A big raft of updates to start the new year! Chapters: 00:23 Analytics 06:10 Application Integration 08:00 Block Chain 08:42 Business Applications 09:18 Compute 18:42 Cost Management 19:12 Customer Engagement 21:10 Database 23:55 Developer Tools 24:58 End User Computing 25:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 27:58 Internet of Things (IoT) 29:16 Machine Learning 35:57 Management & Governance 39:32 Media Services 40:09 Migration & Transfer 40:48 Network & Content Delivery 41:47 Satellite 42:02 Security, Ide...
Jan 30, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Does your team use feature flags or other dynamic configuration to update your software's behavior during application runtime? In this episode, Simon Elisha speaks with Steve Rice (Principal Product Manager, AWS), Brian Handy (Sr. Software Engineer, AWS), and Vinni Sagar (Technical Product Manager, AWS) about feature flags, Continuous Configuration, and AWS AppConfig. Learn why feature flags are so powerful, and hear how customers (as well as thousands of teams inside Amazon) leverage dynamic co...
Jan 23, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're celebrating the 500th episode of The Official AWS Podcast! Join Simon Elisha, Nicki Stone, Jeff Barr (VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS) Max Peterson (VP of WW Public Sector, AWS) and more as they discuss how the podcast has grown over the years, their favorite episodes, and what's next at AWS. Special thanks from the entire team for your ongoing support. Links: AWS news blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ (Nicki’s favorite episode) #311: Live Audience Update Show from Sydney Summit - ht...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Learn how AWS certified experts and consulting firms are using AWS IQ to connect with customers for architecture consulting and hands-on project work. In this episode, Simon speaks with Emily Garrett (Sr. Product Manager at AWS), and Vik Korrapati (Software Developer at AWS) about the types of projects on AWS IQ, best practices for working with customers, and tips and tricks to close more leads. Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/iq/experts/ Read the user guide: https://go.aws/3HJ2EDI
Jan 09, 2022•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The EXPLORE Data Science Academy (EDSA) is a premier data science academy in South Africa that offers students an intensive one-year training course and provides a fundamental understanding of software development and cloud computing technologies. In this episode, Simon speaks with Clive Charlton (Head of Solution Architecture at AWS) and Shaun Dippnall (CEO & Co-founder of EDSA) about how the academy gives students a competitive edge, and teaches them how to solve real-world problems using the ...
Jan 02, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast How does building in the cloud make it easier to achieve positive security outcomes? What role does security culture play and how can the department of no become the department of yes? In this episode, Simon speaks with Paul Hawkins from the Office of the CISO at AWS, to answer these questions and share how customers can apply these principles to their own organizations. Read the blog - https://go.aws/3Epu6UL Watch the video - https://bit.ly/3HbZE27 AWS Security Blog - https://go.aws/3Eql8XB Wat...
Dec 26, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Why do you need AWS certification? How can you practice the Amazon Leadership Principles through AWS certification? In this episode, Simon is joined by Shailaja Suresh, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS to learn more about how AWS certification can help you grow your career and business. Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
Dec 19, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Accelerating the pace of intelligent automation adoption and new product development without adding new devs is possible with Low Code / No Code solutions. With Low Code / No Code, you can gain development time in multiple ways. One example is reducing your business’s tactical dependence on IT and enabling business users to drive their own digital transformation with drag-and-drop interfaces that abstract the codebase. Meanwhile, a large-scale implementation includes using a software platform to...
Dec 15, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) is poised to transform virtually every industry; however there are currently not enough trained ML developers to meet this demand and far fewer from backgrounds underrepresented in tech. In this episode, Nicki talks with Adriana Gascoigne (CEO and Founder of GirlsInTech) and Maryam Rezapoor (Sr. Product Manager at AWS) about opportunities to close this gap with the AWS AI & ML Scholarship Program in collaboration with Intel and Udacity, best...
