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AWS Podcast

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The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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Episodes

#726: Single region, zero excuses: Mastering AWS resilience

Dive into single-region resilience with AWS experts John Formento and Tarik Makota as they debunk common misconceptions and share practical strategies for building robust applications. Learn why multi-AZ isn't enough on its own, discover key AWS services for resilience, and get actionable tips for identifying and mitigating failure modes. Learn More: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-analysis-framework/introduction.html

Jun 23, 202546 minEp. 726

#725: AWS News: FSx for Lustre introduces cost-saving storage tiers, MCP servers enhance AI development tools, and more

Explore FSx for Lustre's new intelligent storage tiering that delivers cost savings and unlimited scalability for file storage in the cloud. Plus, discover how the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are revolutionizing AI-assisted development across ECS, EKS, and serverless platforms with real-time contextual responses and automated resource management. 00:00 - Intro, 00:52 - Introduction new storage class, 03:43 - MCP Servers, 07:18 - Analytics, 09:34 - Application Integration, 15:52 - Bu...

Jun 16, 202540 minEp. 725

#724: Accelerated computing: From fraud detection to AI innovation

Join host Shruthi to discover how organizations use GPU-accelerated computing on AWS. Container Specialist Re Alvarez Parmar shows how Rivian optimizes GPU usage for autonomous vehicles with Amazon EKS. AWS Financial Services expert Sudhir Kalidindi explains real-time fraud detection processing 100B+ events annually. Learn architectural patterns and tools to maximize performance while controlling costs for AI workloads and next-gen applications. Learn More: AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 ...

Jun 09, 202541 minEp. 724

#723: AWS News: Claude 4 Opus comes to Bedrock, AWS Transform accelerates modernization, and more

Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet, the most powerful models from Anthropic for coding and advanced reasoning, are now available on Amazon Bedrock. Plus, AWS Transform can now accelerate your Mainframe, .NET and VMWare workload modernization. Learn about these updates and more with your hosts Shruthi and Jillian. 00:00 - Intro, 00:21 - Amazon Bedrock, 03:40 - AWS Transform, 07:51 - EC2 P6/B200 Instances, 11:35 - Analytics, 16:55 - Business Applications, 17:27 - Cloud Financial Management, 17:46 - Compute,...

Jun 02, 202540 min

#722: The Frugal Architect w/Werner Vogels: How Warner Bros. Discovery keeps streaming seamless

With only nine months to launch Max, Tom Leaman, VP of Site Reliability Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery had to move fast to keep millions of viewers streaming smoothly. Learn about their innovative approach to measuring efficiency, managing global operations, and building resilient systems at massive scale with your hosts Simon Elisha and Dr. Werner Vogels. Learn More: http://thefrugalarchitect.com/architects/tom-leaman-warner-bros-discovery.html

May 26, 202549 minEp. 722

#721: AWS News: Amazon Nova Premier takes on complex tasks and model distillation, and more

Nova Premier is our most advanced AI model yet, featuring a million-token context window and enhanced capabilities at nearly half the cost of competitors. Dive into this update and more with hosts Simon and Jillian. 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - Amazon Nova Premier 02:56 - Analytics 04:46 - Artificial Intelligence 11:02 - Business Applications 11:38 - Cloud Financial Management 11:57 - Compute 12:10 - Contact Center 14:50 - Containers 15:13 - Database 17:52 -Developer Tools 18:08 - Management and Govern...

May 19, 202529 minEp. 721

#720: Hooked on CloudFormation: GoDaddy stays proactive with AWS CloudFormation Hooks

Discover how GoDaddy manages cloud security at speed for hundreds of developers as Cloud Governance Engineer James Kelley of GoDaddy pulls back the curtain on their transformation using AWS CloudFormation Hooks. Join your host Simon and AWS Product Manager Stella Hie as they dive into the new features that help GoDaddy balance developer freedom with rock-solid security. Learn More: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/proactively-keep-resources-secure-and-compliant-with-aws-cloudformation-hooks/

May 12, 202526 minEp. 720

#719: AWS News: Amazon Q Developer brings powerful new AI capabilities to GitLab Duo

Description: Learn how you can use the all new Amazon Q Developer integration with GitLab Duo to automate code generation and review, plus even more updates from AWS. 00:00:00 - Intro, 00:00:28 - SWE Holly Bench, 00:04:31 - Analytics, 00:06:49 - Application Integration, 00:07:14 - Artificial Intelligence, 00:08:53 - Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, 00:14:11 - AWS Health Omex, 00:14:21 - Compute, 00:16:37 - Contact Centers, 00:17:25 - Containers, 00:17:46 - Databases, 00:18:18 - Front end Web and ...

