

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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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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Mar 12, 2022 • 28min
#509: March 2022 Update Show 1
A great bunch of updates to keep you informed! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Chapters:
00:23 Analytics
02:45 Application Integration
03:31 Compute
06:39 Customer Engagement
07:03 Database
11:07 Developer Tools
12:03 Front-end Web & Mobile
12:50 Game Tech
13:27 Internet of Things (IoT)
14:07 Machine Learning
16:47 Management & Governance
21:18 Migration & Transfer
22:32 Networking & Content Delivery
23:48 Security, Identity and Compliance
24:24 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/509ExtendedShownotes.html

Mar 6, 2022 • 17min
#508: Get to know Amazon FSx
Amazon FSx provides fully managed file storage in the cloud and offers capabilities and performance of popular commercial and open-source file systems. Customers can choose between four file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Crudge, (Principal Product Manager, AWS) and Delwin Olivan, (Senior Product Manager, AWS) to dive into the Amazon FSx family, discussing the latest Amazon FSx innovations and use cases, as well as AWS programs to help you migrate and modernize your file-based applications faster.
Choosing a file system - https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/when-to-choose-fsx/
AWS Storage blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/
Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/

Feb 27, 2022 • 23min
#507: February 2022 Update Show 2
Some interesting updates across all kinds of topics this week! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Chapters:
00:21 Analytics
02:58 Application Integration
03:10 Compute
04:30 Customer Engagement
05:27 Database
07:44 Developer Tools
09:50 Machine Learning
11:54 Management & Governance
16:07 Media Services
16:22 Migration and Transfer
17:27 Networking & Content Delivery
17:57 Quantum Technologies
18:53 Security, Identity and Compliance
20:55 Storage

Feb 20, 2022 • 24min
#506: AWS Cloud Control API
In this episode, Simon speaks with Jay McConnell (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) and Rahul Sharma (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) about AWS Cloud Control API. Launched in September 2021, AWS Cloud Control API is a set of common application programming interfaces designed to make it easy for developers to consistently manage their cloud infrastructure and leverage the latest AWS capabilities faster.
AWS news blog post - https://go.aws/3LGVOkP
Lean more - https://go.aws/3rVRgiA
User guide and API reference - https://go.aws/33ubiY5
Explore cloudctl - https://bit.ly/3JGdLyh