For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style. This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023. You can find the user group here: Our website @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon @awsmelb on Twitter AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn Melbourne Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six ne...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 3
For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well. You can find the user group here: Our website @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon @awsmelb on Twitter AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn L...
Feb 05, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements. Discussed Announcements Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM | AWS Security Blog Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports network reachability analysis across accounts in an AWS ...
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. News Finally in Sydney Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 addit...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 21
Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. News Finally in Sydney AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions Amazo...
Jan 26, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 20
A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft. News Finally in Sydney Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a differ...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 19
After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well. As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks. News Finally in ANZ Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions A...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 18
July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode. News Finally in Sydney Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Bac...
Oct 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 17
The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual. News Finally in Sydney AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions Serverless Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundarie...
Sep 27, 2021•54 min•Ep. 16
Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown. News Finally in Sydney 😢 Serverless Lambda Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 15
Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released. News Finally in Sydney Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions AWS CloudShell is now avai...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 14
Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month. News Finally in Sydney AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (C...
May 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 13
February was a slow month for AWS releases, but Arjen, JM, and Guy did their best to make it fun anyway. Except for those times where Arjen tried to convince everyone to fall asleep to his new podcast. The News The shameless plug Arjen Without Sleep Finally in Sydney AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions Amazon EC2 M5zn ins...
Mar 22, 2021•52 min•Ep. 12
In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation. What's New Finally in Sydney PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul)...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 11
re:Invent arrived, and with it came a lot of announcements. Some meh, some good, some great. In this episode Arjen, Jean-Manuel, Guy, and special guest star Rob will do their best to make sense of it. Or maybe they just make it more confusing? Who knows? Our brains can't really handle the number of announcements. Which is probably also why it took far too long to edit this episode. What's New Finally in ANZ In the Works – AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia | AWS News Blog Amazon EMR now provides...
Jan 27, 2021•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 10
Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode. What's new Finally in Sydney Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS region IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide Meet the newest AWS Heroes in...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 9
In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle". Talk to us in our Slack or on Twitter ! The News Finally in Sydney Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialect Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions AWS IoT SiteWise i...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 8
A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake? The News Finally in ANZ Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 7
Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano The News Finally in Sydney Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferen...
Sep 07, 2020•58 min•Ep. 6
July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all. The News Finally in Sydney AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level Serverless Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog Announcing AWS Serv...
Aug 17, 2020•56 min•Ep. 5
AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts. The News Finally in Sydney ANZ Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East Serverless AWS Lambda support for ...
Jul 06, 2020•49 min•Ep. 4
Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing. The News Finally in Sydney Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in Ohio, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney AWS Regions AWS Inter-...
Jun 15, 2020•52 min•Ep. 3
A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music. The News Finally in Sydney Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peerin...
May 05, 2020•46 min•Ep. 2
In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy. This episode was recorded on the evening of the 27th of March 2020 (Australian time). COVID-19 Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help | AWS News Blog Remote Work & Learning | Amazon Web Services (see the offers section for the extended free tiers) Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: daily updates on how we’re responding to the crisis COVID-19 Global Hac...
Apr 08, 2020•40 min•Ep. 1
