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In Season 4, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Cormack. They discuss AWS Step Functions, reshaping AWS CloudFormation stacks with stack refactoring, AWS Verified Access support for non-HTTP resources, AWS's full-year profit and revenue growth, AWS documentation updates and future plans and the guys think Mark Zuckerberg's AI predictions are about as accurate as his metaverse hype – both seem to exist in a virtual reality!   05:43 - AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map  This update allows Step Functions to process different file formats from S3, including JSONL and delimited files (semicolon and tab). It improves the ability to handle large datasets and reduces the need for data manipulation before processing. The distributed map feature can now handle up to 10,000 concurrent executions, making it powerful for big data processing. 10:45 - Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring This new feature allows users to more easily break down large CloudFormation stacks into smaller, more manageable stacks. It addresses the issues of slow updates and potential errors in large stacks. While not entirely seamless, it provides a much-needed solution for those stuck with large CloudFormation stacks and offers a way to improve infrastructure management. 16:19 - AWS Verified Access support for non-HTTP resources is now generally available  This feature allows users to connect to private resources like databases without needing bastion hosts or jump boxes. It provides a more secure, token-scoped access method integrated with single sign-on providers. While it requires a client on the user's machine and currently lacks Windows support, it's a step towards simplifying secure access to private resources in AWS. 23:25 - AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars  AWS reported significant growth in revenue (19% to $28.8 billion) and profits (up to $10.6 billion) compared to the previous year. The growth is attributed to increased demand for AI and public cloud services. While the exact contribution of AI services to this growth is unclear, the company plans to invest heavily in infrastructure to support AI and related technologies. 31:59 - AWS Documentation update — progress, challenges, and what’s next for 2025  AWS is improving its documentation with new features like decision guides to help users choose the right services. The company is also exploring AI integration to enhance documentation searchability and summarization. While AWS documentation is generally considered good, there's room for improvement in areas like search functionality and providing more comprehensive examples.  

In Season 4, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Dave Hall. They discuss Dynamo DB innovations, cost optimization highlights, migration to AWS MediaConvert, S3 Bucket security risks, AWS Lambda and Serverless computing and it looks like the AWS Community Builders are drinking 'Dirty Lambda' cocktails and playing buzzword bingo while nervously refreshing their renewal applications!   05:24 - 2024: A year of innovation and growth for Amazon DynamoDB  They discuss various improvements to Amazon DynamoDB in 2024, including significant price reductions for on-demand throughput and global tables. Other innovations mentioned include zero ETL integrations with Redshift and SageMaker Lakehouse, and improvements to DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). The speakers debate the practical value of some features like DAX, with Jon suggesting many teams may not need it. 12:19 - re:Invent 2024 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expecting They discuss the unexpected cost optimization opportunities from re:Invent 2023. Key points include new features for Bedrock, intelligent tiering for FSX for Open ZFS, and improvements to SageMaker scaling. The speakers particularly highlighted the blurring lines between EFS and FSX, and the benefits of new auto-scaling capabilities for cloud applications. 20:03 - Migrating workflows from Amazon Elastic Transcoder to AWS Elemental MediaConvert They discuss the upcoming discontinuation of Amazon Elastic Transcoder and the need to migrate to AWS Elemental Media Convert. Jon explains the differences and advantages of Media Convert, including better codec support and higher resolution capabilities. The speakers emphasize the importance of this migration for users of Elastic Transcoder. 26:02 - Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'  They talk about the potential security risks associated with abandoned AWS S3 buckets, as these buckets can be reused in supply chain attacks. Dave explains that this is not a new issue and advises against exposing S3 buckets publicly, recommending the use of CloudFront as a protective measure. 31:19 - A Decade Of AWS Lambda — Has Serverless Delivered On Its Hype  They discuss the adoption of serverless in enterprises versus smaller businesses, noting that perception might be skewed due to how costs appear on bills. They also touch on the lack of GPU support in serverless offerings and strategies for optimizing serverless costs.

