Best Logicata Podcasts (2025)

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Season 4 Episode 16: Apex Domains, Backup Testing, and Cloud Sustainability 45:41

6d ago45:41

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In 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 …

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Season 4 Episode 15: Models, Money, and Monitoring 42:38

13d ago42:38

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In 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 corre…

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Season 4 Episode 14: Monitoring, Guardrails, and Open Source 42:43

21d ago42:43

42:43

In 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 …

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Season 4 Episode 13: Simulating Failures, Scanning Resources, and Securing Secrets 35:19

28d ago35:19

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In 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 h…

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Season 4 Episode 12 - Code Pipeline, KMS Metrics, and AI-Powered Contact Centers 50:41

1M ago50:41

50:41

In 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 f…

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Season 4 Episode 11: Dynamo DB Myths, Database Backups, and Leaky Buckets 40:12

1M ago40:12

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In 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 starte…

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Season 4 Episode 10 - Clippy's Comeback, CLI Confusion, and Cloud Competition 40:08

2M ago40:08

40:08

In 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…

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Season 4 Episode 9 - Chainsaws, Chatbots, and Cross-Account Access 32:46

2M ago32:46

32:46

In 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 a…

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Season 4 Episode 8 - Cloud Formation, Fargate Frugality, and Vanishing Security Advice 39:35

2M ago39:35

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In 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 r…

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Season 4, Episode 7 Maps, Stacks, and AI Tracks 38:58

2M ago38:58

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In Season 4, Episode 7 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Cormack. They discuss AWS Step Functions, reshaping AWS CloudFormation stacks with stack refactoring, AWS Verified Access support for non-HTTP resources, AWS's full-year profit and revenue growth, AWS documentation updates and future plans and the guys think Mark Zuckerberg…

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Season 4 Episode 6: DynamoDB, Dollars, and Disappearing Buckets 38:36

3M ago38:36

38:36

In Season 4, Episode 6 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Dave Hall. They discuss Dynamo DB innovations, cost optimization highlights, migration to AWS MediaConvert, S3 Bucket security risks, AWS Lambda and Serverless computing and it looks like the AWS Community Builders are drinking 'Dirty Lambda' cocktails and playing buzzword bingo…

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Season 4 Episode 5 - Metadata, Models, and Milestones: Celebrating 100 Episodes of AWS News 34:56

3M ago34:56

34:56

In Season 4, Episode 5 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero, Peter Sankauskas. They discuss Amazon S3 metadata, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, DeepSeek R1, Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS survey on AWS service usage and trends and Jon finally got to go Apple reaction crazy for our 100th episode! 06:14 - Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available This feat…

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Season 4 Episode 4 - Serverless Insights, Backup Best Practices, and Multi-Region Myths 34:40

3M ago34:40

34:40

In Season 4, Episode 4 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Bojan Zivic. They discuss observability in ECS, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Backup best practices, AWS security best practices to mitigate ransomware attacks, architecting with multiple AWS regions for enhanced resilience and Jon found his missing piece of the puzzle - a Lego Millen…

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Season 4 Episode 3: Spots, Servers, and Security 39:08

3M ago39:08

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In Season 4, Episode 3 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Miguel Calles. They discuss AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS launching a new region in Mexico, Amazon Q Developer, interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman, ransomware attack on unsecured AWS S3 buckets and once again they got onto the subject of swag, this time AWS Community Builder swag, …

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Season 4 Episode 2: Patching, Sustainability, and AI Hallucination 40:25

3M ago40:25

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In Season 4, Episode 2 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Ambassador & Community Builder, Niklas Westerstråhle. They discuss new configurable Point in Time Recovery periods for Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Compute Optimizer, automating Systems Manager patching reports, optimizing container workloads for sustainability, AI hallucination and potential fixes and Ni…

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Season 4 Episode 1 - VPC Origins, Backup Searches, and Jeff Barr's Farewell 35:56

4M ago35:56

35:56

In Season 4, Episode 1 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Gabriel Torres. They discuss AWS Community Builder program benefits and application process, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Backup's new search and item-level recovery features, decreasing storage volumes for RDS databases, troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching using Amazon Bedro…

