The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Nicki Stone for regular updates, deep dives, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the AWS Official Podcast has something for you.
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#718: From cost center to value creator: How IT automation creates business value
Learn how organizations are transforming IT from a cost center to a value generator through automation, AI, and smart business process optimization, featuring real success stories from AWS Solution Architects Adrian SanMiguel and Greg Harris. Innovate faster with an AWS Genai Competency Partner: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/partners/
#717: Conversational AI with Amazon Nova Sonic, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces new capabilities
Learn about the latest new FM in the Nova family that simplifies conversational AI with low latency, and build safely with new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. 00:00 - Intro, 00:27 - Amazon Nova Sonic, 03:13 - Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, 05:23 - Analytics, 08:18 - Application Integration, 08:37 - Artificial Intelligence, 12:06 - Business Applications, 13:01 - Cloud Financial Management, 13:44 - Compute, 15:04 - Contact Center, 16:29 - Containers, 16:49 - Databases, 19:57 - Developer Tools, 20:59 - Frontend Web and Mobile, 21:20 - Management and Governance, 23:39 - Media Services, 25:37 - Migration and Transfer, 26:46 - Networking and Content Delivery, 28:45 - Artificial Intelligence, 29:58 - Security, Identity, and Compliance, 32:51 - Serverless, 33:57 - Storage, 37:29 - Wrap up Show Notes: https://dqkop6u6q45rj.cloudfront.net/run-sheet-20250418-173723.html
#716: Concrete, Cooling, and Compute: Reinventing Data Centers for the AI Age
Dive deep into the fascinating world of modern data centers with Sr. Principal Engineer at AWS, Stephen Callahan. Discover how AI is revolutionizing data center design, why nothing is uninteresting at scale, and the innovative ways AWS is tackling sustainability while powering the future of cloud computing. Learn more: AWS Global Infrastructure: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ More about Data Center Innovations: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/12/aws-announces-new-data-center-components-to-support-ai-innovation-and-further-improve-energy-efficiency
#715: AWS News: Be your own data analyst with Amazon Q in Quicksight, and more
Hosts Simon and Jillian discuss how you can uncover hidden trends and make data-driven decisions - all through natural conversation, with Amazon Q in Quicksight, plus, more of the latest updates from AWS. 00:00 - Intro, 00:22 - Top Stories, 02:50 - Analytics, 03:35 - Application Integrations, 04:48 - Amazon Sagemaker, 05:29 - Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, 05:48- Amazon Polly, 06:46 - Amazon Bedrock, 07:31 - Amazon Bedrock Model Evolution LLM, 08:29 - Business Application, 08:58 - Compute, 09:51 - Contact Centers, 10:54 - Containers, 11:12 - Database, 14:21 - Developer Tools, 15:20 - Front End Web and Mobile, 15:45 - Games, 16:04 - Management and Governance, 16:35 - Media Services, 16:47 - Network and Content Delivery, 19:39 - Security Identity and Compliance, 20:24 - Serverless, 21:48 - Storage, 22:43 - Wrap up Show Notes: https://dqkop6u6q45rj.cloudfront.net/shownotes-20250404-184823.html
#714: Beyond Compliance: Assess, audit, and evaluate with AWS Config
Automate compliance checks, manage configurations at scale, and more with AWS Config. Jillian interviews AWS experts Tim Honeychurch and Rodolfo Brenes as they walk you through how you can level up your security with continuous compliance. Learn More: AWS Config Product Page: https://aws.amazon.com/config/ Learn more about Cloud Governance: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudops/cloud-governance/
#713: AWS News: Meet the Next Generation of Amazon SageMaker, Multi-Agent Collaboration on Bedrock
New game-changing AI developments are here, from SageMaker Unified Studio to Bedrock's new multi-agent capabilities. Join your hosts Simon and Jillian for the latest updates from AWS. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Top Stories 00:02:31 - Amazon Bedrock 00:05:35 - Analytics 00:06:08 - Application Integration 00:06:41 - AWS Step Function Workflow Studio 00:06:59 - Amazon Bedrock 00:07:26 - GraphRAG 00:09:08 - Amazon Nova Pro Foundation Model 00:09:32 - Amazon S3 Table and Sagemaker Lakehouse 00:12:00 - Compute 00:13:30 - Customer Engagement 00:14:39 - Data Bases 00:15:09 - Developer Tools 00:17:09 - End User Computing 00:17:25 - Front end Web and Mobile 00:18:08 - Games Internet of things 00:20:12 - Management and Governance 00:20:31 - Networking and Content Delivery 00:20:41 - AWS Application Load Balancer 00:21:06 - Security Identity End Compliance 00:22:32 - Storage 00:23:47 - Wrap up
#712: The Frugal Architect w/Werner Vogels: Watch Duty Keeps it Simple to Save Lives
What started as CEO and founder John Mill’s need for better wildfire information grew into tech that supported 9 million users during the LA fires. Learn how the founders of Watch Duty grew through constraints to scale mission-critical software as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and your host Simon Elisha chat with John Mills and CTO Dave Merritt of Watch Duty about the early days of this startup with a mission to save lives. Learn More: https://bit.ly/43OLliG
#711: AWS News: Claude 3.7 Meets Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Data Automation
