5. RDS on VMWare(preview)
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/vmware/
You provide the hardware, AWS provides the software
1. Outsource Database Administration to AWS
2. Burst capacity (scale out) into AWS
3. High Availability and Disaster Recovery via AWS
4. Cloud Migration
(alternative to Database Migration Service)
6. Managed Service for Kafka (MSK) (public preview)
https://aws.amazon.com/msk/
Feature set very similar to Kinesis - direct competitor
MSK use cases:
• Existing Kafka application code
• Exactly once delivery
Pros:
• Cheaper if your server is at capacity
Cons:
• Unit of scaling is more coarse (1 M5.large vs 1 MB/s)
• Scaling is not seamless to application.
8. Quantum Ledger Database (preview)
https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
• Blockchain as a service
• No relation to quantum computing
• Immutable and Persistent journal ~= Transaction Log
• Reliable and irrefutable “Created By” and “Updated By”
• Document data model with SQL
• Twice as fast as blockchain => 500 times slower than RDS?
• AWS has been using this internally for billing for “years”
• Finally a means to implement the intent of the US Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002