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It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”?

AWS Announcements

• AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018
• Analytics
  • AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days
  • Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service
• Blockchain
  • Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks
  • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
• Compute
  • Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads
  • Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth
  • Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training
  • AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises
    • This is VMware?
• Database
  • Amazon RDS on VMware: Automate on-premises database management
  • Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
  • Amazon Timestream: Fully managed time series database
• Internet of Things
  • AWS IoT Events: IoT event detection and response
  • AWS IoT SiteWise: IoT data collector and interpreter
  • AWS IoT Things Graph: Easily connect devices and web services
  • AWS Partner Device Catalog: Curated catalog of AWS-compatible IoT hardware
• Lambda
  • New languages (Ruby, C++, Rust), more coming Erlang, Elixir, Cobol, N|Solid, PHP
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/
  • Announcements are still happening
• Machine Learning
  • Amazon Elastic Inference: Deep learning inference acceleration
  • Amazon Forecast: Increase forecast accuracy using machine learning
  • Amazon Personalize: Build real-time recommendations into your applications
  • Amazon Textract: Extract text and data from documents
  • AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip
  • Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets
  • Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker
  • AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent, Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML

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