AWS Podcast

Simon speaks with Chris Andronaco Manager of Technology TRD about agile, developing software and what it takes to support high-performance car racing teams. TRD: http://www.trdusa.com/

One of the biggest problems in the mobile application industry is optimizing the user on-boarding process. For most applications, you can't really monetize your app until a user has signed up. But implementing and managing all of the complex machinery needed to create a user identity and access systems is time consuming and not your core competency. App developers can save time, money, and effort by using AWS Cognito for on-boarding users and managing their identity, authorization, authentication, and resource access policies. Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

Simon takes you through a set of service updates large and small! Shownotes: AWS CloudFormation and DAX: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-dax/ VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-vpc-endpoints-for-dynamodb/ RDS for Microsoft SQL Server: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-increases-maxiumum-database-storage-size-to-16-tb/ AWS Quick Start for Microsoft SQL Server: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/sql/ New Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-the-aws-tools-for-microsoft-visual-studio-team-services/ Amazon SES Reputation Dashboard: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-simple-email-service-introduces-reputation-dashboard-for-email-accounts/ AWS CloudTrail Event History for Everyone: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-cloudtrail-event-history-now-available-to-all-customers/ Amazon EC2 G3 Instance Availability: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-ec2-g3-instances-now-available-in-asia-pacific-japan-asia-pacific-sydney-asia-pacific-singapore-and-eu-frankfurt-regions/ Deadline 10: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deadline-10-launch-a-rendering-fleet-in-aws/ Amazon Route53 Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-route-53-now-supports-caa-records/ Amazon EFS Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-efs-now-supports-additional-permissions-for-finer-grained-control-of-directory-and-file-access/ AWS Ruby SDK: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-the-modularized-aws-sdk-for-ruby-version-3/ Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Update: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-configuration-compliance-reporting-and-auto-remediation/ Amazon Redshift Scalar UDFs: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-redshift-introduces-sql-scalar-user-defined-functions/

Did you want to get Alfresco up and running fast, securely and reliably on AWS? Listen to how Alfresco (Toni de la Fuente, Cloud Architect and Leader of Security Operations, Alfresco) and AWS (Santiago Cardenas, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS) created a Quick Start for you to do just that! Alfresco Content Services Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/alfresco-content-services/ https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-alfresco-content-services Alfresco Global Virtual Hack-a-thon: https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6198-hackathon AWS Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

One of the biggest problems for mobile app developers is delivering quality applications that get high ratings and reviews in the app store. All it takes is a few bad ratings, and users will be unlikely to even download your application. One of the keys to producing quality mobile applications is thorough testing, but individual developers can't afford to own thousands of devices, let alone manage the infrastructure for running test harnesses against all those devices. In this episode, we introduce AWS Device Farm that lets mobile app developers test their apps against a wide array of mobile devices and catch bugs early so you can focus on introducing new features and functionality to delight your users rather than spending all your cycles responding to and fixing issues reported in reviews and rankings. AWS Device Farm: https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/ AWS Device Farm Plugins: https://github.com/awslabs?q=aws-device-farm

This episode takes you through a collection of handy updates to existing services, and a new Security whitepaper. Shownotes: AWS CodePipeline: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-codepipeline-adds-ability-to-view-history-of-pipeline/ AWS Budgets: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/new-filtering-options-and-linked-account-access-in-aws-budgets/ AWS Service Catalog: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-service-catalog-tagoptions-library-creates-a-better-way-to-govern-your-aws-footprint/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-route-53-announces-support-for-multivalue-answers-in-response-to-dns-queries/ AWS Direct Connect: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-direct-connect-now-provides-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring/ More .NET Core Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/announcing-net-core-support-for-aws-codebuild-and-aws-codestar/ AWS Price Reduction: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-reduction-sql-server-standard-edition-on-ec2/ AWS CloudFormation Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/07/aws-cloudformation-coverage-updates-for-amazon-api-gateway--amazon-ec2--amazon-emr--amazon-dynamodb-and-more/ AWS WAF Rate-Based Rules: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/protect-web-sites-services-using-rate-based-rules-for-aws-waf/ Using AWS WAF To Mitigate OWASP Top 10 : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prepare-for-the-owasp-top-10-web-application-vulnerabilities-using-aws-waf-and-our-new-white-paper/ Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-api-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards/

In this episode Simon gets you caught up on some useful new services including those to help you with ETL, Migration and Data Leakage protection! Shownotes: AWS Glue: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-aws-glue-now-generally-available/ AWS CloudHSM: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudhsm-update-cost-effective-hardware-key-management/ AWS Macie: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/ AWS IAM Console: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/07/the-aws-iam-console-now-remembers-your-preferences-for-table-column-selections-and-policy-viewing-and-editing/ AWS Migration Hub: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-migration-hub-plan-track-enterprise-application-migration/ Amazon EFS Encryption at Rest: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-encryption-at-rest-for-amazon-elastic-file-system-efs/ AWS Batch and CloudFormation: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-batch-adds-support-for-aws-cloudformation/ AWS SAM Local: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-sam-local-beta-build-and-test-serverless-applications-locally/ EC2 Systems Manager Maintenance Windows: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/maintenance-windows-support-for-new-task-types-using-amazon-ec2-systems-manager/ AWS CloudTrail in Amazon Lex: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-cloudtrail-integration-is-now-available-in-amazon-lex/

Where do you store your sensitive config info and passwords for your applications? In this episode Simon dives into the Parameter Store and how you can use it to protect and access your sensitive data. Shownotes: EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/parameter-store/ Interesting Articles about Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/interesting-articles-on-ec2-systems-manager-parameter-store/ Tagging for Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-hierarchy-tagging-and-notification-support-for-parameter-store/

Simon speaks with Philip “Fitz” Fitzsimons, Global Well-Architected Lead, and Herman Coomans, Senior Solutions Architect, all about the AWS Well Architected framework. They discuss what it consists of, how customers can apply it, and what they have learned. Well-Architected Site: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

It is time again to catch up on a raft of updates for customers! This week’s updates include: AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IoT Button, AWS Mobile Hub, Amazon ECS and Amazon DynamoDB just to name a few!