#681: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive

In this episode, Jillian and Vrajesh Prajapati, Solutions Architect at AWS, discuss the importance of establishing a resiliency baseline for applications. They cover the three pillars of resiliency: disaster recovery, high availability, and continuous improvement. Vrajesh introduces the AWS Resiliency Lifecycle Framework, which consists of five stages: set objectives, design and implement, pre-deployment and post-deployment activities, operations, and response and learning. They also discuss different disaster recovery architecture patterns, such as backups and restores, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active-active. The conversation concludes with a discussion on monitoring resiliency and the importance of incident analysis and correction of errors.

Jillian and Shruti take you through LOTS of great new capabilities! Chapters: 01:07 AWS Marketplace 01:47 Analytics 05:15 Artificial Intelligence 14:17 Compute 19:32 Cost Management 19:57 Customer Engagement 20:27 Databases 23:34 Developer Tools 24:34 End User Computing 24:55 Management & Governance 27:40 Media Services 27:57 Migration & Modernization 29:03 Networking 30:36 Security, Identity, & Compliance 30:57 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/693ExtendedShownotes.html

Simon is joined by Stephen Liedig to discuss the evolution of serverless technology and its impact on application development, exploring benefits like scalability, cost optimization, and faster dev cycles. They delve into key services and concepts in serverless design, including state machines, event-driven architectures, and observability, highlighting the flexibility and optimization opportunities offered by serverless architecture. - Get started with AWS Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/serverless) and Application Integration (https://aws.amazon.com/products/application-integration) on the AWS website. - Visit Serverless Land (https://serverlessland.com/) to get the latest information, blogs, videos, code, and learning resources for AWS Serverless. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully-managed serverless architecture. - Implement Serverless best practices and increase your developer velocity with Powertools for AWS (https://powertools.aws.dev/) - Learn by doing! Check out the Serverless Patterns Workshop (https://catalog.workshops.aws/serverless-patterns) to build your first serverless microservice to retrieve data from DynamoDB with Lambda and API Gateway. - Dive even deeper with the Serverless Developer Experience workshop (https://catalog.workshops.aws/serverless-developer-experience) to get hands on experience leveraging serverless application integration patterns, event-driven architectures and orchestration!

In this episode, we explore AJE Group's journey to the cloud, discussing the business challenges that led them to seek a scalable, global IT infrastructure. We delve into their decision-making process in choosing AWS and CloudHesive as partners, and examine the specific AWS services implemented and their impact on operations. The conversation highlights how CloudHesive's expertise in security, and scalability benefited AJE Group throughout their migration. We also address the challenges faced during the migration process and how they were overcome. Resources: https://www.ajegroup.com/ https://www.cloudhesivelatam.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/es/solutions/case-studies/aje/"

Simon and Jillian cover all things new and interesting! Chapters: 00:35 AWS Marketplace 01:05 Analytics 03:28 Application Integration 04:23 Artificial Intelligence 06:07 Compute 08:46 Customer Engagement 12:30 Databases 16:41 Developer Tools 19:09 End User Computing 20:31 Internet of Things 21:27 Management & Governance 23:52 Media Services 26:47 Security, Identity, & Compliance 27:08 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/690ExtendedShownotes.html

In this episode, Simon Elisha and Brett Looney dive deep into the AWS Transit Gateway, a cloud-scale router that connects VPCs and other networking resources in AWS. They explain how Transit Gateway works, its advantages over VPC peering, and its scalability and resilience. They also touch on concepts like attachments, route tables, and VRF (virtual routing and forwarding). The conversation highlights the benefits of Transit Gateway for both experienced network administrators and newcomers to networking in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/transit-gateway

Jillian flies solo for this update show with things news and improved. Chapters: 00:27 Analytics 01:03 Artificial Intelligence 03:09 Compute 04:37 Cost Management 05:10 Customer Engagement 05:28 Databases 06:58 Developer Tools 07:30 End User Computing 07:55 Front-End Web and Mobile 08:16 Internet of Things 10:08 Management and Governance 11:07 Media Services 11:53 Migration and Modernization 13:10 Security, Identity and Compliance 13:22 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/688ExtendedShownotes.html

In this conversation, Jillian Forde interviews Dave Bechberger, Principal Graph Architect at AWS, where they talk through the fundamentals of graphs and their applications. This is a wide ranging conversation on graphs from their use cases in generative AI, choosing between Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon Neptune and how to get started building your first graph in AWS.

Jillian and Shruti tell you all about the new things you can use on AWS! Chapters: 00:39 Analytics 03:50 Application Integration 04:22 Artificial Intelligence 08:24 Compute 10:47 Customer Engagement 12:57 Databases 15:20 Developer Tools 15:49 End User Computing 16:40 Internet of Things 17:46 Management & Governance 17:57 Media Services 19:29 Migration & Modernization 19:53 Networking & Content Delivery 21:44 Security 24:13 Storage Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/686ExtendedShownotes.html

In this conversation, Simon Elisha interviews Colm MacCárthaigh, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, about his background in technology and his work at Amazon. They discuss topics such as Colm's first computer, his role in building the European sovereign cloud, and his involvement in the creation of the S2N open-source library for TLS and SSL protocols. They also explore the importance of writing code and staying relevant in the industry, as well as the operational metrics meetings at AWS. They also talk about the role of call leaders in handling large operational events and the importance of staying calm and focused in stressful situations. Colm shares his experience with patents and his preference for the Vim editor. They also touch on the Nitro Enclave technology and Colm's passion for music.