In this episode Simon catches you up on some new features and capabilities that just might make your day! AWS Resource Tagging API: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-resource-tagging-api/ Tag EC2 Instances & EBS Volumes on Create: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tag-ec2-instances-ebs-volumes-on-creation/ Cost Saving Opportunities: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/discover-savings-opportunities-by-using-the-new-reserved-instance-coverage-reports-in-aws-cost-explo...
Apr 23, 2017•12 min
Simon covers a raft of changes, big and small, across a wide variety of services for customers. City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge: https://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/ New Amazon Aurora instance type support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-aurora-cuts-entry-level-pricing-in-half-with-support-for-t2-small-instances/ Notifications for Amazon ECS-Optimized AMIs: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/introducing-notifications-for-new-amazon-ec...
Apr 17, 2017•11 min
In this episode Simon interviews Nathan Wallace, Founder & CEO at Turbot, about using AWS in large Enterprises with Software Defined Operations. https://turbot.com/
Apr 10, 2017•13 min
In this episode Simon gives you an introduction to a new Customer Contact Centre in the cloud - called Amazon Connect. https://aws.amazon.com/connect/
Apr 03, 2017•10 min
In this episode Simon talks about Amazon Lightsail with Emily Kruger, Product Manager for Amazon Lightsail. They discuss what it can be used for, and where customers get the most benefit. https://amazonlightsail.com/
Mar 27, 2017•12 min
Simon speaks with Paras Bhuva, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, all about the AWS Database Migration Service and Schema Migration Tool. Where it is used and what customers need to know. https://aws.amazon.com/dms/
Mar 20, 2017•16 min
In this special episode, Bryan Liston, Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaks with Mark Nunnikhoven, Vice President, Cloud Research, TrendMicro and Adam Johnson, Cofounder at IOpipes. The discuss considerations for security in serverless architectures, with plenty of “war stories”!
Mar 10, 2017•29 min
Lots of updates this week as Simon does a “lightning look” as some interesting updates - with a special emphasis on getting data insights with very little work! Shownotes: Kinesis Firehose with Lambda - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/amazon-kinesis-firehose-can-now-prepare-and-transform-streaming-data-before-loading-it-to-data-stores/ Data Insights Blog Post - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/derive-insights-from-iot-in-minutes-using-aws-iot-amazon-kinesis-firehose-amazo...
Mar 03, 2017•14 min
This week Simon takes you through a selection of more recent Service updates as well as a black belt tip! Shownotes: Attach IAM Role to Running EC2 Instance: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/new-attach-an-aws-iam-role-to-an-existing-amazon-ec2-instance-by-using-the-aws-cli/ Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elastic-volumes-change-everything/ Device Farm Flexible Timeouts: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/run-longer-tests-and...
Feb 27, 2017•16 min
Simon sits down with Dr Matt Wood, GM of Artificial Intelligence at AWS, to talk about the emerging world of AI. They also do a little reminiscing of days gone by! Shownotes: Amazon Lex: https://aws.amazon.com/lex/ Amazon Polly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Amazon Recognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ Apache mxnet: http://mxnet.io
Feb 17, 2017•26 min
In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) aws.amazon.com/efs.
Feb 12, 2017•13 min
In this episode Simon discusses AWS OpsWorks with Amir Golan, Senior Product Manager. They discuss what it can do, how customers use it - and its strengths in fleet management. https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/
Feb 06, 2017•13 min
In this episode Simon chats with Matt Hackett, CTO at Beme (now acquired by CNN), all about how Beme was built and some of the challenges of building video-related apps today vs in the “old days” at his time at Tumblr. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS.
Jan 27, 2017•14 min
A special extended episode this week discussing Serverless. Bryan Liston, Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaks with Matt Weagle, Ant Stanley & Ben Kehoe. They discuss serverless architectures, testing and other fun topics! Shownotes: AWS re:Invent 2016 Audio Library: http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2016/2016.html Building Serverless Applications: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/serverless-architectures-learn-more/ AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/...
Jan 23, 2017•53 min
In this episode Simon chats with Jon Handler, Principal Solutions Architect, about scaling and securing the Amazon ElasticSearch Service with some deeper-dive examples of what to do. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
Jan 16, 2017•21 min
In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about backup options to the cloud. They cover connector technologies, tiering and other considerations. https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/backup-and-recovery-using-aws/
Jan 09, 2017•16 min
In this episode Simon has a wide-ranging chat with Kunal Anand, CTO & Co-Founder of Prevoty, about building their product on AWS, the challenges of scale and the future of software architectures. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS www.prevoty.com
Dec 21, 2016•20 min
In this episode Simon sits down with Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect, to walk through the new AWS Server Migration Service. https://aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service
Dec 19, 2016•12 min
Simon has a conversation with Conrad Rushing, VP Engineering at Splash. They discuss Docker, Continuous Deployment, Team Structure and lots of other goodies. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. www.splashthat.com
Dec 13, 2016•20 min
In This Episode Simon chats with Steve Faulkner, Director of Engineering at Bustle about moving to a serverless architecture, and their open-source project called “Shep”. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Links: www.bustle.com https://github.com/bustlelabs/shep
Dec 11, 2016•13 min
All the news from AWS Re:Invent 2016 - Day 2!
Dec 02, 2016•14 min
In this special episode Simon summarises all the announcements from Re:Invent 2016 - Day 1! Lots to cover - lots of exciting things to build with!
Dec 01, 2016•23 min
A quick update from Las Vegas with some great announcements prior to the Keynotes. Shownotes: AWS Organisations: https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/ AWS Storage Gateway Update: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-provides-a-file-interface-to-objects-in-your-amazon-s3-buckets/ AWS Storage Gateway Price Reductions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-price-reductions/ New Amazon S3 Capabilities: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aw...
Nov 30, 2016•7 min
Recorded live in Las Vegas! Simon covers some AWS updates prior to a BIG week at AWS Re:Invent. Including ALB, S3, Glacier, IoT, Aurora and more! Shownotes: ALB/ELB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/application-performance-percentiles-and-request-tracing-for-aws-application-load-balancer/ Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-aurora-for-dev-test-workloads-with-new-t2-medium-db-instance-class/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-route-53...
Nov 26, 2016•12 min
In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about the choice between Block, Object and File storage - and when to use each! https://aws.amazon.com/products/storage/
Nov 21, 2016•12 min
In this episode Simon chats with Josh Siegel, CTO at Care Cloud. They talk about building HIPPA-compliant software, moving fast and DevOps. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. CareCloud: carecloud.com Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/06/whitepaper-hipaa/
Nov 17, 2016•16 min
In this episode Simon has a discussion with Will Chiong, Software Engineer at kit.com. They discuss building systems from scratch, monolith vs micro services, using Alexa and other architectural decisions kit.com made on the way. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. www.kit.com
Nov 16, 2016•13 min
Simon has a chat with Dustin Lucien, COO at Betterment. They discuss moving from hosting to the cloud. Building agile teams and how to handle scale and growth. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS Betterment: www.betterment.com
Nov 13, 2016•14 min
In this episode Simon catches up on a whole raft of different service updates. New instance types, updates for developers, IPv6 support, Amazon Linux in containers & Windows 2016 support just to name a few!
Nov 07, 2016•19 min
In this episode Simon discusses AWS Quick Starts with Santiago Cardenas, Partner Solution Architect. They talk about how customers can launch meaningful workloads with just the click of a button and build upon them. Links: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart https://github.com/aws-quickstart
Oct 30, 2016•13 min
