We wish Hawn farewell on this episode as the moves to pastures new. And we share a HEAP of great updates. Chapters: 01:57 Analytics 06:51 Application Integration 08:36 Business Applications 09:20 Compute 12:18 Customer Engagement 12:46 Databases 15:53 Developer Tools 17:13 Front End Web & Mobile 18:48 Game Tech 20:00 Internet of Things 21:43 Machine Learning 26:00 Management & Governance 28:13 Migration & Transfer 31:27 Security, Identity, & Compliance Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfron...
Oct 16, 2023•35 min
Amazon EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances -- powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors -- deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to the previous gen. Today Hawn is joined by Sinem Gulbay, Senior Product Manager here at AWS, to dive into the benefits of these new instances, their technical specs, and when, why, and how you should leverage them.
Oct 12, 2023•17 min
Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth in data, and the rapid pace of innovation in machine learning (ML), there is a growing need to build modern data applications that are agile and scalable. In this episode, Jillian is joined by Vara Bonthu, Principal Solutions Architect, and Alex Lines, Sr. Containers Specialist, to talk through why Kubernetes is becoming a popular choice for modernizing data app...
Oct 09, 2023•21 min
How you do know which data is available, where it is stored, or how to begin getting access to the best data? In this episode, Jillian is joined by Shikha Verma (Head of Product Amazon DataZone) and Amir Bar-Or (Principal Engineer, Amazon DataZone) to help you learn about a new service, Amazon DataZone, which helps you govern data access across organizational boundaries. Getting Started with Amazon DataZone (blog post): https://go.aws/3Q1SHrL YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...
Oct 05, 2023•19 min
Lots of interesting updates this week - will there be something you can use? Chapters: 00:43 AWS Marketplace 01:54 Analytics 04:07 Application Integration 06:43 Compute 11:10 Cost Management 11:40 Customer Engagement 13:33 Databases 14:42 Developer Tools 17:07 Front End Web & Mobile 18:57 Machine Learning 22:49 Management & Governance 24:23 Media Services 24:51 Networking & Content Delivery 25:30 Security, Identity, & Compliance 28:10 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/626E...
Oct 02, 2023•30 min
AWS Application Composer helps teams collaborate as they build well-architected applications backed by Infrastructure-as-Code using a visual canvas. Today, Simon is joined by Ryan Coleman, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to learn how Application Composer can help developers quickly, and iteratively, build applications through the software development lifecycle. They discuss the evolution of the space, what problems led to building the service, and the interesting ways teams are using it to bui...
Sep 28, 2023•19 min
DeepLearning.AI and AWS have jointly launched “Generative AI with large language models”, a new hands-on course that prepares data scientists and engineers to become experts in selecting, training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs for real-world applications. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from Tommy Nelson (DeepLearning.AI) and Antje Barth (AWS) the course highlights, prerequisites, and some fun behind-the-scenes details. DeepLearning .AI website: https://bit.ly/48uGxz6
Sep 25, 2023•20 min
AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub's APIs that simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data. Tune in to listen to Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect and Venugopalan Vasudevan, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect discuss cross-team API development considerations for enterprises, introduce AWS AppSync, dive deeper into how AWS AppSync enables enterprise developer teams to consolidate APIs owned and managed by ...
Sep 21, 2023•17 min
Simon flies the show solo to share a raft of very cool things to help you build! Chapters: 00:34 AWS Marketplace 00:58 Analytics 03:28 Application Integration 05:17 Business Applications 06:01 Compute 06:54 Cost Management 07:33 Customer Engagement 10:23 Databases 14:30 Developer Tools 15:09 End User Computing 15:33 Front End Web & Mobile 16:15 Machine Learning 20:24 Management & Governance 21:21 Media Services 21:35 Migration & Transfer 23:32 Networking & Content Delivery 24:55 Security, Identi...
Sep 18, 2023•29 min
AWS Cloud Governance is the set of rules, practices, and reports that ensure your cloud use meets your business requirements. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from two Cloud Governance Specialists, Al Destefano and Nivas Durairaj, on how your organization can benefit from a multi-account strategy, meet regulatory requirements at scale, leverage AWS managed controls to meet business objectives and ensure data residency requirements are met by using services like AWS Organi...
