In this special episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Tiffany and Seb sit down with Jeff Barr, VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS, to celebrate 20 incredible years of the AWS News blog. Jeff shares the origin story of the blog, the values that shaped its growth, and his unique approach to making technical concepts accessible to developers worldwide.

Jeff also reflects on some of the blog’s milestone moments, from covering the beta release of Amazon SQS in 2004 to the launches of Amazon S3 and EC2 in 2006.

With the announcement of his decision to step away from the AWS News blog to focus on deep-dive development activities, Jeff opens up about what’s next for him and his passion for technology.

Join us as we celebrate two decades of impactful blogging and gain insights into Jeff’s remarkable journey at AWS.

With Jeff Barr, VP, Chief Evangelist, AWS

Jeff's post to announce the 20th anniversary of the AWS News blog channel

The very first post on the AWS News blog channel (09 Nov 2004)

Amazon SQS beta (21 Apr 2005)

Amazon S3 launch (14 Mar 2006)

Amazon SQS launch (13 Jul 2006)

Amazon EC2 beta (25 Aug 2006)

In this episode, cloud analyst and observer Corey Quinn shares his observation about trends and news from this week's AWS re:Invent conference,

With Corey Quinn, Cloud Economist, The Duckbill Group

Last week in AWS

Get the details of the main launches at re:Invent, read the AWS News blog

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Tiffany and Seb discuss with Salih aboutthe new capabilities of AWS Amplify AI Kit, focusing on how it simplifies the process of building cloud-powered applications with generative AI. They explore the features of Amplify, including its ease of use for front-end developers and the integration of AI capabilities. The conversation also touches on cost considerations, future developments for the Amplify AI Kit, and practical examples of applications that can be built using this technology.

With Muhammed Salih Güler, Developer Advocate, AWS

AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify UI Library

AWS Amplify sample code

AWS Amplify gen 2 in the AWS Developers Podcast

AWS Amplify AI Kit

AWS Amplify GitHub

AWS Amplify Discord

AWS Amplify AI Kit - Getting Started

AWS Amplify AI Kit - tutorial

AWS Amplify AI Kit - a 8 minutes video to show you how to build a chat app

Blog : Create a Customized AI-Based Chat Interface With Your Application Data

Blog : Build a Travel Planner with React Native, AWS Amplify, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base

Blog : Building RAG-based applications with AWS Amplify AI Kit and Neon Postgres

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Seb and Ran Isenberg discuss the automation of IAM policies across multiple AWS accounts. They explore the challenges faced in managing security and access in a multi-account environment, the design and implementation of an automation architecture that simplifies these processes, and the significant improvements in developer experience and operational efficiency achieved through this automation. Ran shares insights into the open-source project that supports this automation and discusses future enhancements and community engagement.

With Ran Isenberg, Software Architect, CyberArk

Ran the builder

Blog: Serverless Governance of Software Deployed with AWS Service Catalog

Blog: Amazon CloudFormation Custom Resources Best Practices with CDK and Python Examples

Blog: AWS Security Best Practices: Leveraging IAM for Service-to-Service Authentication and Authorization

Blog: Export CloudWatch Logs to Third-party Observability Tools with Serverless

The GitHub repo we talked about: Auto Cross Account Access Service

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we discuss the Multi-Agent Orchestrator, an open-source framework designed to facilitate the orchestration of multiple AI agents. The conversation covers the challenges of building generative AI solutions, the need for specialized agents, and how the orchestrator functions as a smart router for directing user queries to the appropriate agents. They explore real-world use cases, including an e-commerce support system, and discuss the integration of new agents into the framework. The episode also compares the orchestrator with Amazon Bedrock's Converse API, highlighting the unique capabilities of the orchestrator in managing multiple agents.

