144: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021

The Cloud Pod: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021 — Episode 144

On The Cloud Pod this week, as a birthday present to Ryan, the team didn’t discuss his advanced age, and focused instead on their AWS re:Invent predictions. Also, the Google Cybersecurity Action Team launches a product, and Microsoft announces a new VM series in Azure.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

• JumpCloud, which offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located. 

This week’s highlights

• AWS releases new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. That’s super, super fast. 
• Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team adds Risk and Compliance as Code (rCaC) Solution.
• Microsoft announces the NDm A100 v4 Series, and claims another spot on the  TOP500 supercomputers list.

Top Quotes  

•   “[AWS Resilience Hub] is already building on top of the FIS, which is interesting, but at some level I just want you to execute Lambda functions that validate things for me, and then tell me that I’m resilient because I validated it with Lambda.”
• “Anything that empowers more dynamic and interactive web development I’m all for.”

Amazon Web Services: Give Us Your Car  

• AWS is releasing new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. For the cost of a small car every month, you too can get up to 40% better value on inferencing and graphics-intensive operations.
• AWS is releasing the Resilience Hub, a service designed to help you define, track and manage the resilience of your applications.
• Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now sources results from blogs, knowledge articles, events and tutorials. Buyer beware with this one: It will pull outdated information that is still available on AWS, and you could end up with a giant albatross that costs you a fortune.
• Amazon ECS is improving ECS Capacity Providers to deliver faster cluster auto scaling. When you’re using a capacity provider, it’s painfully slow to get the underlying hosting infrastructure to scale fast enough, so we’re presuming AWS has addressed this in the back end.
• Manage access centrally for JumpCloud users with AWS Single Sign-On. We’re super happy to see this: Take notes, Azure AD.
• Amazon ECS adds container instance health information. This is nice to see and will help improve your application resiliency.

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