re:Invent 2020 re:cap

In this webinar we'll take you through some of the highlights from the AWS re:Invent conference 2020 and how they might be relevant to your needs.

Transcript

1. RE:INVENT
   
   
   RE:CAP_
   JON TOPPER | @jtopper | he/him/his
   

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2. $ whoami
   Founder/CEO/CTO The Scale Factory
   
   
   Working in hosting/infrastructure for 20 years
   Infrastructure / AWS / DevOps
   

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4. THE TEAM_
   

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5. OUR
   
   
   CLIENTS_
   

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6. AWS
   
   
   RE:INVENT_
   November 30th - December 18th
   
   
   January 12th - 14th
   

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8. AWS
   
   
   RE:INVENT_
   Keynotes:
   
   
   Andy Jassy (CEO)
   
   
   Partner Keynote
   
   
   Machine Learning
   
   
   Infrastructure
   
   
   Werner Vogels (VP & CTO amazon.com)
   
   
   Other sessions
   

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9. EC2
   
   
   UPDATES_
   

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10. EC2 MAC
    
    
    (mac1.metal)_
    Bare metal instances
    
    
    6 x 3.2Ghz Core i7 (8 gen)*
    
    
    32GiB RAM
    
    
    10Gbps VPC bandwidth
    
    
    8Gbps EBS bandwidth
    
    
    Mojave / Catalina / Big Sur (soon)
    
    
    Minimum 24hrs
    

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12. https:/
    /www.awsgeek.com/
    
    
    @awsgeek
    

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13. GRAVITON 2
    
    
    INSTANCES_
    M6g (general purpose)
    
    
    T4g (burstable gp)
    
    
    C6g (compute intensive)
    
    
    R6g (memory intensive)
    

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14. WHY
    
    
    GRAVITON 2?_ Custom silicon 64bit Arm Neoverse cores
    
    
    Targeted optimisations for cloud-native
    workloads
    
    
    4x L1 cache compared with Intel chips
    
    
    M6g is 20% cheaper vs M5
    
    
    Up to 40% better price/performance
    

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16. OTHER
    
    
    INSTANCES_
    D3, D3en (high local storage capacity)
    
    
    M5zn (Xeon or AMD)
    
    
    R5b (Xeon or AMD)
    
    
    G4ad (Radeon Pro V520 GPU)
    
    
    Habana Gaudi Accelerators
    

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17. STORAGE
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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18. AMAZON
    
    
    EBS gp3_
    20% cheaper than gp2
    
    
    Max performance 4x that of gp2
    
    
    Performance ≠ capacity
    
    
    3,000 IOPS & 125MB/s at any volume size
    
    
    Scales to 16,000 IOPS & 1,000 MB/s
    

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19. io2 BLOCK
    
    
    EXPRESS EBS_
    256K IOPS
    
    
    4,000 Mbps throughput
    
    
    64 TiB max volume
    
    
    Multi-attach / I/O fencing
    
    
    Elastic Volumes
    
    
    Fast Snapshot Restore
    

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20. S3
    
    
    UPDATES_
    Strong read-after-write consistency
    
    
    New “bucket key” encryption model
    

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21. CONTAINER
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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22. ECR
    
    
    PUBLIC_
    Fully managed OCI container registry
    
    
    Publicly share container software
    
    
    Published through CloudFront
    
    
    Replacement for Docker Hub
    
    
    Cross-region replication
    

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23. ECS / EKS
    
    
    ANYWHERE_
    Run containers on your own hardware
    
    
    Use the control plane in AWS
    
    
    No customer data leaves your network
    

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24. AMAZON
    
    
    EKS DISTRO_
    Kubernetes distribution
    
    
    Aligned with Amazon EKS Version
    Lifecycle Policy
    
    
    Open source (on GitHub)
    

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25. AMAZON
    
    
    EKS ADDONS_
    Configure & deploy Kubernetes add-ons
    using AWS APIs
    
    
    Includes support for VPC CNI
    
    
    Supports IAM roles for service accounts
    

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26. SERVERLESS
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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27. AWS LAMBDA
    
    
    BILLING_ Lambda now billed in 1ms granularity
    

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28. AWS LAMBDA
    
    
    CONTAINER
    
    
    IMAGE SUPPORT_
    Package and deploy Lambda functions
    as container images up to 10GB size
    
    
    Base images available for all supported
    Lambda runtimes.
    
