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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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.
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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.
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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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#707: AWS News: DeepSeek R1 Models…
Jillian Forde. Shruti KoparkarJoin 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
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Deep Dive
#706: Automate LLM fine-tuning and…
Shruti Koparkar, Piyush Kadam, Lauren MullennexThis 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/
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#705: AWS News Update, January 27,…
Simon Elisha, Jillian Forde, Shruti KoparkarOur 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
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#704: Scaling your relational database on…
Simon Elisha, Josh HartAre 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.
- Check out more examples of building modern data architectures on AWS in the AWS Data for SaaS patterns repository on GitHub (https://github.com/aws-samples/data-for-saas-patterns)
- Dive deeper into scaling relational databases with this 2 part blog series on the AWS database blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/scale-your-relational-database-for-saas-part-1-common-scaling-patterns/)
- Head over to YouTube to find more on-demand content for scaling databases (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoqD0z_296PbKATwUcaGowmOJwlE_2ysP)
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#703: AWS News Update, January 13,…
Simon ElishaIt 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
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#702: AWS News Update, December 16,…
Simon ElishaIn 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
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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.