Dec 10, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in experimenting with machine learning (ML), but don't know where or how to begin? Now in preview, the new Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab is a free, no-configuration service built to reduce friction when getting started with ML. In this episode, Nicki speaks with Brian Granger, one of the founders of Jupiter Notebooks, about Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, why we built it, and more. Read the blog: https://go.aws/32ZhJSi Learn more: https://go.aws/3dsJgh9 Sign up for to preview: http...
Dec 09, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Nicki talks with Bala Thekkedath (Principal Product Marketing Manager) about AWS Private 5G, the exciting new service now in preview, that helps enterprises set up and scale private 5G mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months. With just a few clicks in the AWS console, customers specify where they want to build a mobile network and the network capacity needed for their devices. Listen to this episode to learn more about the service, when and why you should c...
Dec 08, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast We know it is an important and challenging security best practice to proactively identify software vulnerabilities and unintended network accessibility in our environments so that critical findings can be remediated quickly. In this episode Nicki finds out from three experts, Rick Anthony (General Manager), Kashish Wadhwa (Inspector Product Manager), and Sravan Rengarajan (ECR Product Manager) how the new Amazon Inspector has been rearchitected to make it only a few clicks to deploy and manage a...
Dec 07, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amazon Ads operates its ad serving infrastructure at massive scale, handling hundreds of millions of ad requests per second (trillions of ads per day) within a latency budget of 120 milliseconds. They use machine learning to predict relevant ads to show shoppers, predict whether shoppers will click or purchase, and allocate and price an ad. In this episode, Simon talks with Kun Liu, Director of Machine Learning at Amazon Ads, about how his team uses machine learning running on AWS to score thous...
Dec 06, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is the final day of our coverage of re:Invent 2021! Check out all the announcements here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/ Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/489ExtendedShownotes.html
Dec 02, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Day 3 of our coverage continues! Check out all the announcements here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/ Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/488ExtendedShownotes.html
Dec 01, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Day 2 of our coverage continues with updates from Adam Selipsky's keynote and the Partner Summit. Check out all the announcements here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/ Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/487ExtendedShownotes.html
Nov 30, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast It is here! re:Invent 2021 begins and this is the first of the daily coverage episodes to keep you up-to-date! Check out all the announcements here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/ Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/486ExtendedShownotes.html
Nov 29, 2021•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Intelligent Automation on AWS is for anybody who has ever wanted a better, faster way to accomplish a task. It decreases manual effort across an organization and provides 70 to 90% business process efficiency, on average. Listen to the podcast to learn 3 common approaches to implementing intelligent automation, including: AI-powered assessments into how employees actually work; low code and no code point implementations assembled with minimal need for additional code development; and digital wor...
Nov 24, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon and Nicki guide you through well over 100 updates prior to our re:Invent special episodes. Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 01:27 AWS Marketplace 02:03 Analytics 04:21 Amazon Athena 06:51 Application Integration 07:59 Block Chain 08:24 Business Applicatins 09:45 Compute 20:09 Customer Engagement 23:27 Databases 28:42 Developer Tools 30:42 End User Computing 31:07 Front-end Web & Mobile 33:07 Game Tech 33:37 Internet of Things (I...
Nov 21, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast io2 Block Express is the newest Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume type designed with the scalability and performance to serve many applications that are traditionally on-premises. In this episode, Simon is joined by Ryan Sayre, Senior Storage Specialist focusing on EBS. They discuss where EBS fits into AWS data storage offerings, and how io2 Block Express delivers on the SAN in the Cloud vision. Learn more about io2 Block Express - https://go.aws/3ohJtZt EBS - https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ Amazon...
Nov 14, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast What are AWS Local Zones? How are customers using them for hybrid enterprise migration? Tune in to listen to Nicki chat with Andrew Purdin (Manager, Platform Engineering at MindBody), Ben Diringer (Infrastructure Architect at MindBody), John Bair (System Architect at MindBody), and Pranav Chachra (Sr. Product Manager for AWS Local Zones) about how MindBody is using Local Zones to migrate complex and interdependent on-premises applications to AWS while ensuring a seamless experience for their end...
