

AWS Podcast
Amazon Web Services
The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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Mar 1, 2024 • 21min
#655: Leveraging data to power the energy industry
In episode two of our three-part series, explore the energy industry’s data transformation. Learn how companies build specialized teams, empower people with new data skills, and foster robust data cultures to drive actionable insights.

Feb 26, 2024 • 21min
#654: AWS News Updates, February 2024 #2
Join Simon and Jillian as they dive into the latest AWS news updates for February 2024, covering a wide range of topics including marketplace, analytics, blockchain, machine learning, security, and more. They discuss new features and enhancements in various AWS services such as databases, developer tools, front end web & mobile, and networking & content delivery. Don't miss out on all the exciting developments in the world of AWS!

Feb 23, 2024 • 17min
#653: Solving today’s biggest challenges in energy transition with AWS
Today, we present the first episode of a new three-part series devoted to the energy industry. We'll dig into the latest advancements, trends, and challenges shaping the energy landscape and discuss how AWS is supporting our customers in the current energy environment.
Join us and our AWS Energy Leaders as we uncover the stories behind what is really happening in the energy industry.

Feb 12, 2024 • 13min
#652: AWS News Updates, February 2024 #1
Simon & Jillian cover a cool mix of updates and improvements you can use today! Topics include AWS Marketplace, Analytics, Application Integration, Blockchain, Compute, Customer Engagement, Databases, Machine Learning, Management & Governance, Media Services, Networking, Security, Identity, & Compliance, Solutions, and Storage.

Feb 5, 2024 • 28min
#651: Accelerate migrations with AWS Migration Evaluator
In this episode, we discuss AWS migration assessments using AWS Migration Evaluator. The complimentary, fast assessment compares on-premises and AWS costs and delivers a business case to justify migration. It provides data-driven analysis of compute, storage, licensing, and sustainable best practices.

Jan 29, 2024 • 23min
#650: AWS News Updates, Jan. 29, 2024
Jillian takes you through all the latest AWS updates! Chapters: 00:48 AWS Marketplace; 01:25 Analytics; 03:04 Application Integration; 03:41 Compute; 08:19 Customer Engagement; 09:13 Databases; 11:39 Developer Tools; 12:41 Front End Web and Mobile; 13:28 Machine Learning; 13:55 Management & Governance; 15:44 Media Services; 15:52 Migration & Transfer; 17:07 Networking & Content Delivery; 18:48 Security, Identity, & Compliance; 19:34 Storage; 20:46 Supply Chain

Jan 27, 2024 • 24min
#649: Amazon S3 Express One Zone
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.

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Jan 15, 2024 • 56min
#648: AWS News Updates Jan 15 2024
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.

Jan 8, 2024 • 55min
#647: Amazon Q is your new generative AI–powered assistant
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.

Dec 18, 2023 • 17min
#646: Amazon RDS for Db2
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.