Hello, Cloud Gurus and welcome to AWS this week.
And there are some great announcements this week, so let's get straight into it.
Firstly, AWS have launched the cloud development kit for Terraform.
There is a new CIS benchmark for Elastic Kubernetes Service.
AWS also launched the Amazon interactive video service,
and we announced our guru of the week.
You're watching AWS this week with me Faye Ellis
AWS have announced the cloud development kit for Terraform. And of course,
Terraform is a really widely used open source infrastructure as code software
tool,
which allows you to define your infrastructure in a declarative consistent and
repeatable way.
And infrastructure as code is really a fundamental component of modern DevOps
practices. However,
using a tool like Terraform usually means also learning a new configuration
language. So the big news is that AWS have teamed up with HashiCorp,
the developers of Terraform to create the cloud development kit for Terraform.
And this is a game changer because it means that developers will now be able to
define and provision infrastructure using familiar programming languages
like Python and TypeScript with more languages expected in the future.
So it's in preview right now and it's in the early stages of development and
it's an open source project as well.
So there's also the opportunity to contribute. Should you wish to do so.
There is a new center for internet security benchmark for Elastic Kubernetes
Service.
And this benchmark is designed to help you assess the security configuration of
your EKS cluster to help you meet any security and compliance
requirements.
Now you might be thinking 'isn't EKS secure by default?' and you'd be
right. However,
it is still your responsibility to ensure that you can figure the worker nodes
and your applications in a secure way. So as an EKS user,
you're responsible for managing identity,
access management users and roles and identity,
access management and resource based policies,
as well as node and pod security,
network security and encrypting any secrets as well.
And this is exactly what this benchmark is going to help with.
And it's designed specifically for the Amazon implementation of
EKS this week,
AWS launched Amazon interactive video service or IVS.
And this is a really cool new video streaming offering,
which makes it really easy to add live video to your applications and websites
so that your videos can be viewed all around the world in real time. Well,
almost so the great thing about this service is that it's low latency.
So the time between you broadcasting the video and it appearing on your viewer,
screens can be as little as two to three seconds,
and this is what makes it possible to create interactive.
So you can create polls and quizzes and add interactive elements to
communicate with your audience in real time. And it's currently available in us,
East Europe and US West regions. However,
the video delivery is available everywhere using the Amazon global network,
which is optimized for live video. So onto guru of the week,
and the correct answer to last week's question was A and quite a few people got
it, right. But the person with the best answer is Matt McKenzie.
Who's a systems engineer at C Spire business in the US so congratulations to
Matt. There's A Cloud Guru t-shirt,
sticker and hand-signed card on the way to you in the post and provided
re:invent happens this year,
you are also in the draw for a free ticket to reinvent 2020.
Please see the link below for this week's question,
which is now live on our forum. And that is all from me,
keep being awesome cloud gurus, take care of yourselves,
and I will see you soon.