
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.
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Aug 29, 2021 • 45min
#469: August 2021 Update Show 2
A bumper set if updates this week! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at: https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Chapters
00:44 AWS Marketplace
01:22 Analytics
06:43Application Integration
07:55 Business Applications
08:26 Compute
14:09 Cost Management
14:54 Customer Engagement
16:28 Databases
20:25 Developer Tools
23:26 End User Computing
24:29 Game Tech
24:41 Internet of Things (IoT)
26:32 Machine Learning
33:02 Management & Governance
38:07 Media Services
38:38 Migration & Transfer
40:20 Mobile
41:12 Networking & Content Delivery
42:02 Security, Identity and Compliance
42:50 Storage
44:11 Solutions
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/469ExtendedShownotes.html

Aug 22, 2021 • 16min
#468: [Amazon Connect #4] Anticipatory Customer Service with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Explore the power of AI and ML to deliver real-time customer insights that help you deliver better experiences. The ability to anticipate and respond to customer needs in real-time can be a game-changer in helping businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences. Shalesa Charron, Principle Partner Development Specialist at Amazon Connect, shares how the latest Amazon Connect innovations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning deliver personalized and dynamic customer interactions.
Register for the VoiceFoundry webinar: https://bit.ly/3y2l0tX
Register for the ServiceNow webinar: https://bit.ly/3D6YGDp
Download the Amazon Connect infographic: https://bit.ly/3D5Zkkf

Aug 19, 2021 • 30min
#467: [INTRODUCING] Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is the newest fully managed database service from AWS. Today, Nikki is joined by Zach Gardner, Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, to introduce this new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service. Learn why we built MemoryDB and dive into benefits, use cases, and how you can achieve microsecond read latency, single-digit millisecond write latency, and Multi-AZ durability for modern applications with microservices architectures.
Read the blog: https://amzn.to/3sx9Egu
Watch the video: https://bit.ly/3y4dejj
Learn more: https://amzn.to/3gec92s

Aug 15, 2021 • 24min
#466: Managing the cloud environment with AWS Organizations
In the 2020 re:Invent security keynote, the #1 recommendation for customers to secure their environment was to use AWS Organizations. In this episode, Simon will discuss why with Andrew Blackham, Product Manager at AWS. They'll review why you should consider using multiple accounts and what features AWS Organizations provides customers to centrally manage their environment. They'll also touch on security best practices, multi-account features from AWS services, and how you can get started building your multi-account environment.
See the getting started guide: https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/getting-started/best-practices/
Read the whitepaper: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/organizing-your-aws-environment.html

Aug 11, 2021 • 16min
#465: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 9 - Managing clinical trials data
The life sciences industry met the world’s need for Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year. Technology aided the outcome, but dedicated people were at the center and the tremendous level of effort needed is not sustainable. Still, now that the industry knows what’s possible, the question is how to reach the same high watermark. One area of focus is managing clinical trials data in the cloud, which can reduce R&D costs and accelerate scientific discovery. Listen to the podcast to hear emerging best practices regarding clinical trials data management from Drew Garty, CTO of Veeva Vault Clinical Data Management Suite. Veeva is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry and is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner.
Talk to Veeva: https://www.veeva.com/contact-us/
Contact the AWS Life Sciences Biopharma team: https://pages.awscloud.com/BiotechandPharmaContactSales.html

Aug 8, 2021 • 18min
#464: Diving deep into Amazon MWAA
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud. Today Simon is joined by John Jackson, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to learn all about this recently launched service. They dig into the benefits of Amazon MWAA, why the team built the service, how it fits in with other AWS services, and the commitment to open source. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-workflows-for-apache-airflow/ Leave audio feedback: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL

Aug 1, 2021 • 34min
#463: August 2021 Update Show 1
Simon is on lockdown! But the show goes on!
Chapters:
00:42 AWS Marketplace
01:21 Analytics
06:13 Application Integration
06:52 Block Chain
07:53 Compute
13:05 Customer Engagement
14:04 Database
16:04 Developer Tools
17:37 Internet of Things (IoT)
19:57 Machine Learning
24:06 Management & Governance
26:42 Networking & Content Delivery
26:58 Robotics
27:53 Security, Identity and Compliance
28:39 Solutions
29:21 Storage
32:03 Training & Certification
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/462ExtendedShownotes.html

Jul 25, 2021 • 13min
#462: [Amazon Connect #3] Adapting quickly to deliver exceptional customer experiences
Organizations of every size have had to pivot quickly to keep up and adapt to the changes carried over from 2020, and that need is particularly important to small and medium-sized organizations. Join Shalesa Charron, Principal Partner Development Specialist at Amazon Connect, as she shares how an omnichannel cloud contact center can improve experiences for customers, agents, and managers alike. Learn more about Amazon Connect: https://aws.amazon.com/connect/

Jul 18, 2021 • 34min
#461: July 2021 Update Show 2
Some interesting riffing on Development in this week's update show!
Chapters
00:46 Analytics
01:24 Application Integration
04:05 Business Applications
05:08 Compute
05:24 Databases
05:45 Developer Tools
06:18 End User Computing
07:01 Machine Learning
07:47 Management & Governance
10:04 Front-end & Mobile
11:56 Networking & Content Delivery
13:24 Security, Identity and Compliance
14:52 Storage
16:10 - The after show show Topics:
16:24 - Nicki's development environment
19:54 - Nicki's approach to development
23:06 - Nicki's comments in commits
30:45 - Addressing writer's block and rubber duck debugging!
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/460ExtendedShownotes.html

Jul 15, 2021 • 19min
#460: [INTRODUCING] Amazon HealthLake
Now available, Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service offering healthcare and life sciences companies a complete view of individual or patient population health data for query and analytics at scale to personalize medical care. Tune in to listen to Satadal Bhattacharjee, Sr Manager of Product Management for Health AI, share how Amazon HealthLake is helping health organization unlock insights from their health data to improve care and reduce costs.
Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/
Read the Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/paging-doctor-cloud-amazon-healthlake-is-now-generally-available/
See the features: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/features/
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-7YkMt9Y4
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