November 19, 2020

Episode 95 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!

1 hour 6 minutes

This week on The Cloud Pod, the team used their slightly cloudy crystal balls to share their predictions for Re:Invent 2020. They hope Amazon doesn’t ruin them before the event.

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This week’s highlights

Amazon spoils the prediction party by revealing a new product just before Re:Invent.

Google is making sandcastles by itself in the sandbox.

Azure is smart enough not to announce anything exciting right before Amazon’s big day.

Amazon Web Services: Crushing Hopes and Dreams

Amazon Lightsail lets developers easily deploy containers in the cloud. This is like the cloud version of candy-flavored tobacco — somebody out there will be excited.

Amazon announces visual data preparation tool AWS Glue DataBrew. Really cool — we wish they’d created this sooner!

AWS Key Management Service now supports three new hybrid post-quantum key exchange algorithms. We’re just happy that the defense is ahead of the offense this time.

Amazon launches AWS Network Firewall, a highly available, managed network firewall service for VPC. Peter is angry that Amazon killed one of his Re:Invent predictions.

Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens for organization-wide visibility into object storage. We think the dashboard is built on years of customer complaints, not experience.

Re:Invent Predictions

Prediction rule: If it’s already been officially announced by Amazon, then it doesn’t count. It needs to be in the rumor mill and somewhat specific.

Peter

Integration between Sumerian and Chime/Slack (messaging service) for virtual in-person meetings

Major upgrade to CloudWatch/Logs/GuardDuty/CloudWatch Events (SIEM) but an actual SIEM product. Will have its own name or does something to GuardDuty

Robot SDK for tight integrations into AWS Cloud

Jonathan

Serverless graph database

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