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Season 3 Episode 14 - AI Investments, Database Migrations and Red Hats

In Season 3, Episode 14 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Edmund Craske. They discuss AWS Compute Optimizer, per-second billing for EC2 RHEL Instances, Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, Amazon’s $150 Billion Data Center Investment, Amazon’s Investment in Anthropic and Jon gets sidetracked with his plumbing, again...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
04:56 - AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendations 
11:22 - Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances 
14:44 - Achieve faster switchover for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments with large number of connections 
20:37 - Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom 
27:42 - Amazon Pumps Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic 
 
Guest was Edmund Craske
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmundcraske/

Season 3 Episode 13 - Cost Savings, Cold Starts, and Credits Returned

In Season 3, Episode 13 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Vijaya Nirmala Gopal.  
They discuss DynamoDB's AWS PrivateLink support, Secrets Manager integration with Redshift Serverless, a 7-day window for returning Savings Plans, AWS Lambda cold start issues, cost savings of transitioning to AWS from on-premises and Karl speculated that cold starts may be worse in Canada...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
04:11 - Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink 
09:00 - AWS Secrets Manager announces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse 
13:49 - AWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans 
21:15 - Is AWS Lambda Cold Start Still an Issue?
28:32 - Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds 
 
Guest was Vijaya Nirmala Gopal 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayanirmalagopal-5a54159a/

Season 3 Episode 12 - Faster CloudFormation, EBS Restore Testing, and Step Functions vs. Lambda

In Season 3, Episode 12 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Stephen Sennett. They discuss updates to AWS CloudFormation ,AWS Backup, Claude models, Step Functions vs. Lambda Functions, 'builder studio' down under and the guys get sidetracked discussing swag, again...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
06:15 - Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation
10:06 - AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive 
15:56 - Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon Bedrock
22:08 - When to use Step Functions vs. doing it all in a Lambda function 
29:23 - Amazon opens first 'builder studio' down under to accelerate tech innovation 
 
Guest was Stephen Sennett
https://linkedin.com/in/ssennettau

Season 3 Episode 11 - WAF Dashboards, Free Data Transfer & Nuclear Powered AI

In Season 3, Episode 11 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Serverless Hero, Danielle Heberling. They discuss AWS WAF dashboard, Windows authentication on Linux containers, documentation processes, free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS, Nuclear-Powered Data Centers and Jon prepares his tin foil hat...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:05 - Introducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard 
09:24 - Windows authentication with gMSA on Linux containers on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate 
13:40 - Reduce project delays with a docs-as-code solution 
19:48 - Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS 
24:47 - Amazon's AWS Acquires Nuclear-Powered Data Center in Pennsylvania for $650 Million, Expanding Cloud Computing Dominance
 
Guest was Danielle Heberling
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deeheber/
https://danielleheberling.xyz/
https://twitter.com/deeheber
https://github.com/deeheber
https://dev.to/deeheber
 

Season 3 Episode 10 - EventBridge Pipes, Service Catalogue and CloudWatch Logging

In Season 3, Episode 10 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Serverless Hero, Ran Isenberg. They discuss AWS Lambda, AWS CodeStar Connections & AWS Service Catalog, logs in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS for MySQL & Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Cloud Cybersecurity Checkup for SMB in 2024 and the guys go off on tangents about Ikea and Lego...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:07 - AWS Lambda improves responsiveness for configuring stream and queue-based event sources 
08:45 -Streamline Platform Engineering using AWS CodeStar Connections with AWS Service Catalog 
17:51 - Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch
23:28 - Trigger an AWS Lambda function from Amazon RDS for MySQL or Amazon RDS for MariaDB using audit logs and Amazon CloudWatch 
29:10 - How to Do a Cloud Cybersecurity Checkup for Your SMB in 2024: Benefits, Checklists, Requirements, and More 
 
Guest was Ran Isenberg 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranisenberg/
https://www.ranthebuilder.cloud/
https://twitter.com/IsenbergRan
https://github.com/ran-isenberg
https://dev.to/ranisenberg
 
 
 

Season 3 Episode 9: Systems Manager, Terraform State & Cloud Learning Styles

In Season 3, Episode 9 Karl & Jon discuss AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, LLRT, Terraform State files, migrating Cognito users to a new user pool, AWS Cloud learning skills and Jon offers identity management tips that could land you in jail...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
01:32 - AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports cross-account sharing
07:47 - AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps 
13:26 - Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline 
23:08 - What’s the best way to migrate Cognito users to a new user pool?
30:42 - Learn AWS Cloud skills based on your unique learning style 

Season 3 Episode 8 - Control Tower, CodePipeline and AI for Good!

In Season 3, Episode 8 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Benjamen Pyle.They discuss Control Tower, AWS CodePipeline, AI, renewable energy, and Jon has a rant about the hidden message behind Thomas the Tank Engine!
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:12 - AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units 
08:29 - AWS CodePipeline adds support for Branch-based development and Monorepos 
15:21 - Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Cohere embedding models
17:41 - Amazon Web Services signs 98.4MW wind PPA in Oregon
22:40 - 7 ways Amazon is using AI to build a more sustainable future 
 
Guest was Benjamen Pyle:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamenpyle/
https://www.binaryheap.com/
 
 

Season 3 Episode 7 - CloudFormation, IP Cash Cow & the 13Rs of Cloud

In Season 3, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Steve Woodard. They discuss CloudFormation, CDK Migration and Product Overlap Paralysis, IPv4 address charges, the 13 Rs, 4 tech predictions and Jon outs Karl as a MAMIL...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:48 - Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation
11:25 - AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption 
18:58 - IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS
26:15 - The 13 Rs Of Cloud Computing 
 30:16 - 4 tech predictions for 2024 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels 
 
Guest was Steve Woodard:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevewoodardpi/

Season 3 Episode 6 - Console to Code, Crypto Mining and Lava Lamps

In Season 3, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and AWS Ambassador, Martyn Kilbryde. They discuss AWS Console-to-Code, ECS, security reports, AWS Certification, Amazon cloud unit revenue and Karl recalls the time he accidentally invented the Lager Lamp...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
03:07 - AWS Console-to-Code: Generating Code for Console Actions
11:17 - 5 DevOps Use Cases for Amazon ECS
16:20 - Datadog Report Surfaces Pair of Sophisticated AWS Attacks
25:07 - AWS Certification retirements and launches
31:43 - Amazon cloud unit speeds up revenue growth as clients adopt AI services
 
Guest was Martyn Kilbryde
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/martyn-kilbryde/
 https://makit.net/

Season 3 Episode 5 - Lightsail, Cost Optmization and Hyperautomation

In Season 3, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Amelia Hough-Ross. They discuss Lightsail, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, Cloud cost optimization, serverless pricing in AWS, Hyperautomation and Karl tries to get Amelia to share national secrets...
 
The articles discussed in this week episode are:
02:56 - Announcing IPv6 instance bundles and pricing update on Amazon Lightsail
09:37 - Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys: Under the hood 
13:53 - Cloud cost optimization at scale part 1
20:36 - Decode serverless pricing in AWS to avoid high costs 
25:58 - Free Up Your Human Talent With Hyperautomation on AWS 
 
Guest was Amelia Hough-Ross
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliahoughross/