

AWS Podcast
Amazon Web Services
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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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

Jul 14, 2021 • 14min
#459: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 8 - Shifting toward modernization
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/

Jul 11, 2021 • 45min
#458: July 2021 Update Show 1
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

Jul 4, 2021 • 22min
#457: [INTRODUCING] AWS BugBust
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/

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Jun 27, 2021 • 29min
#456: Data Architectures with AWS Hero Elliott Cordo
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.

Jun 20, 2021 • 36min
#455: June 2021 Update Show 2
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

Jun 13, 2021 • 17min
#454: [Amazon Connect #2] Improving the agent experience
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

Jun 11, 2021 • 22min
#453: [INTRODUCING] Amazon ECS Anywhere
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

Jun 10, 2021 • 13min
#452: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 7 - Top media and entertainment use cases and purpose-built AWS Solutions
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


