Episode 332: Capabilities vs. Complexity

This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and Knative joins the CNCF. Plus, some discussion on trademarks…

Rundown

• AWS re:Invent Recap
  • Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 | Amazon Web Services
  • AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month
  • Where new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky plans to take cloud computing next
  • Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry | Amazon Web Services
  • AWS launches its Graviton 3 processor
  • Amazon launches preview of new AWS Private 5G managed service
  • re:Invent Keynote Rebuttal
  • Goldman’s Cloud Will Pitch Trades
• Knative
  • Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project
  • Serverless offerings like AWS Lambda haven't hit the big time, but Kubernetes can help

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