Aws Podcast

LactApp is a Spanish healthcare startup dedicated to personalized breastfeeding and maternity support. The app offers on-demand, evidence-based breastfeeding guidance in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. To continue its mission, the company needed a new revenue stream and decided to add a subscription tier for video content. But the team soon realized they needed a native video streaming solution and building from scratch was daunting. After doing some research, the CTO discovered the AWS Solution, Video on Demand on AWS Foundation. Listen to the podcast to learn how LactApp implemented the solution, which helped gain 4,500 new paid users in less than a year and increase downloads by +22%.

Neuraflash is an AWS Partner that applies artificial intelligence and data-powered experiences to help customers transform their customer service by making the experience faster, more personalized, and connected across channels. In this special series episode, AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher is joined by NeuraFlash Sr. VP John Heater, to understand why Interactive Voice Repsonse flows (IVRs) are so important to the Contact Center and brand perception, and how the IVR Migration Tool can help organizations transform their customer service experience. Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/featured/contact-center/ Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3zZTMZh

Amazon OpenSearch Services has new observability features to help you systematically detect potential threats and react to a system's state through an open source solution for machine learning, alerting, and visualization. In this episode, Simon is joined by Rajiv Taori, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to discuss the observability use case and the new capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also dig into the benefits of observability, who it’s for, and share a customer example from Airbnb. Get started- https://go.aws/3SHO5GO Learn more about Observability- https://go.aws/3A3Hori Watch the live demo - https://bit.ly/3A3dbbL Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3zZTMZh

It is update time! Simon & Hawn have over 70 updates in this episode for you. Chapters: 00:28 AWS Marketplace 01:09 Analytics 07:08 Application Integration 07:39 Compute 11:29 Customer Engagement 12:01 Database 13:37 Developer Tools 16:35 Front-End Web & Mobile 17:11 Internet of Things (IoT) 18:21 Machine Learning 21:55 Management & Governance 23:19 Media Services 23:43 Migration & Transfer 24:26 Networking & Content Delivery 26:59 Quantum Technologies 27:27 Security, Identity and Compliance 30:24 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/538ExtendedShownotes.html

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. In this episode, Simon is joined by Dr. Saša Baškarada (Worldwide Lead, AWS CAF) and Jason Turse (Senior Practice Manager, Defense Advisory), to discuss the latest updates to the AWS CAF, how customers, partners, and AWS teams are using it, and some of the best practices that the AWS CAF recommends. Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/ Register for re:Inforce - https://reinforce.awsevents.com/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

Media and entertainment (M&E) companies are improving content, reducing churn, and solving persistent challenges, like title matching, with third-party, external data sources. Yet, incorporating external data can be challenging with various vendors and integration methods. In this episode, Harry Lin, AWS Data Exchange Business Development Specialist for M&E, shares emerging data use cases and strategies to simplify data integration into workflows. Learn more - https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQFMzIRNUfyGUg Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users—including data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. In this episode, Hawn sits down with Ashish Agrawal, Sr. Technical Product Manager at AWS, to chat about the newly launched Redshift Serverless. Learn about how customers can take advantage of this new serverless option to tackle various use cases in areas of machine learning, reporting and dashboarding, real time analytics, and data sharing without worrying about managing data warehouse infrastructure. Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless/ Learn more -  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-serverless-now-generally-available-with-new-capabilities/ Watch the video -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcRJjXudIf8 Register for re:Inforce - https://reinforce.awsevents.com/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body

Simon takes you through a rapid-fire series of what is new! Chapters: 00:37 Analytics 02:59 Blockchain 03:29 Business Applications 04:00 Compute 07:37 Customer Engagement 09:22 Database 11:22 Developer Tools 12:29 End User Computing 13:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 14:21 Game Tech 14:54 Internet of Things (IoT) 16:42 Machine Learning 19:46 Management & Governance 22:20 Migration & Transfer 23:54 Networking & Content Delivery 24:36 Security, Identity and Compliance 26:13 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/535ExtendedShownotes.html

In this episode, Simon sits down in the studio with Iain Rouse, GM for AWS Public Sector across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The two have an informative chat about how technologists can develop skills to become business leaders, how to create transparency through ceremony within your team, and making tough decisions to ensure your business stays agile and resilient. Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and even a price reduction! Chapters: 00:43 Analytics 02:34 Application Integration 03:18 Business Applications 03:48 Compute 06:18 Cost Management 07:14 Customer Engagement 08:04 Database 11:52 Front-end Web & Mobile 12:19 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:08 Machine Learning 16:38 Management & Governance 19:38 Migration & Transfer 22:17 Networking & Content Delivery 22:59 Security, Identity and Compliance 23:51 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/533ExtendedShownotes.html

While the Cloud has democratized application development by giving on-demand access to compute, storage, database, analytics, and machine learning, the traditional process of building software applications still requires developers to spend a lot of time writing boilerplate sections of code that are not directly related to the core problem that they are trying to solve. In this episode, Atul Deo, Director of Product Management, AWS AI Services joins Simon to discuss Amazon CodeWhisperer, a new ML-powered service that helps improve developer productivity by providing code recommendations based on the developers’ natural comments and their prior code. Listen to learn about CodeWhisperer's features, use cases, and how you can get started. Sign up for access - https://pages.awscloud.com/codewhisperer-sign-up-form.html Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/ Read the blog post - https://go.aws/3NigPlr

In this episode, Simon speaks with Dan Ljungberg, Director of Solutions Engineering at Pillir, about how low-code development expedites modernization. Pillir's platform helps AWS partners create customized business applications, especially in SAP and ERP environments, transforming them to cloud-ready and mobile applications at a fraction of the time and cost. These apps incorporate an organization’s business logic and function regardless of connectivity status. Listen to learn how this low-code approach addresses the developer shortage that is impacting many enterprises. Learn more - https://www.pillir.io/

The process of ingesting, storing, and processing video files, and associated metadata, is a top media and entertainment use case. It’s also a consideration for any organization that wants to introduce video into its products or workflows. Video requires significant storage capacity, while organizing archives and having the ability to restore needed assets, for everyday and future needs, adds further complexity. To meet these requirements, customers like UKTV are leveraging AWS Solution, Media2Cloud. After a 3-week migration of 3-4 petabytes of data, UKTV found the benefits were immediate. In this episode, hear how UKTV deployed Media2Cloud and gained business agility, improved developer productivity, while also saving 40% on costs.   Learn more https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQHuJPzN4XGbFg

Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and also a Q&A from a listener about SAP migration. Chapters: 01:02 AWS Marketplace 01:32 Analytics 03:46 Application Integration 06:10 Business Applications 06:50 Compute 08:55 Customer Engagement 12:06 Database 13:07 Developer Tools 14:45 Front-end Web & Mobile 15:22 Machine Learning 20:20 Management & Governance 23:05 Migration & Transfer 24:35 Networking & Content Delivery 26:06 Quantum Technology 27:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 28:37 Storage 31:29 Q&A Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/529ExtendedShownotes.html

In this episode, Hawn is joined by Phil De Valence (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Mainframe Modernization service that makes it easy to design for security, high availability, scalability, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous deployment. AWS Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on AWS. Learn about the ways that AWS can simplify re-platforming and refactoring mainframe applications to help you benefit from cloud agility. Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization/ Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/modernize-your-mainframe-applications-deploy-them-in-the-cloud/

Want an easier way to run big data applications in the cloud? Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless, a new deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. EMR Serverless automatically scales resources up and down to provide just the right amount of capacity for your application. You pay only for what you use and you can minimize concerns about over- or under-provisioning. In this episode, Radhika Ravirala (Principal Product Manager) and Natacha Maheshe (Principal Product Marketing Manager) join Hawn to discuss EMR Serverless use cases, how EMR Serverless addresses customers challenges, and how you can started. Learn more about EMR Serverless - https://go.aws/390CjW1 Read the blog - https://go.aws/38Q86sA Check out the What's New announcement - https://go.aws/39bMWFg Watch the video - https://bit.ly/3NxW0nb

Lots of interesting things to hear about this week! Chapters: 00:28 Analytics 02:44 Application Integration 03:52 Business Applications 04:07 Compute 10:26 Developer Tools 11:14 Frond-end Web & Mobile 11:39 Games 12:33 Internet of Things (IoT) 13:54 Machine Learning 17:10 Management & Governance 20:36 Migration & Transfer 21:31 Networking & Content Delivery 24:41 Security, Identity and Compliance 25:39 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/525ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost than traditional contact centers. Join AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher, and Local Measure founder and CEO Jonathan Barouch in this special series episode where they share how Amazon Connect and Local Measure’s purpose-built cloud contact center solution Engage helps businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences by anticipating customer service needs and personalizing customer engagement by offering agents a single pane of glass to improve productivity and provide meaningful customer experiences. Visit the Amazon Connect Partner Page - https://go.aws/3wwWTWG Listen to the Amazon and Local Measure Webinar - https://bit.ly/3wHLVg8

Low-code application platform (LCAP) technology allows customers to build applications 72% to 85% faster. It enables technical staff and business users, by supporting core business application development, along with improving process efficiency. Hear about cross-industry and industry use cases, such as quote-to-contract management and eCommerce, and the typical results experienced on AWS. Listen to our episode about low-code no-code solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/495-right-now-at-aws-episode-13-low-code-no-code-solutions/ Learn more about Intelligent Automation - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/485-right-now-at-aws-episode-12-intelligent-automation/

Simon and Hawn take you through a whirlwind of cool new things! Chapters: 00:48 Analytics 02:05 Block Chain 03:14 Compute 07:07 Customer Engagement 11:32 Database 15:17 Developer Tools 18:53 Internet of Things (IoT) 20:06 Machine Learning 24:34 Management & Governance 27:08 Media Services 27:31 Migration & Transfer 29:30 Quantum Technology 31:15 Security, Identity and Compliance 17:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/523ExtendedShownotes.html