Twas the night before Re:Invent – Ep 49

AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas.  Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more!

NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date on Azure or GCP in the interim, follow our Twitter @thecloudpod1 or join our Slack Channel.

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Topics

AWS

• CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry
• Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs
• In The Works – New AMD-Powered, Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances (C5a/C5ad)
• Amazon EKS adds support for provisioning and managing Kubernetes worker nodes
• AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard
• Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups
• Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service
• Welcome to AWS Storage Day
• Continuously monitor unused IAM roles with AWS Config

Reinvent Draft

Jonathan

1. Zero/Low code application platform
2. Anthos like hybrid/multi-cloud platform/option
3. Transit Gateway cross-regional and/or Security group support

Peter

1. Layer 7 Egress Filtering Gateway
2. Cloudwatch Dependency Mapping (mute alerts if downstream from another alert)
3. Outposts GA and/or Shipping

Justin

1. Cost Reduction for the Network Tier
2. A device with a camera, like a drone, thing, etc that will replace the deepracer
3. Visual Threat Detection modeling for their security tools

Artist Pick

• Jonathan: Calvin Harris
• Peter: Marshmello – The Licks 
• Justin: David Guetta

Runner Ups

• Al a carte instances of CPU/Memory combinations (Jonathan)
• Perpetual Free Tier (Jonathan)
• Cloudfront Deployment and/or Dev Mode (Justin)
• The Year of Organizations (Justin)
• Formula 1 Personality (Peter)

Lightning Round (Jonathan 13, Justin 18, and Guest 5): 

• Amazon GuardDuty Supports Exporting Findings to an Amazon S3 Bucket
• Parameter Store announces enhanced search experience
• Amazon Redshift announces a console refresh to improve management and monitoring of your data warehouse
• Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity now handles imbalanced workloads better by isolating frequently accessed items automatically
• Amazon SNS Adds Support for Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ)
• Amazon Redshift launches cross-instance restore
• Amazon CloudWatch Launches Embedded Metric Format
• AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.8, node JS 12, Java 11, Baker Code 3.0