Episode 56 - September 2019 Tech Round-up
In this round-up episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dean come at you with raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in August and September in the year 2019. They start the show with an announcement - support for multiple TLS certificates on Network Load Balancers using Server Name Indication (SNI). You can now host multiple secure applications, each with its own TLS certificate, on a single load balancer listener. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is now GA, and it is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central trusted authority. They then spoke about the recently announced AWS Solution that uses Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Elasticsearch (ES) Service for indexing and analyzing unstructured text. This reference implementation in the form of AWS CloudFormation (CFN) deploys a cost-effective, end-to-end solution for extracting meaningful insights from unstructured data. Also, it has a tasty Kibana dashboard to provide visualizations. Updates for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow logs - In addition to existing fields, you can now choose to add in additional meta-data that will help provide more meaningful conclusions. Finally, to close out the show we covered two updates for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Amazon EKS now allows you to assign IAM permissions to Kubernetes service accounts. This update gives you fine-grained, pod level access-control when running clusters with multiple co-located services. Secondly, we just released 1.14.6 for Amazon EKS. Please check out the EKS support policy as we only support the last three (1.12, 1.13 & 1.14) EKS releases. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Dean Samuels – Lead Architect, ASEAN, AWS Resources: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge location in Portugal - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-cloudfront-lisbon-portugal/ Amazon CloudFront announces new Edge location in Israel - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/08/cloudfront-israel/ Amazon CloudFront expands presence in the Middle East with first Edge location in Bahrain - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/cloudfront-bahrain-launch/ Network Load Balancers now support multiple TLS certificates using Server Name Indication (SNI) - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/elastic-load-balancing-network-load-balancers-now-supports-multiple-tls-certificates-using-server-name-indication/ Additional Metadata to Amazon VPC Flow Logs - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/now-add-additional-metadata-to-amazon-vpc-flow-logs/ General Availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/announcing-general-availability-qldb/ Analyzing Text with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Comprehend - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/introducing-analyzing-text-with-amazon-elasticsearch-service-and-amazon-comprehend/ Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.14 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes-version-1-14/ AWS Events: AWSome Day Online series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Modern Application Development Online Event https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Data Analytics Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/ AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/