AWS Podcast

Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS service that will help you get start with quantum computing. Today Simon is joined by Richards Moulds, General Manager for Amazon Braket here at Amazon, to learn all about this recently launched service. They will cover some interesting questions around quantum computing, dig into the common customer challenges, and why the team built the service. https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

Learn how one of the oldest museums in the world moved their collections online. Hear from the customer about the journey they took with AWS and the benefits a long term close working relationship brings to complex projects. Can you link to the case study, the partner case study and a video interview as well ? https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/glam/ https://video.cube365.net/v/tnPdwgYZtrg https://www.cirrushq.com/case-studies/taking-the-collections-of-oxford-universitys-museums-online/

AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, machine learning inference, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. In this podcast, learn more about AWS Graviton2 processors, their instances, use cases, ecosystem support, and customer adoption stories. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

A massive range of updates that Simon & Nicki walk you through! Chapters: 00:53 AWS Marketplace 01:52 Analytics 06:49 Application Integration 07:41 Business Applications 08:15 Compute 14:09 Customer Engagement 15:08 Databases 18:38 Developer Tools 22:16 End User Computing 22:46 Internet of Things (IoT) 24:54 Machine Learning 30:34 Management & Governance 36:10 Media Services 36:45 Migration & Transfer 40:06 Mobile 40:41 Networking & Content Delivery 42:29 Robotics 43:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 46:23 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/382ExtendedShownotes.html

How can you optimize serverless applications for cost and performance? Simon and Alex Casalboni talk about AWS Lambda Power Tuning, an open-source tool that can help you visualize and fine-tune the memory/power configuration of Lambda functions in a data-driven fashion. https://github.com/alexcasalboni/aws-lambda-power-tuning

Today Simon is joined by Michael Lin, Principal Product Manager on the RDS team, to discuss the recent launch RDS on Outposts. They'll discuss how you can use RDS on Outposts as an extension of the cloud with an easy console experience, the benefits that it gives to your enterprise, and what use cases it will be best suited for. Find more information here: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/outposts/

What can you do with petabytes of earth observation data and scalable compute infrastructure to help support decision making at the continental scale? Simon brings together representatives from Geoscience Australia, the South African National Space Agency and AWS to talk about Digital Earth Africa, a new geospatial analysis platform, sponsored by the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, that is launching soon in the Cape Town region.

Lots of cool updates to catch up on this week! Chapters: 00:31 Analytics 04:04 Business Applications 05:27 Compute 10:13 Cost Management 11:15 Customer Engagement 13:28 Databases 18:19 Developer Tools 21:09 End User Computing 21:37 Internet of Things (IoT) 22:15 Machine Learning 26:16 Management & Governance 30:42 Media Services 32:35 Migration & Transfer 34:09 Mobile 35:30 Networking & Content Delivery 37:10 Security, Identity and Compliance 38:36 Storage 40:05 Training & Certification Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/378ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon QLDB has been generally available since Sep 2019. Hear from the team who built it about what a ledger database is, how its different from a blockchain, and how are customers using it today. https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/

Simon and Nicki share everything you need to keep up to date with AWS! Chapters: 01:10 AWS Marketplace 02:33 Analytics 03:03 Blockchain 03:55 Business Applications 05:17 Compute 06:33 Customer Engagement 06:57 Database 10:42 Developer Tools 12:08 Machine Learning 13:39 Management & Governance 15:44 Mobile 18:16 Networking & Content Delivery 19:17 Security, Identity & Compliance 21:14 Storage 23:54 AWS Solutions 25:47 Wrap up Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/375ExtendedShownotes.html