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LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 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 NewsSeason 3 Episode 20 - GitLab Caches In, S3 Billing Fix & AWS CEO Steps DownIn Season 3, Episode 20 Karl & Jon discuss Amazon ECR, the fact that Amazon S3 no longer charges for some HTTP Error Codes, AWS managed applications, Multi-Region Disaster Recovery, Andy Jassy's AWS leadership announcement and Karl makes Jon speechless for once... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 01:14 - Amazon ECR adds pull through cache support for GitLab.com 08:10 - Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes 12:41 - How to use AWS managed applications with IAM Identity Center: Enable Amazon Q without migrating existing IAM federation flow...2024-05-2031 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 19: Custom AI Models, Budget Controls, and Singapore InvestmentsIn Season 3, Episode 19 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and AWS User Group Leader, Raphael Manke. They discuss AWS Resilience Hub's drift detection, AWS Budgets, Amazon Bedrock Studio, customising AI on AWS, Amazon’s investment of nearly $9 billion in Singapore and Karl angles for some AWS User Group Karlsruhe stickers... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 05:21 - AWS Resilience Hub expands application resilience drift detection capabilities 11:15 - AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls 16:30 - Build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Studio (previe...2024-05-1433 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 18 - Amazon Q, Expensive Buckets, and $100B MilestoneIn Season 3, Episode 18 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Praveen Sambu. They discuss Amazon Q, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS Notifications, AWS S3 Storage Bucket Incident, AWS Revenue and Karl struggles to pronounce Ars Technica without sounding rude... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:32 - Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI 10:58 - Amazon EC2 simplifies visibility into your active AMIs 14:49 -Set up notifications for Amazon RDS pending maintenance actions 19:10 - AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nea...2024-05-0732 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 17 - Agentless Inspector , Github Actions Meet Codebuild, and AWS London SummitIn Season 3, Episode 17 Karl & Jon discuss Amazon Inspector hybrid mode, AWS CodeBuild supporting GitHub Action runners, IAM Access Analyzer, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Summit London 2024 and Karl's Dad makes an unintentional guest appearance... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:47 - Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 are now Generally Available (GA) 08:39 - AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action runners 15:03 - Evaluating public and cross account access at scale with IAM Access Analyzer for Amazon S3 20:18 - How to monitor AWS WAF logging centr...2024-04-3033 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 16 - Certifications, Snowmobiles, and Large Language ModelsIn Season 3, Episode 16 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero and AWS Ambassador, Brian Tarbox. They discuss Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus revolutionizing generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets, optimizing Amazon RDS snapshot costs, Snowmobile, why certification alone isn’t enough in the dynamic world of cloud engineering and this week's tangents included trains and boats and planes! The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:51- Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model now available on Amazon Bedrock 11:35 - AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets now offer enhanced change visibility for deployments 17:12 - Programmat...2024-04-2239 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 15 - Game Days, RDS Cost Optimization, and Cats in the CloudIn Season 3, Episode 15 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Rich House. They discuss Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (Sydney), AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Tools for Amazon RDS Cost Optimization, US-EAST-1 Region Insights, Amazon Engineer’s Cybersecurity Efforts and Jon proves he is less adept than Mr Miyagi at catching flies... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 06:07 - Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region 11:46 - AWS IAM Identity Center now offers a streamlined AWS access portal and shortcut links 18:10 - AWS to...2024-04-1736 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 14 - AI Investments, Database Migrations and Red HatsIn Season 3, Episode 14 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Edmund Craske. They discuss AWS Compute Optimizer, per-second billing for EC2 RHEL Instances, Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, Amazon’s $150 Billion Data Center Investment, Amazon’s Investment in Anthropic and Jon gets sidetracked with his plumbing, again... