Okay. Hello, cloud gurus and welcome to AWS. This week.
A brand new certified solutions architect course is available on the A Cloud
Guru platform. Jeff Barr releases some interesting stats about Amazon prime day.
The bottle rocket AMI for Amazon ECS is now generally available.
Amazon connect chat now supports apple business chat,
and AWS introduces a new framework-specific, deep learning AMI.
I'm Ryan Kroonenburg, and you're watching AWS this week.
So you might've been wondering where I've been the past six months. Well,
I've been working on a brand new certified solutions architect associate course.
I'm very pleased to announce that it is now live on our platform and the course
is huge.
It has 22 chapters and it covers all you need to know to pass your exam.
It's also now fully integrated with hands-on labs.
So you can go into pre-provisioned AWS environments and learn all about AWS by
directly interacting with it yourself.
So go check out the new course on our platform and let me know what you think.
So Jeff Barr has written a blog where he talks in depth about Amazon prime day
and how AWS supported it.
And 12 retail units within Amazon was supported by graviton two powered EC2
instances.
And it was the first time a large event was supported at scale using the
graviton two EC2 instances,
and they use 53,200 C6 G instances to
power prime day. Now the team at Amazon provisions,
159 petabytes of EBS storage,
which handled 11.1 trillion requests and transferred
614 petabytes on the day and cloud front handled a peak load
of 290 million HTTP requests per minute,
with a total of over 600 billion HTTP requests during
prime day. So to read more about this, go check out Jeff Barr's blog.
The link is below.
So the bottle rocket AMI for Amazon ECS is now generally available.
And bottle rocket is an open source Linux-based operating system that is purpose
built to run containers.
Now what's cool about BottleRocket is it only includes essential software that
are required to run containers,
and this helps customers significantly reduce the attack surface and impact of
vulnerabilities and bottlerocket's Root file system is read only,
and the kernal blocks all direct writes and behind the scenes will detect any
modifications as corrupt and reboot the hosts.
So it's a super secure way of running containers on ECS.
The Amazon ECS optimized bottlerockets AMI is available for Amazon EC2
instances in all commercial AWS regions.
So Amazon connect chat now supports apple business chat.
And Amazon connect is a contact center in the cloud,
which allows you to connect with and communicate with your customers.
And it supports both voice and chat services. Now connect chat,
service supports apple business chat,
which means your customers can interact with you using the apple messages
application on their iPhone,
that iPads or on their Mac and apple business chat makes it really easy for your
customers to chat with you anytime they click on your registered phone number on
an apple device.
So it's another great way of providing your customers with excellent customer
service. AWS introduces a new framework,
specific deep learning AMIs. DL AMIs,
or as I like to call them "dilammies",
provide machine learning practitioners and researchers with infrastructure and
tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud at any scale.
And these optimized new images are up to 60% smaller in size,
which speeds up the time for machine learning practitioners to launch
"dilammies" on AWS. So AWS have launched framework-specific.
DL AMIs for Py torch 1.9.0 and TensorFlow
2.5.0 with support the Amazon Linux to Ubuntu
18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04. So that's it for AWS this week.
I'm really glad to be back on the show and hopefully we'll have some exciting
announcements about Amazon Infinidash next week. So please do tune in next week.
Keep being awesome cloud gurus and we'll see you next
week.