Logicata - Podcast Details

Shows

LogiCast AWS News Season 5, Episode 36: Lambda Web Functions, Bedrock Cost Visibility, and Data Center BacklashSeason 5, Episode 36 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast sees Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall joined by returning guest Girish Mukim, AWS architect, AWS Community Builder, and AWS Ambassador, to unpack a wide range of AWS announcements and industry trends. From a major rethink of AWS Lambda with the new web functions model and improved cost visibility for Amazon Bedrock usage to AWS Security Agent’s published penetration testing benchmark results, there’s plenty to get stuck into. The conversation also explores the growing demand for so-called forward deployed engineers, with Girish bringing a real-world perspective on mul...

2026-10-2151 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5, Episode 36: Lambda Web Functions, Bedrock Cost Visibility, and Data Center BacklashSeason 5, Episode 36 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast sees Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall joined by returning guest Girish Mukim, AWS architect, AWS Community Builder, and AWS Ambassador, to unpack a wide range of AWS announcements and industry trends. From a major rethink of AWS Lambda with the new web functions model and improved cost visibility for Amazon Bedrock usage to AWS Security Agent’s published penetration testing benchmark results, there’s plenty to get stuck into. The conversation also explores the growing demand for so-called forward deployed engineers, with Girish bringing a real-world perspective on mul...

2026-10-2151 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5 Episode 35 Agent Cost Control, Prime Day Scale, and GPU Price RisesSeason 5, Episode 35 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast sees Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall joined for a third time by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress, to unpack a selection of recent AWS news. From tooling improvements for regional service availability and GPU price increases to the mind-boggling infrastructure scale behind Amazon Prime Day, the conversation covers plenty of ground. Along the way, the guys explore broader themes of AI security, compliance, FinOps for agentic workloads, and the economics of cloud at scale. And, in true LogiCast fashion, they somehow end up discussing how co...

2026-10-1357 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5 Episode 35 Agent Cost Control, Prime Day Scale, and GPU Price RisesSeason 5, Episode 35 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast sees Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall joined for a third time by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress, to unpack a selection of recent AWS news. From tooling improvements for regional service availability and GPU price increases to the mind-boggling infrastructure scale behind Amazon Prime Day, the conversation covers plenty of ground. Along the way, the guys explore broader themes of AI security, compliance, FinOps for agentic workloads, and the economics of cloud at scale. And, in true LogiCast fashion, they somehow end up discussing how co...

2026-10-1353 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5, Episode 33: Claude Opus 5.5, Tokenomics on AWS, and Sovereign Cloud ModelsSeason 5, Episode 33 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with guest Ahmed Tariq, Cloud Platform Engineer, AWS Community Builder, and former AWS Cloud Captain at the University of Northampton. The conversation covers four AWS news topics: AI model releases, token cost management, sovereign cloud capabilities, and the growing debate around AI agent workflows. Ahmed brings a practitioner’s and community perspective to discussions about AI governance, cost visibility, and the impact of automation on engineering careers. The episode also features a memorable introduction to the “LogiCast AWS Nude P...

2026-09-2950 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5, Episode 33: Claude Opus 5.5, Tokenomics on AWS, and Sovereign Cloud ModelsSeason 5, Episode 33 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with guest Ahmed Tariq, Cloud Platform Engineer, AWS Community Builder, and former AWS Cloud Captain at the University of Northampton. The conversation covers four AWS news topics: AI model releases, token cost management, sovereign cloud capabilities, and the growing debate around AI agent workflows. Ahmed brings a practitioner’s and community perspective to discussions about AI governance, cost visibility, and the impact of automation on engineering careers. The episode also features a memorable introduction to the “LogiCast AWS Nude P...

2026-09-2950 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5 Episode 32: AWS Onboarding Revamp, DevOps Agent Slack Integration, and Multimodal EC2 Auto ScalingSeason 5, Episode 32 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with data and AI specialist Kate Gawron to unpack the latest AWS news, from simpler onboarding and Slack-based DevOps to smarter scaling, sovereign cloud and resilience in the Middle East. Expect technical insights, lively debate and an unexpected detour into Jon’s toenails! 06:54 - AWS Reimagines the Getting Started Experience AWS is making it easier to get started with social sign-in, free credits and guided setup. The team explores what this means for new developers, whether it si...

2026-09-2252 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5 Episode 32: AWS Onboarding Revamp, DevOps Agent Slack Integration, and Multimodal EC2 Auto ScalingSeason 5, Episode 32 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with data and AI specialist Kate Gawron to unpack the latest AWS news, from simpler onboarding and Slack-based DevOps to smarter scaling, sovereign cloud and resilience in the Middle East. Expect technical insights, lively debate and an unexpected detour into Jon’s toenails! 06:54 - AWS Reimagines the Getting Started Experience AWS is making it easier to get started with social sign-in, free credits and guided setup. The team explores what this means for new developers, whether it si...

2026-09-2252 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5, Episode 31: Lambda 90-Minute Timeout, S3 Object Lock, and Gartner Magic QuadrantSeason 5, Episode 31 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with AWS Community Builder and cloud instructor, Charity Francis. They unpack five AWS announcements across compute, storage, operations and cost management, from extended Lambda timeouts to AWS’s latest Gartner ranking. Somehow, they also spend a surprising amount of time debating whether Jon’s Bupa physio allowance can sustain karate and judo in his thirties. 06:08 – AWS Lambda Managed Instances: 90-Minute Function Timeout AWS has extended the timeout for Lambda Managed Instances from 15 to 90 minutes. The team...

2026-09-1648 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5, Episode 31: Lambda 90-Minute Timeout, S3 Object Lock, and Gartner Magic QuadrantSeason 5, Episode 31 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with AWS Community Builder and cloud instructor, Charity Francis. They unpack five AWS announcements across compute, storage, operations and cost management, from extended Lambda timeouts to AWS’s latest Gartner ranking. Somehow, they also spend a surprising amount of time debating whether Jon’s Bupa physio allowance can sustain karate and judo in his thirties. 06:08 – AWS Lambda Managed Instances: 90-Minute Function Timeout AWS has extended the timeout for Lambda Managed Instances from 15 to 90 minutes. The team...

