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Ep. 502 - January 2022 Update Show
January 30, 2021The Official AWS Podcast
The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Nicki Stone for regular updates, deep dives and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the AWS Podcast has something for you.-
Ep. 502 - January 2022 Update Show
January 30, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
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, Identity and Compliance 43:00 Storage
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Ep. 501 - Using AWS AppConfig
January 23, 2021#Default- Speakers: Simon Elisha Steve Rice Brian Handy Vinni Sagar
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 configuration to make software changes safely.
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Ep. 500 - 500th Episode Extravaganza!
January 16, 2022#Default- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone Jeff Barr Max Peterson Jenn Godwin Simone Brunozzi
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.
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Ep. 499 - AWS IQ for Experts
January 09, 2022#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Emily Garrett Vik Korrapati
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.
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Ep. 498 - [African Stories #2] EXPLORE Data Science Academy
January 02, 2022#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Clive Charlton Shaun Dippnall
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 latest emerging data science technologies.Learn more about the AWS Africa Region | Visit the EDSA website
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Ep. 497 - Enabling Business Through Security
December 26, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Paul Hawkins
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.
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Ep. 496 - Amazon's Certification Flywheel
December 20, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Shailaja Suresh
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.
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Ep. 495 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 13 - Low Code / No Code Solutions
December 15, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Katie Doptis Madhu Raman
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 assemble and deploy solutions with minimal or no need for additional code. In this episode, Katie speaks with Madhu Raman, AWS Worldwide Head of Intelligent Automation, to learn about current Low Code / No Code implementations and future possibilities.
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Ep. 494 - [INTRODUCING] The AWS AI and ML Scholarship Program with Special Guest Adriana Gascoigne
December 10, 2019#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Adriana Gascoigne Maryam Rezapoor
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 practices within the space, and more.
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Ep. 493 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab
December 09, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Brian Granger
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.
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Ep. 492 - [INTRODUCING] AWS Private 5G
December 08, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Bala Thekkedath
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 consider a private 5G network, and how to sign up for a preview.
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Ep. 491 - [INTRODUCING] The New Amazon Inspector
December 07, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Rick Anthony Kashish Wadhwa Sravan Rengarajan
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 vulnerability management solution that continually scans your Amazon EC2 instances and container images residing in Amazon ECR to find vulnerabilities in near real-time. They also discuss how easy it is to operationalize and automate the findings to reduce the mean time to remediate critical vulnerabilities.
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Ep. 490 - How Amazon Ads Run Machine Learning at Scale
December 07, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Kun Liu
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 thousands of ads per request within a 20ms window at over 100K transactions per second, all across hundreds of models that each required different hardware and software optimizations.
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Ep. 489 - re:Invent Werner Vogels Keynote 2021
December 02, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
This is the final day of our coverage of re:Invent 2021!
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Ep. 488 - re:Invent Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote 2021
December 01, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Day 3 of our coverage continues!
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Ep. 487 - re:Invent Adam Selipsky Keynote and Global Partner Summit 2021
November 30, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Day 2 of our re:Invent coverage continues with updates from Adam Selipsky's keynote and the Partner Summit.
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Ep. 486 - Midnight Madness 2021
November 29, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
It is here! re:Invent 2021 begins and this is the first of the daily coverage episodes to keep you up-to-date!
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Ep. 485 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 12 - Intelligent Automation
November 24, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Madhu Raman
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 workers that can be deployed to provide an automated team member that carries out a specific business process.
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Ep. 484 - November Update Show 1
November 22, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki guide you through well over 100 updates prior to our re:Invent special episodes. 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 (IoT) 34:47 Machine Learning 40:50 Management & Governance 44:31 Media Services 45:29 Migration & Transfer 46:18 Networking & Content Delivery 48:29 Security, Identity and Compliance 49:47 Storage
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Ep. 483 - Exploring EBS io2 Block Express
November 15, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ryan Sayre
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.
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Ep. 482 - [INTRODUCING] AWS Local Zones
November 08, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Andrew Purdin Ben Diringer John Bair Pranav Chachra
What are AWS Local Zones? How are customers using them for hybrid enterprise migration? Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone (Sr. Software Engineer at AWS) 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-users.
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Ep. 481 - [INTRODUCING] AWS Panorama
November 01, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Imran Moin
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.
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Ep. 480 - October 2021 Update Show 3
October 24, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through a bumper crop of updates! Remember you can record feedback at the link below and potentially be included in our 500th episode! 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 Compliance 31:34
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Ep. 479 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon EKS Anywhere
October 17, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jackson West Vipin Mohan
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.
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Ep. 478 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 11 - Why AWS for Genomics?
October 13, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Dotis Pantea Khodami
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’ genomics needs. Plus, hear how AstraZenca and Lifebit are leveraging AWS to fast-track discovery and innovation.
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Ep. 477 - October 2021 Update Show 2
October 10, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Some really interesting and powerful updates in this episode. Remember you can record feedback at the link below, to potentially be featured in our 500th episode! 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
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Ep. 476 - October 2021 Update Show 1
October 04, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through some fun and useful updates. Remember you can upload a message at the link below and it might be included in our special 500th episode! 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 42:14 Quantum Technology 43:21 Robotics 43:49 Satellite 44:41 Security, Identity and Compliance 46:57 Storage 47:36 Startups
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Ep. 475 - [INTRODUCING] New Amazon Connect Features - Making Life Easier for Customers and Agents
October 01, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Nicki Stone Cameron Hissey
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.
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Ep. 474 - [Amazon Connect #5] Reimagine the Customer Experience
September 27, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jen Walsh Fisher
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.
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Ep. 473 - [African Stories #1] Beyond Technologies
September 20, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Clive Charlton Ian Lester
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.
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Ep. 472 - September 2021 Update Show 1
September 12, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Check out this week's latest updates! Remember you can record feedback at https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL
Chapters: 00:34 Analytics 01:37 Application Integration 02:23 Compute 06:19 Databases 09:09 End User Computing 09:55 Internet of Things (IoT) 11:45 Machine Learning 15:35 Management & Governance 17:31 Media Services 17:59 Migration & Transfer 19:44 Networking & Content Delivery 21:37 Security, Identity and Compliance 24:30 Storage
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Ep. 471 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 10 - Business Transformation with AWS Solutions
September 06, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Joe Chung
Business transformation can be a loaded phrase. But the term is fitting to describe the bold vision customers are sharing with us about advancing capabilities and re-inventing business models. B2B companies are exploring direct-to-consumer; every organization is seeking to create new and better products; and businesses across industries are implementing video to re-image customer experiences. AWS and Partner Solutions are created to meet these kinds of customer goals. Solutions are designed to accelerate your time to value when undergoing a business transformation. Listen to the podcast to learn why customers like Formula 1 and Volkswagen are deploying solutions. Plus, get best practice guidance from Joe Chung, Worldwide Director of Solutions Go-To-Market, on how to approach your own transformation.
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Ep. 470 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
September 02, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Peter Imming Ian Mc Garry
What’s the shortest path between a storage request and your application? Find out with our new Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points. By factoring network congestion and location, it dynamically routes requests to the lowest latency copy of your data, improving performance by up to 60%. Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone, Sr. Software Engineer chat with Peter Imming, Sr. Product Manager, and Ian Mc Garry, Sr. Software Development Manager talk about this new launch that allows you to take advantage of the global infrastructure of AWS while maintaining a simple application architecture for your storage.
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Ep. 469 - August 2021 Update Show 2
August 29, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
A bumper set of updates this week! Chapters 00:44 AWS Marketplace 01:22 Analytics 06:43Application Integration 07:55 Business Applications 08:26 Compute 14:09 Cost Management 14:54 Customer Engagement 16:28 Databases 20:25 Developer Tools 23:26 End User Computing 24:29 Game Tech 24:41 Internet of Things (IoT) 26:32 Machine Learning 33:02 Management & Governance 38:07 Media Services 38:38 Migration & Transfer 40:20 Mobile 41:12 Networking & Content Delivery 42:02 Security, Identity and Compliance 42:50 Storage 44:11
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Ep. 468 - [Amazon Connect #4] Anticipatory Customer Service with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
August 22, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Shalesa Charron
Explore the power of AI and ML to deliver real-time customer insights that help you deliver better experiences. The ability to anticipate and respond to customer needs in real-time can be a game-changer in helping businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences. Shalesa Charron, Principle Partner Development Specialist at Amazon Connect, shares how the latest Amazon Connect innovations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning deliver personalized and dynamic customer interactions.
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Ep. 467 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
August 19, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone Zach Gardner
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is the newest fully managed database service from AWS. Today, Nikki is joined by Zach Gardner, Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, to introduce this new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service. Learn why we built MemoryDB and dive into benefits, use cases, and how you can achieve microsecond read latency, single-digit millisecond write latency, and Multi-AZ durability for modern applications with microservices architectures.
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Ep. 466 - Managing the cloud environment with AWS Organizations
August 15, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Andrew Blackham
In the 2020 re:Invent security keynote, the #1 recommendation for customers to secure their environment was to use AWS Organizations. In this episode, Simon will discuss why with Andrew Blackham, Product Manager at AWS. They'll review why you should consider using multiple accounts and what features AWS Organizations provides customers to centrally manage their environment. They'll also touch on security best practices, multi-account features from AWS services, and how you can get started building your multi-account environment.
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Ep. 465 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 9 - Managing clinical trials data
August 11, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Drew Garty
The life sciences industry met the world’s need for Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year. Technology aided the outcome, but dedicated people were at the center and the tremendous level of effort needed is not sustainable. Still, now that the industry knows what’s possible, the question is how to reach the same high watermark. One area of focus is managing clinical trials data in the cloud, which can reduce R&D costs and accelerate scientific discovery. Listen to the podcast to hear emerging best practices regarding clinical trials data management from Drew Garty, CTO of Veeva Vault Clinical Data Management Suite. Veeva is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry and is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner.
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Ep. 464 - Diving deep into Amazon MWAA
August 08, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha John Jackson
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud. Today Simon is joined by John Jackson, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to learn all about this recently launched service. They dig into the benefits of Amazon MWAA, why the team built the service, how it fits in with other AWS services, and the commitment to open source.
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Ep. 463 - August 2021 Update Show 1
August 01, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon is on lockdown, but the show goes on! Chapters: 00:42 AWS Marketplace 01:21 Analytics 06:13 Application Integration 06:52 Block Chain 07:53 Compute 13:05 Customer Engagement 14:04 Database 16:04 Developer Tools 17:37 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:57 Machine Learning 24:06 Management & Governance 26:42 Networking & Content Delivery 26:58 Robotics 27:53 Security, Identity and Compliance 28:39 Solutions 29:21 Storage 32:03 Training & Certification
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Ep. 462 - [Amazon Connect #3] Adapting quickly to deliver exceptional customer experiences
July 26, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Shalesa Charron
Organizations of every size have had to pivot quickly to keep up and adapt to the changes carried over from 2020, and that need is particularly important to small and medium-sized organizations. Join Shalesa Charron, Principal Partner Development Specialist at Amazon Connect, as she shares how an omnichannel cloud contact center can improve experiences for customers, agents, and managers alike.
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Ep. 461 - July 2021 Update Show 2
July 19, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Some interesting riffing on Development in this week's update show! Chapters 00:46 Analytics 01:24 Application Integration 04:05 Business Applications 05:08 Compute 05:24 Databases 05:45 Developer Tools 06:18 End User Computing 07:01 Machine Learning 07:47 Management & Governance 10:04 Front-end & Mobile 11:56 Networking & Content Delivery 13:24 Security, Identity and Compliance 14:52 Storage 16:10 - The after show topics: 16:24 - Nicki's development environment 19:54 - Nicki's approach to development 23:06 - Nicki's comments in commits 30:45 - Addressing writer's block and rubber duck debugging!
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Ep. 460 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon HealthLake
July 15, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone Satadal Bhattacharjee
Now available, Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service offering healthcare and life sciences companies a complete view of individual or patient population health data for query and analytics at scale to personalize medical care. Tune in to listen to Satadal Bhattacharjee, Sr Manager of Product Management for Health AI, share how Amazon HealthLake is helping health organization unlock insights from their health data to improve care and reduce costs.
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Ep. 459 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 8 - Shifting toward modernization
July 14, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Steve Peacock
Last year, customers were driven to the cloud to save costs. While cost reduction is always a priority, the intensity to decrease spend reflected worldwide uncertainty. Today, a shift is emerging. There’s a renewed focus toward future growth and modernizing applications to scale and gain new capabilities across the business – from modern databases to leveraging cloud for security posture improvement. Principal Migration Advisor Steve Peacock explains what he’s seeing and offers best practices to thoughtfully modernize your business.
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Ep. 458 - July 2021 Update Show 1
July 12, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Lots of new things! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at the link below. Chapters: 01:20 Analytics 06:44 Application Integration 07:25 Compute 13:30 Customer Engagement 14:16 Databases 18:56 Developer Tools 21:32 End User Computing 22:12 Game Tech 23:22 Internet of Things (IoT) 23:45 Machine Learning 28:57 Management & Governance 35:55 Media Services 37:54 Migration & Transfer 38:33 Front-end & Mobile 39:24 Networking & Content Delivery 40:54 Security, Identity and Compliance 43:48 Storage
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Ep. 457 - [INTRODUCING] AWS BugBust
July 05, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Nicki Stone Alex Bush Vishnu Parimi
Today Nicki is joined by Alex Bush, Head of AI Services and Vishnu Parimi, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to learn about AWS BugBust, the world’s first global competition for Java and Python developers to collectively fix 1 million bugs. They discuss how AWS BugBust provides an easy and fun solution to transform bug bashes, foster team building, and bring friendly competition to improve code quality and application performance. Listen in to learn how you can join the mission to exterminate 1 million bugs.
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Ep. 456 - Data Architectures with AWS Hero Elliott Cordo
June 27, 2021#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Elliott Cordo
AWS Data Hero and Head of Data at Capsule, Elliott Cordo, has built many ground-up data architectures over the years. Simon speaks to Elliott about his eight years of experience with Amazon Redshift, including recent innovations he's excited about and what's on his Amazon Redshift wishlist. Simon and Elliott also discuss making sense of trends in data, integrating ML in your data environment, and the value of being part of a technical community.
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Ep. 455 - June 2021 Update Show 2
June 20, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
More updates this week! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at the link below and we'd love to hear from you. Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 03:45 Application Integration 07:07 Block Chain 08:09 Compute 09:47 EKS 11:04 Cost Management 11:48 Databases 15:17 Developer Tools 16:40 Front-end Web & Mobile 18:61 Game Tech 19:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:48 Machine Learning 25:41 Management & Governance 29:34 Networking & Content Delivery 30:33 Security, Identity and Compliance 32:32 Storage
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Ep. 454 - [Amazon Connect #2] Improving the Agent Experience
June 13, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Kentis Gopalla
Information is the key to empowering contact-center agents to consistently anticipate and resolve customer issues. Their success is your company’s success. Join Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, as he shares the new ways you can ensure your agents have the right information at the right time to keep customers satisfied and loyal.
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Ep. 453 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon ECS Anywhere
June 11, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone Nathan Peck
Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new extension of Amazon ECS, enables customers to now run and manage container-based applications on their customer-managed infrastructure using the same APIs, cluster management, workload scheduling, monitoring, and deployment pipelines they use with ECS in AWS. In this episode, Senior Developer Advocate Nathan Peck (@nathankpeck on Twitter) discusses how to set up and get started with ECS Anywhere, as well as common benefits and use cases.
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Ep. 452 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 7 - Top media and entertainment use cases and purpose-built AWS Solutions
June 10, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Alyson Stewart
Change is underway in media and entertainment and new AWS Solutions were designed to meet new customer needs. Content producers want to be able to create anything from wherever they are, seamlessly collaborating despite physical distance. And the ability to reduce manual effort from content analysis workflows with AI / ML solutions is saving money, providing new revenue opportunities, and giving back precious time. Hear about the purpose-built AWS Services and Solutions customers like Discovery and FOX are leveraging to improve their businesses and end-user experiences.
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Ep. 451 - June 2021 Update Show 1
June 06, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Lots of great updates, a new book, and listener feedback! Chapters: 00:33 Listener Feedback - Bob Haftner 01:11 New book - Data Science on AWS - Chris Fregly & Antje Barth 02:10 Analytics 08:13 Application Integration 10:27 Business Applications 10:54 Compute 15:46 Cost Management 16:18 Customer Engagement 17:04 Database 20:17 Developer Tools 21:29 End User Compuiting 21:41 Game Tech 21:55 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:15 Machine Learning 30:52 Management & Governance 36:56 Media Services 37:57 Migration & Transfer 39:50 Mobile 40:26 Networking & Content Delivery 40:55 Quantum Technology 41:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 42:40 Storage 44:20 Training & Certification 44:45 Support
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Ep. 450 - Optimizing Vaccine Distribution with AWS
May 31, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jim Daniel
Amidst the COVID 19 pandemic, the US state and local technology infrastructure has never been more critical. These systems – most notably call centers, electronic lab reporting (ELR) systems and disease surveillance systems – are under extreme pressure as public health organizations work to track, report, and share information on COVID-19 cases. Today Simon is joined by Jim Daniel, Public Health Lead, State and Local Government here at Amazon Web Services, to learn all about the current state of public health in the US. They dive into the challenges faced, what was done to help, lessons learned, and how the cloud can support modernization of immunization information systems.
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Ep. 449 - [INTRODUCING] AWS App Runner
May 25, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Simon Elisha Akshay Ram
AWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that makes it easier and faster for customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs with just a few clicks, no infrastructure or containers experience required. Today, Simon is joined by Akshay Ram, Product Manager of App Runner, to learn all about this recently launched service. They dig into the benefits and use cases of App Runner, why the team built the service, the workloads it can be used for, AWS Copilot support for the service, and how you can get started.
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Ep. 448 - AWS Copilot: Modern Applications CLI
May 23, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sravan Rengarajan
Want to eliminate the heavy lifting of setting up infrastructure and deploying containerized applications to multiple environments? In this episode, AWS Product Manager Sravan Rengarajan (@Sravan_R_ on Twitter) will describe how the AWS Copilot CLI lets you build, deploy, and manage your containerized applications with a simple, well-organized set of commands. Then you can focus on application development while the CLI handles nuances of how AWS services integrate and manages all the steps required to deploy a container to the cloud!
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Ep. 447 - [INTRODUCING] Incident Manager
May 19, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Oren Nachman David Cliffe
Good surprise? Your friends jumping out with cake on your birthday. Bad surprise? Your application is down. Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone, Sr. Software Engineer chat with Dave Cliffe, Sr. Product Manager and Oren Nachman, Sr. Development Manager about AWS Systems Manager's newest capability: Incident Manager. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together, so you can get back to that surprise birthday party.
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Ep. 446 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon Nimble Studio
May 18, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone Jay Maglione
In this episode, Jay Maglione, Sr. Product Manager, Content Production Tech at AWS, joins Nicki Stone to talk about a new AWS service that recently launched: Amazon Nimble Studio. Jay and Nicki discuss how Nimble Studio will help creative professionals produce high-fidelity content for films, episodics, or commercials. They also discuss the challenges that digital content creation studios face today, and agree that Frozen is an all-time great animated film.
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Ep. 445 - [Amazon Connect #1] Redefining the Customer Experience
May 17, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Kentis Gopalla
Post-pandemic customers have come to expect a new level of omnichannel contact-center experience. Hear the latest breakthrough thinking from Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, on how you can quickly reimagine your contact center for seamless and scalable omnichannel customer experiences.
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Ep. 444 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon DevOps Guru
May 14, 2021#Launch- Speakers: Nicki Stone Jacob Sullivan
Amazon DevOps Guru is a Machine Learning powered service that makes it easy to improve an application’s operational performance and availability. Today Nicki is joined by Jacob Sullivan, Sr. Manager, Product Management at AWS, to learn about this service that recently became available. They discuss the challenges customers face with CloudOps, how DevOps Guru leverages machine learning to identify anomalous application behavior and how customers can get started.
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Ep. 443 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 6 - Life Sciences
May 13, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Patrick Buckner
The future of life sciences is personal. Personalized medicine will mean treatments specifically calibrated for you, and your health needs. To accelerate toward that reality, the life sciences industry is undergoing digital transformation across its entire value chain. Listen to the podcast where we examine 3 top industry use cases (digital lab operations, manufacturing operational analytics, and transferring and storing genomics data) and the AWS Solutions that are helping customers like Celgene, Merck, and Moderna tackle their biggest challenges.
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Ep. 442 - May 2021 Update Show 1
May 09, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through some really useful updates! Chapters: 01:55 AWS Marketplace 02:43 Analytics 09:55 Application Integration 11:37 Business Applications 12:41 Compute 17:33 Cost Management 18:13 Customer Engagement 18:45 Database 20:29 Developer Tools 23:43 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:05 Machine Learning 27:27 Management & Governance 31:15 Media Services 32:59 Networking & Content Delivery 33:28 Robotics 34:26 Satellite 35:13 Security, Identity and Compliance 36:33 Solutions 37:52 Storage
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Ep. 441 - [INTRODUCING] AQUA for Amazon Redshift
May 04, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Nicki Stone Andy Caldwell
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses by automatically boosting certain operations. Join Nicki and Andy Caldwell, Sr. Principal Engineer for Redshift, to learn about AQUA, the use cases it accelerates most, and how to take advantage.
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Ep. 440 - Blockchain Use Cases in Enterprise IT
May 03, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Armin Nehzat Maggie Hsu
Blockchain increases supply chain transparency by enabling decentralized, trusted supply chains. Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public blockchain networks or create and manage scalable private blockchain networks. Nestle, the world’s largest food & beverage company, is using Amazon Managed Blockchain to power its Chain of Origin business, which tracks single origin coffee from farm to customer. Today, Simon is joined by Nestle’s Digital Technology Director Armin Nehzat, who shares how Nestle conceived of Chain of Origin and the unique value proposition it brings. You’ll also hear from the Worldwide Go-to-Market Specialist for Amazon Managed Blockchain, Maggie Hsu, on key features of the Managed Blockchain service and what’s to come.
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Ep. 439 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon FSx File Gateway
April 28, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Nicki Stone Laz Vekiarides Dave Stauffacher
Looking for fast, efficient low-latency access to cloud storage? Nicki speaks with Laz Vekiarides (Principal Product Manager, AWS Storage Gateway - File Gateway) and Dave Stauffacher (AWS Community Hero) about how customers can optimize their on-premises file-based workloads using Amazon FSx File Gateway, the newest gateway type in the AWS Storage Gateway portfolio.
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Ep. 438 - April 2021 Update Show 1
April 25, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes a walk through the latest updates! Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 09:20 Application Integration 10:50 Compute 15:57 Cost Management 16:48 Customer Engagement 17:53 Database 20:34 Developer Tools 23:10 End User Computing 25:58 Game Tech 26:38 Internet of Things (IoT) 27:39 Machine Learning 36:10 Management & Governance 42:10 Media Services 43:32 Mobile 45:25 Networking & Content Delivery 49:46 Robotics 50:13 Satellite 50:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 52:41 Storage
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Ep. 437 - A Day in the Life of an SA
April 18, 2021#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Dan Friebe Tulsi Garg Laura Hyatt Gigi Boehringer
What does a day in the life of a Solution Architect look like at AWS? Simon speaks with four SA’s from around the globe to discuss exactly that, and takes a look at how they go about assisting their customers with interesting challenges. We have also included some fun bonus content at the end, so be sure to tune in. Have a question about solution architecture? Submit it via audio here and Simon might answer it in the next Update Show!
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Ep. 436 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 5 - Amazon Connect
April 11, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Cameron Hissey
Projects are often classified as cost-cutting measures or innovation initiatives that improve customer experiences. But cloud contact center service Amazon Connect is shifting that either-or mentality. With out of the box AI / ML capabilities, Amazon Connect is being leveraged by customers across industries to reach people in new ways. And the customer experience improvements are coupled with up to 80% savings compared to legacy systems. Listen to podcast and learn how customers as disparate as Intuit and Los Angeles County are gaining business benefits with Amazon Connect.
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Ep. 435 - Diving into Amazon Macie
April 05, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ryan Holland
Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. Today, Simon is joined by Ryan Holland, Principal, Industry Specialist, to discuss the importance of sensitive data visibility, the customer feedback that drove the rearchitecture of Macie, and what actions can be automated when sensitive data is identified. This podcast also explores best practices for builders and security experts for inventorying, categorizing, and protecting your data across your Amazon S3 buckets.
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Ep. 434 - March 2021 Update Show 3
March 28, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes a walk through the latest updates! Chapters 00:24 Analytics 05:04 Block Chain 05:33 Compute 11:12 Cost Management 11:38 Customer Engagement 12:10 Database 16:17 Developer Tools 18:19 End User Computing 18:41 Game Tech 19:25 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:55 Machine Learning 22:25 Management & Governance 23:46 Media Services 25:41 Mobile 26:34 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:32 Storage
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Ep. 433 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon EFS One Zone
March 23, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sarwar Raza
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), is a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage. Today, Nicki is joined by Sarwar Raza, Senior Manager here at Amazon, to learn about Amazon EFS One Zone storage classes. They explore what Amazon EFS One Zone is, who it’s for, use cases, and how to reduce storage costs by 47% compared to Amazon EFS Standard storage classes, while getting the same features and benefits.
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Ep. 432 - Lightsail Containers
March 21, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sisira Narayana
Amazon Lightsail is a great way to get started on AWS and recently released a Containers service. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the AWS' new, easy-to-use containers service and how it differs from other AWS Container services. They dig into the benefits of Lightsail containers, who should use it, and why the team built it.
