AWS Podcast

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

Last year, customers were driven to the cloud to save costs. While cost reduction is always a priority, the intensity to decrease spend reflected worldwide uncertainty. Today, a shift is emerging. There’s a renewed focus toward future growth and modernizing applications to scale and gain new capabilities across the business – from modern databases to leveraging cloud for security posture improvement. Principal Migration Advisor Steve Peacock explains what he’s seeing and offers best practices to thoughtfully modernize your business. Learn about our prescriptive approach to migration & modernization: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-acceleration-program/ Get sales support: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/sales-support/ Listen to our previous episode on cost saving strategies: https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/371-right-now-aws-episode-1-strategies-for-when-cost-savings-is-top-of-mind/

Lots of new things! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at: https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 01:20 Analytics 06:44 Application Integration 07:25 Compute 13:30 Customer Engagement 14:16 Databases 18:56 Developer Tools 21:32 End User Computing 22:12 Game Tech 23:22 Internet of Things (IoT) 23:45 Machine Learning 28:57 Management & Governance 35:55 Media Services 37:54 Migration & Transfer 38:33 Front-end & Mobile 39:24 Networking & Content Delivery 40:54 Security, Identity and Compliance 43:48 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/458ExtendedShownotes.html

Today Nicki is joined by Alex Bush, Head of AI Services and Vishnu Parimi, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to learn about AWS BugBust, the world’s first global competition for Java and Python developers to collectively fix 1 million bugs. They discuss how AWS BugBust provides an easy and fun solution to transform bug bashes, foster team building, and bring friendly competition to improve code quality and application performance. Listen in to learn how you can join the mission to exterminate 1 million bugs. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-bugbust-its-game-over-for-bugs/ Create your BugBust event: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-bugbust-its-game-over-for-bugs/