https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/, https://aws.amazon.com/new/, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/
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Support for Elasticsearch 5.5 and Kibana 5.5
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Faster performance, Kibana 5.5 Enhancements, Self-service restore from automated snapshots
- Capability to easily log DNS queries received by Amazon Route 53 through integration with CloudWatch Logs
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Millions of requests per second, high throughput at ultra low latency
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Source Address Preservation - original source IP address and source ports for the incoming connections remain unmodified, so application software need not support X-Forwarded-For, proxy protocol, or other workarounds
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Long-running Connections - can handle connections that are open for months or years, making them a great fit for IoT, gaming, and messaging applications
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/vmware-cloud-on-aws-now-available/
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Runs the VMware SDDC stack directly on bare-metal AWS infrastructure
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VMware and third-party management tools like vCenter Server, PowerCLI, the vRealize Suite will work the same
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-encryption-at-rest-for-amazon-elastic-file-system-efs/
- Encrypt the contents of the files that you store on the file system (AES-256)
- CloudWatch with 1-second resolution (it's for 5 minutes by default and every minute for "Detailed Monitoring")
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Layer 7 (application) routing to EC2 instances and to microservices running in containers
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Customers need hybrid applications when spreading traffic across a combination of existing on-premises resources and new resources running in the AWS Cloud
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/, (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-elastic-gpus-for-windows/)
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Attach low-cost graphics acceleration to a wide range of EC2 instances over the network
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Easy as attaching Amazon EBS volumes
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Supports OpenGL 3.3 and offer up to 8GiB of GPU memory (Amazon-optimized OpenGL library needs to be installed)
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Used for virtual desktops, gaming or industrial design
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Windows only, using network (ENI) (faqs)
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When applications make OpenGL API calls for 3D operations, the Amazon OpenGL library re-directs those calls to the Elastic GPU over the network, where the operations are processed and results are returned back to the library
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/
- Effective October 2nd, usage of Linux instances / EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments instead of hours
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-aurora-enables-database-activity-monitoring-with-cloudwatch-logs/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/monitoring-amazon-aurora-audit-events-with-amazon-cloudwatch/
- Events recorded in Amazon Aurora (such as database logins, user information, details of queries executed, and impacted tables) may log to CloudWatch
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-stop-resume-workloads-on-ec2-spot-instances/
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Set up Spot bids and Spot Fleets that respond by stopping (rather than terminating) instances when capacity is no longer available at or below your bid price
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EBS volumes attached to stopped instances remain intact, as does the EBS-backed root volume