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Ep. 431 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon Lookout for Vision
March 16, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Anant Patel
Amazon Lookout for Vision is a new machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations using computer vision (CV). Today Simon is joined by Anant Patel, Sr. Program Manager at AWS, to learn about this service that recently became generally available. They discuss the benefits of Amazon Lookout for Vision, who it’s for, and the kinds of challenges it can solve for industrial and manufacturing customers.
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Ep. 430 - March 2021 Update Show 2
March 14, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki share lots of cool new things! Chapters 00:31 The Alexa Customer Experience 01:48 Innovation Ambassadors Podcast 02:53 Infrastructure 03:46 Analytics 04:27 Application Integration 05:56 Block Chain 07:10 Compute 09:11 Customer Engagement 10:04 Developer Tools 10:26 Internet of Things (IoT) 12:49 Machine Learning 15:08 Management & Governance 17:17 Networking & Content Delivery 18:00 Security, Identity and Compliance 22:05 Conclusion 22:26 Nicki's Launch Podcast program
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Ep. 429 - [Right Now at AWS] Episode 4 – Developing an IoT solution to keep water flowing for millions
March 10, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Christoph Gorder Kurt Dykema
Having a clear vision about the IoT solution needed to keep clean water flowing for millions of people was a big step forward for non-profit, charity:water. Of course, the execution turned out to be challenging. Charity:water first tried collaborating with leading IoT sensor manufacturers to get existing technology tailored to its specific use case, which is monitoring hand pump functionality in real-time, across remote communities. When that didn’t work, charity:water had the gumption to try to develop the solution themselves. But the org faced frustration and stalls before finding the right partner. With AWS Partner Twisthink, charity:water found a true collaborator that recognized its core business is a vital mission. Together, they developed an IoT sensor built on AWS that allows real-time monitoring of remote wells around the world, slashing repair time by years. Listen to the podcast to hear about the development process and learn about the IoT roadmap to reshape the approach to meeting the global clean water crisis.
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Ep. 428 - Accelerate your Analytics with Amazon EMR
March 07, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Roy Hasson
Big data and analytics play a critical role in every organization’s digital transformation. For many customers, it’s the first initiative they embark on to accelerate time to insight and pace of innovation for their business. Today, Simon is joined by Roy Hasson, Sr. Manager WW Analytics Specialist, to talk about how customers can modernize on-premises, self-managed Apache Hadoop environments running Apache Hive and Apache Spark using Amazon EMR - a fully managed, easy to use, unified analytics platform to run your Hive, Spark, Presto and other big data and ML workloads. They also discuss the EMR Migration Program, developed to help customers quickly modernize their on-premises, self-managed Hadoop environments.
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Ep. 427 - March 2021 Update Show 1
March 01, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon introduces the first piece of listener feedback! Plus some great updates. Chapters 00:26 Audio Feedback 03:19 Analytics 05:28 Application Integration 06:31 Business Applications 06:55 Compute 09:18 Customer Engagement 09:54 Databases 12:00 Developer Tools 12:34 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:58 Machine Learning 14:21 Management & Governance 16:03 Media Services 16:39 Migration & Transfer 16:49 Mobile 17:31 Networking & Content Delivery
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Ep. 426 - Amazon Keyspaces
February 21, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Arturo Hinojosa
Apache Cassandra is a wide-column, open-source database that developers use to store data for internet scale applications that require fast performance. However, managing Apache Cassandra can be complex and expensive. Today, Simon is joined by Arturo Hinojosa, Principal Product Manager for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), AWS’s serverless, scalable, highly available, and managed Cassandra-compatible database service. They'll talk about how Amazon Keyspaces helps developers run their Cassandra workloads more easily.
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Ep. 425 - February 2021 Update Show 1
February 14, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki cover some really interesting updates. Chapters 01:22 AWS Marketplace 01:53 Analytics 05:57 Application Integration 06:40 Block Chain 07:09 Business Applications 07:51 Compute 11:26 Customer Engagement 12:12 Databases 16:37 Developer Tools 17:42 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:05 Machine Learning 21:59 Management & Governance 28:30 Media Services 28:53 Networking & Content Delivery 31:27 Robotics 31:56 Security, Identity and Compliance 40:34 Storage
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Ep. 424 - [Right Now @ AWS] Episode #3 - How Semiconductor and Hi-Tech / Electronic Customers Are Leveraging AWS
February 10, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Dave Pellerin Vijay Wunnava Katie Doptis
Decreasing time to market and helping you create new products that fundamentally change the way you do business are two of the biggest business benefits of AWS. Customers such as consumer robotics maker iRobot and semiconductor maker MediaTek have slashed their development and testing times while reducing new product introduction risk. Listen to the podcast and learn how AWS can help you accelerate innovation.
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Ep. 423 - AWS Solutions Constructs
February 07, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ryan Hayes
In this episode, Simon is joined by Ryan Hayes (Solutions Developer, AWS) as he introduces AWS Solutions Constructs and discusses how it can help you build faster using multi-service architecture patterns paired with best practice defaults.
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Ep. 422 - Amazon Fraud Detector
January 31, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chris Porter
Start identifying potential online fraud faster and easier with Amazon Fraud Detector. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and more than 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon to help customers detect common types of online fraud. Today Simon is joined by Chris Porter, Product Manager for Amazon Fraud Detector, to talk about this service.
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Ep. 421 - AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning Lens
January 24, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Rodney Lester Sireesha Muppala
This week Simon is joined by Rodney Lester, Senior Solutions Architect, and Sireesha Muppala, Principle Solutions Architect. They'll provide a recap of the AWS well architected framework and introduce the Machine Learning lens white paper that provides guidance on building ML workloads on AWS.
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Ep. 420 - January 2021 Update Show 1
January 17, 2021#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through more updates and new things to explore! Chapters: 01:03 AWS Marketplace, 01:43 Analytics, 12:03 Application Integration, 13:41 Block Chain, 14:06 Business Applications, 14:16 Compute, 17:37 Cost Management, 18:09 Customer Engagement, 18:33 Database, 20:46 Developer Tools, 22:07 End User Computing, 22:33 Game Tech, 22:50 Internet of Things (IoT), 25:33 Machine Learning, 26:39 Management & Governance, 31:43 Migration & Transfer, 32:10 Mobile, 32:47 Networking & Content Delivery, 37:14 Quantum Technologies, 37:36 Security, Identity and Compliance, 39:22 Storage
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Ep. 419 - [Right Now @ AWS] Episode #2 - Migrating Specialized Workloads
January 13, 2021#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Faraz Shafiq Katie Doptis
After migrating a thousand enterprises to AWS, we’ve learned a one-size-fits-all migration approach does not meet all workload needs. Specialized workloads that are mission critical to your business, such as SAP and databases, require migration expertise and a customized plan. But how to do that at-scale, without undue complexity for customers? Listen to the podcast and learn about our dedicated practices around migrating specialized workloads and how we’ve integrated the resources with our existing AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), including standardized financial benefits to address temporary double bubble costs.
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Ep. 418 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment
January 10, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Kartik Dalal Brant Swidler
AWS helps leading industrial customers transform their business with the broadest set of cloud services and solutions, and an extensive partner network, while taking advantage of the highest standards for privacy and data security. Today Simon is joined by Kartik Dalal and Brant Swidler to learn more about how Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment can help you solve challenging industrial problems using Machine Learning.
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Ep. 417 - [INTRODUCING] AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
January 03, 2021#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Laura Thomson
Today Simon is joined by Laura Thomson, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to talk about the newly announced Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) which offers a fully managed chaos engineering solution. They'll dive into what chaos engineering really means, how it can help make your applications more resilient, and how FIS can assist your team in taking advantage of the process.
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Ep. 416 - [INTRODUCING] AWS CloudShell
December 27, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jonathan Weiss
AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell is pre-authenticated with your console credentials and common development and operations tools are pre-installed, so no local installation or configuration is required. Today Simon is joined by Jonathan Weiss, a Senior Manager of Software Development at AWS, to learn all about this recently launched service. Simon and Jonathan will explore the benefits of CloudShell, why AWS built the the service, who it’s for, and the top use cases that CloudShell helps to facilitate.
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Ep. 415 - [INTRODUCING] AWS SaaS Boost
December 20, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adrian De Luca Erik Peterson
Software as a Service (SaaS) is more than movement, its a lifestyle. Simon is joined by Adrian De Luca, Head of Partner Solutions Architecture at AWS to discuss the organizational cultural shift, dives into building with SaaS architectural principles and walks through new announcements at re:Invent including AWS SaaS Boost and Well Architected SaaS Lens. Erik Peterson, Founder & CTO at Cloud Zero also joins the conversation providing insight into how in the cloud, engineering decisions are also buying decisions, exploring the importance of cost per tenant visibility.
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Ep. 414 - AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 3
December 15, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
In the final of our 2020 Re:Invent series, Simon takes you though some new capabilities in systems management and IoT.
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Ep. 413 - AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 2
December 08, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon updates you on the second keynote including some great Amazon SageMaker announcements, S3 updates and a new Region announcement!
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Ep. 412 - AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 1
December 01, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you though the first round of announcements and updates! Including Containers, Compute, Storage, Database, Analytics, ML, Contact Centre and Industrial ML. Enjoy!
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Ep. 411 - Enabling Rapid Innovation and Resiliency with AWS
November 24, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Iain Rouse Cindy Schwartz
As customers leverage the cloud across industries, new waves of rapid innovation have emerged to adapt to these unprecedented times. In this episode, Simon is joined by Iain Rouse, AWS public sector country director for Australia and New Zealand, and Cindy Schwartz, AWS senior practice manager professional services team. Listen to dive deep into our customer solutions and the different ways organisations can be agile and scale with AWS to become more resilient and sustainable. Also, hear a preview of our latest webinars with Dan Beeston from Juniper Aged Care, Dr. George Margelis from Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council, and Associate Professor Michael Kasumovic from EdTech company Arludo.
Innovation for Life: Cities Powered by the Cloud eBook | A Guide to Building Organizational Resilience | Taking Classrooms to the Cloud | On-Demand: Digital Innovation in Support of Residential Aged Care -
Ep. 410 - November 2020 Update Show 1
November 22, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through more updates and new things to explore! Chapters: 00:55 Analytics 03:45 Application Integration 06:28 Block Chain 06:48 Business Applications 07:38 Compute 13:25 Customer Engagement 14:53 Database 18:18 Developer Tools 19:29 End User Computing 20:03 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:30 Machine Learning 23:29 Management & Governance 26:31 Media Services 27:08 Migration & Transfer 28:06 Mobile 29:13 Networking & Content Delivery 34:07 Security, Identity and Compliance 35:44 Training & Certification
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Ep. 409 - Exploring AWS Snowcone
November 18, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ramesh Kumar
AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing, edge storage, and data transfer devices, weighing in at 4.5 pounds (2.1 kg) with 8 terabytes of usable storage. Snowcone is ruggedized, secure, and purpose-built for use outside of a traditional data center. Its small form factor makes it a perfect fit for tight spaces or where portability is a necessity. You can use Snowcone in backpacks on first responders, or for IoT, vehicular, and even drone use cases. In this podcast, learn about the importance of computing at the edge, how the AWS Snow Family helps customers with compute and data transfer applications at the edge, and the benefits and use cases of AWS Snowcone.
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Ep. 408 - AWS Foundational Security Best Practices using AWS Security Hub
November 15, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ely Kahn
Today Simon is joined by Ely Kahn, Principal Product Manager of AWS Security Hub to talk AWS Foundational Security Best Practices! This standard implements security controls to detect when your AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align with the security best practices defined by AWS security experts. Let's learn all about this security standard and how you can strengthen your security controls.
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Ep. 407 - [What's New with Well-Architected #6] Cost Optimization
November 10, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nathan Besh
Today Simon is joined by Nathan Besh, Principle Cost Solutions Architect for the AWS Well-Architected program, to learn all about the recent updates to the Cost Optimization Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made, and discuss understanding and controlling where money is being spent, analyzing spend over time, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.
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Ep. 406 - AWS Cloud Innovation Centers
November 09, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ben Butler
How can AWS collaborate with public sector to accelerate innovation using both Amazon Working Backwards Process and the AWS Cloud? Simon speaks with Ben Butler, AWS Global Lead for the Cloud Innovation Centers program, on how we are addressing societal challenges with digital innovation.
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Ep. 405 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon Timestream
November 05, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Tony Gibbs
Data that changes over time, called time series data, is being collected by IoT, edge, and operational applications at enormous rates. But how can you store and analyze all this time series data in a cost effective and scalable way? Simon is joined by Tony Gibbs, Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS to discuss Amazon Timestream, a new database service purpose-built for time series use cases.
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Ep. 404 - [What's New with Well-Architected #5] Performance Efficiency
November 03, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Eric Pullen
Today Simon is joined by Eric Pullen, Sr. Performance Solutions Architect for the AWS Well-Architected program, to learn all about the recent updates to the Performance Efficiency of the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made and focus on selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements, monitoring performance, and making informed decisions to maintain efficiency as business needs evolve.