May 05, 202526 minEp. 719

#718: From cost center to value creator: How IT automation creates business value

Learn how organizations are transforming IT from a cost center to a value generator through automation, AI, and smart business process optimization, featuring real success stories from AWS Solution Architects Adrian SanMiguel and Greg Harris. Innovate faster with an AWS Genai Competency Partner: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/partners/

Apr 28, 202531 minEp. 718

#717: Conversational AI with Amazon Nova Sonic, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities

Learn about the latest new FM in the Nova family that simplifies conversational AI with low latency, and build safely with new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. 00:00 - Intro, 00:27 - Amazon Nova Sonic, 03:13 - Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, 05:23 - Analytics, 08:18 - Application Integration, 08:37 - Artificial Intelligence, 12:06 - Business Applications, 13:01 - Cloud Financial Management, 13:44 - Compute, 15:04 - Contact Center, 16:29 - Containers, 16:49 - Databases, 19:57 - Developer To...

Apr 21, 202538 min

#716: Concrete, Cooling, and Compute: Reinventing Data Centers for the AI Age

Dive deep into the fascinating world of modern data centers with Sr. Principal Engineer at AWS, Stephen Callahan. Discover how AI is revolutionizing data center design, why nothing is uninteresting at scale, and the innovative ways AWS is tackling sustainability while powering the future of cloud computing. Learn more: AWS Global Infrastructure: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ More about Data Center Innovations: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/12/aws-announces-new-data...

Apr 14, 202530 minEp. 716

#715: AWS News: Be your own data analyst with Amazon Q in Quicksight, and more

Hosts Simon and Jillian discuss how you can uncover hidden trends and make data-driven decisions - all through natural conversation, with Amazon Q in Quicksight, plus, more of the latest updates from AWS. 00:00 - Intro, 00:22 - Top Stories, 02:50 - Analytics, 03:35 - Application Integrations, 04:48 - Amazon Sagemaker, 05:29 - Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, 05:48- Amazon Polly, 06:46 - Amazon Bedrock, 07:31 - Amazon Bedrock Model Evolution LLM, 08:29 - Business Application, 08:58 - Compute, 09:5...

Apr 07, 202524 min

#714: Beyond Compliance: Assess, audit, and evaluate with AWS Config

Automate compliance checks, manage configurations at scale, and more with AWS Config. Jillian interviews AWS experts Tim Honeychurch and Rodolfo Brenes as they walk you through how you can level up your security with continuous compliance. Learn More: AWS Config Product Page: https://aws.amazon.com/config/ Learn more about Cloud Governance: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudops/cloud-governance/

Mar 31, 202526 minEp. 714

#713: AWS News: Meet the Next Generation of Amazon SageMaker, Multi-Agent Collaboration on Bedrock

New game-changing AI developments are here, from SageMaker Unified Studio to Bedrock's new multi-agent capabilities. Join your hosts Simon and Jillian for the latest updates from AWS. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Top Stories 00:02:31 - Amazon Bedrock 00:05:35 - Analytics 00:06:08 - Application Integration 00:06:41 - AWS Step Function Workflow Studio 00:06:59 - Amazon Bedrock 00:07:26 - GraphRAG 00:09:08 - Amazon Nova Pro Foundation Model 00:09:32 - Amazon S3 Table and Sagemaker Lakehouse 00:12:00...

Mar 24, 202524 minEp. 713

#712: The Frugal Architect w/Werner Vogels: Watch Duty Keeps it Simple to Save Lives

What started as CEO and founder John Mill’s need for better wildfire information grew into tech that supported 9 million users during the LA fires. Learn how the founders of Watch Duty grew through constraints to scale mission-critical software as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and your host Simon Elisha chat with John Mills and CTO Dave Merritt of Watch Duty about the early days of this startup with a mission to save lives. Learn More: https://bit.ly/43OLliG

Mar 17, 202551 minEp. 712

#711: AWS News: Claude 3.7 Meets Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Data Automation

Anthropic's most advanced AI model yet is now on Amazon Bedrock, plus, multimodal content analysis with Bedrock Data Automation. Keep up with these updates and more on this week's AWS News. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:02 - Anthropic Claude 3.7 00:03:14 - Amazon Bedrock Data Automation 00:05:54 - Analytics 00:06:50 - Artificial Intelligence 00:09:23 - Compute 00:12:37 - Customer Engagement 00:13:50 - Databases 00:16:11 - Developer Tools 00:17:05 - End User Computing 00:17:23 - Front End Web ...

Mar 10, 202523 minEp. 711

#710: Amazon S3: From Simple Storage to Smart Scaling

Think you know Amazon S3? Think again. Discover game-changing new features like S3 Metadata and S3 Express OneZone with your host Simon, and guest Wali Akbari, storage expert at AWS. Learn pro tips for managing data at scale, reducing costs, and leveraging new capabilities - essential listening for cloud architects and developers. For More Information about Amazon S3 visit: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ And be sure to visit the AWS Storage Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/

Mar 03, 202548 minEp. 710

#709: AWS News: Guard Duty Malware Protection, CloudTrail Network Activity Events

All the things new and interesting on AWS! Chapters 00:00:07 Intro 00:00:34 Amazon Guard Duty Malware protection for S3 00:01:54 Cloudtrail network Activity events for VPC 00:03:50 AWS Market Place 00:04:09 Analytics 00:05:28 Application Integration 00:06:39 AI updates & Amazon Q 00:09:24 Compute 00:10:13 Customer Engagement 00:11:51 Data Bases 00:13:53 Developer Tools 00:14:25 End User Computing 00:14:58 Management and Governance 00:15:30 Storage 00:17:47 Wrap Up Shownotes: https://d29iemol...

