LogiCast AWS News

In Season 5, Episode 25, Karl and Jon are joined by Artem Hrechanychenko, an AWS Community Builder and expert in DevOps and Kubernetes. Together, they discuss CloudFormation Express Mode, Amazon RDS Log Analysis with Qiro and MCP, safely releasing frontier AI models to customers, AWS GPU instance price increases, and AWS adding more data centre capacity than any other company in 2025. Along the wa...

In Season 5, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Gorkem Kestane, a software developer and former Amazon Community Builder specializing in machine learning and cloud technologies. Together, they discuss the introduction of AWS Lambda microVMs and what they bring to the cloud computing landscape. They also explore the growing adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in DevOps and its impact o...

In Season 5, Episode 23, Karl and Jon are joined by Stephen Woodard, enterprise architect and founder of Obligra Labs, a startup focused on AI governance frameworks, to discuss the latest AWS news. Topics include the introduction of AI-assisted paywall transactions through AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), enhancements to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) auto-scaling, and a new safe secret...

In Season 5, Episode 22, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and CTO Luis Valdivia to discuss the latest AWS news, including Amazon Q-powered Cost Explorer insights, the AWS FinOps Agent for cloud cost optimization, and a security maturity roadmap for operationalizing AWS security. The conversation also covers AI-assisted development with AWS Kiro Specs for building multi-account patc...

In Season 5, Episode 21, Karl and Jon are joined by Jason Wood, fellow AWS Community Builder, user group leader, and AWS Ambassador. They discuss recent developments and updates in AWS services. The hosts and guest discussed various articles and features, touching upon topics such as instance types, AWS Managed Services for Prometheus (MCP) server, AWS Security Agent, AWS DevOps Agent, and Amazon...

In Season 5, Episode 20, Karl and Jon are joined by Malte Polley, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss recent AWS news including ExtendDB, AWS Security Hub, the AWS DevOps Agent, unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations, and the European Sovereign Cloud. Malte brings a German perspective to the sovereignty discussion, while the group explores the benefits, challenges, and business impa...

In Season 5, Episode 19, Karl and Jon are joined by Anwaar Hussain, Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS, to discuss the latest AWS updates, including Amazon CloudFront Premium Flat Rate Pricing Plans, which offer more flexible tier options for request counts and data transfer rates; AWS Transform Containerization, an AI-powered capability for containerizing applications during migration to ECS o...

In Season 5, Episode 18, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Muhammad Fahid, Head of SRE in the healthcare industry, for a wide-ranging discussion covering AWS IAM quota increases for roles, policies, trust policies, and identity providers; the AWS MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server becoming generally available; the launch of the Agent Toolkit for AWS to enhance AI coding assistants;...

In Season 5, Episode 17, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Gabriel Torres for a wide-ranging discussion on the latest AWS and cloud industry updates. They cover the launch and key features of Amazon Quick Desktop AI Assistant, new AWS Training and Certification micro credentials, and recent AWS service end-of-life announcements, including WorkMail, App Runner, and selected Comprehen...

In Season 5, Episode 16, Karl and Jon are joined by Taylor Dolezal, Head of Open Source at Dosu, to discuss AWS Lambda’s S3 file system integration, Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 arriving in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q’s cost management capabilities for FinOps, Microsoft’s £2.8 billion UK licensing lawsuit, and the latest AI adoption statistics and implementation challenges, before taking a nostalgic tan...

In Season 5, Episode 15, Karl and Jon are joined by Damien Jones, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss AWS Interconnect, now generally available for multi-cloud connectivity with Google Cloud Platform, with Azure and Oracle Cloud coming later; database migration acceleration using Kiro and Amazon Bedrock Agent Core to speed up migrations to Amazon Aurora DSQL; Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s restri...

In Season 5, Episode 14, Karl and Jon are joined by Destiny Erhabor, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss S3 Files Launch, AWS’s new file system interface for S3 buckets that provides POSIX-compliant access to S3 data through a cached file system layer. They also cover EKS Managed Node Groups with EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools, a new feature that simplifies Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling and reduce...

In Season 5, Episode 13, Karl and Jon discuss a packed lineup of AWS news, including the general availability of AWS DevOps Agent with autonomous incident response capabilities, support for EC2 instance store in Amazon ECS Managed Instances for latency-sensitive workloads, and the introduction of managed daemons for managed instances, similar to Kubernetes DaemonSets. They also cover how to build...

