Thread by @QuinnyPig

In this #requinnvent thread, ask me anything about @awscloud's #reinvent releases and I'll do my best to answer them. Let's see how I do at being an unpaid Cloud Whisperer!

Multiple AWS folks have said that this was widely considered to be impossible even a few short years ago.

This feels like a combination of "a lot of engineering work" and "a breakthrough or two."

https://twitter.com/donkersgood/status/1334208763440541700?s=20

There are many more announcements yet to come.

https://twitter.com/Fitzoh/status/1334209189833560064?s=20

It kinda blows my mind, but @ajassy's keynote yesterday was live. The Leadership sessions and breakouts were pre-recorded and done with safety precautions in place.

https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/1334210495423737857?s=20

I think we're going to find out if we ever see a massive S3 event, but the honest answer today is "I don't know."

https://twitter.com/donkersgood/status/1334210823028346880?s=20

I got briefings on some of the releases, but far from all of them. I made a few graphics with the lead time, but didn't pre-write Tweets or anything.

https://twitter.com/alexwlchan/status/1334212789083189252?s=20

And to my understanding, *every* release is seen by customers in private preview. @awscloud has its faults, but "building in a vacuum" isn't one of them.

"One is for logs, one is for metrics" and that's why you have 15 observability tools in your app and 40 vendors all vying to be number 16.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaMKite/status/1334208391883972615?s=20

This is a distinction that a lot of people miss. Amazon isn't exactly a terrifying competitor to most SaaS companies.

https://twitter.com/srockets/status/1334213230193872896?s=20

I stand corrected; with all of the services @iRobot uses and has been a launch customer for, it's pretty clear that some of @awscloud's serverless services were absolutely built in a vacuum. #reinvent

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1334213202264027136?s=20

You and me: "Wow, S3's strong consistency is technically interesting!"

One of my customers: *throws an entire meta-database sidecar for their data lake that specifically worked around this limitation into the dumpster*

#reinvent

https://twitter.com/alexwlchan/status/1334215298531078147?s=20

Yes and no. Some things can absolutely change post-ship--but @awscloud considers APIs to be promises. They won't deprecate them, so those things have to ship correctly the first time.

https://twitter.com/srockets/status/1334217097954557952?s=20

Yes, but I'm not going to name names just yet.

https://twitter.com/David_S_Dowling/status/1334217922164580353?s=20

As far as cutting Lambda spend goes... well, my @awscloud bill is about $2K a month. And yet:

https://twitter.com/lloydholman/status/1334231737363292165?s=20