Fault Injection Simulator

AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed fault injection service that makes it easier for teams to discover an application’s weaknesses at scale in order to improve performance, observability, and resiliency.

Fault Injection Simulator simplifies the process of setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across a range of AWS services so teams can build confidence in their application behavior.

With Fault Injection Simulator, teams can quickly set up experiments using pre-built templates that generate the desired disruptions. Fault Injection Simulator provides the controls and guardrails that teams need to run experiments in production, such as automatically rolling back or stopping the experiment if specific conditions are met. 

With a few clicks in the console, teams can run complex scenarios with common distributed system failures happening in parallel or building sequentially over time, enabling them to create the real world conditions necessary to find hidden weaknesses.

Documentation ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/fis-actions-reference.html#fis-actions-reference-fis

LaunchConfig vs. LaunchTemplate

 It's been a while to push for the migration of AWS terraform from LaunchConfig to LaunchTemplate.  

Just wondering why it's so important.  Here's the answer to the question.

 

So, it's highly recommended to leverage LaunchTemplate in any of your terraform at the earliest.

Windows2022 in AWS

 Microsoft has just released its most recent Windows Server platform - WindowsServer2022.

Why?

1. Advanced multi-layered security - numerous security enhancements with Secured-core server and secured connectivity.
2. Hybrid capabilities with Azure - hybrid and multi-cloud approach to digitally transform the businesses
3. Flexible application platform -  scalability for 48TB of memory and 2,048 logical cores running on 64 physical sockets

What?
Minimum system requirements are:

• 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
• Compatible with x64 instruction set
• Supports NX and DEP
• Supports CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF and PrefetchW
• Supports Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT)
• 512 MB (2 GB for Server with Desktop Experience installation option)
• ECC (Error Correcting Code) type or similar technology, for physical host deployments
• An Ethernet adapter capable of at least 1 gigabit per second throughput
• Compliant with the PCI Express architecture specification
• UEFI 2.3.1c-based system and firmware that supports secure boot
• Trusted Platform Module 2.0

AWS AMI
Last week, Amazon announced to create and manage Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs (Amazon Machine Image) providing a reliable and quick way to launch Windows Server 2022 on AWS EC2 instances. Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/windows-ami-version-history.html

Conclusion
This event depicts the collaboration and seamless cross platform integration in a faster and easier way in cloud technologies.  Happy Cloud!