DeepSummary
The episode begins with the hosts Simon Elisha and Gillian Ford welcoming listeners and discussing updates to various AWS services. They cover new features and improvements to services like AWS Marketplace, Amazon Data Firehose (formerly Kinesis Data Firehose), Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS AppSync, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and more.
The hosts then move on to discuss updates related to compute services like AWS Batch, AWS Fargate, AWS SimSpace Weaver, and Amazon Connect. They also cover updates to database services like Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon Redshift, as well as developer tools like AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeCatalyst.
Finally, the episode covers updates to networking and content delivery services like AWS Application Load Balancer and AWS WAF, as well as security, identity, and compliance services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Glue Data Catalog. The hosts also touch on updates to media services, migration and transfer services, and machine learning services like Amazon Polly.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- AWS Marketplace now supports managing private marketplace catalogs for organizational units, allowing customers to choose approved third-party software for specific organizational units.
- Amazon Data Firehose (formerly Kinesis Data Firehose) has been renamed, but its functionality remains the same, providing an easy way to capture, transform, and deliver data streams to various analytics services.
- AWS AppSync introduces new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for enhanced monitoring, providing more granular visibility into usage and performance.
- AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register organizational units, enabling customers to extend governance to organizational units programmatically.
- Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now protects clusters running in shared VPCs, enhancing security for shared workloads.
- AWS Application Load Balancer announces one-click WAF integration, enabling AWS WAF protections as a first line of defense against web threats.
- AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports delegating KMS key permissions to an IAM role, improving security and access control.
- AWS Wicker now allows customers to try premium features for free for up to three months, providing an opportunity to explore its secure messaging and collaboration capabilities.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “If you're not automating your builds, you're missing out. It is the way to do things.“ by Simon Elisha
- “And I guess the load balancing joke is never going to get old between us as like the hosts and being able to distribute evenly across regions.“ by Gillian Ford
- “There's only two types of organizations, organizations that have been reorganized. Organizations are about to be reorganized.“ by Simon Elisha
- “It's one of the things I use every day in my work, so I know Wicker will.“ by Simon Elisha
- “Think of it as a much better way to manage your overall organizational structure, particularly at scale than you had before.“ by Simon Elisha
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Episode Information
AWS Podcast
Amazon Web Services
2/26/24