In Season 4, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Peter Sankauskas. They discuss Amazon S3 metadata, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, DeepSeek R1, Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS survey on AWS service usage and trends and Jon finally got to go Apple reaction crazy for our 100th episode!   06:14 - Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available  This feature, announced at re:Invent, is now generally available. It provides automated metadata for S3 objects, potentially reducing the need for manual metadata management. However, it's currently only available in three US regions and has a complex pricing structure that may be challenging to calculate. 10:52 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds default support of EC2 Launch Template when creating new environments  Elastic Beanstalk, which has seen renewed development recently, now supports EC2 launch templates when creating new environments. This update aligns with the deprecation of launch configurations. The speakers discussed Beanstalk's position as a starter service and its potential limitations for more advanced users. 14:46 - DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS  AWS quickly made DeepSeek's efficient AI models available on Bedrock following recent media attention. This move is seen as reactionary but necessary to compete with other AI providers. The pricing model differs from other Bedrock offerings, being based on infrastructure costs rather than per-token pricing. 20:17 - Amazon SES celebrates 14 years of email sending and deliverability  The Simple Email Service's 14th anniversary was discussed, with mixed opinions on its usefulness. While it has improved over time, some users find third-party email services more convenient, particularly due to SES's initial restrictions and approval processes. 27:03 - Answers for AWS survey  Peter Sankowskas discussed his annual survey of AWS service usage and sentiment. The survey provides insights into which services are popular, trending, or declining in the AWS ecosystem. Notable findings include high satisfaction with services like SQS and DynamoDB, and interesting trends in CI/CD tool preferences. Peter's survey for this year: https://answersforaws.com/survey/   Guest was Peter Sankauskas https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersankauskas  

In Season 4, Episode 4 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Bojan Zivic. They discuss observability in ECS, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Backup best practices, AWS security best practices to mitigate ransomware attacks, architecting with multiple AWS regions for enhanced resilience and Jon found his missing piece of the puzzle - a Lego Millennium Falcon!   05:37 - AWS Adds Container Insights with Enhanced Observability to Elastic Container Service  AWS has added Container Insights with enhanced observability to ECS, providing a more cost-effective alternative to third-party solutions like DataDog. This feature offers out-of-the-box dashboards and metrics, making it easier for users to monitor their container environments without the need for extensive setup or additional tools. 10:03 - Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets  EventBridge now supports direct delivery to cross-account targets, simplifying event-driven architectures across multiple AWS accounts. This feature reduces latency, eliminates the need for complex routing setups, and allows for more streamlined and efficient event processing in multi-account environments. 14:03 - 4 AWS Backup best practices for reliable data protection  They discuss four key AWS backup best practices: balancing retention periods and storage costs, optimizing management with tagging, implementing cross-regional replication, and setting RPO and RTO goals. The discussion also highlighted the importance of testing backups and the challenges in accurately predicting backup costs due to AWS's incremental backup pricing model. 22:57 - AWS Releases Best Security Practices To Mitigate Ransomware Attacks AWS released best practices to mitigate ransomware attacks, particularly focusing on S3 buckets. Recommendations include implementing short-term credentials, using MFA, monitoring for anomalous activity, and restricting SSE-C usage when unnecessary. The discussion emphasized the importance of balancing security measures with cost considerations and practical implementation. 28:53 - Enhance the resilience of critical workloads by architecting with multiple AWS Regions  They discuss enhancing workload resilience by using multiple AWS regions. While the concept sounds appealing, the discussion revealed that multi-region architectures are complex, expensive, and often unnecessary for most applications. The speakers suggested that multi-AZ setups are usually sufficient for most use cases, and multi-region architectures are more relevant for large-scale, critical applications.   Guest was Bojan Zivic https://www.linkedin.com/in/bojan-zivic-65431033/

