AWS Podcast

Topics covered include data architectures with Amazon Redshift, trends in data, integrating ML in data environments, and the value of being part of a technical community. The conversation also explores selecting the right tools for specific business requirements, aligning technological solutions with business needs, the enduring value of SQL, enhancing data sharing with Redshift, and embracing community and building expertise in data architectures.

More updates this week! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at: https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 03:45 Application Integration 07:07 Block Chain 08:09 Compute 09:47 EKS 11:04 Cost Management 11:48 Databases 15:17 Developer Tools 16:40 Front-end Web & Mobile 18:61 Game Tech 19:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:48 Machine Learning 25:41 Management & Governance 29:34 Networking & Content Delivery 30:33 Security, Identity and Compliance 32:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/455ExtendedShownotes.html

Information is the key to empowering contact-center agents to consistently anticipate and resolve customer issues. Their success is your company’s success. Join Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, as he shares the new ways you can ensure your agents have the right information at the right time to keep customers satisfied and loyal. 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

Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new extension of Amazon ECS, enables customers to now run and manage container-based applications on their customer-managed infrastructure using the same APIs, cluster management, workload scheduling, monitoring, and deployment pipelines they use with ECS in AWS. In this episode, Senior Developer Advocate Nathan Peck (@nathankpeck on Twitter) discusses how to set up and get started with ECS Anywhere, as well as common benefits and use cases. Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/getting-started-with-amazon-ecs-anywhere-now-generally-available/ Build an ECS Anywhere home lab with Amazon VPC network connectivity - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/building-an-amazon-ecs-anywhere-home-lab-with-amazon-vpc-network-connectivity/ Watch the demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgjCuwKi4OU Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/anywhere/?nc1=h_ls

Change is underway in media and entertainment and new AWS Solutions were designed to meet new customer needs. Content producers want to be able to create anything from wherever they are, seamlessly collaborating despite physical distance. And the ability to reduce manual effort from content analysis workflows with AI / ML solutions is saving money, providing new revenue opportunities, and giving back precious time. Hear about the purpose-built AWS Services and Solutions customers like Discovery and FOX are leveraging to improve their businesses and end-user experiences. Get AWS M&E Solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations Contact the M&E team - https://pages.awscloud.com/Media-and-Entertainment-Contact-Us.html Discovery+ case study: https://youtu.be/j-gBJpyaU_4 FOX case study - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKTWlcPk6M&ab_channel=AmazonWebServices

Lots of great updates, a new book and listener feedback! Chapters: 00:33 Listener Feedback - Bob Haftner 01:11 New book - Data Science on AWS - Chris Fregly & Antje Barth 02:10 Analytics 08:13 Application Integration 10:27 Business Applications 10:54 Compute 15:46 Cost Management 16:18 Customer Engagement 17:04 Database 20:17 Developer Tools 21:29 End User Compuiting 21:41 Game Tech 21:55 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:15 Machine Learning 30:52 Management & Governance 36:56 Media Services 37:57 Migration & Transfer 39:50 Mobile 40:26 Networking & Content Delivery 40:55 Quantum Technology 41:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 42:40 Storage 44:20 Training & Certification 44:45 Support Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/451ExtendedShownotes.html New book “Data Science on AWS” Implementing End-to-End, Continuous AI and Machine Learning Pipelines by AWS Developer Advocates Chris Fregly and Antje Barth https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-AWS-End-End/dp/1492079391

Amidst the COVID 19 pandemic, the US state and local technology infrastructure has never been more critical. These systems – most notably call centers, electronic lab reporting (ELR) systems and disease surveillance systems – are under extreme pressure as public health organizations work to track, report, and share information on COVID-19 cases. Today Simon is joined by Jim Daniel, Public Health Lead, State and Local Government here at Amazon Web Services, to learn all about the current state of public health in the US. They dive into the challenges faced, what was done to help, lessons learned, and how the cloud can support modernization of immunization information systems. Best Practices Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/sharing-best-practices-vaccine-administration-cdc-national-forum-covid-19-vaccine/ Expert Q&A: https://papers.govtech.com/Cloud-Based-Infrastructure-Helps-Public-Health-Meet-the-COVID-19-Data-Challenge-138784.html Scaling Public Health Infrastructure with the Cloud: https://webinars.govtech.com/Scaling-Public-Health-Infrastructure-for-COVID-Response-with-the-Cloud-137070.html?appCore=https://cms.erepublic.com/common/forms/ajax_form/137070

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/

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.

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/