Amazon Aurora 的 MySQL-Compatible Edition 開始提供相容於 MySQL 5.7 的服務

Amazon AuroraMySQL-Compatible Edition 開始支援相容 MySQL 5.7 的服務:「Announcing Preview of Amazon Aurora with MySQL 5.7 Compatibility」。

Amazon Aurora with MySQL 5.7 compatibility offers enhancements such as JSON support, spatial indexes, generated columns and performance improvement of 5x over MySQL 5.7, and up to 10x for spatial datasets.

雖然目前還在 Preview (需要申請才能用),而且開放區域有限,但總算是有消息了:

The preview is currently available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Canada (Montreal).

會一定要 5.7 的,主要的需求應該是在 spatial index 上吧... JSON 反倒還好。

用 PublicWWW 分析網站

在「Keylogger Found on Nearly 5,500 Infected WordPress Sites」這邊看到的網站服務 PublicWWW

雖然原文是說 WordPress 被感染的情況,但注意到的反而是他提到的網站 PublicWWW。

在 PublicWWW 上面目前收錄了兩億個網站的資料,有些東西頗不賴的,像是可以搜尋有哪些是使用同樣的 Google Analytics 帳號:

Sites with the same analytics id: "UA-19778070-"

這拿來找誰是內容容場後面的人超棒的啊,而且可以拿來補內容農場的清單,像是「UA-31425034 - 19 Websites - PublicWWW.com」這個 XD

免費版只能搜 Top 3M 的部份,付費版 (USD$49/month) 則是可以搜所有的資料。

Amazon ECS 與 AWS Fargate 都納入 Amazon Compute SLA 計算

AWS 宣佈的這兩個服務 (Amazon ECSAWS Fargate) 都納入 99.99% 的 SLA 合約範圍:「Amazon Compute Service Level Agreement Extended to Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate」。

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate are now included in the Amazon Compute Service Level Agreement (SLA) for 99.99% uptime and availability.

ECS 已經跑一陣子了可以理解,但 Fargate 的概念算比較新,剛出來沒多久就決定放進去比較意外...

用 Amazon Route 53 做 Service Discovery

Amazon Route 53 的新功能,可以解決以前自己要建立 Service Discovery 服務的工作:「Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management and Discovery」。官方的文件在「Using Autonaming for Service Discovery」這邊。

不過目前有些限制,一個 namespace (domain name) 目前只能有五個服務:

DNS settings for up to five records.

然後 DNS 回應時,最多回八個 record:

When Amazon Route 53 receives a DNS query for the name of an instance, such as backend.example.com, it responds with up to eight IP addresses (for A or AAAA records) or up to eight SRV record values.

回應八個 record,但應該是可以註冊超過八個吧... (i.e. 每次都回不一樣)

自建服務 (像是 Cassandra 或是 ScyllaDB) 可以直接用這個服務掛上去,就不用自己架 Consul 了。

目前支援了這四區,亞洲不在這波提供範圍:

Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions.

Amazon EKS 與 AWS Fargate

在今年的 AWS re:Invent 2017 上宣佈 Amazon ECS 也支援 Kubernetes,也就是 Amazon EKS:「Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes」,一個用的人夠多就支援的概念...

目前這個服務還在 Preview,所以要申請才能用:

Amazon EKS is available in Preview. We look forward to hearing your feedback.

另外一個在 AWS re:Invent 2017 上宣佈的是 AWS Fargate,讓你連 Amazon ECS 或是 Amazon EKS 都不用管的服務,直接按照 container 的大小收費:「Introducing AWS Fargate – Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure」、「AWS Fargate: A Product Overview」。

第一個有疑慮的點是,是否會跟其他人共用相同的 host,也就是 isolation 的程度。這點在 AWS 的人在 Hacker News 上的這邊有回覆,在不同的 cluster 上不會使用同樣的底層:

NathanKP 4 days ago [-]
Fargate isolation is at the cluster level. Apps running in the same cluster may share the underlying infrastructure, apps running in different clusters won't.

另外也提到每個 cluster 都是使用者自己產生的:

NathanKP 3 days ago [-]
A customer creates a cluster on their account. You as a customer can create one or more Fargate clusters on your account to launch your containers in.

