In this podcast episode, learn about confidential computing and data privacy in the context of AWS services. The hosts - Shai, Anton, and Arindam, who are AWS Solution Architects, provide insights into AWS's security technologies and operational practices that exceed customer standards for confidential computing and data privacy.The podcast delves into the Nitro system and its protection categories for confidential computing, as well as AWS Nitro Enclaves - a feature that provides isolation for sensitive data and applications. The hosts discuss the many use cases of Nitro enclaves, including cryptographic attestation capabilities, and explore how it can be used in various blockchain use cases, containerization, and Kubernetes. Additionally, the podcast provides resources for listeners to learn more about Nitro enclaves.Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the importance of keeping customers' workloads secure and confidential. They provide insights into how confidential computing can be used in blockchain networks and modern advanced enterprise architectures.Overall, the podcast provides a comprehensive understanding of confidential computing and how it can be implemented for enhanced security. It's a valuable resource for those interested in AWS services and data privacy.Key Moments:[00:02:30] Confidential computing explained.[00:05:13] AWS Nitro system.[00:10:36] Cryptographic attestation.[00:13:39] Nitro Enclave's use cases.[00:18:11] Cryptographic attestation capabilities.[00:21:11] Bridging multiple blockchain chains.[00:26:41] Nitro enclaves workshop.Links:Workshop: https://nitro-enclaves.workshop.aws/en/ (also available in Japanese)Workshop (“one module if you only have 30 min”): https://nitro-enclaves.workshop.aws/en/my-first-enclave/cryptographic-attestation.htmlDocs https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-enclave.htmlBlogs:Confidential computing: an AWS perspective: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/confidential-computing-an-aws-perspective/Announcement Nitro Enclave: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-isolated-ec2-environments-to-process-confidential-data/Nitro Enclaves + windows: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-aws-nitro-enclaves-on-microsoft-windows/Nitro Enclaves + BlockchainPart 1: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-1-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/Part 2: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-2-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/Part 3: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-3-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/GitHub Samples:https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-cli https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-sdk-c https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-acm https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-nitro-enclaves-certificate-manager-sampleEKS + Nitro Enclaveshttps://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-k8s-device-plugin https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-with-k8s https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/kubernetes.htmlVideo:Confidential computing with AWS compute - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRBOHYgHc0

In this podcast episode, learn about confidential computing and data privacy in the context of AWS services. The hosts - Shai, Anton, and Arindam, who are AWS Solution Architects, provide insights into AWS's security technologies and operational practices that exceed customer standards for confidential computing and data privacy. The podcast delves into the Nitro system and its protection categories for confidential computing, as well as AWS Nitro Enclaves - a feature that provides isolation for sensitive data and applications. The hosts discuss the many use cases of Nitro enclaves, including cryptographic attestation capabilities, and explore how it can be used in various blockchain use cases, containerization, and Kubernetes. Additionally, the podcast provides resources for listeners to learn more about Nitro enclaves. Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the importance of keeping customers' workloads secure and confidential. They provide insights into how confidential computing can be used in blockchain networks and modern advanced enterprise architectures. Overall, the podcast provides a comprehensive understanding of confidential computing and how it can be implemented for enhanced security. It's a valuable resource for those interested in AWS services and data privacy. Key Moments: [00:02:30] Confidential computing explained. [00:05:13] AWS Nitro system. [00:10:36] Cryptographic attestation. [00:13:39] Nitro Enclave's use cases. [00:18:11] Cryptographic attestation capabilities. [00:21:11] Bridging multiple blockchain chains. [00:26:41] Nitro enclaves workshop. Links: Workshop: https://nitro-enclaves.workshop.aws/en/ (also available in Japanese) Workshop (“one module if you only have 30 min”): https://nitro-enclaves.workshop.aws/en/my-first-enclave/cryptographic-attestation.html Docs <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-enclave.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-enclave.html</a> Blogs: Confidential computing: an AWS perspective: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/confidential-computing-an-aws-perspective/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/confidential-computing-an-aws-perspective/</a> Announcement Nitro Enclave: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-isolated-ec2-environments-to-process-confidential-data/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-isolated-ec2-environments-to-process-confidential-data/</a> Nitro Enclaves + windows: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-aws-nitro-enclaves-on-microsoft-windows/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-aws-nitro-enclaves-on-microsoft-windows/</a> Nitro Enclaves + Blockchain Part 1: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-1-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-1-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/</a> Part 2: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-2-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-2-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/</a> Part 3: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-3-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/part-3-aws-nitro-enclaves-for-secure-blockchain-key-management/</a> GitHub Samples: <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-cli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-cli</a> <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-sdk-c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-sdk-c</a> <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-acm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-acm</a> <a href="https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-nitro-enclaves-certificate-manager-sample" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-nitro-enclaves-certificate-manager-sample</a> EKS + Nitro Enclaves <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-k8s-device-plugin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-k8s-device-plugin</a> <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-with-k8s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-with-k8s</a> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/kubernetes.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/kubernetes.html</a> Video: Confidential computing with AWS compute - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRBOHYgHc0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRBOHYgHc0</a>

Episode 90 - Confidential Compute on AWS

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we talk briefly about container basics, difference between VMs and containers, and how customers are leveraging containers to modernize their legacy workloads. We look at different orchestration options for building modern applications and talk about various AWS tools that could be used. We cover use cases for automated infrastructure provisioning and integrating with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We cover Karpenter from autoscaling perspective and few new feature releases in containers space and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere support on bare metal and also discuss security best practices at high level.Resources:•	Hands On workshop for Amazon EKS - ecsworkshop.com/•	Live streams and videos featuring AWS Container Services and demos - www.youtube.com/c/ContainersfromtheCouch/featured•	Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide - aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/•	Architecting Amazon EKS workload for PCI DSS compliance white-paper -d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/arch…s-compliance.pdf•	Architecting Amazon EKS workload for HIPAA compliance white-paper - docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/lat…amazon-eks.html•	Amazon EKS Blueprints Quick Start *-*aws-quickstart.github.io/cdk-eks-blueprints/•	Karpenenter Documentation - karpenter.sh/Speakers:Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/Arindam Chatterji - Senior Solution Architect - US SMB www.linkedin.com/in/arinchat/Prasad Shetty - Senior Solution Architect - US NE Enterprise www.linkedin.com/in/prasadshetty3/

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we talk briefly about container basics, difference between VMs and containers, and how customers are leveraging containers to modernize their legacy workloads. We look at different orchestration options for building modern applications and talk about various AWS tools that could be used. We cover use cases for automated infrastructure provisioning and integrating with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We cover Karpenter from autoscaling perspective and few new feature releases in containers space and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere support on bare metal and also discuss security best practices at high level. Resources: •	Hands On workshop for Amazon EKS - <a href="http://ecsworkshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ecsworkshop.com/</a> •	Live streams and videos featuring AWS Container Services and demos - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/ContainersfromtheCouch/featured" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/c/ContainersfromtheCouch/featured</a> •	Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide - <a href="http://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/</a> •	Architecting Amazon EKS workload for PCI DSS compliance white-paper -<a href="http://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/arch…s-compliance.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/arch…s-compliance.pdf</a> •	Architecting Amazon EKS workload for HIPAA compliance white-paper - <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/lat…amazon-eks.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/lat…amazon-eks.html</a> •	Amazon EKS Blueprints Quick Start *-*<a href="http://aws-quickstart.github.io/cdk-eks-blueprints/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aws-quickstart.github.io/cdk-eks-blueprints/</a> •	Karpenenter Documentation - <a href="http://karpenter.sh/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">karpenter.sh/</a> Speakers: Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/</a> Arindam Chatterji - Senior Solution Architect - US SMB <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/arinchat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/arinchat/</a> Prasad Shetty - Senior Solution Architect - US NE Enterprise <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/prasadshetty3/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/prasadshetty3/</a>

