Aws Podcast

Simon covers a raft of the announcements made at the re:Invent Keynote and other announcements of note! Shownotes: New- AWS IoT Device Management - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-device-management/ Presenting AWS IoT Analytics: Delivering IoT Analytics at Scale and Faster than Ever Before - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-aws-iot-analytics/ In the Works – AWS IoT Device Defender – Secure Your IoT Fleet - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-sepio-secure-your-iot-fleet/ AWS IoT 1-Click Overview - One click creation of an AWS Lambda trigger for any device | https://aws.amazon.com/iot-1-click/ Announcing Amazon FreeRTOS – Enabling Billions of Devices to Securely Benefit from the Cloud - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-freertos/ Amazon SageMaker – Accelerating Machine Learning - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/ Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Nat

Simon takes you through a “Mega” set of updates and new things. Grab a coffee (he makes a recommendation!) and hopefully there will be at least one update that makes you smile! Links: How to Prepare for AWS’s Move to Its Own Certificate Authority: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-prepare-for-aws-move-to-its-own-certificate-authority/ New Pricing for AppStream 2.0 for Qualifying Education Users: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/new-pricing-makes-streaming-learning-resources-with-amazon-appstream-2-0-more-affordable-for-qualifying-education-users/ What’s New with AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/new/

Simon speaks with Ken Eisner, Senior Manager of Worldwide AWS Education Programs about AWS Educate. Are you an educator looking for up-to-date content for your curriculum? Are you a student wanting to get modern, relevant qualifications? Do you want to “re-skill” yourself with some of the most valued technical skills in the market? Take a listen to how the AWS Educate program can help - PLUS a special code for $150 of AWS Credit is shared in the episode (NOTE: code valid to 31st December 2017). https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/

App developers spend incredible time, resources, and effort to grow their app audiences, but once you've acquired a user, it's easier and cheaper to retain and engage them via messaging and notifications. In this podcast we introduce AWS Pinpoint for engaging with your users and getting app and user analytics to drive your business. Amazon Pinpoint: https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, making it easy to develop applications that use high-quality speech to increase engagement and accessibility. In this episode Simon speaks with Robin Dautricourt, Product Manager for Amazon Polly to introduce Amazon Polly and walk through popular use cases in specific industries where Amazon Polly's natural sounding voices improve user experience and enables new ways to consume content: Learning/Education, Gaming, Content Creation and Telephony. Learn about real-world scenarios and examples of how to incorporate text-to-speech into their capabilities. https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available to customers. Simon speaks with Andy Reedy, Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS, about how it works and what customers can do with this capability. https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications from AWS to any device running a web browser, without rewriting them. Simon speaks with Deepak Suryanarayanan, Senior Product Manager at AWS, about how customers can use AppStream 2.0 to deliver their applications more efficiently. https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

Simon takes a walk through LOTS of the updates that have been happening for AWS Customers. Shownotes New – Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their existing VPCs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-now-allows-customers-to-expand-their-existing-vpcs/ New – Descriptions for Security Group Rules - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-descriptions-for-security-group-rules/ New – Stop & Resume Workloads on EC2 Spot Instances - AWS Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-stop-resume-workloads-on-ec2-spot-instances/ Amazon VPC NAT Gateways now support Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring and Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/amazon-vpc-nat-gateways-now-support-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring-and-resource-tagging/ AWS VPN Update – Cust

In this episode Simon speaks with Carla Cole (Vice President, Sales) and Mick Bass (Senior Vice President, Big Data Practice) at 47Lining along with Chris Perkins (AWS) about the AWS Quick Start for Data Warehouse Modernization and how you can get the most from it. AWS Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/edw-tableau-server/ Jumpstart Consulting Offer: https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-tzm-766/images/ipc_jumpstart_47lining_final_062817%5b1%5d.pdf 47Lining: http://www.47lining.com/

Simon speaks with Chris Andronaco Manager of Technology TRD about agile, developing software and what it takes to support high-performance car racing teams. TRD: http://www.trdusa.com/

One of the biggest problems in the mobile application industry is optimizing the user on-boarding process. For most applications, you can't really monetize your app until a user has signed up. But implementing and managing all of the complex machinery needed to create a user identity and access systems is time consuming and not your core competency. App developers can save time, money, and effort by using AWS Cognito for on-boarding users and managing their identity, authorization, authentication, and resource access policies. Amazon Cognito: https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

