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In France, we all know summer time has began if you see the Tour de France bike race on TV or in a metropolis close by. This 12 months, the tour stopped within the metropolis the place I reside, and I used to be blocked on my method again house from a buyer convention to let the race go via.
It’s Monday right now, so let’s make one other tour—a tour of the AWS information, bulletins, or weblog posts that captured my consideration final week. I chosen these as being of curiosity to IT professionals and builders: the doers, the builders that spend their time on the AWS Administration Console or in code.
Final Week’s Launches
Listed here are some launches that bought my consideration through the earlier week:
Amazon EC2 Mac M1 cases are usually obtainable – this new EC2 occasion sort lets you deploy Mac mini computer systems with M1 Apple Silicon operating macOS utilizing the identical console, API, SDK, or CLI you’re used to for interacting with EC2 cases. You can begin, cease them, assign a safety group or an IAM position, snapshot their EBS quantity, and recreate an AMI from it, similar to with Linux-based or Home windows-based cases. It lets iOS builders create full CI/CD pipelines within the cloud with out requiring somebody in your workforce to reinstall varied combos of macOS and Xcode variations on on-prem machines. A few of you had the possibility the enter the preview program for EC2 Mac M1 cases after we introduced it final December. EC2 Mac M1 cases are actually usually obtainable.
AWS IAM Roles Wherever – that is a kind of incremental modifications that has the potential to unlock new use instances on the sting or on-prem. AWS IAM Roles Wherever lets you use IAM roles to your functions exterior of AWS to entry AWS APIs securely, the identical method that you simply use IAM roles for workloads on AWS. With IAM Roles Wherever, you possibly can ship short-term credentials to your on-premises servers, containers, or different compute platforms. It requires an on-prem Certificates Authority registered as a trusted supply in IAM. IAM Roles Wherever exchanges certificates issued by this CA for a set of short-term AWS credentials restricted in scope by the IAM position related to the session. To make it simple to make use of, we do present a CLI-based signing helper instrument that may be built-in in your CLI configuration.
A streamlined deployment expertise for .NET functions – the brand new deployment expertise focuses on the kind of utility you wish to deploy as a substitute of particular person AWS providers by offering clever compute suggestions. Yow will discover it within the AWS Toolkit for Visible Studio utilizing the brand new “Publish to AWS” wizard. Additionally it is obtainable by way of the .NET CLI by putting in AWS Deploy Device for .NET. Collectively, they assist simply transition from a prototyping part in Visible Studio to automated deployments. The brand new deployment expertise helps ASP.NET Core, Blazor WebAssembly, console functions (akin to long-lived message processing providers), and duties that have to run on a schedule.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you’ll want to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.
Different AWS Information
This week, I additionally discovered from these weblog posts:
TLS 1.2 to change into the minimal TLS protocol stage for all AWS API endpoints – this text was revealed on the finish of June, and it deserves extra publicity. Beginning in June 2022, we’ll progressively transition all our API endpoints to TLS 1.2 solely. The excellent news is that 95 % of the API calls we observe are already utilizing TLS 1.2, and solely 5 % of the functions are impacted. If in case you have functions developed earlier than 2014 (utilizing a Java JDK earlier than model 8 or .NET earlier than model 4.6.2), it’s value checking your app and updating them to make use of TLS 1.2. After we detect your utility remains to be utilizing TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, we inform you by electronic mail and within the AWS Well being Dashboard. The weblog article goes into element about tips on how to analyze AWS CloudTrail logs to detect any API name that may not use TLS 1.2.
How one can implement automated appointment reminders utilizing Amazon Join and Amazon Pinpoint – this weblog publish guides you thru the steps to implement a system to routinely name your clients to remind them of their appointments. This automated outbound marketing campaign for appointment reminders checked the marketing campaign checklist towards a “don’t name” checklist earlier than making an outbound name. Your clients are capable of affirm routinely or reschedule by talking to an agent. You monitor the outcomes of the calls on a dashboard in close to actual time utilizing Amazon QuickSight. It supplies you with AWS CloudFormation templates for the components that may be automated and detailed directions for the guide steps.
Utilizing Amazon CloudWatch metrics math to observe and scale sources – AWS Auto Scaling is a kind of capabilities that will seem like magic at first look. It makes use of metrics to take scale-out or scale-in choices. Most clients I speak with wrestle a bit at first to outline the right mixture of metrics that enable them to scale on the proper second. Scaling out too late impacts your buyer expertise whereas scaling out too early impacts your funds. This text explains tips on how to use metric math, a option to question a number of Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and use math expressions to create new time sequence based mostly on these metrics. These math metrics could, in flip, be used to set off scaling choices. The standard use case could be to mathematically mix CPU, reminiscence, and community utilization metrics to determine when to scale in or to scale out.
How one can use Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora with a static IP tackle – within the cloud, it’s higher to entry community sources by referencing their DNS title as a substitute of IP addresses. IP addresses come and go as sources are stopped, restarted, scaled out, or scaled in. Nonetheless, when integrating with older, extra inflexible environments, it would occur, for a restricted time frame, to authorize entry via a static IP tackle. You could have in all probability heard that scary phrase: “I’ve to authorize your IP tackle in my firewall configuration.” This new weblog publish explains how to take action for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database. It makes use of a Community Load Balancer and visitors forwarding on the Linux-kernel stage to proxy your precise database server.
Amazon S3 Clever-Tiering considerably reduces storage prices – we estimate our clients saved as much as $250 hundreds of thousands in storage prices since we launched S3 Clever-Tiering in 2018. A latest weblog publish describes how Amazon Photograph, a service that gives limitless photograph storage and 5 GB of video storage to Amazon Prime members in eight marketplaces world-wide, makes use of S3 Clever-Tiering to considerably save on storage prices whereas storing a whole bunch of petabytes of content material and billions of pictures and movies on S3.
Upcoming AWS Occasions
Test your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS re:Inforce is the premier cloud safety convention, July 26-27. This 12 months it’s hosted at the Boston Conference and Exhibition Heart, Massachusetts, USA. The convention agenda is accessible and there may be nonetheless time to register.
AWS Summit Chicago, August 25, at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA. It’s possible you’ll register now.
AWS Summit Canberra, August 31, on the Nationwide Conference Heart, Canberra, Australia. Registrations are already open.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional tour of AWS information and launches!
