Hello, cloud gurus. And welcome back to another AWS this week,
where we find out what AWS have been up to in the past seven days
this week, AWS have released the elemental link UHD.
AWS backup now supports crash,
consistent backups of EBS volumes closely related to that.
Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash,
consistent AMIs and windows server and SQL server EC2
instances get per second billing. It's AWS this week with me,
Nick Triantafillou.
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The big announcement this week is that AWS have just released the elemental link
UHD.
This is an ultra HD version of their high efficiency video coding encoding
device that can connect an ultra high definition video source like a camera
to AWS elemental media live for processing video in the AWS
cloud. The older version, the elemental link announced in 2020,
could handle 1080P at 60 frames per second, with an eight bit color depth.
The new ultra HD can handle 4k at 60 frames per second,
with a 10 bit color depth.
The devices are fast and easy to set up and ship fully configured to your
AWS account.
Many companies are already using these devices for a wide variety of streaming
applications from enterprise events, live sports, music,
fitness classes, and even live surgery to train medical professionals,
a very cool device and service. Be sure to.
Check them out. Next.
Up by default, AWS backup now supports crash,
consistent backups of ebs volumes,
which are attached to EC2 instances.
This means that AWS backup users no longer have to stop their
instances or coordinate between multiple EBS volumes attached to the
same EC2 instances to get a crash consistent backup.
In a very similar vein, and I'm assuming using the same underlying technology.
Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash consistent AMIs
from instances with multiple EBS volumes,
without having to reboot the instance.
The AMI created will retain data from all completed IO
operations from each volume attached to the instance.
This means that you can launch an instance from the AMI and return to the
exact state prior to the creation,
the image previously to do any of this,
you had to manually pause any IO operations before creating an
AMI,
or you had to shut down the machine or reboot it during AMI creation.
AWS have now made this process significantly easier.
Finally, this week,
Amazon EC2 windows server and SQL server instances.
And now billed per second instead of per hour,
this applies to all on demand,
reserved and spot instances running on EC2.
They're now all billed in one second increments with a minimum of 60 seconds,
anyone using a large amount of instances running for strange lengths of time,
such as for development or testing will benefit significantly from this.
As you will no longer have to worry about maximizing your usage to one hour
blocks.
You can simply use the instances as required and you will be built for that
usage and that usage only now,
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That's all for me this week.
Keeping awesome cloud Gurus and we'll see you next time.