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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#198 [Startup Stories Special #6] - Hiring for startups
In the early stages, hiring the right people can be as critical as an original great idea. In this episode we’re joined by Andrew Thompson, ex-VP of Engineering at Yoyo Wallet and Will Bentinck, Head of Careers at Makers Academy who talk about their views and approaches to startup recruitment. AWS Startup Stories webpage: amzn.to/2sxG7pq Yoyo Wallet: http://yoyowallet.com/ Makers Academy: http://www.makersacademy.com/ Access the cheat sheet by submitting your details here: bit.ly/2pWHPMP
#197: Changing your Business with Amazon Kinesis
Simon speaks with Roger Barga, General Manager for Amazon Kinesis, about how streaming is changing the way organisations are building systems and creating modern, responsive interactions with their customers. Useful Links: Amazon Kinesis: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/ Hands-on Tutorial: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/build-log-analytics-solution/ Test Drive Using Demo Data: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/writing-sql-on-streaming-data-with-amazon-kinesis-analytics-part-1/ Test Data Generator: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-data-generator Amazon Kinesis posts on the Big Data Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/tag/amazon-kinesis/
#196 [Startup Stories Special #5] - Going global with a startup
Having a scalable idea is a dream of any startup founder. But with multiple markets and countries to consider, putting that idea into action is a whole new ballgame. Hear how AWS customer and startup success Once, a dating app with a unique approach, nailed its global strategy, and how it’s accelerating growth in 11 countries and counting. AWS Startup Stories webpage: amzn.to/2s4rVnO Once webpage: https://getonce.com/en Access episode 5 cheat sheet by submitting your details here: http://bit.ly/2sec2JZ AWS Summit London: amzn.to/2rRNXYK
#195: Mapping Services to Regions and Lots of Updates
In this episode Simon discusses how to see which services are available in each AWS Region, gives you the long list of AWS Direct Connect locations plus a raft of other updates. Region Table: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ AWS Direct Connect Locations: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/details/ AWS ElasticBeanstalk Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-elastic-beanstalk-supports-amazon-ec2-f1-instances-and-amazo/ AWS Storage Gateway Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-storage-gateway-now-provides-retrieval-of-archived-vritual-tapes-in-as-little-as-3-5-hours-adds-additional-virtual-tape-information-and-adds-cached-volume-cloning/ AWS Cognito Built-In User Experience: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-cognito-launches-public-beta-of-a-built-in-user-experience-for-sign-in-and-saml-federation-for-user-pools/ AWS IAM Policy Summary Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/three-new-features-added-to-iam-policy-summaries/ Cloud Directory Support for Typed Links: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloud-directory-update-support-for-typed-links/
#194 [Startup Stories Special #4] - Starting a challenger bank from scratch
This week in the AWS Startup Stories special, Darren talks to Anne Boden, CEO & founder of Starling Bank, about her experience on building a mobile only bank from scratch, dealing with regulators, and launching a public API Marketplace. Enjoy! AWS Startup Stories webpage: http://amzn.to/2s72MtK Starling Bank: https://www.starlingbank.com/ Starling Bank Marketplace website: https://www.starlingbank.com/marketplace/ Access episode 4 cheat sheet by submitting your details here: http://bit.ly/2rEdabc AWS Summit London: amzn.to/2rRNXYK
193: Amazon EC2 Container Service Update
This week Simon recaps what has been happening in the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) world and how customers are taking advantage of some of the new capabilities. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-container-service-launch-recap-customer-stories-and-code/
#192: [Startup Stories Special #3] - Securing VC backing
In this episode of Startup Stories we cover VC funding and how to build longlasting relationships with investors. You will hear both sides of the story from Robin Klein, General Partner at VC fund Local Globe on what he looks for when making investments, and Hal Watts, CEO of tech-fashion Unmade, a company Robin invested in, on his experience finding investment. AWS Startup Stories webpage: http://amzn.to/2qDkfJV Unmade webpage: https://www.unmade.com/ Local Globe webpage: https://localglobe.vc/ Access the cheat sheet by submitting your details here: bit.ly/2pWHPMP AWS Summit London: amzn.to/2pLpeI9
#191: New EBS Snapshot Cost Allocation plus AWS Training and Certification Portal
