AWS re:Invent 2015 What's New
INTERNET OF THINGS
DATABASES
MariaDB RDS
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS IoT
Connect devices to AWS services
ANALYTICS
QuickSight
BI Service
Build visualisations on your data
Kinesis Firehose
Load streaming data into AWS
S3 & Redshift end points
Near real-time analytics
Elasticsearch Service
Search & Analytics engine
Use cases
Kinesis Analytics
Run SQL queries against streaming data
Kinesis Streams
Kinesis becomes Kinesis Streams
Max retention increased from 24 hrs to 7 days
Retention period can be dynamically edited
Extended retention period
Migrate DBs to AWS while online
Automated and continuous data replication
Homogenous & hetrogenous migrations
Schema conversion tool for heterogeneous migrations
Supports Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Amazon Aurora
STORAGE & CONTENT DELIVERY
Import/Export Snowball
Petabyte-scale data transport system
Secure tamper-proof appliance
50TB max per appliance
10 Gbps network connection
256-bit encryption with TPM
SECURITY & IDENTITIY
AWS WAF
Custom web security rules
Full API
Web traffic visibility
Amazon Inspector
Automated security assessment service
Assesses for vulnerabilities & deviation from best practices
Report with prioritised remediation steps
Rules mapped to common security compliance standards (PCI DSS etc...)
Requires agent on hosts
COMPUTE
EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Physical server with EC2 instance capacity
Use Cases
Compliance requirements
Server-bound software licences
Additional visibility & control over EC2 instances
EC2 Container Registry (ECR)
Fully managed Docker container registry
Integrated with EC2 Container Service (ECS)
New Instance Types
X1
Use Cases
Apache Spark
Presto
EC2 Container Service (ECS) CLI
Supports Docker compose
ECS scheduler is now AZ aware
New Lambda Features
Python support
Versioning
Scheduled Jobs
5 Minute functions
MOBILE SERVICES
AWS Mobile Hub
User authentication
Data storage
Backend Login
Push notifications
Content Delivery
Analytics
MANAGEMENT TOOLS
AWS Config Rules
Cloud governance capabilities
Define provisioning & configuration best practices
Continuously monitor compliance
Pre-built rules with AWS best practices
Custom rules for bespoke best practices
New dashboard to track compliance status
Cloudwatch Dashboards
Create graphs or resources & metrics
Quickly monitor operational status
Metric data kept for 2 weeks for detailed analysis
Can load all account metrics for search & graphing
Includes logs, AWS resource metrics, and application metrics that you provide
Log analytics
Cick stream analytics
Monitoring
VPC Support
MS SQL Server
SAP HANA
Up to 2TB instance memory
High memory instances
Designed for in-memory DBs
Four-way 2.3 GHz Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) processors
T2.Nano
1 vCPU
512 MB RAM
Burstable CPU credits
Use case: microsites
EC2 Spot Instances for specific duration workloads