Anthropic's most advanced AI model yet is now on Amazon Bedrock, plus, multimodal content analysis with Bedrock Data Automation. Keep up with these updates and more on this week's AWS News. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:02 - Anthropic Claude 3.7 00:03:14 - Amazon Bedrock Data Automation 00:05:54 - Analytics 00:06:50 - Artificial Intelligence 00:09:23 - Compute 00:12:37 - Customer Engagement 00:13:50 - Databases 00:16:11 - Developer Tools 00:17:05 - End User Computing 00:17:23 - Front End Web and Mobile 00:18:31 - Management End Governance 00:19:34 - Migration and Modernization 00:20:43 - Security Identity End Compliance 00:21:56 - Storage 00:22:12 - Outro
#710: Amazon S3: From Simple Storage to Smart Scaling
Think you know Amazon S3? Think again. Discover game-changing new features like S3 Metadata and S3 Express OneZone with your host Simon, and guest Wali Akbari, storage expert at AWS. Learn pro tips for managing data at scale, reducing costs, and leveraging new capabilities - essential listening for cloud architects and developers. For More Information about Amazon S3 visit: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ And be sure to visit the AWS Storage Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/
#709: AWS News: Guard Duty Malware Protection, CloudTrail Network Activity Events
All the things new and interesting on AWS! Chapters 00:00:07 Intro 00:00:34 Amazon Guard Duty Malware protection for S3 00:01:54 Cloudtrail network Activity events for VPC 00:03:50 AWS Market Place 00:04:09 Analytics 00:05:28 Application Integration 00:06:39 AI updates & Amazon Q 00:09:24 Compute 00:10:13 Customer Engagement 00:11:51 Data Bases 00:13:53 Developer Tools 00:14:25 End User Computing 00:14:58 Management and Governance 00:15:30 Storage 00:17:47 Wrap Up Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/709ExtendedShownotes.html
#708: Unlocking Amazon Cognito: Secure, Scalable, Customized Sign-In
Building a robust authentication system for your application is no easy feat - but sign up and sign-in is often your first touch with your customer. Join our host Simon Elisha and guests, Rahul Sharma, Principal PM, and Kevin Shanley, Principal GTM Specialist at AWS as they break down how you can implement a secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experience in minutes with Amazon Cognito - faster than you can brew a cup of coffee!
#707: AWS News: DeepSeek R1 Models on BedRock, Improve Data Discoverability with S3 Metadata
Join our hosts for a great discussion of the new and interesting on AWS! Chapters: 00:09 Intro 00:32 Deep Seek 05:26 S3 Meta Data 08:52 AWS Market Place 09:32 Analytics updates 10:28 Application integration 11:49 AI Updates 13:42 Compute 15:09 Customer Engagement 16:12 Database Updates 17:53 Developer Tools 19:31 Front end web and mobile 20:36 Management and governance 22:22 Migration and modernization updates 23:01 Networking and content delivery 23:12 Wrap up Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/707ExtendedShownotes.html
#706: Automate LLM fine-tuning and selection with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines
This week on the Official AWS Podcast, dive into the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)! Join the experts as our host Shruti interviews Piyush Kadam, Sr. Product Manager, and Lauren Mullennex, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS to explore how Amazon SageMaker is revolutionizing the customization, evaluation, and deployment of large language models at scale. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pipelines/
#705: AWS News Update, January 27, 2025
Our 3 hosts take you through all the latest news PLUS a new "Top Stories" discussion! Chapters: 00:08 Top Stories 09:52 AWS Marketplace 10:17 Analytics 11:10 Application Integration 12:41 Artificial Intelligence 14:24 Compute 15:16 Customer Engagement 17:46 Databases 19:25 Developer Tools 20:38 End User Computing 21:29 Management and Governance 25:22 Media Services 25:42 Security, Identity and Compliance Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/705ExtendedShownotes.html
#704: #704: Scaling your relational database on AWS - Are relational databases cool again?
Are relational databases cool again? In this episode of the AWS Podcast, host Simon Elisha sits down with Josh Hart, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, to explore how traditional databases are getting a modern makeover. They dive into three game-changing innovations from AWS that are solving age-old database scaling headaches: Aurora Serverless v2 for seamless vertical scaling, Aurora Limitless Database for hassle-free sharding, and the RDS Data API for simplified connection management. Whether you're wrestling with dev/test environments or running production workloads at scale, this episode unpacks practical solutions that could save you time, money, and operational headaches. * Check out more examples of building modern data architectures on AWS in the AWS Data for SaaS patterns repository on GitHub (https://github.com/aws-samples/data-for-saas-patterns ) * Dive deeper into scaling relational databases with this 2 part blog series on the AWS database blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/scale-your-relational-database-for-saas-part-1-common-scaling-patterns/ ) * Head over to YouTube to find more on-demand content for scaling databases (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoqD0z_296PbKATwUcaGowmOJwlE_2ysP )