KeyCDN 的台灣 PoP...

GCP 推出 Standard Tier 後,KeyCDN 就利用台灣的 GCP 機房建立了 PoP:「KeyCDN Launches New POP in Taiwan」。

GCP 在台灣的 Standard Tier 價錢是:

Source geolocation of traffic 0-10 TB 10-150 TB 150-500 TB
From Asia $0.11 $0.075 $0.07

KeyCDN 亞洲區頻寬的價錢則是 USD$0.12/GB,加上機器費用,有機會不虧?

在 AWS 的 NGINX Plus

主要是看到「Quick Start Update: Deploy NGINX Plus on the AWS Cloud」這篇才知道在 AWS Marketplace 上有「NGINX Plus - Amazon Linux AMI (HVM)」可以用,而且有三十天試用期可以使用:

30 Day Free Trial Available - NGINX Plus is a high performance load balancer, edge cache and origin server for web content, streaming media and API traffic. It complements the load balancing capabilities of Amazon ELB and ALB by adding support for multiple HTTP, HTTP/2, and SSL/TLS services, content-based routing rules, caching, autoscaling support, and traffic management policies. NGINX Plus for AWS is provided and supported by the original creators of NGINX web server.

所有機器的年約都是 USD$2500/year,使用 t2.{nano,micro,small} 的話因為 hourly 的價錢乘以一年後反而還比較便宜,記得別亂買...

另外這代表可以直接付錢測試功能... (或是免費,如果 free trial 還沒用)

Amazon Route 53 對地區的微調功能

Amazon Route 53 推出新功能,針對地區微調資源的比重:「Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Announces Support For Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing」。

範例大致上說明了這個功能的能力,假設你在兩個點都有服務可以提供,你可以利用這個功能微調某個比率到某個點:

For example, suppose you have EC2 instances in the AWS US East (Ohio) region and in the US West (Oregon) region. When a user in Los Angeles browses to your website, geoproximity routing will route the DNS query to the EC2 instances in the US West (Oregon) region because it's closer geographically. If you want a larger portion of users in the middle of the United States to be routed to one region, you can specify a positive bias for that region, a negative bias for the other region, or both.

有點 CDN 的想法在裡面...

AWS ALB 可以設定 IP address 當作後端伺服器了

AWS ALB 推出直接設定 IP address 當作後端伺服器的功能:「New – Application Load Balancing via IP Address to AWS & On-Premises Resources」。

ip – Targets are registered as IP addresses. You can use any IPv4 address from the load balancer’s VPC CIDR for targets within load balancer’s VPC and any IPv4 address from the RFC 1918 ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16) or the RFC 6598 range (100.64.0.0/10) for targets located outside the load balancer’s VPC (this includes Peered VPC, EC2-Classic, and on-premises targets reachable over Direct Connect or VPN).

這樣就能拿 ALB 當 load balancer 把部份內容接到自己機房內的伺服器群了,一種隨便串的概念... (可以透過 AWS Direct Connect 或是 VPN 直接串,所以對外的部份就直接是 AWS 端,對內要怎麼接就隨便接...)

Adobe 的 Typekit 在嘗試純 CSS 版本的網頁字型了

先前 Typekit 需要使用 JavaScript,現在則是開始嘗試純 CSS 版本了:「Now in Early Access: Serve web fonts without JavaScript」。

然後另外發現 use.typekit.net 以前是 EdgeCast,現在變成 Akamai 了...

Amazon Aurora 支援快速複製

Amazon Aurora 宣佈支援快速複製:「Amazon Aurora Fast Database Cloning」。

對於 2TB 的資料大約五分鐘就完成了:

This means my 2TB snapshot restore job that used to take an hour is now ready in about 5 minutes – and most of that time is spent provisioning a new RDS instance.

主要是得力於後端 storage 的部份可以實做 copy-on-write 架構:

By taking advantage of Aurora’s underlying distributed storage engine you’re able to quickly and cheaply create a copy-on-write clone of your database.

可以快速複製就可以很快的驗證一些事情,像是可以直接測試 ALTER TABLE 需要的時間,或是事前演練...

Amazon 的 SES 推出 Dedicated IP Pool

Amazon SES 推出了 Dedicated IP Pool:「New – SES Dedicated IP Pools」,也就是發信時可以使用自己專屬的 IP address。

Today we released Dedicated IP Pools for Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). With dedicated IP pools, you can specify which dedicated IP addresses to use for sending different types of email.

價錢其實不算貴?每個 IP 的費用是 USD$24.95/month,對於量夠大的單位可以避免被其他人影響:

Dedicated IPs are $24.95 per address per month at the time of this writing – but you can find out more at the pricing page.

不過 SES 用起來最痛的問題還是在對於收信人不存在時的 bounce rate...

AWS 提供要回放掉的 Elastic IP 的功能

Twitter 上看到 AWS 可以要回放掉的 Elastic IP 了。當然,這不保證會成功:

文件在「Recovering an Elastic IP Address」這邊,目前只支援 API 以及對應的 command line 工具:

Currently, you can recover an Elastic IP address using the Amazon EC2 API or a command line tool only.

指令像這樣:

aws ec2 allocate-address --domain vpc --address 203.0.113.3

透過 AWS Budgets 管控 Reserved Instance 的使用率

現在可以透過 AWS Budgets 來看到 Reserved Instance 的使用率了:「Monitor your Reserved Instance utilization by receiving alerts via AWS Budgets」。

Starting today, customers can now monitor and receive alerts when their Reserved Instance (“RI”) utilization falls below the threshold they define.

算是個開頭,不過我更想請 AWS 分析有哪些機器是長年開著沒有 discount 的... 或者像是 GCP 那樣自動算 :o

Amazon Route 53 支援 CAA record 了

Amazon Route 53 宣佈支援 CAA record 了:「Announcement: Announcement: Amazon Route 53 now supports CAA records」、「Amazon Route 53 now supports CAA records」。

這是一個被動性的 workaround,要求 CA 本身要支援 DNS CAA,所以他沒辦法防止 CA 本身作惡誤簽,但因為負作用與技術債的可能性不高,在 CA/Browser Forum 上被通過強制要求支援了。(參考「未來 CA 將會強制要求檢查 DNS CAA record」)

Gandi 的 DNS 服務也支援了 (要透過 export mode,參考「How can I add a CAA record?」),不過 Linode 還沒做...