Sick of shuffling data around just to get your AI going? Let’s learn how to crush those roadblocks with STEMINISTS hosts Phoebe Goh and Mekka Williams, as they pull back the curtain with some exciting news straight from AWS re:Invent. It will upend how you handle cloud storage, making AI and analytics not just easier, but ruthless in efficiency. 

We sit down with Vidhya Nagarajan, Senior Product Manager for AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP, and break down the new groundbreaking integration that allows FSx for NetApp ONTAP to serve as direct storage infrastructure for AWS S3-based services. Vidhya explains how this new feature solves the massive headache of copying data to S3 buckets, eliminating data duplication, reducing costs, and ensuring data consistency. 

Whether you’re in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), looking to speed up chip design or in Healthcare managing sensitive EMR data, this episode reveals how you can now leverage more than 50 AWS AI and analytics tools—like Bedrock, Glue, and Athena—without ever moving your data. 

Plus, stay tuned to the end to hear about Vidhya’s "Cool and Current" activity, where she shares how her home has turned into a Lego engineering lab for Formula 1 cars with her son. 

Read the official AWS News Blog for more on FSx for NetApp ONTAP: https://www.netapp.com/blog/data-access-s3-access-points-fsx-ontap/  

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