Written by Nick Otter.
Let’s take a look over 2020 in AWS. Some great new products arrived for your estate.
!NEW Distributed Load Testing | Distributed Load Testing on AWS
!NEW AWS Copilot | Get started with AWS Copilot by deploying an Amazon ECS application
!NEW AppStream 2.0 | Amazon AppStream 2.0, Cloud Application Streaming whitepaper
!NEW CloudWatch Lambda Insights | Using Lambda Insights in Amazon CloudWatch
!NEW SQL Server Reporting Services | Configuring Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Other interesting products that might be relevant:
New AWS Public Datasets were made available from Ford, NASA and NREL.
Some new articles were added to the great Amazon Builders’ Library that you can visit here
New Training and Certifcation courses were added.
As a bit of an overview let’s take a look at the other developments. In the AWS product log for 2020, the list has over 2000 entries. Let’s take a look at how many updates there were per product to get an overview of all products that were updated.
This should do it.
$ lynx -dump -nolist https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/ |
grep -B 2 "Posted On" |
tr -d "[:space:]" |
grep -wo '[[:alnum:]]\+' |
sort |
uniq -cd |
sort -k1,1n
This is a pretty rudimentary search. It isolates the product names in the headers and the dates of all entries on the AWS product log page for 2020.
The results
The three most updated AWS products in 2020 were:
23 times on the AWS product log page)13)10)The number of mentions here can be synonymous with product updates. So there were 23 updates to the AWS Solutions Consulting Offers product in 2020 and 13 for the Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).
The most mentioned regions were US (93), Milan (59), CapeTown (47). With the most product updates on Dec 1 (47), Dec 15 (32), Nov 24 (45). Can you feel that end of year squeeze.
Here’s the list. For anything else, just drop me a message.
3) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.2) Designed for compute-intensive workloads with cost-effective high performance. For running advanced compute-intensive workloads.3) An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the information required to launch an instance.2) RDS instance type.2) RDS instance type. Large memory capacity.2) You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using .NET Core 3.1.2) AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads.2) Memory optimized instance type to process large data sets.2) Memory optimized instance type to process large data sets.2) Fully managed third-party file systems optimized for a variety of workloads.2)
Amazon Elastic Block Store is easy to use, high performance block storage at any scale.2)
Amazon Elastic Block Store feature. Take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshot across multiple EBS volumes.2)
Amazon Elastic Block Store feature. Fast Snapshot Restore can be enabled on a snapshot even while the snapshot is being created. If you create nightly backup snapshots, enabling them for FSR will allow you to do fast restores the following day regardless of the size of the volume or the snapshot2) Service connecting an on-prem software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-prem IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure.7) Managed file storage for EC2.2) Define Backup plans, schedule backups, automate backup retention management, centrally monitor backup activity, and restore backups across AWS services.4) Set up, operate, and scale an Oracle database in the cloud.2) Set up, operate, and scale a relational database (PSQL) in the cloud.4) Set up, operate, and scale a relational database (MySQL) in the cloud.3) Analyze and tune Amazon RDS database performance.2) Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), giving you the ability to host the report server web portal on the same Amazon RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database.4) Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1. Oracle PSUs contain bug fixes and other critical security updates.13) Fully managed NoSQL document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.2) Key-value NoSQL and document database service.2)
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB.3)
Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. Amazon MCS is serverless.3) MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud.2) Homogenous or heterogenous migrations.2) Simple and seamless file transfer to Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS using SFTP, FTPS, and FTP.9)
Isolated cloud resources.2)
Build, Deploy and manage APIs.2)
Easily monitor and control microservices.2)
AWS Transit Gateway connects VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a cloud router – each new connection is only made once and puts an end to complex peering relationships.2) New CloudFormation template for 2020 to use as a load testing tool.5) AWS Managed Services automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support your infrastructure.5)
Easily create and manage scalable blockchain networks.2) Interactively search and analyze your log data in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.2) Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights collects and aggregates Lambda function runtime performance metrics and logs for your serverless applications.4) AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads.4) Customizable operations dashboard that reports information about your AWS resources.2)
Easily extract data from virtually any document.3)
PyTorch is an open source deep learning framework that makes it easy to develop machine learning models and deploy them to production.4) AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS-supported open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for you to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS.2)
Data warehouse tool.2)
Run and scale Elasticsearch clusters for data management and analysis such as log traces.3) Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications.3) AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis.2)
Securely generate and manage AWS encryption keys.7) Centrally manage single sign-on (SSO) access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications.2) Securely manage access to AWS services and resources.2) Server-Side Encryption. Can be used for AWS KMS ro protect S3 buckets.4) Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on attributes. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. You can attach tags to IAM resources, including IAM entities (users or roles) and to AWS resources.4) Amazon Cognito identity pools assign your authenticated users a set of temporary, limited privilege credentials to access your AWS resources. The permissions for each user are controlled through IAM roles that you create.4)
Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud, so you can migrate your messaging and applications without rewriting code.2)
Simple Queue Service. Fully managed message queues for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.2) API call for Amazon Simple Queue Service Dead-Letter Queues.2) API call for Amazon Simple Queue Service.10)
Centrally manage your desktop applications on AppStream 2.0 and securely deliver them to any computer.2) Open source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage device software.2) AWS IoT Device Tester validates if the CPU architecture, Linux kernel configuration, and drivers for your device work with AWS IoT Greengrass.2) An open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage.4) Over-the-air (OTA) updates allow you to deploy firmware updates to one or more devices in your fleet.2)
Elastic Container Service. Highly secure, reliable and scalable way to run containers.4)
Elastic Kubernetes Service. Fully managed Kubernetes control plane on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes control plane.3) The first official command line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).2) Amazon’s Regions designed to host sensitive data, regulated workloads, and address the most stringent U.S. government security and compliance requirements.2)
Game engine. Not present as a service in the dashboard yet.2)
Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK).2)
Service Quotas is an AWS service that helps you manage your quotas for over 100 AWS services, from one location. Along with looking up the quota values, you can also request a quota increase from the Service Quotas console.3) AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.2) Ford Multi-AV Seasonal Dataset from the Ford Motor Company is now available.Thanks. This article was written by Nick Otter.