In a shorter episode, Simon takes you through the new Cost Allocation for EBS Snapshots and the new AWS Training & Certification Portal. AWS re:Invent 2016: Cost Optimizing Your Architecture: Practical Design Steps For Savings (ARC310): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHR_V1lvNU&t Cost Allocation for EBS Snapshots: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cost-allocation-for-ebs-snapshots/ Deleting EBS Snapshots: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-deleting-snapshot.html New AWS Training and Certification Portal: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-training-and-certification-portal/
#190: [Startup Stories Special #2] - Crowdfunding for startups
In the second episode of the AWS Startup Stories special, Darren talks to two special guests innovating on AWS in the fintech space. Tom Blomfield, CEO and founder of Monzo, mobile-only bank, and Darren Westlake, CEO and co-founder of Crowdcube, the world’s first equity crowdfunding platform, discuss crowdfunding for startups. Enjoy! AWS Startup Stories webpage: http://amzn.to/2qd5n4R Monzo webpage: https://monzo.com/ Crowdcube webpage: https://www.crowdcube.com/ Access episode 2 cheat sheet by submitting your details here: http://bit.ly/2qXB95e AWS Summit London: http://amzn.to/2rRNXYK
#189: Removing What is Not Needed and Some Service Updates
In this episode Simon discusses the importance of re-visiting Services to ensure you reduce the amount of undifferentiated heavy lifting you have in your architecture. Then he covers a raft of updates big and small. Shownotes: AWS and Ionic: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/mobile-web-and-hybrid-application-with-exported-mobile-hub-project-for-deploying-apps-and-mobile-backend/ Amazon QuickSight updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/visualize-big-data-with-amazon-quicksight-presto-and-apache-spark-on-amazon-emr/ AWS Schema Conversion Tool updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-schema-conversion-tool-exports-from-sql-server-to-amazon-redshift/ AWS CloudFormation support for AWS WAF on ALB: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/cloudformation-support-for-aws-waf-on-alb/ AWS CloudTrail with S3 Data Events: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-cloudtrail-adds-data-event-delivery-to-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ Auto Scaling Resource-Level Permissions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/introducing-auto-scaling-resource-level-permissions/ AWS CodeDeploy Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-codedeploy-adds-file-handling-support/ New Amazon S3 Console: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/announcing-the-availability-of-the-new-amazon-s3-console/ Amazon Athena adds API/CLI Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/amazon-athena-adds-api-cli-aws-sdk-support-and-audit-logging-with-aws-cloudtrail/ AWS X-Ray AWS Lambda Request Tracing GA: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/05/aws-x-ray-makes-aws-lambda-request-tracing-generally-available/
#188: [Startup Stories Special #1] - OLIO – How a social startup took off
In this first episode of the AWS Startup Stories special, Darren Mowry, Head of Startup Business Development and Venture Capital at AWS EMEA, talks to Tessa Cook, co-founder and CEO of food sharing app and AWS startup customer OLIO, about growing a social enterprise and building a loyal fan base with an almost non-existent marketing budget. AWS Startup Stories webpage: http://amzn.to/2rrajQu OLIO webpage: https://olioex.com/ Access the cheat sheet by submitting your details here: http://bit.ly/2pWHPMP AWS Summit London: http://amzn.to/2pLpeI9
#187: Data Lakes & IoT
Simon interviews Sri Elapolu, Senior Manager IoT Public Sector Practice, about Data Lakes, IoT and what customers are doing with the technology now and into the future. Shownotes: Smart Cities: https://aws.amazon.com/smart-cities/ City on a Cloud: https://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/ C3IoT: http://c3iot.com/ Big Data on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/ IoT on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/iot/
#186: A Bumper Collection of Updates
This episode covers a bumper collection of things new and updated! Price reductions, new services, AI, ML, Big Data, FPGAs, Databases and more! The bumper list of