Episode Details

...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.

...That sweet OpEx.

..."Easy to stay."

Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.

• Kenneth Cole slip on shoes.
• Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace.
• The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire.

• Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
• Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo

• Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
• Richard has a write-up as well.
• RedMonk re:Cap

Global Partner Summit

• Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners"
• "10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months"

Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"

• Amazon Lightsail
  • Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP
  • Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode
• Amazon Athena
  • S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
  • JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
  • Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
• Amazon Rekognition
  • Image detection & recognition
• Amazon Polly
  • Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
  • Coté: Makes transcripts?
• Amazon Lex
  • Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
  • Coté: make chat-bots and such.
• AWS Greengrass
  • Local Lambda p