238: AWS Joins the Q Continuum – Reinvent Recap

Welcome to episode 238 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re bringing you a preview of Amazon re:Invent 2023. We’re talking all things AWS, Bedrock, Q, and frugal architecture, and – you guessed it – AI. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

Amazon Builds on Bedrock with Q

You Need to Be All Frugal Architects 

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“Pre”:Invent 

Is it just us, or is a lot of the stuff released during pre-invent stuff that would have been main stage just a few years ago? 

01:48 Major Items

Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions

03:43 Ryan – “I found this being announced pre-invent to be kind of shocking, because this is one of those announcements where you could re-architect your entire app for better performance using this type of solution, and it’s not even big enough for the main stage. But there’s huge potential in doing that edge transformation so that you can directly serve at the edge at much lower latency. So it’s awesome.”

Announcing AWS Console-to-Code (Preview) to generate code for console actions 

*No Terraform yet, but hopefully that will come soon! 

05:18 Jonathan – “I think it’s great for learning too, actually. I mean, I use this in the Google console all the time because I try and put together a command line to do something and it fails miserably. And so I go and do it in the console and it generates the command line coding thing. Ah, I missed that thing, which isn’t documented anywhere.”

07:23 Storage

Optimize your storage costs for rarely-accessed files with Amazon EFS Archive

FlexGroup Volume Management for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available

New – Scale-out file systems for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Introducing shared VPC support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

New – Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock 

Automatic restore testing and validation now available in AWS Backup RL(Maybe?)

08:56 Ryan – “that’s the main reason why I flagged this is that I’ve just done so many tabletop exercises and so many, you know, compliance e