There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals!
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got a new logo!SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack.US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers.We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcastJoin us all in the SDT Slack.Upcoming SDT newsletter.Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE.WeWork buys MeetUp.Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.EFF write-upStratechery & follow-upThis week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway.Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.AWS re:Invent
AWS Business UpdateAmazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over yearNew AWS Services (100+ new total)Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOTAmazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)Aurora Serverless - burst database consumptionComprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languagesDeepLens - video camera with AI embeddedDynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiativesEC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)came out of the VMware worki3.metal instance typesc5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networkingH1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instancesM5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisorDeep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit systemElastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it!upstream K8sautomatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZsmonitoring/healthchecks built in, managed serviceFargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator neededsimilar to Azure Container Instancesapparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up.FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor
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