Nov 07, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in implementing computer vision for your existing cameras, but don’t know where to start? Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone chat with Imran Moin, Head of Product Management for a new service called AWS Panorama. AWS Panorama is a machine learning appliance and software development kit that brings computer vision to on-premises IP cameras, all at the edge so you can make predictions locally with high accuracy and low latency. AWS Panorama – https://go.aws/3nJ8Umm Read the Blog –...
Oct 31, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon takes you through a bumper crop of updates! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 01:00 AWS Marketplace 01:24 Analytics 06:30 Application Integration 07:19 Business Applications 08:15 Compute 11:12 Database 13:10 Developer Tools 14:26 Front-end and Mobile 15:40 Machine Learning 22:36 Management & Governance 27:20 Media Services 27:45 Networking & Content Delivery 28:57 Quantum Technologies 29:43 Robotics 30:20 Security, Identity and ...
Oct 24, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure, supported by AWS. Customers can now run Amazon EKS Anywhere on their own on-premises infrastructure. In this episode, Jackson West (Software Development Manager) and Vipin Mohan (Product Manager) join Simon to discuss customer problems that EKS Anywhere solves and how you can get started with EKS Anywhere. Amazon EKS Anywhere - https://...
Oct 17, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re living in an era of genomics revolution. The remarkable acceleration of sequencing time and a 99.9% decrease in costs are enabling new genomics use cases in healthcare, agriculture, and beyond. But advanced sequencing capabilities are pushing legacy technology to its brink. That’s why genomics experts, like Principal Worldwide Genomics Solutions Specialist Pantea Khodami say cloud is the key to fulfilling genomics’ promise. In the podcast, learn how AWS is doubling down to meet customers’ ...
Oct 13, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Some really interesting and powerful updates in this episode. Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 01:11 Analytics 04:16 Application Integration 07:07 Compute 11:38 Customer Engagement 12:28 Database 14:18 Developer Tools 15:57 Front-end Web & Mobile 17:31 Internet of Things (IoT) 18:57 Machine Learning 19:53 Management & Governance 21:44 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/477ExtendedShownotes.html
Oct 10, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon and Nicki take you through some fun and useful updates! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 01:18 Infrastructure Update 02:12 AWS Marketplace 02:58 Analytics 11:23 Application Integration 11:36 Compute 17:33 Customer Engagement 20:46 Databases 23:48 Developer Tools 27:13 Game Tech 28:19 Internet of Things (IoT) 29:13 Machine Learning 35:00 Management & Governance 39:49 Media Services 40:44 Mobile 41:32 Networking & Content Delivery...
Oct 03, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Launched this week, Amazon Connect's newest machine-learning(ML) features ease the frustrations of customers and contact center agents alike. Listen in as Nicki Stone and Cameron Hissey have a fun and inspired conversation about ML and how it can transform the customer experience. Read the blog - https://go.aws/2Y8ccGG Watch the video - https://bit.ly/2YiOKXB Learn more - https://go.aws/2YmlgrQ
Oct 01, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Quickly deploy a contact center that elevates customer experiences and augments brand loyalty. Today Simon is joined by Jen Walsh Fisher, Director of Partner for Amazon Connect, to talk about her work to provide great customer experiences and the tech that helps along the way. Check out the webinar: https://bit.ly/3i4Cilg Read the eBook: https://bit.ly/3o3jiY3 Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/connect/partners/
Sep 26, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Simon is joined by Clive Charlton, Head of Solution Architecture at AWS, and Ian Lester, CEO of Beyond Technologies - A South African based company with a presence in close to 80 countries around the globe. Today we will learn how Beyond is using the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technologies to remotely monitor temperatures in the vaccine supply chain, to ensure the efficacy of vaccines administered to patients. You can watch their customer video as well as more South African custome...
Sep 19, 2021•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
