AWS drops prices of C4, M4, and T2 instances by up to 25 percent.

The cloud market leaded Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced price cuts for a few types of virtual machine (VM) instances. Price cuts are only specific to certain AWS data center regions. 

C4 price cuts are only applicable in following regions :

1. US East (Northern Virginia) : Prices dropped by 5 percent
2. EU (Ireland) : Prices dropped by 5 percent
3. Asia Pacific (Mumbai) : Prices dropped by 20 percent
4. Asia Pacific (Sydney) : Prices dropped by 20 percent 

M4 price cuts are only applicable in following regions :

1. US East (Northern Virginia) : Prices dropped by 10 percent
2. EU (Ireland) : Prices dropped by 10 percent
3. EU (Frankfurt) : Prices dropped by 10 percent
4. Asia Pacific (Singapore) : Prices dropped by 25 percent

T2 price cuts are only applicable in following regions :

1. US East (Northern Virginia) : 10 percent
2. Asia Pacific (Singapore) : 25 percent.

New prices will be effective from December 1.

Reference : http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/14/aws-cuts-prices-of-c4-m4-and-t2-instances-by-up-to-25/

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AWS Launches Application Load Balancer Option For ELB.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Application Load Balancer Option for Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). This option runs at Layer 7 and supports a number of advanced features. The original option (now called a Classic Load Balancer) is still available and continues to offer Layer 4 and Layer 7 functionality.

Application Load Balancers support following functionality :

• Content-based routing
• Supports applications that run in containers
• Support a pair of industry-standard protocols (WebSocket and HTTP/2)
• Provide additional visibility into the health of the target instances and containers.
• Web sites and mobile apps, running in containers or on EC2 instances, will benefit from the use of Application Load Balancers.

Here is the step by step guide on How to setup Application Load Balancer (ALB) : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-application-load-balancer/

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OpsDev Is Coming.

OpsDev means that the dependencies of the various application components must be understood and modeled first before the development process begins. 

As you can see, the delivery of such personalized software services impacts the design paradigm and now must be inverted. While DevOps tends to start with the developer-led challenges, it ultimately sits in the wheelhouse of operations teams once the application is promoted into production; OpsDev begins with the end in mind. Once we understand the interdependencies of the different data sources and its availability, we can then design the component that ties everything together.

Reference : https://dzone.com/articles/opsdev-is-coming

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AWS Announces Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

The leading cloud service provider, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has announced immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai is the sixth AWS Region in Asia along with Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. It becomes thirteenth worldwide region. It brings the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide.

The new Mumbai Region is currently available for multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). 

The region is made available with two Availability Zones - ap-south-1a and ap-south-1b. The Mumbai region is cheaper than all other regions from Asia Pacific. Visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ to check the detailed pricing. 

List of services supported by AWS Mumbai Region :

• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS CloudFormation
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CodeDeploy
• AWS Config
• AWS Direct Connect
• Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon Glacier
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Import/Export Snowball
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• Amazon Kinesis
• AWS Marketplace
• AWS OpsWorks
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
• AWS Support
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• VM Import/Export

References : http://amzn.to/291KzUX , http://goo.gl/6uowpd

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Top 10 Most Challenging Tech Jobs For Companies To Fill.

Finding the perfect employee/employer match takes time, patience and often a little bit of compromise. Tech companies today struggle with hiring, particularly within a few specific roles. Recent study by Indeed.com has revealed that DevOps engineer is the hardest IT job to fill in North America. Below is the list of top 10 most difficult tech jobs for which companies are struggling to fill up.

Reference : http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/top-ten-hardest-hires-tech/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#YyMRVL_LuSqD

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Capital One Open Sources Cloud Custodian AWS Resource Management Tool.

Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage.

Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud Custodian. On 19th April, 2016 it announced at an AWS event in Chicago that it was making Cloud Custodian tool available as open source on GitHub.

“Cloud Custodian is a rules engine that lets us define policies to be well-managed in AWS. You can [determine] a number infrastructure resources and every organization has a set of policies to be achieved around those resources,” - Kapil Thangavelu, technical fellow and primary developer of the Cloud Custodian project.

Reference : http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/capital-one-open-sources-cloud-custodian-aws-resource-management-tool/

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