In Season 5, Episode 12, Karl and Jon are joined by Farah Abdirahman, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss Amazon S3’s new account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets, deploying AWS applications and accessing AWS accounts across multiple regions with IAM Identity Center, AWS and NVIDIA deepening their strategic collaboration to accelerate AI, celebrating 20 years of Amazon S3, and Micr...

In Season 5, Episode 11, Karl and Jon are joined by Dmytro Sirant, AWS Community Builder and User Group Leader from Australia, to discuss the expansion of AWS Database Savings Plans, AWS European Sovereign Cloud compliance milestones, managing Amazon Machine Image lifecycles with AMI lineage, SpaceX’s plan for a million-satellite data center and Amazon’s opposition, and AI coding assistants and th...

In Season 5, Episode 10, Karl and Jon discuss several developments in the AWS and cloud ecosystem, including the new output formats in AWS CLI v2 and how they improve usability and automation. They also explore the strategic partnership between OpenAI and Amazon and what it could mean for AI infrastructure and the broader cloud landscape. The conversation dives into architectural design as well, l...

In Season 5, Episode 9, Karl and Jon are joined by Jenn Bergstrom, VP of Cloud and Data Solutions at Parsons, AWS Community Builder, and AWS Ambassador. They discuss AWS Landing Zone Accelerator and custom CI/CD pipelines, AWS Security Agent’s new support for penetration tests on shared VPCs, A recent AI-augmented campaign that targeted over 640 Fortinet firewalls,  Resilience testing on Amazon El...

In Season 5, Episode 8, Karl and Jon are joined by Jack McGuire*, an AWS Community Builder and software engineer at Green Man Gaming. They discuss how Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots, default encryption at rest for new Amazon Aurora clusters, AWS’s plans for space-based data centers and satellite constellations, Amazon’s Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) satellite...

In Season 5, Episode 7, Karl and Jon are joined by - Kai (Huynh Le Nhat Nghia), AWS Community Builder from Vietnam. They discuss cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB - choosing between Amazon ECS Blue/Green native or AWS CodeDeploy for deployments - how AWS Support helped refund unexpected QuickSight charges - Amazon's $200 billion investment in AI data center capacity - gr...

In Season 5, Episode 6, Karl and Jon are joined by Danielle Heberling, an AWS Hero, to dig into AWS Serverless updates from Q4 2025, including Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables now supporting cross-account replication, a new feature for displaying related resources for EC2 and VPC security groups, and IAM Identity Center now supporting multi-region replication. They also explore the feasibility of orb...

In Season 5, Episode 5, Karl and Jon are joined by Brian Tarbox, an AWS Hero. Together they discuss Amazon's recent job cuts and their impact on AWS community programs, Amazon Route 53 adding support for new top-level domains, increased payload size for serverless services, Amazon Bedrock's extended prompt caching duration, and commentary on AWS's future and potential challenges. Karl & Jon ha...

In Season 5, Episode 4, Karl and Jon are joined by Ran Isenberg*, an AWS Serverless Hero. Together they discuss AWS Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams, Lambda durable functions, and a CI/CD security risk identified in AWS CodeBuild. They also touch on the potential AI bubble (including comments from Amazon’s CEO), upcoming Amazon job cuts, and—somehow—Jon manages to steer the convers...

In Season 5, Episode 3, Karl and Jon are joined by Matt Martz, Principal Software Architect at Definitive and an AWS Community Builder. They discuss AWS CloudWatch’s evolution into a unified observability platform with Apache Iceberg support; AWS Backup’s 2023 year in review and new features; five ways to use Kiro and Amazon Q to optimize infrastructure; the opening of the AWS European Sovereign C...

In Season 5, Episode 2, Karl and Jon are joined by Allen Helton, an AWS Hero and ecosystem engineer at Momento. They discuss AWS raising GPU prices by 15% for specific instance types, accelerating cloud modernization with AWS MCPs and Quiro, AWS getting approval for three new data centers in Dublin, Ireland, Allen Helton’s blog post on optimizing image serving from S3, and recent layoffs at Amazon...

In Season 5, Episode 1, Karl and Jon are joined by Peter Sankauscas, an AWS Hero and User Group Leader. They discuss whether AI is replacing younger employees and what that could mean for businesses, OpenAI’s potential investment from Amazon, and AWS leadership changes — including Peter DeSantis’s new role. They also cover AWS flat-rate pricing plans for CloudFront and WAF, the 2026 Answers for AW...