
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

Sep 27, 2022 • 36min
#548: September 2022 Update Show 2
It is here! A bunch of great updates to Dive Deep on!
Chapters:
00:35 Analytics
01:54 Application Integration
04:55 Compute
09:47 Customer Engagement
11:31 Database
13:23 Developer Tools
14:05 Internet of Things (IoT)
17:05 Machine Learning
24:41 Management & Governance
28:43 Migration & Transfer
29:19 Networking & Content Delivery
30:17 Security, Identity and Compliance
34:09 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/548ExtendedShownotes.html

7 snips
Sep 19, 2022 • 16min
#547: [INTRODUCING] AWS Cloud Wan
In this episode, Hawn is joined by Shridhar Kulkarni (Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Cloud WAN. They dive into how AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to bring your network to the cloud, as well as it's efficiency, management, and security benefits. Listen to learn more about AWS Cloud WAN and how to unify your on-premises and cloud networks, and simplify how you build, manage, and monitor your wide area network.
Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloud-wan-a-managed-wan-service/
Read the Network channel blog- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-cloud-wan-preview/
Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan

Sep 12, 2022 • 35min
#546: September 2022 Update Show 1
Simon & Hawn are back! With lots of goodies!
Chapters:
00:31 Analytics
02:27 Application Integration
04:54 Compute
08:39 Customer Engagement
10:12 Database
12:10 Developer Tools
13:44 Front-End Web & Mobile
14:19 Game Tech
15:27 Internet of Things (IoT)
16:48 Machine Learning
20:28 Management & Governance
25:00 Migration & Transfer
25:40 Networking & Content Delivery
30:00 Security, Identity and Compliance
33:53 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/546ExtendedShownotes.html

Sep 4, 2022 • 25min
#545: Transform Your Business Faster by Optimizing Storage Costs Automatically with Amazon S3
As your business grows to store millions to billions of objects and terabytes to petabytes of data on Amazon S3, it becomes increasingly valuable to use tools and automation to handle that scale. Effective storage cost optimization can require different approaches depending on application latency and access patterns. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Kutsy and Jessie Felix, Amazon S3 product managers, to discuss key considerations for optimizing your storage. Learn how Amazon S3 enables business transformation and helps you innovate faster with a range of storage classes, and tools such as S3 Storage Lens to identify cost savings opportunities.
Learn about Amazon S3 - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering
Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/
Amazon S3 Storage Lens - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-analytics-insights/

Aug 28, 2022 • 17min
#544: [INTRODUCING] Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight
In this episode, Hawn is joined by Kareem Syed-Mohammad (Sr. Tech Product Manager for Amazon QuickSight) to discuss the newly launched Fine-Grained Visual Embedding feature, powered by Amazon QuickSight. Learn how to provide rich insights to your end users by seamlessly embedding individual data visuals into applications and high traffic webpages, without server or software setup or infrastructure management.
Read the blog - https://go.aws/3AsofOH
Watch the demo - https://bit.ly/3dZ7MKh
Learn more - https://go.aws/3RbGRsP
Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3csn2ib

Aug 21, 2022 • 39min
#543: August 2022 Update Show 1
Simon & Hawn guide you through updates big and small!
Chapters:
00:28 Analytics
04:00 Application Integration
05:27 Business Applications
06:21 Compute
09:10 Cost Management
09:40 Customer Engagement
10:04 Databases
13:58 End User Compute
14:40 Front-End Web & Mobile
16:27 Internet of Things (IoT)
17:57 Machine Learning
24:30 Management & Governance
29:53 Migration & Transfer
31:17 Networking & Content Delivery
33:09 Security, Identity and Compliance
34:47 Storage
35:26 Training & Certification
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/543ExtendedShownotes.html

Aug 17, 2022 • 7min
#542: [Right Now at AWS Podcast] Healthcare Startup Creates New Revenue Stream
LactApp is a Spanish healthcare startup dedicated to personalized breastfeeding and maternity support. The app offers on-demand, evidence-based breastfeeding guidance in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. To continue its mission, the company needed a new revenue stream and decided to add a subscription tier for video content. But the team soon realized they needed a native video streaming solution and building from scratch was daunting. After doing some research, the CTO discovered the AWS Solution, Video on Demand on AWS Foundation. Listen to the podcast to learn how LactApp implemented the solution, which helped gain 4,500 new paid users in less than a year and increase downloads by +22%.

Aug 14, 2022 • 18min
#541: [Amazon Connect] Transform your Contact Center by Migrating Your Legacy Interactive Voice Response Flows (IVRs)
Neuraflash is an AWS Partner that applies artificial intelligence and data-powered experiences to help customers transform their customer service by making the experience faster, more personalized, and connected across channels. In this special series episode, AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher is joined by NeuraFlash Sr. VP John Heater, to understand why Interactive Voice Repsonse flows (IVRs) are so important to the Contact Center and brand perception, and how the IVR Migration Tool can help organizations transform their customer service experience.
Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/featured/contact-center/
Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3zZTMZh

10 snips
Aug 7, 2022 • 22min
#540: New Observability Features from Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Services has new observability features to help you systematically detect potential threats and react to a system's state through an open source solution for machine learning, alerting, and visualization. In this episode, Simon is joined by Rajiv Taori, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to discuss the observability use case and the new capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also dig into the benefits of observability, who it’s for, and share a customer example from Airbnb.
Get started- https://go.aws/3SHO5GO
Learn more about Observability- https://go.aws/3A3Hori
Watch the live demo - https://bit.ly/3A3dbbL
Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3zZTMZh

Jul 31, 2022 • 32min
#539: July 2022 Update Show 2
It is update time! Simon & Hawn have over 70 updates in this episode for you.
Chapters:
00:28 AWS Marketplace
01:09 Analytics
07:08 Application Integration
07:39 Compute
11:29 Customer Engagement
12:01 Database
13:37 Developer Tools
16:35 Front-End Web & Mobile
17:11 Internet of Things (IoT)
18:21 Machine Learning
21:55 Management & Governance
23:19 Media Services
23:43 Migration & Transfer
24:26 Networking & Content Delivery
26:59 Quantum Technologies
27:27 Security, Identity and Compliance
30:24 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/538ExtendedShownotes.html