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Ep. 403 - Amazon Scholars
November 02, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha John Preskill Simone Severini Britt Allen
Since 2018, the Amazon Scholars program has broadened opportunities for academics to join Amazon in a flexible capacity without leaving their academic institutions. Today, Simon is joined by the director of AWS Quantum Computing Simone Severini and Amazon Scholar John Preskill to learn about the Amazon Scholars program and Quantum Computing at Amazon. They discuss the long-term potential of Quantum Computing, what makes it challenging, and share their advice with listeners who are interested in Quantum Computing today.
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Ep. 402 - [What's New with Well-Architected #4] Reliability
October 27, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Seth Eliot
Today Simon is joined by Seth Eliot, Principle Reliability SA for the AWS Well-Architected program, to learn all about the recent updates to the Reliability Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made, and how to build a resilient workload that quickly recovers from failures to meet business and customer demand.
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Ep. 401 - October 2020 Update Show 2
October 25, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through more updates and new things to explore! Chapters: 00:32 Analytics 07:23 Application Integration 08:52 Compute 15:41 Cost Management 18:53 Customer Engagement 20:49 Database 25:08 Developer Tools 26:21 End User Computing 26:43 Game Tech 27:19 Machine Learning 31:30 Management & Governance 35:43 Media Services 36:47 Migration & Transfer 37:27 Networking & Content Delivery 38:17 Security, Identity and Compliance 41:14 Storage 42:09 SolutionsExtended Shownotes
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Ep. 400 - [What's New with Well-Architected #3] Security
October 20, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ben Potter
Today Simon is joined by Ben Potter, Principle Security Lead for the AWS Well-Architected program, to learn all about the recent updates to the Security Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made to the Security Pillar, and focus key topics including; protecting information and systems, confidentiality and integrity of data, identifying privilege management, protecting systems, and establishing controls to detect security events.
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Ep. 399 - Enterprise Migrations
October 18, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Elizabeth Moon Paras Bhuva
AWS has helped thousands of organizations successfully migrate significant workloads and entire data centers to the cloud. Today, Simon is joined by Elizabeth Moon, Director, Industry and Customer Acceleration Programs, and, Paras Bhuva, Sr. Manager, Migrations and Modernizations, to dive deep into AWS’ Migration Methodology, Tools, Challenges and Best Practices.
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Ep. 398 - [What's New with Well-Architected #2] Operational Excellence
October 13, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Brian Carlson
The Operational Excellence Pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, and continually improving processes and procedures. Today Simon is joined by Brian Carlson, global Operational Excellence Lead for the AWS Well-Architected program, to learn all about the recent updates to the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made, why operations is important, and the types of operational best practices and guidance you can expect to learn!
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Ep. 397 - October 2020 Update Show 1
October 11, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Lots of goodies to learn about with Simon & Nicki! Chapters: 00:46 AWS Marketplace 02:21 Analytics 07:38 Application Integration 08:47 Block Chain 09:22 Compute 12:00 Cost Management 13:42 Customer Engagement 15:05 Database 18:39 Developer Tools 23:00 End User Computing 24:24 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:54 Machine Learning 30:58 Management & Governance 36:52 Media Services 37:23 Networking & Content Delivery 38:27 Quantum Technologies 39:26 Satellite 39:54 Security, Identity and Compliance 41:11 Storage 42:31 Training & Certification
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Ep. 396 - [What's New with AWS Well-Architected #1] Framework Updates
October 06, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Rodney Lester
AWS Well-Architected provides key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud. Today Simon is joined by Rodney Lester, Principal Solutions Architect for AWS Well-Architected here at Amazon, to learn all about the recent updates to the Well-Architected Framework. They dig into the recent changes that were made, the benefits of using the WA Framework, why the team built the service, and the types of best practices and guidance you can expect to learn!
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Ep. 395 - Building Digital Systems to Address Human Needs: A Conversation with Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels
October 04, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Werner Vogels
Even as most of us are trudging through our days within the boundaries of our homes, our digital lives are roaming farther and faster out there in the world than ever before. Simon sits down with Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, to hear where his digital life has roamed recently, and what he has seen along the way. That includes everything from people with almost no coding skills quickly building applications to help their communities get through this hard period, to the notion of customers dialing-in “cost aware architectures,” and startups tackling the world’s toughest problems on Vogels’ show “Now Go Build.” Running through every example Vogels gives is the idea that, especially now, we have the ability and the need to build digital systems that address our very human needs. Oh, and music to listen to when you are coding until 4 a.m.
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Ep. 394 - September 2020 Update Show 2
September 27, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Lots of great updates to learn about! Chapters: 00:46 Analytics 03:57 Application Integration 06:44 Block Chain 07:19 Business Applications 08:37 Compute 17:56 Cost Management 19:04 Customer Engagement 20:17 Database 25:11 Developer Tools 28:25 End User Computing 30:05 Game Tech 31:13 Internet of Things (IoT) 36:06 Machine Learning 40:38 Management & Governance 47:03 Media Services 48:11 Mobile 50:28 Networking & Content Delivery 53:19 Security, Identity and Compliance 54:35 Storage 58:21 Training & Certification
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Ep. 393 - ML Explainability using Amazon SageMaker Debugger
September 20, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sireesha Muppala Mona Mona
This episode discusses the growing need for machine learning explainability across various business verticals. Then it introduces Amazon SageMaker Debugger, a service that provides visibility into the ML model training process for real-time and offline analysis.
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Ep. 392 - September 2020 Update Show 1
September 13, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon & Nicki take you through a cavalcade of interesting updates and new capabilities you can use! Chapters: 00:41 Analytics 04:55 Application Integration 06:42 Business Applications 07:39 Compute 17:19 Cost Management 18:08 Customer Engagement 20:52 Database 24:13 Developer Tools 28:24 End User Computing 29:32 Internet of Things (IoT) 31:13 Machine Learning 40:27 Management & Governance 43:05 Media Services 43:36 Migration & Transfer 45:04 Mobile 47:12 Networking & Content Delivery 51:31 Quantum Technologies 52:09 Robotics 52:47 Security, Identity and Compliance 55:31 Solutions 56:19 Storage
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Ep. 391 - [VMware Cloud on AWS #3] How the Scottish Government Exited Its Datacenter
September 09, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar Neill Smith Nick Walter
Listen in to hear how three individuals from the Scottish Government migrated their on-premises datacenters to the cloud using VMware Cloud™ on AWS, with some help from APN Partner House of Brick and AWS. In this episode, Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS, is joined by Neill Smith, Head of Infrastructure, Scottish Government and Nick Walter, Principal Architect, House of Brick, as they share their experience of leaving the datacenter and moving to the cloud.
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Ep. 390 - High performance and the lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud with AWS Inferentia
September 06, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chetan Kapoor
AWS Inferentia is custom built by AWS to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia, provide up to 3x higher throughput and up to 40% lower cost per inference over comparable GPU-based instances. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Inferentia, Inf1 instances, and how to get started with Inf1 instances.
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Ep. 389 - [VMware Cloud on AWS #2] How Ocwen and RoundTower Achieve Scale and Elasticity
September 02, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar Sam Dotson Sean Kane
Two migrations and an acquisition led Ocwen, formerly PHH Mortgage, to move out of their physical datacenter and into the cloud quickly and with minimal change. In this episode, Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS, is joined by Sam Dotson, VP Technology Operations at Ocwen and Sean Kane, Sr. Account Executive at APN Partner, RoundTower. They will share their story of how they exited their datacenter, and what life is like for Ocwen in the cloud.
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Ep. 388 - Amazon AppFlow: Secure SaaS data integration without code
August 30, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Venkatesh Krishnan
Amazon AppFlow is new integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Redshift, in just a few clicks. In this episode, Simon chats with Venkatesh Krishnan, AppFlow Product Manager about why the service was built, the most common customer use cases, and how you can get started.
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Ep. 387 - [VMWare Cloud on AWS #1] How SoftServe and DealerBuilt Exit their Datacenter and Migrate to the Cloud
August 26, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jon Burr Ruslan Kusov Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkuma
In this episode, find out how DealerBuilt made the journey out of the datacenter and into the cloud, with a little help from their friends at SoftServe and AWS. Hear directly from Jon Burr, CIO of DealerBuilt, Ruslan Kusov, Infrastructure SA at SoftServe, and Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS as they share their journey, along with a few surprises along the way.
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Ep. 386 - August 2020 Update Show 2
August 23, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
A big list of interesting updates to explore! Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 04:14 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 07:05 Compute 11:05 Customer Engagement 13:15 Database 15:22 Developer Tools 17:18 End User Computing 17:51 Game Tech 18:28 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:14 Management and Governance 23:21 Media Services 24:19 Migration and Transfer 25:30 Networking and Content Delivery 29:45 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:35 Storage 35:30 Training and Certification 36:35 AWS Solutions 38:23
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Ep. 385 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon Braket
August 20, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Richards Moulds
Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS service that will help you get start with quantum computing. Today Simon is joined by Richards Moulds, General Manager for Amazon Braket here at Amazon, to learn all about this recently launched service. They will cover some interesting questions around quantum computing, dig into the common customer challenges, and why the team built the service.
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Ep. 384 - The Cloud Journey of Gardens and Museums (GLAM) at University of Oxford
August 16, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Anjanesh Babu
Learn how one of the oldest museums in the world moved their collections online. Hear from the customer about the journey they took with AWS and the benefits a long term close working relationship brings to complex projects.
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Ep. 383 - Diving into AWS Graviton2 Processors
August 09, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Underhill
AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, machine learning inference, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Graviton2 processors, their instances, use cases, ecosystem support, and customer adoption stories.
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Ep. 382 - August 2020 Update Show #1
August 02, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
A massive range of updates that Simon & Nicki walk you through! Chapters: 00:53 AWS Marketplace 01:52 Analytics 06:49 Application Integration 07:41 Business Applications 08:15 Compute 14:09 Customer Engagement 15:08 Databases 18:38 Developer Tools 22:16 End User Computing 22:46 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:54 Machine Learning 30:34 Management & Governance 36:10 Media Services 36:45 Migration & Transfer 40:06 Mobile 40:41 Networking & Content Delivery 42:29 Robotics 43:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 46:23 Storage
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Ep. 381 - Serverless Cost and Performance Optimization with AWS Lambda Power Tuning
July 26, 2020#Default- Speakers: Simon Elisha Alex Casalboni
How can you optimize serverless applications for cost and performance? Simon and Alex Casalboni talk about AWS Lambda Power Tuning, an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions in a data-driven fashion.AWS Lambda Power Tuning Github | Check out Alex's podcast (in Italian!)
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Ep. 380 - [INTRODUCING] Amazon RDS on Outposts
July 23, 2020#Default- Speakers: Simon Elisha Michael Lin
Today Simon is joined by Michael Lin, Principal Product Manager on the RDS team, to discuss the recent launch RDS on Outposts. They'll discuss how you can use RDS on Outposts as an extension of the cloud with an easy console experience, the benefits that it gives to your enterprise, and what use cases it will be best suited for.
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Ep. 379 - A Digital Earth Journey
July 19, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Clive Charlton Andiswa Mlisa Tom Butler
What can you do with petabytes of earth observation data and scalable compute infrastructure to help support decision making at the continental scale? Simon brings together representatives from Geoscience Australia, the South African National Space Agency and AWS to talk about Digital Earth Africa, a new geospatial analysis platform, sponsored by the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, that is launching soon in the Cape Town region.
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Ep. 378 - June 2020 Update Show #3
July 12, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Lots of cool updates to catch up on this week! Chapters: 00:31 Analytics 04:04 Business Applications 05:27 Compute 10:13 Cost Management 11:15 Customer Engagement 13:28 Databases 18:19 Developer Tools 21:09 End User Computing 21:37 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:15 Machine Learning 26:16 Management & Governance 30:42 Media Services 32:35 Migration & Transfer 34:09 Mobile 35:30 Networking & Content Delivery 37:10 Security, Identity and Compliance 38:36 Storage 40:05 Training & Certification
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Ep. 377 - Why are customers choosing Amazon QLDB?
July 05, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Eric Kraemer Marc Bowes
Amazon QLDB has been generally available since Sep 2019. Hear from the team who built it about what a ledger database is, how its different from a blockchain, and how are customers using it today.
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Ep. 376 - June 2020 Update Show #2
June 28, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki share everything you need to keep up to date with AWS! Chapters: 01:10 AWS Marketplace 02:33 Analytics 03:03 Blockchain 03:55 Business Applications 05:17 Compute 06:33 Customer Engagement 06:57 Database 10:42 Developer Tools 12:08 Machine Learning 13:39 Management & Governance 15:44 Mobile 18:16 Networking & Content Delivery 19:17 Security, Identity & Compliance 21:14 Storage 23:54 AWS Solutions 25:47
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Ep. 375 - AWS Solutions Overview
June 21, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Rob Weismantel
Learn how you can utilize AWS Solutions to help drive your cloud development. AWS Solutions help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform. All AWS Solutions Implementations are vetted by AWS architects and are designed to be operationally effective, reliable, secure, and cost efficient.
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Ep. 374 - UltraWarm for the Amazon Elasticsearch Service
June 14, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jon Handler
The one thing you know about machine generated data is that there's always more of it! But keeping that ever-expanding collection of log data can become costly. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is the perfect tool for storing and analyzing log data to deliver insights. While it's most common to focus on your more recent logs, sometimes you want to retain them for longer term, more forensic analysis. At a cost reduction of up to 90% over hot storage, UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service provides you with cost efficient, long-term, transparent access to this older data, while maintaining the same fast, interactive experience. Jon Handler, Principal Search Services Solutions Architect at AWS, is here to walk us through what UltraWarm is and how you can leverage it!
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Ep. 373 - June 2020 Update Show #1
June 07, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through an interesting collection of updates across a broad range of services. Chapters: 00:31 Analytics 03:39 Application Integrations 04:24 Business Applications 07:17 Compute 11:36 Cost Management 13:03 Customer Engagement 13:43 Database 19:10 Developer Tools 22:50 Internet of Things (IoT) 23:23 Machine Learning 28:15 Management & Governance 37:05 Media Services 39:18 Migration & Transfer 40:04 Networking & Content Delivery 41:30 Robotics 42:09 Security,(Identity & Compliance) 44:43 Storage 45:44 Training and Certification
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Ep. 372 - The Benefits of Becoming Migration Ready with a Cloud Readiness Assessment
May 31, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Edgar Heren Curran O'Brian
Cloud migrations remain a challenge for many organizations, however not in the areas you might think! Today Simon is joined by Edgar Haren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with Amazon Web Services and Curran O’Brien, Migration Business Development with AWS, to discuss the value organizations can find when working towards cloud migration readiness, and how the new Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help kick-start the process. Across thousands of migration consultations, we found that AWS customers weren’t struggling with the technical aspects of a migration, as much as the Operational and Organizational elements. Completing a cloud readiness assessment with CART can transform your idea of moving to the cloud into a detailed plan that follows AWS Professional Services best practices. The AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) helps organizations of all sizes develop efficient and effective plans for cloud adoption and enterprise cloud migrations. Assess your organization’s cloud readiness in minutes with the tool linked below!
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Ep. 371 - [Right Now @ AWS] Episode #1 - Strategies for when cost savings is top of mind
May 28, 2020#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Steve Peacock
AWS Senior Migration Advisor Steve Peacock describes cost-saving strategies and patterns he’s seeing from customers right now. Migrating to AWS can decrease infrastructure costs by 31% on average and once on the platform, optimization can further reduce spend. As a former CTO, CIO, and COO, Steve also shares emerging best practices to cut costs mid-term while keeping sight on innovation goals. He says starting a dialogue within your team is the first step to modernizing. To begin the conversation, individuals can self-assess organizational readiness in minutes by using the Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool and then, later, discuss results as a team. Or go to the AWS Cloud Migration page for an overview about enterprise migration.
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Ep. 370 - May 2020 Update Show #2
May 24, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through an interesting collection of updates across a broad range of services. Chapters: 00:30 Infrastructure 01:00 AWS Marketplace 01:47 Analytics 05:39 Application Integration 08:20 Compute 13:03 Cost Management 14:16 Customer Engagement 15:27 Databases 17:43 Developer Tools 18:29 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:30 Machine Learning 24:17 Management & Governance 26:54 Media Services 27:15 Migration & Transfer 28:01 Networking & Content Delivery 28:34 Satellite 29:05 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:57 Storage 32:52 Customer Enablement
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Ep. 369 - Public Sector, Cloud and AWS with Teresa Carlson
May 18, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Teresa Carlson
Simon is joined by Teresa Carlson (VP Worldwide Public Sector, AWS) for a wide ranging discussion about how the Public Sector's use of technology continues to evolve as they seek to better serve citizen needs. She also shares lessons learned during 10 years of transformation in the Public Sector.
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Ep. 368 - May 2020 Update Show #1
May 10, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki cover the new and the interesting for customers on AWS! Chapters: 00:32 Analytics 03:34 Blockchain 03:57 Business Applications 04:37 Compute 08:36 Customer Engagement 09:06 Database 12:16 Developer Tools 13:14 End User Computing 14:27 Internet of Things (IoT) 14:58 Machine Learning 18:06 Management & Governance 19:24 Media Services 22:19 Migration & Transfer 25:17 Mobile 26:25 Networking & Content Delivery 27:56 Security, Identity & Compliance 30:28 Storage 31:04 Training & Certification
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Ep. 367 - Genomic Analysis in the AWS MarketPlace: VariantSpark from CSIRO
May 03, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Denis Bauer
Learn how one of the most preeminent science organizations, Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO), has become the first public sector organization to deliver a health product onto AWS’s global Marketplace. A/Prof Denis Bauer (Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO & Macquarie University), explains how this distribution channel has enabled her group to overcome traditional licensing and delivery bottlenecks and to transform academic research into transformative industry solutions: “Sciencing” industry at the speed of cloud.
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Ep. 366 - Express Workflows with Tim Bray: Cheaper, Faster, Stronger
April 26, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Tim Bray
Express Workflows are a new way to orchestrate your high-throughput use-cases at a lower price. Today Simon is joined by Tim Bray, VP and Distinguished Engineer here at Amazon, to learn all about this recently launched workflow type. They dig into the benefits of Express Workflows, why the team built the service, who it’s for, and the types of barriers it might be able to remove from your projects!
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Ep. 365 - April 2020 Update Show #2
April 19, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon is joined by Nicki to go through lots of new updates! Chapters: 01:01 Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) 01:25 Marketplace 02:30 Analytics 05:17 Business Applications 06:29 Application Integration 07:01 Compute 07:45 Cost Management 08:12 Customer Engagement 10:19 Database 13:01 Developer Tools 16:13 Game Tech and Amazon GameLift 17:59 Internet of Things (IoT) 18:47 Machine Learning 22:05 Management and Governance 25:43 Migration and Transfer 26:15 Quick Starts 26:47 Satellite 27:22 Security, Identity, and Compliance 30:05 Storage 32:21 Training and Certification
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Ep. 364 - Working from home with Jeff Barr and Simon Elisha
April 12, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr
Many listeners are working from home at the moment, often for the first time. Jeff and Simon discuss some techniques, approaches, and tips that might come in handy!
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Ep. 363 - April 2020 Update Show #1
April 5, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Time for lots of new and interesting things for customers! Simon is joined by special guest hosts Lexi & Marley Elisha! Chapters: 00:44 Analytics 02:36 Application Integration 03:29 Compute 08:52 Customer Engagement 09:57 Databases 13:05 Machine Learning 15:26 Management and Governance 18:07 Media Services 18:58 Mobile 19:49 Security, Identity and Compliance 20:37 Storage 21:10 Training and Certification
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Ep. 362 - Riffing on Customer Outcomes with Corey Quinn
March 29, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Corey Quinn
How are customers thinking about their journey to the cloud? What are the piftalls? What are the opportunities? Simon speaks with Corey Quinn, host of the Screaming in the Cloud podcast, in a fun and wide-ranging conversation.Screaming in the Cloud
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Ep. 361 - Update Show #1 March 2020
March 22, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through all the latest updates! Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 03:52 Compute 07:15 Customer Engagement 08:43 Databases 11:10 Developer Tools 11:55 End User Computing 12:42 Machine Learning 16:52 Management and Governance 20:22 Mobile 21:11 Networking and Content Delivery 23:05 Quick Starts 23:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 24:26 Storage 26:50 Training and CertificationExtended Shownotes
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Ep. 360 - AWS Managed Service Provider Partners
March 15, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adrian SanMiguel
How do you find the right Managed Service Provider for your business? Simon speaks with Adrian SanMiguel about how customers and Partners can make the most of the next-gen MSP ecosystem.Managed Service Provider Partners
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Ep. 359 - A Tech CEO's Journey from Cloud Skeptic to Evangelist
March 9, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Rick Seaney
How does a CEO change his or her mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and lessons learned.Rick's Blog Post
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Ep. 358 - Update Show #2 February 2020
March 2, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki cover all the latest updates, improvements and price cuts! ANZ Public Sector Fast Start Guide | Extended Shownotes
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Ep. 357 - Deep Dive into Observability
February 24, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Bob Wilkinson Sudeeptha Jothiprakash
How do you introduce observabiity in your systems? Simon speaks with Bob Wilkinson (General Manager Amazon CloudWatch and X-Ray) and Sudeeptha Jothiprakash (Principal Product Manager) about how AWS customers can approach this domain.CloudWatch
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Ep. 356 - VPC Traffic Mirroring deep
February 16, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Alpana Srivastava Tom Adamski
VPC Traffic mirroring offers a wide range of new capabilities when using AWS. Simon takes a deep dive with Alpana Srivastava and Tom Adamski about how it works and what it can be used for.VPC
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Ep. 355 - How Training Helps Create Cultural Change at Macmillan Learning
February 9, 2020#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha David Merryweather
Macmillan Learning is one of the largest Learning Companies in the world. Over the last few years, Macmillan has been attempting to create systematic change throughout its organization by equipping employees with the skills to innovate faster and achieve its mission to "change students lives through learning." As a Learning Company, Macmillan has incorporated its own IP and Learning Science methodologies to empower employees. David Merryweather (VP of Cloud Ops and Site Reliability, Macmillan Learning) speaks with Simon about the Macmillan experience so far, and what they have learned.MacMillan Learning
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Ep. 354 - Update Show #1 February 2020
February 3, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki share some handy new updates! Extended Shownotes
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Ep. 353 - Getting the Most Out of AWS Data Exchange
January 26, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ravi Tulapati
AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Simon speaks with Ravi Tulapati to explore how data providers can now reach new AWS audiences, how analysts, researchers, and other data buyers can easily find and subscribe to data sets, and how the billing and delivery of data is simplified for both groups. Learn how you can use AWS Data Exchange to fuel in-place analytics with AWS services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift.Data Exchange
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Ep. 352 - Advanced Encryption Strategies for Beginners
January 20, 2020#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ryan Ragona
Customers often have advanced use cases for encryption, like encrypting to multiple recipients, or caching data keys. These can be challenging to get right if you're trying to implement it yourself. The good news is, AWS has released open source tools that make all of that relatively easy. In this episode we'll talk about encryption use cases and the best tools to solve them.AWS Security | Blog: Introducing S2N
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Ep. 351 - Update Show January 2020
January 13, 2020#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki bring in 2020 with a raft of great new updates and capabilities! Extended Shownotes
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Ep. 350 - deep into DevSecOps
December 15, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Paul Hawkins Raisa Hashem
How can you implement DevSecOps effectively in your organisation? What are some of the key steps and potential pitfalls? Simon is joined by Raisa Hashem (DevOps Security Specialist) and Paul Hawkins (Security Specialist SA) to discuss practical steps you can take and lessons learned.Watch Security at the Speed of Cloud | Watch Enforcing Security Invariants with AWS Organizations | Watch Scale Permissions Management in AWS
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Ep. 349 - AWS re:Invent 2019 Episode 4
December 5, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon wraps up AWS re:Invent 2019!
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Ep. 348 - AWS re:Invent 2019 Episode 3
December 3, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
It is the third update show! Simon takes you through some quick updates in the domains of Compute, Data, ML and Business Productivity.
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Ep. 347 - AWS re:Invent 2019 Episode 2
December 3, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon gives you a summary of all the new announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote!
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Ep. 346 - AWS re:Invent 2019 Episode 1
December 3, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon kicks off the coverage of re:Invent 2019 with some really interesting announcements in Quantum computing and more - as well as a catch-up on all the previous week's updates! Extended Shownotes
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Ep. 345 - November 2019 Update Show 2
November 29, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
It is a massive episode of updates this month! Simon takes you through over 200 updates
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Ep. 344 - AWS Storage Day 2019
November 21, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Bill Vass
November 20th, 2019 is our first ever AWS Storage Day. Just over a week ahead of re:Invent, we are making the first round of important announcements, and all of them are related to storage. Regardless of the AWS storage services that you use, we think you'll find something interesting and useful with the news we are about to share. We are launching significant new storage and data transfer features for: Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, AWS DataSync, and AWS Storage Gateway. These launches will help improve security, increase, scalability, reduce costs, and deliver an enhanced feature set for you to utilize. Check out our blog summary chronicling all the recent AWS storage launches and make sure to check the blog throughout the day, as well as leading up to re:Invent. We will continue to add updates as new launch material becomes available.AWS Blog: AWS Storage Day
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Ep. 343 - Pinpoint Journeys: Building the Engagement Experience Your Customers Want
November 18, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Zach Barbitta Austin Nevins
Building lasting relationships with your customers is tough, though it doesn't have to be. On today's episode, Simon speaks with Product Lead Zach Barbitta and Lead Front End Engineer Austin Nevins about their new launch, Pinpoint Journeys. Pinpoint Journeys is an outbound engagement orchestration tool, designed to help product, growth, and marketing teams build lasting relationships with their customers. With Pinpoint Journeys you give independence to your non-technical teams, via the no-code required functionality of Pinpoint Journeys. To learn more and watch a short video.Pinpoint
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Ep. 342 - Get Ready for AWS re:Invent 2019!
