December 19, 2024

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

1 hour 3 minutes

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!

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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

New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe)

New automated cost optimization tools

Automated RAG/vector to S3

Justin – 2

Managed Backstage or platform like service

New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan

Competitor VM offering to Broadcom

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

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