AWS Podcast

Simon takes you through even more news from re:Invent 2017! Shownotes: Announcing Alexa for Business: Using Amazon Alexa’s Voice Enabled Devices for Workplaces - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-announcing-alexa-for-business-using-amazon-alexas-voice-enabled-devices-for-workplaces/ AWS Lambda Doubles Maximum Memory Capacity for Lambda Functions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-lambda-doubles-maximum-memory-capacity-for-lambda-functions/ Set Concurrency Limits on Individual AWS Lambda Functions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/set-concurrency-limits-on-individual-aws-lambda-functions/ AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Execution Activity for AWS Lambda Functions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-cloudtrail-adds-logging-of-execution-activity-for-aws-lambda-functions/ AWS Lambda Introduces Enhanced Console Experience | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-lambda-introduces-enhanced-console-experience/ Get Ready for the AWS Serverless Application Repository - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-serverless-app-repo/ Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/migrate-hyper-v-vms-to-aws-with-aws-server-migration-service/ AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloud9-cloud-developer-environments/ Announcing New AWS Deep Learning AMI for Microsoft Windows | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcing-new-aws-deep-learning-ami-for-microsoft-windows/ Amazon API Gateway Supports Endpoint Integrations with Private VPCs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-api-gateway-supports-endpoint-integrations-with-private-vpcs/ Announcing Support for Inter-Region VPC Peering | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcing-support-for-inter-region-vpc-peering/ Introducing Launch Templates for Amazon EC2 instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-launch-templates-for-amazon-ec2-instances/ T2 Unlimited – Going Beyond the Burst with High Performance - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyond-the-burst-with-high-performance/ Introducing Spread Placement Groups for Amazon EC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introducing-spread-placement-groups-for-amazon-ec2/ Amazon Lightsail adds load balancers with integrated certificate management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-lightsail-adds-load-balancers-with-integrated-certificate-management/ Keeping Time With Amazon Time Sync Service - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/ Sign Up for the Preview of Amazon Aurora Multi-Master | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/sign-up-for-the-preview-of-amazon-aurora-multi-master/ In The Works – Amazon Aurora Serverless - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-amazon-aurora-serverless/ Over-the-air updates, access to local resources, and OPC-UA industrial protocol adapter now available on AWS Greengrass | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/over-the-air-updates-access-to-local-resources-and-opc-ua-industrial-protocol-adapter-now-available-on-aws-greengrass/ Ready-to-Use Managed Rules Now Available on AWS WAF | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/ready-to-use-managed-rules-now-available-on-aws-waf/

Simon covers a raft of the announcements made at the re:Invent Keynote and other announcements of note! Shownotes: New- AWS IoT Device Management - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-device-management/ Presenting AWS IoT Analytics: Delivering IoT Analytics at Scale and Faster than Ever Before - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-aws-iot-analytics/ In the Works – AWS IoT Device Defender – Secure Your IoT Fleet - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-sepio-secure-your-iot-fleet/ AWS IoT 1-Click Overview - One click creation of an AWS Lambda trigger for any device | https://aws.amazon.com/iot-1-click/ Announcing Amazon FreeRTOS – Enabling Billions of Devices to Securely Benefit from the Cloud - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-freertos/ Amazon SageMaker – Accelerating Machine Learning - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/ Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-comprehend-continuously-trained-natural-language-processing/ Amazon Transcribe – Accurate Speech To Text At Scale - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-scalable-and-accurate-automatic-speech-recognition/ Welcoming Amazon Rekognition Video: Deep-Learning Based Video Recognition - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-welcoming-amazon-rekognition-video-service/ Amazon Kinesis Video Streams – Serverless Video Ingestion and Storage for Vision-Enabled Apps - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-serverless-video-ingestion-and-storage-for-vision-enabled-apps/ AWS DeepLens – Get Hands-On Experience with Deep Learning With Our New Video Camera - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deeplens/ S3 Select and Glacier Select – Retrieving Subsets of Objects - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/ Amazon Neptune – A Fully Managed Graph Database Service - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-neptune-a-fully-managed-graph-database-service/ Amazon DynamoDB Update – Global Tables and On-Demand Backup - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-and-on-demand-backup/ Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/ M5 – The Next Generation of General-Purpose EC2 Instances - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/m5-the-next-generation-of-general-purpose-ec2-instances/ H1 Instances – Fast, Dense Storage for Big Data Applications - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-h1-instances-fast-dense-storage-for-big-data-applications/ Amazon EC2 Update – Streamlined Access to Spot Capacity, Smooth Price Changes, Instance Hibernation - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlined-access-to-spot-capacity-smooth-price-changes-instance-hibernation/ Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-container-service-for-kubernetes/ Introducing AWS Fargate – Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/ Amazon GuardDuty – Continuous Security Monitoring & Threat Detection - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-guardduty-continuous-security-monitoring-threat-detection/ Introducing AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/ AWS PrivateLink Update – VPC Endpoints for Your Own Applications & Services - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-privatelink-update-vpc-endpoints-for-your-own-applications-services/ AWS Lambda Supports Traffic Shifting and AWS CodeDeploy Deployments | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-lambda-supports-traffic-shifting-and-phased-deployments-with-aws-codedeploy/ Amazon API Gateway Supports Canary Release Deployments | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-api-gateway-supports-canary-release-deployments/ Presenting Amazon Sumerian: An easy way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-amazon-sumerian/ AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-media-services-process-store-and-monetize-cloud-based-video/ AWS Systems Manager – A Unified Interface for Managing Your Cloud and Hybrid Resources - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-systems-manager/ Amazon MQ – Managed Message Broker Service for ActiveMQ - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-mq-managed-message-broker-service-for-activemq/

