During the re:invent 2020, AWS has made important announcements regarding Databases and Containers. These are releases and updates that promise to enhance IT infrastructure and business connectivity.
Check out, below, the main news presented during the event!
Containers
During a keynote, AWS CEO Jassy stated that two-thirds of containers in the cloud run on AWS. AWS has three container offerings: Elastic Kubernetes Service, Elastic Container Service, and Fargate.
The executive said that all three offerings continue to grow like weeds and that many customers use all three services to accommodate a specific team or use case. And that customers have asked for options to manage containers on-premises as they transition to the cloud.
Amazon EKS Distro
EKS Distro is a distribution of the same version of Kubernetes deployed by Amazon EKS, which makes it possible to manually create your own Kubernetes clusters on the go.
The main difference is that EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes platform while EKS Distro is available for manual installation and management.
Amazon ECR Public
Previously, you could only host private container images on AWS with ECR. Now, with the launch of Amazon ECR Public, you can also host public images so anyone with or without an AWS account can browse and search for data in containers.
AWS Protons
AWS Proton is the first fully managed application deployment service for containerized and serverless applications.
The service provides teams with the tools they need to manage and enforce consistent standards, while making it easier for developers to deploy code using containers and serverless technologies.
Databases
io2 Block Express EBS Volumes
This is also a novelty that is not yet 100% available. The new io2 Block Express volumes are designed to deliver even greater performance.
The increased volume size and higher throughput means that it is no longer necessary to split multiple EBS volumes, thus reducing complexity and management overhead.
Amazon EBS gp3 Volume
gp3 is the new EBS SSD volume type that allows you to provision performance independent of storage capacity and offers a 20% lower price than existing gp2 volume types.
The new SSD volume type is ideal for applications that demand high performance at low cost, such as MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops, and Hadoop analytics. In addition, the performance of gp3 is 4 times faster than the maximum throughput of gp2 volumes.
Storage
In her keynote presentation, Jassy emphasized the need to constantly reinvent products and services and build what customers want.
He said Amazon customers have been asking for more options for global content distribution, storage compliance and data sharing.
Four announced storage innovations address these needs:
- Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes: A storage area network (SAN) built for the cloud, with up to 256.000 IOPS, 4.000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity.
- Next-Gen Amazon EBS Gp3 Volumes: A new iteration that gives customers the ability to provision additional IOPS and throughput performance independent of storage capacity and is 20% lower price per GB than previous-generation volumes.
- Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Now includes S3 Glacier Archive and Deep Archive access to existing frequent and infrequent access tiers to automatically reduce storage costs for objects that are rarely accessed.
- Amazon S3 Replication (Multi-Destination): The ability to replicate data to multiple S3 buckets simultaneously in the same AWS Region or any number of AWS Regions.
AWS re:invent 2020 special coverage
→ Click on the links below to see the series of articles with the news announced in AWS re:invent 2020!
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- AWS re:invent 2020: View Amazon QuickSight Details!
- AWS re:invent 2020: What's New in Machine Learning!
- AWS re:invent 2020: Discover what's new in Amazon Connect!
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