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Well-Architected Migration Lens for Streamlined Cloud Transition
AWS has introduced the AWS Well-Architected Migration Lens, an extension of the Well-Architected Framework. This extension incorporates best practices and implementation guidance that customers can utilize in their migration program across the three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate.
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Zonal Autoshift on AWS: Optimizing Infrastructure Reliability
Zonal autoshift, a new capability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, automatically shifts traffic away from an Availability Zone (AZ) when a potential failure is identified by the cloud provider. The service redirects the traffic back once the AZ failure is resolved.
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AWS Console-to-Code: Generating Code for Console Actions
AWS recently introduced Console-to-Code, offering a new capability to transform actions executed in the console into reusable code for AWS CDK and CloudFormation. This generative AI feature is currently in preview, supporting only Amazon EC2, and provides a guided path for creating resources and testing prototypes.
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DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
In a recent move, DoorDash has significantly optimized its cloud infrastructure costs. The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture. To substantially reduce this cost, DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture.
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B2B Data Interchange: Managed Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on AWS
AWS recently introduced B2B Data Interchange, a platform allowing organizations to automate and monitor the transformation of EDI-based business transactions. The service provides a low-code interface for managing trading partners and translating EDI documents into JSON and XML formats.
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Real-Time Data Streaming Capabilities with AppSync Integration in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus
AWS recently announced that Amazon EventBridge Event Bus supports AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target, enabling developers to stream real-time updates such as sports scores from their applications to frontend applications, including mobile and desktop.
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Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
Slack migrated most of the critical user-facing services from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation. The new architecture allows incrementally draining all the traffic away from the affected availability zone within 5 minutes.
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Amazon ECS Integration with Amazon EBS for Data Processing Workloads and Flexible Storage
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which makes it easier for users to run a broader range of data processing workloads.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms Can Now Directly Trigger Lambda Functions
AWS recently announced that Amazon CloudWatch alarms now support AWS Lambda functions as an action for state changes. This new feature enables developers to automate remediation actions when detecting an unhealthy resource.
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Amazon OpenSearch Zero ETL with S3 and New OR1 Instances
Amazon has announced the preview of the Amazon OpenSearch Service's zero-extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) integration with Amazon S3, offering a novel method to analyze operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without the need to switch between services. Amazon also announced the new OR1 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
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AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero
Recently, AWS notified existing customers running Amazon Aurora that Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year. The absence of scaling to zero in the newer Aurora Serverless v2 has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a "true" serverless relational database on AWS.
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Amazon Route 53 Resolver Introduces DNS over HTTPS Support for Enhanced Security and Compliance
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver will support using the Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS (DoH) protocol for both inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints.
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Amazon Aurora Introduces Long-Awaited RDS Data API to Simplify Serverless Workloads
Recently, AWS introduced a new Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances. Currently available for PostgreSQL clusters only, the Data API doesn't require persistent connections to a database cluster, addressing a long-awaited need among developers to simplify serverless deployments.
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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs
Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.
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Amazon Q Code Transformation: Automating Java Application Upgrades
AWS has recently announced the preview of Amazon Q Code Transformation, a service designed to simplify the process of upgrading existing Java application code through generative artificial intelligence. The new feature aims to minimize legacy code and automate common language upgrade tasks required to move off older language versions.