

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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Feb 28, 2021 • 19min
#427: March 2021 Update Show 1
Simon introduces the piece first listener feedback! Plus some great updates.
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Chapters
00:26 Audio Feedback
03:19 Analytics
05:28 Application Integration
06:31 Business Applications
06:55 Compute
09:18 Customer Engagement
09:54 Databases
12:00 Developer Tools
12:34 Internet of Things (IoT)
13:58 Machine Learning
14:21 Management & Governance
16:03 Media Services
16:39 Migration & Transfer
16:49 Mobile
17:31 Networking & Content Delivery
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/427ExtendedShownotes.html

Feb 21, 2021 • 20min
#426: Amazon Keyspaces
Apache Cassandra is a wide-column, open-source database that developers use to store data for internet scale applications that require fast performance. However, managing Apache Cassandra can be complex and expensive. Today, Simon is joined by Arturo Hinojosa, Principal Product Manager for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), AWS’s serverless, scalable, highly available, and managed Cassandra-compatible database service. They'll talk about how Amazon Keyspaces helps developers run their Cassandra workloads more easily. Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-keyspaces-for-apache-cassandra-is-now-generally-available/ Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/ Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/latest/devguide/what-is-keyspaces.html Getting Started: https://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/getting-started/

Feb 14, 2021 • 44min
#425: February 2021 Update Show 1
Simon and Nicki cover some really interesting updates.
Chapters
01:22 AWS Marketplace
01:53 Analytics
05:57 Application Integration
06:40 Block Chain
07:09 Business Applications
07:51 Compute
11:26 Customer Engagement
12:12 Databases
16:37 Developer Tools
17:42 Internet of Things (IoT)
19:05 Machine Learning
21:59 Management & Governance
28:30 Media Services
28:53 Networking & Content Delivery
31:27 Robotics
31:56 Security, Identity and Compliance
40:34 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/425ExtendedShownotes.html

Feb 10, 2021 • 22min
#424: [Right Now @ AWS] Episode #3 - How Semiconductor and Hi-Tech / Electronic Customers Are Leveraging AWS
Decreasing time to market and helping you create new products that fundamentally change the way you do business are two of the biggest business benefits of AWS. Customers such as consumer robotics maker iRobot and semiconductor maker MediaTek have slashed their development and testing times while reducing new product introduction risk. Listen to the podcast and learn how AWS can help you accelerate innovation. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/manufacturing/semiconductor-electronics/ Read the Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/transform-new-product-introduction-npi-with-aws-to-reduce-cycle-times-and-increase-innovation-throughput/

Feb 7, 2021 • 19min
#423: AWS Solutions Constructs
In this episode, Simon is joined by Ryan Hayes (Solutions Developer, AWS) as he introduces AWS Solutions Constructs and discusses how it can help you build faster using multi-service architecture patterns paired with best practice defaults. Visit our website, GitHub and Docs pages for more information: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/constructs https://github.com/awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/constructs

Jan 31, 2021 • 24min
#422: Amazon Fraud Detector
Start identifying potential online fraud faster and easier with Amazon Fraud Detector. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) and more than 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon to help customers detect common types of online fraud. Today Simon is joined by Chris Porter, Product Manager for Amazon Fraud Detector, to talk about this service. More information: https://aws.amazon.com/fraud-detector/ Read the Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/catching-fraud-faster-by-building-a-proof-of-concept-in-amazon-fraud-detector/ Tech Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNSq2G3V8wM Code Samples: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-fraud-detector-samples

Jan 24, 2021 • 21min
#421: AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning Lens
This week Simon is joined by Rodney Lester, Senior Solutions Architect, and Sireesha Muppala, Principle Solutions Architect. They'll provide a recap of the AWS well architected framework and introduce the Machine Learning lens white paper that provides guidance on building ML workloads on AWS. https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/wellarchitected-Machine-Learning-Lens.pdf

Jan 17, 2021 • 41min
#420: January 2021 Update Show 1
Simon takes you through more updates and new things to explore! Chapters: 01:03 AWS Marketplace, 01:43 Analytics, 12:03 Application Integration, 13:41 Block Chain, 14:06 Business Applications, 14:16 Compute, 17:37 Cost Management, 18:09 Customer Engagement, 18:33 Database, 20:46 Developer Tools, 22:07 End User Computing, 22:33 Game Tech, 22:50 Internet of Things (IoT), 25:33 Machine Learning, 26:39 Management & Governance, 31:43 Migration & Transfer, 32:10 Mobile, 32:47 Networking & Content Delivery, 37:14 Quantum Technologies, 37:36 Security, Identity and Compliance, 39:22 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/420ExtendedShownotes.html

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.