Episode 443: Everything is maintenance

This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.

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Runner-up Titles

• No Slack


• The Corporate Podcast.


• Quality of life stop


• Our roads diverge


• Eats a bag of llama


• Nobody wants to do a bake-off


• AI all the time

Rundown

• AWS re:Invent
  
  
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
  
  
  • Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace
  
  
  • AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
  
  
  • Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)
  
  
  • Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
  
  
  • AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership
  
  
  • AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS
  
  
  • DGX Platform
  
  
  • Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS
  
  
  • Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock
  
  
  • Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning
  
  
  • Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock
  
  
  • Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training
  
  
  • Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers
  
  
  • Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst
  
  
  • Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation
  
  
  • Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant
  
  
  • New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights
  
  
  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
  
  
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
  
  
  • Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
  
  
  • Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters
  
  
  • Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available
  
  
  • Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
  
  
  • AWS takes the cheap shots
  
  
  • Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent
  
  

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