AWS Podcast

How does a CEO change his or her mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and lessons learned. Blog Post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/a-tech-ceos-journey-from-cloud-skeptic-to-evangelist/

Simon and Nicki cover all the latest updates, improvements and price cuts! Chapters: 00:51 Announcement to Australian Customers - ANZ Public Sector Fast Start Guide (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/beginning-journey-cloud-australia-new-zealand/) 01:50 Analytics 04:19 Application Integration 06:41 Compute 11:36 Customer Engagement 12:54 Database 20:22 Developer Tools 21:49 End User Computing 22:48 Machine Learning 26:41 Management and Governance 33:49 Internet of Things (IoT) 34:15 Media Services 34:37 Network and Content Delivery 35:24 Quick Starts 36:25 Robotics 37:35 Satellite 38:30 Security, Identity and Compliance 41:16 Storage 45:17 Training and Certification Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/358ExtendedShownotes.html

How do you introduce observabiity in your systems? Simon speaks with Bob Wilkinson (General Manager Amazon CloudWatch and X-Ray) and Sudeeptha Jotjiprakash (Principal Product Manager) about how AWS customers can approach this domain. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch

VPC Traffic mirroring offers a wide range of new capabilities when using AWS. Simon takes a deep dive with Alpana Srivastava and Tom Adamski about how it works and what it can be used for. http://aws.amazon.com/vpc

Macmillan Learning is one of the largest Learning Companies in the world. Over the last few years, Macmillan has been attempting to create systematic change throughout its organization by equipping employees with the skills to innovate faster and achieve its mission to "change students lives through learning." As a Learning Company, Macmillan has incorporated its own IP and Learning Science methodologies to empower employees. David Merryweather (VP of Cloud Ops and Site Reliability, Macmillan Learning) speaks with Simon about the Macmillan experience so far, and what they have learned. https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us

Simon and Nicki share some handy new updates! 00:48 Infrastructure News 01:54 AWS Marketplace 02:29 Analytics or 02:38 04:21 Compute or 04:23 10:07 Customer Engagement 10:58 Databases 11:47 Developer Tools 13:29 End-user Computing 14:45 Machine Learning 16:02 Amazon Comprehend 17:09 Management and Governance 19:08 AWS Systems Manager 21:47 Networking and Content Delivery 22:38 Internet of Things 23:05 Migration and Transfer 25:24 Mobile 26:03 Networking and Content Delivery 27:48 Quick Starts 29:39 Security, Identity and Compliance 31:30 Storage 35:21 Training and Certification 37:28 Conclusion Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/354ExtendedShownotes.html

AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Simon speaks with Ravi Tulapati to explore how data providers can now reach new AWS audiences, how analysts, researchers, and other data buyers can easily find and subscribe to data sets, and how the billing and delivery of data is simplified for both groups. Learn how you can use AWS Data Exchange to fuel in-place analytics with AWS services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift. https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange/

Customers often have advanced use cases for encryption, like encrypting to multiple recipients, or caching data keys. These can be challenging to get right if you're trying to implement it yourself. The good news is, AWS has released open source tools that make all of that relatively easy. In this episode we'll talk about encryption use cases and the best tools to solve them. https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-s2n-a-new-open-source-tls-implementation/

Simon and Nicki bring in 2020 with a raft of great new updates and capabilities! Chapters: 03:22 Analytics 08:22 Application Integration 08:52 Business Applications 09:42 Compute 16:27 Customer Engagement 17:47 Database 20:22 Developer Tools 23:07 End User Computing 23:52 Game Tech 26:17 Internet of Things 26:52 Machine Learning 33:57 Management and Governance 38:22 Media Services 39:07 Networking and Content Delivery 41:17 Quick Starts 41:47 Satellite 42:27 Security 47:17 Storage 51:01 Training and Certification Extended shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/351ExtendedShownotes.html

How can you implement DevSecOps effectively in your organisation? What are some of the key steps and potential pitfalls? Simon is joined by Raisa Hashem (DevOps Security Specialist) and Paul Hawkins (Security Specialist SA) to discuss practical steps you can take and lessons learned. Shownotes: Security at the speed of cloud (GRC304): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJT0p1UaLw Enforcing Security Invariants with AWS Organizations (SDD314): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30sx0hpY0Y Scale Permissions Management in AWS with Attribute-Based Access Control (SDD350): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_hDc385t4