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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 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 - Programmatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots
23:42 - Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage 
29:35 - Certification is not enough 
 
Guest was Brian Tarbox:
https://briantarbox.com/

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 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 tools to optimize your Amazon RDS costs 
28:50 - US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss 
32:34 - How one Amazon engineer is making the internet a safer place for all of us (and cats, too)
 
Guest was Rich House:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-house/
 

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 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 Deployments with large number of connections 
20:37 - Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom 
27:42 - Amazon Pumps Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic 
 
Guest was Edmund Craske
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmundcraske

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 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 window to return Savings Plans 
21:15 - Is AWS Lambda Cold Start Still an Issue?
28:32 - Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds 
 
Guest was Vijaya Nirmala Gopal 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayanirmalagopal-5a54159a/

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 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 use Step Functions vs. doing it all in a Lambda function 
29:23 - Amazon opens first 'builder studio' down under to accelerate tech innovation 
 
Guest was Stephen Sennett
https://linkedin.com/in/ssennettau

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 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 transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS 
24:47 - Amazon's AWS Acquires Nuclear-Powered Data Center in Pennsylvania for $650 Million, Expanding Cloud Computing Dominance
 
Guest was Danielle Heberling
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deeheber/
https://danielleheberling.xyz/
https://twitter.com/deeheber
https://github.com/deeheber
https://dev.to/deeheber