AWS Heroes React to AWS re:Invent 2020 Announcements

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Preamble

What is re:Invent?

re:Invent is Amazon Web Service's (AWS) 5-day technology conference held in Las Vegas Nevada. Last year's conference had 65,000+ attendance from around the world.

Why is re:Invent so important?

re:Invent is when AWS announces new features, improvements and cloud services. It's also a lot of fun, with hands-on training, creative demos project, lucrative swag and more!

What is different this year?

Due to the world situation AWS has made a few changes:

• The conference is 100% virtual
• Attendance is free (you still need to register)
• The conference is 3 weeks long

What is an AWS Hero?

An AWS Hero is a recognized community leader in a specific category of cloud technologies.

What is this article?

There are thousands of talks and hundreds of announcements, and if you live a busy life, it can be hard to find the time to digest all the changes.

This reaction article is to help contextualize the AWS announcements with some personal thoughts or expert opinion so you have an idea of how you can apply these in your future workloads.

AWS Hero Reactions and Analysis

Andy Jassy Keynote, AWS Re:Invent 2020

No longer do we really have to worry about significant up front entry costs, capacity limits, or start up times. We have more power available via one API call than an entire data center from ten years ago. But if you dont change how you approach using these tools, you wont see... (read full article)

By Mark Nunnikhoven, AWS Community Hero

AWS announces Babelfish: open source Postgres with SQL Server compatibility

But if it werent enough, SQL Server equivalent catalogs and also the SQL Server wire protocol (TDS) has been implemented. This means that you will be able to talk to Postgres Babelfish as if it were... (read full article)

By lvaro Hernndez, AWS Data Hero

Serverless comes to machine learning with container image support in AWS Lambda

AWS announced a long-awaited update for AWS Lambda by many developers and data scientists because it could change the way we build functions. It comes with bonus features that make this release something very welcome in the serverless world: starting from today it is possible to... (read full article)

By Luca Bianchi, AWS Serverless Hero

Andy Jassys 8 keys to success ~ AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote

AWS is at the top of the Gartner Magic Quadrant in 2020 again. In fact, they widened the gap between themselves and next closest provider in the past year. Andy Jassy provided some keys to success at the AWS in his... (read full article)

By Teri Radichel, AWS Community Hero

5 takeaways from Andy Jassys big re:Invent keynote

To tie all that together, we got AWS Proton a fully managed deployment service for containers and serverless apps. Notice how those two concepts are starting to blend together? Watch for that trend to... (read full article)

By Forrest Brazeal, AWS Serverless Hero

AWS Lambda can now run PHP using Docker Containers

The good news is that while Lambda functions are limited to 250MB, containers can be up to 10GB. That will certainly help when deploying large monoliths to Lambda. One limitation to keep in mind is that after... (read full article)

By Matthieu Napoli, AWS Serverless Hero

Wait, did AWS just rewrite the manual again for building apps?

Andy Jassy's re:Invent keynote today was chock full of new features and services. I'm here to help break down the most important news related to modern application architecture (read full article)

By Chase Douglas, AWS Serverless Hero

Serverless at re:Invent 2020 hot takes #1

Lambda now bills you by the ms as opposed to 100 ms. So if your function runs for 42ms you will be billed for 42ms, not 100ms. This instantly makes everyones lambda bills cheaper without anyone having to lift a finger. Its the best kind of optimization! However, this might not mean much in (read full article)

By Yan Cui, AWS Serverless Hero

Database announcements at re:Invent 2020

There are 3 important new launches announced around databases: Babelfish for Aurora, Aurora Serverless v2 and AWS Glue Elastic Views but lets start by a recap of the pre-reInvent new features from this year (read full article)

By Franck Pachot, AWS Data Hero

Deploying a ML model using the new AWS Lambda Container Image Functionality

This week at re:Invent we saw AWS announce the ability to bring your own container to Lambda functions. The scenario that gets me super excited is the deployment of ML models inside Lambda. Before, it was just too awkward for most use cases to do ML in Lambda but I will demonstrate below that it is very easy now (read full article)

By Matt Coulter, AWS DevTools Hero

An AWS Hero reacts to the io2 Block Express announcement

I want to talk about the elegance that is io2 Block Express and why it truly is the first "Cloud SAN". In a traditional high performance and highly available Storage Area Network, data traffic between a storage array and the consuming server rides on a dedicated network (read full article)

By Dave Stauffacher, AWS Community Hero

Using container images with AWS Lambda

Container Image Support has just been announced for AWS Lambda and its a pretty big deal Im very excited because its something Ive wanted for years (read full article)

By Michael Hart, AWS Serverless Hero

The Year of Serverless

Danilo and Sheen are incredibly smart engineers and have done great things at the LEGO group. Theyre also both great at sharing their knowledge. From the talk abstract: After experiencing scaling issues on Black Friday, the LEGO team fully refactored its monolith to serverless microservices... (read the full article)

By Farrah Campbell, AWS Serverless Hero