
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 25, 2021 • 19min
#449: [INTRODUCING] AWS App Runner
AWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that makes it easier and faster for customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs with just a few clicks, no infrastructure or containers experience required. Today, Simon is joined by Akshay Ram, Product Manager of App Runner, to learn all about this recently launched service. They dig into the benefits and use cases of App Runner, why the team built the service, the workloads it can be used for, AWS Copilot support for the service, and how you can get started. Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/app-runner-from-code-to-scalable-secure-web-apps/ Watch the Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ua6Gv_HSo See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbvFA6Up98 Learn More: https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

May 23, 2021 • 17min
#448: AWS Copilot: Modern Applications CLI
Want to eliminate the heavy lifting of setting up infrastructure and deploying containerized applications to multiple environments? The AWS Copilot CLI is an interactive tool that sets up all required infrastructure and AWS resources when deploying a containerized application. In this episode, AWS Product Manager Sravan Rengarajan (@Sravan_R_) will describe how AWS Copilot lets you build, deploy, and manage your containerized applications with simple, well-organized set of commands that sets up multiple environments with AWS best practices by default. This allows you to truly focus on application development while the CLI handles nuances of how AWS services integrate, and all the steps required to deploy a container to the cloud including Docker builds, task definitions, CI/CD pipelines, and more.

May 19, 2021 • 35min
#447: [INTRODUCING] Incident Manager
Good surprise? Your friends jumping out with cake on your birthday. Bad surprise? Your application is down. Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone, Sr. Software Engineer chat with Dave Cliffe, Sr. Product Manager and Oren Nachman, Sr. Development Manager about AWS Systems Manager's newest capability: Incident Manager. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together, so you can get back to that surprise birthday party. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/features/#Incident_Manager Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/resolve-it-incidents-faster-with-incident-manager-a-new-capability-of-aws-systems-manager/

May 18, 2021 • 20min
#446: [INTRODUCING] Amazon Nimble Studio
In this episode, Jay Maglione, Sr. Product Manager, Content Production Tech at AWS, joins Nicki Stone to talk about a new AWS service that recently launched: Amazon Nimble Studio. Jay and Nicki discuss how Nimble Studio will help creative professionals produce high-fidelity content for films, episodics, or commercials. They also discuss the challenges that digital content creation studios face today, and agree that Frozen is an all-time great animated film. Read more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nimble-studio-build-a-creative-studio-in-the-cloud/

May 17, 2021 • 21min
#445: [Amazon Connect #1] Redefining the Customer Experience
Post-pandemic customers have come to expect a new level of omnichannel contact-center experience. Hear the latest breakthrough thinking from Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, on how you can quickly reimagine your contact center for seamless and scalable omnichannel customer experiences. See the Amazon Connect Partner Page: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/featured/contact-center/ Get the eBook: https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-partner-DL-contact-center-ebook-2020-learn.html

May 14, 2021 • 19min
#444: [INTRODUCING] Amazon DevOps Guru
Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning powered service that makes it easy to improve an application’s operational performance and availability. Today Nicki is joined by Jacob Sullivan, Sr. Manager, Product Management at AWS, to learn about this service that recently became available. They discuss the challenges customers face with CloudOps, how DevOps Guru leverages machine learning to identify anomalous application behavior, and how customers can get started.
Learn more about Amazon DevOps Guru, visit : aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/. To get started, use this workshop to enable DevOps Guru: https://aiops-using-devops-guru.workshop.aws/

May 13, 2021 • 21min
#443: Industry trends in life sciences and the AWS Solutions helping customers tackle their biggest challenges
The future of life sciences is personal. Personalized medicine will mean treatments specifically calibrated for you, and your health needs. To accelerate toward that reality, the life sciences industry is undergoing digital transformation across its entire value chain. Listen to the podcast where we examine 3 top industry use cases (digital lab operations, manufacturing operational analytics, and transferring and storing genomics data) and the AWS Solutions that are helping customers like Celgene, Merck, and Moderna tackle their biggest challenges. Learn More - https://aws.amazon.com/health/ Contact the life sciences team - https://pages.awscloud.com/HealthContactSales.html

May 9, 2021 • 40min
#442: May 2021 Update Show 1
Simon and Nicki take you through some really useful updates! Leave audio feedback here: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL
Chapters:
01:55 AWS Marketplace
02:43 Analytics
09:55 Application Integration
11:37 Business Applications
12:41 Compute
17:33 Cost Management
18:13 Customer Engagement
18:45 Database
20:29 Developer Tools
23:43 Internet of Things (IoT)
24:05 Machine Learning
27:27 Management & Governance
31:15 Media Services
32:59 Networking & Content Delivery
33:28 Robotics
34:26 Satellite
35:13 Security, Identity and Compliance
36:33 Solutions
37:52 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/443ExtendedShownotes.html

May 4, 2021 • 28min
#441: [INTRODUCING] AQUA for Amazon Redshift
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses by automatically boosting certain operations. Join Nicki and Andy Caldwell, Sr. Principal Engineer for Redshift, to learn about AQUA, the use cases it accelerates most, and how to take advantage. Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features/aqua/ Documentation - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cluster-aqua.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cluster-aqua-understanding.html

May 2, 2021 • 18min
#440: Blockchain Use Cases in Enterprise IT
Blockchain increases supply chain transparency by enabling decentralized, trusted supply chains. Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public blockchain networks or create and manage scalable private blockchain networks. Nestle, the world’s largest food & beverage company, is using Amazon Managed Blockchain to power its Chain of Origin business, which tracks single origin coffee from farm to customer. Today, Simon is joined by Nestle’s Digital Technology Director Armin Nehzat, who shares how Nestle conceived of Chain of Origin and the unique value proposition it brings. You’ll also hear from the Worldwide Go-to-Market Specialist for Amazon Managed Blockchain, Maggie Hsu, on key features of the Managed Blockchain service and what’s to come. https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amazonwebservices/2019/12/12/nestles-chain-of-origin-coffee-brings-supply-chain-transparency-with-amazon-managed-blockchain/?sh=523f56ff193b
https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/resources/?nc=sn&loc=5
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/blockchain-for-sustainability.pdf?did=wp_card&trk=wp_card
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