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 04:56 - AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendations 11:22 - Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances 14:44 - Achieve faster switchover for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deploym...2024-04-0835 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 13 - Cost Savings, Cold Starts, and Credits ReturnedIn Season 3, Episode 13 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Vijaya Nirmala Gopal. They discuss DynamoDB's AWS PrivateLink support, Secrets Manager integration with Redshift Serverless, a 7-day window for returning Savings Plans, AWS Lambda cold start issues, cost savings of transitioning to AWS from on-premises and Karl speculated that cold starts may be worse in Canada... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 04:11 - Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink 09:00 - AWS Secrets Manager announces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse 13:49 - AWS announces a 7-day wind...2024-03-2635 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 12 - Faster CloudFormation, EBS Restore Testing, and Step Functions vs. LambdaIn Season 3, Episode 12 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Stephen Sennett. They discuss updates to AWS CloudFormation ,AWS Backup, Claude models, Step Functions vs. Lambda Functions, 'builder studio' down under and the guys get sidetracked discussing swag, again... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 06:15 - Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation 10:06 - AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive 15:56 - Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon Bedrock 22:08 - When to u...2024-03-1934 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 11 - WAF Dashboards, Free Data Transfer & Nuclear Powered AIIn Season 3, Episode 11 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Serverless Hero, Danielle Heberling. They discuss AWS WAF dashboard, Windows authentication on Linux containers, documentation processes, free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS, Nuclear-Powered Data Centers and Jon prepares his tin foil hat... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:05 - Introducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard 09:24 - Windows authentication with gMSA on Linux containers on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate 13:40 - Reduce project delays with a docs-as-code solution 19:48 - Free data trans...2024-03-1234 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 10 - EventBridge Pipes, Service Catalogue and CloudWatch LoggingIn Season 3, Episode 10 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Serverless Hero, Ran Isenberg. They discuss AWS Lambda, AWS CodeStar Connections & AWS Service Catalog, logs in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS for MySQL & Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Cloud Cybersecurity Checkup for SMB in 2024 and the guys go off on tangents about Ikea and Lego... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:07 - AWS Lambda improves responsiveness for configuring stream and queue-based event sources 08:45 -Streamline Platform Engineering using AWS CodeStar Connections with AWS Service Catalog 17:51 - Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in A...2024-03-0534 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 9: Systems Manager, Terraform State & Cloud Learning StylesIn Season 3, Episode 9 Karl & Jon discuss AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, LLRT, Terraform State files, migrating Cognito users to a new user pool, AWS Cloud learning skills and Jon offers identity management tips that could land you in jail... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 01:32 - AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports cross-account sharing 07:47 - AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps 13:26 - Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline 23:08 - What’s the b...2024-02-2735 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 8 - Control Tower, CodePipeline and AI for Good!In Season 3, Episode 8 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Benjamen Pyle.They discuss Control Tower, AWS CodePipeline, AI, renewable energy, and Jon has a rant about the hidden message behind Thomas the Tank Engine! The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:12 - AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units 08:29 - AWS CodePipeline adds support for Branch-based development and Monorepos 15:21 - Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Cohere embedding models 17:41 - Amazon Web Services signs 98.4MW wind PPA in...2024-02-2038 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 7 - CloudFormation, IP Cash Cow & the 13Rs of CloudIn Season 3, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Steve Woodard. They discuss CloudFormation, CDK Migration and Product Overlap Paralysis, IPv4 address charges, the 13 Rs, 4 tech predictions and Jon outs Karl as a MAMIL... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:48 - Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation 11:25 - AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption 18:58 - IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS 26:15 - The 13 Rs Of Cloud Computing 30:16 - 4 tech predictions for 2024...2024-02-1337 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 6 - Console to Code, Crypto Mining and Lava LampsIn Season 3, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and AWS Ambassador, Martyn Kilbryde. They discuss AWS Console-to-Code, ECS, security reports, AWS Certification, Amazon cloud unit revenue and Karl recalls the time he accidentally invented the Lager Lamp... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:07 - AWS Console-to-Code: Generating Code for Console Actions 11:17 - 5 DevOps Use Cases for Amazon ECS 16:20 - Datadog Report Surfaces Pair of Sophisticated AWS Attacks 25:07 - AWS Certification retirements and launches 31:43 - Amazon cloud unit speeds up revenue g...2024-02-0536 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 5 - Lightsail, Cost Optmization and HyperautomationIn Season 3, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Amelia Hough-Ross. They discuss Lightsail, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, Cloud cost optimization, serverless pricing in AWS, Hyperautomation and Karl tries to get Amelia to share national secrets... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:56 - Announcing IPv6 instance bundles and pricing update on Amazon Lightsail 09:37 - Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys: Under the hood 13:53 - Cloud cost optimization at scale part 1 20:36 - Decode serverless pricing in AWS to avoid high costs 25:58 - Fre...2024-01-2933 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 4 - More AI Use Cases, Automated Tagging and S3 HacksIn Season 3, Episode 4 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Matt Martz. They discuss debugging databases with OpenAI, generative infrastructure as code with Application Composer, automating object processing in Amazon S3 directory buckets, slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS, tagging controls with AWS Config and AWS Organizations and Karl recalls his favourite inappropriate Panda acronym. The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:54 - AWS is readying LLM-based debugger for databases to take on OpenAI 09:30 - Using generative infrastructure as code with Application Composer 16:51 - Automate object processing in...2024-01-2232 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 3 - Container Orchestration, Code Coverage & the Serverless DebateIn Season 3, Episode 3 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Serverless Hero, Allen Helton. They discuss Container Orchestration, code coverage, automating the delivery of AWS Backup Audit Manager reports, AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, detecting PII data in Amazon Aurora with Amazon Comprehend and Karl goes off on a tangent about how much Patrick Duffy earned acting in Dallas. The articles discussed in this week episode are: 05:20 - Container Orchestration: AWS ECS vs. AWS EKS — Choosing the Right Path for Your Workloads 12:45 - Looking beyond code coverage with Amazon CodeWhisperer 2024-01-1635 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 2 - Graviton 4, Prompt Engineering and Invisible Quadrants In Season 3, Episode 2, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder, Jason Andrews from ARM. They discuss AWS Fourth-Generation Graviton Processor, prompt engineering with Amazon CodeWhisperer, how to prevent creation of noncompliant cloud resources, reducing Cloud costs, Magic Quadrant and Jon recycle's a previous guest's jokes! The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:45 - AWS Unveils Fourth-Generation Graviton Processor with R8g EC2 Instances 13:30 - Best Practices for Prompt Engineering with Amazon CodeWhisperer 20:12 - How to use AWS Config proactive rules and AWS CloudFormation Hooks to pr...2024-01-1033 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 3 Episode 1 - Gen AI Again, IAM Access Analyzer & Heroes in CapesIn Season 3, Episode 1, Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Hero and Host of the Boston AWS User Group, Brian Tarbox. They discuss Adam Selipsky Amazon’s AI vision, IAM Access Analyzer, Free Tier API and Jon goes off on a tangerine tangent... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 07:30 - AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks Amazon’s AI vision, cloud cost cutting 24:17 - AWS Adds Automated Detection of Unused IAM Roles, Users, and Permissions 29:46 - AWS Exposes Free Tier API to Help Developers Avoid Unexpected Bills 2024-01-0336 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 42 - re:Invent Special - Q, S3 & SaaSIn Season 2, Episode 42, Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador, and Co-Host of the AWS UK User Group, Jon Topper. They discuss Amazon's Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies, Amazon S3 Express One Zone, AWS Control Tower, SaaS Quick Launch for AWS Marketplace and Karl tried his best not to confuse the Jons... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 06:39 - Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies 15:26 - AWS launches high-speed Amazon S3 Express One Zone object storage tier 20:27 - AWS Control Tower adds new controls to he...2023-12-0735 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 41 - Thin Clients, Serverless Cache and Saving CashIn Season 2, Episode 41, Karl & Jon are joined by Sumon Molla Selim (SumonMSelim). They discuss Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, AWS Step Functions HTTPS endpoints and the new TestState AP, automatic restore testing and validation in AWS Backup, Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached,, AWS’s Cost Optimization Hub and new customisation options in its Compute Optimizer and... Jon said the S word but we don't have a beeper... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 04:13 - AWS unveils new enterprise hardware to provide businesses with easy-to-use virtual desktops 12:20 - AWS Step...2023-12-0533 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 40 - re:Invent Predictions, Re-used Water and Returning RodentsIn Season 2, Episode 40, Karl & Jon discuss Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore, AWS CloudFormation features, how to use multiple instances of AWS IAM Identity Center, how Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers are using purified wastewater for their cooling systems, 5 Generative AI Predictions and a wishlist from AWS re:Invent 2023 and Jon makes an interesting analogy between CloudFormation and sausage dogs. The articles discussed in this week episode are: 02:21 - Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions 09:11 - AWS CloudFormation simplifies resource import with a new parameter for ChangeSets 17:22...2023-11-2936 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 39 - Pre:Invent Special - Partyrock, CodeCatalyst & re:Invent PredictionsIn Season 2, Episode 39, Karl & Jon are joined by Johannes Koch. They discuss how to build AI apps with PartyRock and Amazon Bedrock, advanced logging controls for AWS Lambda functions, AWS Step Functions to recover from failures, Amazon CodeCatalyst using AWS IAM Identity Center, how cloud experts weigh in with 2023 AWS re:Invent predictions and Johannes tells us what German sweet treats he is taking to Vegas to sweeten up his contacts. The articles discussed in this week episode are: 04:17 - Build AI apps with PartyRock and Amazon Bedrock 10:46 - Introducing advanced lo...2023-11-2139 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 38 - Data Engineering, Amazon X-Ray and Chest X-RaysIn Season 2, Episode 38, Karl & Jon are joined by Andres Moreno. They discuss registration for AWS Certified Data Engineer, reducing MTTR for the serverless workloads, powering Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton3, how to use Amazon Bedrock to manage social postings, how Cryptojackers steal AWS credentials from GitHub and that Jon suffers through his illness for the cause... The articles discussed in this week episode are: 03:56 - Registration open for AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate beta exam 09:33 - Lowering MTTR with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray 17:47 - Powering Amazon RDS...2023-11-0835 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 37 - Cloud Institute, Patch Compliance & CodeWhispererIn Season 2, Episode 37, Karl & Jon discuss the AWS Cloud Institute virtual program, Systems Manager Patch Compliance Status, AWS Trusted Advisor, the Ofcom cloud report and why AWS isn't adding new languages to CodeWhisperer just yet. The articles we discussed in this week's episode are: 01:15 - AWS releases Cloud Institute virtual program to train developers 09:24 - Identify AWS Systems Manager Patch Compliance Status with AWS CloudTrail Lake 14:41 - Auto-remediate best practice deviations detected by AWS Trusted Advisor 20:07 - Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft? 26:40 - Why AWS isn't adding new...2023-10-1832 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 36 - Busting Bots, Mandatory MFA and Architecting ArchesIn Season 2, Episode 36, Karl & Jon discuss Amazon DataZone, Multi Arch infrastructure, Amazon Bedrock, AWS MadPot and MFA by default. And Karl went off on a tangent about canal boats. These are the articles that we discussed in this episode: 01:45 Amazon DataZone Now Generally Available – Collaborate on Data Projects across Organizational Boundaries 07:36 The Insider’s Guide to Building a Multi-Arch Infrastructure 15:03 What is Amazon Bedrock? 4 ways it can help businesses use generative AI tools 21:48 AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage 26:18 AWS kicks off cloud race to mandate MFA by default 2023-10-1132 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 35 - Bedrock, Training and TrainsIn Episode 35 of Season 2, Karl & Jon discuss the recent big Amazon AI announcements - the launch of Amazon Bedrock into General Availability and the Amazon investment in Anthropic. They also touch on deploying container applications using CodeCatalyst and AppRunner, tips to pass AWS Solutions Architect Professional and some of the latest announcements from AWS Training & Development, and Jon reveals his inner trainspotter... Articles discussed in this episode: 01:33 - Amazon Bedrock is now generally available as AWS enterprise GenAI efforts get serious 07:40 - Amazon takes $4bn minority stake in AI safety research startup Anthropic 11:27 - Deploying container...2023-10-0330 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 34 - Storage Stats, Steroids & CryptojackingIn Episode 34 of Season 2, Karl & Jon talk about Amazon's new cloud storage offerings unveiled at AWS Storage Day, the introduction of AWS Dedicated Local Zones, setting up memory metrics for Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager, AWS's IPv4 challenges, and a cryptojacking campaign that exploits less-used AWS services to stay hidden. Also, Jon re-grounds himself while Karl enjoys some big numbers. Here are links to the articles discussed: 01:05 Amazon Unveils New Cloud Storage Offerings at AWS Storage Day via Steve McDowell on Forbes 09:32 AWS Introduces Dedicated Local Zones for Sovereignty Requirements via Renato Losio on...2023-09-2633 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 33 - Digital Badgers, SAM Squirrel & Go Gopher GoneIn Episode 33 of