If you follow our social media you might have realized that our team participated in the latest edition of AWS re:Invent and what an incredible way to finish the year it was! It’s an amazing experience – and an exhausting one! Five days packed with stimulating talks, motivating keynotes, thought provoking peers from different industries and meeting thousands of people from all around the globe.
Now that 2023 has started, and our calendars are back to normal, I wanted to take the time to reflect upon some of the trends I’ll be keeping an eye out for this year, especially after re:Invent.
First things first, and something we already knew at Montevideo Labs: Data is the future, but also the present! It was clearly a central part of Adam Selipsky’s Keynote, where he made some impressive announcements. Data is everywhere, and there are a wide variety of sources, which keep growing! AWS is looking to bring a solution through Data Zone – a new data management service that allows us to view and manage data across different sources. Furthermore, Data Zone will allow us to centrally govern data access – a frequent headache for modern organizations with a myriad of data sources and data consumers that only keep growing. The diagram below shows the different components it includes, and how they integrate with different tools. So, we’ll be looking forward to start integrating Data Zone on our upcoming projects and leveraging its power!
Something we are all experiencing – AI is becoming more and more ubiquitous. Entire industries are being disrupted by AI – even sports and health. I attended a session where a speaker used IoT technology to monitor his blood sugar, and we have clients that are taking the world of sports by storm. We will continue to see how AI affects our day-to-day life. As developers, it’s also interesting how the costs for using ML continue to drop. AWS released EMR serverless, which enables us developers to focus on our algorithms and simplifies the managing of clusters, while also keeping costs low. Another aspect that helps us are the large number of “pre built” and “low-code” solutions presented, aimed at reducing toil and letting us developers focus on adding business value. SageMaker Data Wrangler and AWS Comprehend are some of the ones we have played with, and we believe we’re just scratching the surface.
In the blue pill/red pill universe that Dr. Werner Vogels (AWS Vice President and Chief Technology Officer) presented, we reflected about how the world is asynchronous – and that this is awesome! Montevideo Labs has been using microservices architectures for years now, and all the different event patterns are our bread-and-butter, but it’s amazing how new features promise to impact our lives. Some of the new features for Lambda such as LambdaSnapStart were announced on the more hardware-oriented Monday session, but new features such as EventBridge Pipes promise to simplify producer/consumer integrations and speed up development.
AWS has been focused in helping developers make better use of their time, and better use of their tools. The newly announced Amazon CodeCatalyst and Application Composer are only in preview, but the idea of having blueprints or to be able to “drag-and-drop” services is amazing – allowing developers to focus on coding, and DevOps to foster best practices. Along these lines, new “Serverless” have emerged, such as Amazon OpenSearch (formerly ElasticSearch) Serverless and EMR Serverless. These speed up development work, while also reducing DevOps work.
A group of players in the AWS ecosystem that were particularly pampered at the conference were Startups. There are dedicated teams, support and account managers that specialize in this great group of companies. As Startups ourselves, we had the pleasure of being invited to a session with Ben Horowitz where he reminded us of our purpose: “What is the thing that we are going to do that is going to make a difference?” Having a large group of startup founders, he decided to focus not on the economy, not on business plans, but on reminding us all of the importance of culture. This tells us we’re on the right track. As 2023 stretches its wings, it’s important to remember that AWS has great opportunities for Startups, such as funding, special programs like JumpStart and great partners like us!
Partnerships are becoming more important every day. As partners, we have access to resources and opportunities that make us all better professionals. At the conference, we met with some members of the AWS Partner team who showed us different ways to help our customers with Expertise, Technical Support, Credits, Proofs of Concept or Reviews. Reach out if you’d like to learn more!
Interested in exploring the latest releases from AWS? As AWS Partners our team at Montevideo Labs has extensive experience with AWS services at scale. Contact our team at mlabs-info@blend360.com to learn how we can help you on your cloud journey.
