

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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Jul 10, 2022 • 27min
#535: July 2022 Update Show 1
Simon takes you through a rapid-fire series of what is new!
Chapters:
00:37 Analytics
02:59 Blockchain
03:29 Business Applications
04:00 Compute
07:37 Customer Engagement
09:22 Database
11:22 Developer Tools
12:29 End User Computing
13:24 Front-end Web & Mobile
14:21 Game Tech
14:54 Internet of Things (IoT)
16:42 Machine Learning
19:46 Management & Governance
22:20 Migration & Transfer
23:54 Networking & Content Delivery
24:36 Security, Identity and Compliance
26:13 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/535ExtendedShownotes.html

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Jul 3, 2022 • 33min
#534: Mental Models for Technologists to Become Business Leaders
In this episode, Simon sits down in the studio with Iain Rouse, GM for AWS Public Sector across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The two have an informative chat about how technologists can develop skills to become business leaders, how to create transparency through ceremony within your team, and making tough decisions to ensure your business stays agile and resilient.
Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

Jun 26, 2022 • 26min
#533: June 2022 Update Show 2
Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and even a price reduction!
Chapters:
00:43 Analytics
02:34 Application Integration
03:18 Business Applications
03:48 Compute
06:18 Cost Management
07:14 Customer Engagement
08:04 Database
11:52 Front-end Web & Mobile
12:19 Internet of Things (IoT)
13:08 Machine Learning
16:38 Management & Governance
19:38 Migration & Transfer
22:17 Networking & Content Delivery
22:59 Security, Identity and Compliance
23:51 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/533ExtendedShownotes.html

Jun 23, 2022 • 19min
#532: [INTRODUCING] Amazon CodeWhisperer
While the Cloud has democratized application development by giving on-demand access to compute, storage, database, analytics, and machine learning, the traditional process of building software applications still requires developers to spend a lot of time writing boilerplate sections of code that are not directly related to the core problem that they are trying to solve. In this episode, Atul Deo, Director of Product Management, AWS AI Services joins Simon to discuss Amazon CodeWhisperer, a new ML-powered service that helps improve developer productivity by providing code recommendations based on the developers’ natural comments and their prior code. Listen to learn about CodeWhisperer's features, use cases, and how you can get started.
Sign up for access - https://pages.awscloud.com/codewhisperer-sign-up-form.html
Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/
Read the blog post - https://go.aws/3NigPlr

Jun 19, 2022 • 18min
#531: AWS Partner Deep Dive: Pillir
In this episode, Simon speaks with Dan Ljungberg, Director of Solutions Engineering at Pillir, about how low-code development expedites modernization. Pillir's platform helps AWS partners create customized business applications, especially in SAP and ERP environments, transforming them to cloud-ready and mobile applications at a fraction of the time and cost. These apps incorporate an organization’s business logic and function regardless of connectivity status. Listen to learn how this low-code approach addresses the developer shortage that is impacting many enterprises.
Learn more - https://www.pillir.io/

Jun 15, 2022 • 8min
#530: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 17 – UKTV Deploys Media2Cloud, Gains Reliability & Saves 40%
The process of ingesting, storing, and processing video files, and associated metadata, is a top media and entertainment use case. It’s also a consideration for any organization that wants to introduce video into its products or workflows. Video requires significant storage capacity, while organizing archives and having the ability to restore needed assets, for everyday and future needs, adds further complexity. To meet these requirements, customers like UKTV are leveraging AWS Solution, Media2Cloud. After a 3-week migration of 3-4 petabytes of data, UKTV found the benefits were immediate. In this episode, hear how UKTV deployed Media2Cloud and gained business agility, improved developer productivity, while also saving 40% on costs.
Learn more https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQHuJPzN4XGbFg

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