

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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Jan 2, 2023 • 18min
#565: DevOps Guru for RDS Detects and Resolves Performance Bottlenecks for Amazon RDS
In this episode, Simon is joined by Shrey Luthra and Jacob Sullivan, Product Managers for Amazon RDS and Amazon DevOps Guru, to talk about a new capability through which customers can detect and diagnose performance issues for their Amazon RDS databases and get recommendations on how to fix them.
For more information: https://go.aws/3I2HVhx

Dec 26, 2022 • 20min
#564: [INTRODUCING] Amazon Athena for Apache Spark
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark enables you to run Apache Spark interactive analytics quicker than ever before, without the need to plan for, configure, and manage resources. In this episode, Raj Devnath (Sr. Product Manager) and Anthony Virtuoso (Sr. Principal Engineer) join Simon to talk about this new launch that allows you to combine the ease of use, fast performance and on-demand availability of Athena with Spark’s expressive programing model to ask more sophisticated questions of your data.
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark: https://go.aws/3FP7LCG
Read the blog: https://go.aws/3HSLk2a
What’s new: https://amzn.to/3WeOFwN
See our page here: https://go.aws/3Gd1B0V

Dec 19, 2022 • 17min
#563: [INTRODUCING] Amazon Quicksight Paginated Reports
Amazon QuickSight now supports Paginated Reports, which allows the capture of detailed operational data in custom formats to facilitate critical and day-to-day business processes. Paginated Reports allows you to create, schedule, and share at scale highly formatted multipage reports and schedule data exports at scale using the QuickSight serverless architecture and straightforward interface. Tune in to hear more about Paginated Reports from QuickSight Senior Product Manager, Rahul Easwar.
Marketing Site: https://go.aws/3uTi7fX
AWS News Blog: https://go.aws/3V1GdQ8
Documentation: https://go.aws/3j190Hj

Dec 12, 2022 • 16min
#562: INTRODUCING Amazon OpenSearch Service
Introducing a new preview service: Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With OpenSearch Serverless, customers no longer need to provision, configure, and scale their OpenSearch infrastructure. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and continuously adjusts the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most unpredictable and intermittent workloads. Hear directly from our Product Managers: what problems does it solve, how does it work, and how does it work with Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Links:
web page: https://go.aws/3YdCimn
Demos in YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3iNZU0v
Documentation: https://go.aws/3ULw7CT

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Dec 5, 2022 • 33min
#561: [INTRODUCING] AWS SimSpace Weaver
AWS SimSpace Weaver is a managed service that allows developers to create expansive spatial simulation worlds at new levels of complexity and scale without worrying about the underlying compute, memory, or networking – all while paying only a fraction of the cost compared to procuring high-end hardware. In this episode, Sr. Product Manager Ritz Martinovic and Sr. Software Development Manager Adam Villalobos share how developers can now spend more time developing their simulation logic and content while SimSpace Weaver manages all their simulation infrastructure.
Read the blog: https://go.aws/3iyGL2m
Watch the demo: https://bit.ly/3B6pEvv
Explore the documentation: https://go.aws/3XOYov8
Learn more: https://go.aws/3VOKS9c

Dec 1, 2022 • 12min
#560: re:Invent 2022 – Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote
In our final re:Invent recap episode of the year, Simon shares the news and announcements from Dr. Werner Vogels’s keynote. We’ll cover innovations and emerging technologies that are enabling builders to create scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant applications.
And don’t worry, we’ll be sharing more episodes diving deep on a handful of our favorite re:Invent launches over the next few weeks, so be sure to tune in!
Check out the AWS News Blog for AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr’s picks for this year’s top announcements: https://go.aws/3XFrxZv
Take The Official AWS Podcast audience survey through 4/11/2023: https://bit.ly/3G9hrK4

Nov 30, 2022 • 23min
#559: re:Invent 2022 – Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote
In the third installment of our re:Invent 2022 coverage, Simon tells you all about the news and announcements from Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote! With an exciting focus on data and machine learning, you won’t want to miss these updates on future-proofing your data strategy and empowering your organization to drive modern invention.
Check out the AWS News Blog for AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr’s picks for this year’s top announcements: https://go.aws/3XFrxZv
Take The Official AWS Podcast audience survey through 4/11/2023: https://bit.ly/3G9hrK4

Nov 29, 2022 • 27min
#558: re:Invent 2022 – Adam Selipsky Keynote
Our re:Invent 2022 coverage continues! In this episode, Simon will share all of the news and announcements from AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s keynote. Tune in to hear more about the innovations in data, infrastructure, and more.
Check out the AWS News Blog for AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr’s picks for this year’s top announcements: https://go.aws/3XFrxZv
Take The Official AWS Podcast audience survey through 4/11/2023: https://bit.ly/3G9hrK4

Nov 29, 2022 • 41min
#557: re:Invent 2022 – Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis
It’s time for our first re:Invent episode of the year! Today Simon will walk you through all of the most exciting news and announcements from Peter DeSantis’ keynote – which will cover solutions across silicon, networking, storage, and compute.
Check out the AWS News Blog for AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr’s picks for this year’s top announcements: https://go.aws/3XFrxZv
Take The Official AWS Podcast audience survey through 4/11/2023: https://bit.ly/3G9hrK4

Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 13min
#556: November 2022 Update Show 1
It is a BUMPER show of updates!!! Please take 2-3 minutes to fill out a survey letting us know how we can improve the AWS Podcast for you! You can fill out the survey here: https://bit.ly/3G9hrK4 through 4/11/2023!
Chapters:
01:06 Analytics
06:56 Application Integration
12:10 Compute
22:36 Customer Engagement
26:20 Database
30:56 Developer Tools
33:09 End User Computing
35:50 Front-End Web & Mobile
36:43 Internet of Things (IoT)
38:56 Machine Learning
46:37 Management & Governance
56:24 Media Services
56:55 Migration & Transfer
58:52 Networking & Content Delivery
01:04:08 Quantum Technologies
01:05:28 Satellite
01:06:07 Security, Identity and Compliance
01:10:52 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/556ExtendedShownotes.html