The Frugal Architect (https://thefrugalarchitect.com)
Design
i. Cost is a Non-Functional Requirement
ii. Systems that Last Align Cost to Business
iii. Architecting is a Series of Trade-Offs
Measure
iv. Unobserved Systems Lead to Unknown Costs
v. Cost-Aware Architectures Implement Cost Controls
Optimize
vi. Cost Optimization is Incremental
vii. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions
Cloud pricing models
Amazon S3 pricing model
Amazon DynamoDB pricing models
Announcement – AWS Management Console myApplications
myApplications is a new set of capabilities that help you get started with your applications on AWS, operate them with less effort, and move faster at scale.
References:
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/myapplications-view-manage-applications-aws/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-myapplications-in-the-aws-management-console-simplifies-managing-your-application-resources/
- https://aws.amazon.com/console/faq-console/#myApplications_on_AWS
Announcement - Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals (currently in preview)
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals is a new capability that makes it easy to automatically instrument and operate applications on AWS.
References:
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-cloudwatch-applications-signals-observe-preview/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-application-signals-for-automatic-instrumentation-of-your-applications-preview/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Application-Monitoring-Sections.html
- https://catalog.workshops.aws/observability/en-US/use-cases
Explainable Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection for Radiologist Workflow Prioritization
https://github.com/aws-samples/radiology-worklist-ich-detection
AWS Generative AI CDK Constructs
https://github.com/awslabs/generative-ai-cdk-constructs
Announcement – Amazon SageMaker Studio Code Editor
Code Editor, based on Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code - Open Source, extends Amazon SageMaker Studio so that you can write, test, debug, and run your analytics and machine learning code using the popular lightweight IDE.
References:
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/code-editor-amazon-sagemaker-studio/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/new-code-editor-based-on-code-oss-vs-code-open-source-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-studio/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-studio-adds-web-based-interface-code-editor-flexible-workspaces-and-streamlines-user-onboarding/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/code-editor.html
Announcement – AWS Application Composer in VS Code
Application Composer in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code will enable you to quickly iterate your applications’ logic and infrastructure.
References:
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/ide-extension-aws-application-composer/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ide-extension-for-aws-application-composer-enhances-visual-modern-applications-development-with-ai-generated-iac/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-composer/latest/dg/using-composer-ide.html
Announcement – Amazon Inspector CI/CD Container Scanning
Amazon Inspector now integrates with leading developer tools like Jenkins and TeamCity for container image assessments.
References:
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-inspector-image-security-developer-tools/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/three-new-capabilities-for-amazon-inspector-broaden-the-realm-of-vulnerability-scanning-for-workloads/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/user/scanning-cicd.html
About the Author
Eyal Estrin is a cloud and information security architect, the owner of the blog Security & Cloud 24/7 and the author of the book Cloud Security Handbook, with more than 20 years in the IT industry.
Eyal is an AWS Community Builder since 2020.
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