Our guest on the podcast this week is JP Morgenthal, CTO, Digital Applications, Americas at CSC. We discuss new product releases, improvements, and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2016. It is clear Amazon still is the leading cloud provider and this year proved that they still know how to innovate and their lead has not made them sit still. This year they extended many services already in play from Amazon EC2 to AWS Lambda and announced new services like Amazon Athena, Lightsail, and AWS Snowmobile and Glue. For the first time, Amazon began to release services directly for business use-cases instead of features targeted only to IT. We also look at next wave proficiencies and what will be important for those seeking careers in cloud computing. These proficiencies used to be defined by certifications (CISCO, CCIE, NetApp). With the rise of cloud computing we saw some general cloud certifications emerge, but none caught on. Now the most sought after skill is AWS Certification, and it’s likely Azure and Google will follow soon with their own certifications. News Covered AWS: re:Invent 2016 Product Announcements