Hello, cloud gurus and welcome to AWS this week,
where we find out what AWS has been up to in the past seven days. First up,
we have a huge announcement as of just a few hours ago. It's official,
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learning. Please have a look at the resource link if you'd like to learn more.
Okay, On to AWS: this week,
AWS have added resource identifiers and tags to VPC security group
rules. There's two new local zones,
and we find out what infinidash is. It's AWS This week with me,
Nick Triantafillou.
Kicking it off this week. AWS are always trying to make our lives easier.
Sometimes they release features that aren't really groundbreaking in themselves,
but the benefits they provide to existing customers can be really welcome.
And this is one of those times for anyone who deals with VPC security groups,
with the AWS command line or the API.
If you ever want to modify any of your VPC rules,
you have to specify loads of details in your command line.
It's almost like you're redefining the rule that every time you want to modify
it well today,
AWS have announced that when you add a rule to a security group,
the rule is now given a unique identifier,
which makes it much easier to modify your security group rules.
If you want to revoke a rule,
you can just specify the security group and the rule ID no longer do you
have to specify ports, protocols and IP ranges.
And not only that, you can also tag your security groups now as well.
And you can query those security groups based on the tags.
This is a huge time-saver for anyone using automation tooling,
and it will allow you to query, revoke and update your security groups at scale.
If you want to learn more,
there's a great AWS blog posts in the resources for you to check out.
Next up,
AWS have announced the general availability of two new locals zones in Dallas
and Philadelphia,
AWS local zones are like mini AWS regions where compute,
storage and databases and other select services are placed in data
centers closer to large populations where there isn't yet an AWS
region.
AWS local zones are now generally available also in Boston, Houston,
Los Angeles, and Miami,
and an additional 10 local zones will be launching this year in Atlanta,
Chicago, Denver, Kansas city, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York,
Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle.
This will allow AWS customers to deliver low latency applications to
end users in cities across the US and if a local zone is popular,
they may even eventually be upgraded to be a full AWS region as well,
which is what happened with the Osaka region in Japan.
So keep an eye out for that. Now, if you caught the end of last week's episode,
Ryan mentioned AWS infinidash,
and I think it's only appropriate We explain what that is.
Infinidash is actually an imaginary product invented by AWS
enthusiasts on Twitter last week to poke fun at the world of the insane amount
of tech products that are constantly announced each week or even each day on the
internet. You may have noticed people have made SDKs, guides,
certification courses, images, stickers, coffee mugs,
and all kinds of things to do with a service which does not exists,
just because it was fun. That being said,
the AWS ecosystem can be a challenge to navigate,
which is why it's so important to have a show like AWS this week to weed out
what's real and what isn't.
So if you'd heard about infinidash and couldn't figure out what it was,
then there's your answer.
Be sure to check out the resources linked to the infinidash git hub repository
below. There's even some infinidash merch you can purchase with all proceeds,
going to charity. All right. That's all for me this week,
keeping awesome cloud gurus and we'll see you next time.
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