AWS Podcast

AWS Podcast

The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.

Episodes

#743: The Frugal Architect w/ Werner Vogels: The Ocean Cleanup's mantra: Start simple and iterate relentlessly

October 27, 2025 • 40 mins
When Boyan Slat found more plastic than fish on a dive in Greece, he asked a simple question: "Why can't we just clean this up?" He was 16. What began as a humble project funded with pocket money has grown into a global initiative, removing millions of pounds of plastic from the world's rivers and oceans in the last decade. But simple questions don't always have simple solutions. As Boyan will tell you, simplicity is hard. Fight th...
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#742: Amazon Quick Suite, AWS MCP, and lots more!

October 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Stay up-to-date, with almost 60 new updates this week!!
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#741: Modernizing Edge Infrastructure: Booking.com's Journey with AWS CloudFront and Lambda@Edge

October 13, 2025 • 63 mins
In this episode of the AWS Podcast, host Jillian Forde discusses the migration journey of Booking.com to AWS with Ali and Sarah. They explore the challenges faced by Booking.com , the benefits of using CloudFront and Lambda at Edge, and the importance of observability and cost optimization. The conversation also delves into chaos engineering practices and how they contribute to building resilient systems. Listeners gain insights i...
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#740: AWS News: EC2 Instance Attestation, S3 Conditional Deletes, and more!

October 6, 2025 • 31 mins
Simon and Jillian keep you up to date with over 70 new releases and capabilities!
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#739: Applying Multi-region Strategies on AWS

September 29, 2025 • 41 mins
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/r53recovery/latest/dg/region-switch.html
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#738: AWS News: Global Cross-Region Inference, Aurora Limitless and lots more.

September 22, 2025 • 25 mins
Simon and Jillian keep you up to date with all the latest releases and capabilities!
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#737: Accelerate your GenAI innovation journey on AWS with Innovation Sandbox solution

September 15, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode, we will dive deep into Innovation Sandbox on AWS, a new AWS solution offering that transforms the management of temporary sandbox environments, by offering a ready-made solution that enables customers to reduce sandbox setup time from weeks to hours while automating spend controls, security policies, and usage monitoring. Learn how AWS customers – from Universities to Enterprises – are using the Innovation Sandbox ...
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#736: AWS News: New Amazon Bedrock APIs, New EC2 Instance Types and Lots More.

September 8, 2025 • 22 mins
Simon takes you through a big list of cool new things - something for everyone.
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#735: The Frugal Architect w/ Werner Vogels: Zillow's Chief Architect on why cheap ≠ frugal

September 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Frugality wasn't something Craig Link learned on the job, it was passed down from his father, who would calculate the cost-benefit of driving for cheaper gas and meticulously track every tank's miles per gallon in a worn notebook tucked into the glove box. He would also pack sandwiches, toss them in a cooler, and store them in the back seat. These were early lessons in trade-offs. Stopping less, spending less, meant more time doing...
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#734: AWS News: OpenAI, Amazon Elastic VMware Service, and Lots More.

August 25, 2025 • 42 mins
A bumper crop of new and improved things for you to take advantage of.
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#733: Amazon Connect - So Many Cool New Capabilities For You to Use!

August 18, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode of the AWS Podcast, we explore the evolving world of contact centers and Amazon Connect. The discussion covers why contact centers remain critical to both business and public sector operations, and how they're transforming from traditional cost centers into valuable sources of business intelligence. Key highlights include Amazon Connect's integration capabilities with AWS services, particularly through AWS Lambda fu...
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#732: How to gain Multi-Cluster Visibility across Kubernetes Clusters with the EKS Dashboard

August 4, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode, we'll explore how the new Amazon EKS Dashboard solves key challenges in managing Kubernetes at scale across multiple AWS accounts and regions. We'll discuss how it provides centralized visibility into cluster health, versions, and costs - enabling teams to improve governance, streamline operations, and optimize their Kubernetes infrastructure. Listeners will learn about key use cases like version lifecycle manageme...
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#731: AWS News: Kiro, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Lots More

July 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Simon and Jillian take you on a fast paced update of all things new on AWS!
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#730: The Frugal Architect w/ Werner Vogels: At Too Good To Go, Practical Engineering Keeps Food Out of the Bin

July 21, 2025 • 36 mins
In the fifth episode of "The Frugal Architect" podcast, Werner and co-host Simon Elisha welcome Morten Keldebaek (CTO) and Robert Hjertmann from Too Good To Go. Too Good To Go is the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, connecting consumers with restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores to rescue food that would otherwise go to waste. The discussion will start with their journey from Endomondo (a sports tracking app) to Too G...
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#729: AWS News: Aurora Storage Upgrades, DynamoDB Multi-Region Strong Consistency, and More

July 14, 2025 • 41 mins
There are over 60 new updates that your hosts Simon, Jillian and Shruthi take you through this week!
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#728: The Duck Talks Back - Using GENAI in Your Work

July 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Simon shares some tips, tricks, and experiences in how Builders can use GENAI in their work to get things done faster, and with better outcomes. Links: Amazon Q Developer CLI: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli Promptz: https://www.promptz.dev/ AWS MCP Servers: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
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#727: AWS News: AWS Shield Network Security Director, Amazon GuardDuty for EKS, and more

June 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Simon and Jillian take you through all the big security announcements from AWS re:Inforce plus a host of cool new features and price reductions!
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#726: Single region, zero excuses: Mastering AWS resilience

June 23, 2025 • 45 mins
Dive into single-region resilience with AWS experts John Formento and Tarik Makota as they debunk common misconceptions and share practical strategies for building robust applications. Learn why multi-AZ isn't enough on its own, discover key AWS services for resilience, and get actionable tips for identifying and mitigating failure modes. Learn More: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-analysis-fram...
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#725: AWS News: FSx for Lustre introduces cost-saving storage tiers, MCP servers enhance AI development tools, and more

June 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Explore FSx for Lustre's new intelligent storage tiering that delivers cost savings and unlimited scalability for file storage in the cloud. Plus, discover how the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are revolutionizing AI-assisted development across ECS, EKS, and serverless platforms with real-time contextual responses and automated resource management. 00:00 - Intro, 00:52 - Introduction new storage class, 03:43 - MCP Server...
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#724: Accelerated computing: From fraud detection to AI innovation

June 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Join host Shruthi to discover how organizations use GPU-accelerated computing on AWS. Container Specialist Re Alvarez Parmar shows how Rivian optimizes GPU usage for autonomous vehicles with Amazon EKS. AWS Financial Services expert Sudhir Kalidindi explains real-time fraud detection processing 100B+ events annually. Learn architectural patterns and tools to maximize performance while controlling costs for AI workloads and next-gen...
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