Season 3 Episode 26 - GuardDuty, Serverless and Sovereign Cloud

In Season 3, Episode 26 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Igor Soroko.

Topics Discussed:

5:33 Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring Now Supports Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...

Key points:
- Previously only supported Amazon Linux
- Helps monitor and respond to potential threats like suspicious network activity, crypto mining, etc.
- Uses existing security agent, 30 day free trial
- Pricing is $1.50 per vCPU for first 500 vCPUs per month, drops for larger volumes

12:45 - New Lambda Logging Controls https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...

 Key points:
- Can now choose JSON or plaintext formatting
- Can set log levels like debug, error, etc.
- Supported in Python, Java, and Node.js
- Makes logging easier without needing additional libraries
- Can aggregate logs from different functions

18:21 - Refactoring to Serverless from Application to Automation https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/r...

Key points:
- Discusses "service factoring", replacing app code with automation
- Serverless allows abstracting away infrastructure details
- Entire architectures can be built using serverless components
- Improves apps through increased automation

24:11 - Using Aurora Global Database for Multi-Region Applications https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database...

Key points:
- Provides hot-hot disaster recovery to secondary region
- Local endpoints provide fast response times
- Engineering to replicate globally is complex
- Useful but expensive to run dual full infrastructure

29:16 - Initial Services for AWS Europe Sovereign Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security...

Key points:
- New sovereign cloud being built in Germany - Announces initial services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, etc.
- Functionally similar to AWS US GovCloud
- Provides data residency for EU regulations
- Impressive initial service list, no major omissions

Guest was Igor Soroko
  / igor-soroka  
https://www.soroka.tech/blog/graphql-...