Thursday, July 11, 2019

Quick Summary of AWS Summit New York – 2019



During AWS Summit New York – 2019 AWS announced many new services, launched existing services in new region and added new features in existing services. Personally, I liked Event Bridge and CloudWatch Container insights. Below are  highlights of these services

Introducing Amazon EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. EventBridge delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources, such Zendesk, Datadog, or Pagerduty, and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda.

You can set up routing rules to determine where to send your data to build application architectures that react in real time to all of your data sources. EventBridge allows you to build event-driven architectures, which are loosely coupled and distributed. This improves developer agility as well as application resiliency. EventBridge makes it easy to build event-driven applications because it takes care of event ingestion and delivery, security, authorization, and error-handling for you.



 EventBridge leverages the CloudWatch Events API, so CloudWatch Events users can access their existing default bus, rules, and events in the new EventBridge console, as well as in the CloudWatch Events console.

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate - Now in Preview

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights is now available in preview to monitor, isolate, and diagnose your containerized applications and microservices environments. With this preview, DevOps and systems engineers have access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of their Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate clusters by tasks, containers, and services.  


Optimize Cost with Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Lifecycle Management (Cost Optimization)
You can now choose from four Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Lifecycle Management policies to automatically move files into the EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA) storage class and save up to 85% as your access patterns change. Additionally, you can now enable Lifecycle Management for all EFS file systems. 

AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports AWS CloudFormation (Good feature for Media domain)

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and configure AWS Elemental MediaLive channels (both inputs and outputs). This improvement enables you to use AWS CloudFormation to deploy MediaLive resources in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.

Note: Reference has been taken from aws.amazon.com