Season 2, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Igor Soroka. They discuss the general availability of AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform, a centralized dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub, AWS Lambda's deprecation of the Go runtime, and how to stand out in the cloud job market with digital badges from AWS Education Programs. Here are links to the articles discussed: 06:02 AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform now generally available via Eric Johnson on the Amazon Web Services Compute Blog 14:02 Centralized Dashboard for AWS Config and AWS Security Hub...2023-09-2034 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 32 - Chaos Engineering, Bot Control & EC2 ClassicIn Episode 32 of Season 2, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Manoj L. They discuss AWS WAF Bot Control, chaos engineering, AWS EC2 Classic, saving on AWS costs, AWS FinOps, and Karl forgets both Jeff Barr & Corey Quinn's names in the same episode! Here are links to the articles discussed: 03:35 - AWS WAF Bot Control now protects against distributed proxy-based attacks via Amazon Web Services news 10:46 - Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon.com Search Uses Chaos Engineering to Handle Over 84K Requests Per Secondvia Seth Eliot on Amazon Web S...2023-09-1332 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 31 - Lost Keys, No Honeycode, Fig & FigsIn Season 2 Episode 31 Karl & Jon discuss how AWS has scrapped Honeycode, how to regain access to an EC2 instance if you lost your key pair, the AWS acquisition of Fig, using S3 for Laravel storage and whether FinOps is fit for purpose in the era of CloudFlation. Karl also waffles on about this year's poor fig crop... Here are the links to the articles discussed: 01:13 - Muted response speaks volumes as AWS scraps low-code Honeycode 08:43 - Lost Your EC2 Key Pair? Here’s How to Regain Access to Your Instance 12:48 - Amazon Web Services acquires Fig, a YC g...2023-09-0631 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 30 - EKS v ECS, GP2 v GP3, AWS v GCPIn Season 2 Episode 30, Karl & Jon are joined by fellow AWS Community Builder Davide de Paolis. They delve into the latest in the AWS ecosystem, including the inauguration of the first international AWS Skills Center in Cape Town, a comparison between ECS and EKS with five key differences, The Guardian's adoption of serverless Postgres, insights into loving AWS despite growth slowdown, and AWS's continued dominance in the cloud market. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS brings in-person, interactive learning to Cape Town with the first international AWS Skills Center via Amazon ECS Vs. EKS: 5 Key...2023-08-2334 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 29 - Cyber Insurance, Microsoft Licensing and Karl’s Back!Season 2 Episode 29 sees the triumphant return of Karl to the podcast. This week he and Jon discuss AWS' new Cyber Insurance platform, new controls added to AWS Security Hub, Microsoft's change to the M365 licence that now allows it to run on AWS Workspaces, AWS's Monitoring and Observability efforts, and more talk about Cloud Repatriation. Here are the links to the topics discussed: 5 Value Propositions That Make AWS Cyber Insurance Transformative for Customers via Chris Hughes on Acceleration Economy AWS Security Hub launches 12 new security controls via Amazon Web Services (AWS) news Amazon WorkSpaces fin...2023-08-1532 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 28 - Searchable OCI, Proactive Lambdas and Sustainable CloudsIn Episode 28 of Season 2 Jon flies solo again, and laments the lack of Karl's presence. He welcomes fellow AWS Community Builder Omkar Kadam, where they discuss Lambda Proactive initialisations, Fargate's Seekable OCI, DevOps best practices on AWS, Cloud IaaS spending topping $100 billion for the first time and using the cloud to enhance sustainability activities. Omkar also has an exciting announcement, in a first for LogiCast. Here are the links to the topics discussed: https://dev.to/aws-heroes/goodbye-cold-starts-hello-proactive-initialization-28j7 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/aws-fargate-container-startup-seekable-oci/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/l...2023-07-2531 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 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

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 26 - Live Tails, Losing Executives and Freudian SlipsIn Season 2 Episode 26, Karl & Jon welcome fellow AWS Community Builder Maria Christidi Noble. They discuss the latest developments in the world of AWS, including live tailing for AWS CloudWatch logs, AWS's embrace of generative AI, the introduction of EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, notable departures from AWS leadership, and the expansion of the AWS Re/Start program to Portugal. Here are links to the topics discussed: 04:46 Amazon Introduces Live Tail in CloudWatch Logs for Real-Time Exploration of Logs via Renato Losio on InfoQ 11:38 AWS: Embracing the Power of Generative AI via Brad Anderson on ReadWrite 16:06 EC2 Instance...2023-07-1135 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 25 - Dead Letter Queues, Lambda Testing & Gamified TrainingIn Season 2 Episode 25, Karl & Jon, together with fellow AWS Community Builder Martyn Kilbryde, discuss the latest updates from AWS Training and Certification, explore