AWS Podcast

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

Looking for fast, efficient low-latency access to cloud storage? Nicki speaks with Laz Vekiarides (Principal Product Manager, AWS Storage Gateway - File Gateway) and Dave Stauffacher (AWS Community Hero) about how customers can optimize their on-premises file-based workloads using Amazon FSx File Gateway, the newest gateway type in the AWS Storage Gateway portfolio. Learn more about AWS Storage Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/ Explore Amazon FSx File Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/fsx Connect with an AWS Community Hero - https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/

Simon takes a walk through the latest updates! Leave audio feedback here: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 09:20 Application Integration 10:50 Compute 15:57 Cost Management 16:48 Customer Engagement 17:53 Database 20:34 Developer Tools 23:10 End User Computing 25:58 Game Tech 26:38 Internet of Things (IoT) 27:39 Machine Learning 36:10 Management & Governance 42:10 Media Services 43:32 Mobile 45:25 Networking & Content Delivery 49:46 Robotics 50:13 Satellite 50:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 52:41 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/438ExtendedShownotes.html

What does a day in the life of a Solution Architect look like at AWS? Simon speaks with four SA’s from around the globe to discuss exactly that, and takes a look at how they go about assisting their customers with interesting challenges. We have also included some fun bonus content at the end, so be sure to tune in. Have a question about solution architecture? Submit it via audio here and Simon might answer it in the next Update Show! https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html