Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!

Santa arrived early and he brought all the goods with him to The Cloud Pod this week. The team dives into all the big announcements from AWS re:invent 2020. 

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:

•  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.

This week’s highlights

• Amazon flips the bird at Microsoft with its Babelfish announcement. 
• AWS is angling for a free Jeep Wrangler with its new service.
• AWS is helping customers get out of the sticky situation they’re in and don’t know it. 

Amazon Web Services: Thankfully They Didn’t Ruin Our Predictions

• Amazon launches managed workflows for Apache Airflow to simplify data processing pipelines. Interesting to see it giving some alternative options.  
• AWS Lambda now has Code Signing, a trust and integrity control to confirm code is unaltered and from a trusted publisher. Not a nice way to start Thanksgiving if you are Palo Alto. 
• Amazon announces centralized account access management of AWS Single Sign-On and Attribute-based access control. Has a few rough edges.  
• Multi-Region Replication is now enabled for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory. We’re so glad this is finally here.
• Amazon announces reusable building blocks called modules to define infrastructure and applications in AWS CloudFormation. Amazon is jumping on the reusable elements bandwagon with this one.
• AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Organizations for simplified security posture management. Basically a centralized security hub.

AWS Elasticsearch Announcements: 

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.9
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports anomaly detection for high cardinality datasets