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AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon LightSail, Amazon VPC, and more — January 29, 2024

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-api-gateway-aws-step-functions-amazon-ecs-amazon-eks-amazon-lightsail-amazon-vpc-and-more-january-29-2024/

This past week our service teams continue to innovate on your behalf, and a lot has happened in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) universe. I’ll also share about all the AWS Community events and initiatives that are happening around the world.

Let’s dive in!

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that got my attention:

AWS Step Functions adds integration for 33 services including Amazon Q – AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 11,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. This week, AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 33 additional AWS services, including Amazon Q, AWS B2B Data Interchange, and Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect introduces support for automatic traffic encryption with TLS Certificates – Amazon ECS launches support for automatic traffic encryption with Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for its networking capability called ECS Service Connect. With this support, ECS Service Connect allows your applications to establish a secure connection by encrypting your network traffic.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro support Kubernetes version 1.29 – Kubernetes version 1.29 introduced several new features and bug fixes. You can create new EKS clusters using v1.29 and upgrade your existing clusters to v1.29 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool.

IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail – With these new instance bundles, you can get up and running quickly on IPv6-only without the need for a public IPv4 address with the ease of use and simplicity of Amazon Lightsail. If you have existing Lightsail instances with a public IPv4 address, you can migrate your instances to IPv6-only in a few simple steps.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) supports idempotency for route table and network ACL creation – Idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs is intended for customers that use network orchestration systems or automation scripts that create route tables and network ACLs as part of a workflow. It allows you to safely retry creation without additional side effects.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces audio-only pricing for Low-Latency Streaming – Amazon IVS is a managed live streaming solution that is designed to make low-latency or real-time video available to viewers around the world. It now offers audio-only pricing for its Low-Latency Streaming capability at 1/10th of the existing HD video rate.

Sellers can resell third-party professional services in AWS Marketplace – AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and channel partners, can now resell third-party professional services in AWS Marketplace. Services can include implementation, assessments, managed services, training, or premium support.

Introducing the AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency – This is the first go-to-market AWS Specialization designed for partners who deliver to small and medium-sized customers. The SMB Competency provides enhanced benefits for AWS Partners to invest and focus on SMB customer business, such as becoming the go-to standard for participation in new pilots and sales initiatives and receiving unique access to scale demand generation engines.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions:

Other AWS news
Here are some additional projects, programs, and news items that you might find interesting:

Get The NewsExport a Software Bill of Materials using Amazon Inspector – Generating an SBOM gives you critical security information that offers you visibility into specifics about your software supply chain, including the packages you use the most frequently and the related vulnerabilities that might affect your whole company. My colleague Varun Sharma in South Africa shows how to export a consolidated SBOM for the resources monitored by Amazon Inspector across your organization in industry standard formats, including CycloneDx and SPDX. It also shares insights and approaches for analyzing SBOM artifacts using Amazon Athena.

AWS open source news and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open source newsletter in which he highlights new open source projects, tools, and demos from the AWS Community.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS InnovateAWS Innovate: AI/ML and Data Edition – Register now for the Asia Pacific & Japan AWS Innovate online conference on February 22, 2024, to explore, discover, and learn how to innovate with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Choose from over 50 sessions in three languages and get hands-on with technical demos aimed at generative AI builders.

AWS Summit Paris 2024AWS Summit Paris  – The AWS Summit Paris is an annual event that is held in Paris, France. It is a great opportunity for cloud computing professionals from all over the world to learn about the latest AWS technologies, network with other professionals, and collaborate on projects. The Summit is free to attend and features keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and hands-on labs. Registrations are open!

AWS Community re:Invent re:CapsAWS Community re:Invent re:Caps – Join a Community re:Cap event organized by volunteers from AWS User Groups and AWS Cloud Clubs around the world to learn about the latest announcements from AWS re:Invent.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— seb

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

AWS Week in Review – June 27, 2022

Post Syndicated from Danilo Poccia original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-june-27-2022/

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

It’s the beginning of a new week, and I’d like to start with a recap of the most significant AWS news from the previous 7 days. Last week was special because I had the privilege to be at the very first EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Milan, Italy. It was a great opportunity of mutual learning as this community of experts shared their thoughts with AWS developer advocates, product managers, and technologists on topics such as containers, serverless, and machine learning.

Participants at the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit 2022

Last Week’s Launches
Here are the launches that got my attention last week:

Amazon Connect Cases (available in preview) – This new capability of Amazon Connect provides built-in case management for your contact center agents to create, collaborate on, and resolve customer issues. Learn more in this blog post that shows how to simplify case management in your contact center.

