AWS re:Invent 2020 Important Announcements - 1st December
Below are few important announcements in re:Invent 2020 by AWS in 1st week.
1. Introducing new Amazon EBS general purpose volumes, gp3
AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next-generation general purpose SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) that enable customers to provision performance independent of storage capacity and provides up to 20% lower price-point per GB than existing gp2 volumes.
EBS has 3 kinds of SSD EBS volumes before gp3: gp2, IO1 & IO2
2. AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda customers can now provision Lambda functions with a maximum of 10 GB) of memory, which is 3 times more than previous limit (3 GB).
3. AWS Announces AWS Proton - New Service
AWS Proton enables organizations to provide managed, standardized deployment infrastructure for developers, using best practices and well-architected templates. By using Proton's self-service interface to select a standardized infrastructure, developers can deploy code at high velocity.
Image source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/latest/adminguide/Welcome.html
4. AWS Lambda changes duration billing granularity from 100ms down to 1ms
AWS Lambda reduced the billing granularity for Lambda function duration from 100ms down to 1ms. This will lower the price for most Lambda functions, more so for short duration functions. Their compute duration will be billed in 1ms increments instead of being rounded up to the nearest 100 ms increment per invoke. For example, a function that runs in 35ms on average used to be billed for 100ms. Now, it will be billed for 35ms resulting in a 65% drop in its duration spend.
5. Introducing Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking
These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, with a frequency up to 4.5 GHz.
Info: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-amazon-ec2-m5zn-instances/
6. Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications
Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications that means read after any write to S3 bucket would be available immediately in S3.
Info: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-s3-now-delivers-strong-read-after-write-consistency-automatically-for-all-applications/
7. Announcing Amazon ECR Public and Amazon ECR Public Gallery
ECR Public Gallery(public container registry) as another DockerHub, where we can store, manage, share, and deploy container images for anyone to discover and download globally.
ECR Gallery: https://gallery.ecr.aws/
8. Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Mac instances for macOS are generally available. Built on Apple Mac mini computers, EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can now provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.
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9. Amazon S3 Replication adds support for multiple destinations in the same, or different AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Replication now gives you the ability to replicate data from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets in the same, or different AWS Regions.
10. Introducing Amazon EKS Distro - an open source Kubernetes distribution used by Amazon EKS.
Clusters created with EKS Distro releases will be running the same Kubernetes releases, version aligned dependencies, and security patches deployed by Amazon EKS to create and self-manage reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.
Info: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/
