AWS Podcast

Simon & Jeff are joined by a live audience for the first time! Listen to some great updates and fun laughs. Shownotes: EFS Infrequent Access: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/coming-soon-amazon-efs-infrequent-access-storage-class/ S3 Intelligent tiering - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-intelligent-tiering/ S3 Batch Operations - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-batch-operations/ AWS DataSync - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-datasync-for-accelerated-online-data-transfer/ AWS Transfer for SFTP - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-for-s3/ Firecracker - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/ AWS Transit Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-transit-gateway/ AWS Global Accelerator - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-global-accelerator/ EBS Performance Update - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-elastic-block-store-announces-double-the-performance-of-provisioned-iops-volumes/ Amazon EC2 A1 Instances - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-a1-instances/ Amazon EC2 C5n Instances - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-c5n-instances/ Amazon DyanmoDB support for Transactions - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-amazon-dynamodb-support-for-transactions/ AWS GroundStation - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/?sc_channel=sm&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=AWS_reInvent_2018_launch_Ground_Station_TWITTER&sc_content=AWS_reInvent_2018_launch_Ground_Station&linkId=60243499

Simon and Jeff record live from AWS re:Invent 2018 Midnight Madness!

Simon takes you through lots of great new features and capabilities for customers, and also a special call out for listeners attending AWS re:Invent to get some AWS Podcast swag! Shownotes with timestamps: 1:42 Compute In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-milan-italy/ AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-govcloud-us-east-now-open/ Amazon EC2 now offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/Amazon-EC2-now-offers-On-Demand-Capacity-Reservations/ Introducing Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing_amazon_ec2_instances_featuring_amd_epyc_processors/ Amazon ECS-CLI Supports Private Registry Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-ecs-cli-supports-private-registry-authentication/ Amazon EKS now supports additional VPC CIDR blocks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-eks-now-supports-additional-vpc-cidr-blocks/ AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Amazon API Gateway Authorizers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sam-supports-amazon-api-gateway-authorizers/ 6:04 Cost Management Introducing the New AWS Budgets Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/introducing-the-new-aws-budgets-console/ AWS now Supports SEPA Direct Debit Payments in Europe | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sepa-support/ Amazon API Gateway Announces Tiered Pricing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/api-gateway-announces-tiered-pricing/ AWS IoT Core Improves the Ability to Ingest Large Amounts of Device Data at a Lower Cost | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-iot-core-improves-ability-to-ingest-large-amounts-of-data/ Access Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations for All of Your Linked Accounts From a Central Location | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/central-location-for-accessing-ri-purchase-recommendations-for-all-accounts/ Monitor Your Amazon Elasticsearch Reserved Instance Utilization and Coverage Using AWS Budgets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/monitor-your-amazon-elasticsearch-ri-using-aws-budgets/ Amazon EC2 Spot Console now Provides Access to Spot Savings Information | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-EC2-Spot-Console-now-Provides-Access-to-Spot-Savings-Information/ 10:15 Machine Learning Amazon Translate now offers 113 new language pairs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-translate-now-offers-113-new-language-pairs/ Amazon Polly Adds Italian and Castilian Spanish Voices, and Mexican Spanish Language Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-polly-adds-italian-and-castilian-spanish-voices-and-mexican-spanish-language-support/ Amazon Rekognition Announces More Accurate Object and Scene Detection, Can Now Locate Objects in Your Images | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-rekognition-announces-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-can-now-locate-objects-in-your-images/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Pipe Mode for Datasets in CSV Format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-pipe-mode-for-datasets-in-csv-form/ Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports AWS KMS Based Encryption | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-batch-transform-now-supports-aws-kms-based-encr/ Now Clone a Hyperparameter Tuning Job through the Amazon SageMaker Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/now-clone-a-hyperparameter-tuning-job-through-the-amazon-sagemak0/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Apache MXNet 1.3 and TensorFlow 1.11 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-apache-mxnet-1-3-and-tensorflow-1-/ Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Incremental Learning for Image Classification and Object Detection Algorithms | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-incremental-learning-for-image-cla/ Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-batch-transform-now-supports-amazon-virtual-pri/ Now Use Chainer 5.0 on AWS Deep Learning AMIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/chainer5-0_launch_deep_learning_ami/ Introducing Machine Learning for Telecommunication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-machine-learning-for-telecommunication/ 15:14 Storage Amazon EFS now Supports AWS VPN and Inter-Region VPC Peering | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-efs-now-supports-aws-vpn-and-inter-region-vpc-peering/ Amazon Elastic File System Now Supports 512 Locks per File | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-elastic-file-system-now-supports-512-locks-per-file/ Amazon S3 Management Console is Now Available in Five New Languages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-s3-console-is-now-available-in-five-new-languages/ Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for copying EBS volume tags to EBS snapshots | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-adds-support-for-copying-ebs-volume-tags-to-ebs-snapshots/ 16:23 Networking Announcing the general availability of Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bring-your-own-ip-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud/ Amazon API Gateway Launches the Serverless Developer Portal | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-api-gateway-launches-the-serverless-developer-portal/ Amazon API Gateway Adds Support for AWS WAF | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-api-gateway-adds-support-for-aws-waf/ Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations across North America, Europe, and Asia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/cloudfront-nov6-launch/ Amazon Route 53 Releases Interactive Map for Traffic Flow Geoproximity