testing AWS Lambda functions with AWS SAM remote invoke, reprocessing messages in Amazon SQS's dead-letter queue, uncover the security and privacy measures of the world's largest cloud provider, and learn about AWS's new AppFabric. Here are links to the articles discussed: 02:08 New courses and updates from AWS Training and Certification in May and June 2023 on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification Blog 08:04 Testing AWS Lambda functions with AWS...2023-07-0331 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 24 - Spot Instances, Step Functions & Socket SetsIn Logicast Season 2 Episode 24, we delve into the latest developments in the world of AWS, including dedicated hosts on AWS Outposts, time skipping in testing Step Functions, the battle between AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Fargate, upcoming updates to AWS certifications, and the cost research behind AWS Spot Instances. Here are links to the articles discussed: 01:02 AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers via Simon Sharwood on The Register 08:03 Testing Step Functions: how to skip time when testing Timeout and Wait states via Yan Cui on Dev.to 12:41 AWS Elastic...2023-06-2731 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 23 - Cloud Costs, Cloud Heroes, Cloud VillainsJoin us on the latest episode of Logicast as we explore secure connectivity with EC2 Instance Connect, discover free money-saving tips for business owners, delve into the consequences of an S3 bucket leak, unravel the confusion around cloud costs, and discuss the recent Amazon cloud service outage. Here are links to the articles discussed: 03:17 Secure Connectivity from Public to Private: Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services compute blog 10:53 Dear Business Owner, Here is a FREE Way to Save Thousands on Amazon EC2 Hosting via John Rampton on Entrepreneur Media 19:23 Lantum S3...2023-06-2035 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 22 - Cloud Optimization, Serverless Badges & Secret ServersIn Season 2 Episode 22, Karl & Jon welcomed fellow AWS Community Builder Armielyn Obinguar as their guest. Together they discussed the top secret AWS Snowblade server, reducing AWS S3 KMS costs, other Cloud Optimization techniques and tips, and AWS training badges and certifications. Jon also earned a new middle name… Here are the links to the topics discussed: 02:14 AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server, via Simon Sharwood on The Register 08:45 Reducing AWS Key Management Service costs by up to 99% with S3 Bucket Keys, via Will Calvin on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog 12:20 What's missing in your cloud op...2023-06-1333 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 21 - Captain Cloud, Captain Serverless, Captainless DatacenterIn Episode 21 of our second season Karl and Jon welcome fellow AWS Community Builder Abhishek Maurya to talk about Snowball Edge and AWS's Large Data Migration Service, Jon shamelessly self-promotes his article about Lambda's use-cases, granting least-privileged access to EC2 servers, Chris Vonderhaar's sudden exit from AWS, Elastic's new agreement with AWS, TikTok & AWS Certifications. The articles that inspired this week's episode are: 04:47 - New – Snowball Edge Storage Optimized Devices with More Storage and Bandwidth via Jeff Barr on the AWS News Blog 13:50 - AWS Lambda Use Cases: When You Should Use It? via Jon Goodall on...2023-06-0532 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 4 - Incidents, Events & Feline ExitsIn Episode 4, Karl & Jon discuss launch templates, Lambda functions, event-driven architectures, incident response automations, expanding US-EAST-1, and Jon's cat decides she doesn't want to listen to him any more. Here are the links to the articles discussed: Amazon EC2 Launch Templates now support AWS Systems Manager parameters for AMIs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) news AWS Lambda Functions – Unlock the Potential of The Powerful tool AWS on DroidMen Let’s Architect! Designing event-driven architectures via Luca Mezzalira, Laura Hyatt, Vittorio Denti, and Zamira Jaupaj on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog How to Automate Incident Response with Page...2023-05-3130 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 20 - IAM Roles, Crypto Mining and HatsIn Episode 20 of Season 2, Karl & Jon together with guest Jon Zeolla discuss AWS IAM roles and how to use them, using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, backup strategies for Amazon DynamoDB, developing a serverless Slack App, and how EC2 is exploited in new cryptomining attacks. Here are links to the articles discussed: 02:42 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them via Mariusz Michałowski on DevOps.com 07:27 Use Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor for greater visibility into online experiences via Kelvin Ting and Richi Kumari on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Operations and Migrations b...2023-05-3132 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 19 - Spot Instances, Snowball Edge & Bucket NegligenceIn Episode 19 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome yet another guest onboard - fellow AWS Community Builder Ben Ellis. They discuss some best practices to optimize Amazon EC2 spot instances, building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines, getting data to the cloud faster, leaky