April 28, 2023

209: The Cloud Pod Whispers Sweet Nothings To Our Code (why wont you work)

44 minutes

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dramatic music* – Kubernetes!

Titles we almost went with this week:

I’m always Whispering to My Code as an Individual

Azure gets an AI, Google gets an AI… and Amazon finally gets an AI

You can now creep out your copilot by whispering to your code

AI fails to generate an interesting show title this week

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News this Week:

AWS News

@01:36 – Codewhisperer is now generally available – and includes a free tier!

-Besides just the availability, this new real-time AI coding companion also includes a FREE individual tier open to all developers. This is a (good!) surprise to us.

-The free tier works with many popular IDEs, including VS Code and Intellij IDEA among others.

-Codewhisperer can assist in productivity by creating code for repetitive or routine tasks

– Cost wise, Codewhisperer is pretty much in line with other products like GitHub Copilot.

– Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, Shell Scripting, SQL and Scala

-The downside: security is fairly limited (Python and Java, for instance)

02:50 Jonathan: “I’m super happy that they’ve launched with so many languages supported, and so much support for different IDE’s. It’s a great launch. It’s definitely a time saver, and I’d pay the $20 a month for the service even if there wasn’t a free tier.”

(But maybe we don’t say that too loudly, or the free tier will disappear…)

And speaking of that free tier –

04:49 Jonathan: “I expect the reason there’s a free tier is so that they get much more data from user experiences, and can retrain the model based on people’s feedback.”

05:24 Ryan: “It’s edging us closer to code writing code.”

-One of the things that is important to point out from our discussion today is that you can get a bit more for your money from Copilot, which also has a free tier for individuals.

@09:10 Amazon is excited to announce the Simple Database Archival Solution

-SDAS is an open source solution, available under the Apache License, and can be deployed directly from your AWS account

-Do you have a problem with being able to safely archive data from your databases? According to Amazon this is a wide ranging problem for many folks, and since storing data on-premises can be extremely costly, this may be a great alternative.

-It automates a lot of the logistics of archiving data and leverages Step Functions, Glue, S3 and

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

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