This week Simon & Simone discuss New ElastiCache node types, New AWS developers blogs, an AWS Marketplace update related to Big Data, and a quick mention the AWS Youtube channel.

Simon and Simone cover the AWS re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, in a special podcast episode (almost 30 minutes long). You will hear about the conference setup (Developers lounge, the re: Invent central, re: Play party), new services that have been announced, such as Amazon RedShift and Amazon Data Pipeline, the Keynotes, and many guests interviewed on the spot.

This week Simon & Simone discuss the new Sydney Region launch, Archiving data from S3 to Glacier and using CloudFormation to build a SharePoint server farm.

In Episode #21 of the weekly AWS Podcast, Simon Elisha and Simone Brunozzi discuss various aspects of Amazon EC2 Spot instances (a way for customers to bid on capacity and save money), and the recent release of the TCO Calculator for Web Applications.

Simon and Simone talk about Amazon SES, and the new feature called Mailbox Simulator, which allows you to simulate what happens when sending emails; and they also cover new features for Amazon RDS: it's now possible to use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in Express/Web/Standard edition, and the ability to promote a MySQL Read Replica to a standalone database.

Simon and Simone talk about FinQloud, and in general about enterprise adoption of cloud computing; the upcoming AWS re:Invent conference, and the "Cloud Riders" hackathon in the days before it.

Simon and Simone talk about PIOPS for the Relational Database Service (RDS), the Simple Notification Service and a black belt tip on how to Optimize Provisioned Throughput on DynamoDB.

Simon and Simone talk about S3 CORS, Dynamo Binary Data and conditional writes/reads; Cost Tagging, the new Reserved Instance Marketplace.

Simon and Simone talk about AWS Premium Support, and the "Trusted Advisor", an automated tool that provides technical, fault tolerance and business suggestions to users; some new CloudFront features; new Cluster Compute EC2 instances in US-West-2 and Ireland, and in VPC.

New Direct Connect locations, and DirectConnect now supported on the AWS Console; Amazon RDS for Oracle Database has four new features: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) supported, Oracle APEX supported, Oracle XML DB supported, Oracle Data Pump supported. Elastic Beanstalk now also supports Python and is now available in the Singapore region.