
AWS Podcast
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.
Latest episodes

Nov 20, 2023 • 21min
#639: How to re:Invent
Explore everything AWS re:Invent had to offer this November 27th through December 1st 2023! Join Simon Elisha and Jillian Forde as they share their tips to use your time efficiently and discover content that is most relevant to your interests wether you are in Las Vegas or joining remotely. Schedule your event using the session catalog found here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/session-catalog/

Nov 18, 2023 • 23min
#638: November 2023 Update Show 2
AWS Podcast discusses updates and announcements in various AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, Redshift, and Glue Studio. They also cover improvements in application integration, Lambda, CodeBuild, and Amazon EKS Anywhere. Updates are provided on AWS services such as CodeBuild, Fault Injection Simulator, Resilience Hub, and Nice DCV. Migration and transfer updates include communication through network proxy and new replatforming feature. Security and storage updates cover GuardDuty, EBS snapshots, and upcoming reinvent series

Nov 13, 2023 • 18min
#637: Plan AI development cycles with Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
Jillian Forde and Jake Siddall discuss Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a new service that allows customers to reserve GPU instances for machine learning workloads. They explore the benefits of capacity blocks, use cases, planning AI strategy, pricing dynamics, and optimizing compute capacity.

Nov 9, 2023 • 19min
#636: Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift
Jyoti Aggarwal, Product Management lead for Amazon Redshift zero-ETL, and Adam Levin, Principal Product Manager on the Amazon Aurora, discuss the benefits and challenges of zero-ETL integration between Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon Redshift. They highlight use cases, data sharing, materialized views, and central data governance. The integration allows for near real-time replication, easy monitoring, and recovery from failures. The process involves CDC-based replication and automatic copying of subsequent changes.

Nov 6, 2023 • 26min
#635: November 2023 Update Show 1
In this podcast, they cover 75 exciting updates across AWS Marketplace, analytics, application integration, blockchain, compute, databases, developer tools, end user computing, internet of things, machine learning, management & governance, media services, migration & transfer, and security, identity, & compliance.

Nov 2, 2023 • 20min
#634: Innovating with generative AI starts with your data strategy
Gopinath Sankaran, VP at Informatica, joins Jillian Forde to discuss generative AI's transformative power. They explore its varied applications across business operations and customer experience. They highlight the importance of a strong data foundation for generative AI, including data architecture, sources, quality, security, and governance. They provide tips for getting started with generative AI and share their experience in using it for data management processes.

Oct 30, 2023 • 33min
#633: October 2023 Update Show 3
This podcast episode covers a variety of interesting topics, including analytics, application integration, compute, customer engagement, database, developer tools, end user computing, front end web & mobile, internet of things, machine learning, management & governance, media services, networking & content delivery, security, identity, & compliance, and supply chain. The episode also discusses the release of Amazon Data Zone, updates on collaboration and data sharing tools, event buses for event-driven applications, and updates on various AWS services like Lambda, EC2, EKS, and SageMaker.

Oct 23, 2023 • 20min
#632: Accelerate AWS Cloud Journeys with Experience-Based Acceleration
The podcast features Bilal Shirazi and Rughved Gadgil discussing the benefits of Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) in AWS Cloud Journeys. They talk about achieving outcomes in days not months, delivering ML use cases in 8-12 weeks, and how AWS supports customers without enough headcount for EBA.

Oct 19, 2023 • 20min
#631: Amazon EC2 P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Leif Reinert, Principal Product Manager Tech at AWS, discusses how Amazon EC2 P5 instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs accelerate ML training and HPC workloads. Topics include maximizing GPU performance, engineering and infrastructure of P5 instances, efficient distributed training, relevance in HPC, and customer feedback.

Oct 16, 2023 • 35min
#630: October 2023 Update Show 2
In this podcast, they bid farewell to a co-host and discuss updates on various AWS services including analytics capabilities, Amazon SNS and SQS improvements, updates in AWS Compute service, and enhancements to AWS services like Amazon EKS and DynamoDB. They also mention developer tool updates and a price reduction in Amazon location service.
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