Lots of great updates to learn about! Chapters: 00:46 Analytics 03:57 Application Integration 06:44 Block Chain 07:19 Business Applications 08:37 Compute 17:56 Cost Management 19:04 Customer Engagement 20:17 Database 25:11 Developer Tools 28:25 End User Computing 30:05 Game Tech 31:13 Internet of Things (IoT) 36:06 Machine Learning 40:38 Management & Governance 47:03 Media Services 48:11 Mobile 50:28 Networking & Content Delivery 53:19 Security, Identity and Compliance 54:35 Storage 58:2...
Sep 27, 2020•1 hr
This episode discusses the growing need for machine learning explainability across various business verticals. Then it introduces Amazon SageMaker Debugger, a service that provides visibility into the ML model training process for real-time and offline analysis. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/
Sep 20, 2020•28 min
Simon & Nicki take you through a cavalcade of interesting updates and new capabilities you can use! Chapters: 00:41 Analytics 04:55 Application Integration 06:42 Business Applications 07:39 Compute 17:19 Cost Management 18:08 Customer Engagement 20:52 Database 24:13 Developer Tools 28:24 End User Computing 29:32 Internet of Things (IoT) 31:13 Machine Learning 40:27 Management & Governance 43:05 Media Services 43:36 Migration & Transfer 45:04 Mobile 47:12 Networking & Content Deli...
Sep 13, 2020•59 min
Listen in to hear how three individuals from the Scottish Government migrated their on-premises datacenters to the cloud using VMware Cloud™ on AWS, with some help from APN Partner House of Brick and AWS. In this episode, Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS, is joined by Neill Smith, Head of Infrastructure, Scottish Government and Nick Walter, Principal Architect, House of Brick, as they share their experience of leaving the datacenter and moving to the cloud.https://aws.a...
Sep 09, 2020•23 min
AWS Inferentia is custom built by AWS to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia, provide up to 3x higher throughput and up to 40% lower cost per inference over comparable GPU-based instances. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Inferentia, Inf1 instances, and how to get started with Inf1 instances. https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/
Sep 06, 2020•20 min
Two migrations and an acquisition led Ocwen, formerly PHH Mortgage, to move out of their physical datacenter and into the cloud quickly and with minimal change. In this episode, Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS, is joined by Sam Dotson, VP Technology Operations at Ocwen and Sean Kane, Sr. Account Executive at APN Partner, RoundTower. They will share their story of how they exited their datacenter, and what life is like for Ocwen in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/vmwa...
Sep 02, 2020•11 min
Amazon AppFlow is new integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Redshift, in just a few clicks. In this episode, Simon chats with Venkatesh Krishnan, AppFlow Product Manager about why the service was built, the most common customer use cases, and how you can get started. https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/ Getting Started: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-announcing...
Aug 30, 2020•18 min
In this episode, find out how DealerBuilt made the journey out of the datacenter and into the cloud, with a little help from their friends at SoftServe and AWS. Hear directly from Jon Burr, CIO of DealerBuilt, Ruslan Kusov, Infrastructure SA at SoftServe, and Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS as they share their journey, along with a few surprises along the way. https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/
Aug 26, 2020•13 min
A big list of interesting updates to explore! Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 04:14 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 07:05 Compute 11:05 Customer Engagement 13:15 Database 15:22 Developer Tools 17:18 End User Computing 17:51 Game Tech 18:28 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:14 Management and Governance 23:21 Media Services 24:19 Migration and Transfer 25:30 Networking and Content Delivery 29:45 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:35 Storage 35:30 Training and Certification 36:35 AWS Solu...
Aug 23, 2020•39 min
Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS service that will help you get start with quantum computing. Today Simon is joined by Richards Moulds, General Manager for Amazon Braket here at Amazon, to learn all about this recently launched service. They will cover some interesting questions around quantum computing, dig into the common customer challenges, and why the team built the service. https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
Aug 20, 2020•30 min
Learn how one of the oldest museums in the world moved their collections online. Hear from the customer about the journey they took with AWS and the benefits a long term close working relationship brings to complex projects. Can you link to the case study, the partner case study and a video interview as well ? https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/glam/ https://video.cube365.net/v/tnPdwgYZtrg https://www.cirrushq.com/case-studies/taking-the-collections-of-oxford-universitys-museums-onlin...
