In Season 4, Episode 10, Karl & Jon are joined once again by AWS Hero, Brian Tarbox . They discuss automating Amazon RDS credential rotation with AWS Secrets Manager, Microsoft Amazon Q Business integrations, an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step Functions, a new agentic coding experience within Amazon Q Developer, the ongoing UK Competition and Markets Authority probe, and the guys joke that Amazon Q Business is the new Clippy (or Qlippy!). 04:08 - Automating Amazon RDS credential r...
Mar 12, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 10
In Season 4, Episode 9 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Craig Johnson . They discuss Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, ways to grant cross-account access in AWS, Q Developer, AWS being named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for data integration tools and the guys go off on a tangent about chainsaws! 04:43 - AWS Introduces Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations AWS has introduced centralized route access managemen...
Mar 03, 2025•33 min•Season 4Ep. 9
In Season 4, Episode 8 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS User Group Lead for "Leeds User Group, Edmund Craske . They discuss Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager tiered pricing, AWS CloudFormation 2024 year in review, free automated tool to hunt for exposed AWS secrets in public repos, AWS Fargate on a budget, best practices to respond to security risks across AWS organizations and Jon shows off his AWS swag blanket that keeps him warm while he waits for his CloudFormation stacks to deploy. ...
Feb 26, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 8
In Season 4, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Cormack . They discuss AWS Step Functions, reshaping AWS CloudFormation stacks with stack refactoring, AWS Verified Access support for non-HTTP resources, AWS's full-year profit and revenue growth, AWS documentation updates and future plans and the guys think Mark Zuckerberg's AI predictions are about as accurate as his metaverse hype – both seem to exist in a virtual reality! 05:43 - AWS Step Functions expands data ...
Feb 18, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In Season 4, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Dave Hall . They discuss Dynamo DB innovations, cost optimization highlights, migration to AWS MediaConvert, S3 Bucket security risks, AWS Lambda and Serverless computing and it looks like the AWS Community Builders are drinking 'Dirty Lambda' cocktails and playing buzzword bingo while nervously refreshing their renewal applications! 05:24 - 2024: A year of innovation and growth for Amazon DynamoDB They discuss various im...
Feb 11, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 6
In Season 4, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Peter Sankauskas. They discuss Amazon S3 metadata, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, DeepSeek R1, Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS survey on AWS service usage and trends and Jon finally got to go Apple reaction crazy for our 100th episode! 06:14 - Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available This feature, announced at re:Invent, is now generally available. It provides automated metadata for S3 objects, potentially reducing the need for manual m...
Feb 04, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In Season 4, Episode 4 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Bojan Zivic. They discuss observability in ECS, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Backup best practices, AWS security best practices to mitigate ransomware attacks, architecting with multiple AWS regions for enhanced resilience and Jon found his missing piece of the puzzle - a Lego Millennium Falcon! 05:37 - AWS Adds Container Insights with Enhanced Observability to Elastic Container Service AWS has added Container Insights with en...
Jan 28, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 4
In Season 4, Episode 3 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Miguel Calles. They discuss AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS launching a new region in Mexico, Amazon Q Developer, interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman, ransomware attack on unsecured AWS S3 buckets and once again they got onto the subject of swag, this time AWS Community Builder swag, with renewal time looming... 04:56 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies AWS has introduced new spot allocation strat...
Jan 20, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 3
In Season 4, Episode 2 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador & Community Builder, Niklas Westerstråhle. They discuss new configurable Point in Time Recovery periods for Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Compute Optimizer, automating Systems Manager patching reports, optimizing container workloads for sustainability, AI hallucination and potential fixes and Niklas becomes the first LogiCast guest to sport the coveted AWS gold jacket while recording! 07:08 - Announcing configurable point-in-time reco...
Jan 13, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In Season 4, Episode 1 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Gabriel Torres. They discuss AWS Community Builder program benefits and application process, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Backup's new search and item-level recovery features, decreasing storage volumes for RDS databases, troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching using Amazon Bedrock, Jeff Barr stepping down as lead AWS evangelist/blogger after 20 years and Karl & Jon are envious of Gabriel's summer weather in Ecuador! 0...
