Episodes
Our re:Invent 2023 coverage continues! In this episode, Jillian Forde shares highlights from re:Invent Day 3, focusing on the profound and impactful relationship between humans, data, and AI that is unfolding right before us.
Published 11/30/23
Our re:Invent 2023 coverage continues! In this episode, Jillian Forde shares highlights from Day 2 of re:Invent, including some big announcements from AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s keynote.
Published 11/29/23
It’s the most re:Invent time of the year! Simon guides you through the most exciting announcements from Peter DeSantis’ keynote, where he dives deep into the engineering that powers AWS services. PLUS Simon catches you up on 100 other announcements in just 30 minutes!!
Published 11/28/23
Explore everything AWS re:Invent had to offer this November 27th through December 1st 2023! Join Simon Elisha and Jillian Forde as they share their tips to use your time efficiently and discover content that is most relevant to your interests wether you are in Las Vegas or joining remotely. Schedule your event using the session catalog found here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/session-catalog/
Published 11/20/23
Lots of interesting updates to hear about this week! Chapters: Analytics (00:45); Application Integration (04:07); Cost Management (09:05); Developer Tools (12:20); End User Computing (13:22); Font End Web & Mobile (14:03); Internet of Things (14:13); Machine Learning (14:42); Management & Governance (17:05); Migration & Transfer (19:49); Networking & Content Delivery (20:42); Security, Identity, & Compliance (21:26); Storage (22:03)...
Published 11/18/23
Tune in to listen to Jillian Forde and Jake Siddall (AWS Senior Product Manager) dive deep into a new service called Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. EC2 Capacity Blocks enable you to reserve GPU instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters to run ML workloads.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML product details: https://bit.ly/3StmbR8
Published 11/13/23
For time-strapped data teams looking to simplify analytics on large transactional data, Amazon Aurora's seamless integration with Amazon Redshift is a game-changer. Tune in to listen to chat with, Jyoti Aggarwal (Product Management lead for Amazon Redshift zero-ETL), Adam Levin (Principal Product Manager on the Amazon Aurora) for a new service called Amazon Aurora with Amazon Redshift Integration. Amazon Aurora with Amazon Redshift Integration is a capability that enables organizations to run...
Published 11/09/23
75 Updates this episode! It is an exciting ride!
00:59 AWS Marketplace
01:26 Analytics
04:48 Application Integration
06:30 Blockchain
06:56 Compute
09:22 Databases
13:07 Developer Tools
14:31 End User Computing
15:47 Internet of Things
16:37 Machine Learning
20:12 Management & Governance
21:55 Media Services
22:10 Migration & Transfer
24:50 Security, Identity, & Compliance
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/635ExtendedShownotes.html
Published 11/06/23
Explore the transformative power of generative AI in businesses. In this episode, our host, Jillian Forde, is joined by Gopinath Sankaran (Vice President Strategic Cloud Ecosystems at Informatica) to discuss all things generative AI. We talk about generative AI's varied applications across functional areas like business operations and customer experience and explore the importance of a strong data foundation for generative AI.
Fuel innovation with data and AI: https://go.aws/3MpV3yE
Published 11/02/23
A great mix of updates this episode. Developers, data folks, video folks, lots for everyone!
00:22 Analytics
03:48 Application Integration
07:07 Compute
12:14 Customer Engagement
12:43 Database
14:42 Developer Tools
16:03 End User Computing
16:50 Front End Web & Mobile
17:40 Internet of Things
19:07 Machine Learning
22:53 Management & Governance
25:55 Media Services
26:28 Networking & Content Delivery
28:47 Security, Identity, & Compliance
30:09 Supply Chain
Shownotes:...
Published 10/30/23
Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) is an AWS program to accelerate cloud journeys. Today Jillian Ford speaks with Bilal Shirazi (Principal EBA Lead North America) and Rughved Gadgil (Senior Solutions Architect) and explores the benefits of EBA to overcome barriers in your cloud projects. Whether you’re just getting started or in the middle of a migration, learn how EBA’s can achieve outcomes in days not months.
Deliver your first ML use case in 8–12 weeks (blog post):...
Published 10/23/23
Simon Elisha is joined by Leif Reinert, Principal Product Manager Tech at AWS, to discuss how Amazon EC2 P5 instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs can accelerate your ML training and HPC workloads, helping you get results faster and reduce costs.
About Amazon EC2 P5 Instances: https://bit.ly/3Q0Dkie
Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC Applications (blog post): https://bit.ly/3Fp3nLc
Published 10/19/23
We wish Hawn farewell on this episode as the moves to pastures new. And we share a HEAP of great updates.
Chapters:
01:57 Analytics
06:51 Application Integration
08:36 Business Applications
09:20 Compute
12:18 Customer Engagement
12:46 Databases
15:53 Developer Tools
17:13 Front End Web & Mobile
18:48 Game Tech
20:00 Internet of Things
21:43 Machine Learning
26:00 Management & Governance
28:13 Migration & Transfer
31:27 Security, Identity, & Compliance
Shownotes:...