Routing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-route-53-releases-interactive-map-for-traffic-flow-geoproximity-routing/ 19:17 Databases Amazon ElastiCache Now Supports the Next Generation General-Purpose and Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 Nodes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon_elasticache_now_supports_the_next_generation_general-purpose_and_memory-optimized_amazon_ec2_m5_and_r5_nodes/ New – Redis 5.0 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-redis-5-0-compatibility-for-amazon-elasticache/ Amazon RDS Enables Stopping and Starting of Multi-AZ Database Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-stop-and-start-of-multi-az-instances/ Amazon RDS for MySQL,MariaDB and PostgreSQL Now Supports Database Storage Size up to 32TiB | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-mysql-mariadb-postgresql-32tib-support/ Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-now-supports-mysql-8/ Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-now-supports-mariadb-10_3/ PostgreSQL 11 is Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/postgresql-11-available-in-rds-database-preview/ Amazon RDS for SQL Server Enhances Backup and Restore Capabilities | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-enhances-backup-and-restore-capabilities/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports M5 Instance Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-oracle-supports-m5-instances/ Amazon RDS Performance Insights is Generally Available on RDS for Oracle | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-performance-insights-is-generally-available-on-rds-for-oracle/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Oracle Java | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-oracle-java/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Extended Data Types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-extended-data-types/ Amazon RDS Now Sends Events to Amazon CloudWatch Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-now-sends-events-to-amazon-cloudwatch-events/ Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Always On Availability Groups | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-alwayson-availability-groups/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports IAM Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-aurora-postgresql-supports-iam-authentication/ 24:37 Management Tools New – CloudFormation Drift Detection - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudformation-drift-detection/ New AWS CloudFormation Management Console Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/new-aws-cloudformation-management-console-now-available/ AWS CloudFormation coverage updates for Amazon Secrets Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route53, Amazon Cloudwatch alarms and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-cloudformation-coverage-updates-for-amazon-secrets-manager--/ Introducing AWS CloudFormation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-policies/ New Quick Start builds a CI/CD pipeline to test AWS CloudFormation templates using AWS TaskCat | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/new-quickstart-builds-cicd-pipeline-to-test-cloudformation-templates-using-taskcat/ Amazon CloudWatch Events Adds the Ability to Share Events Across All Accounts in an Organization | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-cloudwatch-events-adds-the-ability-to-share-events-across-all-accounts-in-an-organization/ Easily Monitor Security Events of Your AWS Managed Microsoft AD Using Amazon CloudWatch Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/easily-monitor-security-events-of-your-aws-managed-microsoft-ad-using-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ 27:41 Business Productivity Amazon WorkDocs Now Lets You Control IP Address Access to Your Site | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-workdocs-control-ip-address-access/ Alexa for Business now enables third party device makers to have their products be managed as shared devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/alexa-for-business-now-enables-third-party-device-makers-to-have/ Introducing Amazon AppStream 2.0 AWS CloudFormation Support and User Pool APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/introducing-amazon-appstream-2-0-aws-cloudformation-support-and-/ Amazon WorkDocs Drive Now Available for Mac | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-workdocs-drive-available-for-mac/ 28:30 Security AWS Firewall Manager Now Supports Multiple AWS WAF Rule Groups | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/firewall-manager-now-supports-multiple-aws-waf-rulegroups-per-policy/ AWS Single Sign-On Now Enables You to Optimize How Long You can Access AWS Accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-single-sign-on-now-enables-you-to-optimize-how-long-you-can-access-aws-accounts/ AWS Single Sign-On Adds More Pre-Integrated Business Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-single-sign-on-adds-more-pre-integrated-business-applications/ Amazon GuardDuty Optimizes AWS CloudTrail Analysis Reducing Cost for Customers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-guardduty-optimizes-aws-cloudtrail-analysis-reducing-cost-for-customers/ Amazon Inspector Launches Agentless Network Assessments | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-inspector-launches-agentless-network-assessments/ Amazon Inspector Adds Amazon EC2 Instance Details to Security Findings | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-inspector-adds-amazon-ec2-instance-details-to-security-findings/ Centralized Logging Now Leverages Amazon Cognito for User Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/centralized-logging-now-leverages-amazon-cognito-for-user-authentication/ AWS Key Management Service Has a New Console Experience | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-key-management-service-has-a-new-console-experience/ 32:13 Analytics Amazon QuickSight adds support for Top N Filters, Cascading Parameter Controls, and JSON Parsing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-quickSight-now-supports-top-bottom-filters-cascading-parameter-controls-and-json-parsing-on-data-sources/ Amazon EMR now supports a public EMR artifact repository for Maven builds | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-emr-now-supports-a-public-EMR-artifact-repository-for-maven-builds/ Amazon EMR now supports G3, H1, and Z1d instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-emr-now-supports-g3-h1-z1d-instances/ Support for Flink 1.6.0, Zeppelin 0.8.0, and S3 Select with Hive and Presto on Amazon EMR release 5.18.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/support-for-flink-160-zeppelin-080-and-s3-select-with-hive-and-presto-on-amazon-emr-release-5180/ Stream data from Microsoft Windows based services using the Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/stream-data-from-microsoft-windows-based-services-using-the-amazon-kinesis-agent-for-microsoft-windows/ 33:36 Customer Engagement Amazon Pinpoint announces support for transactional emails and the addition of rich email analytics dashboards | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-pinpoint-announces-support-for-transactional-emails-and-t/ 34:33 Application Integration Amazon SQS FIFO Queues Now Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions - Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sqs-fifo-asia-pacific-tokyo-sydney/