Simon takes you through a “Mega” set of updates and new things. Grab a coffee (he makes a recommendation!) and hopefully there will be at least one update that makes you smile! Links: How to Prepare for AWS’s Move to Its Own Certificate Authority: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-prepare-for-aws-move-to-its-own-certificate-authority/ New Pricing for AppStream 2.0 for Qualifying Education Users: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/new-pricing-makes-streaming-learning-resources-with-amazon-appstream-2-0-more-affordable-for-qualifying-education-users/ What’s New with AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/new/

Simon speaks with Ken Eisner, Senior Manager of Worldwide AWS Education Programs about AWS Educate. Are you an educator looking for up-to-date content for your curriculum? Are you a student wanting to get modern, relevant qualifications? Do you want to “re-skill” yourself with some of the most valued technical skills in the market? Take a listen to how the AWS Educate program can help - PLUS a special code for $150 of AWS Credit is shared in the episode (NOTE: code valid to 31st December 2017). https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/

App developers spend incredible time, resources, and effort to grow their app audiences, but once you've acquired a user, it's easier and cheaper to retain and engage them via messaging and notifications. In this podcast we introduce AWS Pinpoint for engaging with your users and getting app and user analytics to drive your business. Amazon Pinpoint: https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, making it easy to develop applications that use high-quality speech to increase engagement and accessibility. In this episode Simon speaks with Robin Dautricourt, Product Manager for Amazon Polly to introduce Amazon Polly and walk through popular use cases in specific industries where Amazon Polly's natural sounding voices improve user experience and enables new ways to consume content: Learning/Education, Gaming, Content Creation and Telephony. Learn about real-world scenarios and examples of how to incorporate text-to-speech into their capabilities. https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available to customers. Simon speaks with Andy Reedy, Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS, about how it works and what customers can do with this capability. https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications from AWS to any device running a web browser, without rewriting them. Simon speaks with Deepak Suryanarayanan, Senior Product Manager at AWS, about how customers can use AppStream 2.0 to deliver their applications more efficiently. https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

