As your business grows to store millions to billions of objects and terabytes to petabytes of data on Amazon S3, it becomes increasingly valuable to use tools and automation to handle that scale. Effective storage cost optimization can require different approaches depending on application latency and access patterns. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Kutsy and Jessie Felix, Amazon S3 product managers, to discuss key considerations for optimizing your storage. Learn how Amazon S3 enables...
Sep 04, 2022•25 min
In this episode, Hawn is joined by Kareem Syed-Mohammad (Sr. Tech Product Manager for Amazon QuickSight) to discuss the newly launched Fine-Grained Visual Embedding feature, powered by Amazon QuickSight. Learn how to provide rich insights to your end users by seamlessly embedding individual data visuals into applications and high traffic webpages, without server or software setup or infrastructure management. Read the blog - https://go.aws/3AsofOH Watch the demo - https://bit.ly/3dZ7MKh Learn mo...
Aug 28, 2022•17 min
Simon & Hawn guide you through updates big and small! Chapters: 00:28 Analytics 04:00 Application Integration 05:27 Business Applications 06:21 Compute 09:10 Cost Management 09:40 Customer Engagement 10:04 Databases 13:58 End User Compute 14:40 Front-End Web & Mobile 16:27 Internet of Things (IoT) 17:57 Machine Learning 24:30 Management & Governance 29:53 Migration & Transfer 31:17 Networking & Content Delivery 33:09 Security, Identity and Compliance 34:47 Storage 35:26 Train...
Aug 21, 2022•39 min
LactApp is a Spanish healthcare startup dedicated to personalized breastfeeding and maternity support. The app offers on-demand, evidence-based breastfeeding guidance in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. To continue its mission, the company needed a new revenue stream and decided to add a subscription tier for video content. But the team soon realized they needed a native video streaming solution and building from scratch was daunting. After doing some research, the CTO discovered the AWS Soluti...
Aug 17, 2022•7 min
Neuraflash is an AWS Partner that applies artificial intelligence and data-powered experiences to help customers transform their customer service by making the experience faster, more personalized, and connected across channels. In this special series episode, AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher is joined by NeuraFlash Sr. VP John Heater, to understand why Interactive Voice Repsonse flows (IVRs) are so important to the Contact Center and brand perception, and how the IVR Migration Tool can...
Aug 14, 2022•18 min
Amazon OpenSearch Services has new observability features to help you systematically detect potential threats and react to a system's state through an open source solution for machine learning, alerting, and visualization. In this episode, Simon is joined by Rajiv Taori, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to discuss the observability use case and the new capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also dig into the benefits of observability, who it’s for, and share a customer example from Airbnb...
Aug 07, 2022•22 min
It is update time! Simon & Hawn have over 70 updates in this episode for you. Chapters: 00:28 AWS Marketplace 01:09 Analytics 07:08 Application Integration 07:39 Compute 11:29 Customer Engagement 12:01 Database 13:37 Developer Tools 16:35 Front-End Web & Mobile 17:11 Internet of Things (IoT) 18:21 Machine Learning 21:55 Management & Governance 23:19 Media Services 23:43 Migration & Transfer 24:26 Networking & Content Delivery 26:59 Quantum Technologies 27:27 Security, Identit...
Jul 31, 2022•32 min
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. In this episode, Simon is joined by Dr. Saša Baškarada (Worldwide Lead, AWS CAF) and Jason Turse (Senior Practice Manager, Defense Advisory), to discuss the latest updates to the AWS CAF, how customers, partners, and AWS teams are using it, and some of the best practices that the AWS CAF recommends. Learn more ...
Jul 24, 2022•34 min
Media and entertainment (M&E) companies are improving content, reducing churn, and solving persistent challenges, like title matching, with third-party, external data sources. Yet, incorporating external data can be challenging with various vendors and integration methods. In this episode, Harry Lin, AWS Data Exchange Business Development Specialist for M&E, shares emerging data use cases and strategies to simplify data integration into workflows. Learn more - https://www.linkedin.com/sm...
Jul 20, 2022•18 min
With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users—including data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. In this episode, Hawn sits down with Ashish Agrawal, Sr. Technical Product Manager at AWS, to chat about the newly launched Redshift Serverless. Learn about how customers can take advantage of this new serverless option to tackle various use cases in areas of machine learning, reporting and dashboarding, real time analytics, and data sh...