不是很正面的回覆,而且不是在官方的 forum 回的,安全性就要大家自己判斷了...

另外也有有提到與 Amazon EC2 相比,價錢當然會比較貴,但可以預期會降低 engineer 的時間成本:

NathanKP 4 days ago [-]
AWS employee here. Just want to say that we actually had a typo in the per second pricing on launch. The actual pricing is:
$0.0506 per CPU per hour
$0.0127 per GB of memory per hour
Fargate is definitely more expensive than running and operating an EC2 instance yourself, but for many companies the amount that is saved by needing to spend less engineer time on devops will make it worth it right now, and as we iterate I expect this balance to continue to tip. AWS has dropped prices more than 60 times since we started out.

目前只能接 Amazon ECS,預定 2018 可以接 Amazon EKS:

I will tell you that we plan to support launching containers on Fargate using Amazon EKS in 2018.

而目前這個版本 (可以接 Amazon ECS 的版本) 在 us-east-1 已經開放了:

Fargate is available today in the US East (Northern Virginia) region.

所以 HiNet DNS Resolver 至少有三段...?

剛剛看到「HiNet DNS系統設備維護作業」:

範圍:苗栗(含)以南至雲林(含)以北HiNet上網用戶

加上之前在「中華的 DNS 架構」提到的公告,這樣看起來 HiNet DNS Resolver 至少是切成三段?

靠著公告在猜架構...

Amazon Kinesis Streams 的 Video 版本:Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

這次 AWS 推出的 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams 在技術上看起來跟 Amazon Media Services 有不少重疊 (參考先前提到的文章「AWS Media Services 推出一卡車與影音相關的服務...」),但產品面上區隔開的服務:「Amazon Kinesis Video Streams – Serverless Video Ingestion and Storage for Vision-Enabled Apps」。

開頭介紹就有提到適合用在各種 IoT 裝置,用在一直有影像資料產生的設備上:

Cell phones, security cameras, baby monitors, drones, webcams, dashboard cameras, and even satellites can all generate high-intensity, high-quality video streams. Homes, offices, factories, cities, streets, and highways are now host to massive numbers of cameras.

像這張圖的所介紹的流程,以及可以保留天數的設計:

底層用了不少與 Amazon Media Services 相同的技術,但是包裝成不同的產品...

AWS 的翻譯服務:Amazon Translate

Google 的應該是做的最早的,MicrosoftMicrosoft Translator Text API 也出來一陣子了,而 AWS 在這次 re:Invent 推出了自家的翻譯服務 Amazon Translate:「Introducing Amazon Translate – Real-time Language Translation」。

目前還在 Preview,需要申請才能用,不過價目表「Amazon Translate Pricing」已經先出來了 (畢竟已經有競爭對手,可以參考他們的價錢):

Sign up for the Amazon Translate preview today and try the translation service. Learn more about the service by checking out the preview product page or reviewing the technical guides provided in the AWS documentation.

然後目前支援的語言有這些,都是對英文轉換:

At Preview, Amazon Translate supports translation between English and any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Support for more languages is coming soon.

Amazon API Gateway 可以透過 NLB 接進 VPC 內了

AWS 宣佈可以透過 Network Load BalancerAPI Gateway 接進 VPC 內了:「Amazon API Gateway Supports Endpoint Integrations with Private VPCs」。

You can use API Gateway to create an API endpoint that is integrated with your VPC. You create an endpoint to your VPC by setting up a VPC link between your VPC and a Network Load Balancer (NLB), which is provided by Elastic Load Balancing.

基本上是所有的區域都有了,除了美國政府的區域外:

This feature is now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS regions.

是透過 NLB 接進去,而不是 ELB Classic 或是 ALB,可以來想像網路架構是怎麼做的...

Microsoft 虛擬化的兩個消息:Azure 被打臉以及 AWS 推出轉移工具

首先是 VMware 發文打臉 Microsoft 說他們所宣稱的轉移工具 (從 VMware 轉到 Azure 上) 並沒有 VMware 原廠支援:「VMware – The Platform of Choice in the Cloud」。

然後 AWS 則是推出了從 Hyper-V 轉移到 AWS 的工具:「Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service」,這邊倒是沒提到官方支援...

這臉不只是腫腫的而已了,有種連續技的感覺 XD