AWS’s annual re:Invent wrapped up this week, and although we didn’t get to see customers, colleagues and, friends in Las Vegas this year, it was still an eventful three weeks. Spot by NetApp sponsored the virtual conference and hosted a number of activities including our AWS JAM session on Kubernetes and infrastructure scaling, an expert session on cloud compute optimization, and an interview with Spot by NetApp’s CEO and founder, Amiram Shachar.

As in years past, re:Invent is where AWS announces many new features, services and enhancements. This year is no exception and here at Spot by NetApp we are proud of our product and engineering groups for delivering immediate and full support in relevant areas such as the new GP3 EBS volume and new EC2 instance types – D3, D3en, R5b and M5zn.

With over 1 million customers and over 14 years of experience working with them, Amazon Web Services has some real insight into best practices and technologies for setting up and running secure, well governed cloud deployments. The recently launched AWS Control Tower puts this knowledge to use providing companies with a quick and simple way to securely set up complex, multi-account environments for rapid, yet fully controlled growth and innovation.