    
    Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator
    
    
    Publish Lambda containers with ECR
    

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29. AMAZON
    
    
    AURORA
    
    
    SERVERLESS v2_
    In preview for Aurora MySQL
    
    
    (PostgreSQL next year)
    
    
    Faster scale-out
    
    
    More granular scalability
    
    
    Great for variable or SaaS workloads
    

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30. DEVOPS
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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31. AWS
    
    
    PROTON_
    Tool for platform teams to maintain
    consistent standards for deployment
    
    
    Developers self-serve their application
    deployments
    
    
    Containers & Lambda supported
    
    
    Infrastructure as Code
    

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32. DEVOPS
    
    
    GURU_
    ML-powered operations service
    
    
    Reports on anomalies in your operational
    data (CloudWatch, Config, CloudTrail, X-
    Ray)
    

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33. VPC
    
    
    REACHABILITY
    
    
    ANALYZER_
    Automated reasoning driven tool
    
    
    Troubleshoots reachability
    

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34. AWS DISTRO
    
    
    FOR OPENTELEMETRY_
    AWS Supported Distribution
    
    
    Open Source
    

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35. AWS FAULT
    
    
    INJECTION
    
    
    SIMULATOR_
    Managed chaos engineering
    
    
    Run game days
    
    
    Integrate into your CI pipeline
    

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36. MANAGED
    
    
    SERVICES_
    

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37. AMAZON
    
    
    MQ_
    Message broker service
    
    
    Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ
    

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38. AMAZON
    
    
    MANAGED SERVICE
    
    
    FOR PROMETHEUS_
    Automatic scaling
    
    
    High availability
    
    
    IAM integration
    

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39. AMAZON
    
    
    MANAGED SERVICE
    
    
    FOR GRAFANA_
    AWS SSO Integration
    
    
    Easily migrate from self-managed
    

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40. ML
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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41. AWS
    
    
    TRAINIUM_
    Custom ML training silicon
    
    
    Lots of teraflops
    
    
    Most cost-effective training solution
    

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42. SAGEMAKER
    
    
    UPDATES_
    SageMaker Pipelines
    
    
    SageMaker Data Wrangler
    
    
    SageMaker Feature Store
    
    
    Distributed training on Amazon SageMaker
    
    
    SageMaker Edge Manager
    
    
    SageMaker Debugger
    
    
    SageMaker Clarify
    
    
    SageMaker JumpStart
    

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43. ML ALL
    
    
    THE THINGS_
    Amazon Aurora ML
    
    
    Amazon Redshift ML
    
    
    Amazon Neptune ML
    

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44. OTHER
    
    
    UPDATES_
    

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45. AWS
    
    
    GLUE_
    AWS Glue DataBrew
    
    
    AWS Glue Elastic Views
    
    
    DynamoDB
    
    
    Redshift
    
    
    S3
    
    
    ElasticSearch
    
    
    More coming
    

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46. SAAS
    
    
    BOOST_
    Ready-to-use Reference Environment
    
    
    Accelerate moving container-based apps into
    SaaS model in AWS
    
    
    Deployment automation, analytics, billing,
    metering
    

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47. AMAZON
    
    
    HEALTHLAKE_
    HIPAA-eligible
    
    
    NLP, Medical comprehension, ontology
    mapping
    
    
    Organises, indexes, and structures patient
    information
    

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48. AWS AUDIT
    
    
    MANAGER_
    Map AWS usage to controls
    
    
    Automate audit evidence collection
    
    
    Manage stakeholder reviews of your controls
    
    
    Build audit reports with less effort
    

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49. SYSTEMS
    
    
    MANAGER_
    AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
    
    
    AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
    

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50. BABELFISH
    
    
    FOR AURORA
    
    
    POSTGRESQL_
    Escape your SQL Server licenses
    
    
    Translate SQL Server apps to PostgreSQL
    
    
    T-SQL supported
    
    
    Move apps for SQL Server 2014 or later
    
    
    Will soon be open source
    

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51. CLOUD
    
    
    SHELL_
    Browser-based shell
    
    
    Inherits IAM credentials
    
    
    No cost
    

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52. WHAT
    
    
    NOW?_
    Enable DevOps Guru
    
    
    Convert gp2 to gp3 volumes
    
    
    Look into Graviton 2 migration
    
    
    Adopt managed services
    
    
    Converge on container images for
    application delivery
    

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53. KEEP IN
    
    
    TOUCH_
    http:/
    /www.scalefactory.com/
    @scalefactory
    jon@scalefactory.com
    

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