This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.
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Runner-up Titles
- No Slack
- The Corporate Podcast.
- Quality of life stop
- Our roads diverge
- Eats a bag of llama
- Nobody wants to do a bake-off
- AI all the time
Rundown
- AWS re:Invent
- Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
- Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace
- AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
- Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)
- Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
- AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership
- AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS
- DGX Platform
- Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS
- Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock
- Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning
- Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock
- Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training
- Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers
- Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst
- Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation
- Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant
- New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
- Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
- Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters
- Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available
- Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
- AWS takes the cheap shots
- Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent
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- FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data
- AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch
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- Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024
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- Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering
- Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
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- DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers
- Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023
- Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan
- Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval
- VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom
- Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law
- Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
- Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
- Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity
- IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS
- Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated
- New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy
- VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake
- Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028
- IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete
- WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership
- Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn
- Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK)
- Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
- Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
- Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS.
Nonsense
- Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors
- Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023
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