{"id":1034,"date":"2015-10-06T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:01:10","slug":"aws-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/aws-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We upgraded our usage of AWS library\u00a03.5.*, it has been a while since we have updated. \u00a0While\u00a0updating we have put together a few other AWS friendly updates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AWS Cross Account Roles\n<ul>\n<li>Cross account roles is the preferred AWS mechanism for granting access to service providers. \u00a0This was feedback provided direct from AWS folks and <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/IAM\/latest\/UserGuide\/id_roles.html#roles-thirdparty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per docs<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>SaaS products should leverage <span class=\"il\">Cross<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Account<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Roles<\/span> to perform actions on behalf of customers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>RedLine13 Docs on setting it up : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/Aws\/IAMSetup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Docs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-06 at 2.13.56 PM\" width=\"2168\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM.png 2168w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-1024x443.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-1536x665.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-2048x886.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-2.13.56-PM-1568x678.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2168px) 100vw, 2168px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Agents utilized &#8216;enhanced_network&#8217; improving agent performance\n<ul>\n<li>As per <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/enhanced-networking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enhanced Networking<\/a> documentation<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Enabling enhanced networking on your instance results in higher performance (packets per second), lower latency, and lower jitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support for Frankfurt load agents\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.45.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.45.46-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-06 at 1.45.46 PM\" width=\"326\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.45.46-PM.png 920w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.45.46-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.45.46-PM-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New EC2 Sizes supported\n<ul>\n<li>Added 20 new sizes. \u00a0Perhaps too many options?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start a load test<\/a> to check them all out<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1035 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-06-at-1.43.03-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-06 at 1.43.03 PM\" width=\"141\" height=\"226\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Agent Disk Size\n<ul>\n<li>Large JMeter tests with custom log files were hitting up against\u00a0the default 8GB sizing of instances. You can now override the defaults and change\u00a0disk size for your load agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/rds\/aurora\/\">AWS Aurora<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the cover change but we upgrade to using AWS Aurora for performance and price<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-07-at-12.45.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-07-at-12.45.27-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-07 at 12.45.27 PM\" width=\"180\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We upgraded our usage of AWS library\u00a03.5.*, it has been a while since we have updated. \u00a0While\u00a0updating we have put together a few other AWS friendly updates AWS Cross Account Roles Cross account roles is the preferred AWS mechanism for granting access to service providers. \u00a0This was feedback provided direct from AWS folks and per docs SaaS products should leverage Cross Account Roles to perform actions on behalf of customers RedLine13 Docs on setting it up<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/aws-updates\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50],"tags":[88,89,92,531],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-richardfriedman","4":"post-1034","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"category-updates","10":"post_tag-aws","11":"post_tag-aws-aurora","12":"post_tag-aws-region","13":"post_tag-update"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - 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