Your AI is only as good as the data its trained on. In this episode we talk to Krishna Subramaniam, Co-Founder and President of Komprise, a provider of intelligent Data Management. We discuss both the importance and challenge of unlocking the value unstructured data for AI pipelines. For more info on Komprise’s Intelligent Data Management Platform: www.komprise.com AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com...
Feb 13, 2025•21 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast "2025 is the year of inference." Todd Pond, AWS Director of Strategic Sales, is out in the field with commercial customers every day, helping them leverage technology to solve their biggest problems, accelerate innovation and transform their businesses with AI. He and his team have a deep understanding of these companies - the challenges they're up against, their limited resources, their unique value propositions, and how to enable their growth with maximum ROI. In this episode, we are happy to ...
Jan 29, 2025•28 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy Business Development Ben Schreiner for a recap of re:Invent 2024. Ben share his top 5 themes from the conference as well as what surprised him in 2024 and what he thinks lies ahead in tech in 2025. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Top Announcements from re:Invent 2024: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2024/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/aws-reinvent-2024-highlights-top-takeaways-from...
Dec 20, 2024•41 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun joins us to discuss VPNs, network connectivity and security in the cloud era. We talk about hub & spoke vs full mesh networks as well current and future trends in networking. Avery also talks about how Tailscale’s approach to networking helps make setting up secure networks between devices and the cloud easier than before. For more info on Tailscale check out: tailscale.com AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback:&...
Nov 18, 2024•29 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Nov 04, 2024•17 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast In this AWS re:Think Podcast episode, Rahul Bhargava reveals how Crop.photo by Evolphin is revolutionizing e-commerce visuals with AI magic. Discover how smart cropping and background generation are transforming product images from mundane to magnificent. Rahul discusses the technology behind Crop.photo's ability to enhance online stores, from fashion to furniture, creating eye-catching digital storefronts. Tune in for an exciting glimpse into the future of Gen AI-driven bulk image editing that'...
Oct 18, 2024•18 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, financial operations (FinOps) has emerged as a critical discipline for organizations looking to optimize their cloud spending and mitigate financial risks. In this episode of the AWS re:Think podcast, we dive deep into the latest advancements in the FinOps space, exploring how organizations can navigate the financial complexities of cloud deployment and management. Joining us is Aran Khanna, the Co-founder and CEO of Archera.ai, a leading provide...
Oct 15, 2024•30 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Companies now have a wide array of choices when it comes to Large Language Models. In this episode we talk to Ivan Lee, CEO of datasaur.ai about choosing the right LLM for your AI projects. We discuss open source vs proprietary models and the metrics for evaluating these models. We also cover Small Language Models as well and when to use more specialized vs general purpose models. Datasaur: https://datasaur.ai/ LLM Labs from Datasaur: https://datasaur.ai/llm/home AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Mali...
Sep 03, 2024•27 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Companies need to provide real time insights to both customers and internal users. These insights power use cases such as personalization and fraud detection. StarTree Cloud is a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Pinot for building such applications that depend on real time insights. In this episode we meet with Chinmay Soman, Head of Product at Startree.ai to discuss the different dimensions of real-time analytics and how Apache Pinot and StarTree Cloud offer a robust platform for pr...
Aug 20, 2024•43 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Today we join Maria Khalusova, Staff Developer Advocate with Unstructured.IO, to discuss how companies can unlock their Unstructured Data to deliver better results from their Large Language Models. We talk about how Unstructured Data can enhance the performance of RAG applications, RAG vs Fine Tuning, data Chunking, Multi-Modal models and more. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Unstructured Enterprise Platform beta signup: https://unstructured.io/platform Embedding models...
Jul 02, 2024•33 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, we explore with Dr. Alok Aggarwal, CEO and Chief Data Scientist at Scry AI. about the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence. He traces the evolution of AI from its early beginnings in the 1950s to its current state, marked by rapid advancements and the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution. We listen to the story behind Scry AI. and how we explore the world of generative AI. If you are interested to learn more about his book " The Fourth Industrial...
Jun 13, 2024•41 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast episode, we delve into the crucial topic of security related to AI and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on Generative AI. As AI and ML technologies rapidly advance, it is imperative to implement a robust security strategy based on the principle of Defense in Depth. We'll explore the potential security and privacy risks associated with AI/ML systems, highlighting the importance of Responsible AI practices. Additionally, we'll discuss practical approaches to implementing s...
Jun 07, 2024•21 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast The amount of streaming data for Observability continues to grow exponentially from GBs to TBs daily. Join Edge Delta’s CEO Ozan Unlu as we discuss how their AI Observability Platform can deliver more Sustainable Observability, and why the needs of different size data volumes from different industries requires us to rethink Observability architecture in the Cloud. Ozan also offers valuable career advice for fast changing times. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedba...
May 28, 2024•31 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Many companies are sampling away data and collecting only trends. Join Axiom’s Chief Extrovert Kendall Miller as he explains why sampling your data can disrespect your individual users. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Kendall Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallamiller/ Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com...
May 20, 2024•29 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we are joined by one of our AWS customers, Mixbook with DJ Charles, CTO and David Newhoff, CPO to share how they are leveraging generative AI to empower creativity and deepen human connection by unlocking the future of storytelling. Join us to hear how Mixbook took an idea from concept to production to empower their end-user’s creativity with AI-driven recommendations for images, backgrounds, stickers, captions, and more. Try out the app: https://www.mixbook.com/ AWS Hosts: Nolan...