Jul 17, 2022•23 min
Simon takes you through a rapid-fire series of what is new! Chapters: 00:37 Analytics 02:59 Blockchain 03:29 Business Applications 04:00 Compute 07:37 Customer Engagement 09:22 Database 11:22 Developer Tools 12:29 End User Computing 13:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 14:21 Game Tech 14:54 Internet of Things (IoT) 16:42 Machine Learning 19:46 Management & Governance 22:20 Migration & Transfer 23:54 Networking & Content Delivery 24:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 26:13 Storage Exten...
Jul 10, 2022•27 min
In this episode, Simon sits down in the studio with Iain Rouse, GM for AWS Public Sector across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The two have an informative chat about how technologists can develop skills to become business leaders, how to create transparency through ceremony within your team, and making tough decisions to ensure your business stays agile and resilient. Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Jul 03, 2022•33 min
Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and even a price reduction! Chapters: 00:43 Analytics 02:34 Application Integration 03:18 Business Applications 03:48 Compute 06:18 Cost Management 07:14 Customer Engagement 08:04 Database 11:52 Front-end Web & Mobile 12:19 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:08 Machine Learning 16:38 Management & Governance 19:38 Migration & Transfer 22:17 Networking & Content Delivery 22:59 Security, Identity and Compliance 23:51 Storage Extended Shownotes: htt...
Jun 26, 2022•26 min
While the Cloud has democratized application development by giving on-demand access to compute, storage, database, analytics, and machine learning, the traditional process of building software applications still requires developers to spend a lot of time writing boilerplate sections of code that are not directly related to the core problem that they are trying to solve. In this episode, Atul Deo, Director of Product Management, AWS AI Services joins Simon to discuss Amazon CodeWhisperer, a new M...
Jun 23, 2022•19 min
In this episode, Simon speaks with Dan Ljungberg, Director of Solutions Engineering at Pillir, about how low-code development expedites modernization. Pillir's platform helps AWS partners create customized business applications, especially in SAP and ERP environments, transforming them to cloud-ready and mobile applications at a fraction of the time and cost. These apps incorporate an organization’s business logic and function regardless of connectivity status. Listen to learn how this low-code ...
Jun 19, 2022•18 min
The process of ingesting, storing, and processing video files, and associated metadata, is a top media and entertainment use case. It’s also a consideration for any organization that wants to introduce video into its products or workflows. Video requires significant storage capacity, while organizing archives and having the ability to restore needed assets, for everyday and future needs, adds further complexity. To meet these requirements, customers like UKTV are leveraging AWS Solution, Media2C...
Jun 15, 2022•8 min
Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and also a Q&A from a listener about SAP migration. Chapters: 01:02 AWS Marketplace 01:32 Analytics 03:46 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 06:50 Compute 08:55 Customer Engagement 12:06 Database 13:07 Developer Tools 14:45 Front-end Web & Mobile 15:22 Machine Learning 20:20 Management & Governance 23:05 Migration & Transfer 24:35 Networking & Content Delivery 26:06 Quantum Technology 27:32 Security, Identity and Comp...
Jun 12, 2022•38 min
In this episode, Hawn is joined by Phil De Valence (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Mainframe Modernization service that makes it easy to design for security, high availability, scalability, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous deployment. AWS Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on AWS. Learn about the ways that AWS can simplify re-platforming and r...
Jun 08, 2022•22 min
Want an easier way to run big data applications in the cloud? Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless, a new deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. EMR Serverless automatically scales resources up and down to provide just the right amount of capacity for your application. You pay only for what you use and you c...
Jun 05, 2022•17 min
Lots of interesting things to hear about this week! Chapters: 00:28 Analytics 02:44 Application Integration 03:52 Business Applications 04:07 Compute 10:26 Developer Tools 11:14 Frond-end Web & Mobile 11:39 Games 12:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:54 Machine Learning 17:10 Management & Governance 20:36 Migration & Transfer 21:31 Networking & Content Delivery 24:41 Security, Identity and Compliance 25:39 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/525ExtendedS...
May 29, 2022•27 min
Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost than traditional contact centers. Join AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher, and Local Measure founder and CEO Jonathan Barouch in this special series episode where they share how Amazon Connect and Local Measure’s purpose-built cloud contact center solution Engage helps businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences by anticipating customer service n...
May 22, 2022•22 min
Low-code application platform (LCAP) technology allows customers to build applications 72% to 85% faster. It enables technical staff and business users, by supporting core business application development, along with improving process efficiency. Hear about cross-industry and industry use cases, such as quote-to-contract management and eCommerce, and the typical results experienced on AWS. Listen to our episode about low-code no-code solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/495-right-now-at-a...
May 18, 2022•17 min
Simon and Hawn take you through a whirlwind of cool new things! Chapters: 00:48 Analytics 02:05 Block Chain 03:14 Compute 07:07 Customer Engagement 11:32 Database 15:17 Developer Tools 18:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:06 Machine Learning 24:34 Management & Governance 27:08 Media Services 27:31 Migration & Transfer 29:30 Quantum Technology 31:15 Security, Identity and Compliance 17:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/523ExtendedShownotes.html
May 15, 2022•36 min
In this episode, Simon welcomes new Co-Host, Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, to the podcast! They discuss her technical background, ultimate goal of automating herself out of a job, and her iconic nickname. Hawn is a Sr. Manager of Solutions Architechture at AWS. She is a developer at heart who likes to drive the overall system architecture design and execution. She has extensive experience and strong knowledge of software architecture, software development and DevSecOps with over 20 years of experience i...
May 11, 2022•20 min
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) recently launched a new cryptographic capability allowing customers to generate and verify HMACs (hash-based message authentication code). In this episode Nicki is joined by Matthew Campagna (Sr. Principal Security Engineer, AWS) and Jeremy Stieglitz (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss this foundational cryptographic building block. This new API allows you to generate and verify HMACs using secret keys that never leave the security boundary of KMS’s F...
May 08, 2022•26 min
Amazon MSK Serverless is a cluster type for Amazon MSK that makes it easy for you to run Apache Kafka without having to manage and scale cluster capacity. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nabanita Maji (Sr. Software Engineer, AWS) and Usama Naseem (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) to talk about this new launch that allows you to take advantage of open source Apache Kafka without the operational overhead of managing it yourself. Learn more - https://go.aws/3MMRRee
May 04, 2022•14 min
Some really interesting and powerful updates in this show! Chapters: 00:27 AWS Marketplace 00:50 Analytics 05:45 Application Integration 06:36 Business Applications 07:25 Compute 10:58 Customer Engagement 11:38 Database 14:36 Developer Tools 17:21 End User Computing 18:08 Front-end Web & Mobile 19:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:15 Machine Learning 22:25 Management & Governance 23:46 Media Services 24:27 Migration & Transfer 25:59 Networking & Content Delivery 26:50 Security, Iden...
May 01, 2022•30 min
Have you heard about digital twins and wanted to know how to build and use them? Tune in to listen to Simon chat with Andra Christie (Senior Domain Solutions Architect at AWS), to learn more about a new service called AWS IoT TwinMaker. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it faster and easier for customers to create and use digital twins to optimize industrial operations, increase production output, and improve equipment performance. Listen to the episode to learn more about the service, why we built it, an...
Apr 27, 2022•20 min
Amplify Studio is a new visual interface that lets front-end and full-stack developers go from Figma design to full-stack React app, both cloud-connected backend and front-end UI components, in hours. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nikhil Swaminathan (Senior Manager, Product Management) to discuss all things AWS Amplify. They dig into the future of web and mobile app development, why the team built the service, and how startups and enterprises are accelerating their development on AWS. Lear...
Apr 24, 2022•28 min
Some very cool updates to share this week! Chapters 00:23 AWS Marketplace 00:57 Analytics 07:05 Application Integration 09:31 Compute 18:08 Cost Management 18:43 Customer Engagement 21:29 Database 24:54 Developer Tools 25:40 End User Computing 26:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 29:17 Game Tech 30:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 30:55 Machine Learning 36:41 Management & Governance 39:59 Networking & Content Delivery 42:19 Security, Identity and Compliance 43:43 Storage Extended Shownotes: https...
Apr 17, 2022•46 min
