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The 15 Most Interesting Things Werner Vogels (and Friends) Said at AWS re:Invent 2018

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Isaac Eldridge
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1,377
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English
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Summary

AWS re:Invent 2018 featured a keynote by AWS CTO Werner Vogels, who reflected on AWS's journey and key innovations like AWS Lambda and serverless technologies. He recounted his worst day at Amazon in 2004 when a bug disrupted the customer database, influencing AWS's focus on reliability and scalability. Vogels highlighted the shift from traditional enterprise databases to cloud-native solutions, exemplified by Amazon's migration from Oracle to DynamoDB and Redshift. The event showcased AWS's extensive use in diverse applications, including Fender's music tutorials leveraging AWS Lambda and SageMaker. Vogels emphasized the growing enterprise adoption of serverless computing and introduced new tools for developers, such as AWS Toolkits for IDEs and custom runtimes for AWS Lambda. He also introduced the AWS Well-Architected Tool and announced "Now Go Build," a video series exploring innovative startups using AWS technology.

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Serverless 20 344 44 29 -37%
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