With Corneliu Croitoru, Prototyping Architects, AWS ; With Anthony Bernabeu, Prototyping Architects, AWS

The multi agent orchestrator

Use case 1: From 'Bonjour' to 'Boarding Pass': Multilingual AI Chatbot for Flight Reservations

Use case 2: Beyond Auto-Replies: Building an AI-Powered E-commerce Support system

Use case 3: Speak Up, AI: Voicing Your Agents with Amazon Connect, Lex, and Bedrock

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Seb speaks with Peter Lavelle and Edward Sun about Twilio, and the complexities of authorization in cloud applications. They discuss the evolution of Twilio Flex, the challenges faced in implementing a sophisticated authorization model, and the decision-making process behind choosing between graph-based and policy-based authorization systems. The conversation also highlights the benefits of Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP) and the Cedar Policy Language, emphasizing the importance of decoupling authorization logic from business logic for better scalability and maintainability. This conversation delves into the implementation and benefits of AWS Verified Permissions (AVP) and the Cedar policy language. The speakers discuss the Quick Start experience for users, the challenges of policy-based systems, and the importance of automated reasoning in policy verification. They also explore metadata management, the flexibility of local versus central evaluation in authorization, and the implementation timeline for Twilio's use of AVP. The discussion highlights the growing adoption of these technologies and their potential future applications.

With Peter Lavelle, Principal Software Engineer, Twilio ; With Edward Sun, Solution Architect, AWS

Twilio

Google Zanzibar

Amazon Verified Permission

Cedar: Learn about the language, tutorial and playground

AWS blog: How we designed Cedar to be intuitive to use, fast, and safe

AWS blog: Authorize API Gateway APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Julian Wood hosts a discussion with Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer involved in the creation of AWS Lambda. They explore the origins of Lambda, its evolution, and the impact of serverless technology on modern computing. The conversation delves into customer-centric innovations, the challenges of event-driven architectures, and the future of serverless in the context of generative AI. Mark reflects on the journey of Lambda, the lessons learned, and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead for serverless technology.

With Marc Brooker, VP/Distinguished Engineer, AWS ; With Julian Wood, Developer Advocate, AWS

AWS Lambda

Firecracker microVM

How Lambda loads data from the block devices

In this conversation, Vadym Kazulkin discusses AWS Lambda Snap Start, a feature designed to reduce cold start latency for Java applications in AWS Lambda. The discussion covers the challenges of cold starts, how Snap Start works, its impact on performance, and optimization techniques such as priming. Kazulkin shares insights from his extensive benchmarking and the implications for developers using AWS Lambda. The discussion also touches on challenges developers may face when using Snap Start, particularly in relation to randomness and caching mechanisms. Kazulkin encourages developers to revisit Java on Lambda with the new optimizations available, highlighting the evolving landscape of serverless computing.

With Vadym Kazulkin, Head of development at ip.labs

The first of 26 articles about Lambda SnapStart benchmarking

AWS Lambda Snap Start for Java functions

AWS Lambda cold start

Firecracker microVM

Impact of latency on revenue

AWS CRT

How Lambda loads data from the block devices

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Seb and Arthur discuss the Graviton processors and the Arm64 architecture. They explore the evolution of AWS's custom hardware, the benefits of adopting Arm architecture for AWS and developers, and the ease of porting applications to Arm64. The conversation also covers the challenges faced during migration, strategies for performance optimization, and the future of Graviton in AWS.

With Arthur PetitPierre, Solution Architect, AWS

AWS Graviton

Arm64 migration guide

Java Native Interface (JNI)

In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, the hosts discuss trusted identity propagation with Joseph De Clerck and Raphael Koike. Trusted identity propagation (TIP) allows organizations to propagate the actual user identity downstream to AWS services. It enhances IAM roles with the actual user identity, enabling fine-grained access control and simplifying IAM role management. The benefits of TIP include improved security posture, fine-grained access control, simplified user experience, and support for various OAuth 2.0 flows. Services that currently support TIP include Lake Formation, S3 Access Grants, Redshift Query Editor, EMR Studio, Athena, and Amazon QuickSight.

With Joseph de Clerck, ProServ Consultant, AWS ; With Rafael Koike, Solution Architect, AWS

IAM Identity Center

Trusted Identity Propagation

Integrate Tableau with Trusted Identity Center