2026-09-1648 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5, Episode 30: Amazon Q Agent Registry, MCP Security Risks, and AWS Saudi Arabia RegionSeason 5, Episode 30 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast features hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Principal Cloud Engineer at Logicata, joined by Brian Tarbox, AWS AI Hero and author of Programming Minds and the Machines Between. The trio cover five AWS stories: the new agent registry in Amazon Q, a new agentic resource discovery protocol, the open-sourcing of Kiro Crew, new and updated AWS certifications, and the upcoming AWS Region in Saudi Arabia. The conversation then takes an unexpected turn. A discussion about AWS certifications somehow becomes a debate over whether Arabic...

2026-09-0941 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5, Episode 30: Amazon Q Agent Registry, MCP Security Risks, and AWS Saudi Arabia RegionSeason 5, Episode 30 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast features hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Principal Cloud Engineer at Logicata, joined by Brian Tarbox, AWS AI Hero and author of Programming Minds and the Machines Between. The trio cover five AWS stories: the new agent registry in Amazon Q, a new agentic resource discovery protocol, the open-sourcing of Kiro Crew, new and updated AWS certifications, and the upcoming AWS Region in Saudi Arabia. The conversation then takes an unexpected turn. A discussion about AWS certifications somehow becomes a debate over whether Arabic...

2026-09-0941 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 5 Episode 29: EC2 Turns 20, Leaked AWS Keys, and the AWS-Nvidia GPU DealSeason 5, Episode 29 of the LogiCast AWS News podcast brings together hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, principal cloud engineer at Logicata, with guest Khushi Nandwani, a recent graduate and AWS Community Builder in the containers category. They discuss EC2’s 20th anniversary, a new cost anomaly detection feature for third-party models, the AWS Agent Toolkit for the CLI, a report uncovering hundreds of leaked AWS keys, and the expanded AWS - Nvidia GPU partnership. Along the way, the conversation somehow veers into the plight of PC gamers, cloud-gaming latency, and Karl’s Mahjong addiction - be...

2026-09-0240 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 5 Episode 29: EC2 Turns 20, Leaked AWS Keys, and the AWS-Nvidia GPU DealSeason 5, Episode 29 of the LogiCast AWS News podcast brings together hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, principal cloud engineer at Logicata, with guest Khushi Nandwani, a recent graduate and AWS Community Builder in the containers category. They discuss EC2’s 20th anniversary, a new cost anomaly detection feature for third-party models, the AWS Agent Toolkit for the CLI, a report uncovering hundreds of leaked AWS keys, and the expanded AWS - Nvidia GPU partnership. Along the way, the conversation somehow veers into the plight of PC gamers, cloud-gaming latency, and Karl’s Mahjong addiction - be...

2026-09-0240 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 38: Containers, Claude & CompromisesIn Season 4, Episode 38, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Luis Valdivia. They discuss the new ECS managed instances for containerized applications on AWS, the cost-effectiveness of serverless architecture at scale, and the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 model now available in Amazon Bedrock. They also cover the general availability of the AWS Knowledge MCP server and a recent social engineering attack on a software platform that exploited AWS domain registration. The episode wraps up with a lighthearted moment as the hosts spend ten minutes trying to determine whether Jon’s background had actually changed or not. 0...

2025-10-0742 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 38: Containers, Claude & CompromisesIn Season 4, Episode 38, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Luis Valdivia. They discuss the new ECS managed instances for containerized applications on AWS, the cost-effectiveness of serverless architecture at scale, and the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 model now available in Amazon Bedrock. They also cover the general availability of the AWS Knowledge MCP server and a recent social engineering attack on a software platform that exploited AWS domain registration. The episode wraps up with a lighthearted moment as the hosts spend ten minutes trying to determine whether Jon’s background had actually changed or not. 0...

2025-10-0742 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 37: Cancelling Refreshes, Copying Snapshots, and Centralizing LogsIn Season 4, Episode 37, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Mahmoud Khatib to the show. Together, they dive into some of the latest AWS announcements, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s new support for forced cancellation of instance refreshes, Amazon RDS enabling cross-region and cross-account snapshot copy, and the expansion of AWS Organizations service control policies to cover the full IAM language. They also explore how log management can be simplified through Amazon CloudWatch centralization, and reflect on AWS being named a leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI code assistance. Somewhere along the way, the conversation takes an...

2025-09-2948 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 37: Cancelling Refreshes, Copying Snapshots, and Centralizing LogsIn Season 4, Episode 37, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Mahmoud Khatib to the show. Together, they dive into some of the latest AWS announcements, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s new support for forced cancellation of instance refreshes, Amazon RDS enabling cross-region and cross-account snapshot copy, and the expansion of AWS Organizations service control policies to cover the full IAM language. They also explore how log management can be simplified through Amazon CloudWatch centralization, and reflect on AWS being named a leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI code assistance. Somewhere along the way, the conversation takes an...

2025-09-2948 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 36: Guard Duty Plans, Container Migrations, and Gartner QuadrantsIn Season 4, Episode 36, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Neeraj Sharma to the show. Their conversation covers a wide range of updates and insights, including AWS Organizations’ new Account State Information feature, the migration from Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock, and the introduction of Amazon GuardDuty’s new protection plans with extended threat detection capabilities. They also explore the transition from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue-green deployments, while reflecting on AWS being named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for cloud-native application platforms and container management. And, in true podcast style, we also d...

2025-09-2248 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 36: Guard Duty Plans, Container Migrations, and Gartner QuadrantsIn Season 4, Episode 36, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Neeraj Sharma to the show. Their conversation covers a wide range of updates and insights, including AWS Organizations’ new Account State Information feature, the migration from Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock, and the introduction of Amazon GuardDuty’s new protection plans with extended threat detection capabilities. They also explore the transition from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue-green deployments, while reflecting on AWS being named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for cloud-native application platforms and container management. And, in true podcast style, we also d...

2025-09-2248 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 35: Budget Automation, Database Migration & end to end IPv6In Season 4, Episode 35, Karl and Jon dive into AWS Budget Controls with automated actions, explore DMS Data Resync for seamless database migrations, and look at CloudFront’s new support for IPv6 origins. They also compare Fargate and ECS for container orchestration and discuss the shift from the SysOps Admin exam to the new Cloud Ops Engineer certification. And after hearing Jon's DIY plans, thankfully Karl failes to recall his ex tractor fan joke, as it is rather long! 02:13 - AWS Budget Controls AWS introduced a new solution for automating actions based on budget ale...

2025-09-1730 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 35: Budget Automation, Database Migration & end to end IPv6In Season 4, Episode 35, Karl and Jon dive into AWS Budget Controls with automated actions, explore DMS Data Resync for seamless database migrations, and look at CloudFront’s new support for IPv6 origins. They also compare Fargate and ECS for container orchestration and discuss the shift from the SysOps Admin exam to the new Cloud Ops Engineer certification. And after hearing Jon's DIY plans, thankfully Karl failes to recall his ex tractor fan joke, as it is rather long! 02:13 - AWS Budget Controls AWS introduced a new solution for automating actions based on budget ale...

2025-09-1730 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 34: Budgets, Databases, and Prime Day PeaksIn Season 4, Episode 34, Karl and Jon sit down with AWS Community Builder and Software Engineer Iyanuoluwa Ajao for a fast-paced chat on the latest in cloud and beyond. They cover the new AWS Budgets features for cross-account cost visibility, smart ways to optimize Amazon RDS and Aurora costs with Compute Optimizer, and advanced Graviton adoption strategies across regions. The conversation also dives into how AWS scaled to meet the demands of Prime Day 2025, and AWS CEO Matt Garman’s comments on why AI won’t replace junior developers. As always, the hosts veer into lighter territory—this time reminiscing about...

2025-09-0137 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 34: Budgets, Databases, and Prime Day PeaksIn Season 4, Episode 34, Karl and Jon sit down with AWS Community Builder and Software Engineer Iyanuoluwa Ajao for a fast-paced chat on the latest in cloud and beyond. They cover the new AWS Budgets features for cross-account cost visibility, smart ways to optimize Amazon RDS and Aurora costs with Compute Optimizer, and advanced Graviton adoption strategies across regions. The conversation also dives into how AWS scaled to meet the demands of Prime Day 2025, and AWS CEO Matt Garman’s comments on why AI won’t replace junior developers. As always, the hosts veer into lighter territory—this time reminiscing about...

2025-09-0137 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 33: Customized Dashboards, AI Agents, and Aurora's DecadeIn Season 4, Episode 33, Karl and Jon chat with AWS Community Builder William Antonio Guzmán Bernal. They cover the new AWS Cost Management dashboards, a security issue in AWS Trusted Advisor related to public S3 buckets, how to build AI agents using AWS Serverless, and how to set up large-scale log ingestion pipelines with Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also reflect on ten years of Amazon Aurora innovation—and, once again, veer off into a tangent about painful sports injuries. 05:34 - AWS Cost Management Dashboards AWS has released new customized billing and cost management dashb...

2025-08-2745 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 33: Customized Dashboards, AI Agents, and Aurora's DecadeIn Season 4, Episode 33, Karl and Jon chat with AWS Community Builder William Antonio Guzmán Bernal. They cover the new AWS Cost Management dashboards, a security issue in AWS Trusted Advisor related to public S3 buckets, how to build AI agents using AWS Serverless, and how to set up large-scale log ingestion pipelines with Amazon OpenSearch Service. They also reflect on ten years of Amazon Aurora innovation—and, once again, veer off into a tangent about painful sports injuries. 05:34 - AWS Cost Management Dashboards AWS has released new customized billing and cost management dashb...

2025-08-2745 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 32: Bigger Payloads, Bedrock Expansion, and Capacity ConstraintsIn Season 4, Episode 32, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder and DynamoDB and Serverless technologies expert, Uriel Bitton. Together, they explore a range of fresh developments in the AWS ecosystem: the introduction of Amazon CloudWatch’s organization-wide VPC Flow Logs enablement, Amazon SQS’s expanded maximum message payload size to 1 MiB, and the arrival of OpenAI’s open-weight models on AWS Bedrock. They also delve into monitoring AWS Backup vault lock compliance across organizations and discuss how capacity constraints are limiting the growth of major cloud providers. The conversation then takes a playful turn, as the hosts debate whether SQS “F...

2025-08-1236 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 32: Bigger Payloads, Bedrock Expansion, and Capacity ConstraintsIn Season 4, Episode 32, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder and DynamoDB and Serverless technologies expert, Uriel Bitton. Together, they explore a range of fresh developments in the AWS ecosystem: the introduction of Amazon CloudWatch’s organization-wide VPC Flow Logs enablement, Amazon SQS’s expanded maximum message payload size to 1 MiB, and the arrival of OpenAI’s open-weight models on AWS Bedrock. They also delve into monitoring AWS Backup vault lock compliance across organizations and discuss how capacity constraints are limiting the growth of major cloud providers. The conversation then takes a playful turn, as the hosts debate whether SQS “F...

2025-08-1236 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 31: Cloud Wars, Code Builds, and CMA ProbesIn Season 4, Episode 31, Karl and Jon are joined by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress. Together, they discuss a range of topics including AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and best practices for security, the Amazon Q Developer CLI and serverless solutions, implementing defense-in-depth security for CodeBuild pipelines, and the latest quarterly financial results from AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. They also cover the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into cloud service providers — all while Karl battles network issues ahead of his upcoming fibre installation. 03:47 - AWS managed Microsoft Active Directory The article discus...

2025-08-0550 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 31: Cloud Wars, Code Builds, and CMA ProbesIn Season 4, Episode 31, Karl and Jon are joined by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress. Together, they discuss a range of topics including AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and best practices for security, the Amazon Q Developer CLI and serverless solutions, implementing defense-in-depth security for CodeBuild pipelines, and the latest quarterly financial results from AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. They also cover the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into cloud service providers — all while Karl battles network issues ahead of his upcoming fibre installation. 03:47 - AWS managed Microsoft Active Directory The article discus...

