

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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Dec 11, 2023 • 19min
#645: Amazon Neptune Analytics
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.

Dec 4, 2023 • 19min
#644: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless
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.

Nov 30, 2023 • 18min
#643: re:Invent 2023 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote
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.

Nov 30, 2023 • 19min
#642: re:Invent 2023 - Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote
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.

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Nov 29, 2023 • 29min
#641: 641-re:Invent 2023 - Adam Selipsky Keynote
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.

Nov 28, 2023 • 32min
#640: re:Invent 2023 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis
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!!

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.