Episode 89 - Containers on AWS

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we talk about history of AWS Graviton, difference between ARM and x86, and how to get workloads running on AWS Graviton. We then talk about how to assess your application for ARM compatibility. First understanding the type of application, follow by the features and libraries used, then onto the components of the application like the database.  Resources:- AWS Graviton Public Page - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/- .NET on ARM - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/build-and-deploy-net-web-applications-to-arm-powered-aws-graviton-2-amazon-ecs-clusters-using-aws-cdk/- ARM for Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/key-considerations-in-moving-to-graviton2-for-amazon-rds-and-amazon-aurora-databases/- Transitioning to ARM Best Practices: https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-getting-started/blob/main/transition-guide.mdSpeakers:Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/Matthew Cline - Senior Solutions Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbcline/Muhammad Mansoor - Senior Solutions Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmansoor/

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we talk about history of AWS Graviton, difference between ARM and x86, and how to get workloads running on AWS Graviton. We then talk about how to assess your application for ARM compatibility. First understanding the type of application, follow by the features and libraries used, then onto the components of the application like the database. Resources: - AWS Graviton Public Page - <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/</a> - .NET on ARM - <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/build-and-deploy-net-web-applications-to-arm-powered-aws-graviton-2-amazon-ecs-clusters-using-aws-cdk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/build-and-deploy-net-web-applications-to-arm-powered-aws-graviton-2-amazon-ecs-clusters-using-aws-cdk/</a> - ARM for Databases: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/key-considerations-in-moving-to-graviton2-for-amazon-rds-and-amazon-aurora-databases/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/key-considerations-in-moving-to-graviton2-for-amazon-rds-and-amazon-aurora-databases/</a> - Transitioning to ARM Best Practices: <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-getting-started/blob/main/transition-guide.md" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-getting-started/blob/main/transition-guide.md</a> Speakers: Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/</a> Matthew Cline - Senior Solutions Architect <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbcline/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbcline/</a> Muhammad Mansoor - Senior Solutions Architect <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmansoor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmansoor/</a>

Episode 88 - AWS Graviton

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we talk about how leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) can help you accelerate your digital transformation efforts and business outcomes. We highlight the potential value that cloud transformation can bring to organizations, identify some of the key challenges that organizations may face along their journey, and discuss how the AWS CAF can help you overcome those.We unpack the key components of the AWS CAF, including 4 categories of business outcomes, 4 transformation domains, 6 perspectives, 47 foundational capabilities, and 4 incremental &amp; iterative transformation phases that the AWS CAF recommends.And finally, we talk about the AWS CAF Envisioning and Alignment workshops and how they can be leveraged to help you identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, assess your organizational cloud readiness, and evolve your transformation roadmap.Speakers:•	Shai Perednik - (www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/) - Global Tech Lead – Blockchain, AWS•	Dr. Saša Baškarada (www.linkedin.com/in/baskarada/) - Worldwide Lead, AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, AWS•	Jason Turse (www.linkedin.com/in/turse-262/) - Senior Practice Manager, Advisory (Defense), AWSResources:•	AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) eBook https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-caf-ebook.pdf •	An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html •	AWS CAF Public Page https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/ •	AWS CAF Whitepaper - Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X9DBL4V/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_49MV5ZHXJBAAXRNS4VZ9

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we talk about how leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) can help you accelerate your digital transformation efforts and business outcomes. We highlight the potential value that cloud transformation can bring to organizations, identify some of the key challenges that organizations may face along their journey, and discuss how the AWS CAF can help you overcome those. We unpack the key components of the AWS CAF, including 4 categories of business outcomes, 4 transformation domains, 6 perspectives, 47 foundational capabilities, and 4 incremental &amp; iterative transformation phases that the AWS CAF recommends. And finally, we talk about the AWS CAF Envisioning and Alignment workshops and how they can be leveraged to help you identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, assess your organizational cloud readiness, and evolve your transformation roadmap. Speakers: •	Shai Perednik - (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/</a>) - Global Tech Lead – Blockchain, AWS •	Dr. Saša Baškarada (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/baskarada/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/baskarada/</a>) - Worldwide Lead, AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, AWS •	Jason Turse (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/turse-262/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/turse-262/</a>) - Senior Practice Manager, Advisory (Defense), AWS Resources: •	AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) eBook <a href="https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-caf-ebook.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-caf-ebook.pdf</a> •	An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html</a> •	AWS CAF Public Page <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/</a> •	AWS CAF Whitepaper - Kindle Edition <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X9DBL4V/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_49MV5ZHXJBAAXRNS4VZ9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X9DBL4V/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_49MV5ZHXJBAAXRNS4VZ9</a>

Episode 87 - Cloud Adoption Framework v3.0

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we start the show by talking about foundations - an overview of Amazon EventBridge and how it is different from Amazon CloudWatch Events. Then we talk about some of the features such as Archive and Replay Events, Schema Registry, Global Endpoints, and API Destinations.Finally, we dive into architecture patterns to touch on the need to spend time modeling your logical architecture to get a good foundation for your event-driven architecture and explored event bus topologies and best practices.SpeakersShai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - BlockchainCheryl Joseph - Solutions Architect, AWSStephen Liedig - Principal SA - Serverless, AWSResources*Amazon EventBridge resource policy samples*https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-eventbridge-resource-policy-samples*AWS re:Invent 2020 session* Building event-driven applications with Amazon EventBridge (https://youtu.be/Wk0FoXTUEjo)*Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge*https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-global-endpoints-for-amazon-eventbridge/*ANZ Summit: Design event-driven integrations using Amazon EventBridge (Day 2)** AWS Summit regisration (https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/anz/)* Agenda at a glance (https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-Summit-ANZ-2022-Agenda.pdf)Blog Post* Building an event-driven application with Amazon EventBridge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-an-event-driven-application-with-amazon-eventbridge/)

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we start the show by talking about foundations - an overview of Amazon EventBridge and how it is different from Amazon CloudWatch Events. Then we talk about some of the features such as Archive and Replay Events, Schema Registry, Global Endpoints, and API Destinations. Finally, we dive into architecture patterns to touch on the need to spend time modeling your logical architecture to get a good foundation for your event-driven architecture and explored event bus topologies and best practices. Speakers Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain Cheryl Joseph - Solutions Architect, AWS Stephen Liedig - Principal SA - Serverless, AWS Resources *Amazon EventBridge resource policy samples* <a href="https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-eventbridge-resource-policy-samples" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-eventbridge-resource-policy-samples</a> *AWS re:Invent 2020 session* Building event-driven applications with Amazon EventBridge (<a href="https://youtu.be/Wk0FoXTUEjo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Wk0FoXTUEjo</a>) *Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge* <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-global-endpoints-for-amazon-eventbridge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-global-endpoints-for-amazon-eventbridge/</a> *ANZ Summit: Design event-driven integrations using Amazon EventBridge (Day 2)* * AWS Summit regisration (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/anz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/anz/</a>) * Agenda at a glance (<a href="https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-Summit-ANZ-2022-Agenda.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-Summit-ANZ-2022-Agenda.pdf</a>) Blog Post * Building an event-driven application with Amazon EventBridge (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-an-event-driven-application-with-amazon-eventbridge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-an-event-driven-application-with-amazon-eventbridge/</a>)

