LogiCast AWS News

In Season 4, Episode 46, Karl and Jon are joined by Matheus Guimaraes, AWS Lead Developer Advocate. Together, they cover the AWS CodeCommit resurrection and roadmap, the AWS Builder Center wishlist feature, ECS Express for simplified container deployment, an ECR archiving tier for cost optimization, blue-green deployments in Aurora Global, and accelerated recovery in Route 53 to speed up DNS updat...

In Season 4, Episode 45, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Hero Johannes Koch for a recap of the big AWS re:Invent 2023 announcements, including Lambda Managed Instances, Database Savings Plans, new EKS capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management, and AWS AI Frontier Agents (Kiro, Security, DevOps) — and despite the looming threat of AI agents coming for their jobs, the guys...

In Season 4, Episode 44, Karl and Jon are joined by Tech Lead for the Developer Experience team at AWS,  Brian Beach. They discuss Introduction to Kiro, AWS's new AI coding assistant, Spec-driven development and its benefits, property-based testing in Kiro, MCP support and agent hooks in Kiro, upcoming AWS re:Invent conference and developer tools track, Kiro-related events and challenges at re:Inv...

In Season 4, Episode 43, Karl and Jon are joined by Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, Loïc Fournier, to discuss optimizing Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs and performance with AWS Compute Optimizer, the introduction of AWS pricing capabilities in Amazon Q Developer, serverless databases and their use cases, a comparison of different storage types for databases (GP2, GP3, IO1, IO...

In Season 4, Episode 42, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Sujal Shaw to discuss a range of new AWS developments. Topics include the New AWS Region Planner for easier regional planning and global deployments, EC2 Auto Scaling warm pool support for mixed instance policies, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud white paper, and the new underwater AWS Fastnet cable featuring robust armoring...

In Season 4, Episode 41, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Fabien Zucchet to discuss AWS Lambda’s increased payload size for asynchronous invocations and what it means for developers building event-driven applications. They cover the new metrics dashboard for AWS Step Functions, best practices for handling sensitive log data in Amazon CloudWatch, and insights into a major AWS servic...

In Season 4, Episode 40, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Jason Wood to discuss the recent AWS outage in the US-East-1 region and its impact across multiple services. They cover simplified model access in Amazon Bedrock, the introduction of the Claude 4.5 Haiku model, the launch of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, new automated CloudWatch dashboards for analyzing log usage, and the lat...

In Season 4, Episode 38, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Luis Valdivia. They discuss the new ECS managed instances for containerized applications on AWS, the cost-effectiveness of serverless architecture at scale, and the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 model now available in Amazon Bedrock. They also cover the general availability of the AWS Knowledge MCP server and a recent social...

In Season 4, Episode 37, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Mahmoud Khatib to the show. Together, they dive into some of the latest AWS announcements, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s new support for forced cancellation of instance refreshes, Amazon RDS enabling cross-region and cross-account snapshot copy, and the expansion of AWS Organizations service control policies to cover the ful...

In Season 4, Episode 36, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Neeraj Sharma to the show. Their conversation covers a wide range of updates and insights, including AWS Organizations’ new Account State Information feature, the migration from Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock, and the introduction of Amazon GuardDuty’s new protection plans with extended threat detection cap...

In Season 4, Episode 35, Karl and Jon dive into AWS Budget Controls with automated actions, explore DMS Data Resync for seamless database migrations, and look at CloudFront’s new support for IPv6 origins. They also compare Fargate and ECS for container orchestration and discuss the shift from the SysOps Admin exam to the new Cloud Ops Engineer certification. And after hearing Jon's DIY plans, than...

In Season 4, Episode 34, Karl and Jon sit down with AWS Community Builder and Software Engineer Iyanuoluwa Ajao for a fast-paced chat on the latest in cloud and beyond. They cover the new AWS Budgets features for cross-account cost visibility, smart ways to optimize Amazon RDS and Aurora costs with Compute Optimizer, and advanced Graviton adoption strategies across regions. The conversation also d...

