AWS TechChat

In this episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dean cover updates that aid in optimising your server and container operations via the Amazon Linux Upgrade Assistant and Amazon ECS Enhanced Container Dependency Management respectively. They also cover how applications in an Amazon VPC'es (Virtual Private Cloud)can now securely access AWS PrivateLink endpoints across VPC peering connections. Finally they look at emerging trends and technologies customers are using to experiment and innovate for their businesses.

In this episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dr. Pete reflect on changes to the AWS platform that have occurred over the years. They review the services that often go hidden away. Whilst often niche to the masses, they are important and are the unsung heroes which can affect developer and operational productivity. Shane talks about patterns and anti-patterns for AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. They then pivot to AWS Certificate Manager and explain a little bit about public and private certificates, and how AWS Certificate Manager regardless if you are a developer or an operational person makes your life easier. Lastly, they cover AWS Simple Email Service which is a reliable and simple way to send email and how it can easily slot in to you landscape.

Its the new year and a new episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dr. Pete look over the 50 or so announcements post re:Invent.

They talk about price cuts for AWS Fargate of up to 50%, introduce Server 2019 Amazon EC2 AMI's and what it brings to the table and why you should upgrade. They introduce 3 new services, AWS Backup, AWS Client VPN and Amazon WorkLink and talk about the latest Amazon EC2 Placement group feature and partition placement groups.

In this bumper episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Tom close out our 3 part re:Invent special with an episode for the builders. They talk through the added functionality released around AWS Lambda, and there is a lot. AWS Lambda as a ALB Target, AWS Lambda Layers providing common dependencies across functions and Lambda Custom Runtimes allowing you build AWS Lambda functions with your own runtimes. They introduce StepFunctions API Connectors enabling customers to workflows that consume AWS services without writing extensive code and lastly the AWS Amplify Console which provides continuous delivery and hosting services for mobile and web applications

In the second part of AWS re: Invent 2018 recap episode, Shane is joined by Tom McMeekin, Solutions Architect, AWS. They dive into important Machine Learning and AI announcements around Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Inference, AWS Optimized for TensorFlow, Amazon DeepRacer, Amazon SageMaker Neo, Amazon Textract, Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast.

In this bumper episode of AWS TechChat, Dr.Pete and Shane scratch the surface of AWS re:Invent 2018.. This episode will highlight ARM's coming of age with the Amazon EC2 A1 instance powered by the AWS Graviton processor. They will introduce you to Firecracker, a platform that gives customers the hardware virtualization-based security boundaries of virtual machines, while maintaining the smaller package size and agility of containers and functions and lastly they will cover storage updates by introducing you to AWS FSx, which provides two managed file systems and briefly scratch the surface of AWS Transfer for SFTP.“

Joining host Shane in the latest episode of AWS TechChat is special guest Tom McMeekin, Solution Architect, AWS. Shane and Tom discuss updates to Amazon Route 53, support for DNS resolution over inter region VPC, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS CloudFormation.

Dr Pete and Shane are back in the latest episode of AWS TechChat. In this episode we'll be doing a deep dive on database options on AWS. So for all your DBA's out there today, you are in for a treat and for those who aren't DBA's, we will equip you with enough information to show them up at the water cooler. As always, we'll also spend a few moments covering some of the recent announcements on service features and the AWS global infrastructure.

Dr.Pete and Shane are back again with another episode of AWS TechChat! Tune in to find out more about price reductions and the latest AWS updates around Amazon EC2, AWS Storage Gateway, Multi Factor Authentication with Universal 2nd Factor (U2F), AWS Lambda, AWS WAF and Amazon Aurora.

In another exciting episode of AWS TechChat, hosts Dean and Gabe share, the latest AWS events, key releases such as AWS X-Ray adding support for controlling sampling rate from the X-Ray console, Amazon API Gateway adding support for AWS X-Ray, Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access and, dive deep into system observability and hybrid IT.