Episode 86 - Amazon EventBridge

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. I interview two Amazon EC2 Mac Specialists, Muhammad and Scott, who help us deep dive into the depths of Amazon EC2 and supporting services and features.We start the show by setting foundations as we talk about the single tenancy model and how that relates to billing. We then discuss the differences between instances and hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage as well as building a CI/CD pipeline with Amazon EC2 MAC for your build servers.We wrap that all up with some use cases we’ve heard and by looking at where customers should start their Amazon EC2 Mac journey.SpeakersShai Perednik - Senior Solutions Architect, AWSMuhammad Mansoor - Senior Solutions Architect, AWSScott Malki - Senior EC2/Graviton Specialist, AWSAWS Events:AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Innovate – AI/ML Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/ AWS Events and Webinars - http://aws.amazon.com/events/ ResourcesUse Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build &amp; Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. I interview two Amazon EC2 Mac Specialists, Muhammad and Scott, who help us deep dive into the depths of Amazon EC2 and supporting services and features. We start the show by setting foundations as we talk about the single tenancy model and how that relates to billing. We then discuss the differences between instances and hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage as well as building a CI/CD pipeline with Amazon EC2 MAC for your build servers. We wrap that all up with some use cases we’ve heard and by looking at where customers should start their Amazon EC2 Mac journey. Speakers Shai Perednik - Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Muhammad Mansoor - Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Scott Malki - Senior EC2/Graviton Specialist, AWS AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/</a> AWS Innovate – AI/ML Edition <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/</a> AWS Events and Webinars - <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/events/</a> Resources Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build &amp; Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/</a>

Episode 85 - Amazon EC2 Mac Special

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). I interview a blockchain specialist - Forrest, who help us deep dive into the depths of blockchain technologies and terminologies.We start the show by setting foundations, diving into cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and smart contracts before walking through the difference between layer 1, layer 2, and sidechains.We then pivot the discussion to private and public blockchain, Hyperledger as well as Ethereum. We close out this segment by answering some of the frequently asked questions - “Is there only one blockchain? Why do we need multiple blockchains?” We also discuss about blockchain versus databases and how to decide between Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB. Finally, we wrap up the show with some exciting use cases and share how you should start your blockchain journey. SpeakersShai Perednik - Sr. Solutions Architect, AWSForrest Colyer - Blockchain Specialist Solutions Architect, AWSAWS Events:AWS Innovate – Data Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/data/   AWS Events and Webinars - http://aws.amazon.com/events/ Customer storiesHow Contura Energy built a letter of credit application on Amazon Managed Blockchain https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-contura-energy-built-a-letter-of-credit-application-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/Enterprise solutions with blockchain: Use cases from Nestlé, Sony Music, and Workday https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/Enterprise_solutions_with_blockchain_Use_cases_from_Nestle_Sony_Music_and_Workday_BLC204.pdf Nestlé brings supply chain transparency with Amazon Managed Blockchain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vPvZ0-7dY Amazon Managed Blockchain Customers https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/customers/ ResourcesGetting started with the Amazon QLDB console  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/getting-started.htmlGet Started Creating a Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Network Using Amazon Managed Blockchain  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/latest/hyperledger-fabric-dev/managed-blockchain-get-started-tutorial.htmlDeploy an Ethereum node on Amazon Managed Blockchain https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/deploy-an-ethereum-node-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/Building a serverless blockchain application with Amazon Managed Blockchain https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-a-serverless-blockchain-application-with-amazon-managed-blockchain/Integrate Amazon Managed Blockchain identities with Amazon Cognito https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/integrate-amazon-managed-blockchain-identities-with-amazon-cognito/Tracking activity in Amazon Managed Blockchain with Amazon CloudWatch Logs https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/tracking-activity-in-amazon-managed-blockchain-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/Automating Hyperledger Fabric chaincode deployment on Amazon Managed Blockchain using AWS CodePipeline https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/automating-hyperledger-fabric-chaincode-deployment-on-amazon-managed-blockchain-using-aws-codepipeline/

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). I interview a blockchain specialist - Forrest, who help us deep dive into the depths of blockchain technologies and terminologies. We start the show by setting foundations, diving into cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and smart contracts before walking through the difference between layer 1, layer 2, and sidechains. We then pivot the discussion to private and public blockchain, Hyperledger as well as Ethereum. We close out this segment by answering some of the frequently asked questions - “Is there only one blockchain? Why do we need multiple blockchains?” We also discuss about blockchain versus databases and how to decide between Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB. Finally, we wrap up the show with some exciting use cases and share how you should start your blockchain journey. Speakers Shai Perednik - Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS Forrest Colyer - Blockchain Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS AWS Events: AWS Innovate – Data Edition <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/data/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/data/</a> AWS Events and Webinars - <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/events/</a> Customer stories How Contura Energy built a letter of credit application on Amazon Managed Blockchain <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-contura-energy-built-a-letter-of-credit-application-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-contura-energy-built-a-letter-of-credit-application-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/</a> Enterprise solutions with blockchain: Use cases from Nestlé, Sony Music, and Workday <a href="https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/Enterprise_solutions_with_blockchain_Use_cases_from_Nestle_Sony_Music_and_Workday_BLC204.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/Enterprise_solutions_with_blockchain_Use_cases_from_Nestle_Sony_Music_and_Workday_BLC204.pdf</a> Nestlé brings supply chain transparency with Amazon Managed Blockchain <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vPvZ0-7dY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vPvZ0-7dY</a> Amazon Managed Blockchain Customers <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/customers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/customers/</a> Resources Getting started with the Amazon QLDB console <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/getting-started.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/getting-started.html</a> Get Started Creating a Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Network Using Amazon Managed Blockchain <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/latest/hyperledger-fabric-dev/managed-blockchain-get-started-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/latest/hyperledger-fabric-dev/managed-blockchain-get-started-tutorial.html</a> Deploy an Ethereum node on Amazon Managed Blockchain <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/deploy-an-ethereum-node-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/deploy-an-ethereum-node-on-amazon-managed-blockchain/</a> Building a serverless blockchain application with Amazon Managed Blockchain <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-a-serverless-blockchain-application-with-amazon-managed-blockchain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-a-serverless-blockchain-application-with-amazon-managed-blockchain/</a> Integrate Amazon Managed Blockchain identities with Amazon Cognito <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/integrate-amazon-managed-blockchain-identities-with-amazon-cognito/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/integrate-amazon-managed-blockchain-identities-with-amazon-cognito/</a> Tracking activity in Amazon Managed Blockchain with Amazon CloudWatch Logs <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/tracking-activity-in-amazon-managed-blockchain-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/tracking-activity-in-amazon-managed-blockchain-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/</a> Automating Hyperledger Fabric chaincode deployment on Amazon Managed Blockchain using AWS CodePipeline <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/automating-hyperledger-fabric-chaincode-deployment-on-amazon-managed-blockchain-using-aws-codepipeline/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/automating-hyperledger-fabric-chaincode-deployment-on-amazon-managed-blockchain-using-aws-codepipeline/</a>

Episode 84 - Blockchain Special

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we took a journey out the edge, and gave you an in-depth look in to a new product that we have released to market, CloudFront Function. I interviewed 2 special guests from our CloudFront service team, David Brown and Raji Sundararajan who gave me the low down on the major feature release.  We started the show setting down a foundation of what is Edge Computing, how Edge Computing is changing modern architectures and some of the shortcomings customers face with Lambda @ Edge before introducing CloudFront Functions CloudFront Functions, which is a feature of Amazon CloudFront, enables you to write lightweight functions in JavaScript for high-scale, latency-sensitive CDN customizations. CloudFront Functions can manipulate the requests and responses that flow through CloudFront, perform basic authentication and authorization, generate HTTP responses at the edge and more.I then wore that hat of you, our customer and spend the better half of the show in a Q&amp;A session with Raji and David to which we cover patterns, anti patterns, performance, the developer experience and more.Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSDavid Brown - Sr. Product Manager, Cloudfront Service TeamRaji Sundararajan - Software Development Manager, CloudFront Service Team

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we took a journey out the edge, and gave you an in-depth look in to a new product that we have released to market, CloudFront Function. I interviewed 2 special guests from our CloudFront service team, David Brown and Raji Sundararajan who gave me the low down on the major feature release. We started the show setting down a foundation of what is Edge Computing, how Edge Computing is changing modern architectures and some of the shortcomings customers face with Lambda @ Edge before introducing CloudFront Functions CloudFront Functions, which is a feature of Amazon CloudFront, enables you to write lightweight functions in JavaScript for high-scale, latency-sensitive CDN customizations. CloudFront Functions can manipulate the requests and responses that flow through CloudFront, perform basic authentication and authorization, generate HTTP responses at the edge and more. I then wore that hat of you, our customer and spend the better half of the show in a Q&amp;A session with Raji and David to which we cover patterns, anti patterns, performance, the developer experience and more. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS David Brown - Sr. Product Manager, Cloudfront Service Team Raji Sundararajan - Software Development Manager, CloudFront Service Team

