LogiCast AWS News (Video)

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LogiCast, brought to you by Logicata, is a weekly AWS News podcast hosted by Karl Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer. Each week we hand-pick a selection of news articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - we look at what’s new, technical how-to, and business-related news articles and take a deep dive, giving commentary, opinion, and a sprinkling of humor. Please note this is the video edition of the Logicast podcast. For the audio only edition, please check out https://logicast.podbean.com/

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Season 2 Episode 4 - Incidents, Events & Feline Exits

n Episode 4, Karl & Jon discuss launch templates, Lambda functions, event-driven architectures, incident response automations, expanding US-EAST-1, and Jon's cat decides she doesn't want to listen to him any more. Here are the links to the articles discussed: 01:33 - Amazon EC2 Launch Templates now support AWS Systems Manager parameters for AMIs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) news 07:03 - AWS Lambda Functions – Unlock the Potential of The Powerful tool AWS on DroidMen 16:55 Let’s Architect! Design...

Jan 30, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 4

Season 2 Episode 3 - Cloud Costs, Fraud & Laundry

In Episode 3,Karl & Jon discuss SAM & cloudformation linting, secure CI/CD practices using AWS tools, cost visualisation using AWS managed Grafana, a shocking AWS bill, AWS's slowing growth, and a bit of plumbing. Here are links to the articles discussed: 01: 17 - Validate AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) templates with CloudFormation Linter to speed up development via Amazon Web Services (AWS) news 05:00 - Setting up a secure CI/CD pipeline in a private Amazon Virtual Private Cloud with n...

Jan 23, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 3

Season 2 Episode 2 - Serverless, Zero Trust & Rice Cookers

In episode 2 of our second season, Karl & Jon discuss Cloud Observability, ECS automated rollbacks, Step Functions Distributed Maps, Lambda concurrency, zero trust access to AWS and rice cookers. Here are the links to the topics discussed: 01:35 Zero Trust Access to Corporate Applications with AWS Verified Access via Nsikan Essien on InfoQ 08:00 Amazon ECS Adds Automated Rollbacks via Matthew Campbell on InfoQ 12:00 AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Proc...

Jan 16, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2

Season 2 Episode 1 - O11Y, ECP & TLA’s

In the first episode of season 2 Karl & Jon discuss S3's new default encryption, CI/CD with GitLab and EKS Graviton runners, CloudWatch, Serverless observability, go off the deep end ranting about what DevOps actually is, and talk about shredding Vespa's. Articles discussed: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-encrypts-new-objects-by-default/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/unlock-...

Jan 10, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Episode 11 - Pipelines, Rain, & Leaky Buckets

In Episode 11, Karl and Jon discuss the weather (again), troubleshooting networking connectivity, CI/CD, cost optimisations and a new feature to reduce the leakiness of S3 buckets. Here are links to the articles: Configuration driven dynamic multi-account CI/CD solution on AWS via Anshul Saxena and Libin Roy on Amazon Web Services blog Improved Supply Chain Visibility and Actionable Insights with AWS Supply Chain via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ How to use AWS Well-Architected with AWS Trusted Adv...

Dec 19, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11

Episode 10 - Snowed in Serverless Special

In Episode 10 Jon & Karl discuss Blue/Green deployments, low code Serverless development, EventBridge pipes, personal growth from AWS and complain about the cold weather. Here's the list of articles discussed: AWS Announces Blue/Green Deployments for MySQL on Aurora and RDS via Renato Losio on InfoQ AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps via Frederic Lardinois on TechCrunch Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM via Nsikan Essien on In...

Dec 12, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10

Episode 9 - re:Invent Recap & Rehydration

In Episode 9 Jon & Karl discuss Water Positivity, AWS Lambda Vulnerability scanning & recap some of the announcements from Re:Invent 2022. Jon also goes on about delivery vans turning right, and Karl side-steps the weekend's football result. Here's the links to the articles discussed: AWS Plans to be Water Positive by 2030 via Alexandra Garfinkle on Yahoo Finance Amazon Inspector now scans AWS Lambda functions for vulnerabilities via Marcia Villabla on Amazon Web Services Blog Adam Selipsky at R...

Dec 06, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9

Episode 8 - Stag dos, Solar & Sustainability

In Episode 8, Karl & Jon discuss Amazon SNS, AWS region selection for sustainability, that Appsync vulnerability, AWS Nitro for legacy EC2 instances and the new AWS India region. And Karl does remarkably well considering he just got back from a stag weekend! Here are links to the articles discussed: Introducing payload-based message filtering for Amazon SNS via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services blog How to select a Region for your workload based on sustainability goals via Sam Mokhtari, Isha Du...

Nov 28, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Episode 7 - Crocs, Cigars, and Cloudformation

In Episode 7 Karl & Jon discuss RDS events, migrating elastic IPs between regions, CloudFormation vs Terraform, RDS & Aurora region migration and Re:Invent 2022 predictions. They also go off on a tangent about Croc charms and 1970s TV cigar advertisements… Amazon RDS events now include attributes for filtering with Amazon SNS AWS Supports Transfer of IP Addresses Between Accounts Cloudformation or Terraform: Which Iac Platform Is the Best Fit for You? Migrate Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS to a ne...

Nov 22, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Episode 6 - Patching, Scheduling & Smart Meters

In episode 6 Karl & Jon discuss AWS Resource Explorer, EventBridge Scheduler, EC2 Replace Root Volume, AWS Global Accelerator versus Amazon CloudFront, and some AWS best practices. Here are the links that inspired this week's episode: https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/11/ec2-replace-root-volume/ https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/Compare-AWS-Global-Accelerator-vs-Amazon-CloudFront https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-resource-explorer-quickly-find-resources-in-your-aws...

Nov 15, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6

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