

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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Sep 28, 2023 • 19min
#625: AWS Application Composer
Ryan Coleman, Principal Product Manager at AWS, discusses the evolution of AWS Application Composer, its benefits for building well-architected applications, challenges of building serverless applications, and the advantages of using servilous for system design and implementation. He also introduces AWS Application Composer as a tool for infrastructure as code that simplifies service discovery, configuration, and integration.

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Sep 25, 2023 • 20min
#624: AWS and DeepLearning.AI release "Generative AI with Large Language Models" on Coursera
Tommy Nelson from DeepLearning.AI and Antje Barth from AWS discuss the new hands-on course 'Generative AI with large language models'. They highlight the collaboration between the two organizations, the positive response from the community, and the importance of understanding generative AI and its practical applications. They also share advice for learners and where to sign up for the course.

Sep 21, 2023 • 17min
#623: API Modernization Strategies Episode 2
Hawn Nguyen-Loughren and Venugopalan Vasudevan discuss cross-team API development considerations for enterprises, introducing AWS AppSync and its benefits for consolidating APIs. They explore common use cases, the power of AppSync's real-time interaction and integrated caching, and the guardrails and security options provided by AppSync APIs.

Sep 18, 2023 • 29min
#622: September 2023 Update Show 2
Simon flies the show solo to share a raft of very cool things to help you build!
Chapters:
00:34 AWS Marketplace
00:58 Analytics
03:28 Application Integration
05:17 Business Applications
06:01 Compute
06:54 Cost Management
07:33 Customer Engagement
10:23 Databases
14:30 Developer Tools
15:09 End User Computing
15:33 Front End Web & Mobile
16:15 Machine Learning
20:24 Management & Governance
21:21 Media Services
21:35 Migration & Transfer
23:32 Networking & Content Delivery
24:55 Security, Identity, & Compliance
27:02 Storage
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/622ExtendedShownotes.html

Sep 15, 2023 • 19min
#621: AWS Control Tower and Cloud Governance in 2023
Al Destefano and Nivas Durairaj, Cloud Governance Specialists, dive into the essential strategies for managing AWS environments effectively. They discuss the significant advantages of implementing a multi-account strategy to mitigate security risks and streamline resource management. Best practices for aligning cloud governance with business goals are highlighted, along with the role of AWS Control Tower in simplifying governance processes. The conversation also explores how organizations can meet regulatory requirements at scale, ensuring data residency and compliance.

Sep 12, 2023 • 16min
#620: AWS DMS Serverless
Jillian Forde and Michael Surkan discuss how AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is simplifying migrations with AWS DMS Serverless. Learn how AWS DMS Serverless automatically provisions, monitors, and scales migration resources to the optimal capacity needed to meet demand, so you don't have to.
AWS DMS Serverless blog: https://bit.ly/3Zhln31
AWS DMS Serverless website: AWS DMS Serverless website
AWS Database Migration Serverless: https://bit.ly/3ZbSqp4

Sep 7, 2023 • 16min
#619: Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink simplifies real-time streaming applications on AWS, with no server management or setup required. It offers sub-second latencies, seamless integrations, and event response in real-time. The chapter discussions cover the basics of Apache Flink, benefits of the service, deployment options, and recommendations for getting started.

Sep 4, 2023 • 24min
#618: September 2023 Update Show 1
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover the latest AWS updates. Chapters:
01:07 AWS Marketplace
01:41 Analytics
04:54 Application Integration
06:32 Compute
08:34 Database
10:33 Developer Tools
11:08 Game Tech
11:18 Machine Learning
12:58 Management & Governance
13:47 Media Services
14:19 Migration & Transfer
16:39 Networking & Content Delivery
17:52 Security, Identity, & Compliance
18:46 Startups
20:29 Storage
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/618ExtendedShownotes.html

Aug 31, 2023 • 22min
#617: Amazon Managed Blockchain announces Access and Query
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) is a fully managed service which makes building with blockchain technology accessible and affordable for all developers. AMB' two new services, AMB Access and Query expands AMB’s capabilities to help developers build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access provides a new serverless offering for non-mining, full blockchain nodes. With AMB Access, developers can instantly call standard remote procedure calls (RPCs) to interact with digital assets and distributed applications built on multiple blockchains, starting with Bitcoin, without specialized blockchain infrastructure. AMB Query delivers standardized and formatted blockchain data from multiple blockchains, starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum, which applications can consume quickly without having to perform complex data transformations or pay expensive storage costs. AMB Access and Query blog: https://bit.ly/3PrkBgR AMB Access and Query website: https://bit.ly/47MHbYp

Aug 28, 2023 • 18min
#616: Mountpoint for Amazon S3
Devabrat Kumar, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon S3, discusses the launch of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, customer feedback, updates, improvements, customer interaction, use cases, access control, limitations, and active engagement of the project.