Singapore's National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) Learning Hub works with AWS Educate to reach a different audience — adult learners. Spearheading a global movement, the NTUC intends to train and re-skill 20,000 Singaporeans to build cloud computing skills before the end of 2019. https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate

How can the hospital experience be made a little easier for children suffering chronic illness and their caregivers? Simon speaks with Jon Shipman (CTO & Co-Founder) and Michael Powell (VP Marketing ) from ZOTT about their approach to the challenge. Shownotes: https://zott.tv/main

This is a Special Series from AWS Security & Compliance. In this podcast, we’re previewing the security track at re:Invent. Staffers developing security track content offer their advice for navigating the learning conference that is expected to draw 50,000 people from around the world. Learn about the newest hands-on session designed to give you even deeper technical insight. Plus, find out about the event change meant to make it easier to attend the talks that interest you. https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

The California Cloud Workforce Project (“CA Cloud”), a consortium of 19 LA County community colleges and their sister high schools, designed a Cloud Computing Certificate in collaboration with faculty at Santa Monica College and AWS Educate. Intended to scale, CA Cloud sets a precedent for thinking big about global cloud curriculum. https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate

Once an application is in the Cloud - are you done? In this episode, Simon & Glenn Gore (Lead Architect, AWS Solutions Architecture) revisit an architecture they deployed back in 2014 on AWS and refactor it "on the fly"! Shownotes: Original Sentimentizer Design: https://selisha-public.s3.amazonaws.com/Sentimentizer_Original_Architecture.png Refactoring Ideas: https://selisha-public.s3.amazonaws.com/Rough%20Draft%20of%20Sentimentizer%20v2.png

Cloud computing has been highlighted by LinkedIn as the #1 in-demand global skill for the past three years in a row, with Northern Virginia housing one of the largest concentrations of IT jobs in the nation. Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and AWS Educate collaborate to create an innovative degree offering, an associates degree with cloud computing specialization. https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate

Do you like puzzles? Ozz the robot is travelling to AWS re:Invent 2018, but he needs a little help! This is your chance to work individually or with people around the world to solve cool puzzles. Simon and Jeff speak with Mike Selinker (President of LoanShark Games) about what happened last year and what is in store for this year's AWS Quest! Visit: https://aws.amazon.com/awsquest/