Published 10/16/23
Amazon EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances -- powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors -- deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to the previous gen. Today Hawn is joined by Sinem Gulbay, Senior Product Manager here at AWS, to dive into the benefits of these new instances, their technical specs, and when, why, and how you should leverage them.
Published 10/12/23
Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth in data, and the rapid pace of innovation in machine learning (ML), there is a growing need to build modern data applications that are agile and scalable. In this episode, Jillian is joined by Vara Bonthu, Principal Solutions Architect, and Alex Lines, Sr. Containers Specialist, to talk through why Kubernetes is becoming a popular choice for modernizing data...
Published 10/09/23
How you do know which data is available, where it is stored, or how to begin getting access to the best data? In this episode, Jillian is joined by Shikha Verma (Head of Product Amazon DataZone) and Amir Bar-Or (Principal Engineer, Amazon DataZone) to help you learn about a new service, Amazon DataZone, which helps you govern data access across organizational boundaries.
Getting Started with Amazon DataZone (blog post): https://go.aws/3Q1SHrL
YouTube playlist:...
Published 10/05/23
Lots of interesting updates this week - will there be something you can use?
Chapters:
00:43 AWS Marketplace
01:54 Analytics
04:07 Application Integration
06:43 Compute
11:10 Cost Management
11:40 Customer Engagement
13:33 Databases
14:42 Developer Tools
17:07 Front End Web & Mobile
18:57 Machine Learning
22:49 Management & Governance
24:23 Media Services
24:51 Networking & Content Delivery
25:30 Security, Identity, & Compliance
28:10 Storage
Shownotes:...
Published 10/02/23
AWS Application Composer helps teams collaborate as they build well-architected applications backed by Infrastructure-as-Code using a visual canvas. Today, Simon is joined by Ryan Coleman, Principal Product Manager at AWS, to learn how Application Composer can help developers quickly, and iteratively, build applications through the software development lifecycle. They discuss the evolution of the space, what problems led to building the service, and the interesting ways teams are using it to...
Published 09/28/23
DeepLearning.AI and AWS have jointly launched “Generative AI with large language models”, a new hands-on course that prepares data scientists and engineers to become experts in selecting, training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs for real-world applications. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from Tommy Nelson (DeepLearning.AI) and Antje Barth (AWS) the course highlights, prerequisites, and some fun behind-the-scenes details. DeepLearning .AI website: https://bit.ly/48uGxz6
Published 09/25/23
AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub's APIs that simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data. Tune in to listen to Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect and Venugopalan Vasudevan, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect discuss cross-team API development considerations for enterprises, introduce AWS AppSync, dive deeper into how AWS AppSync enables enterprise developer teams to consolidate APIs owned and managed...
Published 09/21/23
Simon flies the show solo to share a raft of very cool things to help you build!
Chapters:
00:34 AWS Marketplace
00:58 Analytics
03:28 Application Integration
05:17 Business Applications
06:01 Compute
06:54 Cost Management
07:33 Customer Engagement
10:23 Databases
14:30 Developer Tools
15:09 End User Computing
15:33 Front End Web & Mobile
16:15 Machine Learning
20:24 Management & Governance
21:21 Media Services
21:35 Migration & Transfer
23:32 Networking & Content...
Published 09/18/23
AWS Cloud Governance is the set of rules, practices, and reports that ensure your cloud use meets your business requirements. Tune into this episode, with host Jillian Forde, to hear from two Cloud Governance Specialists, Al Destefano and Nivas Durairaj, on how your organization can benefit from a multi-account strategy, meet regulatory requirements at scale, leverage AWS managed controls to meet business objectives and ensure data residency requirements are met by using services like AWS...
Published 09/15/23
Jillian Forde and Michael Surkan discuss how AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is simplifying migrations with AWS DMS Serverless. Learn how AWS DMS Serverless automatically provisions, monitors, and scales migration resources to the optimal capacity needed to meet demand, so you don't have to.
AWS DMS Serverless blog: https://bit.ly/3Zhln31
AWS DMS Serverless website: AWS DMS Serverless website
AWS Database Migration Serverless: https://bit.ly/3ZbSqp4
Published 09/12/23
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easy to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink takes care of everything required to run streaming applications. There are no servers and clusters to manage, no compute and storage infrastructure to set up, and you only pay for the resources you use. You can easily setup and integrate data sources or destinations with minimal code, process data continuously with sub-second...
Published 09/07/23
Simon, Hawn, and Jillian cover the latest AWS updates. Chapters:
01:07 AWS Marketplace
01:41 Analytics
04:54 Application Integration
06:32 Compute
08:34 Database
10:33 Developer Tools
11:08 Game Tech
11:18 Machine Learning
12:58 Management & Governance
13:47 Media Services
14:19 Migration & Transfer
16:39 Networking & Content Delivery
17:52 Security, Identity, & Compliance
18:46 Startups
20:29 Storage
Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/618ExtendedShownotes.html
Published 09/04/23