LogiCast AWS News (Video)

Episode 7 - Crocs, Cigars, and Cloudformation

In Episode 7 Karl & Jon discuss RDS events, migrating elastic IPs between regions, CloudFormation vs Terraform, RDS & Aurora region migration and Re:Invent 2022 predictions. They also go off on a tangent about Croc charms and 1970s TV cigar advertisements…
Amazon RDS events now include attributes for filtering with Amazon SNS
AWS Supports Transfer of IP Addresses Between Accounts
Cloudformation or Terraform: Which Iac Platform Is the Best Fit for You?
Migrate Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS to a new AWS Region
10 Predictions And A Wishlist From AWS Re:Invent 2022

Episode 6 - Patching, Scheduling & Smart Meters

In episode 6 Karl & Jon discuss AWS Resource Explorer, EventBridge Scheduler, EC2 Replace Root Volume, AWS Global Accelerator versus Amazon CloudFront, and some AWS best practices.
Here are the links that inspired this week's episode:
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/11/ec2-replace-root-volume/
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/Compare-AWS-Global-Accelerator-vs-Amazon-CloudFront
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-resource-explorer-quickly-find-resources-in-your-aws-account/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-amazon-eventbridge-scheduler/
https://www.logicata.com/blog/aws-best-practices-for-edtech/

Episode 5 - S3, Scaffolding & Magic

In episode 5 Karl & Jon discuss leaky S3 buckets, the new AWS us-east-1 architecture, multi-region python package publishing pipelines, public cloud spending and the Gartner magic quadrant for cloud infrastructure and platform services. There's also a questionable scaffolding pun...
Here are the articles that inspired this week's episode:
New open-source tool scans public AWS S3 buckets for secrets
AWS Support will no longer fall over with US-EAST-1, after architectural rebuild
Create a Multi-Region Python Package Publishing Pipeline with AWS CDK and CodePipeline
Gartner: Spending on public cloud services will exceed $591B in 2023
AWS Named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant for the 12th Consecutive Year

Episode 4 - Sheds, Datacenters & Diesel

In episode 4, Karl & Jon discuss serverless graph databases, Lambda secrets, Amazon RDS backup storage costs, Cloudwatch synthetic monitoring, and datacenter diesel generators. Jon is in a different shed, and Karl goes off on a tangent about Southend Pier...
Here are the articles that inspired this week's episode:
How serverless is transforming graph databases
AWS Introduces AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension to Improve Performances and Security
Demystifying Amazon RDS backup storage costs
Monitoring the availability and health of on-premises application using AWS CloudWatch Synthetics
AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Episode 3 - Waffle, Cheesecake & Snowballs

In episode 3, Karl & Jon discuss data center carbon emissions, desktop as a service, edge computing, Idendity and Access Management, and API Gateway. They also touch on beard grooming disasters and how their dessert choices reflect their personalities…
Here are the articles which inspired this episode:
Uptime Institute tool shows emissions savings of migrating workloads
AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS
AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory
IAM Role Trust Update – What You Need to Know
AWS API Gateway Pricing Explained
And Jon also referred to this article about Crunch and DaaS

Episode 2 - Cats, Cars & Chaos Snails

In Episode 2, Jon and Karl discuss chaos engineering, connected cars, and SQL database backups on AWS. They also touch on AWS Serverless Application Model connectors, and how Cloud Native Computing is good for the environment. And they get interrupted by Jon's cat, Mouse.

Episode 1 - Hello World!

The very first episode of the Logicast AWS News Podcast, brought to you by Logicata. This week we talk about what AWS actually is, the new AWS Filecache service, health & wellness apps, taps (!) and AWS Compute Optimizer.