2025-08-0550 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 30: Security, MCPs, and Open Source PerilsIn Season 4, Episode 30, Karl and Jon are joined by Pieter VanIperen, CISO at AlphaSense. They discussed AWS security best practices and authentication methods, the Security Reference Architecture (SRA) and the SRA Verify tool, as well as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its implications for CIOs. They also covered the CLOUD Act and its impact on data access, and a compromised Amazon Q extension that posed a security risk. Finally, the guys discovered that Jon's interest in karate extends to Japanese electoral politics. 06:17 - Beyond IAM Access Keys: Modern Authentication Approaches for AWS Th...

2025-07-2849 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 30: Security, MCPs, and Open Source PerilsIn Season 4, Episode 30, Karl and Jon are joined by Pieter VanIperen, CISO at AlphaSense. They discussed AWS security best practices and authentication methods, the Security Reference Architecture (SRA) and the SRA Verify tool, as well as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its implications for CIOs. They also covered the CLOUD Act and its impact on data access, and a compromised Amazon Q extension that posed a security risk. Finally, the guys discovered that Jon's interest in karate extends to Japanese electoral politics. 06:17 - Beyond IAM Access Keys: Modern Authentication Approaches for AWS Th...

2025-07-2849 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 29: Revamped Free Tier, Rebranded Certification, and Renewed LayoffsIn Season 4, Episode 29, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and Ambassador Niklas Westerstråhle to discuss the AWS Free Tier overhaul, the new Cloud Operations Engineer certification, the launch of the Amazon Kiro AI, and a security issue with misconfigured AWS Organizations policies. They wrap up with thoughts on the latest Amazon/AWS layoffs—and a fun debate over whether Niklas should keep wearing his gold AWS jacket after his certifications expire, like it's some kind of sacred relic that loses its powers. 04:15 - AWS Free Tier Overhaul The AWS Free...

2025-07-2340 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)S4E29: Revamped Free Tier, Rebranded Certification, and Renewed LayoffsIn Season 4, Episode 29, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and Ambassador Niklas Westerstråhle to discuss the AWS Free Tier overhaul, the new Cloud Operations Engineer certification, the launch of the Amazon Kiro AI, and a security issue with misconfigured AWS Organizations policies. They wrap up with thoughts on the latest Amazon/AWS layoffs—and a fun debate over whether Niklas should keep wearing his gold AWS jacket after his certifications expire, like it's some kind of sacred relic that loses its powers. 04:15 - AWS Free Tier Overhaul The AWS Free...

2025-07-2340 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 28: VMware Migration, GPU Cooling, and Builder CenterIn Season 4, Episode 28, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mahendran Selvakumar. Together, they dive into topics including Amazon’s development of cooling equipment for NVIDIA GPUs to support AI acceleration, the launch of the new AWS Builder Center for the AWS Builder Community, and Amazon's massive AI supercluster—Project Rainier—built for Anthropic. They also explore the upcoming changes to the AWS Free Tier, which will introduce a new credit-based system. And in true Karl fashion, he deftly steers the conversation away from a tangent on uneven sun tans. 05:23 - AWS Transform for VMw...

2025-07-1439 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 28: VMware Migration, GPU Cooling, and Builder CenterIn Season 4, Episode 28, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mahendran Selvakumar. Together, they dive into topics including Amazon’s development of cooling equipment for NVIDIA GPUs to support AI acceleration, the launch of the new AWS Builder Center for the AWS Builder Community, and Amazon's massive AI supercluster—Project Rainier—built for Anthropic. They also explore the upcoming changes to the AWS Free Tier, which will introduce a new credit-based system. And in true Karl fashion, he deftly steers the conversation away from a tangent on uneven sun tans. 05:23 - AWS Transform for VMw...

2025-07-1439 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 27: DynamoDB Consistency, ECS Windows AMIs, and AI Landing ZonesIn Season 4, Episode 27, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Member, Tim Dodd. They discuss Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency, Amazon ECS-optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs, AWS Backup support for copying S3 backups across regions/accounts in GovCloud, a Chrome extension using AI to summarize web pages, and building a generative AI landing zone on AWS and then the guys realized they’d spent more time talking about the world’s weather than any of the AWS articles. 03:19 - Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency This feature allows for s...

2025-07-0834 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 27: DynamoDB Consistency, ECS Windows AMIs, and AI Landing ZonesIn Season 4, Episode 27, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Member, Tim Dodd. They discuss Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency, Amazon ECS-optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs, AWS Backup support for copying S3 backups across regions/accounts in GovCloud, a Chrome extension using AI to summarize web pages, and building a generative AI landing zone on AWS and then the guys realized they’d spent more time talking about the world’s weather than any of the AWS articles. 03:19 - Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency This feature allows for s...

2025-07-0834 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 25: Certificates, MFA, and Australian InvestmentsIn Season 4, Episode 25, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Hero Stephen Sennett. They discuss recent AWS security enhancements and active defense measures, including the introduction of exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, the enforcement of 100% MFA for AWS root users, and Amazon Inspector’s new code security feature. The conversation also covers AWS’s $20 billion investment in Australian data center infrastructure. The episode wraps up with a light-hearted segment where the hosts compare their sports tape collections, each trying to outdo the other with increasingly outrageous injury stories. 05:45 - AWS impro...

2025-06-2357 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 25: Certificates, MFA, and Australian InvestmentsIn Season 4, Episode 25, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Hero Stephen Sennett. They discuss recent AWS security enhancements and active defense measures, including the introduction of exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, the enforcement of 100% MFA for AWS root users, and Amazon Inspector’s new code security feature. The conversation also covers AWS’s $20 billion investment in Australian data center infrastructure. The episode wraps up with a light-hearted segment where the hosts compare their sports tape collections, each trying to outdo the other with increasingly outrageous injury stories. 05:45 - AWS impro...

