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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 Amazon CloudFront, enables you to write lightweight functions in JavaScript for high-scale, latency-sensitive CDN customizations. 
CloudFront Functions can manipulate the requests and responses that flow through CloudFront, perform basic authentication and authorization, generate HTTP responses at the edge and more.
I then wore that hat of you, our customer and spend the better half of the show in a Q&A session with Raji and David to which we cover patterns, anti patterns, performance, the developer experience and more.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
David Brown - Sr. Product Manager, Cloudfront Service Team
Raji Sundararajan - Software Development Manager, CloudFront Service Team

Episode 83 - CloudFront Functions Edge Computing Special

In this episode of AWS TechChat, we talk about history of AWS Graviton, difference between ARM and x86, and how to get workloads running on AWS Graviton. We then talk about how to assess your application for ARM compatibility. First understanding the type of application, follow by 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 for Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/key-considerations-in-moving-to-graviton2-for-amazon-rds-and-amazon-aurora-databases/
- Transitioning to ARM Best Practices: https://github.com/aws/aws-graviton-getting-started/blob/main/transition-guide.md

Speakers:
Shai Perednik - Global Tech Lead - Blockchain https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaiperednik/
Matthew Cline - Senior Solutions Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbcline/
Muhammad Mansoor - Senior Solutions Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmansoor/

Episode 88 - AWS Graviton

<img src="http://ift.tt/1ydqO3F" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="FLOSS Weekly" alt="FLOSS Weekly"/>Guests: <a href="http://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank">Brian Grant and Tim Hockin</a>
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the containers which make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery.
Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="http://twit.tv/floss">twit.tv/floss</a>
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Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at <a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn@stonehenge.com</a>
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 Published: August 26, 2015 at 12:42PM

FLOSS Weekly 351: Kubernetes

<img src="http://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/images/shows/floss_weekly/album_art/audio/floss1400audio.jpg?itok=u2Xdhn5u" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="FLOSS Weekly (MP3)" alt="FLOSS Weekly (MP3)"/>Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Aparna Sinha leads the product management team at Google for Kubernetes. Prior to Google, Aparna had worked in enterprise software for 15+ years. Michael has spent twenty years in the Systems Software Industry, from developing enterprise file servers and systems. The past ten years he has worked at Google where he founded the Linux Storage group for its data centers and worked on world wide WAN and BGP technologies. Today he is co-leading and managing Kubernetes with a focus on node, networking, storage and federation efforts. 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/randal-schwartz">Randal Schwartz</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jp_bennett" target="_blank">Jonathan Bennett</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/apbhatnagar" target="_blank">Aparna Sinha</a> and <a href="https://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank">