AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas.  Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more!

NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date on Azure or GCP in the interim, follow our Twitter @thecloudpod1 or join our Slack Channel.

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Topics

AWS

CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry

Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs

In The Works – New AMD-Powered, Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances (C5a/C5ad)

Amazon EKS adds support for provisioning and managing Kubernetes worker nodes

AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard

Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups

Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service

Welcome to AWS Storage Day

Continuously monitor unused IAM roles with AWS Config

Reinvent Draft

Jonathan

Zero/Low code application platform

Anthos like hybrid/multi-cloud platform/option

Transit Gateway cross-regional and/or Security group support

Peter

Layer 7 Egress Filtering Gateway

Cloudwatch Dependency Mapping (mute alerts if downstream from another alert)

Outposts GA and/or Shipping

Justin

Cost Reduction for the Network Tier

A device with a camera, like a drone, thing, etc that will replace the deepracer

Visual Threat Detection modeling for their security tools

Artist Pick

Jonathan: Calvin Harris

Peter: Marshmello – The Licks 

Justin: David Guetta

Runner Ups

Al a carte instances of CPU/Memory combinations (Jonathan)

Perpetual Free Tier (Jonathan)

Cloudfront Deployment and/or Dev Mode (Justin)

The Year of Organizations (Justin)

Formula 1 Personality (Peter)

Lightning Round (Jonathan 13, Justin 18, and Guest 5): 

Amazon GuardDuty Supports Exporting Findings to an Amazon S3 Bucket

Parameter Store announces enhanced search experience

Amazon Redshift announces a console refresh to improve management and monitoring of your data warehouse

Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity now handles imbalanced workloads better by isolating frequently accessed items automatically

Amazon SNS Adds Support for Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ)

Amazon Redshift launches cross-instance restore

Amazon CloudWatch Launches Embedded Metric Format

AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.8, node JS 12, Java 11, Baker Code 3.0

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-now-supports-python-3-8/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-node-js-12/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-java-11/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-baker-3/  <– Not Real but tricked Peter.