2025-06-2357 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 24 - Meatballs, Manifolds, and Massive InvestmentsIn Season 4, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Randall Hunt, CTO of Caylent, for a dynamic and insightful conversation that blends cutting-edge cloud developments with a dash of humor. They dive into some of the latest updates from AWS, including the launch of on-demand key rotation for imported keys via AWS Key Management Service, new application layer 7 DDoS protection for customers using AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Shield Advanced, and enhanced CloudTrail logging for Amazon S3’s delete objects API, which offers improved auditability and operational visibility. The discussion also explores Amazon’s ambitious investment plans in glob...

2025-06-1738 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 24 - Meatballs, Manifolds, and Massive InvestmentsIn Season 4, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Randall Hunt, CTO of Caylent, for a dynamic and insightful conversation that blends cutting-edge cloud developments with a dash of humor. They dive into some of the latest updates from AWS, including the launch of on-demand key rotation for imported keys via AWS Key Management Service, new application layer 7 DDoS protection for customers using AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Shield Advanced, and enhanced CloudTrail logging for Amazon S3’s delete objects API, which offers improved auditability and operational visibility. The discussion also explores Amazon’s ambitious investment plans in glob...

2025-06-1738 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 23: Pricing, Protection, and PrivacyIn Season 4, Episode 23, Karl and Jon are joined by Cloud Security Consultant, Deep Shankar Yadav for a wide-ranging discussion on recent cloud updates and innovations. They cover the latest enhancements to the AWS Pricing Calculator, including support for discounts and purchase commitments, making it easier for users to estimate and plan costs more accurately. The conversation moves to Amazon EC2's new feature that allows for the deletion of underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs, helping users streamline storage management. They also explore how Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective can be used together to detect and investigate EC2 malware, p...

2025-06-1142 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 23: Pricing, Protection, and PrivacyIn Season 4, Episode 23, Karl and Jon are joined by Cloud Security Consultant, Deep Shankar Yadav for a wide-ranging discussion on recent cloud updates and innovations. They cover the latest enhancements to the AWS Pricing Calculator, including support for discounts and purchase commitments, making it easier for users to estimate and plan costs more accurately. The conversation moves to Amazon EC2's new feature that allows for the deletion of underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs, helping users streamline storage management. They also explore how Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective can be used together to detect and investigate EC2 malware, p...

2025-06-1142 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 22: Aurora DSQL, Cost Optimization, and Cloud DissatisfactionIn Season 4, Episode 22, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mohit Saxena to unpack the latest in AWS news. They kick things off with the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, followed by updates to Amazon ECS, which now provides more detailed exit reason messages. The conversation moves into developer tools, highlighting how Amazon Q’s Developer CLI agents can be used to automatically generate architecture diagrams. They also explore a new cost comparison feature in AWS Cost Explorer and improvements to the Cost Optimization Hub, which now supports preferences for savings plans and reserved instances. The ep...

2025-06-0338 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 22: Aurora DSQL, Cost Optimization, and Cloud DissatisfactionIn Season 4, Episode 22, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Mohit Saxena to unpack the latest in AWS news. They kick things off with the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, followed by updates to Amazon ECS, which now provides more detailed exit reason messages. The conversation moves into developer tools, highlighting how Amazon Q’s Developer CLI agents can be used to automatically generate architecture diagrams. They also explore a new cost comparison feature in AWS Cost Explorer and improvements to the Cost Optimization Hub, which now supports preferences for savings plans and reserved instances. The ep...

2025-06-0338 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 21: Reboot Migrations, Container Mapping, and GenAI SpendingIn Season 4, Episode 21, Karl and Jon are joined by Community Builder Ayhan Setirekli to discuss a range of AWS updates and industry news. Topics include the new EC2 feature: customer-initiated reboot migrations for scheduled events, enhancements to Amazon Inspector for container security, the launch of the AWS Product Lifecycle page, and updates on service availability. They also cover a report revealing that generative AI spending is now surpassing security spending in some organizations, and a widespread misconfiguration in cloud storage buckets exposing over 200 billion files and then the conversation shifted to plumbing—almost as if they were trying to fi...

2025-05-2936 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 21: Reboot Migrations, Container Mapping, and GenAI SpendingIn Season 4, Episode 21, Karl and Jon are joined by Community Builder Ayhan Setirekli to discuss a range of AWS updates and industry news. Topics include the new EC2 feature: customer-initiated reboot migrations for scheduled events, enhancements to Amazon Inspector for container security, the launch of the AWS Product Lifecycle page, and updates on service availability. They also cover a report revealing that generative AI spending is now surpassing security spending in some organizations, and a widespread misconfiguration in cloud storage buckets exposing over 200 billion files and then the conversation shifted to plumbing—almost as if they were trying to fi...

2025-05-2936 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 20: Chips, Chaos, and Nuclear PowerIn Season 4, Episode 20, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador and Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom for a wide-ranging discussion on key developments in cloud and infrastructure. They explore AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints, strategies for enhancing application resiliency using Amazon Q Developer, and how AWS security services can be mapped to MITRE frameworks for improved threat detection and mitigation. The episode also touches on AWS’s push for chip production in the UK amid the growing energy demands of AI, and the country’s increasing reliance on nuclear power to support data centers. Wrapping up on a l...

2025-05-2049 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 20: Chips, Chaos, and Nuclear PowerIn Season 4, Episode 20, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador and Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom for a wide-ranging discussion on key developments in cloud and infrastructure. They explore AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints, strategies for enhancing application resiliency using Amazon Q Developer, and how AWS security services can be mapped to MITRE frameworks for improved threat detection and mitigation. The episode also touches on AWS’s push for chip production in the UK amid the growing energy demands of AI, and the country’s increasing reliance on nuclear power to support data centers. Wrapping up on a l...

2025-05-2049 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 19: AI Agents, Responsible AI Adoption, and Cloud EarningsIn Season 4, Episode 19, Karl and Jon are joined by Rob Pankow, Simplyblock CEO, to discuss the new AWS EBS snapshot acceleration feature, the evolution of AI agents, AWS’s guide for responsible AI adoption in financial services, and how to use Amazon Q Business to gain insights from AWS Trusted Advisor. They also touch on cloud hyperscaler earnings and market share—before realizing they had spent more time talking about Jon’s t-shirt than the actual AWS news. 04:55 - AWS EBS snapshot acceleration feature This new feature allows users to accelerate the transfer of data fr...

2025-05-1450 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 19: AI Agents, Responsible AI Adoption, and Cloud EarningsIn Season 4, Episode 19, Karl and Jon are joined by Rob Pankow, Simplyblock CEO to discuss the new AWS EBS snapshot acceleration feature, the evolution of AI agents, AWS’s guide for responsible AI adoption in financial services, and how to use Amazon Q Business to gain insights from AWS Trusted Advisor. They also touch on cloud hyperscaler earnings and market share—before realizing they had spent more time talking about Jon’s t-shirt than the actual AWS news. 04:55 - AWS EBS snapshot acceleration feature This new feature allows users to accelerate the transfer of data...

2025-05-1450 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 18: Lambda Logging, Just-in-Time Access, and Data Center DebatesIn Season 4, Episode 18 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero Renato Losio. They discuss the introduction of tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs, new logging destinations, and standardized billing for the init phase in AWS Lambda; the launch of just-in-time node access via AWS Systems Manager; the use of AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for enhanced malware protection; the ongoing AI data center boom and its potential slowdown; and Jon’s return to the group, gracing them once more despite his rise as an internationally recognized tech conference speaker. 08:46 - AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for...

2025-05-0645 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 18: Lambda Logging, Just-in-Time Access, and Data Center DebatesIn Season 4, Episode 18 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero Renato Losio. They discuss the introduction of tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs, new logging destinations, and standardized billing for the init phase in AWS Lambda; the launch of just-in-time node access via AWS Systems Manager; the use of AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for enhanced malware protection; the ongoing AI data center boom and its potential slowdown; and Jon’s return to the group, gracing them once more despite his rise as an internationally recognized tech conference speaker. 08:46 - AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for...

2025-05-0645 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 17: Prepaid AWS, Prompt Optimization, and Gamified LearningIn Season 4, Episode 17 Karl & Jon are joined by Community Builder and User Group Lead, Damien Jones.They discuss AWS Advanced Payment Option, Amazon Redshift Discounted Pricing, Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, AWS SkillBuilder Trivia and then the guys joked about Jon's cat being deeply unimpressed with his AWS summit presentation practice, suggesting the audience might have a similar reaction. 07:25 - AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay for their usage in advance. This option doe...

2025-04-3045 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 17: Prepaid AWS, Prompt Optimization, and Gamified LearningIn Season 4, Episode 17 Karl & Jon are joined by Community Builder and User Group Lead, Damien Jones.They discuss AWS Advanced Payment Option, Amazon Redshift Discounted Pricing, Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, AWS SkillBuilder Trivia and then the guys joked about Jon's cat being deeply unimpressed with his AWS summit presentation practice, suggesting the audience might have a similar reaction. 07:25 - AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay for their usage in advance. This option doe...

2025-04-3045 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 16: Apex Domains, Backup Testing, and Cloud SustainabilityIn Season 4, Episode 16 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Sathyajith Bhat. They discuss Amazon CloudFront Anycast static IPs for Apex domains, AWS simplifying VPC peering billing, AWS Backup restore testing, sustainability challenges with AI and hyperscale data centers, CMA probe into cloud provider dominance and licensing costs and the guys went off on a tangent about the carbon footprint of generating AI action figure dolls. 08:53 - Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast static IPs for Apex domains This new feature allows users to point their Apex (naked) domains directly to CloudFront without using CN...

2025-04-2345 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 16: Apex Domains, Backup Testing, and Cloud SustainabilityIn Season 4, Episode 16 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Sathyajith Bhat. They discuss Amazon CloudFront Anycast static IPs for Apex domains, AWS simplifying VPC peering billing, AWS Backup restore testing, sustainability challenges with AI and hyperscale data centers, CMA probe into cloud provider dominance and licensing costs and the guys went off on a tangent about the carbon footprint of generating AI action figure dolls. 08:53 - Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast static IPs for Apex domains This new feature allows users to point their Apex (naked) domains directly to CloudFront without using CN...

2025-04-2345 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 15: Models, Money, and MonitoringIn Season 4, Episode 15 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and core member of the Armenia UG*, Tigran Gevorgyan. They discuss Meta's Llama 4 models on Amazon SageMaker, prompting for best price performance with AWS AI models, patched vulnerability in the Amazon EC2 SSM agent, using OpenSearch and Managed Grafana for telemetry data correlation, updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and then the guys started discussing the merits of different sports teams' merchandise, completely forgetting they were supposed to be talking about AWS news. 09:02 - Meta's Llama 4 models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart The art...

2025-04-1542 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 15: Models, Money, and MonitoringIn Season 4, Episode 15 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and core member of the Armenia UG*, Tigran Gevorgyan. They discuss Meta's Llama 4 models on Amazon SageMaker, prompting for best price performance with AWS AI models, patched vulnerability in the Amazon EC2 SSM agent, using OpenSearch and Managed Grafana for telemetry data correlation, updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and then the guys started discussing the merits of different sports teams' merchandise, completely forgetting they were supposed to be talking about AWS news. 09:02 - Meta's Llama 4 models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart The art...

2025-04-1542 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 4 Episode 14: Monitoring, Guardrails, and Open SourceIn Season 4, Episode 14 Karl & Jon are joined by Tangara Aymen. They discuss Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, AWS Step Functions SDK Expanded Integrations, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Image Content Filters, Australian Fintech Data Leak, AWS Commitment to Open Source and then the guys joked about writing horror films called "Attack of the Leaky Buckets" and "Attack of the Bad Internet" after experiencing connectivity issues during the podcast. 04:25 - Monitor service dependencies with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals SLOs CloudWatch is getting more features, including application signals for monitoring service dependencies and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This al...