In Season 4, Episode 3 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Miguel Calles. They discuss AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS launching a new region in Mexico, Amazon Q Developer, interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman, ransomware attack on unsecured AWS S3 buckets and once again they got onto the subject of swag, this time AWS Community Builder swag, with renewal time looming...   04:56 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies  AWS has introduced new spot allocation strategies for Elastic Beanstalk, including capacity optimized prioritized, lowest price, and price capacity optimized. This addition provides users with more options for optimizing their instances based on capacity and cost requirements. 12:12 - AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Mexico  AWS is investing over $5 billion in a new Mexico Central region, which will create about 7,000 full-time jobs and add an estimated $10 billion to Mexico's GDP. This expansion will better serve Latin America with improved latency and data residency options for customers in the region. 18:24 - Unlocking AWS Console: Diagnosing Errors with Amazon Q Developer  Amazon Q Developer now offers a feature to help diagnose and solve AWS console errors. It provides step-by-step solutions for common issues, potentially saving developers time and improving the user experience for those less familiar with AWS. 25:53 - Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI AWS's approach to AI, with Garman emphasizing the importance of investing in all aspects of AI, including large language models, inference, and practical applications. He likens the potential impact of AI to that of the internet revolution. 33:18 - AWS S3 feature abused by ransomware hackers to encrypt storage buckets A new ransomware attack method targeting AWS S3 buckets was discussed. Attackers use leaked IAM credentials to upload their own encryption keys, lock down buckets using SSE-C, and then use lifecycle policies to delete the contents. The importance of proper key management and security practices was emphasized.   Guest was Miguel Calles Mastering AWS Serverless book https://masteringawsserverlessbook.com Serverless Security book https://serverlesssecuritybook.com Serverless CISO website https://serverlessciso.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-a-calles-mba/ https://github.com/miguel-a-calles-mba/ https://miguelacallesmba.medium.com/

In Season 4, Episode 2 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador & Community Builder, Niklas Westerstråhle. They discuss new configurable Point in Time Recovery periods for Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Compute Optimizer, automating Systems Manager patching reports, optimizing container workloads for sustainability, AI hallucination and potential fixes and Niklas becomes the first LogiCast guest to sport the coveted AWS gold jacket while recording!   07:08 - Announcing configurable point-in-time recovery periods for Amazon DynamoDB 12:21 - AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups  17:23 - Automate Systems Manager patching reports via email and slack notifications in an AWS Organization   25:00 - Optimize your container workloads for sustainability  32:04 - Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook    Guest was Niklas Westerstråhle https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklaswesterstrahle/

In Season 4, Episode 1 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Gabriel Torres. They discuss AWS Community Builder program benefits and application process, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Backup's new search and item-level recovery features, decreasing storage volumes for RDS databases, troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching using Amazon Bedrock, Jeff Barr stepping down as lead AWS evangelist/blogger after 20 years and Karl & Jon are envious of Gabriel's summer weather in Ecuador!   06:39 - Amazon CloudFront Introduces Support for VPC Origins and Static IPs  13:22 - AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery  18:32 - Shrink storage volumes for your RDS databases and optimize your infrastructure costs 23:53 - Troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching made easy with Amazon Bedrock’s automated recommendations  30:49 - And that’s a wrap!   Guest was Gabriel Torres https://www.linkedin.com/in/gtorreswm/ https://gabrieltorreswm.medium.com/ https://github.com/gabrieltorreswm  

In Season 3 Episode 42 we have something a little different for the season finale. Karl & Jon attended the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from 2-6th December. On Tuesday 3rd December they attended the AWS Community Builder mixer in the AWS Community Hub in Buddy V's restaurant in The Venetian. While you won't hear from Jon in this episode, he did man the camera while Karl interviewed 16 AWS Community members about their experience at re:Invent, including AWS Community Builder program manager Jason Dunn. Check out the episode to find out what our AWS Community Builder peers got up to at re:Invent.   01:20 - Jason Dunn 01:52 - Stephen Sennett 03:04 - Raphael Manke 04:13 - Ashish Kumar 04:49 - Matt Martz 05:57 - Andres Moreno 06:53 - Robin Ford 08:00 - Ivan Casco 08:47 - Ryan Cormack 09:44 - Martyn Kilbryde 10:33 - Jenn Bergstrom 11:32 - Thomas Taylor 12:18 - Marin Radjenovic 13:46 - Amelia Hough-Ross 14:37 - Christophe Limpalair 15:49 - Ryan Pothecary

