In this episode of AWS TechChat we cover the Thursday keynote of re:Invent 2019 by Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.
We start the show introducing Amazon Nitro System, look at it from a software lens and share with you the why and how we built this. As virtualization is at the core of the AWS Cloud we went back to the drawing board and built our own hypervisor to provide performance almost in-distinguishable of bare metal whilst providing a security demarcation for our platform. Nitro has allowed us to innovate faster, we have released 4x more instances since we have moved to Nitro.
We then take a refresher and look at Firecracker. You can launch lightweight micro-virtual machines (microVMs) in non-virtualized environments in a fraction of a second. Given we use Firecracker under the hood for AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, it provides faster, tighter more seamless scaling than other platforms such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
To wrap up the show, we touch on the importance of “evolvable architectures” looking through the lens of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) before introducing you to Amazon Builders’ Library that has papers and topics on how Amazon builds our own distributed systems.
Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Gabe Hollombe, Senior Technical Evangelist, AWS
Resources:
AWS Nitro System https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
AWS Nitro Enclaves https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/
Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/
Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/
Shuffle Sharding: Massive and Magical Fault Isolation https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-massive-and-magical-fault-isolation/
The Amazon Builders' Library https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/
AWS Events:
AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/
AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/
AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/
AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/
