Serverless Craic Ep40 AWS, What’s New?

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AWS, What's New?

We are post AWS re:Invent. To sum up, it was about the next generation of cloud focused on delivering value quickly by removing barriers to business adoption and enablement.

On Day 1 SiliconAngle published an article called "AWS chief Adam Selipsky hints at the next-gen cloud". He looks at classic cloud versus next-gen cloud. Classic cloud is infrastructure as a service and the platform of the cloud. And next-gen is looking at ISVs and true cloud. It's about using the cloud to power you business journey. Which is exactly what we talk about in The Value Flywheel Effect!

AWS are market leading for low level cloud primitives. If you want compute, get it from AWS. It has been this way for the last 15 years. But next generation cloud is about business capability. When you do Wardley mapping correctly, cloud primitives are pushed to the right to become commodities. You then look for the business capability you need. That's exactly what the value flywheel effect is.

AWS are consolidating core primitives and opening up the solution space to help customers do interesting things with them. There has been a lot of criticism of AWS in previous years with regards to their developer experience. Code catalyst is a big move from AWS to try to make that more seamless. It stitches together a number of things that have evolved over the last while. It's an accelerator for teams coming on to the cloud or into serverless. And it is frictionless developer experience. In our book, it's the next best action phase of the value flywheel.

Well architected featured heavily at AWS re:Invent. AWS are continuing to develop well architected and build it into things.

Security also featured with verified permissions. It's out in pilot at the moment but it has potential to make a big impact on managing fine grained permissions and doing identity authorization properly, especially if you have a custom app. Most companies of a certain scale have their own custom built version of this. But you need to acknowledge that you are ahead of the curve. And have the courage to delete your custom built solution.

There's a bunch of step function stuff out. I particularly like SnapStart which gives you the ability to drop large java applications into lambda. And performance time is through the roof. You can draw up an average Spring Boot application into lambda and you will get similar performance but it's way cheaper to run. It's addressing the myths around cold starts and using lambda for high performance workloads. It's also interesting from the perspective of having large framework oriented services and leveraging those for femoral compute.

At AWS re:Invent, the message I was hearing loud and clear is that enterprises and large companies have moved to the Cloud but need help doing the next piece. They need help creating their value flywheel. They've done the move and now need to go to the next stage of modernization or next-gen. So that is good news for our book 'the Value Flywheel Effect'. There's definitely a lot of demand for more advice and guidance.

The ecosystem has never been better for applying the value flywheel effect now. A lot of the challenges we had in the past have started being addressed. There's a lot less inerti

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