In Season 3, Episode 41 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Maurya. They discuss AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard, AWS Transfer Family Web Apps, AWS Data Transfer Terminals, AWS D-SQL and database price cuts, stolen AWS credentials from misconfigured S3 bucket and the guys wondered if AWS Community Builders get taller when they become AWS Heroes...   06:19 - Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard  13:29 - AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Simplified S3 Data Access through the Browser 17:31 - AWS launches Data Transfer Terminals so users can drop off data to the cloud  23:30 - AWS cuts database prices almost 50% and adds distributed scaling capabilities  29:10 - Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket    Guest was Abhishek Maurya https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhitnc/

In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....   06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it - Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda - Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering - Lambda originally only supported Node.js, now supports many more languages and frameworks - Billing granularity has improved from 250ms increments originally to 1ms now - Cold start times for Java apps reduced by 90% with SnapStart   15:49 - Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view  - It provides a waterfall view of CloudFormation deployments - Helps identify bottlenecks and long-running operations - Can help optimize deployments by splitting stacks, parallelizing, etc.   21:11 - Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic  - Amazon invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in March 2022 - Reportedly wants Anthropic to use AWS Inferentia chips instead of Nvidia - Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI executives - Alphabet has also invested significantly in Anthropic   28:08 - Amazon Q Developer plugins now generally available for the AWS Management Console  - Plugins allow Q Developer to interface with third-party services like Datadog and Whiz - Provides easy access to information without leaving the AWS console - Limited to fairly simple questions currently   33:50 - How Amazon Bedrock Agents work  - Agents are like small orchestration software tools - Have capabilities like memory, prompting users, invoking APIs - Built using LLMs like Titan - Continuously run to provide answers to users   Guest was Chetan Hirapara https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetan-hirapara-90344345/ https://www.youtube.com/@upskillwithchetan

In Season 3, Episode 39 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Muhammad Rashid. They discuss Lambda VS Code IDE, Ephemeral jobs on ECS/Fargate, CloudFront/WAF billing change, Bedrock Prompt Management, AWS earnings results and Karl wonders if he may have coined the phrase 'Remote Working Natives'   07:27 - AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit  New features in AWS Lambda - VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit enhancements for building Lambda applications 12:32 - Ephemeral Jobs Longer than the Lambda Timeout  Running ephemeral jobs longer than the Lambda timeout - Using ECS and Fargate for ad hoc, long running background tasks 17:31 - Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF   CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by WAF - Small billing change but reduces costs for customers 23:16 - Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now generally available  Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management now generally available - Manages and chains prompts for more advanced AI workflows 28:39 - Amazon’s cloud unit records highest profit margin in at least a decade AWS Q3 earnings results - AWS revenue growth remains strong, posts highest profit margin in over a decade   Guest was Muhammad Rashid https://www.youtube.com/@codewithmuh https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-rashid-daha/

In Season 3, Episode 38 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Anna Astori. They discuss Q Developer, Amazon VPC, AWS WAF, celebrating 10 years of Amazon ECS, Amazon return to office policy and once again Karl tries to extract trade secrets from our guest!   03:05 - AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s Github Copilot The speakers discuss the launch of AWS's Q Developer, an AI coding assistant to compete with GitHub Copilot. Jon is skeptical about the usefulness compared to IntelliSense. Anna agrees there are pros and cons. The new integration with CodeWhisperer model 3.5 could improve it. 13:13 - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features  Jon explains the benefits of the new VPC security group sharing feature for connecting resources across VPCs more securely. 17:30 - How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules  The article explains how to use WAF challenge actions to mitigate bot traffic. Jon provides an overview of how rate limiting and bot control in WAF work. 23:52 - Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation  They discuss EC2 Container Service turning 10 years old. Jon explains the pricing and simplicity benefits of ECS compared to Kubernetes. 29:40 - Amazon workers 'appalled' by AWS CEO’s return to office remarks, urge policy reversal  Employees wrote an open letter criticizing the mandated return to 5 days a week in office. Anna and Jon discuss the discrimination concerns and why hybrid doesn't work.   Guest was Anna Astori https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-astori/ https://annaeastori.medium.com/ https://x.com/AmaMidzu  

