Episode 389: The Miscellaneous Keynote

This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding…

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Runner-up Titles

• Everyone gets a Graviton Instance


• What a Boring re:Invent


• Part of our brand


• 17 Days in the Hole


• Under the Stars, Under the Sea


• Tighten it up


• Don’t make me pay for security


• Secure by default


• That’s a great message and I don’t believe it


• Works with Lambda


• Security, it keeps getting better?

Rundown

• AWS re:Invent
  
  
  • What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News - 2022 Archive
  
  
  • Compute
  
  
  • Amazon EC2 C7g instances – Compute –Amazon Web Services
  
  
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances
  
  
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances
  
  
  • AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
  
  
  • Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development
  
  
  • New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart
  
  
  • Data
  
  
  • Announcing Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR
  
  
  • AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark
  
  
  • AWS announces Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
  
  
  • Serverless Open-Source Search Engine – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
  
  
  • Introducing AWS Glue 4.0
  
  
  • Security
  
  
  • Introducing Amazon Security Lake (Preview)
  
  
  • AWS co-announces release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
  
  
  • Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
  
  
  • Solutions
  
  
  • AWS CEO: The cloud isn’t just about technology
  
  
  • AWS Supply Chain
  
  
  • AWS Clean Room
  
  
  • Announcing AWS SimSpace Weaver
  
  
  • Amazon Connect announces Contact Lens agent performance evaluation forms
  
  
  • Introducing Amazon Omics
  
  
  • Corey Quinn on re:Invent
  
  


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