190: Finally a Crowdsourced re:Invent Prediction Show

RE:INVENT NOTICE

Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam’s keynote on Tuesday, Swami’s keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner’s keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc. 

On The Cloud Pod this week, a new AWS region is open in Spain and NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization.

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General News [0:04]

•       CDK for Terraform 0.14 Makes it Easier to Use Providers

Episode Highlights

• ⏰ New AWS region open in Spain.
• ⏰ NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization.

Top Quote

“When we set this up, they still called you by voice and you had to validate when it took up to an hour to support case. And yeah, it would take forever. Like, not only did it take you to an hour, there’s like 10 things you needed to do with a root account that you couldn’t do with an im account. Yeah, it was brutal back then.” [9:27]

AWS: Amazon Goes to Spain

• New AWS region open in Spain. [2:00]
• You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM. [2:32]
• Announcing AWS CDK Support and CodeBuild Provisioning for AWS Proton. [6:16]
• Introducing the AWS Proton dashboard. [6:16]
• ‍ Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager launches incident coordination capabilities for Incident Response. [7:00]
• Announcing enhanced operational incident response capabilities with AWS Systems Manager and PagerDuty. [7:21]
• AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience. [7:56]
• Announcing certificate-based authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces. [7:56]
• Announcing General Availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Integration with SAML 2.0. [8:10]

Reinvent 2022 Predictions [9:27]

Peter

1. Adding RDS To Savings Plan – Thanks Kap, Steve Bisson and Eric Mulatrick
2. GPU for Fargate – Defel on Reddit
3. New mi6.xlarge family of EC2 only used by british spies – Robert Martin – Finops Slack

Justin

1. New Graviton/Arm Based Pick – Thanks Akustic646 from reddit
2. Cognito 2.0 – Thanks Syphoon from Reddit
3. Meh Conference, only niche announcement its nothing for the general market.  And no additional cost savings for customers due to profitability needs at AWS – Glenn – OG AWS

Ryan

1. Significant Step Flow increases – Andrew Fitzgerald – OG
2. Salesforce Killer for CRM Ryan Lucas
3. SLSA solution and/or enablement/visualization/existing code family products

Jonathan 

1. ARM Chip Factory

Tie Breaker Number

Ryan: 22

Justin: 15

Peter: 23

Azure: The NBA Drafts Microsoft

• ​​Azure Synapse Link for SQL is now generally available. [26:37]
• DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available. [26:58]
• NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization. [27:22]

⚡ TCP Lightning Round (Justin 9, Ryan 8, Jonathan 4, Peter 0) [28:22]

• Amazon WorkSpaces announces version 2.0 of WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol.
• AWS Service Management Connector now supports provisioning AWS Service Catalog products in Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
• AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration via AWS Service Management Connector for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud
• Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation
• Announcing the new Applications widget on AWS Console Home
• Announcing preview of the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP

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