Jan 08, 2025•36 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In Season 3 Episode 42 we have something a little different for the season finale. Karl & Jon attended the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from 2-6th December. On Tuesday 3rd December they attended the AWS Community Builder mixer in the AWS Community Hub in Buddy V's restaurant in The Venetian. While you won't hear from Jon in this episode, he did man the camera while Karl interviewed 16 AWS Community members about their experience at re:Invent, including AWS Community Builder p...
Dec 19, 2024•18 min•Season 3Ep. 42
In Season 3, Episode 41 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Maurya. They discuss AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard, AWS Transfer Family Web Apps, AWS Data Transfer Terminals, AWS D-SQL and database price cuts, stolen AWS credentials from misconfigured S3 bucket and the guys wondered if AWS Community Builders get taller when they become AWS Heroes... 06:19 - Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard 13:29 - AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Si...
Dec 16, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 41
In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour.... 06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it - Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda - Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering - Lambda originally only su...
Nov 18, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 40
In Season 3, Episode 39 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Muhammad Rashid. They discuss Lambda VS Code IDE, Ephemeral jobs on ECS/Fargate, CloudFront/WAF billing change, Bedrock Prompt Management, AWS earnings results and Karl wonders if he may have coined the phrase 'Remote Working Natives' 07:27 - AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit New features in AWS Lambda - VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit enhancements for building Lambda ap...
Nov 12, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 39
In Season 3, Episode 38 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Anna Astori. They discuss Q Developer, Amazon VPC, AWS WAF, celebrating 10 years of Amazon ECS, Amazon return to office policy and once again Karl tries to extract trade secrets from our guest! 03:05 - AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot The speakers discuss the launch of AWS's Q Developer, an AI coding assistant to compete with GitHub Copilot. Jon is skeptical about...
Nov 06, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 38
In Season 3, Episode 37 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Pothecary. They discuss CloudQuest and AWS Jam, AWS Session Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently and AppConfig, Amazon going nuclear, Amazon's returning to office policy and Karl hopes Amazon can finally realise the Back to the Future Mr Fusion reactor... 06:22 - Enhance your real-world skills with AWS Cloud Quest and AWS Jam - CloudQuest provides gamified learning for AWS certifications like Cloud Practitioner - Ja...
Oct 21, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 37
In Season 3, Episode 36 Karl & Jon discuss Optimize CPUs, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, AWS Console-to-Code, departure of Matt Wood and the guys go off on a tangent about kids destroying things... 02:31 - Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch 07:58 - AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action 12:13 - Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey 18:05 - Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally ...
Oct 14, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 36
In Season 3, Episode 35 Karl & Jon discuss Storage Browser for S3, Graviton 4-powered Amazon EC2 instances, Chatbops, Amazon GuardDuty, Elasticsearch and the guys go off on a tangent about bananas... 02:10 - Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3 The hosts discuss the launch of a new Storage Browser for Amazon S3 and how it provides an easier way for non-technical users to upload and download objects from S3 without needing access to the AWS console. 06:54 - Now available: Graviton4-powere...
Oct 08, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 35
In Season 3, Episode 34 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Gupta. They discuss Graviton Spot compute, CLI v2 Linux support, AWS Backup visibility, CodeCommit/Cloud9 deprecation, UK AWS investment and they welcome their first guest from outer space. 05:09 - Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate 14:05 - Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2 19:08 - Gain visibility of AWS backup activities using Amazon Managed Grafana 25:50 - Dear AWS, how...
Sep 16, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 34
In Season 3, Episode 33 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Christophe Limpalair. They discuss prompt engineering, CloudWatch Logs, Patch Manager, Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, number of servers used to power EC2 and Karl assumes everything is about AI when it isn't... 04:24 - Implementing advanced prompt engineering with Amazon Bedrock 13:42 - Using Generative AI to Gain Insights into CloudWatch Logs 21:16 - Visualize AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager information using ...