Apr 10, 2024•21 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we join AWS Solutions Architects, Krishna Adettiwar and Eric Kiesow, to discuss how leveraging a multi-account strategy can help you protect your workloads, increase pace of innovation, and give you more cost visibility. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com Visit these resources to get started with the multi-account strategy: Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts (AWS Whitepaper) - https://docs.aws.amazon....
Feb 29, 2024•11 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we meet with Matthew McClean, a Sr Manager from AWS's Annapurna Team to talk about Accelerators - the chips that make AI possible. We cover different Accelerators - GPUs, Trainium, Inferentia, Graviton and more. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com Links for the Show: AWS re:Invent 2023 - Behind-the-scenes look at generative AI infrastructure at Amazon (CMP206) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDk09hms8s8 AWS re:Invent 2023 -...
Feb 01, 2024•29 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Many of the challenges we see that customers experience on their cloud journey are non-technical. Leveraging your AWS Account team and our vast AWS Partner Ecosystem can help, but AWS also offers programs like Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA). EBA is a transformation methodology using hands-on agile, immersive interactions that build cloud capability and accelerate business value from cloud adoption. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com ...
Dec 20, 2023•27 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast HPC is more than just high performance computing. It’s also high performance storage and networking. In this episode we discuss how HPC is used to solve important problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Genomics, Medicine, AI and more. We also talk about how AWS services such as ParallelCluster, EFA and FSx for Lustre make it easier to deploy high performance workloads in the cloud. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.c om HPC on...
Dec 18, 2023•51 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS Business Innovation leader Ben Schreiner for a recap of re:Invent 2023. We cover major announcements and innovations in infrastructure, data analytics and generative AI. AWS services discussed include S3 Express One Zone, Graviton 4, Bedrock, Amazon Q, Zero ETL and more! AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Further reference - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-reinvent-2023-announcements Top announcements - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-o...
Dec 13, 2023•39 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we join AWS Solutions Architect Vihang Shah to talk about strategies to optimize costs and performance with AWS Lambda. We will share insights into real world scenarios and provide actionable tips to strike a balance between performance efficiency and cost savings in the realm of Serverless computing. Its time to optimize your Serverless journey with AWS Lambda! AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com Links for the show: ...
Dec 11, 2023•18 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast We join AWS Principal Networking Specialist and author James Devine to talk about building Wide Area Networks In the Cloud. We begin by covering the basics of WANs. We then talk about MPLS, VPNs and SD-WAN. We also cover AWS services for building WANs such as CloudWAN, Transit Gateway, SiteLink and more. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com Links for the show: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/bu...
Dec 07, 2023•22 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast "We are enabling a much wider adoption of playing-field-leveling technology." Todd Pond, AWS Director of Strategic Sales, is out in the field with commercial customers every day, helping them leverage technology to solve their biggest problems, accelerate innovation and transform their businesses. He and his team have a deep understanding of these companies - the challenges they're up against, their limited resources, their unique value propositions, and how to enable their growth with maximum R...
Nov 15, 2023•26 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we are joined by AWS Developer Advocate and longtime networking professional Brandon Carroll to discuss how computer networking has evolved over the years, not just for companies but for networking professionals as well. We talk about the challenges of deploying, monitoring and securing networks both on-prem and in the cloud. Brandon also shares thoughts on what it would take for young people to dive into computer networking today and in the future. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Ma...
Nov 02, 2023•32 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS Go To Market leader Tim Henderson as he introduces us to Amazon's Graviton processor. Learn how Graviton is able to deliver better performance with less cost. We also discuss the types of cloud workloads that are best suited for running on Graviton. We conclude with resources to help you get started with Graviton: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/fast-start/ https://github.com/aws/porting-advisor-for-graviton AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkp...
Oct 30, 2023•25 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we join AWS Sr SA Lavanya Bandari to talk about how customers can get ready for Generative AI. We talk about common use cases for Gen AI, and how they can now be easily deployed with Amazon Bedrock. We also discuss when fine tuning of Large Language Models is needed. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email Your Feedback: rethinkpodcast@amazon.com
Oct 16, 2023•23 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast What is Data Monetization? Why is it critical to think about data monetization in the context of business strategy? In this episode we join AWS Sr Solution Architects Priyanka Sadhu and Robert Daly to talk about the basics of data monetization. We discuss how it can be used with associated processes to generate measurable business value and cover some of the best practices to get started. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email your feedback! rethinkpodcast@amazon.com...
Oct 12, 2023•15 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS Sr Solutions Architect Rohan Phadke for a conversation on optimizing storage costs in the cloud. When using cloud storage, it is important to take control of your costs and optimize your spend while building modern, scalable applications. In this podcast, learn about different strategies to optimize costs when using cloud based storage solutions. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee
Oct 09, 2023•14 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we join AWS SAs Krati Singh and Patrick Duffy to discuss approaches to securing your workloads in the Cloud. We cover the Shared Responsibility Model, Identity & Access Management and Infrastructure & Data Protection. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email us your feedback! rethinkpodcast@amazon.com
Sep 25, 2023•22 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Do you know AIOps? Would you like to better automate your IT Operations? Join AWS SAs Mohit Gadkari and Archana Ambavane as they talk about how AI/ML services can be leveraged to add additional intelligence to parse through all the noise and surface only the appropriate signals from your IT Operations. AWS Hosts: Nolan Chen & Malini Chatterjee Email us your feedback! rethinkpodcast@amazon.com
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