buckets, and reasons to love the cloud. Here are links to the topics discussed: 02:44 Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog 09:01 Building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder via Yogesh Aggarwal and Jason Livingston on Amazon Web S...2023-05-2332 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 18 - Private Access, Private Data, Private DancerIn episode 18 of season 2, Karl & Jon discuss Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", private access to the AWS Management Console, Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, AWS Lambda for the containers developer, implementing cross-account CI/CD and the EU's draft legislation on cybersecurity labelling. Here are links to the articles discussed: Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available via Amazon web Services News New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs via Jeff Barr on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog AWS Lambda for the containers developer via Massimo Re Ferre...2023-05-1529 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 17 - Serverless is Dead? Long live the King!In Episode 17 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome another guest on the podcast - fellow AWS Community Builder Matthew Wilson. They discuss the new Athena Provisioned Capacity, how to scan AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector, ChatAWS, understanding cloud costs in 2023, and Prime Video switching from serverless to EC2 and ECS. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ How to scan your AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector via Vamsi Vikash Ankam and Gabriel Santamaria on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog ChatAWS: Deploy AWS Resources Seamlessly With...2023-05-1032 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 16 - Layoffs, Panic Purchasing, & Cost ReductionsIn Season 2 Episode 16, Karl & Jon welcome another guest Danielle Heberling to join the podcast. They discuss new features of Amazon Guard Duty, the differences between ECS and Lambda, reducing data archiving costs, layoffs, and cloud revenue. Here are links to the articles discussed: AWS Announces Three New Amazon GuardDuty Capabilities to Help Customers Protect Container, Database, and Serverless Workloads via Business Wire AWS ECS vs. AWS Lambda: Top 5 Main Differences via Rodolfo Ortega on DZone Reduce data archiving costs for compliance by automating Amazon RDS snapshot exports to Amazon S3 via Burak Alakus on Amazon Web S...2023-05-0332 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 15 - BLT - Bedrock, Lattice & TuningIn Episode 15 of Season 2 Karl & Jon welcome their first ever guest, fellow AWS Community Builder Johannes Koch! Then they talk about VPC Lattice in General Availability, Cloud Native development, saving money on your Lambda bill, Amazon Bedrock and AWS's growth for 2022/2023 Here are links the topics discussed: Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity via Renato Losio on InfoQ Modernizing? Containers are Not Enough; You Need Cloud Native via Lee Atchison on Cloud Native Now Understanding techniques to reduce AWS Lambda costs in serverless applications via James Beswick on Amazon Web Services (A...2023-04-2533 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 14 - Digital Skills, Cat Skills & Cloud BillsIn Season 2 Episode 14, Karl & Jon forget how many articles to discuss and talk about Lambda response streaming, the Well Architected Framework, the new MediaConnect Gateway, EC2 Image Builder (whilst Jon rants about the 1990's), AWS trying to close the digital skills gaps and cloud repatriation gets even more air time. Here are links to the topics discussed: Introducing AWS Lambda response streaming via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework via Haleh Najafzadeh on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog AWS launches new gateway to connect on-prem with the...2023-04-1732 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 13 - SnapStarts, Manx & MancsIn unlucky episode 13 Karl & Jon talk about Terraform security, AWS Organizations features, the new Lambda SnapStart feature, optimising costs on CodeBuild, AWS using renewable fuel in their backup generators, Manx vs. Mancs, and whether episode 13 is going to be unlucky (spoiler alert, Karl's phone rang, so maybe it was?) Here are the links to the articles discussed: Terraform Security Best Practices via Nigel Douglas on Sysdig Simplified multi-account governance with AWS Organizations all features via Nivedita Tripathi on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Using AWS Lambda SnapStart with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines via...2023-04-0429 min

LogiCast AWS NewsSeason 2 Episode 12 - Rolls, Roles and RedundanciesNow that they're back in their sheds, Karl & Jon talk about unit testing serverless apps, cleaning up after yourself in cloudwatch, write-through caches in PostgreSQL, the correct pronoucieation of "cache", EC2 IAM security, AWS being affected by the Amazon layoffs, and tuna sandwiches Here are links to the topics discussed: Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services via Kevin Hakanson and Tom Romano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Delete Empty CloudWatch Log Streams via Vinod Kisanagaram and Rich McDonough on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds Write-Through Cache to...2023-03-3028 min