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Macmillan Learning is one of the largest Learning Companies in the world. Over the last few years, Macmillan has been attempting to create systematic change throughout its organization by equipping employees with the skills to innovate faster and achieve its mission to "change students lives through learning." As a Learning Company, Macmillan has incorporated its own IP and Learning Science methodologies to empower employees. David Merryweather (VP of Cloud Ops and Site Reliability, Macmillan Learning) speaks with Simon about the Macmillan experience so far, and what they have learned. https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us

Simon and Nicki share some handy new updates! 00:48 Infrastructure News 01:54 AWS Marketplace 02:29 Analytics or 02:38 04:21 Compute or 04:23 10:07 Customer Engagement 10:58 Databases 11:47 Developer Tools 13:29 End-user Computing 14:45 Machine Learning 16:02 Amazon Comprehend 17:09 Management and Governance 19:08 AWS Systems Manager 21:47 Networking and Content Delivery 22:38 Internet of Things 23:05 Migration and Transfer 25:24 Mobile 26:03 Networking and Content Delivery 27:48 Quick Starts 29:39 Security, Identity and Compliance 31:30 Storage 35:21 Training and Certification 37:28 Conclusion Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/354ExtendedShownotes.html

AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Simon speaks with Ravi Tulapati to explore how data providers can now reach new AWS audiences, how analysts, researchers, and other data buyers can easily find and subscribe to data sets, and how the billing and delivery of data is simplified for both groups. Learn how you can use AWS Data Exchange to fuel in-place analytics with AWS services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift. https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange/

Customers often have advanced use cases for encryption, like encrypting to multiple recipients, or caching data keys. These can be challenging to get right if you're trying to implement it yourself. The good news is, AWS has released open source tools that make all of that relatively easy. In this episode we'll talk about encryption use cases and the best tools to solve them. https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-s2n-a-new-open-source-tls-implementation/

Simon and Nicki bring in 2020 with a raft of great new updates and capabilities! Chapters: 03:22 Analytics 08:22 Application Integration 08:52 Business Applications 09:42 Compute 16:27 Customer Engagement 17:47 Database 20:22 Developer Tools 23:07 End User Computing 23:52 Game Tech 26:17 Internet of Things 26:52 Machine Learning 33:57 Management and Governance 38:22 Media Services 39:07 Networking and Content Delivery 41:17 Quick Starts 41:47 Satellite 42:27 Security 47:17 Storage 51:01 Training and Certification Extended shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/351ExtendedShownotes.html

How can you implement DevSecOps effectively in your organisation? What are some of the key steps and potential pitfalls? Simon is joined by Raisa Hashem (DevOps Security Specialist) and Paul Hawkins (Security Specialist SA) to discuss practical steps you can take and lessons learned. Shownotes: Security at the speed of cloud (GRC304): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJT0p1UaLw Enforcing Security Invariants with AWS Organizations (SDD314): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30sx0hpY0Y Scale Permissions Management in AWS with Attribute-Based Access Control (SDD350): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_hDc385t4

Simon wraps up AWS re:Invent 2019! Amazon Builders Library | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/check-out-the-amazon-builders-library-this-is-how-we-do-it/ Amplify DataStore | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amplify-datastore-simplify-development-of-offline-apps-with-graphql/ Amplify for iOS and Android | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amplify-for-ios-and-android/ Amazon API Gateway | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-api-gateway-offers-faster-cheaper-simpler-apis-using-http-apis-preview/ EKS ARM Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/eks-preview-arm-processor-ec2-instances-available-more-regions/ ECS Supports AD Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/ whats-new/2019/12/amazon-elastic-container-service-now-supports-active-directory-authentication-using-windows-group-managed-service-accounts/ Chime Meetings App for Slack | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-chime-meetings-app-for-slack/ Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-adds-support-for-real-time-two-way-media-streaming-with-webrtc/

It is the third update show! Simon takes you through some quick updates in the domains of Compute, Data, ML and Business Productivity. AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-lambda-announces-provisioned-concurrency/ Amazon ECS Capacity Providers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ecs-capacity-providers-now-available/ Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ecs-cluster-auto-scaling-now-available/ AWS Fargate Spot | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-launches-fargate-spot-save-up-to-70-for-fault-tolerant-applications/ AWS Step Function Express Workflows | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-aws-step-functions-express-workflows/ EBS Direct APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-launches-ebs-direct-apis-that-provide-read-access-to-ebs-snapshot-data-enabling-backup-providers-to-achieve-faster-backups-of-ebs-volumes-at-lower-costs/ Amazon RDS Proxy | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-rds-proxy-available-in-preview/ Advanced Query Accelerator for Redshift | https://pages.awscloud.com/AQUA_Preview.html Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-amazon-rekognition-custom-labels/ Amazon Sagemaker Deep Graph Library | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-on-amazon-sagemaker-the-deep-graph-library/ Deep Java Library | https://towardsdatascience.com/introducing-deep-java-library-djl-9de98de8c6ca Amazon Chime Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/amazon-chime-meetings-14-aws-regions/

