Well here we are 2024 and the first episode of the #AWSCommunity Radio is now out. It's a short one this week but still helps you keep you up to date so worth a watch, subscribe and a share ;)

Go get it here:

https://youtu.be/3DljmF2Yy5A

The trial is being extended every year since introduced in late 2020.

Here’s my final video of AWS news and updates for 2023, We have updates to Amazon EKS with my favourite announcement being tooling to help you upgrade between kubernetes versions easily without hitting API issues!

There's a new region launch in Calgary Canada and a tonne of features for Amazon RDS including integration with Amazon Bedrock from Aurora Postgres letting you build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAGS) easily and even query ML via SQL!

We also look at some of the developer tools and how they are evolving to make your life easier and cheaper to develop before deploying to the cloud, including new ways to run Amazon Linux on your own hardware either using KVM, which is great for linux or using VMware. There's qcow2 and OVA images available for download.

DynamoDB local also gets updates and now has ReturnValuesOnConditionCheckFailures and table deletion prevention.

Then I ask AWS for open source access to cloud9 IDE :)

https://youtu.be/v4-UpRq9MLU

Hi Everyone, re:invent may be over but the innovation at AWS never stops and I have a summary of 35 updates to bring you this week squeezed into a short 10 min video to keep you up to date with what’s happening in the world of AWS cloud. Come join me on YouTube by following the link on screen and below and whilst you're there don’t forget to subscribe and then share this video with a friend of colleague, it really helps the channel. https://youtu.be/GGb_qy_pB_k

Cory Quinn touches on the general disappointment of re:Invent '23 and then focuses on the current preview of Q.

Hoping this gets seen by someone with the right email on hand to tell someone about it!

Hi folks the last two episodes of the AWS reinvent 2023 playlist are now live and we look into what Werner had to say in his Keynote and then a plethora of updates from the SageMaker team. I hope you’ll join me on Youtube by following the links below:

Werners KeyNote - https://youtu.be/FFs-Mg7ekEM More SageMaker news - https://youtu.be/y33oExwlY6M

Hey folks, I’ve just dropped 4 more videos covering the latest announcements from #AWS #re:invent 2023, and it brings you even more AI news. From new foundational models to updates in Amazon #Bedrock, we also cover vector engines, #OpenSearch Updates and #Redshift. There's a mountain to get through but I’ve boiled it down to 4 short videos to save you time. Come join me on YouTube by following the playlist link or checking below for individual videos :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJfHV4AQkRhcZtuusuF4tCwxe3YB3Fp53

Vector databases and OpenSearch News - https://youtu.be/sHQmgyVI3Wg

Amazon SageMaker News - https://youtu.be/Bsdk5kpLDp4

Foundational Models and Amazon Bedrock Updates - https://youtu.be/fD41HwTCDNY

New features in Amazon Redshift - https://youtu.be/-oITic2tBvs

Hi folks, this time it’s time to look at the announcements from Adam Selipskys #Keynote at #AWS #reinvent 2023. I’ve broken this down into a couple of videos to make it easier to digest which I’ll release throughout the day and I can say with certainty watching my summaries will save you a bunch of time in rewatching the full blown keynote! We are going to focus on #GenAI #Bedrock including it’s #FoundationalModels and #AmazonQ then I’ll follow up with videos on #Storage and general announcements. Just follow the link to the playlist and look for today's videos! https://bit.ly/3QXIo7B

https://youtu.be/LApZcLdHAow - Adam’s Keynote Gen AI announcements

Come join me for Day 1 updates from #AWS #reinvent2023 on YouTube and get announcement updates and summaries to help you keep up to date with the latest in cloud technology. You can follow the playlist right here: https://bit.ly/3QXIo7B

Individual episodes:

https://youtu.be/g9l7LZ-IDEE

https://youtu.be/7z73GApWFjU

https://youtu.be/tMILVbTQNOM

Hi Folks, just a friendly reminder that the latest AWS Weekly show is out now and is packed full of updates. I’ve finessed down 112 announcements from this week to the cool and important stuff so you don’t have to wade through all those blog posts and press releases, this should save you a bunch of time but still keep you up to date with all the latest features. Come join me on you tube now, see you there. https://youtu.be/ykBMQsDFFMQ

Let me distill 115 #AWS announcements in todays AWS Weekly Show covering topics from the #Amazon #PartyRock release and updates to #Bedrock, with some great improvements for Amazon #RDS, EC2 autoscaling, CloudFront and WAF integration and much much more. It’s a packed show in the build up to re:invent. Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/8XEjbSZH8Rw

Hi everyone it’s that time of week to catch up on all the latest #AWS news with me on Youtube. This weeks theres lots of lambda performance news, SQS and EventBridge announcements and even some container updates thrown in, not to mention the speed boosts to RDS. It’s clearly starting to get busy before #reinvent2023 kicks off so all the more reason to join me and stay up to date.

The latest episode of the #AWS Weekly show is here, come and hear about the most interesting announcements from the 72 this week, from Amazon Bedrock to EKS.

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If it is, how is it going to be effected by the RHEL announcement which effectively kills centos?

Come join the online AWS user group on YouTube, don’t forget to subscribe and hit the bell for notifications of new episodes.

Come catch up on the big announcements from AWS this week, including charging for IPv4 addresses, New EC2 Instances and some updates to TLD’s in Route53

Come join us for a huge amounts of updates this week. https://youtu.be/Kq_AxhUBpsw

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New episode of all the latest updates for aws is out now and it's a bumper edition!

AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containerized workloads, now supports lazy loading container images that have been indexed using Seekable OCI (SOCI). Lazy loading container images with SOCI reduces the time taken to launch Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks on AWS Fargate.

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Servers or Serverless - Which is better from a cost perspective?

It really depends upon the use case!

From a financial perspective, it’s a rent vs buy decision.

If a system is used sporadically, then serverless is often cheaper.

If a system is used constantly – serverless can be 10 X more expensive!

You can think of it in the same manner as buying a car vs taking an Uber.

For example – if you live in a city and take ten $25 dollar Uber trips per month the cost is $250

The cost of buying a car, fuel, plus insurance and parking could be $1000 - $2000 per month in most cities.

In the above case – it’s cheaper for this individual to use Uber.

But what happens when a person needs six - $20 Uber trips per day? Now that’s $120 dollars per day or $3600 per month.

In this case, it’s far cheaper to buy a car than to take an Uber.

As a bonus to this second scenario, in the end the person still has the car and can continue to drive the car or sell the asset when the payments are finished.

This is essentially the same calculation of server vs serverless on the cloud.

So, which is better from a cost perspective server or serverless?

It depends upon how the systems are used.

If the systems are used infrequently then serverless is often cheaper. If the systems are used consistently then serverless is much more expensive.

Now you have a fundamental understanding of servers and serverless and their costs.

Here's a great start into learning AWS.

It looks like AWS Lambda is down in us-east-1 right now and is causing other services to fail. Screenshot is from https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

In the interests of Do Not Lurk, here's what I'm planning to play with this week. Looks like a much cheaper way of getting access to larger runner instances, and means I can preinstall a bunch of tools to make builds faster.