shownotes: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-kinesis-firehose-announces-price-reduction-and-tiered-pricing-plan/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reductions-reserved-instances-m4-instances/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-list-api-update-regional-price-lists/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-codestar/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/the-amazon-sqs-java-messaging-library-for-jms-now-supports-fifo-queues/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-server-side-encryption-for-amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-lambda-supports-tagging-and-cost-allocations/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-lambda-supports-python-3-6/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-update-general-availability-including-lambda-integration/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-cognito-now-supported-by-aws-cloudformation/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/announcing-vpc-endpoints-for-amazon-dynamodb-now-in-public-preview/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-inspector-update-assessment-reporting-proxy-support-and-more/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-spectrum-exabyte-scale-in-place-queries-of-s3-data/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/manage-query-workloads-with-query-monitoring-rules-in-amazon-redshift/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-dax-in-memory-caching-for-read-intensive-workloads/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-ec2-f1-instances-customizable-fpgas-for-hardware-acceleration-are-now-generally-available/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-now-generally-available/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-update-image-moderation/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-polly-speech-marks/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-an-easier-way-to-delegate-permissions-to-aws-services-service-linked-roles/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/how-to-remove-boilerplate-validation-logic-in-your-rest-apis-with-amazon-api-gateway-request-validation/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sign-up-today-preview-of-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-the-hood-fast-ddl/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/updates-to-presto-apache-zeppelin-apache-flink-and-hue-now-available-on-amazon-emr-release-5-5-0/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-athena-adds-support-for-querying-encrypted-data/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-batch-managed-compute-environments-support-customer-provided-amis/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-marketplace-copy-to-service-catalog-is-now-available/
#185: Updates and Services Working Better Together
Simon discusses a variety of updates and some great Services that now work even better together! City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge: https://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/ EC2 Run Command as a target for Amazon CloudWatch Events: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-run-command-is-now-a-cloudwatch-events-target/ Amazon EMR Instance Fleets: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-emr-instance-fleets/ Instance Size Flexibility for EC2 Reserved Instances: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-instance-size-flexibility-for-ec2-reserved-instances/ Amazon SES IP Pre-Warming: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-ses-can-now-automatically-warm-up-your-dedicated-ip-addresses/ Amazon Cloud Directory API Efficiency: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/new-amazon-cloud-directory-api-makes-it-easier-to-query-data-along-multiple-dimensions/ Amazon API Gateway integrates with AWS Certificate Manager: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-api-gateway-integrates-with-aws-certificate-manager-acm/
#184: Updates to Make Your Day
In this episode Simon catches you up on some new features and capabilities that just might make your day! AWS Resource Tagging API: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-resource-tagging-api/ Tag EC2 Instances & EBS Volumes on Create: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tag-ec2-instances-ebs-volumes-on-creation/ Cost Saving Opportunities: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/discover-savings-opportunities-by-using-the-new-reserved-instance-coverage-reports-in-aws-cost-explorer/ Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Configuration Settings: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/cloudwatch-alarms-releases-two-new-alarm-configuration-settings/ IAM “plain english” Policy Summaries: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/move-over-json-policy-summaries-make-understanding-iam-policies-easier/ AWS Lambda Support for Node.js v6.10: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/aws-lambda-supports-node-js-6-10/ New AWS Direct Connect Locations: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/announcing-new-aws-direct-connect-location-in-munich-prague-berlin-zurich/ Amazon AppStream 2.0 Fleet Auto Scaling: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-appstream-2-now-supports-fleet-auto-scaling-to-help-you-optimize-your-streaming-costs/ AWS Database Migration Service using S3 as a Target: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/aws-database-migration-service-adds-amazon-simple-storage-service-s3-as-a-target/