In Season 3, Episode 37 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Pothecary. They discuss CloudQuest and AWS Jam, AWS Session Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently and AppConfig, Amazon going nuclear, Amazon's returning to office policy and Karl hopes Amazon can finally realise the Back to the Future Mr Fusion reactor...    06:22 - Enhance your real-world skills with AWS Cloud Quest and AWS Jam  - CloudQuest provides gamified learning for AWS certifications like Cloud Practitioner - Jams are in-person problem solving events, Logicata is hosting a Jam soon - Pricing for CloudQuest seems expensive compared to alternatives like Udemy courses   13:49 - Secure SSH Access to EC2 Instances with AWS Session Manager  - Session Manager provides secure remote access without exposing SSH ports - It logs all activity for auditing and compliance - Allows access through console, CLI, port forwarding   22:29 - Support for Amazon CloudWatch Evidently ending soon  - Evidently allowed testing variations of apps/websites to improve performance - Being replaced by Amazon AppConfig which provides similar functionality - Shows AWS consolidating services and giving notice before deprecation   27:01 - Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors  - To provide power for energy-hungry data centers and AI/ML workloads - Investing in grid power, not owning reactors directly - Small modular reactors easier to build and operate than large ones   33:24 - Amazon AWS CEO: Quit if you don't want to return to office  - Strong statement against remote work from Amazon leadership - Cites need for in-person collaboration and innovation - Unlikely to work as well outside the US due to logistics - Remote teams can still innovate without being co-located - Impact on attracting talent remains to be seen   Guest was Ryan Pothecary https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanpothecary/ https://dev.to/ryanpothecary

In Season 3, Episode 36 Karl & Jon discuss Optimize CPUs, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, AWS Console-to-Code, departure of Matt Wood and the guys go off on a tangent about kids destroying things...   02:31 - Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch  07:58 - AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action  12:13 - Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey  18:05 - Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available 24:20 - Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company 

In Season 3, Episode 35 Karl & Jon discuss Storage Browser for S3, Graviton 4-powered Amazon EC2 instances, Chatbops, Amazon GuardDuty, Elasticsearch and the guys go off on a tangent about bananas...   02:10 - Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3  The hosts discuss the launch of a new Storage Browser for Amazon S3 and how it provides an easier way for non-technical users to upload and download objects from S3 without needing access to the AWS console. 06:54 - Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances  The hosts talk about the announcement of new Graviton 4-powered Amazon EC2 instances. 13:35 - Ten features for efficiently managing your AWS applications from Microsoft Teams and Slack using AWS Chatbot  The hosts talk about using the AWS Chatbot to manage AWS services through Microsoft Teams and Slack. They talk about the benefits of chatops and doing tasks through chat rather than a browser or console. 24:28 - Get to know Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2  The hosts talk about some newer capabilities in Amazon GuardDuty like runtime monitoring for EC2 instances. They talk about the security benefits of having integrated tools. 28:54 - AWS Open-Source Brouhaha About Elasticsearch Takes Another Turn  The hosts discuss the ongoing dispute between AWS and Elastic over Elasticsearch being open source. 

In Season 3, Episode 34 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Gupta. They discuss Graviton Spot compute, CLI v2 Linux support, AWS Backup visibility, CodeCommit/Cloud9 deprecation, UK AWS investment and they welcome their first guest from outer space.   05:09 - Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate  14:05 - Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2  19:08 - Gain visibility of AWS backup activities using Amazon Managed Grafana  25:50 - Dear AWS, how do I build & develop purely on AWS right now?  36:04 - Chancellor announces £8 billion Amazon Web Services investment, as she vows to make every part of Britain better off   Guest was Abhishek Gupta https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi8968/ https://medium.com/@abhi133182

In Season 3, Episode 33 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Christophe Limpalair. They discuss prompt engineering, CloudWatch Logs, Patch Manager, Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, number of servers used to power EC2 and Karl assumes everything is about AI when it isn't...   04:24 - Implementing advanced prompt engineering with Amazon Bedrock  13:42 - Using Generative AI to Gain Insights into CloudWatch Logs  21:16 - Visualize AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager information using Amazon QuickSight  27:46 - AWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants  34:29 - Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates    Guest was Christophe Limpalair: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophelimpalair/ https://cybr.com

