Okay. Hello, cloud gurus,
how y'all doing Scott Pletcher here with another week of AWS news Goodness.
EC2 root volumes Get a new trick.
The redshift feature set just keeps on growing.
We have some new open data sets to play with and my dream of a post apocalyptic
deepracer Thunderdome battle Royale gets a little closer to reality.
All right here on AWS this week.
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AWS has enabled a new feature for EC2 that lets us do a quick switcheroo of our
route volumes.
We can roll back to the original launch state or a last known good snapshot
without even stopping the instance.
And this can come in handy If you accidentally lock yourself out with a config
change, as I have done many times,
or if you get a little too crazy with that RM dash F command,
as I have done many times. If you do have to roll back your root volume,
any ephemeral volume data and network config is preserved,
which is pretty darn cool.
Now you can only use this feature on EBS volumes,
no instance store volumes,
and it does not work for metal instances that said this feature is sure to
save some time and headache.
When AWS announced Redshift way back in 2012,
I thought it was a perfect cloud-based alternative to the very pricey on-prem
data warehouse appliances available At that time.
It was a little rough around the edges when it first released, but over time,
more and more features have been added to give it some really interesting and
unique capabilities in the enterprise data warehouse space. Recently,
AWS announced some new features that might be worth a look. For starters,
the Redshift advanced query accelerator or Aqua is now generally available.
Aqua is a high-speed caching layer that scales out in parallel to process
queries at super fast speeds.
Next data feeds from select AWS partners have now been natively integrated with
Redshift, allowing you to ingest and join data across partners like Informatica,
SnapLogic, Matillion, and more.
Finally red shift now natively supports JSON and
semi-structured data via the new super data type.
You can also use party QL to query that similarly structured nested data,
opening up some interesting possibilities. Go Redshift go.
AWS has published 28 new and updated data sets on its registry of
open data.
This registry contains over 250 data sets from life sciences, agriculture,
climate, and weather, machine learning, and many more disciplines.
Aside from being handy If you're a researcher,
they're great for experimenting with various AWS analytics services.
Since most of the data sets are stored on S3,
you can use them to get hands-on with Athena, AWS glue, Redshift, spectrum,
SageMaker ,quick sight or any other service where you need a big batch of
data. Speaking of open data,
AWS has opened source the deep racer software.
This means that the deep racer hardware platform is way more hackable letting us
scheme up new ways for our little autonomous cars to do our bidding.
Along with the original deep racer and deep racer Evo hardware platforms.
We can also bolt on the 360 degree LIDAR kit to the original deep racer,
add a 3d vision kit for depth perception and upgrade the neural
net processing power. As part of this open source release,
AWS has published a handful of demo projects to help you get started on your
hackery, including mounting a Nerf blaster to the thing.
I would most definitely not be attaching a flame thrower to this little guy
right here.
And that my friends is all the AWS news that's fit to print this week.
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