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284: Amazon Q uses machine learning to get smarter, but Bond’s Q can turn a wristwatch into a laser beam. Your move, AI.


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Welcome to episode 284 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Everybody is in the house this week, and it’s a good thing because since we’ve last recorded re:Invent happened, and we have a LOT to talk about. So let’s jump right in! 

Titles we almost went with this week:
  • Amazon Steals from Azure…. We Are Doomed 
  • The Cloud Pod Can Now Throw Away a lot of Code
  • The Cloud Pod Controls the Future
  • The Cloud Pod Observes More Insights
  • We Are Simplicity
  • X None of the Above
  • Stop Trying to Make Bedrock & Q Happen
  • My Head Went SuperNova over all the Q Announcements
  • These are Not the Gadgets Bond Needed, Q! 
  • A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
    We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. 
    AWS 

    08:12 It’s the re:Invent recap! 

    Did you make any announcement predictions? Let’s see how our hosts’  predictions stacked up to reality. 

    Matt – 1

    • Large Green Computing Reinvent
    • LLM at the Edge
    • Something new on S3
    • Ryan (AI) – 1

      • Improved serverless observability tools
      • Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes
      • Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services
      • Jonathan – 0

        1. New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe)
        2. New automated cost optimization tools
        3. Automated RAG/vector to S3
        4. Justin  – 2

            1. Managed Backstage or platform like service
              • New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan
                1. Competitor VM offering to Broadcom
                2. Honorable Mentions:

                  Jonathan:

                  Deeper integration between serverless and container services

                  New region

                  Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool

                  Justin:

                  Multicloud management – in a bigger way (Anthos competitor)

                  Agentic AI toolings

                  New ARM graviton chip

                  How many will AI or Artificial Intelligence be said: 45

                  Justin – 35

                  Jonathan – 72

                  Pre:Invent

                  There were over 180 announcements, and yes – we have them all listed here for you. You’re welcome. 

                  17:12 Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

                  • Now you can specify a desired completion duration, from 15 minutes to 48 hours when you copy an Amazon EBS snapshot within or between Amazon regions or accounts. 
                  • This will allow you to meet your time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads, mostly around DR capabilities. 
                  • We’re just glad to see this one finally, because having it built in directly to the console to guarantee that EBS snapshots make it to the other region is a big quality of life enhancement.
                  • Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

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