...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.
Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.
Footware
Kenneth Cole slip on shoes.Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace.The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire.Mid-roll
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in TokyoAWS re:Invent
Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.Richard has a write-up as well.RedMonk re:CapGlobal Partner Summit
Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners""10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months"Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"
Amazon LightsailMonthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IPBitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & LinodeAmazon AthenaS3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engineJSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, othersCoté: this seems pretty amazing.Amazon RekognitionImage detection & recognitionAmazon PollyText to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 LanguagesCoté: Makes transcripts?Amazon LexConversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)Coté: make chat-bots and such.AWS GreengrassLocal Lambda processing for IoTCoté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?AWS Snowball Edge & SnowmobileLocal processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-rampNot just meMore on itMove exabytes in weeks"Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center."Coté: LEGOS!More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for AuroraHigh I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared)Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPUMore!F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS MarketplaceRDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?Day 2
AWS OpsWorks for Chef AutomateChef blogFully managed Chef Server & AutomatePrevious OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategyEC2 Systems ManagerTools for managing EC2 & on-premises systemsAWS CodebuildManaged elastic build service with testingAWS X-RayDistributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?"easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services"AWS Personal Health DashboardPersonalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediationDisruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)AWS ShieldDDoS protectionAmazon PinpointMobile notification & analytics serviceAWS GlueManaged data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysisAWS BatchAutomated AWS provisioning for batch jobsC# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step FunctionsWerner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"Lambda Edge for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"MoreStep Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functionsMoreBLOX: EC2 Container Service SchedulerOpen source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deploymentsBlox.github.ioAnalysis discussion for all the AWS stuff
Jesus! I couldn't read it all!So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Docker for AWS
"EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS."Docker gets paid on usage?Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?Time to Break up Amazon?
Someone has an opinionHPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"
Hybrid it up!Killed "The Machine"HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)Not great timing for a conferenceSold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE, the new "preferred Linux partner": How Google is Challenging AWS
Ben on public cloud"open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning."Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWSRecommendations
Brandon:Apple Wifi Calling & Airplane mode.Westworld worth watching.Matt:Backyard Kookaburras.Magpies too!This gif.Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas and lobster eggs benedict at Payard's in Ceasers'Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position.
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