Episode 83 - CloudFront Functions Edge Computing Special

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we start with an introduction of containers and explain the many terms we often hear about them.We then pivot and discuss why the industry is adopting containers, its benefits, and how you can get started by either using your local machine, single board computer, or an Amazon technology. From images through to Docker files, this episode will help you get started on your containers journey.We dive into orchestration, talk about when to use containers and serverless, and close off the show with containers development tools and show you how you would deploy and manage them in AWS.We just scratched the surface on the tooling we covered and suggest our listeners take a read through some of the links below:AWS glossary - AWS General Reference (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html)Glossary | Docker Documentation (https://docs.docker.com/glossary/)Container OrchestrationAmazon ECS vs Amazon EKS: making sense of AWS container services | Con... (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-making-sense-of-aws-container-services/)Lambda Containers: New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News Blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/)CoPilotDeveloping an application based on multiple microservices using AWS Co... (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/developing-an-application-based-on-multiple-microservices-using-the-aws-copilot-and-aws-fargate/)AWS Copilot is now generally available | Containers (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-copilot-is-now-generally-available/)ECSAmazon ECS developer tools overview - Amazon Elastic Container Service (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-developer-tools.html#developer-tools-dockercli)Tutorial: Creating a Cluster with an EC2 Task Using the Amazon ECS CLI... (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-cli-tutorial-ec2.html)EKSCTLThe eksctl command line utility - Amazon EKS (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eksctl.html)MISCA Docker Tutorial for Beginners (https://docker-curriculum.com/)Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSShai Perednik - Solutions Architect, AWS

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we start with an introduction of containers and explain the many terms we often hear about them. We then pivot and discuss why the industry is adopting containers, its benefits, and how you can get started by either using your local machine, single board computer, or an Amazon technology. From images through to Docker files, this episode will help you get started on your containers journey. We dive into orchestration, talk about when to use containers and serverless, and close off the show with containers development tools and show you how you would deploy and manage them in AWS. We just scratched the surface on the tooling we covered and suggest our listeners take a read through some of the links below: AWS glossary - AWS General Reference (<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html</a>) Glossary | Docker Documentation (<a href="https://docs.docker.com/glossary/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.docker.com/glossary/</a>) Container Orchestration Amazon ECS vs Amazon EKS: making sense of AWS container services | Con... (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-making-sense-of-aws-container-services/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-making-sense-of-aws-container-services/</a>) Lambda Containers: New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News Blog (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/</a>) CoPilot Developing an application based on multiple microservices using AWS Co... (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/developing-an-application-based-on-multiple-microservices-using-the-aws-copilot-and-aws-fargate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/developing-an-application-based-on-multiple-microservices-using-the-aws-copilot-and-aws-fargate/</a>) AWS Copilot is now generally available | Containers (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-copilot-is-now-generally-available/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-copilot-is-now-generally-available/</a>) ECS Amazon ECS developer tools overview - Amazon Elastic Container Service (<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-developer-tools.html#developer-tools-dockercli" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-developer-tools.html#developer-tools-dockercli</a>) Tutorial: Creating a Cluster with an EC2 Task Using the Amazon ECS CLI... (<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-cli-tutorial-ec2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-cli-tutorial-ec2.html</a>) EKSCTL The eksctl command line utility - Amazon EKS (<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eksctl.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eksctl.html</a>) MISC A Docker Tutorial for Beginners (<a href="https://docker-curriculum.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docker-curriculum.com/</a>) Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Shai Perednik - Solutions Architect, AWS

Episode 82 - Getting Started With Containers

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we close out our four parts of AWS re:Invent 2020 series with an AI/ML special. We cover Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon QuickSight, and some brand new services.We talk about AWS HealthLake and how it makes sense of health data. AWS customers can use Kendra’s Google Drive connector to ingest and manage content from Google Docs and Google Slides.We introduce AWS Panorama which will help improve your operations with computer vision at the edge. We continue with a raft of new Amazon SageMaker updates:•	Amazon SageMaker Feature Store - A fully managed repository for machine learning features•	Amazon SageMaker Clarify - Bias Detection and Explainability•	Amazon SageMaker Debugger - Optimize ML models with real-time monitoring of training metrics and system resources•	Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor - Detect drift in model quality, model bias, and feature importance•	Amazon SageMaker Pipelines - First purpose-built CI/CD service for machine learning•	Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart - Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning SolutionsBefore wrapping out, we share two more AI/ML updates - Amazon EMR Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) for applications written in R, Python, Scala, PySpark, and Jupyter notebooks now gives you the option to deploy on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Amazon QuickSight allows you to ask Natural Language Query (NLQ) about your data and get answers in seconds.Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSShai Perednik - Solutions Architect, AWSPallavi Nargund - Solutions Architect, AWS

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we close out our four parts of AWS re:Invent 2020 series with an AI/ML special. We cover Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon QuickSight, and some brand new services. We talk about AWS HealthLake and how it makes sense of health data. AWS customers can use Kendra’s Google Drive connector to ingest and manage content from Google Docs and Google Slides. We introduce AWS Panorama which will help improve your operations with computer vision at the edge. We continue with a raft of new Amazon SageMaker updates: •	Amazon SageMaker Feature Store - A fully managed repository for machine learning features •	Amazon SageMaker Clarify - Bias Detection and Explainability •	Amazon SageMaker Debugger - Optimize ML models with real-time monitoring of training metrics and system resources •	Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor - Detect drift in model quality, model bias, and feature importance •	Amazon SageMaker Pipelines - First purpose-built CI/CD service for machine learning •	Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart - Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions Before wrapping out, we share two more AI/ML updates - Amazon EMR Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) for applications written in R, Python, Scala, PySpark, and Jupyter notebooks now gives you the option to deploy on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Amazon QuickSight allows you to ask Natural Language Query (NLQ) about your data and get answers in seconds. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Shai Perednik - Solutions Architect, AWS Pallavi Nargund - Solutions Architect, AWS

Episode 81 - re:Invent 2020 - AI/ML Special

Co-hosted by AWS Solution Architects and Evangelists, Shai Perednik, Dean Samuels and guest hosts!

I like to run podcasts while I am programming.  AWS is a busy place, so I appreciate a podcast which saves me the trouble of reading AWS blogs and product announcements.  The gushy delivery and strange vocabulary (i.e. &#34;amy&#34; for AMI) can be difficult to endure, but the content is usually worthwhile (although I would keep the skeptic filters in place).  Did you know Dennis Ritchie wrote LINUX?  Hahaha...

