Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news - a podcast by Software Defined Talk LLC

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!
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Upcoming SDT newsletter (http://eepurl.com/dbM2_X).Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/21/hpe_meg_whitman/).WeWork buys MeetUp (https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/).
Net Neutrality (https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-the-end-of-net-neutrality-will-change-the-internet/) - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.EFF write-up (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/lump-coal-internets-stocking-fcc-poised-gut-net-neutrality-rules)
Stratechery (https://stratechery.com/2017/light-touch-cable-and-dsl-the-broadband-tradeoff-the-importance-of-antitrust/)&follow-up (https://stratechery.com/2017/light-touch-cable-and-dsl-the-broadband-tradeoff-the-importance-of-antitrust/)
This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/27/barracuda_private_equity/)! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/28/roark-capital-to-buy-buffalo-wild-wings-for-2-point-9-billion.html).Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-boom-creates-new-order-for-world-markets-1511260200)
Good overview (http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Redefining-OpenStack-Addressing-the-identity-and-integration-for-enterprise-readiness) of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.AWS re:Invent
AWS Business UpdateAmazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue (https://www.channele2e.com/news/live-blog-amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy/) 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 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-mq-managed-message-broker-service-for-activemq/) - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)AppSync (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/) - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
Aurora Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-amazon-aurora-serverless/) - burst database consumptionComprehend (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-comprehend-continuously-trained-natural-language-processing/) - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
DeepLens (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deeplens/) - video camera with AI embeddedDynamoDB Global (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-and-on-demand-backup/) - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
EC2 Bare Metal Instances (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/) - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)came out of the VMware work
i3.metal instance typesc5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networkingH1 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-h1-instances-fast-dense-storage-for-big-data-applications/) - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances
M5 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/m5-the-next-generation-of-general-purpose-ec2-instances/) - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisorDeep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html)
T2 Unlimited (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyond-the-burst-with-high-performance/) - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit systemElastic Container Service for Kubernetes (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-container-service-for-kubernetes/) (EKS) - called it!
upstream K8sautomatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed serviceFargate (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/) - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed
similar to Azure Container Instancesapparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/11/30/kubernetes-momentum-builds-new-aws-tools/).
FreeRTOS (https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/) - AWS bought(?) existing open source (https://www.freertos.org) IoT operating system vendorGlacier/S3 Select (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/) - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV&JSON)
GuardDuty (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-guardduty-continuous-security-monitoring-threat-detection/) - continuous security monitoring&threat detection (lunches eaten?)
IoT Analytics (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-aws-iot-analytics/) - MQTT processing, reporting&storage
IoT Device Defender (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-sepio-secure-your-iot-fleet/) - reporting, alerting&mitigation of existing IoT fleets
IoT Device Management (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-device-management/) - lifecycle, management&monitoring of IoT devices
Kinesis Video Streams (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-serverless-video-ingestion-and-storage-for-vision-enabled-apps/) - video ingestion/processing serviceMedia Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-media-services-process-store-and-monetize-cloud-based-video/) - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere.
Neptune (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-neptune-a-fully-managed-graph-database-service/) - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?)Rekognition Video (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-welcoming-amazon-rekognition-video-service/) - Rekognition now does video
SageMaker (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/) - framework for building AI servicesSumerian (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-amazon-sumerian/) - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform?
Systems Manager (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-systems-manager/) - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management toolsTime Sync Service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/) - AWS NTP
Translate (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-translate-real-time-text-language-translation/) - Google&MS already have this
Transcribe (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-scalable-and-accurate-automatic-speech-recognition/) - speech recognition, we should use this!More: The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/aws-takes-kubernetes-offers-serverless-database-service/), The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/29/amazon_aws_kubernetes/).
This kind of over-the-top analysis (https://blog.codeship.com/aws-reinvent-a-musical-review-of-the-2017-keynote/) is kinda our thing (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). 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 (https://www.channele2e.com/news/live-blog-amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy/)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!) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13JaEeN3Vww_Lu5FTgFgArl16HUQ2Oo4lIR1ua_7zZU4/edit?usp=sharing) and right after emailing it in was reminded that Ben wrote this up already, (https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/) plus an update based on re:Invent this week (https://stratechery.com/2017/aws-fargate-and-kubernetes-support-embrace-and-extend-awss-execution-advantage/).End-roll
ConferencesCoté’s junk:
NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244459662/).
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.Recommendations
Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCk7ozsr428)Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor (https://hindenburg.com/).
Coté: Programmed Inequality (http://amzn.to/2Aj4StV); drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter (https://www.netflix.com/title/80114855); Jim and Andy (https://www.netflix.com/title/80209608).

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