About this episode
AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more! NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date on Azure or GCP in the interim, follow our Twitter @thecloudpod1 or join our Slack Channel . Sign up for our Newsletter!! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics AWS CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs In The Works – New AMD-Powered, Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances (C5a/C5ad) Amazon EKS adds support for provisioning and managing Kubernetes worker nodes AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service Welcome to AWS Storage Day Continuously monitor unused IAM roles with AWS Config Reinvent Draft Jonathan Zero/Low code application platform Anthos like hybrid/multi-cloud platform/option Transit Gateway cross-regional and/or Security group support Peter Layer 7 Egress Filtering Gateway Cloudwatch Dependency Mapping (mute alerts if downstream from another alert) Outposts GA and/or Shipping Justin Cost Reduction for the Network Tier A device with a camera, like a drone, thing, etc that will replace the deepracer Visual Threat Detection modeling for their security tools Artist Pick Jonathan: Calvin Harris Peter: Marshmello – The Licks Justin: David Guetta Runner Ups Al a carte instances of CPU/Memory combinations (Jonathan) Perpetual Free Tier (Jonathan) Cloudfront Deployment and/or Dev Mode (Justin) The Year of Organizations (Justin) Formula 1 Personality (Peter) Lightning Round (Jonathan 13, Justin 18, and Guest 5): Amazon GuardDuty Supports Exporting Findings to an Amazon S3 Bucket Parameter Store announces enhanced search experience Amazon Redshift announces a console refresh to improve management and monitoring of your data warehouse Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity now handles imbalanced workloads better by isolating frequently accessed items automatically Amazon SNS Adds Support for Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ) Amazon Redshift launches cross-instance restore Amazon CloudWatch Launches Embedded Metric Format AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.8, node JS 12, Java 11, Baker Code 3.0 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-now-supports-python-3-8/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-node-js-12/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-java-11/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-lambda-supports-baker-3/ <– Not Real but tricked Peter.