AWS Podcast

More updates this week! Remember you can leave audio feedback or questions at: https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html Chapters: 00:40 Analytics 03:45 Application Integration 07:07 Block Chain 08:09 Compute 09:47 EKS 11:04 Cost Management 11:48 Databases 15:17 Developer Tools 16:40 Front-end Web & Mobile 18:61 Game Tech 19:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:48 Machine Learning 25:41 Managemen...

Information is the key to empowering contact-center agents to consistently anticipate and resolve customer issues. Their success is your company’s success. Join Kentis Gopalla, the Global Partner Lead for AWS Contact Center, as he shares the new ways you can ensure your agents have the right information at the right time to keep customers satisfied and loyal. See the Amazon Connect Partner Page: h...

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...

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 b...

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...

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 L...

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...

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,...

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 br...

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 tod...

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/cont...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 trac...

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 Ga...

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...

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 mi...

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 t...

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...

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...

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), is a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage. Today, Nicki is joined by Sarwar Raza, Senior Manager here at Amazon, to learn about Amazon EFS One Zone storage classes. They explore what Amazon EFS One Zone is, who it’s for, use cases, and how to reduce storage costs by 47...

Amazon Lightsail is a great way to get started on AWS and recently released a Containers service. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the AWS' new, easy-to-use containers service and how it differs from other AWS Container services. They dig into the benefits of Lightsail containers, who should use it, and why the team built it. Read the blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/lightsail-cont...

Amazon Lookout for Vision is a new machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations using computer vision (CV). Today Simon is joined by Anant Patel, Sr. Program Manager at AWS, to learn about this service that recently became generally available. They discuss the benefits of Amazon Lookout for Vision, who it’s for, and the kinds of challenges it can solve f...