

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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Jun 16, 2023 • 24min
#595: Amazon Security Lake
Amazon Security Lake is a new service that centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in the customer’s account. With Security Lake, customers can gain a more complete understanding of security data across their entire organization. In this episode, Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Specialist for AWS Security Services, joins Julian Ford to discuss the customer problems that Amazon Security Lake solves and provide guidance on getting started with Security Lake.
Amazon Security Lake website: https://go.aws/3JipANj
Blog: Amazon Security Lake is now generally available: https://go.aws/440F0xE
Blog: Amazon Security Lake and Azure activity logs: https://go.aws/3XektmT

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Jun 11, 2023 • 37min
#594: June 2023 Update Show 1
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover all the updates you need to know about!
Chapters:
00:52 AWS Marketplace
01:21 Analytics
03:23 Application Integration
05:38 Compute
07:06 Customer Engagement
10:27 Databases
15:42 Developer Tools
17:03 Front-End Web & Mobile
18:46 GameTech
19:29 Machine Learning
23:32 Management & Governance
26:34 Media Services
27:43 Migration & Transfer
29:40 Networking & Content Delivery
32:34 Security, Identity and Compliance
35:11 Storage
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/594ExtendedShownotes.html AWS Podcast Audio Feedback: https://bit.ly/3mDc3Y1

Jun 8, 2023 • 19min
#593: AWS Glue Data Quality
Hundreds of thousands of customers build data lakes everyday and these data lakes can quickly become data swamps if they dont pay attention to the data quality. Setting up data quality can be a time-consuming, tedious process. Shiv Narayanan, Product Manager for AWS Glue chats with (Name) about the launch of AWS Glue Data Quality. AWS Glue Data Quality Quality builds confidence in your data by ensuring high data quality. It automatically measures, monitors, and manages data quality in your data lakes and data pipelines, so it’s easy to identify missing, stale, or bad data. Take the steps to make your data lake crystal clear.
Whats New: AWS Glue Data Quality: https://go.aws/3IWPXIw
AWS Glue Data Quality: https://go.aws/3MUrk07
Blog: AWS Glue Data Quality: https://go.aws/42nq6jG

Jun 5, 2023 • 15min
#592: Accelerate your workloads by cloud bursting with Amazon File Cache
Speed matters when processing large data sets. Media & entertainment (rendering and transcoding), healthcare & life sciences (genomics and microscopy), and other compute intensive workloads use cloud bursting to augment internal compute resources with the goal of completing projects faster. Amazon File Cache is a recently introduced high speed cache which brings the power and scale of AWS to your on-premises workloads. Tune in to Jordan Dolman, Sr. Product Manager to learn how Amazon File Cache enables you to complete your projects faster and optimize compute resources.
Getting started with Amazon File Cache: https://go.aws/3qsVakB

Jun 1, 2023 • 20min
#591: AWS Data Insights Day 2
The first AWS data insights Day covered everything you know and love about cloud analytics and data warehousing. AWS data experts and customers shared about the evolution of Amazon Redshift, best practices of using this product, how they are getting to insights cost effectively, securely, and much more. Join Sunaina Abdul Salah and your host Hawn Loughren-Nguyen on some of the key highlights and takeaways.

May 29, 2023 • 23min
#590: May 2023 Update Show 3
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover over 60 updates in just 20 minutes - is there something in it for you?
Chapters:
01:10 AWS Marketplace
01:24 Analytics
03:32 Application Integration
05:26 Compute
06:45 Customer Engagement
07:32 Databases
08:51 Developer Tools
09:42 Internet of Things (IoT)
10:56 Machine Learning
13:04 Management & Governance
15:16 Media Services
16:02 Networking & Content Delivery
18:02 Security, Identity and Compliance
20:46 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/590ExtendedShownotes.html AWS Podcast Audio Feedback: https://bit.ly/3mDc3Y1

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

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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.