Fair source of news; painful to listen to

AWS TechChat

In this episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we perform a tech round-up from July to August of 2020. We start the show with containers, and we talk about AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK) which means you can leverage AWS services directly in your Kubernetes applications.Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports UDP load balancing with the Network Load Balancer (NLB) running on Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS is now included in Compute Savings Plans. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now launches the new Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia Amazon Machine Image (AMI) making it easier for customers to run Inferentia based containers on Amazon ECS.Compute wise, Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips are now available in additional AWS regions and EC2Launch is now at v2 with a range of new features, including renaming of the administrator account. AWS Graviton2 based instances make their way into more AWS regions. They can now be consumed by Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems.Amazon Braket is now generally available. It provides a development environment for you to explore and build quantum algorithms, test them on quantum circuit simulators, and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.We then introduce a new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume type - Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) which fits in between io1 and General Purpose SSD (gp2) based volumes. It has 99.999% of durability and up to 64,000 IOPS per EBS volume.On the development front, AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing. Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services, meaning you no longer need to proxy through code as well as Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs.Amazon Lightsail now offers content delivery network (CDN) distributions to accelerate content delivery. Lightsail CDN, which is backed by Amazon CloudFront offers three fixed-price data plans, including an introductory plan that's free for 12 months. Amazon CloudFront adds additional geolocation headers for more granular geotagging, caching, and origin request policies providing more options to control and configure headers, query strings, and cookies that can be used to compute the cache key or forwarded to your origin.Before closing out, we talk about AWS Glue version 2.0 which has some sizeable changes around functionality, cost, and speed.Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSGabe Hollombe - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS

In this episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we perform a tech round-up from July to August of 2020. We start the show with containers, and we talk about AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK) which means you can leverage AWS services directly in your Kubernetes applications. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports UDP load balancing with the Network Load Balancer (NLB) running on Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS is now included in Compute Savings Plans. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now launches the new Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia Amazon Machine Image (AMI) making it easier for customers to run Inferentia based containers on Amazon ECS. Compute wise, Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips are now available in additional AWS regions and EC2Launch is now at v2 with a range of new features, including renaming of the administrator account. AWS Graviton2 based instances make their way into more AWS regions. They can now be consumed by Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. Amazon Braket is now generally available. It provides a development environment for you to explore and build quantum algorithms, test them on quantum circuit simulators, and run them on different quantum hardware technologies. We then introduce a new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume type - Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) which fits in between io1 and General Purpose SSD (gp2) based volumes. It has 99.999% of durability and up to 64,000 IOPS per EBS volume. On the development front, AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing. Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services, meaning you no longer need to proxy through code as well as Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs. Amazon Lightsail now offers content delivery network (CDN) distributions to accelerate content delivery. Lightsail CDN, which is backed by Amazon CloudFront offers three fixed-price data plans, including an introductory plan that's free for 12 months. Amazon CloudFront adds additional geolocation headers for more granular geotagging, caching, and origin request policies providing more options to control and configure headers, query strings, and cookies that can be used to compute the cache key or forwarded to your origin. Before closing out, we talk about AWS Glue version 2.0 which has some sizeable changes around functionality, cost, and speed. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Gabe Hollombe - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS

Episode 74 - July / August Tech Round-up

Join Dr. Pete and Shane as they cover the core concepts on how you can get a website and email service up and running on AWS. In part 1 of this two-part series, they lay a technical foundation and cover domain registration, and DNS in general with Amazon Route 53, an awesome awesome DNS service. They then speak about web-hosting and touched on the various options you have in AWS before transitioning to MX records and Amazon WorkMail for email hosting.

Episode 44 - Getting Started On AWS - Part 1#2

In this event-driven themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete started the show talking about event-driven architectures. The event-driven architecture is an architectural pattern that orchestrates behavior around the production, detection, and consumption of events as well as the responses they evoke.They then moved on to AWS Lambda, which is the product that made the event-driven architecture pattern popular. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events, which is why it is suited for event-driven architectures and as we learned, has 24 event sources that can invoke an AWS Lambda function.Getting into the meat of the show, they pivoted to Single-Page Apps (SPA) and Event Forking, which are two patterns that are commonly used to exploit the benefits that event-driven architecture brings.Let us not forget the AWS Event Forking Pipeline, a suite of open-source nested applications based on the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), which you can deploy directly from the AWS Event Fork Pipelines suite.Lastly, they realized event-driven architecture is a bit of a paradigm shift in thinking, so they covered the skills needed and how you can get started on the event-driven architectures journey.Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSPeter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWSResources:Amazon CloudFront Pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/Amazon CloudFront Key Features https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/AWS Global Infrastructure https://infrastructure.awsAWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/Amazon SNS Subscription Filter Policies https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-subscription-filter-policies.html Nested Applications https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-template-nested-applications.htmlAWS Serverless Application Model https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/AWS Event Fork Pipelines suite https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications?query=aws-event-fork-pipelinesAmazon Simple Notification Service https://aws.amazon.com/sns/ Getting Started with AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/getting-started/AWS Events:AWSome Day Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/  AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this event-driven themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete started the show talking about event-driven architectures. The event-driven architecture is an architectural pattern that orchestrates behavior around the production, detection, and consumption of events as well as the responses they evoke. They then moved on to AWS Lambda, which is the product that made the event-driven architecture pattern popular. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events, which is why it is suited for event-driven architectures and as we learned, has 24 event sources that can invoke an AWS Lambda function. Getting into the meat of the show, they pivoted to Single-Page Apps (SPA) and Event Forking, which are two patterns that are commonly used to exploit the benefits that event-driven architecture brings. Let us not forget the AWS Event Forking Pipeline, a suite of open-source nested applications based on the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), which you can deploy directly from the AWS Event Fork Pipelines suite. Lastly, they realized event-driven architecture is a bit of a paradigm shift in thinking, so they covered the skills needed and how you can get started on the event-driven architectures journey. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS Resources: Amazon CloudFront Pricing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/</a> Amazon CloudFront Key Features <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/</a> AWS Global Infrastructure https://infrastructure.aws AWS Lambda <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/</a> Amazon SNS Subscription Filter Policies <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-subscription-filter-policies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-subscription-filter-policies.html</a> Nested Applications <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-template-nested-applications.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-template-nested-applications.html</a> AWS Serverless Application Model <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/</a> AWS Event Fork Pipelines suite <a href="https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications?query=aws-event-fork-pipelines" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications?query=aws-event-fork-pipelines</a> Amazon Simple Notification Service <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sns/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/sns/</a> Getting Started with AWS Lambda <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/getting-started/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/getting-started/</a> AWS Events: AWSome Day Online Series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/</a> AWS Modern Application Development on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/</a> AWS Innovate on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/</a> AWS re:Invent <a href="https://reinvent.awsevents.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://reinvent.awsevents.com/</a> AWS Events and Webinars <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/</a>

Episode 59 - Event Driven Architecture Special

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete embark on a different style of the show and share with you a lot of updates - over 30 updates and we tackle it like speed dating.We start the show with some updates, there are now an additional 2 AWS regions, Milan in Italy and Cape Town in South Africa. This brings the region count to 24 Regions and 76 Availability Zones.Amazon Guard Duty has a price reduction for the customers who are consuming it on the upper end of the scale, VPC flow log scanning is now 40% cheaper when your logs are more than 10,000GB.Lots of Database engine updates:•	Database engine version updates across almost all engines. Microsoft SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Studio) is now available on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now.•	If you are currently running SSAS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you can now save costs by running SSAS directly on the same Amazon RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database. SSAS is currently available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 in the single-AZ configuration on both the Standard and Enterprise edition.•	NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now is now generally available. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application, available for Windows and macOS that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing.•	Apache Kafka is an option for AWS Database Migration Service and Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service is now available in public preview. Microsoft SQL Server on RDS now supports Read Replicas.Storage updates:•	More nitro based Amazon EC2 systems receive IO performance updates.•	Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now has a Magnetic HDD option which brings storage down to 1.3cents per GB.•	Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems.On Development front:•	AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8.•	Amplify CLI add support for additional AWS Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs.•	AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1.•	Receive notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack, no need to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Glue.•	Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1•	Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0Containers updates:•	AWS Fargate launches platform version 1.4 which brings a raft of improvements.•	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) updates service level agreement to 99.95%.•	Amazon EKS now supports service-linked roles.•	Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS Key Management Service (KMS).•	Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15•	Amazon ECS supports in preview updating placement strategy and constraints for existing Amazon ECS Services without recreating the service.Connect your managed call centre in the cloud:•	Introducing Voicemail for Amazon Connect.•	Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF.Other updates:•	New versions of Elastic Search available for Amazon Elastic Search.•	AWS DeepComposer is now shipping from Amazon.comSpeakers:Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSPeter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWSAWS Events:AWS Summit Online https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/ AWSome Day Online Conference https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/   AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete embark on a different style of the show and share with you a lot of updates - over 30 updates and we tackle it like speed dating. We start the show with some updates, there are now an additional 2 AWS regions, Milan in Italy and Cape Town in South Africa. This brings the region count to 24 Regions and 76 Availability Zones. Amazon Guard Duty has a price reduction for the customers who are consuming it on the upper end of the scale, VPC flow log scanning is now 40% cheaper when your logs are more than 10,000GB. Lots of Database engine updates: •	Database engine version updates across almost all engines. Microsoft SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Studio) is now available on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now. •	If you are currently running SSAS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you can now save costs by running SSAS directly on the same Amazon RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database. SSAS is currently available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 in the single-AZ configuration on both the Standard and Enterprise edition. •	NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now is now generally available. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application, available for Windows and macOS that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. •	Apache Kafka is an option for AWS Database Migration Service and Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service is now available in public preview. Microsoft SQL Server on RDS now supports Read Replicas. Storage updates: •	More nitro based Amazon EC2 systems receive IO performance updates. •	Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now has a Magnetic HDD option which brings storage down to 1.3cents per GB. •	Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems. On Development front: •	AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8. •	Amplify CLI add support for additional AWS Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs. •	AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1. •	Receive notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack, no need to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Glue. •	Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 •	Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0 Containers updates: •	AWS Fargate launches platform version 1.4 which brings a raft of improvements. •	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) updates service level agreement to 99.95%. •	Amazon EKS now supports service-linked roles. •	Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS Key Management Service (KMS). •	Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15 •	Amazon ECS supports in preview updating placement strategy and constraints for existing Amazon ECS Services without recreating the service. Connect your managed call centre in the cloud: •	Introducing Voicemail for Amazon Connect. •	Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF. Other updates: •	New versions of Elastic Search available for Amazon Elastic Search. •	AWS DeepComposer is now shipping from <a href="http://Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS AWS Events: AWS Summit Online <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/</a> AWSome Day Online Conference <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/</a> AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/</a> AWS Events and Webinars <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/</a>

