Consumer expectations for immersive online buying experiences and headless commerce that meets them wherever they are in their digital world, pose significant technical challenges. Yet, these expanding expectations also offer opportunities to innovate on your core business. What’s more, the work being done now is critical to get ready for what’s next. Hear from AWS Head of Worldwide Digital Commerce Solutions Vince Koh who shares best practices to prepare for the metaverse.

Immersive tech changing retail landscape - https://go.aws/3ryMpUd

Explore purpose-built digital commerce - https://go.aws/3gzj5XI

Retail - https://go.aws/3gzjnhg

Amazon IVS - https://bit.ly/3HBxluX

In this episode, Simon is joined by Girish Bhat (VP of marketing and strategy for Sumo Logic) to discuss changes in the IT landscape and how Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM is responding. Working in silos with legacy, on-premise security no longer works as the world embraces muti-cloud solutions. Hear Girish explain how Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM can detect, investigate, respond and remediate immediately.

Learn more about Sumo Logic - https://go.aws/3seRKPL

A big raft of updates to start the new year!

Chapters:

00:23 Analytics

06:10 Application Integration

08:00 Block Chain

08:42 Business Applications

09:18 Compute

18:42 Cost Management

19:12 Customer Engagement

21:10 Database

23:55 Developer Tools

24:58 End User Computing

25:24 Front-end Web & Mobile

27:58 Internet of Things (IoT)

29:16 Machine Learning

35:57 Management & Governance

39:32 Media Services

40:09 Migration & Transfer

40:48 Network & Content Delivery

41:47 Satellite

42:02 Security, Identity and Compliance

43:00 Storage

Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/502ExtendedShownotes.html

Does your team use feature flags or other dynamic configuration to update your software's behavior during application runtime? In this episode, Simon Elisha speaks with Steve Rice (Principal Product Manager, AWS), Brian Handy (Sr. Software Engineer, AWS), and Vinni Sagar (Technical Product Manager, AWS) about feature flags, Continuous Configuration, and AWS AppConfig. Learn why feature flags are so powerful, and hear how customers (as well as thousands of teams inside Amazon) leverage dynamic configuration to make software changes safely.

About AWS AppConfig - https://go.aws/3FQNpqE

Continuous Configuration blog post by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - https://bit.ly/3Kzpvnq

AWS AppConfig Feature Flags blog post - https://go.aws/32oyTsM

We're celebrating the 500th episode of The Official AWS Podcast! Join Simon Elisha, Nicki Stone, Jeff Barr (VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS) Max Peterson (VP of WW Public Sector, AWS) and more as they discuss how the podcast has grown over the years, their favorite episodes, and what's next at AWS. Special thanks from the entire team for your ongoing support.

Links:

AWS news blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/

(Nicki’s favorite episode) #311: Live Audience Update Show from Sydney Summit - https://go.aws/3ri6e10

Learn how AWS certified experts and consulting firms are using AWS IQ to connect with customers for architecture consulting and hands-on project work. In this episode, Simon speaks with Emily Garrett (Sr. Product Manager at AWS), and Vik Korrapati (Software Developer at AWS) about the types of projects on AWS IQ, best practices for working with customers, and tips and tricks to close more leads.

Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/iq/experts/

Read the user guide: https://go.aws/3HJ2EDI

The EXPLORE Data Science Academy (EDSA) is a premier data science academy in South Africa that offers students an intensive one-year training course and provides a fundamental understanding of software development and cloud computing technologies. In this episode, Simon speaks with Clive Charlton (Head of Solution Architecture at AWS) and Shaun Dippnall (CEO & Co-founder of EDSA) about how the academy gives students a competitive edge, and teaches them how to solve real-world problems using the latest emerging data science technologies.

Learn more about the AWS Africa Region- https://go.aws/3Jx2HUz

Visit the EDSA website: https://explore-datascience.net/

How does building in the cloud make it easier to achieve positive security outcomes? What role does security culture play and how can the department of no become the department of yes? In this episode, Simon speaks with Paul Hawkins from the Office of the CISO at AWS, to answer these questions and share how customers can apply these principles to their own organizations.

Read the blog - https://go.aws/3Epu6UL 

Watch the video - https://bit.ly/3HbZE27 

AWS Security Blog - https://go.aws/3Eql8XB

Watch more - https://bit.ly/3FoVcg4

Why do you need AWS certification? How can you practice the Amazon Leadership Principles through AWS certification? In this episode, Simon is joined by Shailaja Suresh, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS to learn more about how AWS certification can help you grow your career and business.

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

Accelerating the pace of intelligent automation adoption and new product development without adding new devs is possible with Low Code / No Code solutions. With Low Code / No Code, you can gain development time in multiple ways. One example is reducing your business’s tactical dependence on IT and enabling business users to drive their own digital transformation with drag-and-drop interfaces that abstract the codebase. Meanwhile, a large-scale implementation includes using a software platform to assemble and deploy solutions with minimal or no need for additional code. In this episode, Katie speaks with Madhu Raman, AWS Worldwide Head of Intelligent Automation, to learn about current Low Code / No Code implementations and future possibilities.

Listen to episode #485 for an overview of Intelligent Automation at AWS: https://go.aws/30lEFu4

Read the report: https://bit.ly/31Xf5w6