November 18, 2021

144: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021

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The Cloud Pod: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021 — Episode 144

On The Cloud Pod this week, as a birthday present to Ryan, the team didn’t discuss his advanced age, and focused instead on their AWS re:Invent predictions. Also, the Google Cybersecurity Action Team launches a product, and Microsoft announces a new VM series in Azure.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

JumpCloud, which offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located.

This week’s highlights

AWS releases new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. That’s super, super fast.

Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team adds Risk and Compliance as Code (rCaC) Solution.

Microsoft announces the NDm A100 v4 Series, and claims another spot on the TOP500 supercomputers list.

Top Quotes

“[AWS Resilience Hub] is already building on top of the FIS, which is interesting, but at some level I just want you to execute Lambda functions that validate things for me, and then tell me that I’m resilient because I validated it with Lambda.”

“Anything that empowers more dynamic and interactive web development I’m all for.”

Amazon Web Services: Give Us Your Car

AWS is releasing new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. For the cost of a small car every month, you too can get up to 40% better value on inferencing and graphics-intensive operations.

AWS is releasing the Resilience Hub, a service designed to help you define, track and manage the resilience of your applications.

Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now sources results from blogs, knowledge articles, events and tutorials. Buyer beware with this one: It will pull outdated information that is still available on AWS, and you could end up with a giant albatross that costs you a fortune.

Amazon ECS is improving ECS Capacity Providers to deliver faster cluster auto scaling. When you’re using a capacity provider, it’s painfully slow to get the underlying hosting infrastructure to scale fast enough, so we’re presuming AWS has addressed this in the back end.

Manage access centrally for JumpCloud users with AWS Single Sign-On. We’re super happy to see this: Take notes, Azure AD.

Amazon ECS adds container instance health information. This is nice to see and will help improve your application resiliency.

AWS re:Inve

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