Learn about some of the exciting news from AWS re:Invent, like Aurora serverless, Amazon-managed Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, and more.
I didn’t go to re:Invent this year, but this does not mean I haven’t stayed in sync with the latest and greatest in AWS — and today, there are quite a lot of cool and amazing services and capabilities that are either coming out either soon or are already out there for developers harness.
I was happy to hear about how Amazon makes serverless computing even more powerful with Aurora serverless. By dividing data and database, Amazon managed to create a powerful, scalable, and lambda-usable database engine that is a real game-changer for anyone working with functions as a service.
Another cool feature I’m waiting to get my hands on is Amazon S3/Glacier Select. It’s a solution to a problem I’ve always had but never knew could be solved this way. Storing files on S3 is only part of most solutions that are used in order to query data inside S3 and effectively turn it into a simple but useful database.
One of the two announcements that got me excited was the arrival of EKS, Amazon-managed Kubernetes. We’ve been using Kubernetes for more and more projects in the last couple of years and finally, we have a managed service that can help with the heavy lifting.
And finally, a new service called AWS Fargate, which runs Docker containers without an actual cluster, just like a new EC2 instance. I don’t know about you but I want to try this out — the possibilities of using a container and a single entity, not as big as a virtual machine (EC2), but with its own environment (unlike Lambda), should create another set of tools and patterns.
That’s it for now. I think that Amazon managed to provide a few game-changers and a lot of improvements to the AWS cloud.
