Hello, Cloud Gurus, and welcome back to another AWS This Week,
where we cover all the nice things AWS announced in the past seven days.
Today, I'll be covering new EBS volumes.
There's some new CloudWatch logs features in Visual Studio Code,
RDS for SQL server gets an upgrade, there are some new heroes in the world,
and we announced our Guru of the Week. It's AWS this week with me,
Nick Triantafillou.
We kick things off this week with a new EBS volume type called Io2,
which comes with a hundred times higher durability and 10 times more IOPS per
gigibyte. And IOPS is the amount of operations per second, allowed on a disc.
Some disc use cases are really IO hungry or maybe latency sensitive.
So back in 2012, AWS announced EBS volumes with provisioned IOPS,
which came with 10 IOPS per gigibyte,
and it's growing steadily to 50 IOPS per gigabyte over the past eight years.
With Io2 volumes, this has increased to 500 IOPS per gigibyte,
which is huge. And these volumes also come with durability.
Io2 volumes are designed to deliver 99.99% durability,
making them more than 2000 times more reliable than a commodity disc drive.
All of this sounds awesome.
Perfect for business critical databases and workloads.
Not only can you make new Io2 volumes. now,
you can migrate your existing volumes to Io2 with a click of a button or a
single command within the AWS CLI. Check it out today.
Next up we have a new feature in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Code is a great development IDE from Microsoft and AWS Toolkit
is an open source plugin for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier to create
debug and deploy applications on AWS. Well,
now they've added CloudWatch logs features to the AWS Toolkit,
allowing you to interact with CloudWatch log groups and see the most recent
10,000 lines or 1 megabyte of log data straight into Visual Studio
Code without having to load your browser and open up the AWS console.
I can see this being a welcome addition for many developers.
This week AWS have also announced Amazon RDS for SQL Server now
supports SQL server 2019.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2019 comes with loads of new features,
such as accelerated database recovery, intelligent query processing,
monitoring improvements, and mission critical security features.
You can read all about it right now on the AWS blog. Okay.
It's time for my favorite announcement of the week. This week,
AWS have crowned their new AWS heroes from around the world.
The AWS heroes program recognizes a select few individuals who go above and
beyond to share their AWS knowledge, whether it's by running meetups, blogging,
making videos and public speaking about all things.
Congratulations to all of them. And speaking of congratulations,
it's time for me to announce this week's Guru of the Week.
This week our winner is Marc Lau, a solution engineer at NCS in Singapore.
Congratulations, a t-shirt and a sticker pack are on their way to you right now.
On last week's episode, we announced our Guru of the Week grand prize winners.
This week, let's hear from one of our winners, Bill,
on how he's planning to use his prize.
Hi, my name is Bill Bartlett.
I'm a Solution Principal from Slalom's New Jersey office.
I've been doing mostly AWS with a little bit of Azure since joining Slalom about
four years ago.
I'm an AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate and Certified Developer
Associate.
And I'm working on Certified Solution Architect Professional and Certified
Database Specialist.
I cover a range of AWS technologies with our clients from database migrations,
to devops, to applications and architecture.
And I'm starting to get into IoT and machine learning.
What I'm most looking forward to is to start doing a deeper dive into the
machine learning classes,
because we're seeing a lot of interest in that from our clients.
Thanks Bill!
If you'd like to enter to win Guru of the Week for your chance to win a t-shirt
and sticker pack, please visit our forum link below. Okay,
that's all for me this week. Keep being awesome Cloud Gurus,
and we'll see you next time.