Okay. Hello cloud gurus. How y'all doing?
This is Scott Pletcher coming to you this week from my underground bunker at an
undisclosed location somewhere in the United States of America.
Now this week, big changes are afoot with AWS certifications.
AWS global accelerator launches TCP termination at the edge,
and Amazon connect now offers voicemail, sort of,
and we'll reveal our guru of the week.
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Well, just like many of you, we at ACG have been hunkered down too,
but fear not gurus. The ACG content terrain just keeps on running.
As for me, I'm in good health and in good spirits.
Here at the Pletcher compound, I have 12 cases of sardines,
a five gallon bucket of Saracha, and a great internet connection.
I've even made some new friends during my isolation. In fact,
let me introduce you to someone right now.
This is Kevin. Hey Kevin.
Why don't you say hello to the good people of the cloud?
Kevin, you say the darndest things. I'm not so sure that's safe for work.
All right, Kevin, get a load of this. This is some big news indeed.
Some big news broke this week when AWS announced that it will now offer online
proctored certification exams through Pearson Vue using their on view platform.
Now,
previously only the AWS certified cloud practitioner was available remotely,
but with this announcement,
all AWS certifications are now available online as well.
So what exactly is a proctored online exam? Well,
it's the same exam as you would take at a testing center,
except somebody will be watching and listening to you via your webcam for the
duration of the test. Now if this doesn't creep you out too much,
then I guess the excuse of can't find time to get to a testing center is now
officially gone.
AWS global accelerator launches TCP termination at the edge.
What's that, Kevin? Oh, you don't know about global accelerator?
Let me tell you, it's like the next generation of elastic IP,
except it's better. It allows you to define static IP addresses,
which serve as layers of abstraction across multiple availability zones and even
multiple regions. Now TCP is a connection oriented protocol,
which means that the client needs to establish a connection to use the service.
Because of this, TCP connections are usually more sensitive to network,
latency and stability by allowing the client to establish that TCP connection
with an end point as close to them as possible,
and then writing the AWS global network. From there,
the client gets better responsiveness and more reliable network performance.
Amazon connect now offers voicemail, sort of. This week,
AWS released an AWS solution that allows Amazon connect customers to deploy
voicemail service complete with transcription and SMS or email delivery.
It's a crafty cloud formation assembly of Amazon Kinesis video streams,
Kinesis data streams, Lambda dynamo transcribe,
good old S3 and a few other services.
If you haven't checked out solutions before, it's definitely worth a look.
AWS solutions are AWS vetted chunks of business functionality that can be
deployed with a little more than a button push. All right, Kevin, calm down,
calm down.
Now he's obviously excited because it's the time of the program that everybody
looks forward to and that's when we announce our guru of the week.
This week's winner is Tamir Rosenburg,
a senior dev ops engineer from Los Angeles, California. A tee shirt,
sticker and hand sign card are on their way to you and you've also been entered
into a drawing to win a free ticket to reinvent 2020.
If you'd like to take a crack at this week's guru of the week question,
you can check it out on our form link down below.
And that my friends is all the news that's fit to print this week from Kevin and
myself. Until next time, stay healthy and keep being awesome,
Cloud Gurus.
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