Welcome to episode 284 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Everybody is in the house this week, and it’s a good thing because since we’ve last recorded re:Invent happened, and we have a LOT to talk about. So let’s jump right in!

• Amazon Steals from Azure…. We Are Doomed
• The Cloud Pod Can Now Throw Away a lot of Code
• The Cloud Pod Controls the Future
• The Cloud Pod Observes More Insights
• We Are Simplicity
• X None of the Above
• Stop Trying to Make Bedrock & Q Happen
• My Head Went SuperNova over all the Q Announcements
• These are Not the Gadgets Bond Needed, Q!

08:12 It’s the re:Invent recap!

Did you make any announcement predictions? Let’s see how our hosts’ predictions stacked up to reality.

Matt – 1

• Large Green Computing Reinvent
• LLM at the Edge
• Something new on S3

Ryan (AI) – 1

• Improved serverless observability tools
• Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes
• Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services

Jonathan – 0

1. New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe)
2. New automated cost optimization tools
3. Automated RAG/vector to S3

Justin – 2

1. 1. Managed Backstage or platform like service

• New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan

1. Competitor VM offering to Broadcom

Honorable Mentions:

Jonathan:

Deeper integration between serverless and container services

New region

Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool

Justin:

Multicloud management – in a bigger way (Anthos competitor)

Agentic AI toolings

New ARM graviton chip

How many will AI or Artificial Intelligence be said: 45

Justin – 35

Jonathan – 72

Pre:Invent

There were over 180 announcements, and yes – we have them all listed here for you. You’re welcome.

17:12 Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

• Now you can specify a desired completion duration, from 15 minutes to 48 hours when you copy an Amazon EBS snapshot within or between Amazon regions or accounts.
• This will allow you to meet your time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads, mostly around DR capabilities.
• We’re just glad to see this one finally, because having it built in directly to the console to guarantee that EBS snapshots make it to the other region is a big quality of life enhancement.

Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager

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Welcome to episode 283 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Break out your crystal balls and shuffle those tarot decks, because it’s Re:Invent prediction time! Sorry we missed you all last week – the plague has been strong with us. But Justin and Jonathan are BACK, and we’ve got a ton of news, so buckle in and let’s get started!

• Not My Snowcones!
• Lambda at 10: Still Better Than Windows Containers

01:27 The voice of America Online’s “You’ve got mail” has died at age 74

• Elwoods Edwards, the voice behind the online service AOL’s iconic “You’ve got mail” sound notification has died at the age of 74. He was just one day shy of his 75th birthday.
• The “you’ve got mail” soundbite started in 1989 when Steve Case, CEO of Quantum Computer Services (which will later become America Online or AOL,) wanted to add a human voice to their Quantum online service.
• Karen Edwards, who worked as a customer service representative, heard Case discussing the plan and suggested her husband Elwood, a professional broadcaster.
• Edwards recorded the famous phrase and others (“Welcome” “File’s done” and “Goodbye” among them) on a cassette recorder in his living room.
• He was paid $200 for the service.
• His voice is still used to greet users of the current AOL service.

03:04 It’s Time for RE:Invent Predictions!

Matt

1. Large Green Computing Reinvent
2. LLM at the Edge
3. Something new On S3

Ryan (AI)

1. Improved serverless observability tools
2. Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes
3. Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services

Jonathan

1. New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe)
2. New automated cost optimization tools
3. Automated RAG/vector to S3

Justin

1. Managed Backstage or platform like service
2. New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan
3. Competitor VM offering to Broadcom

Honorable Mentions

Jonathan:

Deeper integration between serverless and container services

New Region

Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool

Justin:

Multi Cloud management – in a bigger way (Anthos competitor)

Agentic AI toolings

New ARM graviton chip

How many times will AI or Artificial Intelligence be said:

Justin – 35

Jonathan – 72

And now it’s time for Pre:Invent announcements:

20:09 Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput

Welcome to episode 282 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are happy to be joining you in the clouds versus watching election information. This week we’re talking nuclear energy, AI Search tools, and all things Pre:Invent. Welcome, and thanks for joining us!

• The Cloud Pod Would Much Rather Record This Show Than Watch the Election Results
• IBM Comes for Your AI Dollars
• AWS Goes Limitless with the PostgreSQL Possibilities
• It is Upon Us the Pre-Invent Period and AWS Does Not Disappoint
• Amazon Loses Its Nuclear Superhero

01:13 Energy regulators scrutinizing data center use reject Amazon bid

• Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a proposal that would have allowed an Amazon data center to co-locate with an existing nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
• The commission voted it down 2-1
• FERC chairman Willie Phillips said that the commission should encourage the development of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing as national security and economic development priorities.
• Commissioners Mark Christie and Lindsay See (both R) voted to reject the proposal, while Davis Rosner and Judy Change (D) didn’t vote.
• Talen Energy, who signed the agreement, drew challenges from neighboring utilities AEP and Exelon – who challenged the novel arrangement, arguing it would unfairly shift costs of running the broader grid to other consumers.
• FERC’s order found the region’s grid operator, PJM Interconnection, failed to show why the proposal was necessary and prove such a deal would be limited to the Susquehanna plant given the widespread interest in placing data centers next to power plants.
• Talen said the ruling would have a chilling effect on the region’s economic development and it is weighing its options.
• Will see what happens with Microsoft/Constellation energies plan to restart 3-Mile Island.

3:21 Justin – “It’s sort of sad because I kind like the idea of nuclear power to solve a bunch of problems, but it has to be done in the right way for sure.”

04:12 IT’S EARNINGS TIME!

04:22 IBM revenue misses, but execs say AI will drive future growth

• • This week, we have an additional company we don’t typically talk about… but IBM kicked off this quarter’s earning seasons which indicated that the AI dividend has yet to pay off for big infrastructure players.
  • Earnings were 2.30 a share, excluding non-recurring items, and were eight cents better than consensus estimates.
  • Although rev...