Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break...
Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
- EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares
- Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026
- NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing
- AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets
- AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human
- Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows
- Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code
- No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown
- AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation
- AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety
- AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55%
- Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door
- AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance
Follow Up
01:27 re:Invent
- Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years…
- Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt.
02:59 re:Invent predictions
Jonathan
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- Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability.
- It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis.
- AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) –
- Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent
- Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire
- He retired from re:Invent Presentations
Ryan
- New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips
- Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers.
- They brought the Rack Ryan
- Expand the number of models in or via bedrock
- Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3
- Refresh to AWS Organizations
Justin
- New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal
- Garman Nova 2 – Lite, Pro, and Sonic (the lack of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega reference is a shame)
- Announce a partnership with OpenAI (likely on stage)
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- Not announced as new, but said they’re running on AWS and that EC2 Ultraservers are in use.
- Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub (Automate the SOC teams)
- Garman – Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub – with NEW AWS Security Agent
Matt
- A model router to route LLM queries to different AI models
- Well-architected framework expansion
- End user Authentication that doesn’t suck (not current Cognito)
Tie Breaker – How many times w...
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - AWS + GCP: Kubectl Goodbye
- (00:01:31) - Reinvent Prediction: Who Won The PC World Awards
- (00:02:28) - AWS 10.2: Serverless and AI Agents
- (00:03:35) - Amazon Keynotes: Ryan Will Retire From Speaking
- (00:07:15) - AWS Security Hub: Advanced Agentic AI capabilities
- (00:08:06) - Treat Time: The AI Conference
- (00:11:04) - Matt Garmin's Conference Keynote
- (00:13:49) - Amazon Cloud Conference 2018: Highlights and Disclosures
- (00:19:05) - Swami's Keynote
- (00:20:33) - Peter Desantis at Reinvent:
- (00:21:55) - Peter Desantis's keynote
- (00:24:36) - Bedrock Reinforcement Learning Keynotes
- (00:29:23) - EC2 and Lambda: Computing with AWS, AI factories
- (00:30:43) - AWS Lambda Managed Instances
- (00:33:32) - AWS Lambda: Durable Functions Invite
- (00:37:37) - Amazon's Step Functions vs. AWS Lambda
- (00:40:40) - ECS x Kubernetes, NAT & More
- (00:47:16) - AWS: VPC Encryption Control (Nitro)
- (00:49:38) - AWS Network Firewall Proxy
- (00:50:58) - AWS S3: New Block Public Access Controls and More
- (00:54:19) - Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP Adds S3
- (00:55:56) - Database Enhancements in 2017
- (00:56:35) - AWS Adds Four New Features to SQL Server & Oracle RDS
- (00:57:30) - AWS Database Savings Plan Announcement
- (00:59:28) - RDS 10.2: SQL Server Resource Governor
- (01:00:41) - WAF and Security Identity
- (01:01:36) - Guardduty: Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 & ECS
- (01:03:45) - AWS Security Agent: Automated Application Security Reviews, Code Scan
- (01:06:14) - Amazon IAM Policy Autopilot Release
- (01:08:36) - AWS data exports in the Focus 1.2 format and then
- (01:09:36) - AWS Compute Optimizer: Cost Efficiency and Cost Optimization
- (01:12:58) - Amazon Rescues CodeCommun from the AWS Cloud
- (01:17:10) - CloudWatch: Governance, Control Tower, and More
- (01:18:24) - AWS: AMI Ancestry
- (01:20:58) - Amazon Support Plans Reshuffled
- (01:25:29) - Amazon Cloud: Announcements #271