Okay. Hello, Cloud Gurus, how y'all doing?
Just why am I wearing one of the most fantastic suits that you've ever laid your
eyes on?
Because this is a very special week in that we're announcing the Guru of
the Week grand prize winners. Even Kevin here got dressed up.
But also this week, Robomaker gets a new tool,
IPv6 gets some VPN love,
and AWS's quantum computing endeavors are now available to all.
I'm Scott Pletcher and this is AWS This Week.
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This week, AWS have introduced Robomaker WorldForge,
which makes it faster and easier to create 3D virtual worlds in which to
simulate your robotic creations.
Many times it's cost prohibitive to test every robot in real world scenarios,
so roboticists turn to simulations. Usually,
creating these 3D worlds requires lots of time and specialized skill.
WorldForge aims to lower this barrier by making it faster and easier to
create those virtual worlds.
AWS site-to-site VPN now supports IPv6
traffic for VPN connections to AWS Transit Gateway.
With this launch,
you can now use IPv6 addressing for your traffic between your customer
gateway device and your resources in AWS.
IPv6 is gaining in popularity as the proliferation
of IP connected devices gobbles up all those IPv4
addresses.
If you too are on the IPv6 train for on-prem and your
VPCs,
you will now be able to communicate securely between them using AWS site-to-site
VPN connections.
Amazon Braket is now generally available.
Braket is a fully managed service that helps us get started in the strange and
mind-bending world of quantum computing. In quantum computing,
things are no longer either one or zero,
but they can be both one and zero.
Quantum computing has the potential to solve some big computational problems
that are beyond the reach of the computers we use today.
Braket provides a development environment to design quantum algorithms,
test them on simulated quantum computers and run them on different types of
quantum computing hardware.
It's available now for everyone to take a spin.
Now on to our main event. In past years,
the winners of AWS This Week's Guru of the Week were entered into a draw to win
a ticket to re:Invent. Well, now that re:Invent has been virtualized,
like everything else in our data center,
we had to come up with a new equally amazing prize.
That prize is a one-year Personal Plus subscription to A Cloud Guru's
platform, which includes unlimited courses, quizzes,
practice exams,
hands-on labs and access to our Cloud Sandboxes.
We're also throwing in an ACG mega swag pack featuring our brand new t-shirt
design.
Winners also have an option to appear as a guest on this very show,
or receive a personalized video from your favorite host,
or become a character in one of Forrest Brazeal's cloud
comics. So without further ado,
we have randomly chosen three recipients from this year's Guru of the Week
winners. Drum roll, please.
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Our lucky winners are Bill Bartlett, a solutions principal in the USA,
Denis Zaytsev, a systems engineer in Ukraine,
and Matt Charlton, a cloud engineer in the UK.
Congratulations, Bill, Denis and Matt.
Your prizes are on your way to you right now.
And if you'd like to enter the Guru of the Week this week and earned some swag,
visit our forum link provided in the resources for this episode.
And that my friends is all the AWS news that's fit to print this week.
Stay safe, take care of one another and keep being awesome,
cloud gurus.
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