Aws Podcast

Do you have lots of data to analyze? Is writing SQL a skill you have? Would you like to analyze massive amounts of data at low cost without capacity planning? In this episode, Simon shares how Amazon Athena can give you options you may not have considered before. Shownotes: Amazon Athena: https://aws.amazon.com/athena Top 10 Performance Tips: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/top-10-performance-tuning-tips-for-amazon-athena/ Using CTAS for Performance: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/using-ctas-statements-with-amazon-athena-to-reduce-cost-and-improve-performance/

Jeff Olson (VP & Chief Data Officer at College Board) talks about his experiences in fostering change from an organisational standpoint whilst moving to a microservices architecture. https://www.collegeboard.org/

Simon takes you through a nice mix of updates and new things to take advantage of - even a price drop! Chapters: Service Level Agreements 00:19 Price Reduction 1:15 Databases 2:09 Service Region Expansion 3:52 Analytics 5:23 Machine Learning 7:13 Compute 7:55 IoT 9:37 Management 10:43 Mobile 11:33 Desktop 12:30 Certification 13:11 Shownotes: Topic || Service Level Agreements 00:19 Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/api-gateway-introduces-service-level-agreement/ Amazon EMR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-emr-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/ Amazon EFS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-efs-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/ AWS Direct Connect Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/sla/ Topic || Price Reduction 1:15 Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up To 50% | ht

Cliff Addison (University of Liverpool) joins with Will Mayers and Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight) to talk about High Performance Computing in the cloud and meeting the needs of researchers. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ https://alces-flight.com/

Simon speaks with Andrew Crudge (Senior Product Manager, FSx) about this newly released service, capabilities available to customers and how to make the best use of it in your environment. https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/

Sherry Stevens (National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)) talks about the cultural changes and lessons learned on their journey to the cloud. https://naic.org/

Did you know you can work through Terabytes of log data in seconds with zero setup? Simon takes you through the capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights and how you can use it to resolve issues faster. Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AnalyzingLogData.html Blog Example: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-insights-fast-interactive-log-analytics/

Simon takes you through the December updates to finish up 2018! Shownotes: Topic || Customer Engagement 0:23 Amazon Pinpoint Announces Event-Based Campaigns, Driving Personalization and Engagement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-pinpoint-announces-event-based-campaigns-driving-personalization-and-engagement/ Amazon Pinpoint Announces a New Email Deliverability Dashboard to Help Customers Reach their Users' Inboxes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-pinpoint-announces-a-new-email-deliverability-dashboard-to-help-customers-reach-their-users-inboxes/ Amazon Connect Adds New Contact API to Get Contact Attributes | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-connect-adds-new-contact-api-to-get-contact-attributes/ Topic || Storage 2:05 Amazon S3 Inventory adds Apache Parquet output format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-s3-announces-parquet-output-format-for-inventory/ AWS Storage Gateway Increases File Gateway Perfo

Simon speaks with three Software Development Engineers (SDEs) from Amazon who worked on various aspects of the new AWS Lambda runtime capabilities. He is joined by Alex Wood, Bryan Moffatt and Marco Magdy who discuss the Layers experience, Ruby support, the C++ runtime and even COBOL! Shownotes: Layers: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html Ruby Support: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/ C++ Runtime: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-the-c-lambda-runtime/ COBOL and other runtimes: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/partners/

What are some handy resources for AWS Customers? Simon takes you on a tour of a few handy ones - and even sneaks in a black-belt tip! Shownotes: Centralized Logging – AWS Answers | https://aws.amazon.com/answers/logging/centralized-logging/ AWS Developer Forums: Discussion Forums | https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa Amazon Web Services - Labs · GitHub | https://github.com/awslabs GitHub - awslabs/aws-shell: An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI. | https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell Region Table | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ AWS Regions and Endpoints - Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html AWS Service Limits - Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html AWS IP Address Ranges - Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html Error Retries and Exponential Backoff in AWS - Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.ama

