

AWS Podcast
Amazon Web Services
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 and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren 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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Feb 17, 2017 • 26min
#175: Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Matt Wood
Simon sits down with Dr Matt Wood, GM of Artificial Intelligence at AWS, to talk about the emerging world of AI. They also do a little reminiscing of days gone by!
Shownotes:
Amazon Lex: https://aws.amazon.com/lex/
Amazon Polly: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Amazon Recognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
Apache mxnet: http://mxnet.io

Feb 12, 2017 • 13min
#174: Amazon Elastic File System
In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) aws.amazon.com/efs.

Feb 6, 2017 • 13min
#173: AWS OpsWorks
In this episode Simon discusses AWS OpsWorks with Amir Golan, Senior Product Manager. They discuss what it can do, how customers use it - and its strengths in fleet management.
https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/

Jan 27, 2017 • 14min
#172: Startup-Interview - Beme
In this episode Simon chats with Matt Hackett, CTO at Beme (now acquired by CNN), all about how Beme was built and some of the challenges of building video-related apps today vs in the “old days” at his time at Tumblr. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS.

Jan 23, 2017 • 53min
#171: Serverless Special
A special extended episode this week discussing Serverless. Bryan Liston, Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaks with Matt Weagle, Ant Stanley & Ben Kehoe. They discuss serverless architectures, testing and other fun topics!
Shownotes:
AWS re:Invent 2016 Audio Library: http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2016/2016.html
Building Serverless Applications: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/serverless-architectures-learn-more/
AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

Jan 16, 2017 • 21min
#170: Scale & Security with Amazon ElasticSearch
In this episode Simon chats with Jon Handler, Principal Solutions Architect, about scaling and securing the Amazon ElasticSearch Service with some deeper-dive examples of what to do. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/

Jan 9, 2017 • 16min
#169 - Backup Options in the Cloud
In this episode Simon chats with Drew Meyer, Head of Product Marketing for AWS Storage Services all about backup options to the cloud. They cover connector technologies, tiering and other considerations. https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/backup-and-recovery-using-aws/

Dec 21, 2016 • 20min
#168 - Start-Up Interview - Prevoty
In this episode Simon has a wide-ranging chat with Kunal Anand, CTO & Co-Founder of Prevoty, about building their product on AWS, the challenges of scale and the future of software architectures. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS
www.prevoty.com

Dec 19, 2016 • 12min
#167 - AWS Server Migration Service
In this episode Simon sits down with Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect, to walk through the new AWS Server Migration Service. https://aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service

Dec 13, 2016 • 20min
#166 - Start-up Interview - Splash
Simon has a conversation with Conrad Rushing, VP Engineering at Splash. They discuss Docker, Continuous Deployment, Team Structure and lots of other goodies. This Startup Spotlight is brought to you by Intel and AWS.
www.splashthat.com


