 Okay guys, sorry we ran over a bit of a time there, maybe can someone time ten minutes? Well let me just get my clock out. So I'm gonna just talk for five minutes. Alright, so can everyone see my slides clearly? Right, I don't work for AWS, I work for a local company called Spool but I am since I'm AWS, what do you call it user group organizer? I was sponsored to go to re-invent. So this is my report from Las Vegas. Here we go. Oh yeah so as I was mentioning I am sponsored by and I'm very grateful for Amazon but at the same time I want to keep like super honest with you guys so I hope you can take my grumbling attitude. But yeah, here we go. I mean going to re-invent is like quite special. It costs like a thousand eight hundred dollars to go there. Is anyone else going to re-invent besides myself? Okay and I got like perks to go to the keynote. So and I got free booze. That was terrible. But what does re-invent? It's the AWS conference. It's where you go to meet your peers to meet other people like you which might be a nightmare for a week but it was a nightmare. No it wasn't a nightmare. It was a nightmare. It was it was pretty it was interesting it was basically Las Vegas was taken over by like 43,000 other people just like us. It's quite bad isn't it? But at this AWS re-invent it is for me at least the opportunity to meet the people who developed like S3, CloudFront, all the services that my company uses and if I'm really lucky get to meet the people who make the software. And I don't know how you communicate with your AWS folks but like through the contact form it's a very it's very like impersonal isn't it? It's not very nice. But when you when you meet like the guy that's responsible for the Golang SDK and you don't even have to discuss anything. If you just sort of high-five each other I think that's a special human contact and and then we can start like you know taking it to Twitter. I mean keeping to the AWS support form obviously. The sessions are like spread all across Las Vegas and it's a real pain to get between the sessions. So in my in my in my talk which which will be linked somewhere I highly recommend you use this thing called YouTube if you heard of it and you can catch up in sessions whenever you like in your own time. And then what's special about being a re-advent is that you get inundated with announcements. I mean yeah I mean okay and and I was just thinking to myself you know and in a week like reinvent with all these announcements are compressed. Is there something that you guys want to hear? I mean do you guys like look forward to Christmas anymore? Probably not. I hate Christmas. But did you guys expect any announcements out of interest? Just shout or just keep quiet. I mean for me I was I was hoping for some announcements. I think I've got these slides mixed up. I want you to say that in the old days with AWS we went through public beta and then I got into production but now then recently there's closed beta's for example the company that I work for we were in the media package media live closed beta I couldn't talk about it even to my wife who's really interested in my work. Now I have to keep it hush hush until the announcement and then it becomes a public beta and then it goes to production. And then like yeah I think some people expect announcements to be innovative but the argument I want to make tonight is that I don't want innovation from AWS. Hell no. I want lower prices and unfortunately yeah that didn't happen this year. This is my personal wish list. The big problem that we have in Singapore and I think you all know this as well as I do is that we're cock blocked I think is the cool term. We are not getting all the services that AWS provide and it really sucks. Like I did a count on that terrible table and I think we're missing about 52 of the 126 services. If you're very good at math that's 3,000% of all the services that we're missing. Isn't it? Something like it feels like that. Because we don't have like we don't have Amazon Aurora. I mean running a fucking enterprise RDS is really really expensive. If you have Aurora it would be cheaper and faster. Can I have Aurora please? And the list goes on. Can I have Firehose please? Can we these all the services we're missing? Okay these are the things that I wanted. I wanted better IAM security stuff. Oh god I don't want to get into it. I want to go Lang Lambda support. I think Donnie revealed that one. I wanted more like interesting stuff at Edge because the big dream the great thing about Amazon it has the best internet has the best coverage of the world. I want to give my customers a lower latency service. So I want stuff at the Edge and I also want to Edge Base Store and I wanted some SNS improvements and I wanted Singaporean companies to be able to sit in the marketplace. Unfortunately, so what did oh sorry I skipped it. I skipped it. What I got? Oh god what did I get? We got go Lang Lambda support but to be honest we had that before just with a JavaScript shim and we did get an interesting announcement with Aurora serverless and DynamoDB global tables but again I don't think that's available in Singapore. So shit but the promise is there and of course the marketplace unfortunately is US only so I don't know about you guys but one day I want to quit my employer I mean don't don't say just cut this bit out. I want to be my own man and have my own SaaS company and I think the AWS marketplace is the best way to get inside an enterprise sort of billing process. So I want to be able to use the AWS marketplace to sell my software and it's okay. So there were a lot of announcements. I wanted to boast that I have my own serverless function to DynamoDB and you can use that yourself or you can use the DynamoDB backup. Is it available in Singapore? If not use my script otherwise use theirs. I mean like there was lots of stuff that I didn't really care about. I don't know how you feel about like machine learning. I think it's one of those huge bloody fads that we have every now and again. I hate this crap. I really do. I think the most important thing is to basically code logic, capture heuristics, figure out what works, test it, code it, don't rely on a black box to do your bloody business. Are you insane? Anyway, that's SageMaker. I've tried it out. Might work out for you guys. Kubernetes. Who uses Docker and Kubernetes? Guys, guys, guys. There's this thing called serverless and it's way, way better than managing your Docker whatever instances or cubes or whatever they're called. I'm not a huge fan of Kubernetes or anything of that sort. You really should take the leap to serverless. Sorry, not ECS. God, don't go to ECS. And Cloud9. Am I the only idiot that uses Vim? Have you guys used a browser to edit anything? It's so effing slow. And the use case about working with somebody? Oh my God, who works with somebody and codes at the same time? That sounds like torture. Not me. I use Vim. I get my shit done. And I don't waste time. So the Cloud9 didn't really tickle my fancy. So, yeah, I want you to bemoan that Docker sucks. If you're using AMIs to roll out your stuff on EC2, you're doing it the right way. It's fast. It's simple. It's block level. Docker fricking containers is a nightmare. And what I hate, just what I'm here, Docker allows you with that stupid Docker file to add in lots of crap. The beautiful thing about serverless is that you stick to your function. You stick to the core logic of what you're supposed to do. You're not like bringing in the boon to and some other gems and all that sort of stuff. All of a sudden you have like, we have a one gigabyte image to roll out. I mean, well, fricking done. Your job is to reduce complexity. And I feel that Docker allows you to run away with it. So yeah, don't waste your time managing the stuff. And yeah, keep it small, guys. Please keep it small. I'm doing it for your... I'm giving you good advice, I hope. Back to re-invent. So if you liked Toolweek was pretty grueling. There's jet lag. There's lots of crowds. There's lots of walking. If you're not physically fit, I don't recommend it. And if you're really bad with tequila shots, like I was, I don't recommend it either. I threw up for the first time in a long time. Sorry, I didn't mean to say that. I don't ever throw up. I can handle it. But there were some highlights. I scored the bubble ball. Have you ever heard of this game? It's probably the hardest game in the world where you're enveloped in a plastic bubble and people are charging you down. I scored. Anyway, you had to be there. And I met some really great people there. And I'm really grateful for the opportunity to go there. But at the same time, I don't think I ever want to go back there. So Steve, can you go to the next year or somebody else to replace me, come back with a report? I am very, very happy to watch the videos in my own time. And I recommend you do so too. So yeah, if you've never heard of YouTube, I really recommend it. I actually have a YouTube channel where I sometimes cover some AWS topics. But I mean, is anyone subscribing to my AWS channel? Just me. And I highly recommend this thing, as I said, last meeting called RSS, or RIS. This is the best way to find out stuff. Even though I had the privilege or the special access to sit there at the keynote, when Andy Jassy's band was coming on and the music was blaring and everything is everything, I just thought to myself, I wish I was in my hotel room looking at the screen. It would have been so much nicer. And you guys can do it from Singapore, because the internet's quite good. Oh, finally, I just wanted to say that, yeah, I guess re-invent is just like a huge user group meeting in a sense. And there's all these announcements and all this other stuff from AWS. But I think the important thing is that we hopefully can bloody use them whenever they come to this region. And the best thing to do, I think really is just to get to know your peers, maybe work out which industries you're in, maybe just share stuff. I think that's the best you can do really to get the most out of AWS. Yeah, don't go through the torture that I did. Don't do it. I'm just trying to help you guys out. And I think that's a wrap, guys. That's my report. Any questions about Las Vegas? Can I just say the food there is terrible. Terrible. I was so happy to come back to Singapore and eat rice again. Oh my God. It was so glorious. And the 4G sucks. Okay, any other questions?