Simon takes a walk through LOTS of the updates that have been happening for AWS Customers. Shownotes New – Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-now-allows-customers-to-expand-their-existing-vpcs/ New – Descriptions for Security Group Rules - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-descriptions-for-security-group-rules/ New – Stop & Resume Workloads on EC2 Spot Instances - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-stop-resume-workloads-on-ec2-spot-instances/ Amazon VPC NAT Gateways now support Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring and Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-vpc-nat-gateways-now-support-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring-and-resource-tagging/ AWS VPN Update – Custom PSK, Inside Tunnel IP, and SDK update | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/aws-vpn-update-custom-psk-inside-tunnel-ip-and-sdk-update/ Elasticsearch 5.5 now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/elasticsearch-5_5-now-available-on-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow Announces Support For Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-route-53-traffic-flow-announces-support-for-geoproximity-routing-with-traffic-biasing/ New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/ Now Available – EC2 Instances with 4 TB of Memory - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ec2-instances-with-4-tb-of-memory/ Use OpenCL Development Environment with Amazon EC2 F1 FPGA Instances to accelerate your C/C++ applications, also F1 instances are now available in US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/use-opencl-development-environment-with-amazon-ec2-f1-fpga-instances-to-accelerate-your-c-c-plus-plus-applications-also-f1-instances-are-now-available-in-us-west-oregon-and-eu-ireland-regions/ Announcing: React Native Starter Project with One-Click AWS Deployment and Serverless Infrastructure - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/announcing-react-native-starter-project-with-one-click-aws-deployment-and-serverless-infrastructure/ Announcing enhancements to the Amazon Lex test console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/announcing-enhancements-to-the-amazon-lex-test-console/ Announcing support for synonyms and slot value validation on Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/announcing-support-for-synonyms-and-slot-value-validation-on-amazon-lex/ Now Specify Request Level Attributes with Amazon Lex | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/now-specify-request-level-attributes-with-amazon-lex/ New Amazon Lex Built-in Slot Types for Phone numbers, Speed, and Weight, Available in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-amazon-lex-built-in-slot-types-for-phone-numbers-speed-and-weight-available-in-preview/ Export your Amazon Lex chatbot to the Alexa Skills Kit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/export-your-amazon-lex-chatbot-to-the-alexa-skills-kit/ Apple Core ML and Keras Support Now Available for Apache MXNet - AWS AI Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/apple-core-ml-and-keras-support-now-available-for-apache-mxnet/ AWS CodePipeline now provides notifications on pipeline, stage, and action status changes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-codepipeline-now-provides-notifications-on-pipeline-stage-and-action-status-changes/ Amazon Pinpoint Introduces Two-Way Text Messaging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-pinpoint-introduces-two-way-text-messaging/ Amazon Cognito Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools and Enrich Pinpoint Campaigns | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-cognito-integrates-with-amazon-pinpoint-to-add-analytics-for-user-pools-and-enrich-pinpoint-campaigns/ Amazon Redshift now supports late-binding views referencing Amazon Redshift and Redshift Spectrum external tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-redshift-now-supports-late-binding-views-referencing-amazon-redshift-and-redshift-spectrum-external-tables/ Custom Artifacts on AWS Device Farm - AWS Mobile Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/custom-artifacts-on-aws-device-farm/ Amazon Aurora Can Migrate Encrypted Databases from Amazon RDS for MySQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-aurora-can-migrate-encrypted-databases-from-amazon-rds-for-mysql/ Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Adds Raspbian OS and Raspberry Pi Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-raspbian-os-and-raspberry-pi-support/ AWS Greengrass is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-greengrass-is-available-in-asia-pacific-tokyo-region/ AWS CloudTrail Enables Option to Add All Amazon S3 Buckets to Data Events | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudtrail-enables-option-to-add-all-amazon-s3-buckets-to-data-events/ Amazon Kinesis Analytics improves application performance for high volume data streams | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-kinesis-analytics-improves-application-performance-for-high-volume-data-streams/ New Kinesis Analytics stream processing functions for time series analytics, real time sessionization, and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/new-kinesis-analytics-stream-processing-functions-for-time-series-analytics-real-time-sessionization-and-more/ AWS CloudFormation provides Stack Termination Protection | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/aws-cloudformation-provides-stack-termination-protection/

In this episode Simon speaks with Carla Cole (Vice President, Sales) and Mick Bass (Senior Vice President, Big Data Practice) at 47Lining along with Chris Perkins (AWS) about the AWS Quick Start for Data Warehouse Modernization and how you can get the most from it. AWS Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/edw-tableau-server/ Jumpstart Consulting Offer: https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-tzm-766/images/ipc_jumpstart_47lining_final_062817%5b1%5d.pdf 47Lining: http://www.47lining.com/