All Episodes

• AWS Podcast Episode #39 - 20 May 2013
  Simone interviews Jim Scharf, Director of IAM (Identity and Access Management), and talks about various security aspects: EC2 roles, MFA, S3 access control, and more.
• AWS Podcast Episode #38 - 13 May 2013
  This week, Simon provides a quick update on a variety of new service features and capabilities.
• AWS Podcast Episode #37 - 6 May 2013
  In this special episode, we get an "audio tour" of the 2013 AWS Summit in Sydney.
• AWS Podcast Episode #36 - 29 Apr 2013
  In this episode, Simone meets Jon Handler, Solutions Architect for Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Jon explains what CloudSearch is, and provides some customer examples.
• AWS Podcast Episode #35 - 22 Apr 2013
  In a special episode this week, Simon speaks with Dan Zoltak from MYOB about the Atlas application they have deployed on AWS. Dan shares insights into some of the architectural decisions they made, and the benefits they found.
• AWS Podcast Episode #34 - 15 Apr 2013
  This week Simon & Simone talks about the recent Amazon RDS - SQL Server Major Version Upgrade, Provisioned IOPS for EBS and additional EBS-optimized EC2 instance types.
• AWS Podcast Episode #33 - 8 Apr 2013
  This week Simon & Simone have a special discussion about how customers can get the most out of the AWS pricing model.
• AWS Podcast Episode #32 - 1 Apr 2013
  Startup weekend and AWS; Amazon RDS Scales Up, and Easier Access to Database Log Files; Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 Release Candidate; Reserved Instance Price Reduction for Amazon EC2, AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon ElastiCache, Lower prices for SQS and SNS, DynamoDB Price Reductions and Reserved Capacity.
• AWS Podcast Episode #31 - 18 Mar 2013
  This week Simon & Simone cover a raft of new product and feature releases including VPC, Cross-Region AMI Copy, Elastic Beanstalk support for Node.js, an iPhone Management app for AWS and a couple of new tools for Windows users.
• AWS Podcast Episode #30 - 4 Mar 2013
  This week in a special episode we discuss Migration of AWS Resources to a New Region with the Solution Architects who wrote the AWS Whitepaper covering this subject.
• AWS Podcast Episode #29 - 25 Feb 2013
  This week Simon & Simone discuss new locations and features for Amazon Simple WorkFlow (SWF), searching DynamoDB Data with Amazon CloudSearch and DynamoDB: Design for uniform data access.
• AWS Podcast Episode #28 - 18 Feb 2013
  This week Simon & Simone discuss the new Amazon Elastic Transcoder service. The AWS Import/Export service and a black-belt tip.
• AWS Podcast Episode #27 - 4 Feb 2013
  This week Simon & Simone discuss: Tablet and Android console support; AWS Detailed billing reports; Autoscale new EC2 status checks; Endpoint renaming for Amazon RDS; AWS RedShift; More support for Debian, FreeBSD & Centos.
• AWS Podcast Episode #26 - 28 Jan 2013
  This week Simon & Simone discuss the AWS Data Pipeline; Roles for Elastic MapReduce (EMR); root domain website hosting for Amazon S3; CloudFormation block device mapping; and last but not least, the new hs1.8xl instances for EMR.
• AWS Podcast Episode #25 - 21 Jan 2013
  This week Simon & Simone discuss a raft of new services for customers including EBS Snapshot Copy, updates to CloudSearch, updates to ElastiCache and new CloudFormation editing options.
• AWS Podcast Episode #24 - 10 Dec 2012
  This week Simon & Simone discuss New ElastiCache node types, New AWS developers blogs, an AWS Marketplace update related to Big Data, and a quick mention the AWS Youtube channel.
• AWS Podcast Episode #23 - 3 Dec 2012
  Simon and Simone cover the AWS re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, in a special podcast episode (almost 30 minutes long). You will hear about the conference setup (Developers lounge, the re: Invent central, re: Play party), new services that have been announced, such as Amazon RedShift and Amazon Data Pipeline, the Keynotes, and many guests interviewed on the spot.
• AWS Podcast Episode #22 - 26 Nov 2012
  This week Simon & Simone discuss the new Sydney Region launch, Archiving data from S3 to Glacier and using CloudFormation to build a SharePoint server farm.
• AWS Podcast Episode #21 - 12 Nov 2012
  In Episode #21 of the weekly AWS Podcast, Simon Elisha and Simone Brunozzi discuss various aspects of Amazon EC2 Spot instances (a way for customers to bid on capacity and save money), and the recent release of the TCO Calculator for Web Applications.
• AWS Podcast Episode #20 - 5 Nov 2012
  Simon and Simone talk about Amazon SES, and the new feature called Mailbox Simulator, which allows you to simulate what happens when sending emails; and they also cover new features for Amazon RDS: it's now possible to use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in Express/Web/Standard edition, and the ability to promote a MySQL Read Replica to a standalone database.
• AWS Podcast Episode #19 - 22 Oct 2012
  Simon and Simone talk about FinQloud, and in general about enterprise adoption of cloud computing; the upcoming AWS re:Invent conference, and the "Cloud Riders" hackathon in the days before it.
• AWS Podcast Episode #18 - 15 Oct 2012
  Simon and Simone talk about PIOPS for the Relational Database Service (RDS), the Simple Notification Service and a black belt tip on how to Optimize Provisioned Throughput on DynamoDB.
• AWS Podcast Episode #17 - 8 Oct 2012
  Simon and Simone talk about S3 CORS, Dynamo Binary Data and conditional writes/reads; Cost Tagging, the new Reserved Instance Marketplace.
• AWS Podcast Episode #16 - 1 Oct 2012
  Simon and Simone talk about AWS Premium Support, and the "Trusted Advisor", an automated tool that provides technical, fault tolerance and business suggestions to users; some new CloudFront features; new Cluster Compute EC2 instances in US-West-2 and Ireland, and in VPC.
• AWS Podcast Episode #15 - 24 Sep 2012
  New Direct Connect locations, and DirectConnect now supported on the AWS Console; Amazon RDS for Oracle Database has four new features: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) supported, Oracle APEX supported, Oracle XML DB supported, Oracle Data Pump supported. Elastic Beanstalk now also supports Python and is now available in the Singapore region.
• AWS Podcast Episode #14 - 17 Sep 2012
  In this episode we have a "Glacier Special", as this new service warrants its very own podcast. Simon & Simone talk about how Glacier solves many challenges typical of the Cold Storage space; pricing and technical details.
• AWS Podcast Episode #13 - 3 Sep 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone cover the MFA-Protected API access, a way to authenticate every API call made to AWS; then the monitoring service CloudWatch, with the possibility to push custom metrics to it, and ways to take advantage of monitoring your applications.
• AWS Podcast Episode #12 - 27 Aug 2012
  A quick introduction to DynamoDB, followed by details on how Provisioned Output works. After that, Simon & Simone discuss the possibility to explore or alter tables using the AWS Management console. To close, an overview of the SQS service, how it works, how to architect to take advantage of it.
• AWS Podcast Episode #11 - 20 Aug 2012
  Simon & Simone discuss the recently launched Provisioned IOPS for EBS volumes, plus the EBS-optimized EC2 instances. Both things allow to significantly improve the I/O performance of applications running on Amazon EC2.
• AWS Podcast Episode #10 - 13 Aug 2012
  Simon & Simone are back again for this special episode where we will look at some of the key information resources available on the AWS website, on topics such as Architecture, Economics, and Security. Customers can take advantage of these resources when exploring the use of AWS in their business.
• AWS Podcast Episode #9 - 9 Aug 2012
  Second episode for the week! Feedback suggested to cover Amazon SES in more details, and here it is! Easy DKIM, SNS Feedback, Domain Verification, and what to do when you encounter the “Address blacklisted” error. If you need to send emails, this episode is definitively worth checking.
• AWS Podcast Episode #8 - 6 Aug 2012
  Our usual hosts, Simon & Simone, discuss the new I/O instance type available on Amazon EC2, the Elastic MapReduce service, and as a black belt tip, how to attach a volume at runtime to your EC2 instances.
• AWS Podcast Episode #7 - 30 Jul 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discusses Simple Email Service, ElastiCache, and a "black belt" tip on creating EBS snapshots and subsequently creating volumes from EBS snapshots.
• AWS Podcast Episode #6 - 23 Jul 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discusses Elastic Beanstalk, Direct Connect, and a "black belt" tip on using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB.
• AWS Podcast Episode #5 - 16 Jul 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss the newly announced MFA-Protected API Access, using Multiple IP Addresses for EC2 Instances (in VPC), and a "black belt" tip on scalable session handling in PHP using Amazon DynamoDB.
• AWS Podcast Episode #4 - 9 Jul 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss the new CloudFront Edge location in Sydney, Australia, the Elastic Load Balancer in VPC, Elastic Network Interfaces, and a "black belt" tip about accessing a Linux instance without network access.
• AWS Podcast Episode #3 - 20 Jun 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss EC2 Status Checks, Simple Notification Service Delivery Policies & Message Formats, and a "black belt" tip about S3 Object Expiration & Multi-Object Delete.
• AWS Podcast Episode #2 - 11 May 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss the AWS Simple Workflow Service, Route 53 for DNS management and a "black belt" tip on how to use Tagging in your AWS environment to help track resources.
• AWS Podcast Episode #1 - 10 May 2012
  In this episode, Simon & Simone discuss the AWS price reductions for EC2, the Relational Database Service (RDS) and a "black belt" tip on how to use metadata from within your EC2 instances.