How many of you are considered heroes? Specifically, in the serverless Cloud, Twitter, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) communities? Well, Ben Kehoe is a hero.

Ben is a Cloud robotics research scientist who makes serverless Roombas at iRobot. He was named an AWS Community Hero for his contributions that help expand the understanding, expertise, and engagement of people using AWS.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

Ben’s path to becoming a vacuum salesman

History of Roomba and how AWS helps deliver current features

Roombas use AWS Internet of Things (IoT) for communication between the Cloud and robot

Boston is shaping up to be the birthplace of the robot overlords of the future

AWS IoT is serverless and features a number of pieces in one service

Robot rising of clean floors

AWS Greengrass, which deploys runtimes and manages connections for communication, should not be ignored

Creating robots that will make money and work well

Roomba’s autonomy to serve the customer and meet expectations

Robots with Cloud and network connections

Competitive Cloud providers were available, but AWS was the clear winner

Serverless approach and advantages for the intelligent vacuum cleaner

Future use of higher-level machine learning tools

Common concern of lock-in with AWS

Changing landscape of data governance and multi-Cloud

Preparing for migrations that don’t happen or change the world

Data gravity and saving vs. spending money

Links:

Ben Kehoe on YouTube

AWS

AWS Community Hero

AWS IoT

Ben Kehoe on Twitter

iRobot

AWS Greengrass

Shark Cat

Medium

Boston Dynamics

AWS Lambda

AWS SageMaker

AWS Kinesis

Google Cloud Platform Spanner

Kubernetes

Digital Ocean