Aws Podcast

A quick update from Las Vegas with some great announcements prior to the Keynotes. Shownotes: AWS Organisations: https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/ AWS Storage Gateway Update: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-provides-a-file-interface-to-objects-in-your-amazon-s3-buckets/ AWS Storage Gateway Price Reductions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-price-reductions/ New Amazon S3 Capabilities: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/revolutionizing-s3-storage-management-with-4-new-features/ Amazon WorkSpaces Windows 10 Support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-workspaces-introduces-windows-10-desktop-experience/

Recorded live in Las Vegas! Simon covers some AWS updates prior to a BIG week at AWS Re:Invent. Including ALB, S3, Glacier, IoT, Aurora and more! Shownotes: ALB/ELB: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/application-performance-percentiles-and-request-tracing-for-aws-application-load-balancer/ Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-aurora-for-dev-test-workloads-with-new-t2-medium-db-instance-class/ Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-route-53-announces-self-service-tool-to-associate-amazon-vpcs-and-private-hosted-zones-that-are-created-with-different-aws-accounts/ SQL Server Enterprise Edition: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/sql-server-enterprise-is-now-available-with-amazon-ec2-in-expanded-regions-and-for-more-instance-types/ AWS Storage Updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glacier-price-reductions/

In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about the choice between Block, Object and File storage - and when to use each! https://aws.amazon.com/products/storage/

In this episode Simon chats with Josh Siegel, CTO at Care Cloud. They talk about building HIPPA-compliant software, moving fast and DevOps. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. CareCloud: carecloud.com Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/06/whitepaper-hipaa/

In this episode Simon has a discussion with Will Chiong, Software Engineer at kit.com. They discuss building systems from scratch, monolith vs micro services, using Alexa and other architectural decisions kit.com made on the way. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. www.kit.com

Simon has a chat with Dustin Lucien, COO at Betterment. They discuss moving from hosting to the cloud. Building agile teams and how to handle scale and growth. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS Betterment: www.betterment.com

In this episode Simon catches up on a whole raft of different service updates. New instance types, updates for developers, IPv6 support, Amazon Linux in containers & Windows 2016 support just to name a few!

In this episode Simon discusses AWS Quick Starts with Santiago Cardenas, Partner Solution Architect. They talk about how customers can launch meaningful workloads with just the click of a button and build upon them. Links: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart https://github.com/aws-quickstart

In this episode Simon is joined by Dean Samuels and they talk about not one, not two, but THREE black belt tips!

In this episode Simon speaks with Willem Sundblad, CEO & Founder at Oden Technologies. They discuss the use of IoT in the manufacturing world, and how that is actually applied. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Oden Technologoes: http://oden.io

In this episode Simon chats with Anthony Johnson, CTO at Giphy (http://giphy.com). They discuss moving from a monolith to micro services, changing team structure and the pronunciation of “GIF”. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS.

In this episode Simon chats with Avi Wilensky, Founder & Full Stack Developer, from Uphail. They discuss deployment approaches, scaling and automation. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS. Shownotes: http://uphail.com

In this episode Simon & Jeff discuss the new way the AWS Week in Review is created - using input from people like you! A new, open, collaborative approach based right here: https://github.com/aws/aws-week-in-review

In this Episode Simon covers a vast array of updates - something for everyone! Plus a security-related Black-Belt Tip! Links: RDS for PostgreSQL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-new-minor-versions-logical-replication-dms-and-more/ Centralised Container Logs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/centralized-container-logs-with-amazon-ecs-and-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ Amazon EMR Encryption: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-at-rest-and-in-transit-encryption-for-amazon-emr/ Amazon API Gateway updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/api-gateway-update-new-features-simplify-api-development/ YAML for AWS CloudFormation and more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudformation-update-yaml-cross-stack-references-simplified-substitution/ AWS Service Catalog Policies: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/aws-service-catalog-updated-access-policies-now-available/ Auto-Rollback with AWS CodeDeploy: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/aws-codedeploy-in

In this episode Simon has a conversation with Abby Fuller from Start-Up https://www.airtime.com. She shares fascinating details about their architecture, the way they scale, and the challenges of working with low latency applications.

In this episode Simon chats with Andrew Kiggins, Security Solutions Architect, about best practices for DDoS Resiliency and a new white paper that is available with actionable steps for AWS customers. https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/DDoS_White_Paper.pdf

In this episode Simon covers a raft of updates that have happened in the last few weeks - hopefully something for everyone! AWS CodeDeploy with Amazon CloudWatch Events: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch-events.html Amazon CloudFront HTTP/2 support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/amazon-cloudfront-now-supports-http2/ and Query String Whitelisting: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/announcing-query-string-whitelisting-for-amazon-cloudfront/ Reader endpoint for Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-reader-endpoint-for-amazon-aurora-load-balancing-higher-availability/ and Release 1.7 updates: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-parallel-read-ahead-faster-indexing-numa-awareness/ AWS Config ALB Integration: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/aws-config-adds-support-for-application-load-balancers/ Mobile Hub Integrate Tab: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/aws-mobile

This week Simon interviews Jon Handler, Principal Solution Architect, about the Amazon ElasticSearch service. We discuss use cases, tips and tricks and how to best size and scale for different kinds of workloads. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/

In this episode Simon talks about in-memory databases with Darin Briskman, Developer Outreach at AWS. They discuss these types of database in general and, in particular, using Redis to make your system faster, some of the choices you need to make, and how Amazon ElastiCache can help. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/

Simon recaps a raft of updates you might have missed including some major updates to EMR, as well as a host of nifty changes in Amazon Machine Learning, AWS IoT and VPC just to name a few! Shownote Links: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/amazon-rds-now-supports-se2-license-included/ http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/releasenotes/lumberyard-v1.4.html https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudfront-expands-to-canada/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/compute-and-completion-time-for-object-creation-now-available-in-the-amazon-ml-api-console-and-aws-sdks/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/07/announcing-dns-resolution-support-for-vpc-peering/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/amazon-elasticache-now-supports-the-m4-node-family/ http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx3GL3IZE3FIGB6/Enable-Your-Federated-Users-to-Work-in-the-AWS-Management-Console-for-up-to-12-H https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/aws-iot-annou