Sep 15, 2023•19 min
Jillian Forde and Michael Surkan discuss how AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is simplifying migrations with AWS DMS Serverless. Learn how AWS DMS Serverless automatically provisions, monitors, and scales migration resources to the optimal capacity needed to meet demand, so you don't have to. AWS DMS Serverless blog: https://bit.ly/3Zhln31 AWS DMS Serverless website: AWS DMS Serverless website AWS Database Migration Serverless: https://bit.ly/3ZbSqp4
Sep 12, 2023•16 min
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easy to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink takes care of everything required to run streaming applications. There are no servers and clusters to manage, no compute and storage infrastructure to set up, and you only pay for the resources you use. You can easily setup and integrate data sources or destinations with minimal code, process data continuously with sub-second latencie...
Sep 07, 2023•16 min
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover the latest AWS updates. Chapters: 01:07 AWS Marketplace 01:41 Analytics 04:54 Application Integration 06:32 Compute 08:34 Database 10:33 Developer Tools 11:08 Game Tech 11:18 Machine Learning 12:58 Management & Governance 13:47 Media Services 14:19 Migration & Transfer 16:39 Networking & Content Delivery 17:52 Security, Identity, & Compliance 18:46 Startups 20:29 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/618ExtendedShownotes.html
Sep 04, 2023•24 min
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) is a fully managed service which makes building with blockchain technology accessible and affordable for all developers. AMB' two new services, AMB Access and Query expands AMB’s capabilities to help developers build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access provides a new serverless offering for non-mining, full blockchain nodes. With AMB Access, developers can instantly call standard remote procedure calls (RPCs) to interact with digital assets and ...
Aug 31, 2023•22 min
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a new open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instance and access it as a local file system. In this episode, Simon is joined by Devabrat Kumar, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon S3, to discuss the launch of Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and how customer feedback has driven the evolution of this feature. Mountpoint blog: https://bit.ly/3skIddG Mountpoint website: https://bit.ly/45qWZ15 Mountpoint user guide: https://bit.ly/45qK7YV
Aug 28, 2023•18 min
The new AWS service, AWS Payment Cryptography simplifies cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications. Tune in to hear Mark Cline, Senior Product Manager, discuss how you can get started with AWS Payment Cryptography and simplify the exchange of encryption keys with partners and customers. Payment Cryptography website: https://bit.ly/44qG1ia AWS Payment Cryptography blog: https://go.aws/45kOeG2 AWS Payment Cryptography workshop: https://bit.ly/3QSBouk
Aug 24, 2023•15 min
Simon and Jillian take you on a journey of AWS discovery! Chapters: 01:01 Analytics 02:52 Application Integration 13:52 Customer Engagement 20:24 Developer Tools 23:40 Front End Web & Mobile 24:17 Game Tech 25:04 Internet of Things 29:37 Management & Governance 33:33 Network & Content Delivery 36:25 Security and Compliance 36:55 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/614ExtendedShownotes.html
Aug 21, 2023•39 min
In this episode, Hawn sits down with Ilana Morris and Samir Kopal from the Well-Architected team to discuss a brief history of AWS Well-Architected. They dive into how to use the AWS Well-Architected Tool as a mechanism and the latest Well-Architected features including Consolidated Report, the integration with Service Catalog AppRegistry, and Profiles. AWS Well-Architected Tool website: https://go.aws/3OQZJy3 AWS Well-Architected Tool Documentation: https://go.aws/3s61eRd AWS Well-Architected L...
Aug 17, 2023•24 min
Learn more about the recently launched I4g AWS Nitro SSDs. AWS Nitro SSDs build on the AWS silicon innovation with the AWS Nitro System and are custom-designed to deliver the best storage performance for your I/O intensive workloads running in Amazon EC2. I4g instances offer similar memory and storage ratios to existing I4i instances and are optimized for workloads with small to medium sized datasets that perform a high mix of random read/write and require very low I/O latency, such as databases...
Aug 14, 2023•14 min
AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data. Tune in to listen to Jillian Forde, Sr. Startup Solutions Architect and Ozioma Uzoegwu, Sr. Solutions Architect talk about the functionalities we have on AppSync that can help you implement enterprise level security on your GraphQL APIs on AppSync. Recently we launched the support of Private APIs on AppSync, the most requested feature on...
Aug 10, 2023•18 min
Two of our hosts are in the Big Apple to share lots of big updates! 01:05 Analytics 03:06 Application Integration 04:29 Compute 10:30 Customer Engagement 10:55 Databases 13:08 Developer Tools 09:52 End User Computing 14:16 Front-End Web & Mobile 15:27 Internet of Things (IoT) 15:55 Machine Learning 18:31 Management & Governance 19:42 Media Services 20:40 Migration & Transfer 21:14 Networking & Content Delivery 22:46 Security, Identity and Compliance 23:07 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxag...
