
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

Jun 12, 2022 • 38min
#529: June 2022 Update Show 1
Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and also a Q&A from a listener about SAP migration.
Chapters:
01:02 AWS Marketplace
01:32 Analytics
03:46 Application Integration
06:10 Business Applications
06:50 Compute
08:55 Customer Engagement
12:06 Database
13:07 Developer Tools
14:45 Front-end Web & Mobile
15:22 Machine Learning
20:20 Management & Governance
23:05 Migration & Transfer
24:35 Networking & Content Delivery
26:06 Quantum Technology
27:32 Security, Identity and Compliance
28:37 Storage
31:29 Q&A
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/529ExtendedShownotes.html

Jun 8, 2022 • 22min
#528: [INTRODUCING] AWS Mainframe Modernization
In this episode, Hawn is joined by Phil De Valence (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Mainframe Modernization service that makes it easy to design for security, high availability, scalability, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous deployment. AWS Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on AWS. Learn about the ways that AWS can simplify re-platforming and refactoring mainframe applications to help you benefit from cloud agility.
Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization/
Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/modernize-your-mainframe-applications-deploy-them-in-the-cloud/

Jun 5, 2022 • 17min
#527: [INTRODUCING] Amazon EMR Serverless
Want an easier way to run big data applications in the cloud? Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless, a new deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. EMR Serverless automatically scales resources up and down to provide just the right amount of capacity for your application. You pay only for what you use and you can minimize concerns about over- or under-provisioning. In this episode, Radhika Ravirala (Principal Product Manager) and Natacha Maheshe (Principal Product Marketing Manager) join Hawn to discuss EMR Serverless use cases, how EMR Serverless addresses customers challenges, and how you can started.
Learn more about EMR Serverless - https://go.aws/390CjW1
Read the blog - https://go.aws/38Q86sA
Check out the What's New announcement - https://go.aws/39bMWFg
Watch the video - https://bit.ly/3NxW0nb

May 29, 2022 • 27min
#526: May 2022 Update Show 3
Lots of interesting things to hear about this week!
Chapters:
00:28 Analytics
02:44 Application Integration
03:52 Business Applications
04:07 Compute
10:26 Developer Tools
11:14 Frond-end Web & Mobile
11:39 Games
12:33 Internet of Things (IoT)
13:54 Machine Learning
17:10 Management & Governance
20:36 Migration & Transfer
21:31 Networking & Content Delivery
24:41 Security, Identity and Compliance
25:39 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/525ExtendedShownotes.html

May 22, 2022 • 22min
#525: [Amazon Connect] Episode 1 - Personalize Customer Engagement By Empowering Agents
Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost than traditional contact centers. Join AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher, and Local Measure founder and CEO Jonathan Barouch in this special series episode where they share how Amazon Connect and Local Measure’s purpose-built cloud contact center solution Engage helps businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences by anticipating customer service needs and personalizing customer engagement by offering agents a single pane of glass to improve productivity and provide meaningful customer experiences.
Visit the Amazon Connect Partner Page - https://go.aws/3wwWTWG
Listen to the Amazon and Local Measure Webinar - https://bit.ly/3wHLVg8

May 18, 2022 • 17min
#524: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 16 - Building Apps Up to 85% Faster, with Low-code Application Platform Tech
Low-code application platform (LCAP) technology allows customers to build applications 72% to 85% faster. It enables technical staff and business users, by supporting core business application development, along with improving process efficiency. Hear about cross-industry and industry use cases, such as quote-to-contract management and eCommerce, and the typical results experienced on AWS.
Listen to our episode about low-code no-code solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/495-right-now-at-aws-episode-13-low-code-no-code-solutions/
Learn more about Intelligent Automation - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/485-right-now-at-aws-episode-12-intelligent-automation/

May 15, 2022 • 36min
#523: May 2022 Update Show 2
Simon and Hawn take you through a whirlwind of cool new things!
Chapters:
00:48 Analytics
02:05 Block Chain
03:14 Compute
07:07 Customer Engagement
11:32 Database
15:17 Developer Tools
18:53 Internet of Things (IoT)
20:06 Machine Learning
24:34 Management & Governance
27:08 Media Services
27:31 Migration & Transfer
29:30 Quantum Technology
31:15 Security, Identity and Compliance
17:32 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/523ExtendedShownotes.html

May 11, 2022 • 20min
#522: Presenting…Our New Co-Host!
In this episode, Simon welcomes new Co-Host, Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, to the podcast! They discuss her technical background, ultimate goal of automating herself out of a job, and her iconic nickname. Hawn is a Sr. Manager of Solutions Architechture at AWS. She is a developer at heart who likes to drive the overall system architecture design and execution. She has extensive experience and strong knowledge of software architecture, software development and DevSecOps with over 20 years of experience in the IT software engineering field across diverse industries. Hawn will be joining for Update Shows and leading our Launch Deep Dive episodes, so stay tuned! Have a question for Hawn or Simon? Submit questions or feedback below.
Ask a question or submit feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Find Hawn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hawnsolo_1
Connect with Hawn on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hawnsolo/

May 8, 2022 • 26min
#521: [INTRODUCING] HMACs APIs in AWS Key Management Service
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) recently launched a new cryptographic capability allowing customers to generate and verify HMACs (hash-based message authentication code). In this episode Nicki is joined by Matthew Campagna (Sr. Principal Security Engineer, AWS) and Jeremy Stieglitz (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss this foundational cryptographic building block. This new API allows you to generate and verify HMACs using secret keys that never leave the security boundary of KMS’s FIPS 140 certified HSMs.
Learn more - https://go.aws/3vHNYBl
What’s New posts - https://go.aws/3P9bP4S
Read the blog - https://go.aws/3vJ1wwF
Documentation link - https://go.aws/3vFxLwB
Please note that in preparation for this launch, we recorded this episode when Nicki was still co-hosting the podcast. Thanks again Nicki for all of your amazing work with us!

May 4, 2022 • 14min
#520: [INTRODUCING] Amazon MSK Serverless
Amazon MSK Serverless is a cluster type for Amazon MSK that makes it easy for you to run Apache Kafka without having to manage and scale cluster capacity. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nabanita Maji (Sr. Software Engineer, AWS) and Usama Naseem (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) to talk about this new launch that allows you to take advantage of open source Apache Kafka without the operational overhead of managing it yourself.
Learn more - https://go.aws/3MMRRee
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