront + CloudFront-Viewer-TLS header
🔸 Config + CloudWatch
🔸 Comprehend + 14 new PII entity types
🔸 DataSync
➖ GCP
➖ Azure
🔸 EC2
➖ c7g Graviton3 instances 🔥
➖ m6id/c6id 7.6TB Local NVMe instances 💥
➖ p4de NVIDIA A100 GPUs instances 💥
➖ Stop protection 👈
🔸 ECS Auto Scaling + changes for Capacity Providers
🔸 ElastiCache for Redis & MemoryDB for Redis + JSON
🔸 ElastiCache for Memcached 1.6.12 + in-transit encryption
🔸 FSx for Lustre + root squash
🔸 IoT Device Management + Active Jobs Limit 1000 → 100 000
🔸 Lambda + PowerShell 👀
🔸 Lightsail + ECR
🔸 Personalize + offline metrics for recommenders
🔸 SSM + port forwarding to remote hosts 👍
🔸 Transit Gateway Network Manager + Multi-Account Support

🔹 AppSync + new console
🔹 ElastiCache for Memcached 1.6.12
🔹 Genomics CLI v1.5.0
🔹 Launch Wizard + SQL Server using FSx for NetApp ONTAP
🔹 Wavelength Zone
➖ Nashville and Tampa
➖ Seoul

#AWS_week

🔶 A Review of the AWS Security Model

AWS have released their own security maturity model, but does it stack up against what we're seeing in real-world attacks and in the approaches being suggested by the rest of the AWS security community?

https://www.nojones.net/posts/a-review-of-the-aws-security-maturity-model

#aws

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (May 29 - June 4)

🔸 Amplify
➖ AWSSigV4Signer
➖ Geo (JavaScript) + Geofences
🔸 AppSync + new GraphQL Utility Helpers
🔸 Braket + Borealis
🔸 Chime SDK + centralized attendee controls
🔸 Connect
➖ High-volume outbound communications
➖ Task templates
➖ TransferContact
🔸 Control Tower
➖ Account Factory for Terraform + customization for management, log, and audit accounts 👀
➖ Single account enrollment and update 👈
🔸 Cognito + IP address in unauthenticated calls
🔸 Data Exchange for APIs + metered billing
🔸 DataSync + EFS security: Access Points, TLS, and IAM role
🔸 DRS +  multiple staging and target accounts
🔸 EBS io2 Block Express +  Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)
🔸 Elemental MediaTailor + CloudWatch Vended Logs
🔸 EMR Serverless + GA 🎉
🔸 FSx for OpenZFS + update the storage and IOPS capacity
🔸 IAM + WebAuthn & Safari 👍
🔸 Kendra + GitHub SaaS & OnPrem connectors
🔸 Lookout for Metrics
➖ Anomaly detection
➖ Athena connector
🔸 Outposts + EC2 Dedicated Hosts
🔸 Pinpoint + custom message channel activity
🔸 PrivateLink
➖ S3 on Outposts
➖ Panorama
➖ Backup for VMware
🔸 Proton + components
🔸 RDS + SSE encrypted SNS topics
🔸 Route 53 + IP-based routing 👈
🔸 SageMaker JumpStart
➖ Automatic tuning
➖ Incremental training for models
🔸 Transcribe + automatic language identification for multi-lingual audio

🔹 Marketplace + SaaS free trials
🔹 NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB + CreateTable, UpdateTable, and DeleteTable
🔹 Step Functions + interactive workshop 👀
🔹 Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance + purchase through resellers
🔹 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server + price reduction
🔹 Well-Architected Tool + AWS re:Post

#AWS_week

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (June 5-11)

🔸 Amplify Flutter + customizable authentication flows
🔸 AppFlow + Salesforce Marketing Cloud
🔸 Application Migration Service + automated application modernizations
🔸 Aurora PostgreSQL
➖ LO module
➖ Zero-downtime patching 👈
🔸 Chime SDK + messaging conversation APIs
🔸 CloudFront + TLS 1.3 session resumption 👍
🔸 Cost Allocation Tags + UpdateCostAllocationTagsStatus
🔸 EC2 + r6id instances 💥
🔸 Health Dashboard + Connector for ServiceNow
🔸 Mainframe Modernization + GA 🎉
🔸 Neptune + Python integration
🔸 SageMaker Canvas + accelerates onboarding
🔸 SageMaker Data Wrangler
➖ Export into SageMaker Feature Store
➖ Split data into train and test sets
➖ SageMaker Autopilot invoke
🔸 SageMaker Experiments + common chart types
🔸 SageMaker Studio & SageMaker Notebook Instance + JupyterLab 3 notebooks
🔸 Security Hub + automatically receives Config managed and custom rule evaluation results 👀
🔸 SSM Change Manager + ServiceNow change requests
🔸 SSM Incident Manager + ServiceNow Incidents