Many updates for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Oracle database 12.2 and 18c, and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with one primary and two readable standby database instances now supports M5d and R5d instances and is available in more Regions. There is also a Regional expansion for RDS Custom. Finally, PostgreSQL 14, a new major version, is now supported by Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition.

AWS WAF Captcha is now generally available – You can use AWS WAF Captcha to block unwanted bot traffic by requiring users to successfully complete challenges before their web requests are allowed to reach resources.

Private IP VPNs with AWS Site-to-Site VPN – You can now deploy AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections over AWS Direct Connect using private IP addresses. This way, you can encrypt traffic between on-premises networks and AWS via Direct Connect connections without the need for public IP addresses.

AWS Center for Quantum Networking – Research and development of quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize science and technology. To address fundamental scientific and engineering challenges and develop new hardware, software, and applications for quantum networks, we announced the AWS Center for Quantum Networking.

Simpler access to sustainability data, plus a global hackathon – The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative catalog of datasets is now searchable and discoverable through AWS Data Exchange. As part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO, you can use the power of the cloud to help the world become sustainable by participating to the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative Global Hackathon.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
A couple of takeaways from the Amazon re:MARS conference:

Amazon CodeWhisperer (preview) – Amazon CodeWhisperer is a coding companion powered by machine learning with support for multiple IDEs and languages.

Synthetic data generation with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Generate labeled synthetic image data that you can combine with real-world data to create more complete training datasets for your ML models.

Some other updates you might have missed:

AstraZeneca’s drug design program built using AWS wins innovation award – AstraZeneca received the BioIT World Innovative Practice Award at the 20th anniversary of the Bio-IT World Conference for its novel augmented drug design platform built on AWS. More in this blog post.

Large object storage strategies for Amazon DynamoDB – A blog post showing different options for handling large objects within DynamoDB and the benefits and disadvantages of each approach.

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS under the hood – Some details of how DevOps Guru for RDS works, with a specific focus on its scalability, security, and availability.

AWS open-source news and updates – A newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to bring you the latest open-source projects, posts, events, and more.

Upcoming AWS Events
It’s AWS Summits season and here are some virtual and in-person events that might be close to you:

On June 30, the AWS User Group Ukraine is running an AWS Tech Conference to discuss digital transformation with AWS. Join to learn from many sessions including a fireside chat with Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com.

That’s all from me for this week. Come back next Monday for another Week in Review!

— Danilo

Selecting the right database and database migration plan for your workloads

Post Syndicated from Nikhil Anand original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/selecting-the-right-database-and-database-migration-plan-for-your-workloads/

There has been a tectonic shift in the approach to hosting enterprise workloads. Companies are rapidly moving from on-premises data centers to cloud-based services. The driving factor has been the ability to innovate faster on the cloud.

Your transition to cloud can be straightforward, but it does go beyond the usual ‘lift-and-shift’ approach. To start with, you’ll need a cloud provider that provides a data store and computing facility. But you’ll be able to grow your business with a provider that has purpose-built resources and a platform that supports innovation. Companies are using higher-level services such as fully managed databases and serverless compute offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to get the most out of their cloud adoption journey.

In this blog, we will focus on the database tier of enterprise applications. We will evaluate the reasons for moving to managed or purpose-built databases. Then we’ll discuss in more detail the options you have and how to implement the right database migration plan for your workloads.

Why move to a managed database?

Managed databases, or purpose-built databases, are managed services by AWS that free you to focus on other business and technical priorities. Different types of databases fill certain needs, and so the database tier in an application should never be a one-size-fits-all approach. Based on the kind of application you are developing, you should research managed options that suit your business and enterprise use cases.

Database Type Use Cases AWS Service
Relational Traditional applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), ecommerce
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Redshift
Key-Value High-traffic web applications, ecommerce systems, gaming applications
  • Amazon DynamoDB
In-Memory Caching, session management, gaming leaderboards, geospatial applications
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Document Content management, catalogs, user profiles
  • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
Wide Column High-scale industrial apps for equipment maintenance, fleet management, and route optimization
  • Amazon Keyspaces
Graph Fraud detection, social networking, recommendation engines
  • Amazon Neptune
Time Series Internet of Things (IoT) applications, DevOps, industrial telemetry
  • Amazon TimeStream
Ledger Systems of record, supply chain, registrations, banking transactions
  • Amazon QLDB

Table 1. Managed databases by AWS

Managed database features

Manageability. The top priority and most valuable asset that you own as a company is your data. While data remains your key asset, spending time on database management is not the optimum use of your time. Managed services have built-in reliable tooling for multiple aspects of database management, which can help your database operate at the highest level.