2025-04-0742 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 14: Monitoring, Guardrails, and Open SourceIn Season 4, Episode 14 Karl & Jon are joined by Tangara Aymen. They discuss Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, AWS Step Functions SDK Expanded Integrations, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Image Content Filters, Australian Fintech Data Leak, AWS Commitment to Open Source and then the guys joked about writing horror films called "Attack of the Leaky Buckets" and "Attack of the Bad Internet" after experiencing connectivity issues during the podcast. 04:25 - Monitor service dependencies with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals SLOs CloudWatch is getting more features, including application signals for monitoring service dependencies and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This al...

2025-04-0742 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 13: Simulating Failures, Scanning Resources, and Securing SecretsIn Season 4, Episode 13 Karl & Jon are joined by Sam Waweru They discuss Amazon Application Recovery Controller's new AWS FIS recovery action, AWS CloudFormation's targeted resource scans, Secrets Management, AWS's detailed geographic information, S3 bucket data leak and then the guys joked about Jon's ever-changing office furniture, wondering if he'd finally settle on a therapist's couch given how often he needs therapy after recording the podcast. 03:11 - Amazon Application Recovery Controller announces AWS FIS recovery action for zonal autoshift This new feature allows users to simulate the loss of an AWS availability zone, helping to...

2025-03-3135 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 12 - Code Pipeline, KMS Metrics, and AI-Powered Contact CentersIn Season 4, Episode 12 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS DevTools Hero and User Group Lead Johannes Koch. They discuss AWS CodePipeline new feature, AWS KMS CloudWatch metrics, Amazon Q Business browser extension upgrades, AWS SNS potential abuse, AI-powered features in Amazon Connect and then the guys started comparing their gym routines, completely forgetting they were supposed to be talking about AWS news. 03:55 - AWS CodePipeline supports invoking pipeline execution with a new action type The new feature allows direct execution of other CodePipelines within an existing pipeline. This enables better orchestration of complex dep...

2025-03-2550 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 11: Dynamo DB Myths, Database Backups, and Leaky BucketsIn Season 4, Episode 11 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Joe Stech. They discuss Amazon EC2 allowing AMIs now integrating with AWS Config, Amazon DynamoDB on-demand capacity mode, long-term backup options for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, DeepSeek R1 model, misconfigured AWS S3 bucket exposing US nurses' data and then the guys started debating whether to call it "Glacier Potato" or "Deep Freeze Fries" as the next AWS storage tier! 04:00 - Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs now integrates with AWS Config This feature allows easier monitoring of the impact of enabling allowed AMIs in...

2025-03-1940 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 10 - Clippy's Comeback, CLI Confusion, and Cloud CompetitionIn Season 4, Episode 10, Karl & Jon are joined once again by AWS Hero, Brian Tarbox. They discuss automating Amazon RDS credential rotation with AWS Secrets Manager, Microsoft Amazon Q Business integrations, an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step Functions, a new agentic coding experience within Amazon Q Developer, the ongoing UK Competition and Markets Authority probe, and the guys joke that Amazon Q Business is the new Clippy (or Qlippy!). 04:08 - Automating Amazon RDS credential rotation with AWS Secrets Manager The article discusses a complex process for managing credential rotation for RDS instances with read replicas u...

2025-03-1240 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 9 - Chainsaws, Chatbots, and Cross-Account AccessIn Season 4, Episode 9 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Craig Johnson. They discuss Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, ways to grant cross-account access in AWS, Q Developer, AWS being named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for data integration tools and the guys go off on a tangent about chainsaws! 04:43 - AWS Introduces Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations AWS has introduced centralized route access management for organizations, allowing easier management of root users across multiple accounts. While not entirely new, this feature consolidates existing capabilities and ali...

2025-03-0332 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 8 - Cloud Formation, Fargate Frugality, and Vanishing Security AdviceIn Season 4, Episode 8 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS User Group Lead for "Leeds User Group, Edmund Craske. They discuss Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager tiered pricing, AWS CloudFormation 2024 year in review, free automated tool to hunt for exposed AWS secrets in public repos, AWS Fargate on a budget, best practices to respond to security risks across AWS organizations and Jon shows off his AWS swag blanket that keeps him warm while he waits for his CloudFormation stacks to deploy. 08:05 - Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager Amazon SES n...

2025-02-2639 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4, Episode 7 Maps, Stacks, and AI TracksIn 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, incl...

2025-02-1838 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 6: DynamoDB, Dollars, and Disappearing BucketsIn 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 Re...

2025-02-1138 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 5 - Metadata, Models, and Milestones: Celebrating 100 Episodes of AWS NewsIn 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 pr...

2025-02-0434 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 4 - Serverless Insights, Backup Best Practices, and Multi-Region MythsIn 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, ma...

2025-01-2834 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 3: Spots, Servers, and SecurityIn 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 us...

2025-01-2039 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 2: Patching, Sustainability, and AI HallucinationIn 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 rep...

2025-01-1340 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 4 Episode 1 - VPC Origins, Backup Searches, and Jeff Barr's FarewellIn 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 - Shri...

2025-01-0835 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 42 - re:Invent 2024In 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...

2024-12-1918 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 41 - Graviton Dashboards, Transfer Terminals & Database DiscountsIn 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 of...

2024-12-1636 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 40 - Lambda's Birthday, CloudFormation Timeline & Bedrock AgentsIn 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 g...

2024-11-1841 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 39 - Lambda Enhancements, Bedrock Prompt Management & Remote Working NativesIn 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 job...

2024-11-1234 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 38 - Q Developer, Security Group Sharing, and Amazon's RTOIn 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...

2024-11-0637 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 37 - Jam, Sessions & The Nuclear OptionIn 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 Clou...

2024-10-2142 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 3 Episode 37 - Jam, Sessions & The Nuclear OptionIn 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 Clou...

2024-10-2142 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 36 - CodePipeline, Valkey and AI Exec DepartureIn 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

2024-10-1430 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 35 - Graviton 4, ChatOps & BananasIn 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 ann...

2024-10-0835 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 34 - Cheap Containers, Backup Visibility & Building in AWSIn 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 billio...

