aws update | london - overview of new releases
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A round up of all the features & improvements released since our last update, we'll walk through the timeline to bring you up to speed on the continuous innovation at AWS.TRANSCRIPT
Amazon Web Services Update | London
November 2012
Overview of new releases
Ryan Shuttleworth, Evangelist
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Let’s take a look at them…
July 2012
Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response times
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Now customers who want Reserved Instances with RHEL no longer need to perform additional steps to rebuild On-Demand RHEL AMIs before they can use them on Reserved Instances
Announcing High I/O Instances for Amazon EC2 A new instance type that provides very high, low latency, disk I/O performance using SSD-based local instance storage
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>>> Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response times
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Reserved Instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Now customers who want Reserved Instances with RHEL no longer need to perform additional steps to rebuild On-Demand RHEL AMIs before they can use them on Reserved Instances
Announcing High I/O Instances for Amazon EC2 A new instance type that provides very high, low latency, disk I/O performance using SSD-based local instance storage
Standard volumes Moderate or bursty I/O
requirements
100 IOPS on average
Burst to hundreds of IOPS
Well suited for use as boot volumes
Provisioned IOPS volumes Predictable, high performance I/O
You specify an IOPS rate
Up to 2000 IOPS per volume
Stripe multiple volumes together to deliver thousands of IOPS
Provisioned IOPS volumes Predictable, high performance I/O
You specify an IOPS rate
Up to 2000 IOPS per volume
Stripe multiple volumes together to deliver thousands of IOPS
EC2 EBS-Optimized
Instance
Up to 1000Mbps
CloudWatch Metrics for EC2 Status Checks These new CloudWatch metrics let you view graphs, analyze history and set alarms on your EC2 instance’s status check results
Easily DKIM-Sign Your Emails with Amazon SES With Easy DKIM, Amazon SES takes care of DKIM-signing your email for you, and all you have to do is add some CNAME records to your DNS and enable signing
Announcing MFA-protected API access You can now enforce MFA authentication for AWS service APIs via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
Multiple IP Addresses for Amazon EC2 Instances in Amazon VPC With this feature you can host multiple websites, including SSL websites and certificates, on a single instance where each site has its own IP address
August 2012
Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon RDS Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface
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Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon RDS Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface
Master Account
Division B [email protected]
User2 Dev2 Admin2
IAM
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Master Account
consolidated billing information Tags: (key-value)
e.g Own=Div Proj=R
Operating Co. A [email protected]
User1 Dev1 Admin1
IAM
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Division B [email protected]
User2 Dev2 Admin2
IAM
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Business Unit C [email protected]
User3 Dev3 Admin3
IAM
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=X
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Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Z
Master Account
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A [email protected]
User1 Dev1 Admin1
IAM
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=A
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=B
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=C
Division B [email protected]
User2 Dev2 Admin2
IAM
Tags: Own=Div Proj=P
Tags: Own=Div Proj=Q
Tags: Own=Div Proj=R
Business Unit C [email protected]
User3 Dev3 Admin3
IAM
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=X
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Y
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Z
Master Account
consolidated billing information
Operating Co. A [email protected]
User1 Dev1 Admin1
IAM
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=A
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=B
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=C
Division B [email protected]
User2 Dev2 Admin2
IAM
Tags: Own=Div Proj=P
Tags: Own=Div Proj=Q
Tags: Own=Div Proj=R
Business Unit C [email protected]
User3 Dev3 Admin3
IAM
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=X
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Y
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Z
Master Account
consolidated billing information
Programmatic billing access
S3 CSV
Operating Co. A [email protected]
User1 Dev1 Admin1
IAM
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=A
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=B
Tags: Own=OpCo Proj=C
Division B [email protected]
User2 Dev2 Admin2
IAM
Tags: Own=Div Proj=P
Tags: Own=Div Proj=Q
Tags: Own=Div Proj=R
Business Unit C [email protected]
User3 Dev3 Admin3
IAM
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=X
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Y
Tags: Own=BusC Proj=Z
Master Account
consolidated billing information
Programmatic billing access
S3 CSV
Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon RDS Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface
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Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support You can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3
AWS Billing Enables Cost Allocation Reports You can tag resources for the following services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC and CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Binary Data Types Using binary data types allows customers to reduce the size of items stored in DynamoDB. This helps customers lower costs
Announcing Amazon Glacier Secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python and Seamlessly Integrates with Amazon RDS Elastic Beanstalk supports Python applications and frameworks that run on the familiar Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Amazon VPC and Oracle APEX, XML DB, and Time Zones Four features are available to you at no additional charge for all supported RDS for Oracle licensing models in all Regions
Amazon DynamoDB Announces In-Console Item Updating You can now also update or make copies of existing items in your tables from the AWS Management Console
Announcing management console and two new locations for AWS Direct Connect Manage your AWS Direct Connect service through the AWS Management Console and access two new locations
Amazon DynamoDB Announces Lower Minimum Provisioned Table Throughput The smallest provisioned throughput you can now request for a DynamoDB table is 1 write capacity unit and 1 read capacity unit
Sept 2012
Amazon CloudFront Private Content Now Supported in the AWS Management Console You can now configure your distribution to deliver private content without having to use the Amazon CloudFront API
Amazon RDS Oracle on t1.micro, starting at just $30 a month The micro RDS instance is designed for test applications and low traffic applications that use Oracle databases
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2012 for Amazon RDS is available for multiple editions of SQL Server including Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise
