While using Loki with S3 and Dynamodb it’s mandatory to add provision_config details as default might affect your budget https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/configuration/#provision_config [provisioned_write_throughput: <int> | default = 3000] # DynamoDB table default read throughput. # CLI flag: -<prefix>.read-throughput [provisioned_read_throughput: <int> | default = 300]
You can now launch NAT Gateways in your VPC without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises environments and thus, do not need an internet gateway attached to their VPCs. More details: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/aws-removes-nat-gateways-dependence-on-internet-gateway-for-private-communications/
What’s new in Grafana v8.0 Grafana includes built-in support for Prometheus Alertmanager. Once you add it as a data source, you can use the Grafana alerting UI to manage silences, contact points as well as notification policies. A drop down option in these pages allows you to switch between Grafana and any configured Alertmanager data sources. https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/alertmanager/ Prometheus metrics browser https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/prometheus/#metrics-browser More details: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-in-v8-0/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-load-balancer-controller-version-2-2-available-support-nlb-instance/
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now natively supports Predictive Scaling so you can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. Predictive Scaling can help you avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only available via AWS Auto Scaling Plans.) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-introduces-predictive-scaling-native-scaling-policy/
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, CLI, and API to install and manage CoreDNS and kube-proxy in addition to existing support for the Amazon VPC CNI networking plugin. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/eks-add-ons-now-support-coredns-kube-proxy/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-add-ons.html
Full list of videos from KubeCon 2021 Europe https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2MqBm19mRz9SYLsw4kfQBrC
AWS CloudFront functions is a nice alternative to Lambda@Edge https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cloudfront-functions-run-your-code-at-the-edge-with-low-latency-at-any-scale/