AWS Podcast

In this episode Simon discusses AWS Quick Starts with Santiago Cardenas, Partner Solution Architect. They talk about how customers can launch meaningful workloads with just the click of a button and build upon them. Links: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart https://github.com/aws-quickstart

In this episode Simon is joined by Dean Samuels and they talk about not one, not two, but THREE black belt tips!

In this episode Simon speaks with Willem Sundblad, CEO & Founder at Oden Technologies. They discuss the use of IoT in the manufacturing world, and how that is actually applied. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Oden Technologoes: http://oden.io

In this episode Simon chats with Anthony Johnson, CTO at Giphy (http://giphy.com). They discuss moving from a monolith to micro services, changing team structure and the pronunciation of “GIF”. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS.

In this episode Simon chats with Avi Wilensky, Founder & Full Stack Developer, from Uphail. They discuss deployment approaches, scaling and automation. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Shownotes: http://uphail.com

In this episode Simon & Jeff discuss the new way the AWS Week in Review is created - using input from people like you! A new, open, collaborative approach based right here: https://github.com/aws/aws-week-in-review

In this Episode Simon covers a vast array of updates - something for everyone! Plus a security-related Black-Belt Tip! Links: RDS for PostgreSQL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-new-minor-versions-logical-replication-dms-and-more/ Centralised Container Logs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/centralized-container-logs-with-amazon-ecs-and-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ Amazon...

In this episode Simon has a conversation with Abby Fuller from Start-Up https://www.airtime.com. She shares fascinating details about their architecture, the way they scale, and the challenges of working with low latency applications.

In this episode Simon chats with Andrew Kiggins, Security Solutions Architect, about best practices for DDoS Resiliency and a new white paper that is available with actionable steps for AWS customers. https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/DDoS_White_Paper.pdf

In this episode Simon covers a raft of updates that have happened in the last few weeks - hopefully something for everyone! AWS CodeDeploy with Amazon CloudWatch Events: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch-events.html Amazon CloudFront HTTP/2 support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/amazon-cloudfront-now-supports-http2/ and Query String W...

This week Simon interviews Jon Handler, Principal Solution Architect, about the Amazon ElasticSearch service. We discuss use cases, tips and tricks and how to best size and scale for different kinds of workloads. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/

In this episode Simon talks about in-memory databases with Darin Briskman, Developer Outreach at AWS. They discuss these types of database in general and, in particular, using Redis to make your system faster, some of the choices you need to make, and how Amazon ElastiCache can help. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/

Simon recaps a raft of updates you might have missed including some major updates to EMR, as well as a host of nifty changes in Amazon Machine Learning, AWS IoT and VPC just to name a few! Shownote Links: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/amazon-rds-now-supports-se2-license-included/ http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/releasenotes/lumberyard-v1.4.html https://aws.amazon....

This week Simon explores a raft of new features in services including S3, Kinesis, EBS, KMS to name a few, plus the new Application Load Balancer. Also a nifty set of "black belt" tips when using Node.js with Lambda. Shownote Links: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-update-job-management-api-s3-adapter/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-bring-your-own-keys-with-aws-key-management-se...

In this episode Simon has a conversation with Vibhor Rastogi who is an Investment Director at Intel Capital. Often there are questions as to what VCs are looking for in Startups, and conversely, what Startups should be looking for in VCs. Many startups use AWS as an efficient, low-cost and scalable platform to try out their ideas, with the ability to scale when they are successful. We discuss some...

In this week’s episode, Simon wants to save you money! You might have heard about Amazon EC2 Spot Instances in the past. Maybe you even played with them a little. The capability has come a LONG way with new and interesting features that let customers reduce operating costs by up to 50-90%! We discuss things like Sport Fleet, Instance Termination Notification and a new Jenkins Plugin that uses Spot...

Keeping your systems secure is a constant effort, and should be a key focus. Fortunately we have more and more automation available at all points of the system development and deployment lifecycle. In this episode we take a look at the Amazon Inspector service and how it can automate security checking of your EC2 instances.

The world of Scientific Computing has been revolutionised by the Cloud. This week Simon speaks with Adrian White from the Scientific Computing team about how HPC and Scientific Computing has been transformed. Lots more information at http://aws.amazon.com/government-education/scientific-computing/.

This week we explore the new Amazon Elastic File System and Elastic Network Adaptor. There is also a tip on some great free security-related training as well as some very cool updates to Amazon SNS!

In this episode we look again at EC2 instance types, and how by reviewing your application metrics and uses against the latest-generation instances available, you can save money and improve performance.

Security in the cloud is something everyone needs to be considerate of. AWS CloudTrail provides customers with a powerful capability to understand what is happening in their account, and to take action as appropriate.