Aws Podcast

Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new extension of Amazon ECS, enables customers to now run and manage container-based applications on their customer-managed infrastructure using the same APIs, cluster management, workload scheduling, monitoring, and deployment pipelines they use with ECS in AWS. In this episode, Senior Developer Advocate Nathan Peck (@nathankpeck on Twitter) discusses how to set up and get started with ECS Anywhere, as well as common benefits and use cases. Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/getting-started-with-amazon-ecs-anywhere-now-generally-available/ Build an ECS Anywhere home lab with Amazon VPC network connectivity - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/building-an-amazon-ecs-anywhere-home-lab-with-amazon-vpc-network-connectivity/ Watch the demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgjCuwKi4OU Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/anywhere/?nc1=h_ls

Change is underway in media and entertainment and new AWS Solutions were designed to meet new customer needs. Content producers want to be able to create anything from wherever they are, seamlessly collaborating despite physical distance. And the ability to reduce manual effort from content analysis workflows with AI / ML solutions is saving money, providing new revenue opportunities, and giving back precious time. Hear about the purpose-built AWS Services and Solutions customers like Discovery and FOX are leveraging to improve their businesses and end-user experiences. Get AWS M&E Solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations Contact the M&E team - https://pages.awscloud.com/Media-and-Entertainment-Contact-Us.html Discovery+ case study: https://youtu.be/j-gBJpyaU_4 FOX case study - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKTWlcPk6M&ab_channel=AmazonWebServices

Lots of great updates, a new book and listener feedback! Chapters: 00:33 Listener Feedback - Bob Haftner 01:11 New book - Data Science on AWS - Chris Fregly & Antje Barth 02:10 Analytics 08:13 Application Integration 10:27 Business Applications 10:54 Compute 15:46 Cost Management 16:18 Customer Engagement 17:04 Database 20:17 Developer Tools 21:29 End User Compuiting 21:41 Game Tech 21:55 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:15 Machine Learning 30:52 Management & Governance 36:56 Media Services 37:57 Migration & Transfer 39:50 Mobile 40:26 Networking & Content Delivery 40:55 Quantum Technology 41:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 42:40 Storage 44:20 Training & Certification 44:45 Support Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/451ExtendedShownotes.html New book “Data Science on AWS” Implementing End-to-End, Continuous AI and Machine Learning Pipelines by AWS Developer Advocates Chris Fregly and Antje Barth https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-AWS-End-End/dp/1492079391

Amidst the COVID 19 pandemic, the US state and local technology infrastructure has never been more critical. These systems – most notably call centers, electronic lab reporting (ELR) systems and disease surveillance systems – are under extreme pressure as public health organizations work to track, report, and share information on COVID-19 cases. Today Simon is joined by Jim Daniel, Public Health Lead, State and Local Government here at Amazon Web Services, to learn all about the current state of public health in the US. They dive into the challenges faced, what was done to help, lessons learned, and how the cloud can support modernization of immunization information systems. Best Practices Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/sharing-best-practices-vaccine-administration-cdc-national-forum-covid-19-vaccine/ Expert Q&A: https://papers.govtech.com/Cloud-Based-Infrastructure-Helps-Public-Health-Meet-the-COVID-19-Data-Challenge-138784.html Scaling Public Health Infrastructure with the Cloud: https://we

AWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that makes it easier and faster for customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs with just a few clicks, no infrastructure or containers experience required. Today, Simon is joined by Akshay Ram, Product Manager of App Runner, to learn all about this recently launched service. They dig into the benefits and use cases of App Runner, why the team built the service, the workloads it can be used for, AWS Copilot support for the service, and how you can get started. Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/app-runner-from-code-to-scalable-secure-web-apps/ Watch the Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ua6Gv_HSo See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbvFA6Up98 Learn More: https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

Want to eliminate the heavy lifting of setting up infrastructure and deploying containerized applications to multiple environments? The AWS Copilot CLI is an interactive tool that sets up all required infrastructure and AWS resources when deploying a containerized application. In this episode, AWS Product Manager Sravan Rengarajan (@Sravan_R_) will describe how AWS Copilot lets you build, deploy, and manage your containerized applications with simple, well-organized set of commands that sets up multiple environments with AWS best practices by default. This allows you to truly focus on application development while the CLI handles nuances of how AWS services integrate, and all the steps required to deploy a container to the cloud including Docker builds, task definitions, CI/CD pipelines, and more.

Good surprise? Your friends jumping out with cake on your birthday. Bad surprise? Your application is down. Tune in to listen to Nicki Stone, Sr. Software Engineer chat with Dave Cliffe, Sr. Product Manager and Oren Nachman, Sr. Development Manager about AWS Systems Manager's newest capability: Incident Manager. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together, so you can get back to that surprise birthday party. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/features/#Incident_Manager Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/resolve-it-incidents-faster-with-incident-manager-a-new-capability-of-aws-systems-manager/

In this episode, Jay Maglione, Sr. Product Manager, Content Production Tech at AWS, joins Nicki Stone to talk about a new AWS service that recently launched: Amazon Nimble Studio. Jay and Nicki discuss how Nimble Studio will help creative professionals produce high-fidelity content for films, episodics, or commercials. They also discuss the challenges that digital content creation studios face today, and agree that Frozen is an all-time great animated film. Read more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nimble-studio-build-a-creative-studio-in-the-cloud/

Post-pandemic customers have come to expect a new level of omnichannel contact-center experience. Hear the latest breakthrough thinking from Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, on how you can quickly reimagine your contact center for seamless and scalable omnichannel customer experiences. See the Amazon Connect Partner Page: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/featured/contact-center/ Get the eBook: https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-partner-DL-contact-center-ebook-2020-learn.html

Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning powered service that makes it easy to improve an application’s operational performance and availability. Today Nicki is joined by Jacob Sullivan, Sr. Manager, Product Management at AWS, to learn about this service that recently became available. They discuss the challenges customers face with CloudOps, how DevOps Guru leverages machine learning to identify anomalous application behavior, and how customers can get started. Learn more about Amazon DevOps Guru, visit : aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/. To get started, use this workshop to enable DevOps Guru: https://aiops-using-devops-guru.workshop.aws/

The future of life sciences is personal. Personalized medicine will mean treatments specifically calibrated for you, and your health needs. To accelerate toward that reality, the life sciences industry is undergoing digital transformation across its entire value chain. Listen to the podcast where we examine 3 top industry use cases (digital lab operations, manufacturing operational analytics, and transferring and storing genomics data) and the AWS Solutions that are helping customers like Celgene, Merck, and Moderna tackle their biggest challenges. Learn More - https://aws.amazon.com/health/ Contact the life sciences team - https://pages.awscloud.com/HealthContactSales.html

Simon and Nicki take you through some really useful updates! Leave audio feedback here: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL Chapters: 01:55 AWS Marketplace 02:43 Analytics 09:55 Application Integration 11:37 Business Applications 12:41 Compute 17:33 Cost Management 18:13 Customer Engagement 18:45 Database 20:29 Developer Tools 23:43 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:05 Machine Learning 27:27 Management & Governance 31:15 Media Services 32:59 Networking & Content Delivery 33:28 Robotics 34:26 Satellite 35:13 Security, Identity and Compliance 36:33 Solutions 37:52 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/443ExtendedShownotes.html

AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses by automatically boosting certain operations. Join Nicki and Andy Caldwell, Sr. Principal Engineer for Redshift, to learn about AQUA, the use cases it accelerates most, and how to take advantage. Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features/aqua/ Documentation - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cluster-aqua.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cluster-aqua-understanding.html

Blockchain increases supply chain transparency by enabling decentralized, trusted supply chains. Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public blockchain networks or create and manage scalable private blockchain networks. Nestle, the world’s largest food & beverage company, is using Amazon Managed Blockchain to power its Chain of Origin business, which tracks single origin coffee from farm to customer. Today, Simon is joined by Nestle’s Digital Technology Director Armin Nehzat, who shares how Nestle conceived of Chain of Origin and the unique value proposition it brings. You’ll also hear from the Worldwide Go-to-Market Specialist for Amazon Managed Blockchain, Maggie Hsu, on key features of the Managed Blockchain service and what’s to come. https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/amazonwebservices/2019/12/12/nestles-chain-of-origin-coffee-brings-supply-chain-transparency-with-amazon-managed-blockchain/?sh=523f56ff193b https://aws.amazon.

Looking for fast, efficient low-latency access to cloud storage? Nicki speaks with Laz Vekiarides (Principal Product Manager, AWS Storage Gateway - File Gateway) and Dave Stauffacher (AWS Community Hero) about how customers can optimize their on-premises file-based workloads using Amazon FSx File Gateway, the newest gateway type in the AWS Storage Gateway portfolio. Learn more about AWS Storage Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/ Explore Amazon FSx File Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/fsx Connect with an AWS Community Hero - https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/

Simon takes a walk through the latest updates! Leave audio feedback here: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 09:20 Application Integration 10:50 Compute 15:57 Cost Management 16:48 Customer Engagement 17:53 Database 20:34 Developer Tools 23:10 End User Computing 25:58 Game Tech 26:38 Internet of Things (IoT) 27:39 Machine Learning 36:10 Management & Governance 42:10 Media Services 43:32 Mobile 45:25 Networking & Content Delivery 49:46 Robotics 50:13 Satellite 50:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 52:41 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/438ExtendedShownotes.html

What does a day in the life of a Solution Architect look like at AWS? Simon speaks with four SA’s from around the globe to discuss exactly that, and takes a look at how they go about assisting their customers with interesting challenges. We have also included some fun bonus content at the end, so be sure to tune in. Have a question about solution architecture? Submit it via audio here and Simon might answer it in the next Update Show! https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

Projects are often classified as cost-cutting measures or innovation initiatives that improve customer experiences. But cloud contact center service Amazon Connect is shifting that either-or mentality. With out of the box AI / ML capabilities, Amazon Connect is being leveraged by customers across industries to reach people in new ways. And the customer experience improvements are coupled with up to 80% savings compared to legacy systems. Listen to podcast and learn how customers as disparate as Intuit and Los Angeles County are gaining business benefits with Amazon Connect. Learn more and contact the team: https://aws.amazon.com/connect/

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. Today, Simon is joined by Ryan Holland, Principal, Industry Specialist, to discuss the importance of sensitive data visibility, the customer feedback that drove the rearchitecture of Macie, and what actions can be automated when sensitive data is identified. This podcast also explores best practices for builders and security experts for inventorying, categorizing, and protecting your data across your Amazon S3 buckets. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/macie/ Start your 30-day free Macie trial: https://console.aws.amazon.com/macie Demonstration of Macie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8piwEQJJXdo&t=1s More on Amazon S3 Security: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/security/

Simon takes a walk through the latest updates! Leave audio feedback here: https://bit.ly/2MvZPOL Chapters 00:24 Analytics 05:04 Block Chain 05:33 Compute 11:12 Cost Management 11:38 Customer Engagement 12:10 Database 16:17 Developer Tools 18:19 End User Computing 18:41 Game Tech 19:25 Internet of Things (IoT) 19:55 Machine Learning 22:25 Management & Governance 23:46 Media Services 25:41 Mobile 26:34 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/435ExtendedShownotes.html