In Season 3, Episode 32 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Rishab Kumar. They discuss Validation API for Step Functions, Lambda Layers, Quick Setup programmatic deployment, new certifications and courses, Challenger for Observability and the Logicata guys get serious neon sign envy...   Articles: 04:53- Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions  The new validation API for AWS Step Functions allows validating state machines before deployment to catch errors early. It was noted this could be useful to integrate into CI/CD pipelines. 09:19 - Why You Should Use AWS Lambda Layers  Using Lambda layers allows packaging dependencies separately from function code. This enables faster deployments when only code changes, limits package size so the console editor can still be used, and allows sharing dependencies between functions 16:51 - Deploy AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup programmatically across your AWS Organization AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup can now be deployed programmatically via CloudFormation, CDK, CLI etc. This makes it easier to enable SSM access across an organization or onboard new accounts. 23:35 - New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in August 2024 New AWS certifications and courses were announced, including AI/ML related ones like Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate. This reflects the growing demand for cloud skills in these areas. 30:37 - AWS named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms  AWS was named a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability, reflecting their improved capabilities and execution in this space even if not yet a leader.   Guest was Rishab Kumar: https://linkedin.com/in/rishabkumar7 https://rishabkumar.com/ https://x.com/rishabincloud https://youtube.com/@rishabincloud

In Season 3, Episode 31 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Luis Valdivia. They discuss MacOS CI/CD, Upgrading Lambda Functions, Lambda Loop Detection, Chatbot for Security Events, ALB Misconfiguration Exposure and Jon describes how he's training his kids in the art of medieval combat...   Articles: 05:04 - Add macOS to your continuous integration pipelines with AWS CodeBuild  They discuss a new AWS CodeBuild feature that allows adding MacOS to continuous integration pipelines for building iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and MacOS applications and talk about challenges with using MacOS for builds.   15:48 - Leverage Amazon Q to upgrade Lambda runtime functions  They discuss using Amazon Q to help upgrade Lambda runtimes like moving from Python 3.7 to 3.12 and debate whether AI like Q is ready to fully take over coding.   22:35 - AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs  They discuss a new recursive loop detection API in AWS Lambda and whether it is necessary and helpful for developers.   29:01 - Manage security events in Slack, Teams, or Amazon Chime using AWS Chatbot and Amazon Q They discuss using AWS Chatbot with Amazon Q to manage security events in Slack/Chime.    33:28 -Thousands of Apps Using AWS ALB Exposed to Attacks Due to Configuration Issue  They discuss a report about potential misconfigurations exposing thousands of AWS environments due to issues with Application Load Balancers.    Guest was Luis Valdivia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-valdivia-humareda/

In Season 3, Episode 30 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Warren Parad. They discuss AWS Step Functions Encryption, AWS Parameter Store Sharing, AWS Touts Multi-Cloud Capabilities, AWS Quietly Freezes Services, AWS Q2 2022 Earnings and Jon has a proper rant about the deprecation of CodeCommit...      Articles: 04:03 - Strengthening data security in AWS Step Functions with a customer-managed AWS KMS key  They discuss a recent AWS blog post about encrypting AWS Step Functions state machines using AWS KMS keys. They debate the usefulness and security implications of this new feature.   11:57 - Introducing Parameter Store cross-account sharing  They discuss a new capability from AWS to share Parameter Store parameters across accounts. They debate whether this simplifies operations or creates potential security issues.   17:39 - AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements  They discuss a recent AWS blog post about their multi-cloud capabilities and tools. They consider whether the major cloud providers are becoming commoditized.   25:16 - AWS quietly freezes CodeCommit, Cloud9, SimpleDB and more, customers complain about lack of notice  They discuss AWS deprecating several services like CodeCommit and Cloud9 without notice. They express frustration at the lack of communication.   34:12 - Amazon’s cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates  Thy discuss Amazon's latest quarterly earnings report, which exceeded expectations largely driven by AWS growth.   Guest was Warren Parad:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-parad/ https://warrenparad.net https://dev.to/wparad