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 Official Podcast has something for you.
#652: AWS News Updates, February 2024 #1
Simon & Jillian cover a cool mix of updates and improvements you can use today! Chapters: 00:42 AWS Marketplace 01:21 Analytics 02:26 Application Integration 03:23 Blockchain 04:04 Compute 05:30 Customer Engagement 05:56 Databases 07:03 Machine Learning 08:05 Management & Governance 08:57 Media Services 09:41 Networking 10:01 Security, Identity, & Compliance 10:26 Solutions 11:13 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/652ExtendedShownotes.html
#651: Accelerate migrations with AWS Migration Evaluator
In this episode, we discuss AWS migration assessments using AWS Migration Evaluator. The complimentary, fast assessment compares on-premises and AWS costs and delivers a business case to justify migration. It provides data-driven analysis of compute, storage, licensing, and sustainable best practices.
#650: AWS News Updates, Jan. 29, 2024
Jillian takes you through all the latest AWS updates! Chapters: 00:48 AWS Marketplace; 01:25 Analytics; 03:04 Application Integration; 03:41 Compute; 08:19 Customer Engagement; 09:13 Databases; 11:39 Developer Tools; 12:41 Front End Web and Mobile; 13:28 Machine Learning; 13:55 Management & Governance; 15:44 Media Services; 15:52 Migration & Transfer; 17:07 Networking & Content Delivery; 18:48 Security, Identity, & Compliance; 19:34 Storage; 20:46 Supply Chain
#649: Amazon S3 Express One Zone
In this episode, hear how S3 Express One Zone enables workloads such as machine learning training, interactive analytics, and media content creation to achieve single-digit millisecond data access speed with high durability and availability.
#649: Amazon S3 Express One Zone
The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is purpose-built to deliver the fastest cloud object storage for performance-critical applications, with speeds up to 10x faster and request costs down to 50% lower than S3 Standard. In this episode, hear how S3 Express One Zone enables workloads such as machine learning training, interactive analytics, and media content creation to achieve single-digit millisecond data access speed with high durability and availability.
#648: AWS News Updates Jan 15 2024
Jillian and Shruti take you through all the updates since re:Invent! AWS Marketplace (01:01); Analytics (01:32); Application Integration (08:04); Compute (09:33); Customer Engagement (22:45); Databases (25:37); Developer Tools (31:39); End User Computing (34:28); Front End Web and Mobile (34:51); Internet of Things (35:13); Machine Learning (36:07); Management & Governance (39:35); Media Services (48:06); Migration & Transfer (48:42); Networking & Content Delivery (49:52); Satellite (51:36); Security, Identity, & Compliance (51:52); Storage (54:22)
#647: Amazon Q is your new generative AI–powered assistant
In this episode, we’re diving deep into Amazon Q, your generative AI–powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business, recently launched at re:Invent 2023. We’ll go through Amazon Q’s main areas of expertise so you can learn about how Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company's information repositories, code, and enterprise systems. You'll hear from experts, such as product managers, on how Amazon Q can boost your workforce productivity with generative AI, transform the way you build, optimize, and operate applications and workloads on AWS, deliver customer service agents the responses, actions, and information they need to solve issues in real time, or and help BI users build, discover, and share actionable insights and narratives in seconds. Finally, we touch on how Amazon Q handles the security of your data, go through some responsible AI capabilities, and offer you tips and tricks to get the most out of Amazon Q.
#646: Amazon RDS for Db2
Amazon RDS is a fully managed, secure, and compliant service that simplifies setup, operation, and database scaling in the cloud. Joining this episode with Simon Elisha, is Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Sr. Technical Product Manager at AWS. They'll discuss the features, benefits, and use cases of Amazon RDS for Db2.
#645: Amazon Neptune Analytics
We continue to dive deep into the recent announcements from AWS re:Invent, with the release of Amazon Neptune Analytics. Discover how Neptune Analytics helps customers find insights 80x faster by analyzing their existing Neptune graph database or graph data from a data lake such as Amazon S3. Jillian Forde is joined by Dr. Denise Gosnell (Principal Product Manager for Amazon Neptune) to learn more about Amazon Neptune Analytics. We discuss how speed is of the essence for gaining insights from large graph databases with data, such as the friendships within a social network, targeted content recommendation, fraud detection, and network threat detection then you will want to check out the new Amazon Neptune Analytics database engine.
#644: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless
In this episode, we’re diving deep into one of the recent announcements from AWS re:Invent, the release of Amazon ElasticCache Serverless. This new option allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. Jillian Forde is joined by Abhay Saxena (Principal Technical Product Manager for In-Memory databases) to learn more about ElastiCache Serverless. We talk about the benefits of caching and dive into ElastiCache Serverless features, common customer challenges, and why the team built the feature.
#643: re:Invent 2023 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote
In our final re:Invent recap episode, Simon shares news and announcements from Dr. Werner Vogels' keynote. We’ll cover why artificial intelligence (AI) is something every builder must consider when developing systems and its tremendous impact on our world. Also, stay tuned for episodes in the next few weeks where we'll dive deep into some of our favorite re:Invent launches. Be sure to tune in!
#642: re:Invent 2023 - Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote
Our re:Invent 2023 coverage continues! In this episode, Jillian Forde shares highlights from re:Invent Day 3, focusing on the profound and impactful relationship between humans, data, and AI that is unfolding right before us.
#641: 641-re:Invent 2023 - Adam Selipsky Keynote
Our re:Invent 2023 coverage continues! In this episode, Jillian Forde shares highlights from Day 2 of re:Invent, including some big announcements from AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s keynote.
#640: re:Invent 2023 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis
It’s the most re:Invent time of the year! Simon guides you through the most exciting announcements from Peter DeSantis’ keynote, where he dives deep into the engineering that powers AWS services. PLUS Simon catches you up on 100 other announcements in just 30 minutes!!
#639: How to re:Invent
Explore everything AWS re:Invent had to offer this November 27th through December 1st 2023! Join Simon Elisha and Jillian Forde as they share their tips to use your time efficiently and discover content that is most relevant to your interests wether you are in Las Vegas or joining remotely. Schedule your event using the session catalog found here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/session-catalog/