Episode 60 - November 2019 Tech Round-up

In this round-up episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Gabe come at you with raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in October and November in the year 2019. The show starts with a fun announcement - Amazon WordPress plugin. It combines our plugins around Amazon Polly and Amazon Translate, now provides a workflow to configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution. It is available to download from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Coming up next, something rather huge in the world of AWS - Savings Plans. They introduce the latest cost-savings plans, discuss how it compares to Reserved Instances (RI), talk about the two variations - Compute and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and show you how to get started a savings plan. Amazon CloudWatch has now launched cross-accoun t and cross-region dashboard giving you an aggregated and single pane of view across multiple AWS accounts allowing you to display what matters to you. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware has now gone GA, allowing you to run a database engine on your own hardware while the Amazon RDS service automates the time-consuming administration tasks. It would not be an update show without Container updates! Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now has container-scanning feature allowing you to detect CVE’s. Kubernetes has integration with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now has Cloud Development Kit (CDK) support. Lastly, to close out the show, they continue with more updates with Amazon GuardDuty. Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections, two around Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - S3BlockPublicAccessDisabled and S3ServerAccessLoggingDisabled. Last one focus on EC2/MetaDataDNSRebind which informs you that an EC2 instance metadata exfiltration. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Gabe Hollombe - Senior Technical Evangelist, APAC, AWS Resources: AWS for WordPress plugin now available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/aws-for-wordpress-plugin-now-available-and-with-new-amazon-cloudfront-workflow/ Introducing Savings Plans - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/introducing-savings-plans/ Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account cross-region dashboards https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-cloudwatch-launches-cross-account-cross-region-dashboards/ Amazon RDS on VMware is now generally available - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-rds-on-vmware-is-now-generally-available/ The Node Termination Handler https://github.com/aws/aws-node-termination-handler Amazon GuardDuty Adds Three New Threat Detections - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/amazon-guardduty-adds-three-new-threat-detections/ AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://resources.awscloud.com/aws-builders-online-series AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/