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cloud internet

AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service – Amazon Web Services

Chaos engineering originated at Netflix with the creation of Chaos Monkey. The idea is that large-scale distributed systems require a different approach to test for failure, since there are so many moving parts. AWS is announcing a new service in 2021 that will help teams to implement chaos engineering to test their setup.

https://aws.amazon.com/fis/

With Fault Injection Simulator, teams can quickly set up experiments using pre-built templates that generate the desired disruptions, such as server latency or database error.

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cloud

New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps | AWS News Blog

This is great news for individuals and enterprises that develop mobile and desktop apps for the Apple ecosystem. This could make CI/CD for iOS and macOS apps much more convenient. And yes, it’s available in the Singapore region today.

Also,

Apple M1 Chip – EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works, and planned for 2021.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/

You can start using Mac instances in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions today, and check out this video for more information!

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ai cloud

The Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure

This is a very well written summary of the current data science landscape. Everybody building data related solutions should have a good read of this.

Five years ago, if you were building a system, it was a result of the code you wrote. Now, it’s built around the data that is fed into that system. And a new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and operational AI/ ML.

Source: The Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure

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cloud sysadmin

AWS Perspective | Implementations | AWS Solutions

AWS just released AWS Perspective, a new tool to help you create diagrams about your AWS workload/architecture.

In a way this is long overdue. There are quite a number of companies in this space already. AWS’ version supposedly is better integrated and allows you to link to the resource directly in AWS console.

It seems to be quite useful, though it doesn’t come cheap. Someone posted on Twitter that the cost estimate comes up to USD500+ (every month) to use it.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-perspective/

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cloud security

New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases

A worm has been going around destroying unsecured databases. The intention of the attacker is not clear, but it could be similar to that of BrickerBot.

Dozens of unsecured databases exposed on the public web are the target of an automated ‘meow’ attack that wipes data without any explanation.

Source: New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases

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cloud

Gmail, Office 365 outage

This is not a good day for cloud services. Gmail outage followed by Office 365 outage (unrelated).

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cloud

YouTube Down According to Reports Worldwide & Twitter Reacts

Woops. YouTube is down at the moment.

It’s interesting that Google chooses to display an encrypted message (presumably containing details of the error) on the client browser. This is certainly a novel way for users to report the problem without exposing potentially sensitive details (eg. file paths) to them.

YouTube is down and reports are coming in worldwide about the service being unavailable.

Source: YouTube Down According to Reports Worldwide & Twitter Reacts

Update: Service is up after about 2 hours

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cloud sysadmin

AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017

A very good summary of the advancement of virtualization technologies used in AWS EC2. The newest instance type offered is simply AWS Bare Metal, which provides all the hardware access with little performance overhead, while still retaining the benefits of cloud – elasticity etc.

AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: explaining the different virtualization types, from emulation and binary substitution, paravirtualization and Xen, PV, HVM, and PVHVM modes, and the new Nitro hypervisor