AWS Podcast

The process of ingesting, storing, and processing video files, and associated metadata, is a top media and entertainment use case. It’s also a consideration for any organization that wants to introduce video into its products or workflows. Video requires significant storage capacity, while organizing archives and having the ability to restore needed assets, for everyday and future needs, adds furt...

Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and also a Q&A from a listener about SAP migration. Chapters: 01:02 AWS Marketplace 01:32 Analytics 03:46 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 06:50 Compute 08:55 Customer Engagement 12:06 Database 13:07 Developer Tools 14:45 Front-end Web & Mobile 15:22 Machine Learning 20:20 Management & Governance 23:05 Migration & Transfer 24:35 Networki...

In this episode, Hawn is joined by Phil De Valence (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Mainframe Modernization service that makes it easy to design for security, high availability, scalability, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous deployment. AWS Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate your on-premises mainframe workloads to a...

Want an easier way to run big data applications in the cloud? Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless, a new deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. EMR Serverless automatically scales resources up and down to pro...

Lots of interesting things to hear about this week! Chapters: 00:28 Analytics 02:44 Application Integration 03:52 Business Applications 04:07 Compute 10:26 Developer Tools 11:14 Frond-end Web & Mobile 11:39 Games 12:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:54 Machine Learning 17:10 Management & Governance 20:36 Migration & Transfer 21:31 Networking & Content Delivery 24:41 Security, Identity and Compliance...

Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost than traditional contact centers. Join AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher, and Local Measure founder and CEO Jonathan Barouch in this special series episode where they share how Amazon Connect and Local Measure’s purpose-built cloud contact center solution...

Low-code application platform (LCAP) technology allows customers to build applications 72% to 85% faster. It enables technical staff and business users, by supporting core business application development, along with improving process efficiency. Hear about cross-industry and industry use cases, such as quote-to-contract management and eCommerce, and the typical results experienced on AWS. Listen...

Simon and Hawn take you through a whirlwind of cool new things! Chapters: 00:48 Analytics 02:05 Block Chain 03:14 Compute 07:07 Customer Engagement 11:32 Database 15:17 Developer Tools 18:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:06 Machine Learning 24:34 Management & Governance 27:08 Media Services 27:31 Migration & Transfer 29:30 Quantum Technology 31:15 Security, Identity and Compliance 17:32 Storage Exte...

In this episode, Simon welcomes new Co-Host, Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, to the podcast! They discuss her technical background, ultimate goal of automating herself out of a job, and her iconic nickname. Hawn is a Sr. Manager of Solutions Architechture at AWS. She is a developer at heart who likes to drive the overall system architecture design and execution. She has extensive experience and strong knowl...

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) recently launched a new cryptographic capability allowing customers to generate and verify HMACs (hash-based message authentication code). In this episode Nicki is joined by Matthew Campagna (Sr. Principal Security Engineer, AWS) and Jeremy Stieglitz (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss this foundational cryptographic building block. This new API allows...

Amazon MSK Serverless is a cluster type for Amazon MSK that makes it easy for you to run Apache Kafka without having to manage and scale cluster capacity. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nabanita Maji (Sr. Software Engineer, AWS) and Usama Naseem (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) to talk about this new launch that allows you to take advantage of open source Apache Kafka without the operational overhe...

Some really interesting and powerful updates in this show! Chapters: 00:27 AWS Marketplace 00:50 Analytics 05:45 Application Integration 06:36 Business Applications 07:25 Compute 10:58 Customer Engagement 11:38 Database 14:36 Developer Tools 17:21 End User Computing 18:08 Front-end Web & Mobile 19:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:15 Machine Learning 22:25 Management & Governance 23:46 Media Services...

Have you heard about digital twins and wanted to know how to build and use them? Tune in to listen to Simon chat with Andra Christie (Senior Domain Solutions Architect at AWS), to learn more about a new service called AWS IoT TwinMaker. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it faster and easier for customers to create and use digital twins to optimize industrial operations, increase production output, and impro...

