In Episode 34 of Season 2, Karl & Jon talk about Amazon's new cloud storage offerings unveiled at AWS Storage Day, the introduction of AWS Dedicated Local Zones, setting up memory metrics for Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager, AWS's IPv4 challenges, and a cryptojacking campaign that exploits less-used AWS services to stay hidden. Also, Jon re-grounds himself while Karl enjoys some big numbers. Here are links to the articles discussed: 01:05 Amazon Unveils New Cloud Storage Offer...
Sep 26, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 34
In Episode 33 of Season 2, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Igor Soroka. They discuss the general availability of AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform, a centralized dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub, AWS Lambda's deprecation of the Go runtime, and how to stand out in the cloud job market with digital badges from AWS Education Programs. Here are links to the articles discussed: 06:02 AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform now generally available via Eric ...
Sep 20, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 33
In Episode 32 of Season 2, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Manoj L. They discuss AWS WAF Bot Control, chaos engineering, AWS EC2 Classic, saving on AWS costs, AWS FinOps, and Karl forgets both Jeff Barr & Corey Quinn's names in the same episode! Here are links to the articles discussed: 03:35 - AWS WAF Bot Control now protects against distributed proxy-based attacks via Amazon Web Services news 10:46 - Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon.com Search Uses Chaos Engin...
Sep 13, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 32
In Season 2 Episode 31 Karl & Jon discuss how AWS has scrapped Honeycode, how to regain access to an EC2 instance if you lost your key pair, the AWS acquisition of Fig, using S3 for Laravel storage and whether FinOps is fit for purpose in the era of CloudFlation. Karl also waffles on about this year's poor fig crop... Here are the links to the articles discussed: 01:13 - Muted response speaks volumes as AWS scraps low-code Honeycode 08:43 - Lost Your EC2 Key Pair? Here’s How to Regain Access...
Sep 06, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 31
In Season 2 Episode 30, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Davide de Paolis. They delve into the latest in the AWS ecosystem, including the inauguration of the first international AWS Skills Center in Cape Town, a comparison between ECS and EKS with five key differences, The Guardian's adoption of serverless Postgres, insights into loving AWS despite growth slowdown, and AWS's continued dominance in the cloud market. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS brings in-...
Aug 23, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Season 2 Episode 29 sees the triumphant return of Karl to the podcast. This week he and Jon discuss AWS' new Cyber Insurance platform, new controls added to AWS Security Hub, Microsoft's change to the M365 licence that now allows it to run on AWS Workspaces, AWS's Monitoring and Observability efforts, and more talk about Cloud Repatriation. Here are the links to the topics discussed: 5 Value Propositions That Make AWS Cyber Insurance Transformative for Customers via Chris Hughes on Acceleration ...
Aug 15, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 29
In Episode 28 of Season 2 Jon flies solo again, and laments the lack of Karl's presence. He welcomes fellow AWS Community Builder Omkar Kadam, where they discuss Lambda Proactive initialisations, Fargate's Seekable OCI, DevOps best practices on AWS, Cloud IaaS spending topping $100 billion for the first time and using the cloud to enhance sustainability activities. Omkar also has an exciting announcement, in a first for LogiCast. Here are the links to the topics discussed: https://dev.to/aws-her...
Jul 25, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 28
In Season 2 Episode 27 Jon tries his hand at hosting, with mixed results. He welcomes fellow AWS Community Builders Girish Mukim and Matt Morgan, where they discuss FSx for NetApp ONTAP supporting immutable WORM state, an overview of AWS CodePipeline, Detecting recursive loops in AWS Lambda, AWS Organisations with Service Control Policies and another look at the Prime Video team's recent re-architecting of the QoS monitor. Here are the links to the topics discussed: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/...
Jul 19, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 27
In Season 2 Episode 26, Karl & Jon welcome fellow AWS Community Builder Maria Christidi Noble. They discuss the latest developments in the world of AWS, including live tailing for AWS CloudWatch logs, AWS's embrace of generative AI, the introduction of EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, notable departures from AWS leadership, and the expansion of the AWS Re/Start program to Portugal. Here are links to the topics discussed: 04:46 Amazon Introduces Live Tail in CloudWatch Logs for Real-Time Explor...
