It is certainly hard keeping up with AWS releases! Here are
some of the highlights:
Amazon RDS Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing.
Watch out for this one on the certification exam!
Regular database snapshots have always been a part of any good
AWS administrator’s routine. Now the service is even better with the ability to
share snapshots across different accounts.
Organisations should have multiple separate linked accounts
for a number of reasons; security, separation from production environments,
cost visibility etc. Now you can take snapshots of your production environment and
copy to a development account for testing without any risk.
EC2 Run Command.
Watch out for this one on the certification exam!
This new feature will help you to administer your instances
(no matter how many you have) in a manner that is both easy and secure.
This greatly increases security by allowing commands to be run
remotely using the console without having to login through a bastion host.
EC2 Spot Blocks
Watch out for this one on the certification exam!
Now you can create spot instances that run for a fixed period
of time from 1 to 6 hours.
MariaDB on AWS RDS
Watch out for this one on the certification exam!
We now have another database in the RDS suite. MariaDB is a
fork from MySQL and can provide some additional capabilities.
AWS WAF - Web Application Firewall
Watch out for this one on the certification exam!
Another tool in your AWS security arsenal. Deploy custom and
application-specific rules in minutes that block common attack patterns, such
as SQL injection or cross-site scripting.
Amazon Inspector – Released in preview
Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment
service. This allows you to inspect your applications for a range of security
vulnerabilities.
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Load streaming data quickly and easily into Amazon S3 and
Amazon Redshift to enable real time analytics.
Amazon QuickSight. Status – Released in preview
Amazon’s new Business Intelligence tools for analysis of
data from Amazon EMR, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3
and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight utilises SPICE (Super Fast In-Memory
Calculation Engine) to return results from large datasets in rapid time.
AWS IoT – Released in beta
AWS IoT (Internet of Things) provide cloud services for
embedded devices. Tiny devices can use AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3,
Amazon Machine Learning, and Amazon DynamoDB etc to provide powerful capabilities
for many applications.
Many embedded processor suppliers including Intel, Microchip
PIC, TI, BeagleBone, Avnet, Marvell, MediaTek, Renesas, Dragonboard and Seeeduino
provide starter kits to get you started.
AWS Mobile Hub – Released in beta
This service streamlines the process of creating mobile IOS
and Android apps that use AWS services.
We will be updating our
backspace.academy certification courses to reflect all the changes.
