Tune in to the latest episode of the AWS Tech Chat podcast to hear all about how AWS is revolutionizing the sports industry. Hosted by Cheryl Joseph, a senior solutions architect at AWS, and her co-host Karl Hart, a principal solutions architect focused on the sports vertical, this insightful episode dives deep into the ways AWS is enabling leagues and teams to elevate the fan experience through cutting-edge technology. The conversation kicks off by exploring the key challenges sports...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into AWS Managed Blockchain and QLDB. I interviewed a Blockchain Specialist, Forrest, who helped 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. Followed up by a discussion around Private Blockchain vs public, HyperLedger or...

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...

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we started at the top with what containers are and what the many terms we hear mean. We asked the question why? Why is the industry adopting containers and why use them and how you can gert started in this container game by either using you using your local machine, single board computer or an Amazon technology. From images, through to docker files this episode will help get you started on your container journe. From there we dove into orchestration,...

n this episode of TechChat we close out our four part re:Invent 2020 series with an AI/ML special. We covered Sagemaker, Kendra, EMR, Quicksight and some brand new services. AWS HealthLake to make sense of health data. AmaOn Kendra now has a connector library and with this brings Google Drive support AWS Panorama for computer vision at the edge and a raft of new SageMaker additions - SageMaker Feature Store - SageMaker Clarify, - SageMaker Debugger makes it easy to train ML models faster by...

In this episode of TechChat we continue our four part re:Invent 2020 series with this episode covering Customer Engagement, Gaming, IOT and Industry, Marketplace, Misc.., and closed out with Partner Updates. For Customer Engagement, we talked about: * Contact Lens now supports real-time contact center analytics to detect customer issues on live calls * Combine this with Connect Wisdom to pull up call relevant info to the agent in real-time. I love the warranty/support example you gave here...

In this episode of AWS TechChat we continue with part two of our four part re:Invent 2020 series with this episode covering all Application Development, Containers, and Database announcements. For our developer community, we talked about: * Using CodeGuru’s new Security detectors to help you find and remediate security issues in your code * Python support for CodeGuru’s in preview * We shared another new service, DevOps Guru in preview, for measuring and improving an application’s...

In this episode of TechChat we start our 4 part re:Invent 2020 series with this episode covering all ‘Security’, ‘Network’, ‘Compute’ and ‘Storage’ announcements. We started reviewing security announcements * AWS Security Hub (https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/) can now automatically receive findings from the Kube-bench (https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench). * AWS Audit Manager is a new service that helps you continuously audit your AWS usage and automates evidence collection to...

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, we are joined by Darko Meshzaros as he helps to navigate all things Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management. IaC is such an important concept for advancing your IT maturity, this really is a practical episode and if these concepts are new to you, research these further as it’s something that will put you in good step in your IT career. In this episode we take a journey around IaC and Configuration Management and talk about some of...

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, we welcome Shai Perednik to the TechChat team as we perform a tech round up from September through to October of 2020. We covered a plethora of topics today, we started the show talking about price reductions with AWS IOT Events dropping a mammoth 86%. Amazon Connect our ever popular phone system in the cloud decreased telephony costs for outbound calls across six countries in Europe. We then moved to compute, more AWS Graviton 2 instances in more regions....

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, I am joined by Gabe Hollombe and we look at two relatively new AWS Services - Amazon EventBridge and Amazon AppFlow. We start the show revisiting a messaging foundation and what are the gaps Amazon EventBridge fills in our product portfolio. We discuss that Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, SaaS applications, and AWS services before contrasting Amazon...

In this episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we perform a tech round-up from July through to August of 2020. We start the show with containers, 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) and sticking with Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS is now included in Compute Savings Plans. Amazon...

In this 1 hour-long themed episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we sail to the Edge and demystify many of the core concepts that occur before end-user requests are made. We start the show setting a foundation of Domain Name System (DNS), why it is important, before talking about Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable cloud DNS Service. It is also a full featured DNS service that is API, SDK, and CLI driven. We then introduce the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and talk...

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete perform a tech round up from May through to June of 2020 There is now an ability to provide Direct Connect testing, You can noow use the Resiliency Toolkit to test the resiliency of their Direct Connect connections. The Fail over testing feature enables customers to test resiliency by disabling one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface, or AWS Direct Connect API. Shield...

In this 1 hour long themed episode of AWS TechChat, I am joined by my container yoda Mitch Beaumont explore everything containers in the world of Kubernetes, or is that Kube or K8? It is Kubernetes themed affair, we start the show reminiscing about its history, going back, way back looking at where Kubernetes came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave an overview of Kubernetes concepts in the forms of Pods, ReplicaSet, Services, Volumes, NameSpaces, ConfigMaps,...

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...

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...

AWS TechChat Episode #68 – Cloud Adoption Anti-Patterns In this episode of AWS TechChat Peter ‘Dr Pete’ Stanski speaks with Mark Brown (Enterprise Lead) and they discuss some of the things that slow down cloud adoption. With a combined cloud experience tenure of more than 16 years, they share the 5 common anti-patterns for cloud projects. They dig deep and break these down into Leadership, Skills, Security, Operating models and Data. Speakers: Mark Brown – Enterprise Leader, Australia &...