In Episode 4, Karl & Jon discuss launch templates, Lambda functions, event-driven architectures, incident response automations, expanding US-EAST-1, and Jon's cat decides she doesn't want to listen to him any more.

Here are the links to the articles discussed:

• Amazon EC2 Launch Templates now support AWS Systems Manager parameters for AMIs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) news

In Episode 20 of Season 2, Karl & Jon together with guest Jon Zeolla discuss AWS IAM roles and how to use them, using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, backup strategies for Amazon DynamoDB, developing a serverless Slack App, and how EC2 is exploited in new cryptomining attacks.

Here are links to the articles discussed:

• 02:42 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them via Mariusz Michałowski on DevOps.com

Follow Jon's socials here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonzeolla/

https://jonzeolla.com/

https://seisollc.com/

In Episode 19 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome yet another guest onboard - fellow AWS Community Builder Ben Ellis. They discuss some best practices to optimize Amazon EC2 spot instances, building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines, getting data to the cloud faster, leaky buckets, and reasons to love the cloud.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

• 02:44 Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog

Follow Ben's socials here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benellis80/

https://twitter.com/benb1n

https://www.elliscloud.dev/

In episode 18 of season 2, Karl & Jon discuss Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", private access to the AWS Management Console, Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, AWS Lambda for the containers developer, implementing cross-account CI/CD and the EU's draft legislation on cybersecurity labelling.

Here are links to the articles discussed:

• Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available via Amazon web Services News

In Episode 17 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome another guest on the podcast - fellow AWS Community Builder Matthew Wilson. They discuss the new Athena Provisioned Capacity, how to scan AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector, ChatAWS, understanding cloud costs in 2023, and Prime Video switching from serverless to EC2 and ECS.

Here are links to the articles discussed:

• AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ

Follow Matthew on his socials:

• https://twitter.com/matt_codes

In Season 2 Episode 16, Karl & Jon welcome another guest Danielle Heberling to join the podcast. They discuss new features of Amazon Guard Duty, the differences between ECS and Lambda, reducing data archiving costs, layoffs, and cloud revenue.

Here are links to the articles discussed:

• AWS Announces Three New Amazon GuardDuty Capabilities to Help Customers Protect Container, Database, and Serverless Workloads via Business Wire

Follow Danielle Heberling's socials:

https://www.danielleheberling.xyz/

https://twitter.com/deeheber

https://github.com/deeheber

In Episode 15 of Season 2 Karl & Jon welcome their first ever guest, fellow AWS Community Builder Johannes Koch! Then they talk about VPC Lattice in General Availability, Cloud Native development, saving money on your Lambda bill, Amazon Bedrock and AWS's growth for 2022/2023

Here are links the topics discussed: 

• Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity via Renato Losio on InfoQ

Johannes' socials:

https://www.lockhead.info

https://www.youtube.com/@cicdonaws

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-koch-353b2158/

https://twitter.com/@lockhead

In Season 2 Episode 14, Karl & Jon forget how many articles to discuss and talk about Lambda response streaming, the Well Architected Framework, the new MediaConnect Gateway, EC2 Image Builder (whilst Jon rants about the 1990's), AWS trying to close the digital skills gaps and cloud repatriation gets even more air time.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

• Introducing AWS Lambda response streaming via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog

In unlucky episode 13 Karl & Jon talk about Terraform security, AWS Organizations features, the new Lambda SnapStart feature, optimising costs on CodeBuild, AWS using renewable fuel in their backup generators, Manx vs. Mancs, and whether episode 13 is going to be unlucky (spoiler alert, Karl's phone rang, so maybe it was?)

Here are the links to the articles discussed:

• Terraform Security Best Practices via Nigel Douglas on Sysdig

Now that they're back in their sheds, Karl & Jon talk about unit testing serverless apps, cleaning up after yourself in cloudwatch, write-through caches in PostgreSQL, the correct pronoucieation of "cache", EC2 IAM security, AWS being affected by the Amazon layoffs, and tuna sandwiches

Here are links to the topics discussed:

• Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services via Kevin Hakanson and Tom Romano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog