Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 11 p.m.
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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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Pre-Roll SDT News
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Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
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AWS re:Invent
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\\n- AWS Business Update\\n\\n
\\n- Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
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\\n- New AWS Services (100+ new total)\\n\\n
\\n- Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
\\n- Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
\\n- AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
\\n- Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption
\\n- Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
\\n- DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded
\\n- DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
\\n- EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)\\n\\n
\\n- came out of the VMware work
\\n- i3.metal instance types
\\n- c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
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\\n- EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking\\n\\n
\\n- Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it!\\n\\n
\\n- upstream K8s
\\n- automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
\\n- monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service
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\\n- Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed\\n\\n
\\n- similar to Azure Container Instances
\\n- apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
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\\n- So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up.
\\n- FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor
\\n- Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON)
\\n- GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?)
\\n- IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage
\\n- IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets
\\n- IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices
\\n- Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service
\\n- Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere.
\\n- Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?)
\\n- Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video
\\n- SageMaker - framework for building AI services
\\n- Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform?
\\n- Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools
\\n- Time Sync Service - AWS NTP
\\n- Translate - Google & MS already have this
\\n- Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this!
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\\n- More: The New Stack, The Register.
\\n- This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN!
\\n- AWS Strategy Update \\n\\n
\\n- 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
\\n- 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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AWS re:Invent Preview Review
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\\u2714SaaS lunches will be eaten?
\\n\\u2714Amazon Kubernetes Service?
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This Week in Kubernetes
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End-roll
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Conferences
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\\n- Cot\\xe9\\u2019s junk:\\n\\n
\\n- Matt\\u2019s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
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