In this episode, Hawn is joined by Shridhar Kulkarni (Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Cloud WAN. They dive into how AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to bring your network to the cloud, as well as it's efficiency, management, and security benefits. Listen to learn more about AWS Cloud WAN and how to unify your on-premises and cloud networks, and simplify how you build, manage, and monitor your wide area network.

Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloud-wan-a-managed-wan-service/

Read the Network channel blog- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-cloud-wan-preview/

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Simon & Hawn are back! With lots of goodies!

Chapters:

00:31 Analytics

02:27 Application Integration

04:54 Compute

08:39 Customer Engagement

10:12 Database

12:10 Developer Tools

13:44 Front-End Web & Mobile

14:19 Game Tech

15:27 Internet of Things (IoT)

16:48 Machine Learning

20:28 Management & Governance

25:00 Migration & Transfer

25:40 Networking & Content Delivery

30:00 Security, Identity and Compliance

33:53 Storage

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As your business grows to store millions to billions of objects and terabytes to petabytes of data on Amazon S3, it becomes increasingly valuable to use tools and automation to handle that scale. Effective storage cost optimization can require different approaches depending on application latency and access patterns. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Kutsy and Jessie Felix, Amazon S3 product managers, to discuss key considerations for optimizing your storage. Learn how Amazon S3 enables business transformation and helps you innovate faster with a range of storage classes, and tools such as S3 Storage Lens to identify cost savings opportunities.

Learn about Amazon S3 - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering

Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/

Amazon S3 Storage Lens - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-analytics-insights/

In this episode, Hawn is joined by Kareem Syed-Mohammad (Sr. Tech Product Manager for Amazon QuickSight) to discuss the newly launched Fine-Grained Visual Embedding feature, powered by Amazon QuickSight. Learn how to provide rich insights to your end users by seamlessly embedding individual data visuals into applications and high traffic webpages, without server or software setup or infrastructure management. 

Read the blog - https://go.aws/3AsofOH

Watch the demo - https://bit.ly/3dZ7MKh

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Simon & Hawn guide you through updates big and small!

Chapters:

00:28 Analytics

04:00 Application Integration

05:27 Business Applications

06:21 Compute

09:10 Cost Management

09:40 Customer Engagement

10:04 Databases

13:58 End User Compute

14:40 Front-End Web & Mobile

16:27 Internet of Things (IoT)

17:57 Machine Learning

24:30 Management & Governance

29:53 Migration & Transfer

31:17 Networking & Content Delivery

33:09 Security, Identity and Compliance

34:47 Storage

35:26 Training & Certification

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LactApp is a Spanish healthcare startup dedicated to personalized breastfeeding and maternity support. The app offers on-demand, evidence-based breastfeeding guidance in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. To continue its mission, the company needed a new revenue stream and decided to add a subscription tier for video content. But the team soon realized they needed a native video streaming solution and building from scratch was daunting. After doing some research, the CTO discovered the AWS Solution, Video on Demand on AWS Foundation. Listen to the podcast to learn how LactApp implemented the solution, which helped gain 4,500 new paid users in less than a year and increase downloads by +22%.

Neuraflash is an AWS Partner that applies artificial intelligence and data-powered experiences to help customers transform their customer service by making the experience faster, more personalized, and connected across channels. In this special series episode, AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher is joined by NeuraFlash Sr. VP John Heater, to understand why Interactive Voice Repsonse flows (IVRs) are so important to the Contact Center and brand perception, and how the IVR Migration Tool can help organizations transform their customer service experience.

Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/partners/featured/contact-center/

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Amazon OpenSearch Services has new observability features to help you systematically detect potential threats and react to a system's state through an open source solution for machine learning, alerting, and visualization. In this episode, Simon is joined by Rajiv Taori, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to discuss the observability use case and the new capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also dig into the benefits of observability, who it’s for, and share a customer example from Airbnb.

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Learn more about Observability- https://go.aws/3A3Hori

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It is update time! Simon & Hawn have over 70 updates in this episode for you.

Chapters:

00:28 AWS Marketplace

01:09 Analytics

07:08 Application Integration

07:39 Compute

11:29 Customer Engagement

12:01 Database

13:37 Developer Tools

16:35 Front-End Web & Mobile

17:11 Internet of Things (IoT)

18:21 Machine Learning

21:55 Management & Governance

23:19 Media Services

23:43 Migration & Transfer

24:26 Networking & Content Delivery

26:59 Quantum Technologies

27:27 Security, Identity and Compliance

30:24 Storage

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The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. In this episode, Simon is joined by Dr. Saša Baškarada (Worldwide Lead, AWS CAF) and Jason Turse (Senior Practice Manager, Defense Advisory), to discuss the latest updates to the AWS CAF, how customers, partners, and AWS teams are using it, and some of the best practices that the AWS CAF recommends.

Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/

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