November 14, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jill Fagan Annie Hancock
Simon speaks with Annie Hancock and Jill Fagan about how to get the most from your 2019 re:Invent experience! re:Invent
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Ep. 341 - November 2019 Update Show
November 11, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki share a broad range of interesting updates!
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Ep. 340 - Getting the Most From the AWS Partner Network
November 4, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adrian De Luca Mark Promnitz
Simon sits down with Adrian De Luca (Head of Partner Solution Architecture, Asia Pacific, AWS) and Mark Promnitz (CTO, ITOC) to discuss how to get the most out of the AWS Partner Network.Read Solutions Finder Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/partners/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body" target="_blank">AWS Partner Network | ITOC
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Ep. 339 - Batch Workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
October 28, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chad Schmutzer
Did you know that you can combine Batch and Spot for up to 90% cost savings? Simon speaks with Chad Schmutzer about how you can make the most of it! Batch
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Ep. 338 - AWS Hybrid Cloud Storage
October 21, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chris Rogers
What are your choices when it comes to storage in a Hybrid world? Simon speaks with Chris Rogers about the considerations that customers should make and how to get the best out of their storage optionsAWS Hybrid Cloud Storage | AWS Storage Gateway | AWS DataSync | Read Data Migration Blog
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Ep. 337 - [Provable Security Podcast Series Episode #2]: Automated Reasoning in the Cloud with John Harrison
October 17, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Byron Cook John Harrison
In this latest episode, we interview John Harrison, Senior Principal Applied Scientist with the AWS Automated Reasoning Group. John describes his experience helping to shape innovative applications of automated reasoning to pressing technology challenges. He talks about his time at Intel, how he transitioned from a research scientist to technology product teams, automated reasoning techniques that he has used in his career and at AWS, his theorem prover called HOL Light and his 702 page book, Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning. Byron Cook, Director of the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, interviews John and will be featured throughout the miniseries. Byron is leading the provable security initiative at AWS, which is a collection of technologies that provide higher security assurance to customers by giving them a deeper understanding of their cloud architecture.
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Ep. 336 - .NET and AWS - Better Together!
October 14, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Steve Roberts
Did you know .NET users have great support and tooling on AWS? Simon speaks with Steve Roberts about how you can make the best of .NET and AWS together.AWS Open Source | .NET Tools | AWS Toolkit for Visual Studios User Guide | AWS .NET Developer Blog
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Ep. 335 - October 2019 Update Show 1
October 7, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Simon and Nicki take you through the latest and greatest updates! And remember that AWS Podcast listeners get access to a $25 discount tickets to the Intersect festival using the discount code 'awspodcast'. Note that tickets are limited.Intersect
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Ep. 334 - What Does AWS Professional Services do for Customers?
September 30, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Girish Nesaratnam
Simon speaks with Girish Nesaratnam (AWS Professional Services) to learn more about how customers use AWS Professional Services, and what it is like to work for that team.AWS Professional Services jobs
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Ep. 333 - Live with Jeff Barr at AWS Community Day Melbourne
September 23, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr
Simon and Jeff get together face-to-face to discuss a new capability of the AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Community day and lots of other things! This was recorded "on the move" so apologies for the less-than-optimal audio.Blog: Client IP Address Preservation for AWS Global Accelerator
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Ep. 332 - September 2019 Update Episode 1
September 16, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone
Join Simon and Nicki on a journey through updates large and small! And remember, Podcast listeners can get access to a $25 discount on tickets for AWS Intersect: (tickets are limited!)Intersect Podcast
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Ep. 331 - Behind the Scenes at AWS Public Sector Summit Canberra
September 9, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Have you ever wondered about what happens at an AWS Summit? What about the things that happen behind the scenes? Simon takes you on a potted tour of the recent AWS Public Sector Summit in Canberra.Canberra Public Sector Summit
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Ep. 330 - Getting More for Less with Amazon EC2 Spot
September 1, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chad Schmutzer
Amazon EC2 Spot has always been a great way for customers to get more compute for their dollar. It is now even easier to use, and integrated into more services! Simon speaks with Chad Schmutzer (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) about how to get the most out of Spot today.EC2 Spot
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Ep. 329 - Choosing a Database Platform
August 26, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Randall Hunt
It is 2019 and there are 329 different databases being tracked by db-engines.com - how do you know which one to use for which problems? Simon speaks with Randall Hunt to explore the basics of modern database types and specific implementations.AWS Databases | Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB
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Ep. 328 - August 2019 Update Show #1
August 19, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone [Klein]
It is a MASSIVE episode of updates that Simon and Nikki do their best to cover! There is also an EXTRA SPECIAL bonus just for AWS Podcast listeners! Special Discount for Intersect Tickets: use discount code 'podcast' - note that tickets are limited! Intersect Podcast
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Ep. 327 - Using Amazon S3 Event Notifications
August 12, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Do you have file-based workflows? Lots of events to handle? Amazon S3 Event Notifications might just fit the bill! Plus a bonus chat about S3 Security and object retention! Amazon S3 FAQ | Confirming Amazon S3 Event Notifications | Read AWS S3 Event Notificaton Blog | Read Important S3 Security Features Blog
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Ep. 326 - A Chat with Adrian Cockcroft
August 5, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adrian Cockcroft
Adrian Cockcroft (VP Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS) joins Simon for a wide-ranging discussion about chaos in architectures, the requirements of Financial organisations, the use of the cloud in Formula One racing and Amazon's Open Source activities.AWS Architecture Center | AWS Financial Services | Formula One Case Study | Open Source at AWS
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Ep. 325 - A Look at AWS Ground Station
July 29, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha
With the GA of AWS Ground Station, customers have new capabilities to interact with satellite data. Simon takes a look at how to get started, and what you can do with this new capability.Ground Station | Jeff Barr's blog post
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Ep. 324 - [AWS Enterprise Stories #2]: Bringing Autonomous Driving, Connected Vehicles, and Smart Cities Together
July 25, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Marcy Klevorn Mark Dipko
In this episode, we discuss connectivity, autonomy, and sharing are changing the way people access transportation and transforming the automotive industry. Ford has been a pioneer in this new mobility, setting forth a vision where transportation and cities are seamlessly interconnected and customers have on-demand access to a variety of safe, reliable transportation options. Leading this transformation is Marcy Klevorn. In this episode, we talk to Marcy about how she has accelerated Ford's transformation, using cloud technologies, agile teams, partnerships and acquisitions to to evolve Ford from a manufacturing company to a mobility company.
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Ep. 323 - July 2019 Update Show
July 22, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Stone [Klein]
Simon and Nicki share a bumper-crop of interesting, useful and cool new services and features for AWS customers!
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Ep. 322 - [AWS Enterprise Stories #1] ENABLING ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH CULTURE & SKILLS
July 18, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chris Rasmussen Klaus Salchner
In discussions with our global customers, we continually hear about the skills required to adopt AWS at scale, especially when transforming a workforce, and the gaps in those skill-sets. In this discussion, we will talk to Klaus Salchner who is the VP of engineering at Realtor.Com about his approach to engineering in silicon valley, building a center of excellence, and the importance of having a strong cultural backdrop to utilize when bringing new engineering talent into an organization.Realtor.com
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Ep. 321 - Understanding the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
July 15, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Gerardo Estaba
Do you want to deploy Serverless applications faster, easier and more reliably? The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) might just fit the bill! Simon speaks with Gerardo Estaba (Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS) about how to get started and how to get the best from it.AWS Serverless Application Model | Developer guide | GitHub repo with examples | Macquarie Bank Video
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Ep. 320 - Private Equity and the Cloud
July 8, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jim Milbery Alan Williamson
Simon speaks with Jim Milbery (Partner at ParkerGale) and Alan Williamson (Partner at MacLaurin Group) about Private Equity, what PE funds look for when acquiring software companies and how the cloud matters in this context. They are also host their own podcast called the PE Funcast.
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Ep. 319 - Live at AWS Sydney Summit - Riffing on Tech With Glenn Gore
July 1, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Glenn Gore
Recorded in front of a live audience at AWS Sydney Summit. Simon and Glenn discuss what works and what doesn't in terms of architectures and team structures. How to keep your skills up-to-date and answer some questions from the audience.
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Ep. 318 - Business Leadership in the Digital Age with Mark Schwartz
June 24, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Mark Shwartz
Simon speaks with Mark Shwartz (Enterprise Strategist - AWS) about his latest book, and how the relationship between IT and non-IT leaders is changing. n the war for business supremacy, Schwartz shows we must throw out the old management models and stereotypes that pit suits against nerds. Instead, business leaders of today can foster a space of collaboration and shared mission, a space that puts technologists and business people on the same team.War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
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Ep. 317 - June 2019 Update Show
June 17, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon shares a huge selection of updates and new things! Chapter Marks: 00:00:19 Satellites 00:01:12 Storage 00:03:01 Compute 00:05:35 Databases 00:09:17 Developer Tools 00:10:32 Analytics 00:12:28 IoT 00:14:06 End User Computing 00:15:03 Machine Learning 00:16:22 Robotics 00:16:46 Application Integration 00:17:42 Management and Governance 00:20:49 Customer Engagement 00:21:24 Security 00:22:10 Training and Certification 00:22:36 Quick Starts 00:23:04 AWS MarketplaceAWS Ground Station | EBS Volumes | AWS CloudFormation | AWS DataSync
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Ep. 316 - Exploring AWS Lake Formation
June 10, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Prajakta Damle
Simon speaks with Prajakta Damle (Principal Product Manager, AWS) about AWS Lake Formation. AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. They discuss why it was created and what customers can use it for.Lake Formation
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Ep. 315 - Dance Like No One Is Watching, Encrypt Like Everyone Is
June 3, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Paul Hawkins
Simon speaks with Paul Hawkins, Security Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS about the ways customers can quickly and easily make their environment more secure.Data Protection Video | KMS Whitepaper | Best Practices Whitepaper | Steve Schmidt Leadership Session Video
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Ep. 314 - May 2019 Update Show 2
May 27, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon hosts an update show with lots of great new features and capabilities! Chapters: Developer Tools 0:26 Storage 3:02 Compute 5:10 Database 10:31 Networking 13:41 Analytics 16:38 IoT 18:23 End User Computing 20:19 Machine Learning 21:12 Application Integration 24:02 Management and Governance 24:23 Migration 26:05 Security 26:56 Training and Certification 29:57 Blockchain 30:27 Quickstarts 31:06AWS X-Ray Analytics | AWS Developer Tools Console | AWS Amplify Console | AWS Amplify Online Community
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Ep. 313 - WhereML - Using ML to Detect Locations via Twitter
May 20, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Randall Hunt
Simon speaks with Randall Hunt about how he designed, built, and deployed the @WhereML Twitter bot that can identify where in the world a picture was taken using only the pixels in the image. We'll dive deep on artificial intelligence and deep learning with the MXNet framework and also talk about working with the Twitter Account Activity API. The bot is entirely autoscaling and powered by Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda which means, as a customer, you don't manage any infrastructure. Finally we'll close with a discussion around custom authorizers in API Gateway and when to use them.Github repo for WhereML
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Ep. 312 - Meet the AWS Disaster Response Action Team
May 13, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ana Visneski Maggie Carter
Did you know AWS enables disaster response organizations to access cloud services at the edge, even in the harshest conditions? Simon speaks with Maggie Carter (Principal, AWS Disaster Response Program) and Ana Visneski (Principal Technical Program Manager for AWS Disaster Response Program) about what the team does, how it does it and what is to come! AWS Disaster Response
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Ep. 311 - Live Audience Update Show from Sydney Summit
May 6, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Klein
Simon & Nicki are joined by a live audience to record a great set of cool updates for customers!
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Ep. 310 - Windows on AWS and a Classic Blog Post with Jeff Barr
April 29, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr
Customers have been running Windows workloads on AWS for over 10 years! In this episode Simon and Jeff explore some things you might not know about. They also take a trip down "memory lane" as well as give a teaser for a special podcast event at AWS Tokyo Summit! Read The Wide World of Windows on AWS Blog | Read Introducing the Amazon Simple Notification Service | AWS Summits
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Ep. 309 - Black Belt Tips and Amazon QuickSight ML Insights
April 22, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha
In this episode Simon gives you some Black Belt tips around managing you CloudFormation stacks and how to use AWS Organizations to control access to AWS resources. He also gives you a look at Amazon QuickSight ML Insights.Read AWS CloudFormation Blog | AWS Organizations User Guide | AWS QuickSight ML Insights
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Ep. 308 - April 2019 Update Show
April 15, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Klein
Simon and Nicki cover almost 100 updates! Check out the chapter timings to see where things of interest to you might be.