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Season 3 Episode 42 - re:Invent 2024 18:04

4M ago18:04

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In Season 3 Episode 42 we have something a little different for the season finale. Karl & Jon attended the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from 2-6th December. On Tuesday 3rd December they attended the AWS Community Builder mixer in the AWS Community Hub in Buddy V's restaurant in The Venetian. While you won't hear from Jon in this epi…

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Season 3 Episode 41 - Graviton Dashboards, Transfer Terminals & Database Discounts 36:47

4M ago36:47

36:47

In Season 3, Episode 41 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Maurya. They discuss AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard, AWS Transfer Family Web Apps, AWS Data Transfer Terminals, AWS D-SQL and database price cuts, stolen AWS credentials from misconfigured S3 bucket and the guys wondered if AWS Community Builders get taller when they b…

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Season 3 Episode 40 - Lambda's Birthday, CloudFormation Timeline & Bedrock Agents 41:18

5M ago41:18

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In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour.... 06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that s…

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Season 3 Episode 39 - Lambda Enhancements, Bedrock Prompt Management & Remote Working Natives 34:26

6M ago34:26

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In Season 3, Episode 39 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Muhammad Rashid. They discuss Lambda VS Code IDE, Ephemeral jobs on ECS/Fargate, CloudFront/WAF billing change, Bedrock Prompt Management, AWS earnings results and Karl wonders if he may have coined the phrase 'Remote Working Natives' 07:27 - AWS enhances the Lambda application…

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Season 3 Episode 38 - Q Developer, Security Group Sharing, and Amazon's RTO 37:57

6M ago37:57

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In Season 3, Episode 38 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Anna Astori. They discuss Q Developer, Amazon VPC, AWS WAF, celebrating 10 years of Amazon ECS, Amazon return to office policy and once again Karl tries to extract trade secrets from our guest! 03:05 - AWS launches in-line Q Developer AI coding assistant to take on Microsoft’s …

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Season 3 Episode 37 - Jam, Sessions & The Nuclear Option 42:17

6M ago42:17

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In Season 3, Episode 37 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Ryan Pothecary. They discuss CloudQuest and AWS Jam, AWS Session Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently and AppConfig, Amazon going nuclear, Amazon's returning to office policy and Karl hopes Amazon can finally realise the Back to the Future Mr Fusion reactor... 06:22 - Enhance y…

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Season 3 Episode 36 - CodePipeline, Valkey and AI Exec Departure 30:29

7M ago30:29

30:29

In Season 3, Episode 36 Karl & Jon discuss Optimize CPUs, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, AWS Console-to-Code, departure of Matt Wood and the guys go off on a tangent about kids destroying things... 02:31 - Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch 07:58 - AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute act…

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Season 3 Episode 35 - Graviton 4, ChatOps & Bananas 35:58

7M ago35:58

35:58

In Season 3, Episode 35 Karl & Jon discuss Storage Browser for S3, Graviton 4-powered Amazon EC2 instances, Chatbops, Amazon GuardDuty, Elasticsearch and the guys go off on a tangent about bananas... 02:10 - Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3 The hosts discuss the launch of a new Storage Browser for Amazon S3 and how it provides an easier way…

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Season 3 Episode 34 - Cheap Containers, Backup Visibility & Building in AWS 44:47

7M ago44:47

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In Season 3, Episode 34 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Abhishek Gupta. They discuss Graviton Spot compute, CLI v2 Linux support, AWS Backup visibility, CodeCommit/Cloud9 deprecation, UK AWS investment and they welcome their first guest from outer space. 05:09 - Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargat…

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Season 3 Episode 33 - AI, more AI and some not AI! 38:41

8M ago38:41

38:41

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 Amazo…

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Season 3 Episode 32 - Step Functions Validation, Lambda Layers & Neon Signs 36:46

8M ago36:46

36:46

In Season 3, Episode 32 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Rishab Kumar. They discuss Validation API for Step Functions, Lambda Layers, Quick Setup programmatic deployment, new certifications and courses, Challenger for Observability and the Logicata guys get serious neon sign envy... Articles: 04:53- Announcing Validation API for AWS …