In Season 4, Episode 33, Karl and Jon chat with AWS Community Builder William Antonio Guzmán Bernal. They cover the new AWS Cost Management dashboards, a security issue in AWS Trusted Advisor related to public S3 buckets, how to build AI agents using AWS Serverless, and how to set up large-scale log ingestion pipelines with Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also reflect on ten years of Amazon Aurora...

In Season 4, Episode 32, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder and DynamoDB and Serverless technologies expert, Uriel Bitton. Together, they explore a range of fresh developments in the AWS ecosystem: the introduction of Amazon CloudWatch’s organization-wide VPC Flow Logs enablement, Amazon SQS’s expanded maximum message payload size to 1 MiB, and the arrival of OpenAI’s open-weight models on...

In Season 4, Episode 31, Karl and Jon are joined by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress. Together, they discuss a range of topics including AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and best practices for security, the Amazon Q Developer CLI and serverless solutions, implementing defense-in-depth security for CodeBuild pipelines, and the latest quarterly financial results from AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cl...

In Season 4, Episode 30, Karl and Jon are joined by Pieter VanIperen, CISO at AlphaSense. They discussed AWS security best practices and authentication methods, the Security Reference Architecture (SRA) and the SRA Verify tool, as well as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its implications for CIOs. They also covered the CLOUD Act and its impact on data access, and a compromised Amazon Q extensi...

In Season 4, Episode 29, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and Ambassador Niklas Westerstråhle to discuss the AWS Free Tier overhaul, the new Cloud Operations Engineer certification, the launch of the Amazon Kiro AI, and a security issue with misconfigured AWS Organizations policies. They wrap up with thoughts on the latest Amazon/AWS layoffs—and a fun debate over whether Niklas sho...

In Season 4, Episode 28, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mahendran Selvakumar. Together, they dive into topics including Amazon’s development of cooling equipment for NVIDIA GPUs to support AI acceleration, the launch of the new AWS Builder Center for the AWS Builder Community, and Amazon's massive AI supercluster—Project Rainier—built for Anthropic. They also explore the upcoming...

In Season 4, Episode 27, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Member, Tim Dodd. They discuss Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency, Amazon ECS-optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs, AWS Backup support for copying S3 backups across regions/accounts in GovCloud, a Chrome extension using AI to summarize web pages, and building a generative AI landing zone on AWS and then...

In Season 4, Episode 25, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Hero Stephen Sennett. They discuss recent AWS security enhancements and active defense measures, including the introduction of exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, the enforcement of 100% MFA for AWS root users, and Amazon Inspector’s new code security feature. The conversation also covers AWS’s $20 b...

In Season 4, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Randall Hunt, CTO of Caylent, for a dynamic and insightful conversation that blends cutting-edge cloud developments with a dash of humor. They dive into some of the latest updates from AWS, including the launch of on-demand key rotation for imported keys via AWS Key Management Service, new application layer 7 DDoS protection for customers using A...

In Season 4, Episode 23, Karl and Jon are joined by Cloud Security Consultant, Deep Shankar Yadav for a wide-ranging discussion on recent cloud updates and innovations. They cover the latest enhancements to the AWS Pricing Calculator, including support for discounts and purchase commitments, making it easier for users to estimate and plan costs more accurately. The conversation moves to Amazon EC2...

In Season 4, Episode 22, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mohit Saxena to unpack the latest in AWS news. They kick things off with the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, followed by updates to Amazon ECS, which now provides more detailed exit reason messages. The conversation moves into developer tools, highlighting how Amazon Q’s Developer CLI agents can be used to automa...

In Season 4, Episode 21, Karl and Jon are joined by Community Builder Ayhan Setirekli to discuss a range of AWS updates and industry news. Topics include the new EC2 feature: customer-initiated reboot migrations for scheduled events, enhancements to Amazon Inspector for container security, the launch of the AWS Product Lifecycle page, and updates on service availability. They also cover a report r...

In Season 4, Episode 20, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador and Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom  for a wide-ranging discussion on key developments in cloud and infrastructure. They explore AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints, strategies for enhancing application resiliency using Amazon Q Developer, and how AWS security services can be mapped to MITRE frameworks for im...