How do you find the right Managed Service Provider for your business? Simon speaks with Adrian SanMiguel about how customers and Partners can make the most of the next-gen MSP ecosystem. https://aws.amazon.com/partners/msp/

How does a CEO change his or her mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and lessons learned. Blog Post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/a-tech-ceos-journey-from-cloud-skeptic-to-evangelist/

Simon and Nicki cover all the latest updates, improvements and price cuts!

Chapters:

00:51 Announcement to Australian Customers - ANZ Public Sector Fast Start Guide (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/beginning-journey-cloud-australia-new-zealand/)

01:50 Analytics

04:19 Application Integration

06:41 Compute

11:36 Customer Engagement

12:54 Database

20:22 Developer Tools

21:49 End User Computing

22:48 Machine Learning

26:41 Management and Governance

33:49 Internet of Things (IoT)

34:15 Media Services

34:37 Network and Content Delivery

35:24 Quick Starts

36:25 Robotics

37:35 Satellite

38:30 Security, Identity and Compliance

41:16 Storage

45:17 Training and Certification

Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/358ExtendedShownotes.html

How do you introduce observabiity in your systems? Simon speaks with Bob Wilkinson (General Manager Amazon CloudWatch and X-Ray) and Sudeeptha Jotjiprakash (Principal Product Manager) about how AWS customers can approach this domain.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch

VPC Traffic mirroring offers a wide range of new capabilities when using AWS. Simon takes a deep dive with Alpana Srivastava and Tom Adamski about how it works and what it can be used for. http://aws.amazon.com/vpc

Macmillan Learning is one of the largest Learning Companies in the world. Over the last few years, Macmillan has been attempting to create systematic change throughout its organization by equipping employees with the skills to innovate faster and achieve its mission to "change students lives through learning." As a Learning Company, Macmillan has incorporated its own IP and Learning Science methodologies to empower employees. David Merryweather (VP of Cloud Ops and Site Reliability, Macmillan Learning) speaks with Simon about the Macmillan experience so far, and what they have learned.

https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us

Simon and Nicki share some handy new updates!

00:48 Infrastructure News

01:54 AWS Marketplace

02:29 Analytics or 02:38

04:21 Compute or 04:23

10:07 Customer Engagement

10:58 Databases

11:47 Developer Tools

13:29 End-user Computing

14:45 Machine Learning

16:02 Amazon Comprehend

17:09 Management and Governance

19:08 AWS Systems Manager

21:47 Networking and Content Delivery

22:38 Internet of Things

23:05 Migration and Transfer

25:24 Mobile

26:03 Networking and Content Delivery

27:48 Quick Starts

29:39 Security, Identity and Compliance

31:30 Storage

35:21 Training and Certification

37:28 Conclusion

Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/354ExtendedShownotes.html

AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Simon speaks with Ravi Tulapati to explore how data providers can now reach new AWS audiences, how analysts, researchers, and other data buyers can easily find and subscribe to data sets, and how the billing and delivery of data is simplified for both groups. Learn how you can use AWS Data Exchange to fuel in-place analytics with AWS services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift.

https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange/

Customers often have advanced use cases for encryption, like encrypting to multiple recipients, or caching data keys. These can be challenging to get right if you're trying to implement it yourself. The good news is, AWS has released open source tools that make all of that relatively easy. In this episode we'll talk about encryption use cases and the best tools to solve them.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-s2n-a-new-open-source-tls-implementation/

Simon and Nicki bring in 2020 with a raft of great new updates and capabilities!

Chapters:

03:22 Analytics

08:22 Application Integration

08:52 Business Applications

09:42 Compute

16:27 Customer Engagement

17:47 Database

20:22 Developer Tools

23:07 End User Computing

23:52 Game Tech

26:17 Internet of Things

26:52 Machine Learning

33:57 Management and Governance

38:22 Media Services

39:07 Networking and Content Delivery

41:17 Quick Starts

41:47 Satellite

42:27 Security

47:17 Storage

51:01 Training and Certification

Extended shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/351ExtendedShownotes.html