If you follow our social media you might have realized that our team participated in the latest edition of AWS re:Invent and what an incredible way to finish the year it was! It’s an amazing experience – and an exhausting one! Five days packed with stimulating talks, motivating keynotes, thought provoking peers from different industries and meeting thousands of people from all around the globe.
Now that 2023 has started, and our calendars are back to normal, I wanted to take the time to reflect upon some of the trends I’ll be keeping an eye out for this year, especially after re:Invent.
First things first, and something we already knew at Montevideo Labs: Data is the future, but also the present! It was clearly a central part of Adam Selipsky’s Keynote, where he made some impressive announcements. Data is everywhere, and there are a wide variety of sources, which keep growing! AWS is looking to bring a solution through Data Zone – a new data management service that allows us to view and manage data across different sources. Furthermore, Data Zone will allow us to centrally govern data access – a frequent headache for modern organizations with a myriad of data sources and data consumers that only keep growing. The diagram below shows the different components it includes, and how they integrate with different tools. So, we’ll be looking forward to start integrating Data Zone on our upcoming projects and leveraging its power!
Something we are all experiencing – AI is becoming more and more ubiquitous. Entire industries are being disrupted by AI – even sports and health. I attended a session where a speaker used IoT technology to monitor his blood sugar, and we have clients that are taking the world of sports by storm. We will continue to see how AI affects our day-to-day life. As developers, it’s also interesting how the costs for using ML continue to drop. AWS released EMR serverless, which enables us developers to focus on our algorithms and simplifies the managing of clusters, while also keeping costs low. Another aspect that helps us are the large number of “pre built” and “low-code” solutions presented, aimed at reducing toil and letting us developers focus on adding business value. SageMaker Data Wrangler and AWS Comprehend are some of the ones we have played with, and we believe we’re just scratching the surface.
In the blue pill/red pill universe that Dr. Werner Vogels (AWS Vice President and Chief Technology Officer) presented, we reflected about how the world is asynchronous – and that this is awesome! Montevideo Labs has been using microservices architectures for years now, and all the different event patterns are our bread-and-butter, but it’s amazing how new features promise to impact our lives. Some of the new features for Lambda such as LambdaSnapStart were announced on the more hardware-oriented Monday session, but new features such as EventBridge Pipes promise to simplify producer/consumer integrations and speed up development.
AWS has been focused in helping developers make better use of their time, and better use of their tools. The newly announced Amazon CodeCatalyst and Application Composer are only in preview, but the idea of having blueprints or to be able to “drag-and-drop” services is amazing – allowing developers to focus on coding, and DevOps to foster best practices. Along these lines, new “Serverless” have emerged, such as Amazon OpenSearch (formerly ElasticSearch) Serverless and EMR Serverless. These speed up development work, while also reducing DevOps work.
A group of players in the AWS ecosystem that were particularly pampered at the conference were Startups. There are dedicated teams, support and account managers that specialize in this great group of companies. As Startups ourselves, we had the pleasure of being invited to a session with Ben Horowitz where he reminded us of our purpose: “What is the thing that we are going to do that is going to make a difference?” Having a large group of startup founders, he decided to focus not on the economy, not on business plans, but on reminding us all of the importance of culture. This tells us we’re on the right track. As 2023 stretches its wings, it’s important to remember that AWS has great opportunities for Startups, such as funding, special programs like JumpStart and great partners like us!
Partnerships are becoming more important every day. As partners, we have access to resources and opportunities that make us all better professionals. At the conference, we met with some members of the AWS Partner team who showed us different ways to help our customers with Expertise, Technical Support, Credits, Proofs of Concept or Reviews. Reach out if you’d like to learn more!
Interested in exploring the latest releases from AWS? As AWS Partners our team at Montevideo Labs has extensive experience with AWS services at scale. Contact our team at mlabs-info@blend360.com to learn how we can help you on your cloud journey.
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