Hello Cloud Gurus and welcome to AWS this week.
And there are some very cool announcements to tell you about this week,
including Amazon File Cache is now in general availability.
SQS message queues are now encrypted by default and the AWS Certified
Developer Associates and DevOps engineer professional exams are
both going to be updated next year. You're watching AWS this week with me,
Faye Ellis.
Amazon File Cache is now in general availability and this really cool new
service provides a scalable high speed sub millisecond cache that
allows EC2 instances to access data stored in disparate locations.
For instance, in your own data center, when you create a file cache,
it can be linked to multiple data stores. For example,
NFS file systems in your data center,
cloud-based file systems like Amazon fsx or even s3.
And you can link up to eight file systems to a single cache.
Once the cache is created,
EC2 instances can then mount it just like a normal file system.
As your workloads request your data for the first time,
file cache will automatically load it into the cache,
present it to your applications like a traditional file system,
and it will also release data that's no longer being used.
It supports encryption in transit and at rest.
And communication with On-Premises Networks uses either Direct Connect or a
vpn.
So this is a great way to cache your on-premises file systems so that your data
can be securely accessed by EC2.
This week it was announced that all newly created SQS message queues will
be encrypted by default using SSE SQS,
which is service side encryption, also known as encryption at rest.
And the encryption keys will be managed within the SQS service. Now,
if you haven't used SQS before,
it's a managed message Qing service that allows you to send store
and receive messages between applications.
So any new SQS queues are gonna be encrypted by default using SQS managed
encryption keys. However, if you would like to manage your own encryption keys,
you can still do so using the AWS key management service and both of these
options protect your data at rest using industry standard AES
256-bit algorithms,
the AWS certified developer associate exam is going to be updated
and the reason for the exam is to reflect changes in trends,
the industry landscape, and the work practices of cloud professionals.
But if you are currently studying for this exam, don't worry,
this change is not gonna happen until next year.
So the last date to take the current exam,
which is DVA-C01 is February the 27th.
And then after that, only the new exam DVA-C02 will be available.
And you might be wondering what are they updating? Well,
they've updated the exam domains slightly increasing the focus on deployment
development and troubleshooting,
and they've completely removed the refactoring domain from the new exam guide.
But most importantly, they are adding new services like Amazon, Open Search,
App Sync, co-pilot memory DB for Redis,
Amplify Cloud nine,
Cloud Shell app config and cloud development kit or cdk.
Now the AWS certified DevOps engineer professional exam is also getting an
update. Once again, this is happening next year.
So the last date to take the current exam,
DOP-C01 is March the sixth. Then after that,
only the new exam DOP-C02 will be available.
What are they updating while they've updated the exam domains slightly,
The high availability domain is renamed to Resilient Cloud Solutions.
There's a new domain called security and Compliance,
which replaces the existing policies and standards domain and it looks like
a far greater focus on security with this new version of the exam.
And they are also adding new services like Amazon Open Search App
Flow Event Bridge App to Container co-pilot Fault
Injection Simulator, Compute Optimizer, Control Tower,
AWS managed services for Grafana and Prometheus,
Proton Resilience Hub, Private Link,
and loads of other security services like Certificate Manager,
Cloud hsm, Security Hub, and AWS WAF.
And finally, if you are looking to get started in cloud or boost your career,
we are inviting you to get Cloud Happy until the end of the year.
We are giving away free training for Amazon Cloud practitioner certification,
Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamental Certification,
and Google's Cloud Digital Leader certification,
as well as the HashiCorp certified Terraform associate and certified
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sign up for free and boost your cloud career. While that's all for this week,
keep being awesome. Cloud Gurus,
take care of yourselves and I'll look forward to seeing you soon.