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Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap Australia muthafuckers!

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It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”?

AWS Announcements
  • AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018
  • Analytics
    • AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days
    • Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service
    • Blockchain
      • Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks
      • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
      • Compute
        • Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads
        • Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth
        • Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training
        • AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises
          • This is VMware?
          • Database
            • Amazon RDS on VMware: Automate on-premises database management
            • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
            • Amazon Timestream: Fully managed time series database
            • Internet of Things
              • AWS IoT Events: IoT event detection and response
              • AWS IoT SiteWise: IoT data collector and interpreter
              • AWS IoT Things Graph: Easily connect devices and web services
              • AWS Partner Device Catalog: Curated catalog of AWS-compatible IoT hardware
              • Lambda
                • New languages (Ruby, C++, Rust), more coming Erlang, Elixir, Cobol, N|Solid, PHP
                • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/
                • Announcements are still happening
                • Machine Learning
                  • Amazon Elastic Inference: Deep learning inference acceleration
                  • Amazon Forecast: Increase forecast accuracy using machine learning
                  • Amazon Personalize: Build real-time recommendations into your applications
                  • Amazon Textract: Extract text and data from documents
                  • AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip
                  • Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets
                  • Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker
                  • AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent, Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML
                  • Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace
                  • Management & Governance
                    • AWS App Mesh: Monitor and control microservices
                    • AWS Cloud Map: Service discovery for cloud resources
                    • AWS Control Tower: Set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment
                    • AWS License Manager: Track, manage and control license usage
                    • Media Services
                      • AWS Elemental MediaConnect: Reliable and secure live video transport
                      • Migration & Transfer
                        • AWS DataSync: Simple, fast, online data transfer
                        • AWS Transfer for SFTP: Fully managed SFTP service
                        • Mobile
                          • AWS Amplify: Build and deploy mobile and web applications
                          • Networking & Content Delivery
                            • AWS Global Accelerator: Improve application availability and performance
                            • AWS Transit Gateway: Easily scale VPC and account connections
                            • Robotics
                              • AWS RoboMaker: Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications
                              • Satellite
                                • AWS Ground Station: Fully managed ground station as a service
                                • Security, Identity, & Compliance
                                  • AWS Security Hub: Unified security and compliance center
                                  • Storage
                                    • Amazon FSx for Lustre: Fully managed compute-intensive file system
                                    • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Fully managed Windows native file system
                                    • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Save with auto-tiering storage
                                    • S3 Glacier Deep Archive
                                    • Lydia says AWS deals are huge.
                                      • Relevant to your interests
                                      • No room this week.
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                                        Conferences, et. al.
                                        • Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part.
                                        • 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
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                                                • Recommendations
                                                • Brandon: Ticket to Ride Board Game
                                                • Matt: Speaking of trains, I took the train from Canberra to Sydney. Fantastic!
                                                • Coté: Patriot season 2. It’s pretty good. And: HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw.

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