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Ep. 307 - The AWS Developer Experience - AWS App Mesh and AWS Cloud Development Kit
April 8, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adam Larter
How do you build applications that are loosely coupled but reliable? How can you take an even more abstracted view of cloud infrastructure? Simon is joined by Adam Larter (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS) to discuss options available to developers using AWS.AWS App Mesh | AWS Cloud Developer Kit
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Ep. 306 - [Provable Security Podcast Series Episode #1]: Automated Reasoning’s Past, Present, and Future with Moshe Vardi
April 4, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Byron Cook Moshe Vardi
Provable Security: Conversations on Next Gen Security. We published a podcast on provable security last fall, and, due to high customer interest, we decided to bring you a regular peek into this AWS initiative. This series will cover how the traditionally academic field of automated reasoning is being applied at AWS at scale to help provide higher assurances for our customers, regulators, and the broader cloud industry. We'll talk to individuals whose minds helped shape the history of automated reasoning, as well as learn from engineers and scientists who are applying automated reasoning to help solve pressing security and privacy challenges in the cloud.In our first interview, Byron Cook, Director of the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, sits down with Moshe Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology. Moshe describes the history of logic, automated reasoning, formal verification and his legendary moustache.AWS Provable Security
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Ep. 305 - Saving Money with EC2 Spot
April 1, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Did you know you can save 70-90% on compute costs easier than ever? Or that you can get more work done for the same spend? EC2 Spot is more powerful and easier to use than ever; Simon takes you through some of the new capabilities and benefits that you can use today.EC2 Spot Instances | EC2 Spot Instance Advisor | EC2 Spot Instances Getting Started | EC2 Spot Fleet
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Ep. 304 - March 2019 Update Show Part 2
March 25, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Klein
Simon and Nicki run through some interesting new AWS capabilities for customers as well as a look at the upcoming re:MARS conference.re:Mars
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Ep. 303 - Are You Well-Architected?
March 18, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Philip Fitzimons
How do you know if you have built your system the best way possible? How can you track this over time, and see and share improvements with others? The AWS Well-Architected Framework now has a customer-accessible tool - free to use! Simon speaks with "Fitz" (Philip Fitzimons) who leads the Well-Architected team at AWS about how customers can make the most of this new capability.Well-Architected
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Ep. 302 - March 2019 Update Show Part 1
March 11, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Nicki Klein
Simon is joined by new update co-host Nicki Klein (Senior Technical Evangelist, AWS) to discuss all the latest features and capabilities available to AWS customers! Amplify Framework Updates | AWS Solutions | Amazon RDS Updates | Amazon DocumentDB Updates
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Ep. 301 - Getting the most out of the AWS Developer Experience
March 4, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Adam Larter
What does a modern software development look like? What are some of the optimised approaches you can use? What is the state of play when it comes to developer tooling and the cloud? Simon is joined by Adam Larter (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS) to discuss options available to developers using AWS.DevOps and AWS landing page | Keep up to date with the AWS DevOps blog | What is SAM? | Invoking a Lambda function locally using SAM CLI
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Ep. 300 - Amazon ElasticSearch Update
February 25, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jon Handler
Do you have lots of data to search, analyze and visualize? The Amazon ElasticSearch service is used by customers large and small to do just that! Simon speaks with Jon Handler (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS) about some exciting new capabilities and also how to size, tune and optimize your clusters.Amazon ElasticSearch | Read T-Shirt Size Blog | Set alarms on CW metrics | Watch the re:Invent Talk
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Ep. 299 - February 2019 Updates
February 18, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Simon Elisha Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski
Simon guides you through lots of new features, services and capabilities that you can take advantage of. Including the new AWS Backup service, more powerful GPU capabilities, new SLAs and much, much more!
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Ep. 298 - [Public Sector Special Series #6] - Bringing the White House to the World
February 14, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski
Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski (Director of the Digital Library - White House Historical Association) speaks about how they used AWS to bring the experience of the White House to the world.White House History
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Ep. 297 - Reinforcement Learning with AWS DeepRacer
February 11, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha Todd Escalona
How are ML Models Trained? How can developers learn different approaches to solving business problems? How can we race model cars on a global scale? Todd Escalona (Solutions Architect Evangelist, AWS) joins Simon to dive into reinforcement learning and AWS DeepRacer! AWS DeepRacer | Open Source DIY Donkey Car | Read about the re:Invent 2017 Robocar Hackathon | Watch the AWS DeepRacer Highlights
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Ep. 296 - [Public Sector Special Series #5] - Creating Better Educational Outcomes Using AWS
February 6, 2019#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Cesar Wedemann
Cesar Wedemann (QEDU) talks to Simon about how they gather Education data and provide this data to teachers and public schools to improve education in Brazil. They developed a free-access portal that offers easy visualization of brazilian Education open data.QEDU
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Ep. 295 - Creating a DevOps Workflow for Machine Learning Models
February 4, 2019#Deep Dive- Speakers: Simon Elisha John Calhoun
Training your ML model is just one part of the puzzle; retaining it and deploying into production on a regular basis is key for great business outcomes. Simon speaks with John Calhoun (Machine Learning Specialist, AWS) about how to implement this in your business using the open source AWS Sagemaker Build CloudFormation.
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Ep. 294 - [Public Sector Special Series #4] - Using AI to make Content Available for Students at Imperial College of London
January 30, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ruth Black
How do you train the next generation of Digital leaders? How do you provide them with a modern educational experience? Can you do it without technical expertise? Hear how Ruth Black (Teaching Fellow at the Digital Academy) applied Amazon Transcribe to make this real.Digital Academy
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Ep. 293 - Diving into Data with Amazon Athena
January 28, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Do you have lots of data to analyze? Is writing SQL a skill you have? Would you like to analyze massive amounts of data at low cost without capacity planning? In this episode, Simon shares how Amazon Athena can give you options you may not have considered before.Amazon Athena | Read our Top 10 Performance Tips Blog | Read our Blog on Using CTAS for Performance
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Ep. 292 - [Public Sector Special Series #3] - Moving to Microservices from an Organisational Standpoint
January 23, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Olson
Jeff Olson (VP & Chief Data Officer at College Board) talks about his experiences in fostering change from an organisational standpoint whilst moving to a microservices architecture.College Board
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Ep. 291 - January 2019 Update Show
January 21, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through a nice mix of updates and new things to take advantage of - even a price drop! Amazon API Gateway Updates | Amazon EMR Updates | AWS Fargate Update | Amazon DocumentDB Update
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Ep. 290 - [Public Sector Special Series #2] - Using AWS to Power Research with the University of Liverpool and Alces Flight
January 16, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Cliff Addison Will Mayers Cristin Merritt
Cliff Addison (University of Liverpool) joins with Will Mayers and Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight) to talk about High Performance Computing in the cloud and meeting the needs of researchers.University of Liverpool | Alces Flight
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Ep. 289 - A Look at Amazon FSx For Windows File Server
January 13, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Andrew Crudge
Simon speaks with Andrew Crudge (Senior Product Manager, FSx) about this newly released service, capabilities available to customers and how to make the best use of it in your environmentFSx for Windows
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Ep. 288 - [Public Sector Special Series #1] - Tackling Culture Change when Moving to the Cloud
January 9, 2019#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sherry Stevens
Sherry Stevens (National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)) talks about the cultural changes and lessons learned on their journey to the cloud.NAIC
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Ep. 287 - 0
January 6, 2019#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Did you know you can work through Terabytes of log data in seconds with zero setup? Simon takes you through the capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights and how you can use it to resolve issues faster.Documentation | Blog Example
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Ep. 286 - December 2018 Update Show
December 30, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
See links below for details on some of the updates we chatted about today.Amazon Pinpoint Updates | Amazon Connect Updates | AWS Storage Gateway Updates | Amazon Virtual Private Clouds Updates
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Ep. 285 - New Runtime Experiences in AWS Lambda
December 23, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Alex Wood Bryan Moffatt Marco Magdy
Simon speaks with three Software Development Engineers (SDEs) from Amazon who worked on various aspects of the new AWS Lambda runtime capabilities. He is joined by Alex Wood, Bryan Moffatt and Marco Magdy who discuss the Layers experience, Ruby support, the C++ runtime and even COBOL! AWS Lambda Layers | Read our Ruby Support Blog | Read our C++ runtime blog | AWS Lambda Partners
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Ep. 284 - A Look at Some Useful Resources
December 16, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
What are some handy resources for AWS Customers? Simon takes you on a tour of a few handy ones - and even sneaks in a black-belt tip! Centralized Logging | Region Table | AWS Service Limits | AWS Certification
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Ep. 283 - [AWS Security and Compliance Special #2] Answering Compliance and Data Privacy Questions
December 12, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chad Wolf
In the latest AWS Security & Compliance Podcast, we sit down with VP of Security Chad Woolf, who answers your compliance and data privacy questions. Including one of the most frequently asked questions from customers around the world, which is: how many compliance programs does AWS have/attest to/audit against? Chad also shares what it was like to work at AWS in the early days. When he joined, AWS was housed on just a handful of floors, in a single building. Listen to the podcast to hear about company history and get answers to your tough questions.AWS Compliance | Data Privacy FAQ | Follow Chad on Twitter
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Ep. 282 - Diving Into the AWS Global Accelerator
December 9, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Divya Sreekumar
At re:Invent 2018, the AWS Global Accelerator was launched, enabling customers to improve the availability and performance of the applications with a global user base. Simon speaks with Divya Sreekumar (Senior Product Manager AWS) about the benefits to customers, and how to get started.Global Accelerator
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Ep. 281 - re:Invent 2018 Thursday Updates
November 30, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon covers all the updates from Thursday as well as a special Partner interview and a behind the scenes look at This Is My Architecture.Lumigo | This is My Architecture | New AWS Toolkits | SAM Support for new Lambda Features
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Ep. 280 - re:Invent 2018 Keynote and Wednesday Updates
November 29, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through the updates of the day, and Andy Jassy's keynote - as well as a walk around the Expo Floor! AWS Security Hub | Amazon Inferentia Microchip | Amazon Timestream | Hibernate for EC2
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Ep. 279 - re:Invent Tuesday Night Update - LIVE Audience!
November 28, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr
Simon & Jeff are joined by a live audience for the first time! Listen to some great updates and fun laughs.EFS Infrequent Access | S3 Intelligent tiering | S3 Batch Operations | AWS DataSync
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Ep. 278 - Live From re:Invent Midnight Madness 2018
November 26, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr
Simon & Jeff record live from AWS re:Invent 2018 Midnight Madness! Midnight Madness AWS RoboMaker
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Ep. 277 - November 2018 Update Show
November 18, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through lots of great new features and capabilities for customers, and also a special call out for listeners attending AWS re:Invent to get some AWS Podcast swag! On-Demand Capacity Reservations | Machine Learning for Telecommunication | Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac | Agentless Network Assessments
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Ep. 276 - [Workforce Development Using AWS Educate#4] Re-Skilling Adult Learners
November 14, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Kwek Kok Kwong
Singapore's National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) Learning Hub works with AWS Educate to reach a different audience—adult learners. Spearheading a global movement, the NTUC intends to train and re-skill 20,000 Singaporeans to build cloud computing skills before the end of 2019.AWS Educate
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Ep. 275 - Using Technology To Help Children in Hospitals; Interview with ZOTT
November 11, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jon Shipman
How can the hospital experience be made a little easier for children suffering chronic illness and their caregivers? Simon speaks with Jon Shipman (CTO & Co-Founder) and Michael Powell (VP Marketing ) from ZOTT about their approach to the challenge.ZOTT
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Ep. 274 - [AWS Security and Compliance Special#1] Diving into the Security Track at re:Invent 2018
November 8, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Laremy Legel Kristen Haught
This is a Special Series from AWS Security & Compliance.In this podcast, we're previewing the security track at re:Invent. Staffers developing security track content offer their advice for navigating the learning conference that is expected to draw 50,000 people from around the world. Learn about the newest hands-on session designed to give you even deeper technical insight. Plus, find out about the event change meant to make it easier to attend the talks that interest you.re:Invent | AWS Cloud Security | AWS Compliance
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Ep. 273 - [Workforce Development Using AWS Educate#3] Designing a Cloud Course to Scale
November 7, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Tricia Ramos Howard Stahl
The California Cloud Workforce Project ("CA Cloud"), a consortium of 19 LA County community colleges and their sister high schools, designed a Cloud Computing Certificate in collaboration with faculty at Santa Monica College and AWS Educate. Intended to scale, CA Cloud sets a precedent for thinking big about global cloud curriculum.AWS Educate
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Ep. 272 - Refactoring In the Cloud
November 4, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Glenn Gore
Once an application is in the Cloud - are you done? In this episode, Simon & Glenn Gore (Lead Architect, AWS Solutions Architecture) revisit an architecture they deployed back in 2014 on AWS and refactor it "on the fly"! Original Sentimentizer Design | Refactoring Ideas
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Ep. 271 - [Workforce Development Using AWS Educate#2] Launching a Cloud Associate Degree
October 31, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Simon Elish Dr. Scott Ralls
Cloud computing has been highlighted by LinkedIn as the #1 in-demand global skill for the past three years in a row, with Northern Virginia housing one of the largest concentrations of IT jobs in the nation. Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and AWS Educate collaborate to create an innovative degree offering, an associates degree with cloud computing specialization.AWS Educate
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Ep. 270 - AWS Quest 2018
October 28, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Smon Elisha Jeff Barr Mike Selinker
Do you like puzzles? Ozz the robot is travelling to AWS re:Invent 2018, but he needs a little help! This is your chance to work individually or with people around the world to solve cool puzzles. Simon and Jeff speak with Mike Selinker (President of LoanShark Games) about what happened last year and what is in store for this year's AWS Quest! AWS Quest
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Ep. 269 - [Workforce Development Using AWS Educate#1] Igniting a Passion for Cloud Computing
October 24, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Edward Lee
This is a Special Series about Workforce Development Using AWS Educate. AWS Educate launches the AWS Siklab Pilipinas in Manila, Philippines. The Siklab—a Tagalog word that translates to a flame and spark—provided cloud essentials training and a job fair for 400 students and 80 educators across 90 institutions.AWS Educate
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Ep. 268 - October 2018 Update Show
October 22, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon shares a great list of new capabilities for customers!
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Ep. 267 - An Old Story
October 14, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Allison Gumahad
Behind technology is people! In a non-technically focussed episode Simon has a wide-ranging conversation with Allison Gumahad (International Proposal Manager, AWS) and Mike Gilmore (Senior Proposal Manager, AWS) about the affect of age and experience on team dynamics and working in technologyAWS Careers
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Ep. 266 - Next Generation Security with Automated Reasoning, an Artificial Intelligence Technology
October 7, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Byron Cook
AWS is implementing next generation security technology backed by automated reasoning, which uses mathematical logic to provide higher levels of security assurance. Automated reasoning automates the detection of entire classes of misconfigurations that could potentially expose vulnerable data, relieving customers from managing increasingly granular enterprise security controls. Byron Cook, Director of the Automated Reasoning Group, shares how automated reasoning is being leveraged across AWS, in areas such as verifying cryptographic protocols, deeper data protection measures and streamlining enterprise governance.Provable Security
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Ep. 265 - The State of Containers on AWS
September 30, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Arun Gupta
Customers are using containers for all types of workloads. How can you best run them on AWS? Simon speaks with Arun Gupta (Principal Open Source Technologist, AWS) about different options and approaches that customers can use. They also discuss the open-source components contributed to the community by AWSContainers on AWS | Follow AWS Open Source on Twitter | SIG AWS Project
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Ep. 264 - How to re:Invent
September 24, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Annie Hancock Jill Fagan
Each year, we're excited to bring our customers together to network, engage, and learn more about AWS at the largest gathering of the cloud computing community - AWS re:Invent. With so much to explore and learn, Simon is joined by Annie Hancock and Jill Fagan to share some great tips, tricks and hints for getting the most from your re:Invent experience.AWS re:Invent | Watch How To re:Invent
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Ep. 263 - September Update Show
September 17, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon walks you through some great new things you can use on your projects today! Amazon EC2 T3 Instances | AWS CloudFormation Macros | Amazon EKS Platform Version 2 | AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai
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Ep. 262 - Using the AWS SDK for Ruby
September 9, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Alex Wood
Do you like to develop in Ruby? There are a raft of awesome features in the AWS SDK for Ruby that you might not be aware of! Simon is joined by Alex Wood to discuss all the goodies customers have access to.Getting Started Workshop | Follow Alex on Twitter | AWS SDK for Ruby on GitHub | AWS SDK Ruby Record
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Ep. 261 - EC2 Compute Instances for AWS Snowball Edge
September 2, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ian Perez-Ponce
Do you need to run compute remotely? Perhaps you need to provide IT shipboard? Or in the battlefield? Simon speaks with Ian Perez-Ponce all about this new capability.Jeff Barr's Blog Post | Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Instances on Snowball Edge
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Ep. 260 - A deep Into the Amazon Simple Storage Service
August 26, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Alastair Cousins
S3 is at the heart of many customer solutions today. It has come a long way since launch in 2006! Simon is joined by Alastair Cousins (Senior Solutions Architect, AWS) to explore both basic and advanced capabilities that you can take advantage of.Original Blog Post | Amazon S3 Page | Bucket Naming Standards
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Ep. 258 - Automating Things the NoOps way with AWS Partner Cognizant
August 12, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Paras Bhuva Raghu
What kinds of things can you automate with AWS Lambda to operate a 'NoOps' style? Simon is joined by Paras (AWS) and Raghu (Conizant) to discuss what they have done.Cognizant Partner Details | Cognizant Website
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Ep. 257 - An Introduction to AWS PrivateLink
August 5, 2018#How To- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Did you know that AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network? Learn how in this episode! PrivateLink
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Ep. 256 - Using IoT For Smart Cities
July 29, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Craig Lawton
How do Smart Cities actually work? Simon speaks with Craig Lawton (AWS IoT Specialist Solutions Architect) all about it! Smart Cities
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Ep. 255 - Building Deployment Pipelines - Interview with LEAP Dev
July 22, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Gavin Smith Saman Tabatabaeian
Simon speaks with Gavin Smith (IT Manager) and Saman Tabatabaeian (Senior Cloud Engineer) from LEAP Dev about how they built an automated build pipeline that deploys containers to up to 10 AWS Regions at a time! LEAP Dev
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Ep. 254 - Understanding Amazon Comprehend
July 15, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sireesha Muppala
Do you want to unlock the meaning in text files? Have you wanted to understand and act upon customer sentiment from comments, reviews or even call-centre recordings? Simon is joined by Sireesha Muppala (AWS Solutions Architect) to show you how.Amazon Comprehend | Customer Review Sentiment Analysis | Batch Mode for Amazon Comprehend
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Ep. 253 - July Update Show
July 8, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through another BIG set of updates - what will catch your imagination?AWS Public Sector Summit Canberra | Amazon QuickSight | Introducing Amazon EC2 M5d Instances | Amazon Polly
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Ep. 252 - Amazon Elasticsearch Service Updates
July 1, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jon Handler
Simon chats with Jon Handler (AWS Principal Solutions Architect) about a raft of useful updates and new capabilities of the Amazon Elasticsearch Service.VPC Support | Encryption | Cognito Support | Slow Logs Support
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Ep. 251 - [Security and Compliance: GDPR Special#2] - Amazon GuardDuty
June 26, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Michael Fuller
Amazon GuardDuty can be turned on with a single click and it doesn't require deployment of software or security infrastructure. The service uses machine learning to monitor metadata for access activity, such as unusual API calls. GuardDuty also has threat detections that could be helpful to customers concerned with data privacy or facing regulations such as the EU's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). Listen to the podcast with Senior Product Manager Michael Fuller to learn how Amazon GuardDuty could be leveraged to meet your compliance considerations.GuardDuty
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Ep. 250 - Making the Best Use of AWS Regions, Availability Zones and More
June 24, 2018#How To- Speakers: Simon Elisha
This week Simon takes you into the world of AWS Infrastructure. Regions. Availability Zones, Edge locations and more! Great for a refresher or to pick up new tips! AWS Infrastructure Map | Insight into AWS Datacentres | Easier way to control access to AWS regions using IAM policies
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Ep. 249 - Diving into Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
June 17, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Chris Checco
Simon is joined by Chris Checco (Business Development Manager, AI/ML, AWS) to talk about how customers can best start their AI/ML journey. Including key tips and pitfalls to avoid.Machine Learning on AWS | ML Solutions Lab
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Ep. 249 - August Service Update Show
August 19, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Simon takes you through a great list of new services, functions and capabilities - hopefully something for everyone! AWS Global Infrastructure | Amazon EFS Now Supports Provisioned Throughput | Amazon EFS Achieves PCI DSS Compliance | Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
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Ep. 248 - [Security and Compliance: GDPR Special#1] - AWS Key Management Service
June 12, 2018#Special Series- Speakers: Simon Elisha Katie Doptis Laremy Legel Ken Beer
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) makes it easy to create and control encryption keys, which could be used to meet encryption and deletion requirements like those associated with GDPR. Cryptographic deletion is the idea is that you can delete a relatively small number of keys to make a large amount of encrypted data irretrievable. Hear from Ken, general manager of AWS KMS, about best practices related to encryption, key management and cryptographic deletion.KMS | AWS GDPR Center
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Ep. 247 - Diving Into AWS AppSync
June 10, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Ed Lima
Simon speaks with Ed Lima (AWS Solutions Architect) about AWS AppSync. What you can do with it, how it works and how to get started. Do you write mobile apps? Do you want data syncing? Do you need to integrate with a complex back-end? This is the episode for you! AWS AppSync | Ed's Blog Post | AWS Online Tech Talks
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Ep. 246 - Service Update Mega-Show!
June 3, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
This week Simon takes you though an extensive set of things new and interesting - hopefully something for everyone! Blog on Amazon Aurora Backtrack | Amazon RDS for Oracle | AWS Database Migration Service | Amazon Redshift
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Ep. 245 - Cost Optimization For EC2
May 27, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Peter Shi Spencer Marley
How do you approach cost optimisation for EC2? Peter Shi and Spencer Marley (Commercial Architects) speak with Simon about some of the most common techniques customers can use.Cost Optimization
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Ep. 243 - Have You Heard of the Essential 8?
May 13, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Simo Elisha John Hildebrandt
Have You Heard of the Essential 8?Customers around the world strive to maintain a high security posture. But how is this best achieved? The Australian Signals Directorate recommends the "Essential 8" mitigation strategies that organisations should apply. Simon is joined by John Hildebrandt, AWS Principal Solutions Architect, to discuss his recent blog post that shows you how you can implement these mitigations using AWS in new and efficient ways.Blog: "Essential 8" Migration Strategies | AWS Security
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Ep. 242 - Using Built-in Algos with Amazon SageMaker
May 6, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Julien Simon
Did you know there are more than 10 built-in ML algos you can use when doing Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker? Simon is joined by Julien Simon (Principal AI//ML Evangelist, AWS EMEA) to discuss how to use them best! Amazon SageMaker | Built-in Algorithms | Amazon SageMaker Examples on GitHub
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Ep. 241 - Service Update Show
April 29, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
Another big round up of useful new capabilities for customers! S3 One Zone | Amazon S3 Select | Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon AppStream 2.0
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Ep. 240 - AWS Answers for Log Centralization and Game Analytics
April 22, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Garvit Singh Tom Horton
Call in the Solutions Builders! In this episode Simon speaks with Garvit Singh and Tom Horton from the AWS Solutions Builder team about the solutions for Centralised Logging and Game Analytics.Centralised Logging Solution | Gaming Analytics Pipeline
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Ep. 239 - Tales of Public Sector Customers Moving to the Cloud
April 15, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Sion Elisha Mark Ryland
How can Government Agencies take advantage of the cloud to deliver better citizen services? Mark Ryland (Director of Solutions Architecture, AWS) chats with Simon about customer experiences in this sector, and what he has seen work.Addressing Data Residency with AWS | AWS in the Public Sector | FINRA | DigitalGlobe
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Ep. 238 - Chaos Engineering and Architecture with Adrian Cockcroft
April 8, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Simo Elisha Adrian Cockcroft
Simon speaks with Adrian Cockcroft (VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy, AWS) about the domain of Chaos Engineering and Architecture. They also discuss AWS activity in the Open Source community.Watch Adrian's 2017 re:Invent Presentation | Drift Into Failure | Netflix Chaos Engineering | https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body" target="_blank">Open Source at AWS
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Ep. 237 - Improving Lives of People With Special Needs
April 2, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Robin Dautricourt
Technology can enable people with Special Needs to access more services than ever before, and improve their quality of life. In this episode Simon speaks with Robin Dautricourt, Product Manager for Amazon Polly about some of the things people are doing with Amazon Polly to make this possible.Amazon Polly | Blog: Building a Special-Needs Voice Assistant
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Ep. 236 - Service Update Show
March 25, 2018#Update Show- Speakers: Simon Elisha
It is update time! Simon shares a great selection of new things for customers - what will be your favourite?Amazon Polly Gives WordPress a Voice! | Amazon Polly New Phonation Tag | Amazon Connect | Responses Capability in Amazon Lex
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Ep. 235 - Elections on AWS
March 19, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Michael Jackson Leo Zhadanovsky
Elections and their associated campaigns are important, complex and an great example of a "spikey one shot deal workload". Simon speaks with Michael Jackson (Strategy Lead, State & Local Government, AWS) and Leo Zhadanovsky (Principal Solutions Architecture, AWS) about how Elections are run on AWS and some great "war stories" from past campaigns.Elections Management
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Ep. 234 - A History of the AWS Blog
March 6, 2018#Interview- Speakers: Simon Elisha Jeff Barr Ana Visneski Daniel Westerman-Clark
Simon is joined by Jeff Barr, Ana Visneski & Daniel Westermann-Clark to discuss why the AWS Blog exists, how it gets produced and a few other interesting things you might want to hear about!! AWS Blog
