In this podcast episode, learn about confidential computing and data privacy in the context of AWS services. The hosts - Shai, Anton, and Arindam, who are AWS Solution Architects, provide insights into AWS's security technologies and operational practices that exceed customer standards for confidential computing and data privacy. The podcast delves into the Nitro system and its protection categories for confidential computing, as well as AWS Nitro Enclaves - a feature that provides isolation for sensitive data and applications. The hosts discuss the many use cases of Nitro enclaves, including ..read more

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we talk about history of Graviton, difference between ARM & x86, how to get workloads running on Graviton. We then talked about how to assess you application for ARM compatibility. First understanding the type of application, then the features and libraries used, then onto the components of the application like the database. Resources * AWS Graviton Public Page - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ * .NET on ARM - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/build-and-deploy-net-web-applications-to-arm-powered-aws-graviton-2-amazon-ecs-clusters-using-aws-cdk/ * ARM ..read more

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we talk about how leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) can help you accelerate your digital transformation efforts and business outcomes. We highlight the potential value that cloud transformation can bring to organizations, identify some of the key challenges that organizations may face along their journey, and discuss how the AWS CAF can help you overcome those. We unpack the key components of the AWS CAF, including four categories of business outcomes, four transformation domains, six perspectives, 47 foundational capabilities, and four incr ..read more

In this episode of AWS Techchat, we started by talking about foundations, where we spoke about an overview of EventBridge and how it is different from CloudWatch Events. Then we talked about some of the features such as Archive and replay, Schema Registry, Global Endpoints and API Destinations And finally we dove into architecture patterns. Here we touched on the need to spend time modeling your logical architecture to get a good foundation for your event-driven architecture and explored event bus topologies and best practices. Speakers Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain Cheryl Jose ..read more

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into EC2 Mac. I interviewed two EC2 Mac Specialists, Muhammad and Scott, who helped us deep dive into the depths of EC2 and supporting services and features. We start the show by setting foundations as we talked about the single tenancy model and how that relates to billing. We then discussed the differences between instances and hosts and EBS storage as well as building a CI/CD pipeline w/ EC2 macs for your build servers. And we wrapped that all up with some use cases we’ve heard and by looking at where customers should start their EC2 Mac jo ..read more

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we take a journey into AWS Managed Blockchain and QLDB. I interviewed a Blockchain Specialist, Forrest, who helped us deep dive into the depths of Blockchain technologies and terminologies. We start the show by setting foundations, diving into Cryptocurrencies, Tokenization and Smart Contracts, before walking through the difference between layer 1, layer 2, and sidechains. Followed up by a discussion around Private Blockchain vs public, HyperLedger or Ethereum, and we closed out that segment by answering “Is there one blockchain and why we need multiple blockch ..read more

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we took a journey out the edge, and gave you an in-depth look in to a new product that we have released to market, CloudFront Function. I interviewed 2 special guests from our CloudFront service team, David Brown and Raji Sundararajan who gave me the low down on the major feature release. We started the show setting down a foundation of what is Edge Computing, how Edge Computing is changing modern architectures and some of the shortcomings customers face with Lambda @ Edge before introducing CloudFront Functions CloudFront Functions, which is a feature of Amazo ..read more

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we started at the top with what containers are and what the many terms we hear mean. We asked the question why? Why is the industry adopting containers and why use them and how you can gert started in this container game by either using you using your local machine, single board computer or an Amazon technology. From images, through to docker files this episode will help get you started on your container journe. From there we dove into orchestration, containers vs server-less, and then container tools and running your container in AWS. We just scratched the sur ..read more

Joining Pete and Oli as a co-host from this episode is Dean Samuels, Solutions Architect Manager, HKT, AWS. In this latest episode, Pete and Dean round up the latest around Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, Amazon EC2 Spot, Windows Server for Amazon LightSail, Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2, Lifecycle Policies for Amazon EC2 Container Registry, Amazon Database Migration Service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator and Gluon, Application Load Balancer and AWS Marketplace ..read more

Joining Pete and Oli as a co-host from this episode is Dean Samuels, Solutions Architect Manager, HKT, AWS. In this latest episode, Pete and Dean round up the latest around Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, Amazon EC2 Spot, Windows Server for Amazon LightSail, Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2, Lifecycle Policies for Amazon EC2 Container Registry, Amazon Database Migration Service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator and Gluon, Application Load Balancer and AWS Marketplace ..read more