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Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 11 p.m.

There\u2019s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There\u2019s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby\u2019s. For reals!

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• SDT got a new logo!
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• SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
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• You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack.
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• US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers.
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• We\u2019ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
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• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast
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• Join us all in the SDT Slack.
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• Upcoming SDT newsletter.
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\n\nMisc. news before re:Invent coverage\n\n

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• Changing of the guard at HPE.
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• WeWork buys MeetUp.
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• Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.\n\n
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  • EFF write-up
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  • Stratechery & follow-up
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• This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby\u2019s: eat all you want you\u2019ll die anyway.
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• Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.
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• Good overview of the end of OpenStack\u2019s big tent theory.
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\n\nAWS re:Invent\n\n

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• AWS Business Update\n\n
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  • Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
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• New AWS Services (100+ new total)\n\n
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  • Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
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  • Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
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  • AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
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  • Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption
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  • Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
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  • DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded
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  • DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
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  • EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)\n\n
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    • came out of the VMware work
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    • i3.metal instance types
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    • c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
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  • EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking\n\n
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    • H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances
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    • M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor
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    • Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal
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    • T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system
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  • Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it!\n\n
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    • upstream K8s
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    • automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
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    • monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service
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  • Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed\n\n
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    • similar to Azure Container Instances
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    • apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
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  • So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up.
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  • FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor
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  • Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON)
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  • GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?)
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  • IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage
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  • IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets
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  • IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices
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  • Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service
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  • Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere.
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  • Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?)
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  • Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video
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  • SageMaker - framework for building AI services
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  • Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform?
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  • Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools
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  • Time Sync Service - AWS NTP
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  • Translate - Google & MS already have this
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  • Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this!
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• More: The New Stack, The Register.
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• This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN!
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• AWS Strategy Update \n\n
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  • On Hybrid Cloud: \u201cIn the fullness of time \u2014 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s five, 10 or 15 years out \u2014 relatively few companies will own their own data centers. Those that do will have a much smaller footprint. It will be a transition and it won\u2019t happen overnight.\u201d Link
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  • More: \u2018Is Multi-Cloud Real?: \u201cWe certainly get asked about it a lot. Most enterprises, when they think about a plan for moving to the cloud, they think they will distribute workloads across a couple of cloud providers. But few actually make that decision because you have to standardize on lowest common denominator when you go multi-cloud. AWS is so far ahead and you don\u2019t want to handicap developer teams. Asking developers to be fluent in multiple cloud platforms is a lot. And all the cloud providers have volume discounts. If you split workloads across multi-cloud, you\u2019re diminishing those discounts. In practice, companies pick a predominate cloud provider for their workloads. And they may have a secondary cloud provider just in case they want to switch providers.\u2019
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\n\nAWS re:Invent Preview Review\n\n

\u2714SaaS lunches will be eaten?
\n\u2714Amazon Kubernetes Service?

\n\nThis Week in Kubernetes\n\n

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• All about AWS this week!
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• Well, GKS did get rid of billing for cluster managers
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• Cot\xe9 finished up this pile of crap (get a preview!) and right after emailing it in was reminded that Ben wrote this up already, plus an update based on re:Invent this week.
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\n\nEnd-roll\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Cot\xe9\u2019s junk:\n\n
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  • NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Cot\xe9 and many others speaking.
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  • Cot\xe9 will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
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• Matt\u2019s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan
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• Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor.
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• Cot\xe9: Programmed Inequality; drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter; Jim and Andy.
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Sponsored By:

• SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn\u2019t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.