Aug 16, 2020•29 min
AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, machine learning inference, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Graviton2 processors, their instances, use cases, ecosystem support, an...
Aug 09, 2020•31 min
A massive range of updates that Simon & Nicki walk you through! Chapters: 00:53 AWS Marketplace 01:52 Analytics 06:49 Application Integration 07:41 Business Applications 08:15 Compute 14:09 Customer Engagement 15:08 Databases 18:38 Developer Tools 22:16 End User Computing 22:46 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:54 Machine Learning 30:34 Management & Governance 36:10 Media Services 36:45 Migration & Transfer 40:06 Mobile 40:41 Networking & Content Delivery 42:29 Robotics 43:32 Security,...
Aug 02, 2020•51 min
How can you optimize serverless applications for cost and performance? Simon and Alex Casalboni talk about AWS Lambda Power Tuning, an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions in a data-driven fashion. https://github.com/alexcasalboni/aws-lambda-power-tuning
Jul 26, 2020•20 min
Today Simon is joined by Michael Lin, Principal Product Manager on the RDS team, to discuss the recent launch RDS on Outposts. They'll discuss how you can use RDS on Outposts as an extension of the cloud with an easy console experience, the benefits that it gives to your enterprise, and what use cases it will be best suited for. Find more information here: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/outposts/
Jul 23, 2020•12 min
What can you do with petabytes of earth observation data and scalable compute infrastructure to help support decision making at the continental scale? Simon brings together representatives from Geoscience Australia, the South African National Space Agency and AWS to talk about Digital Earth Africa, a new geospatial analysis platform, sponsored by the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, that is launching soon in the Cape Town region.
Jul 19, 2020•21 min
Lots of cool updates to catch up on this week! Chapters: 00:31 Analytics 04:04 Business Applications 05:27 Compute 10:13 Cost Management 11:15 Customer Engagement 13:28 Databases 18:19 Developer Tools 21:09 End User Computing 21:37 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:15 Machine Learning 26:16 Management & Governance 30:42 Media Services 32:35 Migration & Transfer 34:09 Mobile 35:30 Networking & Content Delivery 37:10 Security, Identity and Compliance 38:36 Storage 40:05 Training & Certif...
Jul 12, 2020•44 min
Amazon QLDB has been generally available since Sep 2019. Hear from the team who built it about what a ledger database is, how its different from a blockchain, and how are customers using it today. https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
Jul 05, 2020•33 min
Simon and Nicki share everything you need to keep up to date with AWS! Chapters: 01:10 AWS Marketplace 02:33 Analytics 03:03 Blockchain 03:55 Business Applications 05:17 Compute 06:33 Customer Engagement 06:57 Database 10:42 Developer Tools 12:08 Machine Learning 13:39 Management & Governance 15:44 Mobile 18:16 Networking & Content Delivery 19:17 Security, Identity & Compliance 21:14 Storage 23:54 AWS Solutions 25:47 Wrap up Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/3...
Jun 28, 2020•28 min
Learn how you can utilize AWS Solutions to help drive your cloud development. AWS Solutions help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform. All AWS Solutions Implementations are vetted by AWS architects and are designed to be operationally effective, reliable, secure, and cost efficient. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
Jun 21, 2020•16 min
The one thing you know about machine generated data is that there's always more of it! But keeping that ever-expanding collection of log data can become costly. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is the perfect tool for storing and analyzing log data to deliver insights. While it's most common to focus on your more recent logs, sometimes you want to retain them for longer term, more forensic analysis. At a cost reduction of up to 90% over hot storage, UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service provide...
