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We're happy to report that we are back and survived AWS re:Invent. As promised, re:Invent is a heavyweight of a conference and this year did not disappoint!

With 4 keynotes, over 3,000 sessions, and hundreds of new product and feature announcements, we've got a lot of ground to cover. In fact, we have so much to share with you, that we are splitting this into a special two-part mini-series.

In this episode of Mobycast, we start by recapping some of the big keynote sessions and discuss the new products and technologies that we are most excited about.

Show Notes

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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.
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