Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!

Episode 96 December 07, 2020 01:09:29
Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!
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Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!

Dec 07 2020 | 01:09:29

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Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

Santa arrived early and he brought all the goods with him to The Cloud Pod this week. The team dives into all the big announcements from AWS re:invent 2020. 

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:

This week’s highlights

Amazon Web Services: Thankfully They Didn’t Ruin Our Predictions

AWS Elasticsearch Announcements: 

Smaller AWS Announcements: That’s Not All, Folks!

re:Invent Recap: Get Comfy

Monday:

Tuesday:

Amazon EKS announcements:

re:Invent Predictions – How Did We Do? 

  1. Peter
    1. Integration between Sumerian and Chime/Slack (messaging service) for virtual in-person meetings 
    2. Major upgrade to CloudWatch/Logs/GuardDuty/CloudWatch Events (SIEM) but an actual SIEM product. Will have its own name or does something to GuardDuty 
    3. Robot SDK for tight integrations into AWS Cloud
  2. Jonathan
    1. Serverless graph database (Neptune or something like Neptune)
    2. Live migration for some instance types between EC2 hosts so maintenance events don’t cause the same level of damage
    3. Detailed discussion of their use of IOT and AWS services for COVID-19 – Announced
  3. Justin
    1. Snowflake report generation and capabilities in Redshift or new tool – Announced
    2. Cut in Bandwidth or C, M and R Instances by 10% minimum
    3. A Cloud Shell
  4. Ryan
    1. Control plane for managing Kubernetes on premise or in other clouds – Announced
    2. An AI/machine learning-based observability tool
    3. COVID-19 response highlights the adoption rate of cloud computing because of the pandemic – Announced

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ The team took a break from the Lightning Round this week thanks to the re:Invent predictions, leaving scores at Justin (16 points), Jonathan (10 points), Ryan (six points) and Jacques (one point).

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