The Official AWS Podcast

The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha, Jillian Forde, and Shruti Koparkar for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, The Official AWS Podcast has something for you.

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Host: Simon Elisha

Simon Elisha

Simon, a longtime Amazonian and Chief Technologist, is passionate about helping customers get the most out of cloud technology. A pragmatic technologist at heart, Simon holds an Honors Degree in Information Systems from Monash University.

Host: Jillian Forde

Jillian Forde

Jillian is a Sr. Solutions Architect who works with startups to help them grow their businesses using the AWS cloud. With a non-technical background, she has not only become an expert in the AWS cloud but also an official AWS podcast host. Her mission is to bridge the gap for those new to the tech industry by making cloud computing and technical concepts approachable and understandable. 

Host: Jillian Forde

Shruti Koparkar

Shruti is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at AWS. She leads product marketing for EC2 accelerated computing and helps customers explore, evaluate, and adopt EC2 instances for their generative AI and machine learning needs.

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  • Update Show

    #707: AWS News: DeepSeek R1 Models…

    Jillian Forde. Shruti Koparkar

    Join our hosts for a great discussion of the new and interesting on AWS! Chapters: 00:09 Intro 00:32 Deep Seek 05:26 S3 Meta Data 08:52 AWS Market Place 09:32 Analytics updates 10:28 Application integration 11:49 AI Updates 13:42 Compute 15:09 Customer Engagement 16:12 Database Updates 17:53 Developer Tools 19:31 Front end web and mobile 20:36 Management and governance 22:22 Migration and modernization updates 23:01 Networking and content delivery 23:12 Wrap up

    Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/707ExtendedShownotes.html

    February 10, 2025
  • Deep Dive

    #706: Automate LLM fine-tuning and…

    Shruti Koparkar, Piyush Kadam, Lauren Mullennex

    This week on the Official AWS Podcast, dive into the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)! Join the experts as our host Shruti interviews Piyush Kadam, Sr. Product Manager, and Lauren Mullennex, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS to explore how Amazon SageMaker is revolutionizing the customization, evaluation, and deployment of large language models at scale.

    Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pipelines/

    February 3, 2025
  • Update Show

    #705: AWS News Update, January 27,…

    Simon Elisha, Jillian Forde, Shruti Koparkar

    Our 3 hosts take you through all the latest news PLUS a new "Top Stories" discussion!

    Chapters:

    00:08 Top Stories

    09:52 AWS Marketplace

    10:17 Analytics

    11:10 Application Integration

    12:41 Artificial Intelligence

    14:24 Compute

    15:16 Customer Engagement

    17:46 Databases

    19:25 Developer Tools

    20:38 End User Computing

    21:29 Management and Governance

    25:22 Media Services

    25:42 Security, Identity and Compliance

    Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/705ExtendedShownotes.html

    January 27, 2025
  • Deep Dive

    #704: Scaling your relational database on…

    Simon Elisha, Josh Hart

    Are relational databases cool again? In this episode of the AWS Podcast, host Simon Elisha sits down with Josh Hart, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, to explore how traditional databases are getting a modern makeover. They dive into three game-changing innovations from AWS that are solving age-old database scaling headaches: Aurora Serverless v2 for seamless vertical scaling, Aurora Limitless Database for hassle-free sharding, and the RDS Data API for simplified connection management. Whether you're wrestling with dev/test environments or running production workloads at scale, this episode unpacks practical solutions that could save you time, money, and operational headaches.

    January 20, 2025
  • Update Show

    #703: AWS News Update, January 13,…

    Simon Elisha

    It is the first show of 2025! Simon walks you through all the updates that happened during the holiday-season.
    Chapters:
    00:31 AWS Marketplace
    01:06 Analytics
    02:26 Application Integration
    02:46 Artificial Intelligence
    05:29 Compute
    09:11 Cost Management
    09:59 Customer Engagement
    11:00 Databases
    13:21 Developer Tools
    13:50 End User Computing
    14:36 Front-End Web & Mobile
    14:49 Internet of Things
    16:02 Management and Governance
    17:35 Media Services
    17:54 Migration and Modernisation
    18:42 Networking and Content Delivery
    19:03 Security, Identity and Compliance
    19:39 Storage
    Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/703ExtendedShownotes.html

    January 13, 2025
  • Update Show

    #702: AWS News Update, December 16,…

    Simon Elisha

    In the final episode of the year Simon takes you through over 160 new updates! It is "pre:Invent"! Chapters: 00:50 Analytics 05:03 Application Integration 09:47 Artificial Intelligence 12:20 AWS Marketplace 12:48 Business Applications 14:05 Compute 16:34 Cost Management 17:53 Databases 20:09 Developer Tools 21:43 End User Computing 22:18 Front End Web & Mobile 22:27 Game Tech 22:34 Internet of Things 22:55 Management & Governance 24:09 Media Services 24:53 Migration & Modernization 28:10 Quantum Technologies 25:35 Networking & Content Delivery 28:09 Quantum Technologies 28:31 Security, Identity, & Compliance 29:31 Storage

    Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/702ExtendedShownotes.html

    December 16, 2024
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Top Episodes of 2023

The Official AWS Podcast and host Simon Elisha, and recent addition Jillian Forde, have provided weekly updates on new AWS services across the cloud since 2012. Having hosted more than 400 guests and dozens of companies from across industries, the podcast has become your source for the latest tips, tools, and use cases for AWS services. Check out these popular episodes to get a taste of what awaits.


Generative AI Roundup

Simon takes you on a tour of AWS generative AI capabilities related to software development, AI policy, foundation models, new instance types, CPUs and more.

INTRODUCING AWS Lambda SnapStart

Learn about the newly released AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java, delivering up to 10x faster function startup performance. SnapStart is a performance optimization feature that initializes your function ahead of time and caches a snapshot of its execution environment. When your function is then invoked - or scales up - AWS Lambda resumes execution from that snapshot, instead of initializing your function from scratch, significantly improving cold starts. You can enable SnapStart for new or existing Java-based serverless applications such as financial computations, machine learning inference, synchronous APIs, or data processing.

Simplifying Kubernetes on bare metal with EKS Anywhere

Amazon EKS Anywhere is a deployment option for Amazon EKS that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure, supported by AWS. With support for bare metal deployments on Amazon EKS Anywhere, customers now have a broader choice of infrastructure for running Kubernetes on-premises. As customers modernize their applications, they want to use Kubernetes consistently between their existing on-premises bare metal infrastructure and the cloud. Running Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure is complex, and customers spend time, effort and money on infrastructure operations instead of focusing on business innovation. In this podcast, you will learn how Amazon EKS Anywhere on bare metal enables customers to automate all steps - from bare metal hardware provisioning to Kubernetes cluster operations - using a bundled open source toolset built on the foundation of Tinkerbell and Cluster API.

AWS Data Lab

AWS Data Lab helps customers shave months off of their development timelines by providing an engagement that pairs their teams of builders with dedicated AWS technical resources - helping them make architectural decisions faster, remove technical roadblocks, build with confidence, and build fast! In this episode, Angie Gould (Manager of Product Management) and Hunter Carlisle (Manager of Solutions Architecture) join Simon to talk about how the AWS Data Lab is helping customers across the globe build solutions on AWS. They dive into common projects that customers work on in the lab, how customers are using machine learning in industries like sports and finance, what to expect, and how to get started.