Episode 70 - March / April Tech Round-up

Dr Pete and Russ deliver another rich round-up of recent AWS news. They cover India's recent AWS Region launch, the latest services and feature updates around EC2 with Elastic Network Adaptor, Run Command, Elastic File System (EFS), Python Serverless Microframework for AWS, as well as Mobile Hub, Lumberyard, Database Migration, Aurora and a whole lot more. They are also joined by a special guest from APAC Certification and Training,Ash Willis. Ash joins our hosts to chat about honing your cloud skills, and best practice tips to get you started on your AWS certification journey. All this and more - be sure to tune in!

Dr Pete and Russ deliver another rich round-up of recent AWS news. They cover India's recent AWS Region launch, the latest services and feature updates around EC2 with Elastic Network Adaptor, Run Command, Elastic File System (EFS), Python Serverless Microframework for AWS, as well as Mobile Hub, Lumberyard, Database Migration, Aurora and a whole lot more. They are also joined by a special guest from APAC Certification and Training, Ash Willis. Ash joins our hosts to chat about honing your cloud skills, and best practice tips to get you started on your AWS certification journey. All this and more - be sure to tune in!

Episode 3 – A round-up of AWS updates, including launch of 35th AZ & AWS certification expert tips

Join Dr Pete and Russ in the latest episode of AWS TechChat as they share security best practices and news around Amazon Rekognition, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ECS, AWS Greengrass, Amazon SQS, AWS CodeStar, AWS Lambda, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon EMR and AWS Deep Learning AMIs.

Episode 18 - Security best practices and latest AWS news

In this Amazon SageMaker themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane &amp; Tom start the show level setting on what Amazon SageMaker is and how and where it slots in to our product offerings.Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly at scale.We introduce Amazon SageMaker AutoPilot, which lets you automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while providing full control and visibility.We then talk about Amazon SageMaker Studio - your machine learning integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. Developers can write code, track experiments, visualize data, and perform debugging and monitoring all within a single, integrated visual interface. As part of Amazon SageMaker Studio, it comes with the new Amazon SageMaker Notebook, which allows developers to spin up machine learning notebooks in seconds, without needing to pick an instance and wait for it to be operational.We also speak about Amazon SageMaker Processing, which lets you easily run your pre-processing, post-processing and model evaluation workloads on fully managed infrastructure. It also has a python SDK.We all like to experiment and try things out, I am talking in the machine learning space here and because of that, we introduce Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor. Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor continuously monitors the quality of Amazon SageMaker machine learning models in production allowing you to set alerts for when there are deviations in the model quality.To close the show out, we mention SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes, which you can access fully managed Amazon SageMaker ML tools and optimizations natively from Kubernetes, specifically for model training, hyperparameter optimization, real-time inference, and batch inference.Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSTom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSResources:AWS re:Invent 2019 Sessions &amp; Podcast Feed http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2019/2019.html Amazon SageMaker https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ Amazon SageMaker Autopilot https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/autopilot/ Amazon SageMaker Studio https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-integrated-development-environment-ide-for-machine-learning/Amazon SageMaker Notebook https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-the-new-amazon-sagemaker-notebook-experience-now-in-preview/Amazon SageMaker Processing https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/Amazon SageMaker Experiments https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-trainings/ Amazon SageMaker Debugger https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor/Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-operators-for-kubernetes/AWS Events:AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/AWS Innovate AIML Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/ AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this Amazon SageMaker themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane &amp; Tom start the show level setting on what Amazon SageMaker is and how and where it slots in to our product offerings. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly at scale. We introduce Amazon SageMaker AutoPilot, which lets you automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while providing full control and visibility. We then talk about Amazon SageMaker Studio - your machine learning integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. Developers can write code, track experiments, visualize data, and perform debugging and monitoring all within a single, integrated visual interface. As part of Amazon SageMaker Studio, it comes with the new Amazon SageMaker Notebook, which allows developers to spin up machine learning notebooks in seconds, without needing to pick an instance and wait for it to be operational. We also speak about Amazon SageMaker Processing, which lets you easily run your pre-processing, post-processing and model evaluation workloads on fully managed infrastructure. It also has a python SDK. We all like to experiment and try things out, I am talking in the machine learning space here and because of that, we introduce Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor. Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor continuously monitors the quality of Amazon SageMaker machine learning models in production allowing you to set alerts for when there are deviations in the model quality. To close the show out, we mention SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes, which you can access fully managed Amazon SageMaker ML tools and optimizations natively from Kubernetes, specifically for model training, hyperparameter optimization, real-time inference, and batch inference. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Tom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: AWS re:Invent 2019 Sessions &amp; Podcast Feed <a href="http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2019/2019.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2019/2019.html</a> Amazon SageMaker <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/</a> Amazon SageMaker Autopilot <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/autopilot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/autopilot/</a> Amazon SageMaker Studio <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-integrated-development-environment-ide-for-machine-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-integrated-development-environment-ide-for-machine-learning/</a> Amazon SageMaker Notebook <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-the-new-amazon-sagemaker-notebook-experience-now-in-preview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-the-new-amazon-sagemaker-notebook-experience-now-in-preview/</a> Amazon SageMaker Processing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/</a> Amazon SageMaker Experiments <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-trainings/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-trainings/</a> Amazon SageMaker Debugger <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/</a> Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor/</a> Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-operators-for-kubernetes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-operators-for-kubernetes/</a> AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/</a> AWS Innovate AIML Edition <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/</a> AWS Events and Webinars <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/</a>

