
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 1, 2022 • 30min
#519: May 2022 Update Show 1
Some really interesting and powerful updates in this show!
Chapters:
00:27 AWS Marketplace
00:50 Analytics
05:45 Application Integration
06:36 Business Applications
07:25 Compute
10:58 Customer Engagement
11:38 Database
14:36 Developer Tools
17:21 End User Computing
18:08 Front-end Web & Mobile
19:33 Internet of Things (IoT)
20:15 Machine Learning
22:25 Management & Governance
23:46 Media Services
24:27 Migration & Transfer
25:59 Networking & Content Delivery
26:50 Security, Identity and Compliance
29:05 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/519ExtendedShownotes.html

Apr 27, 2022 • 20min
#518: [INTRODUCING] AWS IoT TwinMaker
Have you heard about digital twins and wanted to know how to build and use them? Tune in to listen to Simon chat with Andra Christie (Senior Domain Solutions Architect at AWS), to learn more about a new service called AWS IoT TwinMaker. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it faster and easier for customers to create and use digital twins to optimize industrial operations, increase production output, and improve equipment performance. Listen to the episode to learn more about the service, why we built it, and how you can get started creating your own digital twins.
Get started with AWS IoT TwinMaker - https://aws.amazon.com/iot-twinmaker/
Read the blog -https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-twinmaker-is-now-generally-available/
What’s New post - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-iot-twinmaker-now-generally-available/
Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/iot-twinmaker/resources/

Apr 24, 2022 • 28min
#517: [INTROUCING] AWS Amplify Studio
Amplify Studio is a new visual interface that lets front-end and full-stack developers go from Figma design to full-stack React app, both cloud-connected backend and front-end UI components, in hours. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nikhil Swaminathan (Senior Manager, Product Management) to discuss all things AWS Amplify. They dig into the future of web and mobile app development, why the team built the service, and how startups and enterprises are accelerating their development on AWS.
Learn more about Amplify - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/
Learn more about Amplify Studio - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio/
Learn more about Amplify Hosting - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/hosting/

Apr 17, 2022 • 46min
#516: April 2022 Update Show 1
Some very cool updates to share this week!
Chapters
00:23 AWS Marketplace
00:57 Analytics
07:05 Application Integration
09:31 Compute
18:08 Cost Management
18:43 Customer Engagement
21:29 Database
24:54 Developer Tools
25:40 End User Computing
26:24 Front-end Web & Mobile
29:17 Game Tech
30:33 Internet of Things (IoT)
30:55 Machine Learning
36:41 Management & Governance
39:59 Networking & Content Delivery
42:19 Security, Identity and Compliance
43:43 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/516ExtendedShownotes.html

Apr 13, 2022 • 16min
#515: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 15 - Future of Payments Dominated by AI / ML & Emerging Payments Use Cases
Fintechs are enabling seamless payments and are increasingly providing more options, like extending credit through data analytics. Emerging technology is driving these new capabilities that are giving consumers flexibility, ease, and proven security. Principal Fintech Business Development Manager Sekai Ndemanga shares how customers like Venmo & Aella are developing emerging payment options and leveraging AI/ML to authenticate loans.
Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/startups/FinTech/

Apr 10, 2022 • 24min
#514: Engaging Your Audience with Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)
Live interactive video use cases are more prevalent than ever, spanning across socials apps, ecommerce, fitness, education, and more. Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is a fully managed low latency live video streaming AWS service that handles ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and delivery of your live content, using the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch. In this episode, Simon is joined by Anoop Kumar, (Director of Partnerships for Amazon IVS) to discuss how developers, customers and partners are using Amazon IVS to build unique, interactive experiences quickly and effectively.
Get started with Amazon IVS - https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
Learn more - https://ivs.rocks/
Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/tag/amazon-ivs/

Apr 3, 2022 • 23min
#513: AWS Partner Deep Dive: The Data Foundry (TDF)
Get a behind the scenes look at how AWS Partners innovate to help customers succeed. In this episode, Simon is joined by and Brad Coughlan (Founder and Managing Director) and Paul Macey (Chief Data and Analytics Officer) from The Data Foundry, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides a range of data, analytics and ML services and scalable solutions that turn customer data into decision-enabling insights.
Learn more about TDF - https://www.thedatafoundry.com.au/

Mar 27, 2022 • 19min
#512: March 2022 Update Show 2
Here come the updates! Hopefully something in there for you! Chapters 00:22 Analytics 01:18 Application Integration 01:52 Business Applications 03:06 Compute 06:12 Cost Management 07:10 Customer Engagement 08:04 Database 09:53 Front-end Web & Mobile 10:35 Machine Learning 12:12 Management & Governance 14:53 Networking & Content Delivery 15:51 Quantum Technology 16:23 Robotics 16:33 Security, Identity and Compliance 17:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/512ExtendedShownotes.html

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Mar 20, 2022 • 21min
#511: Modernizing Data Archiving
Enterprises today face significant challenges with exponential data growth. Regulatory compliance requires long retention periods for a lot of that data. In this episode, Simon is joined by Joe Fitzgerald, (GM of S3 Glacier) to discuss how to store data more cost effectively, while unlocking the value of your data. Simon and Joe dig into how petabytes of data, such as medical records, news media content, and manufacturing datasets, often need to be stored indefinitely. They also talk through how utilizing AWS data archiving solutions can eliminate the infrastructure management headache for your team, and explain why there is no better place for archive data to be than in AWS.
Read the blog - https://go.aws/3wrERFM
Get started - https://go.aws/3IqsBb0
Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes - https://go.aws/3IrljUj
Amazon S3 Glacier storage tutorial - https://go.aws/3KUi1dU

Mar 16, 2022 • 12min
#510: [INTRODUCING] AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
How can AWS help you meet your sustainability goals? Tune in to listen to Simon Elisha chat with Jon Randelman and Liam Greenamyre (Senior Product Managers, AWS) about the new customer carbon footprint tool, which allows you to measure, track, and even forecast the carbon emissions associated with your AWS usage. They dive into how the tool helps you understand and reduce your carbon footprint, how the tool came about, and how AWS helps customers lower their overall carbon footprint.
Customer carbon footprint tool - https://go.aws/3CNdgQM
Read the blog - https://go.aws/36kTnUO
Learn more AWS Sustainability - https://go.aws/3MVE99u
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