Jul 11, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 26
In Season 2 Episode 25 Karl & Jon, together with fellow AWS Community Builder Martyn Kilbryde, discuss the latest updates from AWS Training and Certification, explore testing AWS Lambda functions with AWS SAM remote invoke, reprocessing messages in Amazon SQS's dead-letter queue, uncover the security and privacy measures of the world's largest cloud provider, and learn about AWS's new AppFabric. Here are links to the articles discussed: 02:08 New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certifi...
Jul 03, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 25
In Logicast Season 2 Episode 24, we delve into the latest developments in the world of AWS, including dedicated hosts on AWS Outposts, time skipping in testing Step Functions, the battle between AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Fargate, upcoming updates to AWS certifications, and the cost research behind AWS Spot Instances. Here are links to the articles discussed: 01:02 AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers via Simon Sharwood on The Register 08:03 Testing St...
Jun 27, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Join us on the latest episode of Logicast as we explore secure connectivity with EC2 Instance Connect, discover free money-saving tips for business owners, delve into the consequences of an S3 bucket leak, unravel the confusion around cloud costs, and discuss the recent Amazon cloud service outage. Here are links to the articles discussed: 03:17 Secure Connectivity from Public to Private: Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services compute blog 10:53 Dear B...
Jun 20, 2023•18 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 23
In Season 2 Episode 22, Karl & Jon welcomed fellow AWS Community Builder Armielyn Obinguar as their guest. Together they discussed the top secret AWS Snowblade server, reducing AWS S3 KMS costs, other Cloud Optimization techniques and tips, and AWS training badges and certifications. Jon also earned a new middle name… Here are the links to the topics discussed: 02:14 AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server , via Simon Sharwood on The Register 08:45 Reducing AWS Key Management Service c...
Jun 13, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 22
In Episode 21 of our second season Karl and Jon welcome fellow AWS Community Builder Abhishek Maurya to talk about Snowball Edge and AWS's Large Data Migration Service, Jon shamelessly self-promotes his article about Lambda's use-cases, granting least-privileged access to EC2 servers, Chris Vonderhaar's sudden exit from AWS, Elastic's new agreement with AWS, TikTok & AWS Certifications. The articles that inspired this week's episode are: 04:47 - New – Snowball Edge Storage Optimized Devices with...
Jun 05, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 21
In Episode 20 of Season 2, Karl & Jon together with guest Jon Zeolla discuss AWS IAM roles and how to use them, using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, backup strategies for Amazon DynamoDB, developing a serverless Slack App, and how EC2 is exploited in new cryptomining attacks. Here are links to the articles discussed: 02:42 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them via Mariusz Michałowski on DevOps.com 07:27 Use Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor for greater visibili...
May 31, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 20
In Episode 19 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome yet another guest onboard - fellow AWS Community Builder Ben Ellis. They discuss some best practices to optimize Amazon EC2 spot instances, building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines, getting data to the cloud faster, leaky buckets, and reasons to love the cloud. Here are links to the topics discussed: 02:44 Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog 09:01 Building CIS ha...
May 23, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 19
In episode 18 of season 2, Karl & Jon discuss Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", private access to the AWS Management Console, Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, AWS Lambda for the containers developer, implementing cross-account CI/CD and the EU's draft legislation on cybersecurity labelling. Here are links to the articles discussed: Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available via Amazon web Services News New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Process...
May 15, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In Episode 17 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome another guest on the podcast - fellow AWS Community Builder Matthew Wilson. They discuss the new Athena Provisioned Capacity, how to scan AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector, ChatAWS, understanding cloud costs in 2023, and Prime Video switching from serverless to EC2 and ECS. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ How to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Insp...
May 10, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In Season 2 Episode 16, Karl & Jon welcome another guest Danielle Heberling to join the podcast. They discuss new features of Amazon Guard Duty, the differences between ECS and Lambda, reducing data archiving costs, layoffs, and cloud revenue. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS Announces Three New Amazon GuardDuty Capabilities to Help Customers Protect Container, Database, and Serverless Workloads via Business Wire AWS ECS vs. AWS Lambda: Top 5 Main Differences via Rodolfo Ortega on D...
May 03, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 16
In Episode 15 of Season 2 Karl & Jon welcome their first ever guest, fellow AWS Community Builder Johannes Koch! Then they talk about VPC Lattice in General Availability, Cloud Native development, saving money on your Lambda bill, Amazon Bedrock and AWS's growth for 2022/2023 Here are links the topics discussed: Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity via Renato Losio on InfoQ Modernizing? Containers are Not Enough; You Need Cloud Native via Lee Atchis...
