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In this episode, we cover the following topics:

• re:Invent 2019 by the numbers: 65,000 attendees, 3,000+ sessions, 4 keynotes, 6 venues.
• Recap and analysis of Monday Night Live keynote with Peter DeSantis, including:
  • What is high performance computing (HPC)?
  • How AWS is reinventing the supercomputer.
  • Why everyone should care about HPC, not just the scientists.
  • How networking advancements are paving the way forward for cluster computing and enabling entirely new types of problem solving.
  • A discussion of the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and the new Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) networking protocol as a replacement for TCP for high performance networking.
  • Using the Nitro System to enable new instance types for machine learning infrastructure, such as the P3dn, G4dn and Inf1 instance types.
  • Utilizing custom silicon to make the "Inferentia" processor, which is a high-performance ML inference chip.
• Recap and analysis of Andy Jassy's keynote, including:
  • The theme of this year's keynote is transformation, presented via 6 theme songs.
  • "Don't wait until tomorrow" (Van Halen, "Right Now")
    • Your transformation needs to start today. The problems will only get harder, deeper tomorrow.
  • "Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time" (Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now")
    • Developers love AWS and its capabilities (175+ services, breadth & depth).
    • AWS is rapidly innovating its compute capabilities with new instance types (driven by Nitro System) and new ways of running containers (including the just announced Fargate for EKS).
  • "Is that all you get for your money?" (Billy Joel, "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)")
    • You need to modernize your technology stack. Get off mainframes, migrate away from the old guard databases with their licensing tricks, and switching from Windows to Linux.
  • "The hunger keeps on growing" (Dave Matthews Band, "Too Much")
    • Data is exploding, and customers are moving from data silos to data lakes, with S3 the most popular choice for data lakes.
    • New feature, Amazon S3 Access Points, helps make giving access to S3 data easier on a per user/application basis.
    • AWS is a leader in analytics infrastructure with Athena, EMR, Redshift, ElastiSearch, Kinesis, and QuickSight.
    • AWS is investing heavily in its Redshift platform, with many new features announced including the ability to now manage compute and storage separately using the new Redshift RA3 instances.

Links

• AWS re:Invent
• AWS re:Invent 2019 Session Videos
• AWS Nitro System
• Elastic Fabric Adapter
• AWS Inferentia

End Song

You Just Can’t, by Roy England

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