New High-Performance Provisioned IOPS Storage for Amazon RDS enables you to provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) with 1TB of storage for your new database instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Data Pump Oracle Data Pump provides fast data movement between Oracle databases, much faster than the original Export and Import utilities
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Amazon CloudFront Private Content Now Supported in the AWS Management Console You can now configure your distribution to deliver private content without having to use the Amazon CloudFront API
Amazon RDS Oracle on t1.micro, starting at just $30 a month The micro RDS instance is designed for test applications and low traffic applications that use Oracle databases
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2012 for Amazon RDS is available for multiple editions of SQL Server including Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise
New High-Performance Provisioned IOPS Storage for Amazon RDS enables you to provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) with 1TB of storage for your new database instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Data Pump Oracle Data Pump provides fast data movement between Oracle databases, much faster than the original Export and Import utilities
Announcing RDS SQL Server, IPsec VPN, and Route Propagation Support for Amazon VPC Enabling RDS SQL Server for use with your VPC configurations
Amazon CloudFront Announces New Edge Location in Madrid, Spain This is our first edge location in Spain and this new location will speed up the delivery of static, streaming and dynamic content to end users in and around Spain
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace an online marketplace that provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses
Amazon CloudFront Announces Support for Cookies and Price Classes Use cookies to drive dynamic content and caching strategies and restricted edge locations based upon cost
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Announcing RDS SQL Server, IPsec VPN, and Route Propagation Support for Amazon VPC Enabling RDS SQL Server for use with your VPC configurations
Amazon CloudFront Announces New Edge Location in Madrid, Spain This is our first edge location in Spain and this new location will speed up the delivery of static, streaming and dynamic content to end users in and around Spain
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace an online marketplace that provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses
Amazon CloudFront Announces Support for Cookies and Price Classes Use cookies to drive dynamic content and caching strategies and restricted edge locations based upon cost
Oct 2012
AWS Storage Gateway Announces Gateway-Cached Volumes Gateway-Cached volumes enable you to store primary data in Amazon S3 via the standard Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
Billing Alerts Now Available for Consolidated Billing Linked Accounts Billing alerts now support the individual accounts that are linked to a consolidated bill in your organization
Amazon VPC now Supports Micro Instances availability of Micro (t1.micro) instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
SAP HANA One Now Available on AWS Marketplace SAP’s in-memory database and platform, is certified to run on AWS and is available today for immediate purchase via AWS Marketplace
AWS CloudFormation Supports RDS DB Parameter Groups and Provisioned IOPS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB parameter groups and provisioned IOPS for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes and Amazon RDS DB Instances
Announcing Amazon EC2 Spot Bid Statuses You can now see detailed information on why your Spot bid states have (or have not) changed, why your Spot instances were terminated or interrupted, and how to optimize your Spot bids to get them fulfilled
Amazon RDS for MySQL Now Supports Read Replica Promotion This option stops replication and converts the Read Replica in its existing state into a “standalone” DB Instance
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports SSL You can now use SSL to encrypt SQL Server connections between your applications and your RDS SQL Server instances
AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost
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AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost
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AWS Marketplace Now Supports IAM Users WS Marketplace now supports IAM users and permissions, enabling you to have fine-grained control for how your IAM users buy and run AWS Marketplace software
Web Page Redirects on Amazon S3 Hosted Websites A new feature that makes it even easier to manage changes to static websites hosted on Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Mailbox Simulator Easy way to test generic email responses, including bounces and complaints, without sending messages to actual recipients
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files Using the configuration files, you can now easily install packages, run daemons, and configure web servers, without having to create and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon RDS With this announcement, customers can gain hands-on-experience with Amazon RDS at no-cost
Nov 2012
Amazon CloudSearch Adds Features for Tuning Result Ranking Amazon CloudSearch users can now use field weighting and query time rank expressions to fine-tune their search results
Amazon CloudSearch Announces Free Trial Program and a Price Reduction For a limited time, AWS is offering a free trial program for Amazon CloudSearch that enables new users to set up fully-functional search domains that they can use for up to 30 days at no charge
Announcing New Improvements to Amazon DynamoDB BatchGetItem API will now support strongly consistent reads. Can now update the provisioned capacity of up to 10 tables simultaneously. Removed the limit on the minimum percentage change when updating your DynamoDB table's provisioned capacity
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Amazon CloudSearch Adds Features for Tuning Result Ranking Amazon CloudSearch users can now use field weighting and query time rank expressions to fine-tune their search results
Amazon CloudSearch Announces Free Trial Program and a Price Reduction For a limited time, AWS is offering a free trial program for Amazon CloudSearch that enables new users to set up fully-functional search domains that they can use for up to 30 days at no charge
Announcing New Improvements to Amazon DynamoDB BatchGetItem API will now support strongly consistent reads. Can now update the provisioned capacity of up to 10 tables simultaneously. Removed the limit on the minimum percentage change when updating your DynamoDB table's provisioned capacity
Introducing the AWS SDK for PHP 2 The AWS SDK for PHP 2 has been completely re-written to embrace modern PHP coding patterns and better integrate with popular PHP community frameworks (Guzzle, Symphony2)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC Elastic Beanstalk supports Ruby applications and frameworks that run on the Passenger application server and supports VPC Integration
Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume Doubling the previously available performance delivered from a single volume
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Introducing the AWS SDK for PHP 2 The AWS SDK for PHP 2 has been completely re-written to embrace modern PHP coding patterns and better integrate with popular PHP community frameworks
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC Elastic Beanstalk supports Ruby applications and frameworks that run on the Passenger application server and supports VPC Integration
Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume Doubling the previously available performance delivered from a single volume
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