Welcome to this week’s issue of Last Week in AWS, coming from me, Mike Julian, Corey’s cofounder at The Duckbill Group.
Corey’s out on vacation for the next couple months so I’ll be filling in.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Amazon Basics Corey Quinn
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Breaking Down Productivity Engineering with Micheal Benedict
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Cutting Cloud Costs at Cloudflare with Matthew Prince
Choice Cuts
Introducing AWS End User Messaging – aka AWS renames Pinpoint. I actually like the new name–no one knew what he hell Pinpoint was for! At least this is descriptive, if not boring. Then again, I like my infra boring.
AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation – I didn’t realize until now that you couldn’t hibernate a Graviton instance, and now that I’ve read the docs, I’m not sure why anyone would use it at any sort of scale. Geniuine question, seriously: any of you use hibernation in cases other than one-offs?
New Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations – New dimensions: Availability Zone, Instance Match Criteria, Instance Type, Platform, Tenancy. Figured it might be useful to some of you!
AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements – It wasn’t that long ago that AWS didn’t want their partners even saying "multi-cloud". The cynic in me thinks the about-face might be related to continued pressure from the other providers. Anecdotally, we’ve seen a lot of our AWS contract negotiation clients leaning more into Azure and GCP and AWS being more difficult to get good deals out of. I wonder if that’s starting to show up in their internal metrics.
More optimistically: good! Most companies are, to some degree, running on multiple clouds and it’s great to have all of them building with their customers’ realities in mind.
Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless – Okay, I hear you AWS Solutions, but hear me out: what if this were native in CloudWatch Logs? Perhaps we could make some introductions to your colleagues over in CloudWatch Logs?
Seriously, though, perhaps it’s a bit unfair of me, but it’s hard to view AWS Solutions as anymore more than highlighting and papering over missing native functionality (which says more about the product teams than Solutions, to be clear!)
Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 released – I look forward to the team behind Cost Optimization Hub sherlocking another team’s work. In the meantime, go check your Workspaces bill.
Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations via Twitter – The closest we’ve come to an actual, real announcement of all the service deprecations from last week: aside from QLDB from the week before, we now have confirmation of CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline, CodeCommit, and… S3 Select? I didn’t even realize that one was a thing. Was it just a less capable Athena? Huh.
Tools
cmlccie/awsipranges: Quickly query the AWS IP Ranges – "… allows you to search, filter, and use public AWS IP address ranges from the command line without writing complicated JSON parsing scripts or commands"
Neat. Nice work. (and hello fellow Knoxvillian!)
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