Episode 64 - Amazon SageMaker Special

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane brings along a special guest, AWS Solution Architect and Container expert - Mitch Beaumont. We started the show reminiscing about container history, going way back looking at where we came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave a quick overview of our container offerings - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate. I then posed a fictitious question about container orchestration - what options are available and the pros and cons of each platform.We looked at our container roadmap, so pop that into your favorite search engine (https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap) to get an understanding of what has shipped, what is coming soon and what we are working on.They say, if you are not keeping score it’s just practice, so Mitch ran us through the approaches we need to take as we make the shift through to containers around observability and monitoring before talking through deployment and operational patterns. Lastly, to close out the show, we once again touched base with Firecracker. Firecraker provides hardware-level isolation with the convenience of containers and underpins many of the container and serverless offerings on AWS. It is open-source so feel free to download it, kick the tires and have a play.Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSMitch Beaumont - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSResources:What is a Container? https://aws.amazon.com/containers/Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/AWS Fargate https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/AWS Container Roadmap https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmapElastic Network Interfaces https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.htmlAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) https://aws.amazon.com/eks/Amazon VPC CNI Plugin for Kubernetes Upgrades https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-upgrades.htmlElastic Load Balancing https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/Amazon CloudWatch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/Centralized Container Logging with Fluent Bit https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/centralized-container-logging-fluent-bit/Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate FireLens https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/firelensFirecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecrackerAWS Container DevSecOps Workshop https://container-devsecops.awssecworkshops.com/APAC Online Event:AWSome Day Online series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/AWS Data Analytics &amp; Machine Learning Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/AWS Innovate on-demand aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane brings along a special guest, AWS Solution Architect and Container expert - Mitch Beaumont. We started the show reminiscing about container history, going way back looking at where we came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave a quick overview of our container offerings - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate. I then posed a fictitious question about container orchestration - what options are available and the pros and cons of each platform. We looked at our container roadmap, so pop that into your favorite search engine (<a href="https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap</a>) to get an understanding of what has shipped, what is coming soon and what we are working on. They say, if you are not keeping score it’s just practice, so Mitch ran us through the approaches we need to take as we make the shift through to containers around observability and monitoring before talking through deployment and operational patterns. Lastly, to close out the show, we once again touched base with Firecracker. Firecraker provides hardware-level isolation with the convenience of containers and underpins many of the container and serverless offerings on AWS. It is open-source so feel free to download it, kick the tires and have a play. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Mitch Beaumont - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: What is a Container? <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/containers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/containers/</a> Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/</a> AWS Fargate <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/</a> AWS Container Roadmap <a href="https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap</a> Elastic Network Interfaces <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html</a> Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/eks/</a> Amazon VPC CNI Plugin for Kubernetes Upgrades <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-upgrades.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-upgrades.html</a> Elastic Load Balancing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/</a> Amazon CloudWatch <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/</a> Centralized Container Logging with Fluent Bit <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/centralized-container-logging-fluent-bit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/centralized-container-logging-fluent-bit/</a> Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate FireLens <a href="https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/firelens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/firelens</a> Firecracker <a href="https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker</a> AWS Container DevSecOps Workshop <a href="https://container-devsecops.awssecworkshops.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://container-devsecops.awssecworkshops.com/</a> APAC Online Event: AWSome Day Online series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/</a> AWS Data Analytics &amp; Machine Learning Online Series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/</a> AWS Builders Online Series on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/</a> AWS Innovate on-demand <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/</a>

Episode 55 - Container Special

Dr Pete and Shane are back in the latest episode of AWS TechChat.  In this episode we'll be doing a deep dive on database options on AWS. So for all your DBA's out there today, you are in for a treat and for those who aren't DBA's, we will equip you with enough information to show them up at the water cooler.  As always, we'll also spend a few moments covering some of the recent announcements on service features and the AWS global infrastructure.

Episode 35 - Deep Dive on Databases

In this latest episode of AWS TechChat, hosts Olivier and Dean discuss how AWS enables you to innovate quickly with the latest from AWS PrivateLink, Amazon CloudFront, VPC endpoints, AWS Greengrass, AWS Snowball Edge, AWS Fargate, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Transcribe.

Episode 31 - Innovate Quickly with AWS

In this latest episode of AWS TechChat, we welcome Shane Baldacchino to the line of up AWS TechChat hosts! Dr Pete &amp; Shane kick off this episode with updates on the AWS infrastructure and, dive into the latest from IoT and Machine Learning at AWS with news around Amazon EC2 H1 Instances, Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepLens, AWS Greengrass ML Inference, Amazon FreeRTOS, AWS IoT Device Management, Amazon Rekognition Video, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate and Amazon Comprehend.

Episode 26 - Dive into the latest from IoT and Machine Learning at AWS

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat we explore methods you can use to make a step change in optimizing cost in your AWS account and we are not talking about powering off idle resources.We talk about the new AWS Graviton Processor in the form of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6G, R6G and C6G. Currently in public preview, meaning you can request access. If your workload can make use of an aarch64 architecture, they can save you in the realm of 40% off your EC2 costs.We also talk about Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that lets you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand price, which is something to hang your hat on. You can consume spot from AWS Fargate - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EC2, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Data Pipleline and AWS Batch.We then pivot to AWS Well-Architected Framework that provides best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. We hone in on the cost optimization pillar before riffing over some tips from a field solution architect on what they look when trying to trim costs out of an account. Speakers:Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSPeter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWSResources:Amazon WorkSpaces https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Workspaces_June30Amazon Chime https://aws.amazon.com/chime/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Chime_June30Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/working-from-home-heres-how-aws-can-help/AWS Digital Training https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/AWS Graviton Processor https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ Amazon EC2 Spot Instances https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/AWS Well-Architected https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/ Cost Optimization https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/cost-optimization/AWS Events:AWSome Day Online Conference https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/   AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat we explore methods you can use to make a step change in optimizing cost in your AWS account and we are not talking about powering off idle resources. We talk about the new AWS Graviton Processor in the form of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6G, R6G and C6G. Currently in public preview, meaning you can request access. If your workload can make use of an aarch64 architecture, they can save you in the realm of 40% off your EC2 costs. We also talk about Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that lets you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand price, which is something to hang your hat on. You can consume spot from AWS Fargate - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EC2, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Data Pipleline and AWS Batch. We then pivot to AWS Well-Architected Framework that provides best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. We hone in on the cost optimization pillar before riffing over some tips from a field solution architect on what they look when trying to trim costs out of an account. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS Resources: Amazon WorkSpaces <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Workspaces_June30" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Workspaces_June30</a> Amazon Chime <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/chime/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Chime_June30" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/chime/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Chime_June30</a> Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/working-from-home-heres-how-aws-can-help/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/working-from-home-heres-how-aws-can-help/</a> AWS Digital Training <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/</a> AWS Graviton Processor <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/</a> Amazon EC2 Spot Instances <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/</a> AWS Well-Architected <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/</a> Cost Optimization <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/cost-optimization/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/cost-optimization/</a> AWS Events: AWSome Day Online Conference <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/</a> AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/</a> AWS Builders Online Series on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/</a> AWS Events and Webinars <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/</a>

Episode 69 - Cost Optimisation Special

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Gabe talk about the modern relational database built for the cloud: Amazon Aurora. So prepare to SELECT some Amazon Aurora knowledge INTO your brain!They start the episode with some level setting. Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database, purpose-built for the cloud. It has great performance, and it gives enterprise-grade reliability at 1/10th the cost of traditional options. It has a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB. Keeping it modern and real, they then discuss Amazon Aurora Serverless, which is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your app's needs. It enables you to run your database with all the benefits that serverless brings.Finally, they close the show out with a discussion around Amazon Aurora Global Database, which is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact to database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each region, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages.Resources: •	AWS Innovate 2019 Global Edition https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/ •	Amazon CloudFront https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/•	Lambda@Edge https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/ •	AWS Aurora https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ •	Amazon Aurora Serverless https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ •	Amazon Aurora Global Database https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Gabe talk about the modern relational database built for the cloud: Amazon Aurora. So prepare to SELECT some Amazon Aurora knowledge INTO your brain! They start the episode with some level setting. Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database, purpose-built for the cloud. It has great performance, and it gives enterprise-grade reliability at 1/10th the cost of traditional options. It has a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB. Keeping it modern and real, they then discuss Amazon Aurora Serverless, which is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your app's needs. It enables you to run your database with all the benefits that serverless brings. Finally, they close the show out with a discussion around Amazon Aurora Global Database, which is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact to database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each region, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages. Resources: •	AWS Innovate 2019 Global Edition <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/</a> •	Amazon CloudFront <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/</a> •	Lambda@Edge <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/</a> •	AWS Aurora <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/</a> •	Amazon Aurora Serverless <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/</a> •	Amazon Aurora Global Database <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/</a>

Episode 51 - Modern Relational Database Built for the Cloud

Join Shane and Dr. Pete as they close our two-part series on getting started on AWS. In this episode they build on part 1 by extending the foundational concepts, allowing the student to become the master. They cover ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) via Amazon Elasticsearch Service allowing you to keep score on your website by visualizing logs, spotting trends and finding that needle in the haystack. They then pivot to collaboration and helping reduce feedback cycles and bring your team closer together via Amazon Chime before briefly touching on Managed Active Directory and why you should run it on AWS. Lastly, they talk about Amazon WorkSpaces, your VDI experience in the cloud allowing you to build desktop systems at scale from general purpose, to GPU backed instances and pay for them by the hour.

