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

AWS New Services

In the last week during Amazon re:Invent 2015 Las Vegas, Amazon has announced some new services  below are quick view of of these services and more details are on the way !!!

Amazon QuickSight:

Fast, easy-to-use, cloud-powered business intelligence

 Amazon Kinesis Firehose:

Easily load streaming data to AWS

 

AWS Import/Export Snowball:  

Transfer 1 Petabyte Per Week Using Amazon-Owned Storage Appliances

AWS Config Rules (Preview)

AWS Config Rules is a new set of cloud governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. AWS Config Rules lets you choose from a set of pre-built rules based on common AWS best practices or custom rules that you define

Amazon Inspector (Preview)

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed report with prioritized steps for remediation

How to Convert IT from Cost to Value

How to Convert IT from Cost to Value

Now days each big organization have many divisions and those divisions are eating cost and because of this IT looks like a Cost not profit center to higher management.

Also Higher management does not able to find out which department eating IT most and when it comes to different public cloud , private cloud and hybrid cloud it becomes very difficult.
and to solve this problem we need to focus on   TBM (Technology Business Management)

I am just describing approach to achieve this 

1)  First you need to collect data on who is eating your services.

2) Then you need to collect data and prepare inventory of all the hardware , software and network (including Service provider )

3) Collect vendor information a 

4) Now once you have this data you need to use tool which allow you to see unified view across all the the infrastructure (like cloud cruiser )

5)  once you have this kind of tools ..it will provide you data about which business unit is consuming your service.

6) now you can use chargeback and show back to relaize that business unit that they are consuming services

7) for private cloud you can use cost model from Apptio and from other to determine exact cost of the VMs and other hardware (including space ) and based on that you can chargeback - showback to your division

8) once you have trend data and capacity picture then you can optmize your cost

9) some tools allow you to do What-If modeling which empower you to compare with diffrent public/private and hybrid model.

once you start forecasting , chargeback-showback and invoices , you will cameto know from where we can cut the cost and at what level.

This will reduce your cost by 20-30% and most it will help higher management to take decision 

For create your next IT cloud strategy feel free to contact me on viralpala@gmail.com may be I can guide you to save the cost and help you to design your Enterprise cloud migration .

Thanks 

Viral Pala , PMP

viralpala@gmail.com

Amazon AWS EFS (Elastic File System)

So finally wait is over, Amazon unfold this in San Francisco, CA seminar.

So what is Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) ?

It’s new generation storage for the Amazon cloud lover (like me!!!)

• Fully managed File System for EC2
• Grows to petabyte scale , elastically (No need for pre-reserve , pay as you use)
• It’s SSD based (Solid State Based) , so very low latency and high through
• Highly available and durable
• Automatically data replication across available zones (AZs) (Same way S3 do)
• Support NFSv4

Not only has that still there are some other features as well

• Throughout and IOPS scale automatically
• Support for thousands of concurrent NFS connections
• Consistent Low latency access.

Still it's in Preview but I am hoping by next winter they will launch full fledged service.

If you need more information feel free to email me on viralpala@gmail.com or if you have any other information please post that in comment section so all can share the knowledge !