Aug 07, 2023•25 min
Is your company faced with inaccurate and fragmented data, scored across applications, channels, and data stores? Find out how AWS Entity Resolution helps you match and link related records with configurable workflows that take only minutes to set up. Tune into listen to Shobhit Gupta, Principal Product Manager, Technical, talk about how this new new service helps you easily set up matching workflows and configure advanced matching techniques, while helping you better protect your data.
Aug 04, 2023•16 min
Simon takes you on a tour of your GenAI options. From software development, to AI policy, to trialling FMs, to new instance types, and CPUs. Referenced Links: - URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/optimize-software-development-with-amazon-codewhisperer/ Title: Optimize software development with Amazon CodeWhisperer | AWS DevOps Blog - URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/10-ways-to-build-applications-faster-with-amazon-codewhisperer/ Title: 10 ways to build applications faster with Amaz...
Jul 31, 2023•24 min
Permissions management is the undifferentiated heavy lifting of application development. Amazon Verified Permissions decouples authorization from application logic saving developers time and resources. Developers can reuse centralized policies as well as define and manage policies for their applications to accelerate time-to-market. Security and audit teams can better analyze and audit who has access to what using Verified Permissions. In this episode, Jillian is joined by Abhi Panday, Product M...
Jul 27, 2023•11 min
It is sharp, informative, and fun! Simon, Hawn, and Jillian take you through all the latest AWS updates! Chapters: 00:47 AWS Marketplace 02:03 Analytics 03:57 Application Integration 04:00 Business Applications 05:26 Compute 06:47 Customer Engagement 07:30 Databases 08:57 Developer Tools 09:45 End User Computing 10:52 Front-End Web & Mobile 11:42 GameTech 12:17 Internet of Things (IoT) 12:27 Machine Learning 16:21 Management & Governance 17:42 Media Services 17:53 Migration & Transfer 19:26 Netw...
Jul 24, 2023•23 min
How to get the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for the most demanding machine learning training workloads? Tune in to learn how AWS Trainium-based Amazon EC2 Trn1n instances can help you train your network-intensive generative AI models at scale. Amazon EC2 Trn1n instances double the bandwidth offered by Trn1 instances to 1600 Gbps of EFA and deliver up to 20% faster time-to-train than Trn1 instances. Both Trn1 and Trn1n instances deliver up to 50% savings on training costs over comparable ...
Jul 20, 2023•21 min
AWS Glue for Ray makes it easier to scale Python code to process large scale data in AWS Glue. Learn how you can unlock Python at scale for data integration workloads of all sizes, and simplify and streamline your ability to use Ray, a new open source framework for distributing Python across clusters. AWS Glue website: https://go.aws/3pLUTtp AWS Glue Data Integration Engines: https://go.aws/3JYfiSP Blog: AWS Glue for Ray: https://go.aws/43piC04
Jul 18, 2023•15 min
Silicon chips are the foundation of modern computing. AWS custom-designs its silicon chips to be more efficient and sustainable, which helps you maximize performance and save money. On June 21, 2023 AWS hosted our first Silicon Innovation Day with 20 different deep dives into how these innovations can improve your workflows, impact your business, and power your networking developments. Learn more about everything that was discussed in our roundup podcast and the videos on demand linked in our sh...
Jul 14, 2023•22 min
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian take you through over 80 updates!!! Chapters: 01:03 Analytics 03:35 Application Integration 05:22 Compute 10:56 Customer Engagement 11:47 Databases 13:55 Developer Tools 15:38 Front-End Web & Mobile 16:41 Machine Learning 17:15 Management & Governance 21:07 Media Services 21:20 Migration & Transfer 22:32 Networking & Content Delivery 22:56 Partners 24:37 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:26 Storage 32:29 Closing Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/602Exte...
Jul 10, 2023•34 min
Responsible for secure access to your corporate applications? Hear from Product Management Lead Shovan Das as he discusses a new simplified and secure remote connectivity option on AWS. Built on Zero Trust guiding principles, AWS Verified Access is a service that can be used to validate every application request before granting access. Verified Access removes the need for a VPN, which simplifies the remote connectivity experience for end users and reduces the management complexity for IT adminis...
Jul 06, 2023•14 min
