WNiCF - November 2023 - News

Loads and loads of AWS news coming from re:Invent for November. And this month we have Frank having to evacuate the building due to a fire alarm; nothing real, fortunately.

Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

Send you feedback, ideas, invitations or any other thing you want to talk about at: podcast@finopsguys.co.uk

Transcript

November 2023

Data/DBs

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-postgresql-optimized-reads/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-maxrpu-compute-cost-control-redshift-serverless/(F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-serverless-ai-driven-scaling-optimizations-preview/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-athena-cost-based-optimizer-enhance-query-performance/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-documentdb-i-o-optimized/ (F)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-lower-simplified-pricing-f - (S)
• BQ - The slot estimator now supports project level cost-optimal commitment and autoscale recommendations for on-demand workloads. This feature is now in preview. (S)

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cost-explorer-provides-historical-granular-data/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-billing-cost-management-data-exports/ (F) - Talk about legacy/New CUR
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/unified-billing-cost-management-console/ (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/cost-optimization-hub/(S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/cost-usage-dashboard-amazon-quicksight/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cost-management-appregistry-resource-tags/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-trusted-advisor-new-apis/ (F)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/partnumbers-3/(S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/export-cost-using-focus/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-microsoft-copilot-for-azure/ (S)

Commitment

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cost-management-purchase-recommendations-amazon-memory-db-reserved-nodes/ (F)

Savings 

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-q-optimal-ec2-instance-selection-workload/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-vm-hibernation/ (S)

Storage

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/optimize-your-storage-costs-for-rarely-accessed-files-with-amazon-efs-archive/(F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/replication-failback-and-increased-iops-are-new-for-amazon-efs/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-infrequent-access-log-class/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-snapshots-archive-is-now-available-with-aws-backup/ (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class/ (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cloudtrail-lake-pricing-option-optimized-flexible-retention/ (F)

Instances

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-for-new-memory-optimized-aws-graviton4-powered-amazon-ec2-instances-r8g/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-highly-durable-amazon-opensearch-service-clusters-with-30-price-performance-improvement/ (F) 
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-introducing-ngads-v620-series-vms-optimized-for-gaming-scenarios/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-new-generation-amd-vms-dav6eav6fav6/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/preview-azure-confidential-vms-with-nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpus/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-azure-mv3-medium-memory-mm-virtual-machines/ (S)
• GKE - New inference-focused Cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v5e machine types are available in GKE. These single-host TPU VMs are designed for inference workloads and contain one, four, or eight TPU v5e chips. These three new TPU v5e machine types (ct5l-hightpu-1t, ct5l-hightpu-4t, and ct5l-hightpu-8t) are currently available in the us-central1-a and europe-west4-b zones  (S)

Sustainability

• Interesting ideas from Stephen related to the talk of Werner Vogels at re:Invent 

Misc/Silly

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-translate-brevity-translation-output-lengths/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-clean-rooms-configurability-collaboration-payment/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/ec2-image-builder-lifecycle-management-deletion/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-free-tier-usage-getfreetierusage-api/ (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-workspaces-thin-client/  (S)