Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!

It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”? AWS Announcements AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 (https://aws.amazon.com/#Explore_All_Product_Announcements) Analytics AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service Blockchain Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database Compute Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/aws-outposts-a-new-dimension-to-aws-cloud/) (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises This is VMware? Database Amazon RDS on VMware: Automate on-premises database management Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database Amazon Timestream: Fully managed time series database Internet of Things AWS IoT Events: IoT event detection and response AWS IoT SiteWise: IoT data collector and interpreter AWS IoT Things Graph: Easily connect devices and web services AWS Partner Device Catalog: Curated catalog of AWS-compatible IoT hardware Lambda New languages (Ruby (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/), C++ (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-the-c-lambda-runtime/), Rust (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws-lambda/)), more coming Erlang, Elixir, Cobol, N|Solid, PHP https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/ Announcements are still happening Machine Learning Amazon Elastic Inference: Deep learning inference acceleration Amazon Forecast: Increase forecast accuracy using machine learning Amazon Personalize: Build real-time recommendations into your applications Amazon Textract (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/): Extract text and data from documents AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-ground-truth-build-highly-accurate-datasets-and-reduce-labeling-costs-by-up-to-70/) Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-rl-managed-reinforcement-learning-with-amazon-sagemaker/) AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/), (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/) Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-machine-learning-algorithms-and-model-packages-now-available-in-aws-marketplace/) Management & Governance AWS App Mesh: Monitor and control microservices AWS Cloud Map: Service discovery for cloud resources AWS Control Tower: Set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment AWS License Manager: Track, manage and control license usage Media Services AWS Elemental MediaConnect: Reliable and secure live video transport Migration & Transfer AWS DataSync: Simple, fast, online data transfer AWS Transfer for SFTP: Fully managed SFTP service Mobile AWS Amplify: Build and deploy mobile and web applications Networking & Content Delivery AWS Global Accelerator: Improve application availability and performance AWS Transit Gateway: Easily scale VPC and account connections Robotics AWS RoboMaker: Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications Satellite AWS Ground Station: Fully managed ground station as a service Security, Identity, & Compliance AWS Security Hub: Unified security and compliance center Storage Amazon FSx for Lustre: Fully managed compute-intensive file system Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Fully managed Windows native file system Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Save with auto-tiering storage S3 Glacier Deep Archive Lydia says AWS deals are huge (https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1067858579787399168). 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Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/) Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Ticket to Ride (https://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/) Board Game Matt: Speaking of trains, I took the train from Canberra to Sydney (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1068060846138380288). Fantastic! Coté: Patriot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08w9DxR7DHs) season 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08w9DxR7DHs). It’s pretty good. And: HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw (https://amzn.to/2PabjDn).