Episode 58 - October 2019 Tech Round-up

In this round-up episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Tom come at you with raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in September and October in the year 2019. They started the show with an announcement around Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Single Region Replication, with this feature you can now automatically and asynchronously replicate newly uploaded S3 objects to a destination bucket in the same AWS Region. Just remember you need to enable versioning. There is now a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, G4 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, which are the Most Cost-effective GPU Platform for Machine Learning Inference and Graphics Intensive Applications. You can find them in limited regions. Limits are changing on Amazon EC2. We have made them easier with vCPU based on demand limits. Much easier to manage. All you need to do is remember you have two limits post-October 21. One limit that governs the usage of standard instance families (A,C,D,H,I,M,R,T, and Z) and the default limit is 1152 vCPU. The other limit for the specialized instance families of F, G, P, and X instances that is 128vCPU. Check out the NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB, a great new tool designed to help simplify working with Amazon DynamoDB, and the Amazon DynamoDBMapper class in the Java SDK has been updated to support optimistic locking. Private EndPoints and API Gateway, it is now a thing. You can now associate one or more VPC Endpoints to a private API, and Amazon API Gateway will create and manage Amazon Route 53 alias records necessary for easily invoking the Private APIs. Finally, they closed the show out with two things Shane like - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code with the former now providing IntelliSense for Amazon ECS. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Tom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: Amazon S3 introduces Same-Region Replication - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-s3-introduces-same-region-replication/ Amazon EC2 Instance History https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-history/ Amazon ECS adds support for G4 Instance type https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-ecs-adds-support-g4-instance-type/ vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/vcpu-based-on-demand-instance-limits-are-now-available-in-amazon-ec2/ AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports vCPU-Based On-Demand Instance Limit Monitoring - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/aws-limit-monitor-now-supports-vcpu-based-on-demand-instance-limit-monitoring/ NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.html DynamoDBMapper now supports optimistic locking for Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/dynamodbmapper-now-supports-optimistic-locking-for-amazon-dynamodb-transactional-api-calls/ Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Invoking Private APIs - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-api-gateway-simplifies-invoking-private-apis/ Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/ Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-elastic-container-service-now-supports-intellisense-in-visual-studio-code/ AWS Events: AWSome Day Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/