Amplify Studio is a new visual interface that lets front-end and full-stack developers go from Figma design to full-stack React app, both cloud-connected backend and front-end UI components, in hours. In this episode, Simon is joined by Nikhil Swaminathan (Senior Manager, Product Management) to discuss all things AWS Amplify. They dig into the future of web and mobile app development, why the team built the service, and how startups and enterprises are accelerating their development on AWS.

Learn more about Amplify - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/

Learn more about Amplify Studio - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio/

Learn more about Amplify Hosting - https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/hosting/

Some very cool updates to share this week!

Chapters

00:23 AWS Marketplace

00:57 Analytics

07:05 Application Integration

09:31 Compute

18:08 Cost Management

18:43 Customer Engagement

21:29 Database

24:54 Developer Tools

25:40 End User Computing

26:24 Front-end Web & Mobile

29:17 Game Tech

30:33 Internet of Things (IoT)

30:55 Machine Learning

36:41 Management & Governance

39:59 Networking & Content Delivery

42:19 Security, Identity and Compliance

43:43 Storage

Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/516ExtendedShownotes.html

Fintechs are enabling seamless payments and are increasingly providing more options, like extending credit through data analytics. Emerging technology is driving these new capabilities that are giving consumers flexibility, ease, and proven security. Principal Fintech Business Development Manager Sekai Ndemanga shares how customers like Venmo & Aella are developing emerging payment options and leveraging AI/ML to authenticate loans.

Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/startups/FinTech/

Live interactive video use cases are more prevalent than ever, spanning across socials apps, ecommerce, fitness, education, and more. Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is a fully managed low latency live video streaming AWS service that handles ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and delivery of your live content, using the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch. In this episode, Simon is joined by Anoop Kumar, (Director of Partnerships for Amazon IVS) to discuss how developers, customers and partners are using Amazon IVS to build unique, interactive experiences quickly and effectively.

Get started with Amazon IVS - https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/

Learn more - https://ivs.rocks/

Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/tag/amazon-ivs/

Get a behind the scenes look at how AWS Partners innovate to help customers succeed. In this episode, Simon is joined by and Brad Coughlan (Founder and Managing Director) and Paul Macey (Chief Data and Analytics Officer) from The Data Foundry, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides a range of data, analytics and ML services and scalable solutions that turn customer data into decision-enabling insights.

Learn more about TDF - https://www.thedatafoundry.com.au/

Here come the updates! Hopefully something in there for you! Chapters 00:22 Analytics 01:18 Application Integration 01:52 Business Applications 03:06 Compute 06:12 Cost Management 07:10 Customer Engagement 08:04 Database 09:53 Front-end Web & Mobile 10:35 Machine Learning 12:12 Management & Governance 14:53 Networking & Content Delivery 15:51 Quantum Technology 16:23 Robotics 16:33 Security, Identity and Compliance 17:32 Storage Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/512ExtendedShownotes.html

Enterprises today face significant challenges with exponential data growth. Regulatory compliance requires long retention periods for a lot of that data. In this episode, Simon is joined by Joe Fitzgerald, (GM of S3 Glacier) to discuss how to store data more cost effectively, while unlocking the value of your data. Simon and Joe dig into how petabytes of data, such as medical records, news media content, and manufacturing datasets, often need to be stored indefinitely. They also talk through how utilizing AWS data archiving solutions can eliminate the infrastructure management headache for your team, and explain why there is no better place for archive data to be than in AWS.

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

Get started - https://go.aws/3IqsBb0

Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes - https://go.aws/3IrljUj

Amazon S3 Glacier storage tutorial - https://go.aws/3KUi1dU

How can AWS help you meet your sustainability goals? Tune in to listen to Simon Elisha chat with Jon Randelman and Liam Greenamyre (Senior Product Managers, AWS) about the new customer carbon footprint tool, which allows you to measure, track, and even forecast the carbon emissions associated with your AWS usage. They dive into how the tool helps you understand and reduce your carbon footprint, how the tool came about, and how AWS helps customers lower their overall carbon footprint.

Customer carbon footprint tool - https://go.aws/3CNdgQM

Read the blog - https://go.aws/36kTnUO

Learn more AWS Sustainability - https://go.aws/3MVE99u

A great bunch of updates to keep you informed! Remember you can record feedback at https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

Chapters:

00:23 Analytics

02:45 Application Integration

03:31 Compute

06:39 Customer Engagement

07:03 Database

11:07 Developer Tools

12:03 Front-end Web & Mobile

12:50 Game Tech

13:27 Internet of Things (IoT)

14:07 Machine Learning

16:47 Management & Governance

21:18 Migration & Transfer

22:32 Networking & Content Delivery

23:48 Security, Identity and Compliance

24:24 Storage

Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/509ExtendedShownotes.html

Amazon FSx provides fully managed file storage in the cloud and offers capabilities and performance of popular commercial and open-source file systems. Customers can choose between four file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre. In this episode, Simon is joined by Andrew Crudge, (Principal Product Manager, AWS) and Delwin Olivan, (Senior Product Manager, AWS) to dive into the Amazon FSx family, discussing the latest Amazon FSx innovations and use cases, as well as AWS programs to help you migrate and modernize your file-based applications faster.

Choosing a file system - https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/when-to-choose-fsx/

AWS Storage blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/

Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/