Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news

There’s 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’s 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’s. For reals! Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got a new logo! SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack. US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers. We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Upcoming SDT newsletter. Misc. news before re:Invent coverage Changing of the guard at HPE. WeWork buys MeetUp. Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way. EFF write-up Stratechery & follow-up This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway. Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise. Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory. AWS re:Invent AWS Business Update Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year New AWS Services (100+ new total) Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?) AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?) Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?) came out of the VMware work i3.metal instance types c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type) EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it! upstream K8s automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed similar to Azure Container Instances apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!) So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up. FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON) GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?) IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere. Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?) Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video SageMaker - framework for building AI services Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform? Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools Time Sync Service - AWS NTP Translate - Google & MS already have this Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this! More: The New Stack, The Register. This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN! AWS Strategy Update On Hybrid Cloud: “In the fullness of time — I don’t know if it’s five, 10 or 15 years out — 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’t happen overnight.” Link More: ‘Is Multi-Cloud Real?: “We 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’t 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’re 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.’ AWS re:Invent Preview Review ✔SaaS lunches will be eaten? ✔Amazon Kubernetes Service? This Week in Kubernetes All about AWS this week! Well, GKS did get rid of billing for cluster managers Coté 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. End-roll Conferences Coté’s junk: NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking. Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays. Recommendations Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor. Coté: Programmed Inequality; drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter; Jim and Andy.