Simon takes you through a set of service updates large and small! Shownotes: AWS CloudFormation and DAX: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-cloudformation-support-for-amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-dax/ VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-vpc-endpoints-for-dynamodb/ RDS for Microsoft SQL Server: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-increases-maxiumum-database-storage-size-to-16-tb/ AWS Quick Start for Microsoft SQL Server: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/sql/ New Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-the-aws-tools-for-microsoft-visual-studio-team-services/ Amazon SES Reputation Dashboard: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/amazon-simple-email-service-introduces-reputation-dashboard-for-email-accounts/ AWS CloudTrail Event History for Everyone: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-cloudtrail-event-history-now-available-to-a

Did you want to get Alfresco up and running fast, securely and reliably on AWS? Listen to how Alfresco (Toni de la Fuente, Cloud Architect and Leader of Security Operations, Alfresco) and AWS (Santiago Cardenas, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS) created a Quick Start for you to do just that! Alfresco Content Services Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/alfresco-content-services/ https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-alfresco-content-services Alfresco Global Virtual Hack-a-thon: https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-6198-hackathon AWS Quick Start: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

One of the biggest problems for mobile app developers is delivering quality applications that get high ratings and reviews in the app store. All it takes is a few bad ratings, and users will be unlikely to even download your application. One of the keys to producing quality mobile applications is thorough testing, but individual developers can't afford to own thousands of devices, let alone manage the infrastructure for running test harnesses against all those devices. In this episode, we introduce AWS Device Farm that lets mobile app developers test their apps against a wide array of mobile devices and catch bugs early so you can focus on introducing new features and functionality to delight your users rather than spending all your cycles responding to and fixing issues reported in reviews and rankings. AWS Device Farm: https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/ AWS Device Farm Plugins: https://github.com/awslabs?q=aws-device-farm

This episode takes you through a collection of handy updates to existing services, and a new Security whitepaper. Shownotes: AWS CodePipeline: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-codepipeline-adds-ability-to-view-history-of-pipeline/ AWS Budgets: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/new-filtering-options-and-linked-account-access-in-aws-budgets/ AWS Service Catalog: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-service-catalog-tagoptions-library-creates-a-better-way-to-govern-your-aws-footprint/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-route-53-announces-support-for-multivalue-answers-in-response-to-dns-queries/ AWS Direct Connect: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/aws-direct-connect-now-provides-amazon-cloudwatch-monitoring/ More .NET Core Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/announcing-net-core-support-for-aws-codebuild-and-aws-codestar/ AWS Price Reduction: https://aws.amazon.com/blog

In this episode Simon gets you caught up on some useful new services including those to help you with ETL, Migration and Data Leakage protection! Shownotes: AWS Glue: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-aws-glue-now-generally-available/ AWS CloudHSM: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudhsm-update-cost-effective-hardware-key-management/ AWS Macie: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/ AWS IAM Console: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/07/the-aws-iam-console-now-remembers-your-preferences-for-table-column-selections-and-policy-viewing-and-editing/ AWS Migration Hub: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-migration-hub-plan-track-enterprise-application-migration/ Amazon EFS Encryption at Rest: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-encryption-at-rest-for-amazon-elastic-file-system-efs/ AWS Batch and CloudFormation: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/aws-batch-adds-support-for-aws-cloudformation/ AWS SAM Local: https://aws.amazo

Where do you store your sensitive config info and passwords for your applications? In this episode Simon dives into the Parameter Store and how you can use it to protect and access your sensitive data. Shownotes: EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/parameter-store/ Interesting Articles about Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/interesting-articles-on-ec2-systems-manager-parameter-store/ Tagging for Parameter Store: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-ec2-systems-manager-adds-hierarchy-tagging-and-notification-support-for-parameter-store/

Simon speaks with Philip “Fitz” Fitzsimons, Global Well-Architected Lead, and Herman Coomans, Senior Solutions Architect, all about the AWS Well Architected framework. They discuss what it consists of, how customers can apply it, and what they have learned. Well-Architected Site: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

It is time again to catch up on a raft of updates for customers! This week’s updates include: AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IoT Button, AWS Mobile Hub, Amazon ECS and Amazon DynamoDB just to name a few!

In this episode Simon talks about Apache MXNet on AWS with Julien Simon, Principal Technical Evangelist AWS. They discuss what it is and how to get started. Apache MXNet on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/mxnet/ Amazon EC2 P2 Instances: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p2/ Julien’s Intro to MXNet Blog Posts: https://becominghuman.ai/an-introduction-to-the-mxnet-api-part-1-848febdcf8ab