A talk on the new AWS Application Load Balancer, updates to ECS, and Kinesis Analytics

At the most recent AWS Phoenix Meetup, I gave a talk on some new services and features released by AWS in the last year, including the Application Load Balancer (ALB), recent updates to EC2 Container Service (Amazon’s Docker Cluster offering), and Kinesis Analytics.

Application Load Balancer (ALB): AWS has released a new Load Balancer with some long-awaited features, including path-based routing and WebSocket support. Does it live up to the hype? When should you use the ALB vs. the old ELB?

EC2 Container Service (ECS) Updates: Individual Docker containers can now have their own set of IAM permissions separate from the EC2 Instance on which they’re running. ECS Services can now be auto-scaled. How do these features work?

Kinesis Analytics: This is a new and simplified way to query streaming data coming into Kinesis Streams. How does it work? What can you do with it?

A full copy of the presentation is embedded below:

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