AWS re:Think Podcast

In this episode we are joined by one of our AWS customers, Mixbook with DJ Charles, CTO and David Newhoff, CPO to share how they are leveraging generative AI to empower creativity and deepen human connection by unlocking the future of storytelling. Join us to hear how Mixbook took an idea from concept to production to empower their end-user’s creativity with AI-driven recommendations for images, backgrounds, stickers, captions, and more.

Try out the app: https://www.mixbook.com/

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In this episode, we join AWS Solutions Architects, Krishna Adettiwar and Eric Kiesow, to discuss how levering a multi-account strategy can help you protect your workloads, increase pace of innovation, and give you more cost visibility.

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Visit these resources to get started with the multi-account strategy:

• Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts (AWS Whitepaper) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/organizing-your-aws-environment.html
• Multi-account strategy for small and medium businesses (AWS blog) - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/multi-account-strategy-for-small-and-medium-businesses/
• AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/

In this episode we meet with Matthew McClean, a Sr Manager from AWS's Annapurna Team to talk about Accelerators - the chips that make AI possible. We cover different Accelerators - GPUs, Trainium, Inferentia, Graviton and more.

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Links for the Show:

AWS re:Invent 2023 - Behind-the-scenes look at generative AI infrastructure at Amazon (CMP206)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDk09hms8s8

AWS re:Invent 2023 - Behind-the-scenes look at generative AI infrastructure at Amazon (CMP206)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvguzeWlbU

Welcome to AWS Neuron

https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/index.html

Optimum Neuron

https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum-neuron/index

Many of the challenges we see that customers experience on their cloud journey are non-technical. Leveraging your AWS Account team and our vast AWS Partner Ecosystem can help, but AWS also offers programs like Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA). EBA is a transformation methodology using hands-on agile, immersive interactions that build cloud capability and accelerate business value from cloud adoption.

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Learn more about EBA:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/level-up-your-cloud-transformation-with-experience-based-acceleration-eba/

HPC is more than just high performance computing. It’s also high performance storage and networking. In this episode we discuss how HPC is used to solve important problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Genomics, Medicine, AI and more. We also talk about how AWS services such as ParallelCluster, EFA and FSx for Lustre make it easier to deploy high performance workloads in the cloud. 

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HPC on AWS Links:

https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/

https://day1hpc.com/

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Join AWS Business Innovation leader Ben Schreiner for a recap of re:Invent 2023. We cover major announcements and innovations in infrastructure, data analytics and generative AI. AWS services discussed include S3 Express One Zone, Graviton 4, Bedrock, Amazon Q, Zero ETL and more!

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Further reference - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-reinvent-2023-announcements

Top announcements - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2023/

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In this episode we join AWS Solutions Architect Vihang Shah to talk about strategies to optimize costs and performance with AWS Lambda. We will share insights into real world scenarios and provide actionable tips to strike a balance between performance efficiency and cost savings in the realm of Serverless computing. Its time to optimize your Serverless journey with AWS Lambda!

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Links for the show: 

• Learn about Serverless: https://aws.amazon.com/training/learn-about/serverless/
• Fundamentals of AWS Lambda: https://serverlessland.com/content/service/lambda/guides/aws-lambda-fundamentals/what-is-aws-lambda
• Serverless Optimization Workshop (Performance and Cost): https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/2d960419-7d15-44e7-b540-fd3ebeb7ce2e/en-US

We join AWS Principal Networking Specialist and author James Devine to talk about building Wide Area Networks In the Cloud. We begin by covering the basics of WANs. We then talk about MPLS, VPNs and SD-WAN. We also cover AWS services for building WANs such as CloudWAN, Transit Gateway, SiteLink and more.  

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Links for the show:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/build-global-sd-wans-with-aws-cloud-wan-tunnel-less-connect/

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan/

https://aws.amazon.com/vpn/

https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-direct-connect-sitelink/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flBieylTwvI

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"We are enabling a much wider adoption of playing-field-leveling technology." Todd Pond, AWS Director of Strategic Sales, is out in the field with commercial customers every day, helping them leverage technology to solve their biggest problems, accelerate innovation and transform their businesses. He and his team have a deep understanding of these companies - the challenges they're up against, their limited resources, their unique value propositions, and how to enable their growth with maximum ROI. In this episode, we talk to Todd about his career journey as a long-time sales leader and get his actionable insights on the biggest opportunities for success in 2024 and beyond.

In this episode we are joined by AWS Developer Advocate and longtime networking professional Brandon Carroll to discuss how computer networking has evolved over the years, not just for companies but for networking professionals as well. We talk about the challenges of deploying, monitoring and securing networks both on-prem and in the cloud. Brandon also shares thoughts on what it would take for young people to dive into computer networking today and in the future.

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