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In Season 4, Episode 19, Karl and Jon are joined by Rob Pankow , Simplyblock CEO, to discuss the new AWS EBS snapshot acceleration feature, the evolution of AI agents, AWS’s guide for responsible AI adoption in financial services, and how to use Amazon Q Business to gain insights from AWS Trusted Advisor. They also touch on cloud hyperscaler earnings and market share—before realizing they had spen...

In Season 4, Episode 18 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero Renato Losio . They discuss the introduction of tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs, new logging destinations, and standardized billing for the init phase in AWS Lambda; the launch of just-in-time node access via AWS Systems Manager; the use of AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for enhanced malware protection; the ongoing AI data...

In Season 4, Episode 17 Karl & Jon are joined by Community Builder and User Group Lead,  Damien Jones .They discuss AWS Advanced Payment Option, Amazon Redshift Discounted Pricing, Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, AWS SkillBuilder Trivia and then the guys joked about Jon's cat being deeply unimpressed with his AWS summit presentation practice, sug...

In Season 4, Episode 16 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Sathyajith Bhat. They discuss Amazon CloudFront Anycast static IPs for Apex domains, AWS simplifying VPC peering billing, AWS Backup restore testing, sustainability challenges with AI and hyperscale data centers, CMA probe into cloud provider dominance and licensing costs and the guys went off on a tangent about the carbon footprint of...

In Season 4, Episode 15 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and core member of the Armenia UG*, Tigran Gevorgyan . They discuss Meta's Llama 4 models on Amazon SageMaker, prompting for best price performance with AWS AI models, patched vulnerability in the Amazon EC2 SSM agent, using OpenSearch and Managed Grafana for telemetry data correlation, updates to the AWS Well-Architected F...

In Season 4, Episode 14 Karl & Jon are joined by Tangara Aymen . They discuss Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, AWS Step Functions SDK Expanded Integrations, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Image Content Filters, Australian Fintech Data Leak, AWS Commitment to Open Source and then the guys joked about writing horror films called "Attack of the Leaky Buckets" and "Attack of the Bad Internet" aft...

In Season 4, Episode 13 Karl & Jon are joined by Sam Waweru  They discuss Amazon Application Recovery Controller's new AWS FIS recovery action, AWS CloudFormation's targeted resource scans, Secrets Management, AWS's detailed geographic information, S3 bucket data leak and then the guys joked about Jon's ever-changing office furniture, wondering if he'd finally settle on a therapist's couch giv...

In Season 4, Episode 12 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS DevTools Hero and User Group Lead  Johannes Koch . They discuss AWS CodePipeline new feature, AWS KMS CloudWatch metrics, Amazon Q Business browser extension upgrades, AWS SNS potential abuse, AI-powered features in Amazon Connect and then the guys started comparing their gym routines, completely forgetting they were supposed to be talking a...

In Season 4, Episode 11 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Joe Stech . They discuss Amazon EC2 allowing AMIs now integrating with AWS Config, Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode, long-term backup options for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, DeepSeek R1 model, misconfigured AWS S3 bucket exposing US nurses' data and then the guys started debating whether to call it "Glacier Potato...

In Season 4, Episode 10, Karl & Jon are joined once again by AWS Hero, Brian Tarbox . They discuss automating Amazon RDS credential rotation with AWS Secrets Manager, Microsoft Amazon Q Business integrations, an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step Functions, a new agentic coding experience within Amazon Q Developer, the ongoing UK Competition and Markets Authority probe, and the guys jo...

In Season 4, Episode 9 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Craig Johnson . They discuss Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, ways to grant cross-account access in AWS, Q Developer, AWS being named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for data integration tools and the guys go off on a tangent about chainsaws!   04:43 - AWS Introduces Cent...

In Season 4, Episode 8 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS User Group Lead for "Leeds User Group, Edmund Craske . They discuss Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager tiered pricing, AWS CloudFormation 2024 year in review, free automated tool to hunt for exposed AWS secrets in public repos, AWS Fargate on a budget, best practices to respond to security risks across AWS organizations and Jon shows o...

