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AWS was an amazing conference. \u00a0All of my notes of the events I went to are here<\/a>. (Scroll down to read the README.md file)<\/p>\n

Just some quick overall thoughts:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Compared to Cisco, AWS really skips out on the food and entertainment. \u00a0I mean, come on, we had Aerosmith at Cisco Live and AWS gives us what? \u00a0I can’t even remember the name. \u00a0Doesn’t really matter, cause I went home that night anyway.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0This should be a longer event. \u00a0There were too many sessions I wanted to attend. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to attend an IoT bootcamp and that could have easily gone another day if they would have added some analysis. \u00a0I wish it would have.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0The announcements never stopped. \u00a0I lost count around 20, but there were a ton of new features and services. \u00a0Take Amazon snowball: \u00a0$200 to send 50TB into AWS. \u00a0Best comment on that? \u00a0Costs $1500 to move it out. \u00a0(50,000 * $0.03)<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0The biggest surprise to me was hearing the amount of customers that use the Cisco CSR1000v. \u00a0It’s not my product to know, so I don’t feel bad saying this. \u00a0I didn’t think there were so many users of it! \u00a0Wow. \u00a0The use case was “Transitive Routing”. \u00a0Imagine having 3 VPCs. \u00a0One of them is externally connected. \u00a0Placing one pair of CSR 1000vs in that externally connected VPC allows for the other VPCs to communicate to each other using BGP internally. \u00a0Pretty cool.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Everyone is in trouble. \u00a0When Amazon QuickSight was announced I thought: \u00a0Wow, if you’re into analytics in the cloud you are in trouble. I don’t know which companies may have been effected by that, but I suspect they are the tip of the iceberg. \u00a0Take New Relic for example. \u00a0Right now they are doing really well for admin analytics. \u00a0How long before AWS puts a service to do that?<\/p>\n

6. \u00a0What I was wondering about is if they were ever going to announce some sort of on-prem solution. The closest they got to that was Amazon Snowball, bless their hearts. \u00a0It probably doesn’t make sense for them to complicate things with that and leads to more capability of intellectual property getting loose. \u00a0After all, these are linux machines, and if a managed service happened on prem, that would be easy to get into.<\/p>\n

7. \u00a0Look out Oracle! \u00a0Woah, that was some serious swinging. \u00a0And Oracle, you have a lot to worry about. \u00a0First of all, nobody I talk to really likes you. \u00a0People have nostalgic feelings for Sun but I’ve not really talked to people that like Oracle. \u00a0Perhaps that’s because I don’t talk to database administrators as much. \u00a0But guess what? \u00a0Nobody really likes them either. \u00a0So you have a hated product ran by hated people. \u00a0Probably won’t take long for people to dump that when refresh season comes up.<\/p>\n

8. \u00a0Lambda. \u00a0Last year, AWS introduced Lambda. \u00a0I don’t think people still really get how important Lambda is. \u00a0Its the glue that makes a serverless architecture in AWS work. \u00a0“The easiest server to manage is no server” said Werner Vogels. \u00a0This is the real future of the cloud. \u00a0Like my previous post on getting rid of the operating system said;<\/a>\u00a0 managing operating systems is the last mile. \u00a0VMS are a thing of the past. \u00a0Even containers are less exciting when you think about a serverless architecture. \u00a0Just a place to execute code and APIs to do all the work. \u00a0Database, storage, streaming, any service you want is just an API. \u00a0Where AWS lambda fails in my book is that its limited to only AWS services. \u00a0Imagine if this were available to extend to any cloud service. \u00a0That to me would be the real Intercloud Cisco dreams about.\u00a0As more cloud APIs develop, extending Lambda to an “API Store” is something more people would find value in. \u00a0Amazon probably wouldn’t because it means people using non-AWS services. \u00a0But this is where I would be investing if I were trying to compete against AWS. \u00a0Nothing else seems to be working.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s my take. \u00a0What did you think?<\/p>\n

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