Simon gives you a summary of all the new announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote! Topic || Analytics Announcing Amazon Redshift data lake export: share data in Apache Parquet format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-redshift-data-lake-export/ Amazon Redshift introduces support for federated querying (preview) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-redshift-federated-query-preview/ Amazon Redshift introduces RA3 nodes with managed storage enabling independent compute and storage scaling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-redshift-announces-ra3-nodes-managed-storage/ Ultrawarm for Amazon ElasticSearch | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-ultrawarm-preview-for-amazon-elasticsearch-service/ Topic || Compute Announcing New Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g Instances Powered by Next-Generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-new-amazon-ec2-m6g-c6g-and-r6g-instances-powered-by-next-generation-arm-based-aws-graviton2-processors/ Introducing Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances, high performance and the lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-ec2-inf1-instances-high-performance-and-the-lowest-cost-machine-learning-inference-in-the-cloud/ Introducing AWS Compute Optimizer | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-aws-compute-optimizer/ Introducing AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-aws-local-zone-in-los-angeles-ca/ Announcing AWS Wavelength for delivering ultra-low latency applications for 5G | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-aws-wavelength-delivering-ultra-low-latency-applications-5g/ Announcing General Availability of AWS Outposts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-general-availability-of-aws-outposts/ Amazon RDS on Outposts is available in preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-rds-on-outposts-available-in-preview/ Run Serverless Kubernetes Pods Using Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/run-serverless-kubernetes-pods-using-amazon-eks-and-aws-fargate/ Topic || Storage Amazon S3 Access Points makes it simple to manage access at scale for applications using shared data sets on S3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-s3-access-points-manage-data-access-at-scale-shared-data-sets/ Introducing Access Analyzer for Amazon S3 to review access policies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-access-analyzer-for-amazon-s3-to-review-access-policies/ Topic || Databases Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-managed-apache-cassandra-service-now-in-preview/ Topic || Machine Learning Amazon Sagemaker Studio | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-fully-integrated-development-environment-for-machine-learning/ Amazon Sagemaker Debugger | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-debugger-debug-your-machine-learning-models/ Amazon Sagemaker Monitor | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor-fully-managed-automatic-monitoring-for-your-machine-learning-models/ Amazon Sagemaker | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/ Amazon Sagemaker Autopilot | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-autopilot-fully-managed-automatic-machine-learning/ Amazon Sagemaker Experiments | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-experiments-organize-track-and-compare-your-machine-learning-trainings/ Introducing Amazon SageMaker Support for Deep Graph Library (DGL): Build and Train Graph Neural Networks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-deep-learning-graphs-with-dgl-sagemaker/ Announcing Amazon Augmented AI: Easily Implement Human Review for ML Predictions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-augmented-ai/ Introducing Amazon Fraud Detector - Now in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-fraud-detector-now-in-preview/ Announcing Amazon Kendra: Reinventing Enterprise Search with Machine Learning | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-kendra-reinventing-enterprise-search-with-machine-learning/ Topic || Networking and Content Delivery AWS Transit Gateway now supports Inter-Region Peering | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-transit-gateway-supports-inter-region-peering/ Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager to Centrally Monitor Your Global Network | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-announces-aws-transit-gateway-network-manager/ Run IP Multicast Workloads in the Cloud Using AWS Transit Gateway | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/run-ip-multicast-workloads-aws-transit-gateway/ Announcing Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN for Improved VPN Performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-accelerated-site-to-site-vpn-for-improved-vpn-performance/ Amazon VPC Ingress Routing Makes it Easy to Insert Virtual Appliances in the Forwarding Path of VPC Traffic | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-vpc-ingress-routing-insert-virtual-appliances-forwarding-path-vpc-traffic/ Topic || Security, Identity and Compliance Introducing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-aws-identity-and-access-management-access-analyzer/ Introducing Amazon Detective | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-amazon-detective/ Topic || Customer Engagement Introducing Seneca for Amazon Connect | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/introducing-seneca-amazon-connect/ Topic || Developer Tools AWS announces Amazon CodeGuru for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/aws-announces-amazon-codeguru-for-automated-code-reviews-and-application-performance-recommendations/

Simon kicks off the coverage of re:Invent 2019 with some really interesting announcements in Quantum computing and more - as well as a catch-up on all the previous week's updates! Chapters: 00:12 AWS re:Invent 11:42 Analytics 17:08 Application Integration 17:46 Business Applications 18:08 Compute 21:48 Cost Management 22:09 Customer Engagement 23:00 Database 27:10 Developer Tools 28:26 End User Computing 29:24 Internet of Things 32:02 Machine Learning 34:56 Management and Governance 38:24 Media Services 38:39 Mobile 39:00 Networking and Content Delivery 40:32 Security, Identity and Compliance 42:41 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/346ExtendedShownotes.txt