Amazon OpenSearch Services has new observability features to help you systematically detect potential threats and react to a system's state through an open source solution for machine learning, alerting, and visualization. In this episode, Simon is joined by Rajiv Taori, Senior Product Manager at AWS, to discuss the observability use case and the new capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also dig into the benefits of observability, who it’s for, and share a customer example from Airbnb. 

Get started- https://go.aws/3SHO5GO
Learn more about Observability- https://go.aws/3A3Hori
Watch the live demo - https://bit.ly/3A3dbbL
Leave us feedback - https://bit.ly/3zZTMZh

#540: New Observability Features from Amazon OpenSearch Service

It is update time! Simon & Hawn have over 70 updates in this episode for you. 
Chapters:
00:28 AWS Marketplace
01:09 Analytics
07:08 Application Integration
07:39 Compute
11:29 Customer Engagement
12:01 Database
13:37 Developer Tools
16:35 Front-End Web & Mobile 
17:11 Internet of Things (IoT)
18:21 Machine Learning
21:55 Management & Governance
23:19 Media Services
23:43 Migration & Transfer
24:26 Networking & Content Delivery
26:59 Quantum Technologies
27:27 Security, Identity and Compliance
30:24 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/538ExtendedShownotes.html

#539: July 2022 Update Show 2

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. In this episode, Simon is joined by Dr. Saša Baškarada (Worldwide Lead, AWS CAF) and Jason Turse (Senior Practice Manager, Defense Advisory), to discuss the latest updates to the AWS CAF, how customers, partners, and AWS teams are using it, and some of the best practices that the AWS CAF recommends.

Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/
Register for re:Inforce - https://reinforce.awsevents.com/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body
Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

#538: AWS Cloud Adoption Framework 3.0

Media and entertainment (M&E) companies are improving content, reducing churn, and solving persistent challenges, like title matching, with third-party, external data sources. Yet, incorporating external data can be challenging with various vendors and integration methods. In this episode, Harry Lin, AWS Data Exchange Business Development Specialist for M&E, shares emerging data use cases and strategies to simplify data integration into workflows.

Learn more - https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQFMzIRNUfyGUg
Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

#537: [Right Now at AWS] Improve Content & Reduce Churn with External Datasets

With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users—including data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. In this episode, Hawn sits down with Ashish Agrawal, Sr. Technical Product Manager at AWS, to chat about the newly launched Redshift Serverless. Learn about how customers can take advantage of this new serverless option to tackle various use cases in areas of machine learning, reporting and dashboarding, real time analytics, and data sharing without worrying about managing data warehouse infrastructure.

Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless/
Learn more -  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-serverless-now-generally-available-with-new-capabilities/
Watch the video -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcRJjXudIf8
Register for re:Inforce - https://reinforce.awsevents.com/?did=pc_card-body&trk=pc_card-body

#536: [INTRODUCING] Amazon Redshift Serverless

Simon takes you through a rapid-fire series of what is new!
Chapters: 

00:37 Analytics
02:59 Blockchain
03:29 Business Applications
04:00 Compute
07:37 Customer Engagement
09:22 Database
11:22 Developer Tools
12:29 End User Computing
13:24 Front-end Web & Mobile 
14:21 Game Tech
14:54 Internet of Things (IoT)
16:42 Machine Learning
19:46 Management & Governance
22:20 Migration & Transfer
23:54 Networking & Content Delivery
24:36 Security, Identity and Compliance
26:13 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/535ExtendedShownotes.html

#535: July 2022 Update Show 1

In this episode, Simon sits down in the studio with Iain Rouse, GM for AWS Public Sector across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The two have an informative chat about how technologists can develop skills to become business leaders, how to create transparency through ceremony within your team, and making tough decisions to ensure your business stays agile and resilient.

Leave us feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html

#534: Mental Models for Technologists to Become Business Leaders

Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and even a price reduction! 
Chapters:
00:43 Analytics
02:34 Application Integration
03:18 Business Applications
03:48 Compute
06:18 Cost Management
07:14 Customer Engagement
08:04 Database
11:52 Front-end Web & Mobile 
12:19 Internet of Things (IoT)
13:08 Machine Learning
16:38 Management & Governance
19:38 Migration & Transfer
22:17 Networking & Content Delivery
22:59 Security, Identity and Compliance
23:51 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/533ExtendedShownotes.html

#533: June 2022 Update Show 2

While the Cloud has democratized application development by giving on-demand access to compute, storage, database, analytics, and machine learning, the traditional process of building software applications still requires developers to spend a lot of time writing boilerplate sections of code that are not directly related to the core problem that they are trying to solve. In this episode, Atul Deo, Director of Product Management, AWS AI Services joins Simon to discuss Amazon CodeWhisperer, a new ML-powered service that helps improve developer productivity by providing code recommendations based on the developers’ natural comments and their prior code. Listen to learn about CodeWhisperer's features, use cases, and how you can get started. 
Sign up for access - https://pages.awscloud.com/codewhisperer-sign-up-form.html 
Learn more - https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/ 
Read the blog post - https://go.aws/3NigPlr

#532: [INTRODUCING] Amazon CodeWhisperer

In this episode, Simon speaks with Dan Ljungberg, Director of Solutions Engineering at Pillir, about how low-code development expedites modernization. Pillir's platform helps AWS partners create customized business applications, especially in SAP and ERP environments, transforming them to cloud-ready and mobile applications at a fraction of the time and cost. These apps incorporate an organization’s business logic and function regardless of connectivity status. Listen to learn how this low-code approach addresses the developer shortage that is impacting many enterprises.

Learn more - https://www.pillir.io/

#531: AWS Partner Deep Dive: Pillir

The process of ingesting, storing, and processing video files, and associated metadata, is a top media and entertainment use case. It’s also a consideration for any organization that wants to introduce video into its products or workflows. Video requires significant storage capacity, while organizing archives and having the ability to restore needed assets, for everyday and future needs, adds further complexity. To meet these requirements, customers like UKTV are leveraging AWS Solution, Media2Cloud. After a 3-week migration of 3-4 petabytes of data, UKTV found the benefits were immediate. In this episode, hear how UKTV deployed Media2Cloud and gained business agility, improved developer productivity, while also saving 40% on costs.
 
Learn more https://www.linkedin.com/smart-links/AQHuJPzN4XGbFg

#530: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 17 – UKTV Deploys Media2Cloud, Gains Reliability & Saves 40%

Simon & Hawn walk you through updates and also a Q&A from a listener about SAP migration.
Chapters:
01:02 AWS Marketplace
01:32 Analytics
03:46 Application Integration
06:10 Business Applications
06:50 Compute
08:55 Customer Engagement
12:06 Database
13:07 Developer Tools
14:45 Front-end Web & Mobile 
15:22 Machine Learning
20:20 Management & Governance
23:05 Migration & Transfer
24:35 Networking & Content Delivery
26:06 Quantum Technology
27:32 Security, Identity and Compliance
28:37 Storage
31:29 Q&A
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/529ExtendedShownotes.html

#529: June 2022 Update Show 1

In this episode, Hawn is joined by Phil De Valence (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss the newly launched AWS Mainframe Modernization service that makes it easy to design for security, high availability, scalability, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous deployment. AWS Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on AWS. Learn about the ways that AWS can simplify re-platforming and refactoring mainframe applications to help you benefit from cloud agility.

Get started - https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization/
Read the blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/modernize-your-mainframe-applications-deploy-them-in-the-cloud/

#528: [INTRODUCING] AWS Mainframe Modernization

Want an easier way to run big data applications in the cloud? Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless, a new deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. EMR Serverless automatically scales resources up and down to provide just the right amount of capacity for your application. You pay only for what you use and you can minimize concerns about over- or under-provisioning. In this episode, Radhika Ravirala (Principal Product Manager) and Natacha Maheshe (Principal Product Marketing Manager) join Hawn to discuss EMR Serverless use cases, how EMR Serverless addresses customers challenges, and how you can started.

Learn more about EMR Serverless - https://go.aws/390CjW1
Read the blog - https://go.aws/38Q86sA
Check out the What's New announcement - https://go.aws/39bMWFg
Watch the video - https://bit.ly/3NxW0nb

#527: [INTRODUCING] Amazon EMR Serverless

Lots of interesting things to hear about this week!
Chapters:
00:28 Analytics
02:44 Application Integration
03:52 Business Applications
04:07 Compute
10:26 Developer Tools
11:14 Frond-end Web & Mobile
11:39 Games
12:33 Internet of Things (IoT)
13:54 Machine Learning
17:10 Management & Governance
20:36 Migration & Transfer
21:31 Networking & Content Delivery
24:41 Security, Identity and Compliance
25:39 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/525ExtendedShownotes.html

#526: May 2022 Update Show 3

Amazon Connect is an easy to use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies provide superior customer service at a lower cost than traditional contact centers. Join AWS Director of Partner, Jen Walsh Fisher, and Local Measure founder and CEO Jonathan Barouch in this special series episode where they share how Amazon Connect and Local Measure’s purpose-built cloud contact center solution Engage helps businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences by anticipating customer service needs and personalizing customer engagement by offering agents a single pane of glass to improve productivity and provide meaningful customer experiences.

Visit the Amazon Connect Partner Page - https://go.aws/3wwWTWG
Listen to the Amazon and Local Measure Webinar - https://bit.ly/3wHLVg8

#525: [Amazon Connect] Episode 1 - Personalize Customer Engagement By Empowering Agents

Low-code application platform (LCAP) technology allows customers to build applications 72% to 85% faster. It enables technical staff and business users, by supporting core business application development, along with improving process efficiency. Hear about cross-industry and industry use cases, such as quote-to-contract management and eCommerce, and the typical results experienced on AWS.
	
Listen to our episode about low-code no-code solutions - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/495-right-now-at-aws-episode-13-low-code-no-code-solutions/
Learn more about Intelligent Automation - https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/485-right-now-at-aws-episode-12-intelligent-automation/

#524: [Right Now at AWS] Episode 16 - Building Apps Up to 85% Faster, with Low-code Application Platform Tech

Simon and Hawn take you through a whirlwind of cool new things! 
Chapters:
00:48 Analytics
02:05 Block Chain
03:14 Compute
07:07 Customer Engagement
11:32 Database
15:17 Developer Tools
18:53 Internet of Things (IoT)
20:06 Machine Learning
24:34 Management & Governance
27:08 Media Services
27:31 Migration & Transfer
29:30 Quantum Technology
31:15 Security, Identity and Compliance
17:32 Storage
Extended Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/523ExtendedShownotes.html

#523: May 2022 Update Show 2

In this episode, Simon welcomes new Co-Host, Hawn Nguyen-Loughren, to the podcast! They discuss her technical background, ultimate goal of automating herself out of a job, and her iconic nickname. Hawn is a Sr. Manager of Solutions Architechture at AWS. She is a developer at heart who likes to drive the overall system architecture design and execution. She has extensive experience and strong knowledge of software architecture, software development and DevSecOps with over 20 years of experience in the IT software engineering field across diverse industries. Hawn will be joining for Update Shows and leading our Launch Deep Dive episodes, so stay tuned! Have a question for Hawn or Simon? Submit questions or feedback below.

Ask a question or submit feedback - https://d1ox81nm0qxip8.cloudfront.net/index.html
Find Hawn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hawnsolo_1
Connect with Hawn on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hawnsolo/

#522: Presenting…Our New Co-Host!

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) recently launched a new cryptographic capability allowing customers to generate and verify HMACs (hash-based message authentication code). In this episode Nicki  is joined by Matthew Campagna (Sr. Principal Security Engineer, AWS) and Jeremy Stieglitz (Principal Product Manager, AWS) to discuss this foundational cryptographic building block. This new API allows you to generate and verify HMACs using secret keys that never leave the security boundary of KMS’s FIPS 140 certified HSMs.

Learn more - https://go.aws/3vHNYBl
What’s New posts - https://go.aws/3P9bP4S
Read the blog - https://go.aws/3vJ1wwF
Documentation link - https://go.aws/3vFxLwB

Please note that in preparation for this launch, we recorded this episode when Nicki was still co-hosting the podcast. Thanks again Nicki for all of your amazing work with us!

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