Episode Details

This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums.

The Rundown

• AWS Outage
  • Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it
  • The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident
• AWS re:Invent
  • AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services
  • Compute
    • AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system
    • Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps
    • EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors
    • How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce
  • Databases
    • Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish
  • Kubernetes
    • Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) | Amazon Web Services
    • Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere
    • Amazon EKS Anywhere
    • New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
    • AWS quietly enters the multicloud era
  • Serverless
    • Amazon Aurora Serverless | MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database
    • New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
  • DevOps Guru
    • New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes
  • Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you
    • In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021
    • AWS Outposts 1U and 2U form factors
• Slack
  • Best analysis ever

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