Jun 14, 2020•21 min
Simon and Nicki take you through an interesting collection of updates across a broad range of services. Chapters: 00:31 Analytics 03:39 Application Integrations 04:24 Business Applications 07:17 Compute 11:36 Cost Management 13:03 Customer Engagement 13:43 Database 19:10 Developer Tools 22:50 Internet of Things (IoT) 23:23 Machine Learning 28:15 Management & Governance 37:05 Media Services 39:18 Migration & Transfer 40:04 Networking & Content Delivery 41:30 Robotics 42:09 Security,(I...
Jun 07, 2020•48 min
Cloud migrations remain a challenge for many organizations, however not in the areas you might think! Today Simon is joined by Edgar Haren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with Amazon Web Services and Curran O’Brien, Migration Business Development with AWS, to discuss the value organizations can find when working towards cloud migration readiness, and how the new Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help kick-start the process. Across thousands of migration consultations, we found that AWS cus...
May 31, 2020•16 min
AWS Senior Migration Advisor Steve Peacock describes cost-saving strategies and patterns he’s seeing from customers right now. Migrating to AWS can decrease infrastructure costs by 31% on average and once on the platform, optimization can further reduce spend. As a former CTO, CIO, and COO, Steve also shares emerging best practices to cut costs mid-term while keeping sight on innovation goals. He says starting a dialogue within your team is the first step to modernizing. To begin the conversatio...
May 27, 2020•18 min
Simon takes you through an interesting collection of updates across a broad range of services. Chapters: 00:30 Infrastructure 01:00 AWS Marketplace 01:47 Analytics 05:39 Application Integration 08:20 Compute 13:03 Cost Management 14:16 Customer Engagement 15:27 Databases 17:43 Developer Tools 18:29 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:30 Machine Learning 24:17 Management & Governance 26:54 Media Services 27:15 Migration & Transfer 28:01 Networking & Content Delivery 28:34 Satellite 29:05 Secu...
May 24, 2020•34 min
Simon is joined by Teresa Carlson (VP Worldwide Public Sector, AWS) for a wide ranging discussion about how the Public Sector's use of technology continues to evolve as they seek to better serve citizen needs. She also shares lessons learned during 10 years of transformation in the Public Sector. https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/
May 19, 2020•43 min
Simon and Nicki cover the new and the interesting for customers on AWS! Chapters: 00:32 Analytics 03:34 Blockchain 03:57 Business Applications 04:37 Compute 08:36 Customer Engagement 09:06 Database 12:16 Developer Tools 13:14 End User Computing 14:27 Internet of Things (IoT) 14:58 Machine Learning 18:06 Management & Governance 19:24 Media Services 22:19 Migration & Transfer 25:17 Mobile 26:25 Networking & Content Delivery 27:56 Security, Identity & Compliance 30:28 Storage 31:04 ...
May 10, 2020•33 min
Learn how one of the most preeminent science organizations, Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO), has become the first public sector organization to deliver a health product onto AWS’s global Marketplace. A/Prof Denis Bauer (Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO & Macquarie University), explains how this distribution channel has enabled her group to overcome traditional licensing and delivery bottlenecks and to transform academic research into transformative industry solutions: “Scien...
May 03, 2020•18 min
This week Tim Bray joins Simon to discuss a new capability in AWS Step Functions. Express Workflows are a new type of AWS Step Functions workflow type that cost-effectively orchestrate AWS compute, database, and messaging services at event rates greater than 100,000 events per second. Express Workflows automatically start in response to events such as HTTP requests via Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda requests, AWS IoT Rules Engine actions, and over 100 other AWS and SaaS event sources from Amazon...
Apr 26, 2020•27 min
Simon is joined by Nicki to go through lots of new updates! Chapters: 01:01 Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) 01:25 Marketplace 02:30 Analytics 05:17 Business Applications 06:29 Application Integration 07:01 Compute 07:45 Cost Management 08:12 Customer Engagement 10:19 Database 13:01 Developer Tools 16:13 Game Tech and Amazon GameLift 17:59 Internet of Things (IoT) 18:47 Machine Learning 22:05 Management and Governance 25:43 Migration and Transfer 26:15 Quick Starts 26:47 Satellite 2...
Apr 20, 2020•36 min
