Blog by C. Munford, Nethopper CEO/Founder
My team and I attended the best re:Invent yet in Las Vegas last week. Like a good rock concert, it was well attended and even packed at times, despite being spread across 4+ of Vegas' largest hotels and expo sites.
It's hard to take over Vegas, but AWS did. Everything was high quality, from the keynotes to the breakouts and the slideware. Even the lunches were top-notch, which kept us fueled throughout the day and well into the evening events, where we had an opportunity to meet some of the brilliant minds leading innovation into 2025.
Here are a few of my takeaways:
AWS was intentional about how they announced their innovations at this re:Invent 2024. From the top (Matt Garman, CEO) down to individual contributor techies presenting, there was a consistent pattern where the speaker would talk about what customers have been asking for, then pause and say, "that's why we're pleased to announce <innovation here>."
Most of the innovation announcements were related to AI, such as Bedrock features and Nova foundational model advancements. It's clear that AWS intends to lead cloud providers in the race to help customers with AI/ML initiatives.
Another major focus for AWS was their managed Kubernetes offering, Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). For example, AWS announced EKS "auto-mode", which optimizes compute costs for auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters. This will help contain cloud bills and reduce wasted electricity and carbon emissions globally. AWS also frequently discussed "EKS best practices", including GitOps and other tooling like observability, AI Ops, and alerts that run on top of EKS.
AWS is an important partner of Nethopper, and it's good to see our interests align. We believe that before customers can master modern applications and AI, they have to first be great at Kubernetes. Nethopper KAOPS, running on EKS, makes it easy to be great at Kubernetes.
Check out Nethopper KAOPS solutions for Amazon EKS.