2024-09-1644 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 33 - AI, more AI and some not AI!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

2024-09-1038 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 32 - Step Functions Validation, Lambda Layers & Neon SignsIn 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 La...

2024-09-0236 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 3 Episode 32 - Step Functions Validation, Lambda Layers & Neon SignsIn 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 La...

2024-09-0236 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 31: Macs, Loops, and MisconfigurationsIn 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. ...

2024-08-2739 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 30 - Serverless Security, Multicloud and AWS EarningsIn 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.

2024-08-0539 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 29: Graviton Benchmarks, SnapStart Java, and New Exam FormatsIn Season 3, Episode 29 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Girish Mukim. They discuss new Lambda snap start support for Java ARM functions, new question types being added to some AWS certification exams, using DynamoDB with Amazon OpenSearch Service for near real-time analytics without ETL, dedicated log volumes for RDS to improve database performance, benchmark results showing Graviton CPUs outperforming AMD and Intel and finally there is an update on Jon's leaking tap... Articles Discussed: 03:43 - Lambda snap start for Java ARM 07:52 - New AWS exam question types

2024-07-2932 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 28 - Simplified OIDC, Redshift Serverless, and AI Content LocalisationIn Season 3, Episode 28 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Joshua Walker. They discuss AWS IAM OpenID Connect, Amazon Redshift serverless, AWS WAF challenge and capture actions, Media content localization with AWS AI services, Top 10 AWS news stories of 2024 and Jon challenges AWS' definition of Serverless, again... Articles Discussed: 04:40 - AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers The article discusses how AWS IAM is simplifying the management of OpenID Connect identity providers by automating certificate management. This will make it easier to securely connect external ide...

2024-07-2333 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 27 - ECS Features, AWS Open Sourcing, and AI IACIn Season 3, Episode 27 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Jenn Bergstrom. They discuss Amazon ECS, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Security Hub and Jon was worried that the new Amazon Bedrock AI agent would replace him as Karl's Lead Cloud Engineer... Articles Discussed: 03:54 - Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications - Prevents issues when deploying containers using mutable tags like 'latest' - Happens automatically, users don't need to make any changes 10:02 - Amazon ECS provides enhanced stop task error mess...

2024-07-1733 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 26 - GuardDuty, Serverless and Sovereign CloudIn Season 3, Episode 26 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Igor Soroka. They discuss Amazon GuardDuty, New Lambda Logging Controls, Refactoring to Serverless, Aurora Global Database, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and the guys get sidetracked by Catalan taps... Articles Discussed: 5:33 Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring Now Supports Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems Key points: - Previously only supported Amazon Linux - Helps monitor and respond to potential threats like suspicious network activity, crypto mining, etc. - Uses existing security agent, 30 day free trial ...

2024-07-1035 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 25: Security, Sustainability, and Speed - How AWS Powers AI's FutureIn Season 3, Episode 25 Karl & Jon are joined by Amazon Alumni & returning guest, Steve Woodard. They discuss AWS CloudShell, AWS Compute Optimizer, SQS, carbon footprint and optimising workloads, AWS engineering infrastructure to power generative AI and the guys go off on tangents about travelling t-shirts, cat bed hats and hair care products... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 05:43 - AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 12:35 - New – Rightsizing Recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL in AWS Compute Optimizer 18:42 - Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Servi...

2024-07-0140 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3, Episode 24: AWS MFA, Glue Transforms, and Cloud DominanceIn Season 3, Episode 24 Karl & Jon discuss MFA, AWS Glue, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, automating cost optimisation, public and private cloud and Karl is thrown by Jon's glue humour... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:48 - AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you... 10:10 - AWS Glue adds additional 13 new transforms including flag duplicates 15:27 - Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock 20:34 - Optimize Amazon RDS costs for predictable workloads with automated IOPS and throughput scaling ...

2024-06-2432 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 23 - Root User Emails, AI CloudWatch Log Queries, and AI Startup FundingIn Season 3, Episode 23 Karl & Jon discuss root users and root emails, Query generator, Amazon GuardDuty, cost optimisation, AWS Generative AI Accelerator program and Karl, being superstitious, wondered whether Jon's itchy nose meant he was heading for an argument... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:25 - Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization 10:54 - Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-Powered natural language query generation 16:55 - Detect malware in new object uploads to Amazon S3 with Amazon GuardDuty 20:51 - Best practices to optimize costs after merge...

2024-06-1831 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 22: Faster Windows Containers, Smarter CloudWatch Alarms, and Easier Tax SettingsIn Season 3, Episode 22 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Iain Samuel McLean Elder. They discuss AWS Fargate improving Windows Container Launch Times, Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Alarms, CloudFront, AWS Tax Settings API and the guys discuss the difference between a long black and an americano - and it turns out they don't know! The articles discussed in this week episode are: 05:21 - AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times 12:53 - Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI support 19:11 - Respond to CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon Bed...

2024-06-1042 min

LogiCast AWS News Season 3 Episode 21 - IPv6, Small Large Language Models and Leadership ChangesIn Season 3, Episode 21 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Darya Petrashka. They discuss IPv6 Load Balancer, storage costs, Mistral models, LlamaIndex, impact of AWS’ exec change and somehow we got onto the subject of Channing Tatum in leathers... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 04:52 - Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients 11:00 - Optimizing storage costs and query performance by compacting small objects 17:37 - Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock 25:08 - Announcing LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune to bui...

2024-06-0435 min

LogiCast AWS News (Video)Season 2 Episode 27 - WORMs ONTAP, Recursive Lambdas and Jon tried his best.In Season 2 Episode 27 Jon tries his hand at hosting, with mixed results. He welcomes fellow AWS Community Builders Girish Mukim and Matt Morgan, where they discuss FSx for NetApp ONTAP supporting immutable WORM state, an overview of AWS CodePipeline, Detecting recursive loops in AWS Lambda, AWS Organisations with Service Control Policies and another look at the Prime Video team's recent re-architecting of the QoS monitor. Here are the links to the topics discussed: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap-now-supports-worm-protection-for-regulatory-compliance-and-ransomware-protection/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup_issue_151&u...

2023-07-1931 min