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Season 3, Episode 24: AWS MFA, Glue Transforms, and Cloud Dominance

In Season 3, Episode 24 Karl & Jon discuss MFA, AWS Glue, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, automating cost optimisation, public and private cloud and Karl is thrown by Jon's glue humour...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
 
03:48 - AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you... 
10:10 - AWS Glue adds additional 13 new transforms including flag duplicates 
15:27 - Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock 
20:34 - Optimize Amazon RDS costs for predictable workloads with automated IOPS and throughput scaling 
24:33 - AWS and Azure maintain dominance as top used public cloud platforms in 2024 – Flexera report 
 

Season 3 Episode 23 - Root User Emails, AI CloudWatch Log Queries, and AI Startup Funding

In Season 3, Episode 23 Karl & Jon discuss root users and root emails, Query generator, Amazon GuardDuty, cost optimisation,  AWS Generative AI Accelerator program and Karl, being superstitious, wondered whether Jon's itchy nose meant he was heading for an argument...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
02:25 - Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization 
10:54 - Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generation 
16:55 - Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty 
20:51 - Best practices to optimize costs after mergers and acquisitions with AWS Organizations 
28:37 - Amazon adds $230 million in cloud credits to AI startups 
 

Season 3 Episode 22: Faster Windows Containers, Smarter CloudWatch Alarms, and Easier Tax Settings

In Season 3, Episode 22 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Iain Samuel McLean Elder. They discuss AWS Fargate improving Windows Container Launch Times, Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Alarms, CloudFront, AWS Tax Settings API and the guys discuss the difference between a long black and an americano - and it turns out they don't know!
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
05:21 - AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times 
12:53 - Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI support 
19:11 - Respond to CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon Bedrock Insights 
30:31 - Introducing CloudFront Hosting Toolkit 
37:17 - AWS launches Tax Settings API to programmatically manage tax registration information 
 
Guest was Iain Samuel McLean Elder:
https://www.isme.es/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isme-devops/

Season 3 Episode 21 - IPv6, Small Large Language Models and Leadership Changes

In Season 3, Episode 21 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Darya Petrashka. They discuss IPv6 Load Balancer, storage costs, Mistral models, LlamaIndex, impact of AWS’ exec change and somehow we got onto the subject of Channing Tatum in leathers...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
04:52 - Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients 
11:00 - Optimizing storage costs and query performance by compacting small objects 
17:37 - Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock 
25:08 - Announcing LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune to build GraphRAG applications 
29:08 - What impact will AWS’ exec change have on its AI future? 
 
Guest was  Darya Petrashka:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryapetrashka/?originalSubdomain=pl
 

Season 3 Episode 20 - GitLab Caches In, S3 Billing Fix & AWS CEO Steps Down

In Season 3, Episode 20 Karl & Jon discuss Amazon ECR, the fact that Amazon S3 no longer charges for some HTTP Error Codes,  AWS managed applications, Multi-Region Disaster Recovery, Andy Jassy's AWS leadership announcement and Karl makes Jon speechless for once...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
01:14 - Amazon ECR adds pull through cache support for GitLab.com 
08:10 - Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes 
12:41 - How to use AWS managed applications with IAM Identity Center: Enable Amazon Q without migrating existing IAM federation flows 
17:02 - Multi-Region Disaster Recovery with Amazon EKS and Amazon EFS for Stateful workloads
24:52 - Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement 
 

Season 3 Episode 19: Custom AI Models, Budget Controls, and Singapore Investments

In Season 3, Episode 19 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and AWS User Group Leader, Raphael Manke. They discuss AWS Resilience Hub's drift detection, AWS Budgets, Amazon Bedrock Studio, customising AI on AWS, Amazon’s investment of nearly $9 billion in Singapore and Karl angles for some AWS User Group Karlsruhe stickers...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
05:21 - AWS Resilience Hub expands application resilience drift detection capabilities 
11:15 - AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls 
16:30 - Build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Studio (preview)
23:51 - Amazon tempts enterprises to customize AI on AWS 
30:00 - Amazon’s AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment 
 
Guest was Raphael Manke:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-manke-a61912114/
https://github.com/RaphaelManke

Season 3 Episode 18 - Amazon Q, Expensive Buckets, and $100B Milestone

In Season 3, Episode 18 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Praveen Sambu. They discuss Amazon Q, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS Notifications, AWS S3 Storage Bucket Incident, AWS Revenue and Karl struggles to pronounce Ars Technica without sounding rude...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:32 - Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI
10:58 - Amazon EC2 simplifies visibility into your active AMIs 
14:49 -Set up notifications for Amazon RDS pending maintenance actions 
19:10 - AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300 
25:04 - AWS hits $100B revenue run rate, expands margins, delivers most of Amazon's profit
 
Guest was Praveen Sambu 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-sambu-598141114/

Season 3 Episode 17 - Agentless Inspector , Github Actions Meet Codebuild, and AWS London Summit

In Season 3, Episode 17  Karl & Jon discuss Amazon Inspector hybrid mode, AWS CodeBuild supporting GitHub Action runners, IAM Access Analyzer, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Summit London 2024 and Karl's Dad makes an unintentional guest appearance...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
02:47 - Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 are now Generally Available (GA) 
08:39 - AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action runners 
15:03 - Evaluating public and cross account access at scale with IAM Access Analyzer for Amazon S3 
20:18 - How to monitor AWS WAF logging centrally using Amazon Managed Grafana 
26:15 - AWS Summit London 2024: All the news and updates live 

Season 3 Episode 16 - Certifications, Snowmobiles, and Large Language Models

In Season 3, Episode 16  Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero and AWS Ambassador,  Brian Tarbox. They discuss Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus revolutionizing generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets, optimizing Amazon RDS snapshot costs, Snowmobile, why certification alone isn’t enough in the dynamic world of cloud engineering and this week's tangents included trains and boats and planes!
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:51- Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model now available on Amazon Bedrock 
11:35 - AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets now offer enhanced change visibility for deployments 
17:12 - Programmatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots
23:42 - Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage 
29:35 - Certification is not enough 
 
Guest was Brian Tarbox:
https://briantarbox.com/

Season 3 Episode 15 - Game Days, RDS Cost Optimization, and Cats in the Cloud

In Season 3, Episode 15  Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Rich House. They discuss Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (Sydney), AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Tools for Amazon RDS Cost Optimization, US-EAST-1 Region Insights, Amazon Engineer’s Cybersecurity Efforts and Jon proves he is less adept than Mr Miyagi at catching flies...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
06:07 - Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region 
11:46 - AWS IAM Identity Center now offers a streamlined AWS access portal and shortcut links 
18:10 - AWS tools to optimize your Amazon RDS costs 
28:50 - US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss 
32:34 - How one Amazon engineer is making the internet a safer place for all of us (and cats, too)
 
Guest was Rich House:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-house/