

AWS Podcast
Amazon Web Services
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 Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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Nov 6, 2023 • 26min
#635: November 2023 Update Show 1
In this podcast, they cover 75 exciting updates across AWS Marketplace, analytics, application integration, blockchain, compute, databases, developer tools, end user computing, internet of things, machine learning, management & governance, media services, migration & transfer, and security, identity, & compliance.

Nov 2, 2023 • 20min
#634: Innovating with generative AI starts with your data strategy
Gopinath Sankaran, VP at Informatica, joins Jillian Forde to discuss generative AI's transformative power. They explore its varied applications across business operations and customer experience. They highlight the importance of a strong data foundation for generative AI, including data architecture, sources, quality, security, and governance. They provide tips for getting started with generative AI and share their experience in using it for data management processes.

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Oct 30, 2023 • 33min
#633: October 2023 Update Show 3
This podcast episode covers a variety of interesting topics, including analytics, application integration, compute, customer engagement, database, developer tools, end user computing, front end web & mobile, internet of things, machine learning, management & governance, media services, networking & content delivery, security, identity, & compliance, and supply chain. The episode also discusses the release of Amazon Data Zone, updates on collaboration and data sharing tools, event buses for event-driven applications, and updates on various AWS services like Lambda, EC2, EKS, and SageMaker.

Oct 23, 2023 • 20min
#632: Accelerate AWS Cloud Journeys with Experience-Based Acceleration
The podcast features Bilal Shirazi and Rughved Gadgil discussing the benefits of Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) in AWS Cloud Journeys. They talk about achieving outcomes in days not months, delivering ML use cases in 8-12 weeks, and how AWS supports customers without enough headcount for EBA.

Oct 19, 2023 • 20min
#631: Amazon EC2 P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Leif Reinert, Principal Product Manager Tech at AWS, discusses how Amazon EC2 P5 instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs accelerate ML training and HPC workloads. Topics include maximizing GPU performance, engineering and infrastructure of P5 instances, efficient distributed training, relevance in HPC, and customer feedback.

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Oct 16, 2023 • 35min
#630: October 2023 Update Show 2
In this podcast, they bid farewell to a co-host and discuss updates on various AWS services including analytics capabilities, Amazon SNS and SQS improvements, updates in AWS Compute service, and enhancements to AWS services like Amazon EKS and DynamoDB. They also mention developer tool updates and a price reduction in Amazon location service.

Oct 12, 2023 • 17min
#629: Diving into Amazon EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances
Learn about the benefits and technical specs of the new EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances powered by AMD processors, including their 50% higher performance. Explore the history and benefits of the AMD and AWS partnership. Discover various use cases for these instances and how to migrate and get started with them easily.

Oct 9, 2023 • 21min
#628: Data on EKS
The podcast discusses the use of Kubernetes and Amazon EKS for managing data and ML workloads. They introduce the Data on EKS project as a solution and explore the evolution of Kubernetes, adoption and migration to Kubernetes with AWS, and the use of blueprints and the 'Data on EKS' project for Amazon EKS.

Oct 5, 2023 • 19min
#627: Amazon DataZone
Learn about Amazon DataZone, a new service that helps govern data access across organizational boundaries. Shikha Verma, Head of Product, and Amir Bar-Or, Principal Engineer, discuss the challenges of data management, how DataZone automates data discovery and cataloging, and the benefits of using the service over building a data catalog system from scratch.

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Oct 2, 2023 • 30min
#626: October 2023 Update Show 1
Lots of interesting updates this week - AWS Marketplace updates, analytics with Apache Flink, application integration updates, new EC2 feature for security, cost management updates, customer engagement, databases, developer tools, front end web & mobile development, machine learning, management & governance, media services, networking & content delivery, and security & compliance. Exciting features like AT way functionality and AWS AppSync for real-time data updates, enhanced error handling capabilities, and new EC2 instances are discussed. Updates and improvements in various AWS services are also covered.