Aws Podcast

A great mix of updates this episode. Developers, data folks, video folks, lots for everyone! 00:22 Analytics 03:48 Application Integration 07:07 Compute 12:14 Customer Engagement 12:43 Database 14:42 Developer Tools 16:03 End User Computing 16:50 Front End Web & Mobile 17:40 Internet of Things 19:07 Machine Learning 22:53 Management & Governance 25:55 Media Services 26:28 Networking & Content Delivery 28:47 Security, Identity, & Compliance 30:09 Supply Chain Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/634ExtendedShownotes.html

Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) is an AWS program to accelerate cloud journeys. Today Jillian Ford speaks with Bilal Shirazi (Principal EBA Lead North America) and Rughved Gadgil (Senior Solutions Architect) and explores the benefits of EBA to overcome barriers in your cloud projects. Whether you’re just getting started or in the middle of a migration, learn how EBA’s can achieve outcomes in days not months. Deliver your first ML use case in 8–12 weeks (blog post): https://go.aws/3Qmfzm1 Level up your Cloud Transformation with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) (blog post): https://bit.ly/3Qrk2nG

Simon Elisha is joined by Leif Reinert, Principal Product Manager Tech at AWS, to discuss how Amazon EC2 P5 instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs can accelerate your ML training and HPC workloads, helping you get results faster and reduce costs. About Amazon EC2 P5 Instances: https://bit.ly/3Q0Dkie Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC Applications (blog post): https://bit.ly/3Fp3nLc

We wish Hawn farewell on this episode as the moves to pastures new. And we share a HEAP of great updates. Chapters: 01:57 Analytics 06:51 Application Integration 08:36 Business Applications 09:20 Compute 12:18 Customer Engagement 12:46 Databases 15:53 Developer Tools 17:13 Front End Web & Mobile 18:48 Game Tech 20:00 Internet of Things 21:43 Machine Learning 26:00 Management & Governance 28:13 Migration & Transfer 31:27 Security, Identity, & Compliance Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/630ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances -- powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors -- deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to the previous gen. Today Hawn is joined by Sinem Gulbay, Senior Product Manager here at AWS, to dive into the benefits of these new instances, their technical specs, and when, why, and how you should leverage them.

Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth in data, and the rapid pace of innovation in machine learning (ML), there is a growing need to build modern data applications that are agile and scalable. In this episode, Jillian is joined by Vara Bonthu, Principal Solutions Architect, and Alex Lines, Sr. Containers Specialist, to talk through why Kubernetes is becoming a popular choice for modernizing data applications, like batch processing and ML. They also discuss how AWS's open-source project, Data on EKS, helps customers build and test common use cases, like batch processing with Apache Spark or training an ML language model, to decrease the time it takes to get to production. Data on EKS website: https://awslabs.github.io/data-on-eks/ Data on EKS GitHub repository: https://github.com/awslabs/data-on-eks Data on EKS blog: https://go.aws/46bD1b8

How you do know which data is available, where it is stored, or how to begin getting access to the best data? In this episode, Jillian is joined by Shikha Verma (Head of Product Amazon DataZone) and Amir Bar-Or (Principal Engineer, Amazon DataZone) to help you learn about a new service, Amazon DataZone, which helps you govern data access across organizational boundaries. Getting Started with Amazon DataZone (blog post): https://go.aws/3Q1SHrL YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzuketYaoX3WAz5lIOCTkI3wXJ

Lots of interesting updates this week - will there be something you can use? Chapters: 00:43 AWS Marketplace 01:54 Analytics 04:07 Application Integration 06:43 Compute 11:10 Cost Management 11:40 Customer Engagement 13:33 Databases 14:42 Developer Tools 17:07 Front End Web & Mobile 18:57 Machine Learning 22:49 Management & Governance 24:23 Media Services 24:51 Networking & Content Delivery 25:30 Security, Identity, & Compliance 28:10 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/626ExtendedShownotes.html

AWS Application Composer helps teams collaborate as they build well-architected applications backed by Infrastructure-as-Code using a visual canvas. Today, Simon is joined by Ryan Coleman, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to learn how Application Composer can help developers quickly, and iteratively, build applications through the software development lifecycle. They discuss the evolution of the space, what problems led to building the service, and the interesting ways teams are using it to build highly scalable, resilient, and secure applications. Application Composer resources: https://go.aws/453VCEM

DeepLearning.AI and AWS have jointly launched “Generative AI with large language models”, a new hands-on course that prepares data scientists and engineers to become experts in selecting, training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs for real-world applications. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from Tommy Nelson (DeepLearning.AI) and Antje Barth (AWS) the course highlights, prerequisites, and some fun behind-the-scenes details. DeepLearning .AI website: https://bit.ly/48uGxz6

AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub's APIs that simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data. Tune in to listen to Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect and Venugopalan Vasudevan, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect discuss cross-team API development considerations for enterprises, introduce AWS AppSync, dive deeper into how AWS AppSync enables enterprise developer teams to consolidate APIs owned and managed by independent teams into a single, federated API exposed to clients, and how this helps setup crucial guardrails to promote team collaboration and performance at scale. Merged APIs on AWS AppSync blog: https://bit.ly/3Rvp3fU AWS AppSync Merged APIs developer guide: https://bit.ly/3RxPd1p

Simon flies the show solo to share a raft of very cool things to help you build! Chapters: 00:34 AWS Marketplace 00:58 Analytics 03:28 Application Integration 05:17 Business Applications 06:01 Compute 06:54 Cost Management 07:33 Customer Engagement 10:23 Databases 14:30 Developer Tools 15:09 End User Computing 15:33 Front End Web & Mobile 16:15 Machine Learning 20:24 Management & Governance 21:21 Media Services 21:35 Migration & Transfer 23:32 Networking & Content Delivery 24:55 Security, Identity, & Compliance 27:02 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/622ExtendedShownotes.html

AWS Cloud Governance is the set of rules, practices, and reports that ensure your cloud use meets your business requirements. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from two Cloud Governance Specialists, Al Destefano and Nivas Durairaj, on how your organization can benefit from a multi-account strategy, meet regulatory requirements at scale, leverage AWS managed controls to meet business objectives and ensure data residency requirements are met by using services like AWS Organizations, AWS Config and AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower website: https://bit.ly/468g8oD AWS Cloud Governance options: https://bit.ly/3rb73N3

Jillian Forde and Michael Surkan discuss how AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is simplifying migrations with AWS DMS Serverless. Learn how AWS DMS Serverless automatically provisions, monitors, and scales migration resources to the optimal capacity needed to meet demand, so you don't have to. AWS DMS Serverless blog: https://bit.ly/3Zhln31 AWS DMS Serverless website: AWS DMS Serverless website AWS Database Migration Serverless: https://bit.ly/3ZbSqp4

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easy to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink takes care of everything required to run streaming applications. There are no servers and clusters to manage, no compute and storage infrastructure to set up, and you only pay for the resources you use. You can easily setup and integrate data sources or destinations with minimal code, process data continuously with sub-second latencies, and respond to events in real-time.

Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover the latest AWS updates. Chapters: 01:07 AWS Marketplace 01:41 Analytics 04:54 Application Integration 06:32 Compute 08:34 Database 10:33 Developer Tools 11:08 Game Tech 11:18 Machine Learning 12:58 Management & Governance 13:47 Media Services 14:19 Migration & Transfer 16:39 Networking & Content Delivery 17:52 Security, Identity, & Compliance 18:46 Startups 20:29 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/618ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) is a fully managed service which makes building with blockchain technology accessible and affordable for all developers. AMB' two new services, AMB Access and Query expands AMB’s capabilities to help developers build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access provides a new serverless offering for non-mining, full blockchain nodes. With AMB Access, developers can instantly call standard remote procedure calls (RPCs) to interact with digital assets and distributed applications built on multiple blockchains, starting with Bitcoin, without specialized blockchain infrastructure. AMB Query delivers standardized and formatted blockchain data from multiple blockchains, starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum, which applications can consume quickly without having to perform complex data transformations or pay expensive storage costs. AMB Access and Query blog: https://bit.ly/3PrkBgR AMB Access and Query website: https://bit.ly/47MHbYp

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a new open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instance and access it as a local file system. In this episode, Simon is joined by Devabrat Kumar, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon S3, to discuss the launch of Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and how customer feedback has driven the evolution of this feature. Mountpoint blog: https://bit.ly/3skIddG Mountpoint website: https://bit.ly/45qWZ15 Mountpoint user guide: https://bit.ly/45qK7YV

The new AWS service, AWS Payment Cryptography simplifies cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications. Tune in to hear Mark Cline, Senior Product Manager, discuss how you can get started with AWS Payment Cryptography and simplify the exchange of encryption keys with partners and customers. Payment Cryptography website: https://bit.ly/44qG1ia AWS Payment Cryptography blog: https://go.aws/45kOeG2 AWS Payment Cryptography workshop: https://bit.ly/3QSBouk

Simon and Jillian take you on a journey of AWS discovery! Chapters: 01:01 Analytics 02:52 Application Integration 13:52 Customer Engagement 20:24 Developer Tools 23:40 Front End Web & Mobile 24:17 Game Tech 25:04 Internet of Things 29:37 Management & Governance 33:33 Network & Content Delivery 36:25 Security and Compliance 36:55 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/614ExtendedShownotes.html