Amplify Studio is a new visual interface that lets front-end and full-stack developers go from Figma design to full-stack React app, both cloud-connected backend and front-end UI components, in hours. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nikhil Swaminathan (Senior Manager, Product Management) to discuss all things AWS Amplify. They dig into the future of web and mobile app development, why the team...

Some very cool updates to share this week! Chapters 00:23 AWS Marketplace 00:57 Analytics 07:05 Application Integration 09:31 Compute 18:08 Cost Management 18:43 Customer Engagement 21:29 Database 24:54 Developer Tools 25:40 End User Computing 26:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 29:17 Game Tech 30:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 30:55 Machine Learning 36:41 Management & Governance 39:59 Networking & Content...

Fintechs are enabling seamless payments and are increasingly providing more options, like extending credit through data analytics. Emerging technology is driving these new capabilities that are giving consumers flexibility, ease, and proven security. Principal Fintech Business Development Manager Sekai Ndemanga shares how customers like Venmo & Aella are developing emerging payment options and lev...

Live interactive video use cases are more prevalent than ever, spanning across socials apps, ecommerce, fitness, education, and more. Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is a fully managed low latency live video streaming AWS service that handles ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and delivery of your live content, using the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch. In this episode, Sim...

Get a behind the scenes look at how AWS Partners innovate to help customers succeed. In this episode, Simon is joined by and Brad Coughlan (Founder and Managing Director) and Paul Macey (Chief Data and Analytics Officer) from The Data Foundry, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides a range of data, analytics and ML services and scalable solutions that turn customer data into decision-ena...

Here come the updates! Hopefully something in there for you! Chapters 00:22 Analytics 01:18 Application Integration 01:52 Business Applications 03:06 Compute 06:12 Cost Management 07:10 Customer Engagement 08:04 Database 09:53 Front-end Web & Mobile 10:35 Machine Learning 12:12 Management & Governance 14:53 Networking & Content Delivery 15:51 Quantum Technology 16:23 Robotics 16:33 Security, Ident...

Enterprises today face significant challenges with exponential data growth. Regulatory compliance requires long retention periods for a lot of that data. In this episode, Simon is joined by Joe Fitzgerald, (GM of S3 Glacier) to discuss how to store data more cost effectively, while unlocking the value of your data. Simon and Joe dig into how petabytes of data, such as medical records, news media c...

How can AWS help you meet your sustainability goals? Tune in to listen to Simon Elisha chat with Jon Randelman and Liam Greenamyre (Senior Product Managers, AWS) about the new customer carbon footprint tool, which allows you to measure, track, and even forecast the carbon emissions associated with your AWS usage. They dive into how the tool helps you understand and reduce your carbon footprint, ho...

A great bunch of updates to keep you informed! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 00:23 Analytics 02:45 Application Integration 03:31 Compute 06:39 Customer Engagement 07:03 Database 11:07 Developer Tools 12:03 Front-end Web & Mobile 12:50 Game Tech 13:27 Internet of Things (IoT) 14:07 Machine Learning 16:47 Management & Governance 21:18...

Amazon FSx provides fully managed file storage in the cloud and offers capabilities and performance of popular commercial and open-source file systems. Customers can choose between four file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Crudge, (Principal Product Manager, AWS) and Delwin Olivan, (Senior Product Manager, AWS) to dive int...

Some interesting updates across all kinds of topics this week! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 00:21 Analytics 02:58 Application Integration 03:10 Compute 04:30 Customer Engagement 05:27 Database 07:44 Developer Tools 09:50 Machine Learning 11:54 Management & Governance 16:07 Media Services 16:22 Migration and Transfer 17:27 Networking...

In this episode, Simon speaks with Jay McConnell (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS) and Rahul Sharma (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) about AWS Cloud Control API. Launched in September 2021, AWS Cloud Control API is a set of common application programming interfaces designed to make it easy for developers to consistently manage their cloud infrastructure and leverage the latest AWS capabilities faster....