Join Shane and Dr. Pete as they close our two-part series on getting started on AWS. In this episode they build on part 1 by extending the foundational concepts, allowing the student to become the master. They cover ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) via Amazon Elasticsearch Service allowing you to keep score on your website by visualizing logs, spotting trends and finding that needle in the haystack. They then pivot to collaboration and helping reduce feedback cycles and bring your team closer together via Amazon Chime before briefly touching on Managed Active Directory and why you should run it on AWS. Lastly, they talk about Amazon WorkSpaces, your VDI experience in the cloud allowing you to build desktop systems at scale from general purpose, to GPU backed instances and pay for them by the hour.

Episode 45 - Getting Started On AWS - Part 2#2

Adrian Cockcroft

Tune into the latest episode of AWS TechChat as special guest Adrian Cockcroft, Vice President, Cloud Architecture Strategy, AWS joins our hosts Dr Pete and Russ to talk about Innovation, Architecture and the AWS Cloud.

Episode 14 - Special Episode with Adrian Cockcroft

Werner Vogels

Dr Werner Vogels, VP &amp; CTO of Amazon.com, spent some time down under and chats with Russ and Dr Pete about Australian Rules Football, the last 10 years of Amazon Web Services and more.

Dr Werner Vogels, VP &amp; CTO of <a href="http://Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>, spent some time down under and chats with Russ and Dr Pete about Australian Rules Football, the last 10 years of Amazon Web Services and more.

Episode 6 - Dr Werner Vogels Down Under

TechChat Episode #27Missed the AWS Summits? We bring you AWS TechChat from the AWS Summit Sydney! In the first episode of TechChat TV, hear Dr Pete &amp; Dean Samuels share what’s new at AWS.  Watch this session on TechChat TV: https://bit.ly/2HgUdke

TechChat Episode #27 Missed the AWS Summits? We bring you AWS TechChat from the AWS Summit Sydney! In the first episode of TechChat TV, hear Dr Pete &amp; Dean Samuels share what’s new at AWS. Watch this session on TechChat TV: <a href="https://bit.ly/2HgUdke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2HgUdke</a>

Episode 27 - What's New at AWS?

Adam Larter

A special guest joins Dr Pete and Russ in this episode, which is sure to excite the developers among you! Developer-at-heart, Adam Larter, Specialist Solutions Architect from AWS, chats to our hosts about the latest news impacting the developer community from AWS. Covering hot topics like AWS IoT, the serverless framework and the growing momentum of AWS Lambda &amp; API Gateway since launching in 2014. Adam also offers up tips to how you can get started by leveraging AWS SDKs to develop, create and manage applications built on AWS.

Episode 4 – A special AWS update for Developers with guest Adam Larter

In this episode of AWS TechChat we cover the Thursday keynote of re:Invent 2019 by Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.We start the show introducing Amazon Nitro System, look at it from a software lens and share with you the why and how we built this. As virtualization is at the core of the AWS Cloud we went back to the drawing board and built our own hypervisor to provide performance almost in-distinguishable of bare metal whilst providing a security demarcation for our platform. Nitro has allowed us to innovate faster, we have released 4x more instances since we have moved to Nitro.We then take a refresher and look at Firecracker. You can launch lightweight micro-virtual machines (microVMs) in non-virtualized environments in a fraction of a second. Given we use Firecracker under the hood for AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, it provides faster, tighter more seamless scaling than other platforms such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).To wrap up the show, we touch on the importance of “evolvable architectures” looking through the lens of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) before introducing you to Amazon Builders’ Library that has papers and topics on how Amazon builds our own distributed systems.Speakers:	Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWSGabe Hollombe, Senior Technical Evangelist, AWSResources:AWS Nitro System https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/AWS Nitro Enclaves https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/Shuffle Sharding: Massive and Magical Fault Isolation https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-massive-and-magical-fault-isolation/The Amazon Builders' Library https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/AWS Events:AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/AWS Modern Application Development on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

In this episode of AWS TechChat we cover the Thursday keynote of re:Invent 2019 by Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. We start the show introducing Amazon Nitro System, look at it from a software lens and share with you the why and how we built this. As virtualization is at the core of the AWS Cloud we went back to the drawing board and built our own hypervisor to provide performance almost in-distinguishable of bare metal whilst providing a security demarcation for our platform. Nitro has allowed us to innovate faster, we have released 4x more instances since we have moved to Nitro. We then take a refresher and look at Firecracker. You can launch lightweight micro-virtual machines (microVMs) in non-virtualized environments in a fraction of a second. Given we use Firecracker under the hood for AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, it provides faster, tighter more seamless scaling than other platforms such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). To wrap up the show, we touch on the importance of “evolvable architectures” looking through the lens of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) before introducing you to Amazon Builders’ Library that has papers and topics on how Amazon builds our own distributed systems. Speakers:	 Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Gabe Hollombe, Senior Technical Evangelist, AWS Resources: AWS Nitro System <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/</a> AWS Nitro Enclaves <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/</a> Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/</a> Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/</a> Shuffle Sharding: Massive and Magical Fault Isolation <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-massive-and-magical-fault-isolation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-massive-and-magical-fault-isolation/</a> The Amazon Builders' Library <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/</a> AWS Events: AWS Builders Online Series <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/</a> AWS Modern Application Development on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/</a> AWS Innovate on-demand <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/</a> AWS Events and Webinars <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/events/</a>

Episode 63 - re:Invent 2019 - Dr.Werner Vogels Keynote Recap

Our hosts geek out with Adrian De Luca, Head of Solution Architecture for partners and ecosystem for Asia-Pacific. They chat about all things related to AWS partners, including the different levels and types (in the vicinity of tens of thousands world-wide) and their key role in shifting workloads onto the AWS cloud and providing exceptional experience for customers that are scaling on AWS. They also cover some great partner activities happening across the globe as well as some recent key announcements made with IBM, CommVault, VMware and Atlassian. Visit awstechchat.com for more!

Our hosts geek out with Adrian De Luca, Head of Solution Architecture for partners and ecosystem for Asia-Pacific. They chat about all things related to AWS partners, including the different levels and types (in the vicinity of tens of thousands world-wide) and their key role in shifting workloads onto the AWS cloud and providing exceptional experience for customers that are scaling on AWS. They also cover some great partner activities happening across the globe as well as some recent key announcements made with IBM, CommVault, VMware and Atlassian. Visit <a href="http://awstechchat.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">awstechchat.com</a> for more!

Episode 8 - Special coverage on AWS partners plus key announcements with IBM, VMware and more

The Best Multi-Part Documentaries, with documentaries on Obama, Federer vs Nadal, the making of Star Wars, Netflix vs Blockbuster and more. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

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The best podcast episodes of anyone with an interesting story. With famous guests like Obama, LeBron James, Drake, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Michelle Obama, Serena Williams, to anyone who has a unique and interesting story to tell. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!