Feb 24, 202522 min

#708: Unlocking Amazon Cognito: Secure, Scalable, Customized Sign-In

Building a robust authentication system for your application is no easy feat - but sign up and sign-in is often your first touch with your customer. Join our host Simon Elisha and guests, Rahul Sharma, Principal PM, and Kevin Shanley, Principal GTM Specialist at AWS as they break down how you can implement a secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experience in minutes with Amazon Cognito - faster than you can brew a cup of coffee!

Feb 17, 202529 minEp. 708

#707: AWS News: DeepSeek R1 Models on BedRock, Improve Data Discoverability with S3 Metadata

Join our hosts for a great discussion of the new and interesting on AWS! Chapters: 00:09 Intro 00:32 Deep Seek 05:26 S3 Meta Data 08:52 AWS Market Place 09:32 Analytics updates 10:28 Application integration 11:49 AI Updates 13:42 Compute 15:09 Customer Engagement 16:12 Database Updates 17:53 Developer Tools 19:31 Front end web and mobile 20:36 Management and governance 22:22 Migration and modernization updates 23:01 Networking and content delivery 23:12 Wrap up Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg....

Feb 10, 202524 min

#706: Automate LLM fine-tuning and selection with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

This week on the Official AWS Podcast, dive into the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)! Join the experts as our host Shruti interviews Piyush Kadam, Sr. Product Manager, and Lauren Mullennex, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS to explore how Amazon SageMaker is revolutionizing the customization, evaluation, and deployment of large language models at scale. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pipelines/

Feb 03, 202531 min

#705: AWS News Update, January 27, 2025

Our 3 hosts take you through all the latest news PLUS a new "Top Stories" discussion! Chapters: 00:08 Top Stories 09:52 AWS Marketplace 10:17 Analytics 11:10 Application Integration 12:41 Artificial Intelligence 14:24 Compute 15:16 Customer Engagement 17:46 Databases 19:25 Developer Tools 20:38 End User Computing 21:29 Management and Governance 25:22 Media Services 25:42 Security, Identity and Compliance Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/705ExtendedShownotes.html...

Jan 27, 202527 minEp. 705

#704: #704: Scaling your relational database on AWS - Are relational databases cool again?

Are relational databases cool again? In this episode of the AWS Podcast, host Simon Elisha sits down with Josh Hart, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, to explore how traditional databases are getting a modern makeover. They dive into three game-changing innovations from AWS that are solving age-old database scaling headaches: Aurora Serverless v2 for seamless vertical scaling, Aurora Limitless Database for hassle-free sharding, and the RDS Data API for simplified connection management. Wheth...

Jan 20, 202524 minEp. 704

#703: AWS News Update, January 13, 2025

It is the first show of 2025! Simon walks you through all the updates that happened during the holiday-season. Chapters: 00:31 AWS Marketplace 01:06 Analytics 02:26 Application Integration 02:46 Artificial Intelligence 05:29 Compute 09:11 Cost Management 09:59 Customer Engagement 11:00 Databases 13:21 Developer Tools 13:50 End User Computing 14:36 Front-End Web & Mobile 14:49 Internet of Things 16:02 Management and Governance 17:35 Media Services 17:54 Migration and Modernisation 18:42 Netwo...

Jan 13, 202521 minEp. 703

#702: AWS News Update, December 16, 2024

In the final episode of the year Simon takes you through over 160 new updates! It is "pre:Invent"! Chapters: 00:50 Analytics 05:03 Application Integration 09:47 Artificial Intelligence 12:20 AWS Marketplace 12:48 Business Applications 14:05 Compute 16:34 Cost Management 17:53 Databases 20:09 Developer Tools 21:43 End User Computing 22:18 Front End Web & Mobile 22:27 Game Tech 22:34 Internet of Things 22:55 Management & Governance 24:09 Media Services 24:53 Migration & Modernization 2...

Dec 15, 202435 minEp. 702

#701: re:Invent 2024 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote

It is the end of re:Invent 2024! Simon gives you a quick look at Werner's keynote, reveals the t-shirt choice, shares some tips for making the most of re:Invent content, and even drops an "easter egg" in as well!

Dec 05, 20245 min

#699: re:Invent 2024 - Matt Garman Keynote

Simon takes you through all the cool things discussed in Matt Garman's re:Invent Keynote today, and a few extra bonuses! Shownotes:https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/699ExtendedShownotes.html

Dec 04, 202429 min
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