hello cloud gurus welcome to aws this
week my name is david tucker and while
this is my first aws this week episode
you may have seen some of my content
from pluralsight and now that
pluralsight and acg are coming together
you'll see me here periodically covering
the aws updates you need now this week
we have several announcements that could
affect how and what you build on aws
this list includes the general
availability of the feature flags
capability of app config new membrane
optimized x2i instances for ec2
massive changes to dynamodb account
quotas and route 53's private dns
capability adding support for
geolocation and latency based routing
well what are we waiting for let's get
to all the specifics here on aws this
week
[Music] if you have followed along with the
feature flags capability of app config
you will be delighted to hear that this
capability is now generally available
now this capability which was initially
launched in preview back in november
right before reinvent gives you the
ability to control the release of
specific features in your applications
after you have shipped the release in a
deployment now this rounds out the
capabilities provided by aws app config
which are all centered around runtime
app configuration now since that initial
preview the capability has continued to
mature leading up to this week's general
availability announcement and this also
includes a lambda extension that makes
integrating feature flags even easier
with your serverless compute
workloads this week aws launched two new
instance types under the x2i instance
type family which brings the total
number of instance types to three in
this family now these new instance types
x2 i dn and x2i edn are powered by the
third generation scalable xeon
processors which are called ice lake for
all of you tracking the intel chip world
and according to aws these new
processors offer 50 percent higher
compute price performance than
comparable x1 instances now if you're
running in-memory databases or large
analytics workloads in the cloud
you may want to check out these new
instance types they both offer up to 3.8
terabytes of nvme ssd storage and up to
either 2 terabytes or 4 terabytes of
memory respectively with both having 100
gigabit per second network bandwidth now
check out the link in the episode notes
to see which regions these instances are
available in
dynamodb is now 10 times better than it
was last week
okay well maybe that's not exactly true
but there have been some big changes
when it comes to account quotas for
dynamo db usage first up the quota for
tables has increased from 256 per
account in region to
2500 see almost 10 times better and in
addition the account and region quota
for concurrent table management
operations has increased by a factor of
10 from 50 to 500. now for organizations
that have a lot of data stored across
multiple dynamo db tables you will now
have a much longer runway before you
have to worry about running into these
default quotas
now finally route 53 allows you to
configure geolocation and latency based
routing for public dns now these
features can greatly help when creating
cross region fault tolerance solutions
on aws and this week aws extended those
capabilities for organizations
leveraging it for private dns that means
you can leverage the same benefits when
creating your private applications on
aws
as well
finally here at acg we're making it even
easier to grow your cloud skills right
now you can save on our personal plus
annual plans with the link in the
description or with the qr code here on
the screen well that's it for this week
now if you have any comments or
questions at all let us know and keep
being awesome cloud gurus and we'll see
you next week for all of your aws
updates here on aws this week