In Season 4, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Cormack . They discuss AWS Step Functions, reshaping AWS CloudFormation stacks with stack refactoring, AWS Verified Access support for non-HTTP resources, AWS's full-year profit and revenue growth, AWS documentation updates and future plans and the guys think Mark Zuckerberg's AI predictions are about as accurate as hi...

In Season 4, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Dave Hall . They discuss Dynamo DB innovations, cost optimization highlights, migration to AWS MediaConvert, S3 Bucket security risks, AWS Lambda and Serverless computing and it looks like the AWS Community Builders are drinking 'Dirty Lambda' cocktails and playing buzzword bingo while nervously refreshing their renewal app...

In Season 4, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Peter Sankauskas. They discuss Amazon S3 metadata, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, DeepSeek R1, Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS survey on AWS service usage and trends and Jon finally got to go Apple reaction crazy for our 100th episode!   06:14 - Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available  This feature, announced at re:Invent, is now general...

In Season 4, Episode 4 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Bojan Zivic. They discuss observability in ECS, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Backup best practices, AWS security best practices to mitigate ransomware attacks, architecting with multiple AWS regions for enhanced resilience and Jon found his missing piece of the puzzle - a Lego Millennium Falcon!   05:37 - AWS Adds Container Insi...

In Season 4, Episode 3 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Miguel Calles. They discuss AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS launching a new region in Mexico, Amazon Q Developer, interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman, ransomware attack on unsecured AWS S3 buckets and once again they got onto the subject of swag, this time AWS Community Builder swag, with renewal time looming...   04:56 - AWS Ela...

In Season 4, Episode 2 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador & Community Builder, Niklas Westerstråhle. They discuss new configurable Point in Time Recovery periods for Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Compute Optimizer, automating Systems Manager patching reports, optimizing container workloads for sustainability, AI hallucination and potential fixes and Niklas becomes the first LogiCast guest to s...

In Season 4, Episode 1 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Gabriel Torres. They discuss AWS Community Builder program benefits and application process, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Backup's new search and item-level recovery features, decreasing storage volumes for RDS databases, troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching using Amazon Bedrock, Jeff Barr stepping down as lead AWS evange...

In Season 3 Episode 42 we have something a little different for the season finale. Karl & Jon attended the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from 2-6th December. On Tuesday 3rd December they attended the AWS Community Builder mixer in the AWS Community Hub in Buddy V's restaurant in The Venetian. While you won't hear from Jon in this episode, he did man the camera while Karl intervi...

In Season 3, Episode 41 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Maurya. They discuss AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard, AWS Transfer Family Web Apps, AWS Data Transfer Terminals, AWS D-SQL and database price cuts, stolen AWS credentials from misconfigured S3 bucket and the guys wondered if AWS Community Builders get taller when they become AWS Heroes...   06:19 - Accelerate your...

In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....   06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it - Overview of the original PR FAQ...

In Season 3, Episode 39 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Muhammad Rashid. They discuss Lambda VS Code IDE, Ephemeral jobs on ECS/Fargate, CloudFront/WAF billing change, Bedrock Prompt Management, AWS earnings results and Karl wonders if he may have coined the phrase 'Remote Working Natives'   07:27 - AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AW...

In Season 3, Episode 38 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Anna Astori. They discuss Q Developer, Amazon VPC, AWS WAF, celebrating 10 years of Amazon ECS, Amazon return to office policy and once again Karl tries to extract trade secrets from our guest!   03:05 - AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot The speakers discuss the laun...

In Season 3, Episode 37 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Pothecary. They discuss CloudQuest and AWS Jam, AWS Session Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently and AppConfig, Amazon going nuclear, Amazon's returning to office policy and Karl hopes Amazon can finally realise the Back to the Future Mr Fusion reactor...    06:22 - Enhance your real-world skills with AWS Cloud Quest...