AWS Podcast

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/

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