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Season 3 Episode 31: Macs, Loops, and Misconfigurations 39:02

8M ago39:02

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In Season 3, Episode 31 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Luis Valdivia. They discuss MacOS CI/CD, Upgrading Lambda Functions, Lambda Loop Detection, Chatbot for Security Events, ALB Misconfiguration Exposure and Jon describes how he's training his kids in the art of medieval combat... Articles: 05:04 - Add macOS to your continuous in…

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Season 3 Episode 30 - Serverless Security, Multicloud and AWS Earnings 39:30

9M ago39:30

39:30

In Season 3, Episode 30 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Warren Parad. They discuss AWS Step Functions Encryption, AWS Parameter Store Sharing, AWS Touts Multi-Cloud Capabilities, AWS Quietly Freezes Services, AWS Q2 2022 Earnings and Jon has a proper rant about the deprecation of CodeCommit... Articles: 04:03 - Strengthening data se…

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Season 3 Episode 29: Graviton Benchmarks, SnapStart Java, and New Exam Formats 32:39

9M ago32:39

32:39

In 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 data…

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Season 3 Episode 28 - Simplified OIDC, Redshift Serverless, and AI Content Localisation 33:34

9M ago33:34

33:34

In 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:…

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Season 3 Episode 27 - ECS Features, AWS Open Sourcing, and AI IAC 33:49

10M ago33:49

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In 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 cons…

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Season 3 Episode 26 - GuardDuty, Serverless and Sovereign Cloud 35:17

10M ago35:17

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In 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 Support…

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Season 3 Episode 25: Security, Sustainability, and Speed - How AWS Powers AI's Future 40:19

10M ago40:19

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In 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... T…

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Season 3, Episode 24: AWS MFA, Glue Transforms, and Cloud Dominance 32:28

10M ago32:28

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In 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 a…

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Season 3 Episode 23 - Root User Emails, AI CloudWatch Log Queries, and AI Startup Funding 31:50

10M ago31:50

31:50

In 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 a…

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Season 3 Episode 22: Faster Windows Containers, Smarter CloudWatch Alarms, and Easier Tax Settings 42:53

11M ago42:53

42:53

In 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 art…

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Season 3 Episode 21 - IPv6, Small Large Language Models and Leadership Changes 35:05

11M ago35:05

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In 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 launch…

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Season 3 Episode 20 - GitLab Caches In, S3 Billing Fix & AWS CEO Steps Down 31:27

11M ago31:27

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In 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…

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Season 3 Episode 19: Custom AI Models, Budget Controls, and Singapore Investments 33:59

12M ago33:59

33:59

In 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 article…

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Season 3 Episode 18 - Amazon Q, Expensive Buckets, and $100B Milestone 32:26

12M ago32:26

32:26

In 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 generall…

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Season 3 Episode 17 - Agentless Inspector , Github Actions Meet Codebuild, and AWS London Summit 33:32

12M ago33:32

33:32

In 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 asses…

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Season 3 Episode 16 - Certifications, Snowmobiles, and Large Language Models 39:07

1y ago39:07

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In 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 w…

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Season 3 Episode 15 - Game Days, RDS Cost Optimization, and Cats in the Cloud 36:31

1y ago36:31

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In 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 arti…

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Season 3 Episode 14 - AI Investments, Database Migrations and Red Hats 35:05

1y ago35:05

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In 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 disc…

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Season 3 Episode 13 - Cost Savings, Cold Starts, and Credits Returned 35:33

1y ago35:33

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In 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 …

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Season 3 Episode 12 - Faster CloudFormation, EBS Restore Testing, and Step Functions vs. Lambda 34:25

1y ago34:25

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In 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…

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Season 3 Episode 11 - WAF Dashboards, Free Data Transfer & Nuclear Powered AI 34:36

1y ago34:36

34:36

In 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 wee…

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Season 3 Episode 10 - EventBridge Pipes, Service Catalogue and CloudWatch Logging 34:30

1y ago34:30

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In 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 discuss…

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Season 3 Episode 9: Systems Manager, Terraform State & Cloud Learning Styles 35:21

1y ago35:21

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In 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 supp…

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