
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 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.
Latest episodes

May 25, 2023 • 26min
#589: The Evolution of AWS Private Certificate Authority
In this episode, Simon is joined by members of the AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) service team, GM Todd Cignetti and Principal Software Engineer Param Sharma, to discuss how the service has evolved since the 2018 launch. AWS Private CA is a managed private certificate authority (CA) service that you can use to create CA hierarchies and issue private X.509 certificates. Learn about how to design CA hierarchies to scale for long-term PKI needs, Kubernetes connectors, and the latest feature, short-lived certificate mode.
AWS Private CA: https://bit.ly/45tt4G4
Read the short-lived certificate mode blog: https://bit.ly/45xTWVl
Learn about AWS post-quantum investments: https://bit.ly/3WtYg45

May 22, 2023 • 25min
#588: AWS Data Insights Day
Discover the power of Amazon Redshift, AWS's Petabyte-scale data warehouse, in our podcast "Data Insights Unleashed." Redshift's scalability, thanks to its Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture, effortlessly handles high data influxes and accommodates varying user demands while ensuring consistent, high-performance experiences at a cost-effective scale. Today Simon is joined by Brandon Draeger, Director of Product Marketing here at AWS, to unravel the potential of Amazon Redshift and revolutionize your data-driven decision-making.
Redshift Innovation Day Registration: https://bit.ly/3IsVNkm
Get Started with Redshift: https://go.aws/3Wn7Nde
Redshift website: https://go.aws/3MjOBbx

May 18, 2023 • 29min
#587: May 2023 Update Show 2
It is a jam-packed update show! Chapters:
00:24 Analytics
06:17 Application Integration
06:42 Business Applications
06:51 Compute
09:04 Customer Engagement
10:05 Databases
10:35 Developer Tools
12:31 Front-End Web & Mobile
14:32 Internet of Things (IoT)
15:51 Machine Learning
18:04 Management & Governance
20:35 Media Services
21:19 Migration & Transfer
22:23 Security, Identity and Compliance
27:21 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/587ExtendedShownotes.html

May 15, 2023 • 19min
#586: AWS Serverless Innovation Day
While application modernization continues to be a top priority for organizations, building modern applications with serverless technologies can still seem like a significant lift for some developers who are unsure how to get started. In this episode, Simon is joined by Eric Johnson (Principal Developer Advocate) to talk about the upcoming AWS Serverless Innovation Day, a virtual “builders show builders how to build” event, which will cover serverless strategy, serverless demos on machine learning and generative AI and event-driven architecture, insights from AWS serverless leaders and customers, and best practices using AWS serverless technology choices, including AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions and more.

May 11, 2023 • 31min
#585: AWS Partners with Smart City
The city of the future is “smart.” This episode is a deep-dive into practical step-by-step insights and global trends on building smart city solutions in the cloud. Discover how AWS Partners with verified smart city capabilities are driving innovative, inclusive, and sustainable cities around the world through the AWS Smart City Competency Program. Hear from launch partners Arq Group and Vianova as they share their expertise and experiences in accelerating smart city innovations around the world.

May 8, 2023 • 26min
#584: Amazon CodeCatalyst
Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it easier for you to build and deliver applications on AWS. Now generally available, CodeCatalyst provides everything you need to start planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS with a streamlined, integrated experience. Hear from DevOps Services GM Harry Mower about what led to the creation of CodeCatalyst, how it helps developers, and what's coming next in 2023.
Amazon CodeCatalyst - https://bit.ly/418Azig
Read the announcement - https://go.aws/41dm8JM
Read about CodeCatalyst - https://go.aws/41aWmWK
Read the documentation - https://go.aws/3HITtWm
Smart Business Day: https://go.aws/3Ly6y5Q

7 snips
May 4, 2023 • 18min
#583: Introducing Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances
AWS Inferentia2-based Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances can help you deploy your 100B+ parameter generative AI models at scale. Inf2 instances deliver up to 40% better price performance than comparable Amazon EC2 instances. Tune in to learn more about this new launch that helps you increase performance, reduce costs, and also improve energy efficiency when deploying your ML applications.
Inf2 PDP https://go.aws/44oez5T
Neuron documentation https://bit.ly/44oLmrz
AWS Inferentia https://go.aws/3NAyhFr
AWS Trainium https://go.aws/3nkivnH

May 1, 2023 • 30min
#582: May 2023 Update Show 1
So many great updates - which one will spark your imagination?
Chapters:
01:18 Analytics
02:47 Application Integration
03:53 Business Applications
04:42 Compute
10:33 Cost Management
10:57 Customer Engagement
12:36 Databases
15:15 Developer Tools
18:19 End User Computing
18:45 Front-End Web & Mobile
19:42 GameTech
20:05 Internet of Things (IoT)
20:29 Machine Learning
21:52 Management & Governance
23:01 Media Services
23:43 Migration & Transfer
24:09 Networking & Content Delivery
24:19 Satellites
24:55 Security, Identity and Compliance
26:52 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/583ExtendedShownotes.html

Apr 24, 2023 • 24min
#581: [INTRODUCING] Amazon CodeWhisperer
Amazon CodeWhisperer enables software developers to get real-time code recommendations in their IDE based on their (English) comments describing the task at hand, and their current coding context. With CodeWhisperer, developers can simply write a natural language comment that outlines a specific task such as “get new files uploaded in the last 24 hours from the S3 bucket” and CodeWhisperer automatically determines which cloud services and public libraries are best suited for the specified task and generates the code for the developer. CodeWhisperer is especially well suited to helping developers generate code that simplifies consumption of AWS services (e.g., Amazon EC2 or Amazon S3), making it the best coding assistant for if you are developing for AWS. Amazon CodeWhisperer https://go.aws/41K0Wwl

Apr 17, 2023 • 43min
#580: April 2023 Update Show 2
Three hosts to take you through all the updates this week!
Chapters:
01:18 Analytics
04:52 Application Integration
06:19 Business Applications
07:09 Compute
10:37 Cost Management
12:55 Customer Engagement
15:23 Database
18:16 Developer Tools
19:45 End User Compute
20:56 Game Tech
21:50 Internet of Things
23:30 Machine Learning
25:38 Management & Governance
31:01 Media Services
31:54 Migration & Transfer
32:57 Networking & Content Delivery
38:31 Security, Identity and Compliance
40:01 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/586ExtendedShownotes.html AWS Podcast Audio Feedback: https://bit.ly/3mDc3Y1
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