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LogiCast AWS News (Video)
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LogiCast, brought to you by Logicata, is a weekly AWS News podcast hosted by Karl Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer. Each week we hand-pick a selection of news articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - we look at what’s new, technical how-to, and business-related news articles and take a deep dive, giving commentary, opinion, and a sprinkling of humor.
Please note this is the video edition of the Logicast podcast. For the audio only edition, please check out https://logicast.podbean.com/
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Season 4 Episode 5 - Metadata, Models, and Milestones: Celebrating 100 Episodes of AWS News
Feb 4, 202500:34:56Tap to summarizeIn 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
Transcribe →Season 4 Episode 4 - Serverless Insights, Backup Best Practices, and Multi-Region Myths
Jan 28, 202500:34:40Tap to summarizeIn 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/
Transcribe →Season 4 Episode 3: Spots, Servers, and Security
Jan 20, 202500:39:08Tap to summarizeIn 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/
Transcribe →Season 4 Episode 2: Patching, Sustainability, and AI Hallucination
Jan 13, 202500:40:25Tap to summarizeIn 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/
Transcribe →Season 4 Episode 1 - VPC Origins, Backup Searches, and Jeff Barr's Farewell
Jan 8, 202500:35:56Tap to summarizeIn 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
Transcribe →Season 3 Episode 42 - re:Invent 2024
Dec 19, 202400:18:04Tap to summarizeIn 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
Transcribe →Season 3 Episode 41 - Graviton Dashboards, Transfer Terminals & Database Discounts
Dec 16, 202400:36:47Tap to summarizeIn 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/
Transcribe →Season 3 Episode 40 - Lambda's Birthday, CloudFormation Timeline & Bedrock Agents
Nov 18, 202400:41:18Tap to summarizeIn 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
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