AWS Podcast

AWS Inferentia is custom built by AWS to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia, provide up to 3x higher throughput and up to 40% lower cost per inference over comparable GPU-based instances. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Inferentia, Inf1 instances, and how to get started with Inf1 instances. https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

Two migrations and an acquisition led Ocwen, formerly PHH Mortgage, to move out of their physical datacenter and into the cloud quickly and with minimal change. In this episode, Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS, is joined by Sam Dotson, VP Technology Operations at Ocwen and Sean Kane, Sr. Account Executive at APN Partner, RoundTower. They will share their story of how they exited their datacenter, and what life is like for Ocwen in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

Amazon AppFlow is new integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Redshift, in just a few clicks. In this episode, Simon chats with Venkatesh Krishnan, AppFlow Product Manager about why the service was built, the most common customer use cases, and how you can get started. https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/ Getting Started: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-announcing-amazon-appflow/

In this episode, find out how DealerBuilt made the journey out of the datacenter and into the cloud, with a little help from their friends at SoftServe and AWS. Hear directly from Jon Burr, CIO of DealerBuilt, Ruslan Kusov, Infrastructure SA at SoftServe, and Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar, Solutions Architect at AWS as they share their journey, along with a few surprises along the way. https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

A big list of interesting updates to explore! Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 04:14 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 07:05 Compute 11:05 Customer Engagement 13:15 Database 15:22 Developer Tools 17:18 End User Computing 17:51 Game Tech 18:28 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:14 Management and Governance 23:21 Media Services 24:19 Migration and Transfer 25:30 Networking and Content Delivery 29:45 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:35 Storage 35:30 Training and Certification 36:35 AWS Solutions 38:23 Show Wrap Up Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/386ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS service that will help you get start with quantum computing. Today Simon is joined by Richards Moulds, General Manager for Amazon Braket here at Amazon, to learn all about this recently launched service. They will cover some interesting questions around quantum computing, dig into the common customer challenges, and why the team built the service. https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

Learn how one of the oldest museums in the world moved their collections online. Hear from the customer about the journey they took with AWS and the benefits a long term close working relationship brings to complex projects. Can you link to the case study, the partner case study and a video interview as well ? https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/glam/ https://video.cube365.net/v/tnPdwgYZtrg https://www.cirrushq.com/case-studies/taking-the-collections-of-oxford-universitys-museums-online/

AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, machine learning inference, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Graviton2 processors, their instances, use cases, ecosystem support, and customer adoption stories. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

A massive range of updates that Simon & Nicki walk you through! Chapters: 00:53 AWS Marketplace 01:52 Analytics 06:49 Application Integration 07:41 Business Applications 08:15 Compute 14:09 Customer Engagement 15:08 Databases 18:38 Developer Tools 22:16 End User Computing 22:46 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:54 Machine Learning 30:34 Management & Governance 36:10 Media Services 36:45 Migration & Transfer 40:06 Mobile 40:41 Networking & Content Delivery 42:29 Robotics 43:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 46:23 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/382ExtendedShownotes.html

How can you optimize serverless applications for cost and performance? Simon and Alex Casalboni talk about AWS Lambda Power Tuning, an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions in a data-driven fashion. https://github.com/alexcasalboni/aws-lambda-power-tuning