Written more than 2,500 posts for
AWS; and1,100 on his personal blog
Technical reviewer for 4 books
on web services
Author: Host Your Website
in the Cloud
Furthers developer awareness
to build on AWS cloud
Previous employment: Microsoft, KnowNow, Ebyz, Akopia
Co-founder of Visix Software
Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery now in China (Beijing) Region
AWS Marketplace Metering Service now in EU (Ireland)
Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring now in the South America (Sao Paulo) and China (Beijing) Regions
AWS Certificate Manager now available in 9 additional Regions: US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo)
AWS Config launches in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Beijing (China) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions
Amazon RDS adds Multi-AZ support for SQL Server in Tokyo, Sydney and Sao Paulo AWS Regions
AWS CodeDeploy Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
Regional updates
Automatically identifies applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies and their performance profile
Involves thousands of workloads often interdependent
Simplifies cloud migration planning process
Easily integrates with cloud migration tools
Protects data with end-to-end encryption
AWS Application Discovery Service
AWS Certificate Manager
Easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services.
Quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals.
SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.
Secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email clients
Seamlessly access email, contacts, and calendars using Microsoft Outlook, web browser, or native iOS and Android email applications
Integrate with existing corporate directory
Control both the keys that encrypt your data and the location in which your data is stored
Free 30-day trial of Amazon WorkMail for up to 25 users
Amazon WorkMail
Add and configure features to your mobile apps, including user authentication with Facebook and Google+, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, and content delivery
Easy access to testing on real devices
Analytics dashboards to track usage of your app
Added NoSQL database service
There are no additional charges for using the AWS Mobile Hub
Mobile Hub
Amazon Inspector
Improves application security and compliance
Identifies potential security issuesand vulnerabilities
Analyzes an application’s configurationand activity, looking for a wide spectrumof vulnerabilities
Reports findings with detailed recommendations for remediation
AWS Database Migration Service
Migrate your databases to AWS easily and securely with zero downtime.
Supports migrations between similar and different database platforms.
You only pay for the compute resources used during the migration process and any additional log storage
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Simplified, accelerated way to move on-premises data to the cloud
Maximize transfer speeds
Highly optimized network bridge
No: gateway servers, firewalls, special protocols/clients or upfront fees
Accelerates S3 uploads up to 500%
Speed Comparison tool …
AWS Import/Export Snowball
Export
Export large amounts of data from AWS
Export from one or more S3 buckets
Service will determine how many appliances are needed
AWS Device Farm
Remote Access
Test apps as through on a device
Interact with the device via the console
Gesture, swipe and interact with devices in real time through your web browser
Amazon Aurora
Sharing DB snapshots across accounts
Cross Region replication
Sharing database snapshots across accounts
Share snapshots with other AWS accounts or make them public
Use to restore the database to an Aurora instance running in a separate AWS account in the same Region as the snapshot
Interact with the device via the console
Cross Region replication
Create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora
Improved disaster recovery capabilities
AWS announced two, new, low-cost HDD-backed storage options
Benefits include predictable performance forthroughput-intensive and big data workloadswith large data sets, large I/O block sizes and sequential I/O patterns
Persistent block-level storage volumes
Each EBS volume automatically replicatedwithin AZ to protect from component failure
Range of options for storage performancebased on workload
Amazon EBS
2 new EBS volume types introduced
X1 instances for Amazon EC2
Largest Amazon EC2 memory-optimized instance – 2 TB of memory
The most memory in any SAP-certified cloud instance
Powered by four 2.3GHz Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) processors
10GB/second of dedicated bandwidth
Ideal for running in-memory databases, big data processing engines and high-performance computing workloads
Compute
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports automatic
service scaling
Amazon EC2 run command adds document sharing
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces managed platform updates
Networking
Amazon Route 53 announces metric based health checks,
DNS failover for private hosted zones, and configurable
health check locations
Notable, New Enterprise Features
Storage & content delivery
EBS introduces two, low-cost, high-throughput HDD volume types
AWS introduced new Amazon S3 lifecycle policies
Database
Amazon Redshift UNION ALL queries and VACUUM
commands now run up to 10x faster
Amazon Redshift improves throughput performance up to 2X
Create new Redshift data sources in Amazon Machine Learning
Now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console
Notable, New Enterprise Features
Management tools
AWS Config now provides faster recording of tag changes,
new managed rule and other usability improvements
Amazon CloudWatch Events now supported in AWS
CloudFormation templates
Notable, New Enterprise Features
Security + Identity Management
Simplified trust configuration for AWS Directory Service
Internet of Things
AWS IoT now supports integration with Amazon Machine Learning
and AWS CloudTrail
AWS IoT now offers APIs to register and use security
certificates signed by customers’ Certificate Authority (CA)
Notable, New Enterprise Features
Resources for Developers, ITDMs, Web Admins
2016 AWS Global Summit Series
United States
Santa Clara – July 13, 14
New York City – August 10, 11
Global
Mumbai – June 28
Auckland – June 29
Bangalore – June 30
London – July 6, 7
Beijing – September 7, 8
New AWS Whitepapers
Core Tenets of IoT
Use AWS Config to Monitor License Compliance on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Getting Started with Amazon Aurora
How AWS Pricing Works
aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/