In the latest AWS Security & Compliance Podcast, we sit down with VP of Security Chad Woolf, who answers your compliance and data privacy questions. Including one of the most frequently asked questions from customers around the world, which is: how many compliance programs does AWS have/attest to/audit against? Chad also shares what it was like to work at AWS in the early days. When he joined, AWS was housed on just a handful of floors, in a single building. Listen to the podcast to hear about company history and get answers to your tough questions. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/ https://twitter.com/realchadwoolf

At re:Invent 2018, the AWS Global Accelerator was launched, enabling customers to improve the availability and performance of the applications with a global user base. Simon speaks with Divya Sreekumar (Senior Product Manager AWS) about the benefits to customers, and how to get started. https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator

Simon covers all the updates from Thursday as well as a special Partner interview (https://www.lumigo.io/) and behind the scenes look at This is My Architecture (https://aws.amazon.com/this-is-my-architecture/) Shownotes: New AWS Toolkits | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-toolkits-for-pycharm-intellij-preview-and-visual-studio-code-preview/ Invoke Lambda with ALB | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/alb-can-now-invoke-lambda-functions-to-serve-https-requests/ Lambda Custom Runtimes and Layers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-lambda-now-supports-custom-runtimes-and-layers/ Lambda Ruby Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-lambda-supports-ruby/ SAM Support for new Lambda Features | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/sam-supports-nested-applications-using-serverless-application-repository/ Managed Streaming for Kafka | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-managed-streaming-for-kafka-in-p

Simon takes you through the updates of the day, and Andy Jassy's keynote - as well as a walk around the Expo Floor! Shownotes: Topic || Security AWS Security Hub | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-security-hub/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-aws-key-management-service-kms-custom-key-store/ AWS Control Tower | http://aws.amazon.com/controltower Topic || Machine Learning Amazon Inferentia Microchip | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-amazon-inferentia-machine-learning-inference-microchip/ Amazon Elastic Inference | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-elastic-inference/ New Tensorflow Scalability | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/tensorflow-scalability-to-256-gpus/ Amazon Textract | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-textract-now-in-preview-easily-extract-text-and-data-from-virtually-any-document/ Amazon Personalise | https://

Simon & Jeff are joined by a live audience for the first time! Listen to some great updates and fun laughs. Shownotes: EFS Infrequent Access: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/coming-soon-amazon-efs-infrequent-access-storage-class/ S3 Intelligent tiering - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-intelligent-tiering/ S3 Batch Operations - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-batch-operations/ AWS DataSync - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-datasync-for-accelerated-online-data-transfer/ AWS Transfer for SFTP - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-for-s3/ Firecracker - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/ AWS Transit Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-transit-gateway/ AWS Global Accelerator - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-

Simon and Jeff record live from AWS re:Invent 2018 Midnight Madness!

Simon takes you through lots of great new features and capabilities for customers, and also a special call out for listeners attending AWS re:Invent to get some AWS Podcast swag! Shownotes with timestamps: 1:42 Compute In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-milan-italy/ AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-govcloud-us-east-now-open/ Amazon EC2 now offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/Amazon-EC2-now-offers-On-Demand-Capacity-Reservations/ Introducing Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing_amazon_ec2_instances_featuring_amd_epyc_processors/ Amazon ECS-CLI Supports Private Registry Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-ecs-cli-supports-private-registry-authentication/ Amazon EKS now supports additional VPC CIDR blo

Singapore's National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) Learning Hub works with AWS Educate to reach a different audience — adult learners. Spearheading a global movement, the NTUC intends to train and re-skill 20,000 Singaporeans to build cloud computing skills before the end of 2019. https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate

How can the hospital experience be made a little easier for children suffering chronic illness and their caregivers? Simon speaks with Jon Shipman (CTO & Co-Founder) and Michael Powell (VP Marketing ) from ZOTT about their approach to the challenge. Shownotes: https://zott.tv/main

This is a Special Series from AWS Security & Compliance. In this podcast, we’re previewing the security track at re:Invent. Staffers developing security track content offer their advice for navigating the learning conference that is expected to draw 50,000 people from around the world. Learn about the newest hands-on session designed to give you even deeper technical insight. Plus, find out about the event change meant to make it easier to attend the talks that interest you. https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/