Sep 10, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 33
In Season 3, Episode 32 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Rishab Kumar. They discuss Validation API for Step Functions, Lambda Layers, Quick Setup programmatic deployment, new certifications and courses, Challenger for Observability and the Logicata guys get serious neon sign envy... Articles: 04:53- Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions The new validation API for AWS Step Functions allows validating state machines before deployment to catch errors early. It was note...
Sep 02, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 32
In Season 3, Episode 31 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Luis Valdivia. They discuss MacOS CI/CD, Upgrading Lambda Functions, Lambda Loop Detection, Chatbot for Security Events, ALB Misconfiguration Exposure and Jon describes how he's training his kids in the art of medieval combat... Articles: 05:04 - Add macOS to your continuous integration pipelines with AWS CodeBuild They discuss a new AWS CodeBuild feature that allows adding MacOS to continuous integration pipelines for b...
Aug 27, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 31
In Season 3, Episode 30 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Warren Parad. They discuss AWS Step Functions Encryption, AWS Parameter Store Sharing, AWS Touts Multi-Cloud Capabilities, AWS Quietly Freezes Services, AWS Q2 2022 Earnings and Jon has a proper rant about the deprecation of CodeCommit... Articles: 04:03 - Strengthening data security in AWS Step Functions with a customer-managed AWS KMS key They discuss a recent AWS blog post about encrypting AWS Step Functions state mac...
Aug 05, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 30
In Season 3, Episode 29 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Girish Mukim. They discuss new Lambda snap start support for Java ARM functions, new question types being added to some AWS certification exams, using DynamoDB with Amazon OpenSearch Service for near real-time analytics without ETL, dedicated log volumes for RDS to improve database performance, benchmark results showing Graviton CPUs outperforming AMD and Intel and finally there is an update on Jon's leaking tap... Artic...
Jul 29, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 29
In Season 3, Episode 28 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Joshua Walker. They discuss AWS IAM OpenID Connect, Amazon Redshift serverless, AWS WAF challenge and capture actions, Media content localization with AWS AI services, Top 10 AWS news stories of 2024 and Jon challenges AWS' definition of Serverless, again... Articles Discussed: 04:40 - AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers The article discusses how AWS IAM is simpli...
Jul 23, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 28
In Season 3, Episode 27 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom. They discuss Amazon ECS, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Security Hub and Jon was worried that the new Amazon Bedrock AI agent would replace him as Karl's Lead Cloud Engineer... Articles Discussed: 03:54 - Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications - Prevents issues when deploying containers using mutable tags like 'latest' - Happens automatically, users...
Jul 17, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 27
In Season 3, Episode 26 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Igor Soroka. They discuss Amazon GuardDuty, New Lambda Logging Controls, Refactoring to Serverless, Aurora Global Database, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and the guys get sidetracked by Catalan taps... Articles Discussed: 5:33 Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring Now Supports Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems Key points: - Previously only supported Amazon Linux - Helps monitor and respond to potential threats like s...
Jul 10, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 26
In Season 3, Episode 25 Karl & Jon are joined by Amazon Alumni & returning guest, Steve Woodard. They discuss AWS CloudShell, AWS Compute Optimizer, SQS, carbon footprint and optimising workloads, AWS engineering infrastructure to power generative AI and the guys go off on tangents about travelling t-shirts, cat bed hats and hair care products... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 05:43 - AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 12:35 - New – Rightsizi...
Jul 01, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 25
In Season 3, Episode 24 Karl & Jon discuss MFA, AWS Glue, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, automating cost optimisation, public and private cloud and Karl is thrown by Jon's glue humour... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:48 - AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you... 10:10 - AWS Glue adds additional 13 new transforms including flag duplicates 15:27 - Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock 20:34 - Opt...
Jun 24, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 24
In Season 3, Episode 23 Karl & Jon discuss root users and root emails, Query generator, Amazon GuardDuty, cost optimisation, AWS Generative AI Accelerator program and Karl, being superstitious, wondered whether Jon's itchy nose meant he was heading for an argument... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:25 - Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization 10:54 - Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generation 16:55 - ...
Jun 18, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 23