🔹 AppStream 2.0 + stream.standard.xlarge and stream.standard.2xlarge instance sizes
🔹 Aurora PostgreSQL + 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21 versions
🔹 DeepRacer + quotas
🔹 EMR 6.6 + Spark 3.2, HUDI 0.10.1, Iceberg 0.13, Trino 0.367, PrestoDB 0.267, and more
🔹 IoT Device Management + 80% price reduction for Secure Tunneling
🔹 Personalize + unstructured text in six new languages
🔹 RDS for MySQL + 5.7.38 and 8.0.29
🔹 RDS for SQL Server + SQL Server 2014 SP3 CU4 SU

#AWS_week

​​Weekly Summary on AWS (June 12-18)

🔸 AppFlow + Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and Mixpanel
🔸 Chime SDK + 100 webcam video streams
🔸 Config + 15 new resource types
🔸 Connect
➖ 15 minute scheduled reports
➖ GetCurrentUserData
🔸 DynamoDB + enhanced integration with Service Quotas 👀
🔸 EC2 Recycle Bin + IAM condition keys
🔸 EC2 VT1 + AMD-Xilinx Video SDK 2.0
🔸 ECS + Bottlerocket for NVIDIA
🔸 Keyspaces + CloudWatch
🔸 Lookout for Metrics + filters for alerts & edit existing alerts
🔸 Quicksight
➖ Drag controller on table and pivot table
➖ Showing/hiding pivot table columns
🔸 RDS for SQL Server + TDE enabled database migrations
🔸 SageMaker Canvas + VPC endpoints
🔸 SageMaker Data Wrangler + PySpark and Altair code snippets
🔸 Service Catalog
➖ ABAC
➖ Cross-account AppRegistry
🔸 OpenSearch
➖ Cross-region search 👍
➖ Tag-based access control
🔸 Transfer Family + SetStatOption & TlsSessionResumptionMode

🔹 Aurora Serverless v1 + in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
🔹 Budgets + UI Improvements
🔹 RDS Console + enable DevOps Guru for RDS

#AWS_week

Всем привет! @VictorVedmich особенно) Хочу рассказать о своем опыте подготовки к AWS экзаменам. Из своего опыта могу сказать, что экзамены для CKA, GCP и AWS достаточно сильно различаются и у AWS экзаменов есть своя специфика. Также хочу затронуть вопрос, о том как именно готовиться, потому что когда я спрашивала своих коллег - как именно они готовятся, они скидывали мне ссылки на материалы и на тесты, но никогда не описывали сам способ подготовки, а ведь это важно - как лучше запоминать достаточно большие объемы информации.
Сначала расскажу о материалах, которые я использую для подготовки. Во-первых, конечно официальная документация. Но ее сложно просто брать и учить наизусть, поэтому далее расскажу способ, как лучше использовать официальную AWS документацию. Второй вариант материалов для подготовки - курсы Udemy:
Мне нравится известный преподаватель Stephane Maarek - https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-solutions-architect-professional/ Курсы у него понятные и содержат много полезной информации.
Бесплатно также в прошлом году приобрела этот курс: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional-training/ - в принципе, тоже неплохо, но у Stephane Maarek подача информации понятнее.
Из видеокурсов также многие советуют Whizlabs https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-professional/ - но лично я эти курсы не смотрела.
Очень важный шаг при подготовке - прорешивание тестов, аналогичных тем, которые будут на экзамене. Если вы долго и много работали с AWS, то возможно первый этап - просмотр материалов можно уменьшить, либо вообще пропустить. Но второй этап не советую пропускать, потому что вы не сдадите экзамен, просто потому что не привыкли к вопросам определенного типа. Какие тесты я советую:
Whizlabs тесты: https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-professional/ - с объяснениями
Различные Udemy тесты: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-solutions-architect-professional-practice-exams-amazon/ (у этого автора есть свой сайт с материалами: https://portal.tutorialsdojo.com/)
Также тесты от Stephane Maarek: https://www.udemy.com/course/practice-exam-aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional/
И такие тесты: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional-practice-exam-ii/
Также можно покупать и другие тесты на Udemy, просто смотрите на рейтинг этих тестов и отзывы.
Теперь нужно рассказать о способе подготовки к экзамену. Каждый человек запоминает информацию по-своему, и нужно найти метод подходящий вам. К примеру, я не запоминаю информацию когда читаю или смотрю и слушаю видео, только если записываю руками. Поэтому мой метод подготовки такой:
Просмотр видеоматериалов
Решение тестов
Вопросы, на которые я ответила неправильно, выписываю себе в тетрадку - с правильным ответом.
Перечитываю официальную AWS документацию по теме неправильно отвеченного вопроса и делаю себе пометки.
Мой коллега продемонстрировал хорошую усваиваемость информации при прослушивании подкастов. Просто чтение и просмотр видео, возможно, кому-то тоже подойдут. Ищите и найдете :)
Пару рекомендаций для тех, кто еще не сдавал экзамен:
Правильный ответ только тот, где используется именно AWS сервис (даже если реально лучше использовать что-то другое)
Если есть 4 варианта, и из них два похожих ответа - значит правильным будет один из этих двух
Надеюсь, мои заметки об AWS Certifications вам чем-то помогут. Удачи:)