My Talk on New AWS Services

I recently gave a talk to the AWS Phoenix Meetup on three new services and updates from AWS: the Application Load Balancer (ALB), EC2 Container Service (ECS), and Kinesis Analytics.

More than half the software teams I meet today run Docker in production, so there was high interest in how you can use the ALB with an ECS cluster to have a more streamlined docker cluster setup.

Some important details I since learned that are worth mentioning:

1. The ALB’s costs scale with use. For example, if you have 1,000,000 idle web socket connections, you’ll pay $2,000/month! But presumably if you have 1,000,000 active users that kind of cost is ok. Thanks to nivertech on Hacker News for pointing this out.
2. The ALB currently has a bug that impacts its ability to do zero-downtime deployments. Special credit to my colleague Yevgeniy Brikman for discovering and reporting this!

Check out the presentation on the Gruntwork Blog!