Apr 25, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 15
In Season 2 Episode 14, Karl & Jon forget how many articles to discuss and talk about Lambda response streaming, the Well Architected Framework, the new MediaConnect Gateway, EC2 Image Builder (whilst Jon rants about the 1990's), AWS trying to close the digital skills gaps and cloud repatriation gets even more air time. Here are links to the topics discussed: Introducing AWS Lambda response streaming via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected...
Apr 17, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 14
In unlucky episode 13 Karl & Jon talk about Terraform security, AWS Organizations features, the new Lambda SnapStart feature, optimising costs on CodeBuild, AWS using renewable fuel in their backup generators, Manx vs. Mancs, and whether episode 13 is going to be unlucky (spoiler alert, Karl's phone rang, so maybe it was?) Here are the links to the articles discussed: Terraform Security Best Practices via Nigel Douglas on Sysdig Simplified multi-account governance with AWS Organizations all feat...
Apr 04, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Now that they're back in their sheds, Karl & Jon talk about unit testing serverless apps, cleaning up after yourself in cloudwatch, write-through caches in PostgreSQL, the correct pronoucieation of "cache", EC2 IAM security, AWS being affected by the Amazon layoffs, and tuna sandwiches Here are links to the topics discussed: Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services via Kevin Hakanson and Tom Romano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Delete Empty CloudWatch Log Streams via Vinod K...
Mar 30, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In the LogOff special Jon and Karl talk about Tapas, S3, Rust, multi account strategies for SMBs, and Pi. Here are links to the topics discussed: AWS previews Mountpoint, a specialized open source Rust client to mount S3 storage into the file system via Tim Anderson on DevClass AWS Chatbot Now Integrates With Microsoft Teams via Sébastien Stormacq on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Multi-account strategy for small and medium businesses via Alex Torres on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog AWS S3: You...
Mar 24, 2023•20 sec•Season 2Ep. 11
In Season 2 Episode 10, Karl & Jon discuss the new AWS Application Composer, new AWS Observability Training, going serverless on AWS Lambda, AWSMonitoring with EventBridge, and how AWS delivers on the latest Graviton3 price and performance. Here are links to the topics discussed: AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly via Channy Yun on Amazon Web Services blog Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training via Ale...
Mar 14, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In Season 2 Episode 9, Karl & Jon discuss new AWS Lambda Powertools, tips on how to protect Amazon EC2 instances, Cloud frameworks and best practices, improvements on Amazon Aurora, principles of shared responsibility, and a helium stunt by Jon. Here are links to the articles discussed: Introducing AWS Lambda Powertools for .NET via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Tips to Protect Amazon EC2 Instances on Droidmen Cloud incident response: Frameworks and best practices via Dave Shackl...
Mar 07, 2023•31 min•Ep. 12
In episode 8 of season 2, Karl and Jon discuss becoming AWS Community Builders, EKS on Snowball Edge, detecting Solar Panel damage with Amazon Rekognition, using porting advisor for Graviton, maintaining Code Quality with Amazon Code Catalyst and developing portal Lamba functions. Karl also channels his inner Muppet while waffling about Kubernetes in space. Here are links to the articles discussed: Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge via Matt Campbell on InfoQ Detecting ...
Feb 27, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In episode 7 season 2, Karl & Jon discuss scaling, step functions, creating custom health checks, a blog by Jeff Barr, and why AWS is all about sustainable open source. Here are the links to the topics discussed: Scaling an ASG using target tracking with a dynamic SQS target via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Implementing reactive progress tracking for AWS Step Functions via Benjamin Smith on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog How to create custom health checks for your Amazon EC2 A...
Feb 21, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In Episode 6, Karl & Jon discuss S3 buckets - once more, visualizing VPC resources, scaling PHP applications, CloudWatch-ing, CloudTrail-ing, and Jon's bush pruning exploits. Here are the links to the articles: Amazon S3 to apply security best practices for all new buckets on Help Net Security New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience via Channy Yun on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Scaling PHP Applications on AWS via Adriano Cataluddi on the Logicata blog Using Amaz...
Feb 14, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In Episode 5, Karl & Jon discuss AWS Database innovations, deployment pipeline reference architectures, Amazon Managed Grafana, Serverless Development and Chat GPT. Karl also goes off on a tangent about his bid to be alcohol-free for 2023! Here are the articles that inspired this week's episode: AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience , via Elizabeth Solomon on The Register New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations vi...
Feb 06, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
