AWS Podcast

In this episode Simon chats with Jon Handler, Principal Solutions Architect, about scaling and securing the Amazon ElasticSearch Service with some deeper-dive examples of what to do. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/

In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about backup options to the cloud. They cover connector technologies, tiering and other considerations. https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/backup-and-recovery-using-aws/

In this episode Simon has a wide-ranging chat with Kunal Anand, CTO & Co-Founder of Prevoty, about building their product on AWS, the challenges of scale and the future of software architectures. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS www.prevoty.com

In this episode Simon sits down with Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect, to walk through the new AWS Server Migration Service. https://aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service

Simon has a conversation with Conrad Rushing, VP Engineering at Splash. They discuss Docker, Continuous Deployment, Team Structure and lots of other goodies. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. www.splashthat.com

In This Episode Simon chats with Steve Faulkner, Director of Engineering at Bustle about moving to a serverless architecture, and their open-source project called “Shep”. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Links: www.bustle.com https://github.com/bustlelabs/shep

All the news from AWS Re:Invent 2016 - Day 2!

In this special episode Simon summarises all the announcements from Re:Invent 2016 - Day 1! Lots to cover - lots of exciting things to build with!

A quick update from Las Vegas with some great announcements prior to the Keynotes. Shownotes: AWS Organisations: https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/ AWS Storage Gateway Update: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-provides-a-file-interface-to-objects-in-your-amazon-s3-buckets/ AWS Storage Gateway Price Reductions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-price-reductions/ New Amazon S3 Capabilities: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/revolutionizing-s3-storage-management-with-4-new-features/ Amazon WorkSpaces Windows 10 Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-workspaces-introduces-windows-10-desktop-experience/

Recorded live in Las Vegas! Simon covers some AWS updates prior to a BIG week at AWS Re:Invent. Including ALB, S3, Glacier, IoT, Aurora and more! Shownotes: ALB/ELB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/application-performance-percentiles-and-request-tracing-for-aws-application-load-balancer/ Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-aurora-for-dev-test-workloads-with-new-t2-medium-db-instance-class/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-route-53-announces-self-service-tool-to-associate-amazon-vpcs-and-private-hosted-zones-that-are-created-with-different-aws-accounts/ SQL Server Enterprise Edition: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/sql-server-enterprise-is-now-available-with-amazon-ec2-in-expanded-regions-and-for-more-instance-types/ AWS Storage Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glacier-price-reductions/