What follows are my thoughts and takeaways
from the AWS re:Invent conference keynote presentations by Andy Jassy and
Werner Volgels in November 2018. I attended the keynote sessions virtually and
took notes as usual. I've included a lot more detail about the keynote
presentations at the end.
Thoughts, Observations and Takeaways
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Jassy is probably the best
pitchman in the industry. Right out the
gate he's on fleek. AWS is still the
gold standard on how to market the cloud (Google, take notes, your marketing
stinks!).
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With the announcement of the Graviton, an ARM based CPU processor for lower
cost compute, and Inferentia, the machine learning ASIC to boost
machine learning, AWS is becoming a hardware company, primarily aimed at making
AWS stronger, not providing hardware to customers (but there was some of that
too with AWS Outpost. Paulo Santos has
his take on the CPU on his blog, seekingalpha.com. I agree with Paul but for different reasons.