Availability and disaster recovery. Most managed databases at AWS are highly available by default. For example, Amazon Aurora is designed to offer 99.99% availability, replicating six copies of your data across three Availability Zones (Figure 1). It backs up your data continuously to Amazon S3. It recovers transparently from physical storage failures; instance failover typically takes less than 30 seconds.

Replication across three Availability Zones with Amazon Aurora DB cluster

Figure 1. Replication across three Availability Zones with Amazon Aurora DB cluster

With managed databases, you get multiple options to create a highly available and fault tolerant database. Alternatively, if you choose to self-host a database elsewhere you will have to formulate your own disaster recovery (DR) strategy. This takes meticulous DR planning and relies heavily on a constant monitoring solution.

Elasticity and agility: Cloud offers elasticity for scaling your database. You can scale in minutes and spin up and down additional servers and storage size as needed. It offers you flexibility with capacity planning. You can always reassess your database tier to see if it is over or under provisioned.

Self-managed databases on AWS

If I do not need a managed database, should I still use Amazon EC2 to host my database?

Here are some cases when you may find it beneficial to host your database on Amazon EC2 instances:

  • You need full control over the database and access to its underlying operating system, database installation, and configuration.
  • You are ready to plan for the high availability of your database, and prepare your disaster recovery plan.
  • You want to administer your database, including backups and recovery. You must perform tasks such as patching the operating system and the database, tuning the operating system and database parameters, managing security, and configuring high availability or replication.
  • You want to use features that aren’t currently supported by managed services.
  • You need a specific database version that isn’t supported by AWS managed database service.
  • Your database size and performance needs exceed the limits of the managed service.
  • You want to avoid automatic software patches that might not be compliant with your applications.
  • You want to achieve higher IOPS and storage capacity than the current limits of the managed services.

Can I customize my underlying OS and database environment?

Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. With Amazon RDS Custom, you have access to the underlying EC2 instance that hosts the DB engine. You can access the EC2 instance via secure shell (AWS Systems Manager and SSH) and perform the customizations to suit your application needs.

Choosing which migration plan to implement

The first step in your cloud database migration journey is identifying which database that you want to migrate to. For relational databases, determine the migration strategy. In the majority of the database migrations, you can choose to rehost, replatform, or refactor.

Refer the AWS Prescriptive Guidance for choosing a migration strategy for relational databases.

The next is determining which database migration plan best serves your needs. AWS provides a number of options to help correctly handle your data migration with minimal downtime. Here are the database migration plans that you can consider using for your cloud database adoption journey:

1. AWS-offered AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS): AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a self-service option for migrating databases. You can use AWS DMS to migrate between homogeneous database types, such as going from one MySQL instance to a new one. You can also use AWS DMS between heterogeneous database types, such as moving from a commercial database like Oracle to a cloud-native relational database like Aurora. Read tutorials about migrating sample data: AWS Database Migration Service Step-by-Step Walkthroughs.

AWS DMS offers minimal downtime, supports widely used databases, supports on-going replication, is offered as a low-cost service, and is highly reliable. If you are looking for an end-to-end service for database migration, consider AWS DMS.

2. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT): If you are migrating between heterogenous databases, use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). It converts the source database schema and the database code objects (like views, stored procedures, and functions) to a format compatible with the target database (Figure 2).

Supported conversions with AWS Schema Conversion Tool

Figure 2. Supported conversions with AWS Schema Conversion Tool

For heterogeneous migrations, consider using AWS DMS with AWS SCT.

3. Database Freedom Program: If you are new to cloud computing or if your database migration plan must be evaluated and validated by industry experts, then try the Database Freedom Program. Database Freedom is a unique program designed to assist customers in migrating to AWS databases and analytics services. They will provide technical advice, migration support, and financial assistance.

You can use the Contact Us page for the Database Freedom program to get in touch with experts that can assist you in your cloud adoption journey.

4. AWS Professional Services and Partners: You may have in-house database expertise, but need end-to-end implementation assistance across different application tiers. Get help from the Professional Services of AWS or connect with the certified network of AWS Partners. AWS Database Migration Service Delivery Partners help customers use AWS DMS to migrate databases to AWS securely, while minimizing application downtime and following best practices.

Conclusion

Migrating to the cloud is a journey that is ever-evolving. To remain focused on your innovations, leverage the managed services of AWS for your migration journey.

I hope this post helps you consider using a managed database service when available, and effectively evaluate and choose the right database migration plan for your enterprise. For any queries, feel free to get in touch with us. We will be happy to help you in your cloud journey.

Happy migrating!

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