AWS Podcast

In this episode, hear how S3 Express One Zone enables workloads such as machine learning training, interactive analytics, and media content creation to achieve single-digit millisecond data access speed with high durability and availability.

Updates since re:Invent include AWS Marketplace, analytics, application integration, compute, customer engagement, databases, developer tools, end user computing, front end web and mobile, IoT, machine learning, management and governance, media services, migration and transfer, networking and content delivery, satellite, security identity and compliance, and storage.

In this episode, we’re diving deep into Amazon Q, your generative AI–powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business, recently launched at re:Invent 2023. We’ll go through Amazon Q’s main areas of expertise so you can learn about how Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company's information repositories, code, and enterprise systems. You'll hear from experts, such as product managers, on how Amazon Q can boost your workforce productivity with generative AI, transform the way you build, optimize, and operate applications and workloads on AWS, deliver customer service agents the responses, actions, and information they need to solve issues in real time, or and help BI users build, discover, and share actionable insights and narratives in seconds. Finally, we touch on how Amazon Q handles the security of your data, go through some responsible AI capabilities, and offer you tips and tricks to get the most out of Amazon Q.

Explore the features and benefits of Amazon RDS for Db2, a fully managed service that automates administrative tasks and provides the reliability of IBM DB2 database. Learn about the option of moving to RDS for DB2 on Linux, the performance scalability and security features, and how DBAs can utilize RDS for Db2 to focus on valuable tasks.

Dr. Denise Gosnell, Principal Product Manager for Amazon Neptune, discusses the new Neptune Analytics engine and how it helps customers gain insights from large graph databases. The podcast covers various use cases for Amazon Neptune, including fraud detection and targeted content recommendation, as well as the benefits of using Neptune Analytics in generative AI applications. Listeners can also learn how to get started with graph databases and analytics using open source formats and Jupiter notebooks.

Learn about the benefits of caching with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless. Explore the features and scalability of Amazon Elastic Cache. Discover how ElastiCache Serverless eliminates unnecessary costs and automates capacity adjustment. Get recommendations on architecting applications with elastic cache serverless.

Dr. Werner Vogels, keynote speaker at re:Invent 2023, discusses the philosophy of building systems, the impact of AI, and new AWS features including zonal auto shift, Amazon CloudWatch application signals, My Applications capability, IDE extension for AWS application composer, integration of ISE templates, and efficiency and cost optimization in Amazon SageMaker.

Highlights from re:Invent Day 3 include discussions on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Titan text models, Drop xCloud 2.1, Meadows Llama 70 Billion Parameter, Stable Diffusion Excel 1.0 image model, smart sifting with Amazon SageMaker, new features in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, Open Search Service, and MemoryDB for Redis, and updates from AWS including Vector Search in Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Cleanrooms ML, healthcare modeling in AWS Cleanrooms, Apache Iceberg support in Amazon Redshift, Neptune Analytics for graph data, and new AWS AI service cards.

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky's keynote at re:Invent 2023 included announcements like S3 Express one zone offering fast cloud object storage with low latency. Other highlights include new features and integrations on AWS, continued pre-training in bedrock, and the introduction of fully managed agents for generative AI applications. Guardrails for filtering harmful content and the introduction of Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant, were also discussed.

It’s the most re:Invent time of the year! Simon guides you through the most exciting announcements from Peter DeSantis’ keynote, where he dives deep into the engineering that powers AWS services. PLUS Simon catches you up on 100 other announcements in just 30 minutes!!