Toyota Connected AWS

 

Toyota Connected North America (TC) is a technology/big data company that partners with Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor North America to develop products that aim to improve the driving experience for Toyota and Lexus owners.

Couple of days ago, AWS published a technical whitepaper to design, build, refine, and deploy this collision assistance product with Serverless on AWS services. The associated architecture is highlighted here.

In the aftermath of an accident, Collision Assistance offers Toyota and Lexus drivers instructions to help them navigate a post-collision situation. This includes documenting the accident, filing an insurance claim, and transitioning to the repair process.

Gartner AWS 2021

 

Last month, Gartner Names AWS a 2021 Magic Quadrant Leader. Gartner post ref: https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-271OE4VR&ct=210802&st=sb&refid=em_inv1_gartner_mq_leader

In this report, Gartner briefed the reason to position AWS as a Leader.  It has the details to learn how a Leader in this report is defined and dive deep into the benefits. Thus, public cloud can bring to any organizations in the industry.

Cloud adoption continues to increase as agile development, rapid deployment, and unlimited scale become the new normal for customers of all industries, sizes, and geographies.

In Gartner's second evaluation covering both cloud infrastructure and platform services, AWS is evaluated as a Leader placed highest in both axes of measurement, Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

MemoryDB for Redis

 

Last week, AWS announced MemoryDB for Redis, whch is a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service to deliver ultra-fast performance.

It is best suit for modern applications with microservices architectures. Industry metric says more than 13 trillion requests per day to support peaks of over 160 million requests per second.

Amazon MemoryDB is compatible with Redis, a popular open source data store. Redis is well proven industry product as most loved database for five consecutive years by Stack Overflow.

Amazon MemoryDB stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database recovery, and node restarts. Delivering both in-memory performance and Multi-AZ durability, Amazon MemoryDB can be used as a high-performance primary database for your microservices applications eliminating the need to separately manage both a cache and durable database.

Technical documentations are available at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/memorydb/index.html

CloudWatch Usage Metric

Last week, Amazon CloudWatch logs started to support CloudWatch usage metrics, which enables the customer to monitor the CloudWatch Logs API Usage. It is not only monitoring but also alarms notification.  

Using usage metrics, the system alarms are configured to otify on breaching the rule like CloudWatch Logs API service quota.  The process flow can be visualized of the usage on CloudWatch dashboards.

 CloudWatch Logs Usage Metrics technical documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CloudWatch-Logs-Monitoring-CloudWatch-Metrics.html#CloudWatchLogs-Usage-Metrics

Multus CNI

 This week, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced to support the Multus Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin, enabling pods running in EKS clusters to attach multiple network interfaces in support of advanced networking configurations.

Multus CNI is a container network interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. Typically, in Kubernetes each pod only has one network interface (apart from a loopback) -- with Multus you can create a multi-homed pod that has multiple interfaces. This is accomplished by Multus acting as a "meta-plugin", a CNI plugin that can call multiple other CNI plugins.

Amazon EKS provides a highly available managed Kubernetes service that is available in all global AWS regions, and supported in edge locations like AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts. Using Multus with EKS enables advanced networking across these environments to run containerized network functions that deliver high quality content to end users.

Github site details at https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni

AWS Cloudwatch

 

This week blog is based on the life experiences between mathematics and computers.

Last week, Amazon cloud platform (AWS) announced support for the trimmed mean statistic on CloudWatch metrics.

Details are published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maths-computers-ganesan-senthilvel

Textract

 Amazon Textract is a machine learning service to extract text, handwriting and data from scanned documents automatically.  It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables.

Last month, AWS made an accuracy enhancement update to the handwriting extraction feature with an improved accuracy of handwritten transcriptions, specifically for numerals, dates, phone numbers, and website address across many documents in finance, healthcare, legal, public sector, and others. Textract now more accurately detects handwriting within documents such as checks, medical forms, travel forms and more.

As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon Textract for free. New customers can analyze up to 1,000 pages per month using the Detecting Document Text API and up to 100 pages per month using the Analyze Document API.