ITPS260: re:Invent re:Cap

Executive Summary

So much cloud news, so little time. Mike is back from Vegas and provides his trip report from Amazon’s re:Invent conference.

Hosts: John Kresic and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 44:04

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AWS re:Invent

• Conference facts:
  • Only the 6th AWS conference (hard to believe).
  • Attendance more than doubled since 2015. This year announced as 43,000.
  • 270 breakout sessions in 2015 up to 1,300 this year.
  • Every keynote and breakout session is available, for free, on their YouTube channel
• Logistics for this growth were, predictably, a challenge.
  • Every session I attended was jam packed. I was turned away from one that I had reserved because I was 5 minutes late. Lines formed in hallways over an hour before start time.
  • Long lines for shuttle busses. Hotels 30 minutes apart made session scheduling a challenge.
• Nearly two dozen product announcements
  • EKS – Kubernetes support finally comes to AWS. In preview now. Hybrid cloud compatible, highly available, automatic patches/upgrades.
  • FarGate – in preview – lets you run Kubernetes as a managed service, so no servers, clusters or hardware to worry about.
  • AWS Cloud9 – an IDE for writing, running and debugging your cloud code
  • SageMaker – machine learning for the rest of us – comes loaded with the top 10 ML algorithms
  • DeepLens – an HD video camera with onboard compute optimized for deep learning
  • Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Translate
  • Amazon Echo for business
  • Amazon TimeSync service

 

• Google Cloud Platform Cuts the Price of GPUs By Up To 36 Percent
• Survey: Future IT pros should learn security and communication skills

 

IT Pro Bookshelf

• Catch up on all of the AWS reInvent sessions, including keynotes, at the AWS YouTube channel.
• Now available: Windows Server 2016 Security Guide!

 

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