At the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas this week, AWS announced a bunch of new services which are specifically designed to lower the cost and simplify the tasks of analyzing data, streaming data, moving data, migrating databases and switching to different database management systems in the cloud. Have a look on five new services announced by AWS in AWS re:Invent.
1. Kinesis Firehose
Amazon already offered Kinesis Streams, a real-time streaming data option, but that service is for specifically technical users. Making it available immediate, Kinesis Firehose is intended to make it easier to support streaming scenarios such as mobile apps, Web apps or the collection of telemetry or sensor data.
Instead of writing code, "builders" create an Amazon Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream in the AWS Management Console." These streams can then be targeted at S3 buckets or Amazon Redshift tables. Users can specify refresh intervals, chunk sizes and compression and encryption settings.
2. AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball is a shippable appliance designed to move 50 TB at a time. If you have large, dedicated pipes, it takes a long time to move big data. Amazon has an existing Import/Export service that lets you ship data overnight to AWS on one-terabyte disks, but even that's a time-consuming when moving tens of terabytes.
Amazon Snowball, available immediately, is a PC-Tower-sized appliance in a shipping box that stores up to 50 terabytes at a time. The cost per shipment is $200, and Amazon says it's the fastest and most cost-effective option available for bulk data loading to the cloud.
3. AWS Database Migration Service
The Amazon Database Migration Service will easily migrate production databases with minimal downtime. It's said ensure continuous replication from target to source for any size database, with tracking and real-time monitoring. The tool takes 10 to 15 minutes to set up and the cost of the service is about $3 per terabyte.
4. QuickInsight
QuickInsight is a data-analysis, visualization and dashboarding suite. It promises ease of use and costs start at $9 per user, per month. Fast to deploy, easy to use, low cost these are the three promises of QuickSight. This service is currently in preview.
According to the Amazon this service is cheaper than traditional Business Intelligence tools and costs one tenth of the traditional Business Intelligence tools.
5. AWS Schema Conversion Tool : MariaDB Database Engine
New AWS Database Migration and Schema Conversion services are intended to ease database moves. The Schema Conversion Tool is said to reliably and easily transform the data from one database type to another, swapping like-for-like tables, partitions, store procedures and more. "We think we'll be able to address 80% of changes automatically" said AWS Senior vice-president Andy Jassy. This will radically change the cost structure and speed of moving from the old world to the cloud world.
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