This document summarizes a meetup event hosted by AWS Bulgaria that covered announcements from re:Invent 2017. Key announcements included new EC2 instance types like M5 and T2 Unlimited, Lambda support for additional languages and deployment options, new databases like Neptune and DynamoDB features, and new managed services like GuardDuty, Systems Manager, IoT offerings, and AppSync. The meetup provided recaps of the re:Invent event and hands-on learning opportunities for various AWS services.

1. Welcome to AWSBulgaria
12 Dec 2017
Ivaylo Bratoev
Organizer

2. It is all about the community

3. Learn
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
VPC
DynamoDB
AWS
CloudFormation
Amazon SQS

4. Have fun

5. Presenters wanted!

6. Thanks to our sponsors - Skyscanner
● Venue, food and drinks provided by Skyscanner.
○ Checkout their monthly Code Voyagers Sofia meetup.

7. Thanks to our sponsors - Cloud Academy
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8. AWS re:Invent 2017 Recap

9. re:Invent 2017
● Biggest annual AWS event
● 43 000+ people
● 1300+ sessions/workshops
● 1M customers in 190 countries
● 1300+ Features in 2017 (1000+ in 2016)
● 42 AZs - 16 regions

10. “AWS remains the dominant market leader”
● “AWS has been the market share
leader in cloud IaaS for over 10
years.”

11. First hand experience

12. Announcements

13. Amazon EC2
● EC2 M5 Instances
○ latest Intel Xeon Skylake CPUs,
○ 14% improvement in price/performance compared to M4
○ M5.24xlarge - 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB
○ 4 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor traffic and EBS volumes usage
● EC2 T2 Unlimited
○ Any T2 instance can be run as an Unlimited
○ Can burst after CPU credits are over for a fee ($0.05 per vCPU hour) tracked on millisecond basis
○ You can toggle T2 Unlimited at any time
● EC2 H1 Instances
○ Low cost storage, high disk throughput, and high sequential disk I/O access to large data sets.

14. Amazon EC2
● EC2 Bare Metal Instances
○ i3.metal - 72 vCPUs, 512GB RAM, 15.2TB local SSD
○ Fully integrated with the AWS infrastructure - ELB, auto scaling, Cloud Watch
● New Spot Simpler Pricing Model
● Hibernation for Spot Instances
● Launch Templates for Amazon EC2 Instances
● Spread Placement Groups for Amazon EC2
● Time Sync Service - AWS managed NTP service

15. ECS for Kubernetes (EKS) - in preview
● Managed Kubernetes
● High availability
● Automated upgrade and patching
● Integrated with lots of AWS features

16. Fargate
● Run containers without managing any servers/clusters
● Available for ECS today; EKS support in 2018
● Easy to use and scale
● Pricing per CPU core and memory (on a per second basis)
○ $0.0506 per hour CPU
○ $0.0127 per hour 1GB memory
● Completely integrated with ECS

17. Compute - Lambda
● Two new Language Runtimes - Go & .NET Core 2.0 - announced
● New Deployment Options for AWS Lambda Functions
○ shift traffic between AWS Lambda function versions based on pre-assigned weights
○ use CodeDeploy to deploy new versions
● AWS Lambda Doubles Maximum Memory Capacity for Lambda Functions
○ 3008MB in 64MB increments
● AWS Serverless Application Repository - preview
○ Quickly deploy applications packaged with a AWS SAM template
● AWS Lambda Introduces Enhanced Console Experience
● AWS Lambda Per Function Concurrency/Throttle

18. Databases
● Neptune - preview
○ fast, reliable, fully-managed graph database
● Aurora Multi-Master - preview
● DynamoDB Global Tables
○ automatically replicated tables across two or more AWS Regions
● DynamoDB On-Demand Backup
○ full backups with a single click, and with zero impact on performance or availability
● DynamoDB PITR (Point-in-Time-Restore) minute precision - early 2018
● Aurora Serverless - preview
○ Designed for workloads that are highly variable and subject to rapid change

19. Storage
● S3 Select and Glacier Select (preview)
○ Use simple SQL expressions to pull out only the bytes you need from those
objects
○ The Preview supports CSV or JSON files with or without GZIP compression

20. Security, Identity & Compliance
● Amazon GuardDuty
○ Continuous Security Monitoring & Threat Detection
○ Completely managed service running completely on AWS instrastructure
○ No need to install or manage any agents, sensors, or network appliances
○ Integrated with AWS CloudWatch
● Managed Rules for AWS WAF
○ Preconfigured set of rules provided in the AWS Marketplace by industry leading security experts:
Alert Logic, Fortinet, Imperva, Trend Micro and TrustWave.

21. AWS Systems Manager
● A new unified way to manage your cloud and hybrid IT
environments
● Group resources in a centralized UI that aggregates data from
multiple AWS services and allows you to act on it

22. IoT
● IoT Device Management
○ manage a massive number of devices
● IoT Analytics - preview
○ managed service providing advanced data analytics on gathered data
● IoT 1-Click - preview
○ Run Lambda functions from simple devices like the Amazon IoT Button
● IoT Device Defender

23. IoT - AWS FreeRTOS
● Operating system for microcontrollers that makes small,
low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure,
connect, and manage
● Based on FreeRTOS kernel, a popular open source
operating system for microcontrollers
● Integrated with AWS services

24. Networking & Content Delivery
● PrivateLink for Customer and Partner Services
○ privately access select AWS services from your VPC
● Inter-Region VPC Peering

25. Developer Tools - AWS Cloud9
● Cloud IDE for web applications supporting popular
languages (JS, Python, PHP, etc)
● Easy deploy to EC2 and Lambda

26. Mobile Services - AppSync (preview)
● Fully managed serverless GraphQL service

27. Media Services
● Build a complete broadcast-quality end-to-end video solution
using a set of new services
○ AWS Elemental MediaConvert
○ AWS Elemental MediaLive
○ AWS Elemental MediaPackage
○ AWS Elemental MediaTailor
○ AWS Elemental MediaStore

28. Analytics & Big Data
● Kinesis Video Streams
○ Ingest streaming video (or other time-encoded data) from millions of
camera devices
○ Stores video durably and in encrypted form, creates time-based indexes,
and enables the creation of vision-enabled applications
○ Fully managed

29. Thanks for your time!
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