
AWS Podcast
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.
Latest episodes

Jan 13, 2021 • 16min
#419: [Right Now @ AWS] Episode #2 - Migrating Specialized Workloads
After migrating a thousand enterprises to AWS, we’ve learned a one-size-fits-all migration approach does not meet all workload needs. Specialized workloads that are mission critical to your business, such as SAP and databases, require migration expertise and a customized plan. But how to do that at-scale, without undue complexity for customers?

Jan 10, 2021 • 20min
#418: [INTRODUCING] Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment
AWS helps leading industrial customers transform their business with the broadest set of cloud services and solutions, and an extensive partner network, while taking advantage of the highest standards for privacy and data security. Today Simon is joined by Kartik Dalal and Brant Swidler to learn more about how Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment can help you solve challenging industrial problems using Machine Learning.

Jan 3, 2021 • 15min
#417: [INTRODUCING] AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Today Simon is joined by Laura Thomson, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to talk about the newly announced Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) which offers a fully managed chaos engineering solution. They'll dive into what chaos engineering really means, how it can help make your applications more resilient, and how FIS can assist your team in taking advantage of the process. https://aws.amazon.com/fis/

Dec 27, 2020 • 16min
#416: [INTRODUCING] AWS CloudShell
AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell is pre-authenticated with your console credentials and common development and operations tools are pre-installed, so no local installation or configuration is required. Today Simon is joined by Jonathan Weiss, a Senior Manager of Software Development at AWS, to learn all about this recently launched service. Simon and Jonathan will explore the benefits of CloudShell, why AWS built the the service, who it’s for, and the top use cases that CloudShell helps to facilitate. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/

Dec 20, 2020 • 34min
#415: [INTRODUCING] AWS SaaS Boost
Software as a Service (SaaS) is more than movement, its a lifestyle. Simon is joined by Adrian De Luca, Head of Partner Solutions Architecture at AWS to discuss the organizational cultural shift, dives into building with SaaS architectural principles and walks through new announcements at re:Invent including AWS SaaS Boost and Well Architected SaaS Lens. Erik Peterson, Founder & CTO at Cloud Zero also joins the conversation providing insight into how in the cloud, engineering decisions are also buying decisions, exploring the importance of cost per tenant visibility.
* AWS SaaS Boost Preview - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/saas-boost/
* AWS SaaS Boost Blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/transforming-your-monolith-to-saas-with-aws-saas-boost/
* AWS SaaS Factory Insights Hub - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-saas-factory-insights-hub-provides-saas-thought-leadership-and-guidance/
* AWS Well Architected SaaS Lens - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-well-architected-saas-lens-helps-customers-transform-to-software-as-a-service-model/

Dec 15, 2020 • 23min
#414: AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 3
In the final of our 2020 Re:Invent series, Simon takes you though some new capabilities in systems management and IoT.

Dec 9, 2020 • 29min
#413: AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 2
Simon updates you on the second keynote including some great Amazon SageMaker announcements, S3 updates and a new Region announcement!

Dec 2, 2020 • 48min
#412: AWS Re:Invent 2020 Episode 1
Simon takes you though the first round of announcements and updates! Including Containers, Compute, Storage, Database, Analytics, ML, Contact Centre and Industrial ML. Enjoy!

Nov 24, 2020 • 41min
#411: Enabling Rapid Innovation and Resiliency with AWS
As customers leverage the cloud across industries, new waves of rapid innovation have emerged to adapt to these unprecedented times. In this episode, Simon is joined by Iain Rouse, AWS public sector country director for Australia and New Zealand, and Cindy Schwartz, AWS senior practice manager professional services team. Listen to dive deep into our customer solutions and the different ways organisations can be agile and scale with AWS to become more resilient and sustainable. Also, hear a preview of our latest webinars with Dan Beeston from Juniper Aged Care, Dr. George Margelis from Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council, and Associate Professor Michael Kasumovic from EdTech company Arludo.
Links:
1. Innovation for Life: Cities Powered by the Cloud eBook - https://pages.awscloud.com/APAC-acq-DL-intc-inv_innovationforlife_ANZ-2020-reg.html?sc_channel=el&sc_campaign=awspodcast_enablingrapidinnovation_2020&sc_geo=apac&sc_country=mult&sc_outcome=acq&trk=podcast_anz
2. A Guide to Building Organizational Resilience - https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-public-DL-resiliency-ebook-2020-reg.html?sc_channel=el&sc_campaign=awspodcast_enablingrapidinnovation_2020&sc_geo=apac&sc_country=mult&sc_outcome=acq&trk=podcast_anz
3. Taking Classrooms to the Cloud - https://blog.aboutamazon.com.au/innovation/taking-classrooms-to-the-cloud?sc_channel=el&sc_campaign=awspodcast_enablingrapidinnovation_2020&sc_geo=apac&sc_country=mult&sc_outcome=acq&trk=podcast_anz
4. On-Demand: Digital Innovation in Support of Residential Aged Care: https://pages.awscloud.com/APAC-public-OE-ANZ-health-webinar-2020-reg.html?sc_channel=el&sc_campaign=awspodcast_enablingrapidinnovation_2020&sc_geo=apac&sc_country=mult&sc_outcome=reg&trk=podcast_anz

Nov 22, 2020 • 42min
#410: November 2020 Update Show 1
Simon and Nicki take you through more updates and new things to explore!
Chapters:
00:55 Analytics
03:45 Application Integration
06:28 Block Chain
06:48 Business Applications
07:38 Compute
13:25 Customer Engagement
14:53 Database
18:18 Developer Tools
19:29 End User Computing
20:03 Internet of Things (IoT)
20:30 Machine Learning
23:29 Management & Governance
26:31 Media Services
27:08 Migration & Transfer
28:06 Mobile
29:13 Networking & Content Delivery
34:07 Security, Identity and Compliance
35:44 Training & Certification
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/410ExtendedShownotes.html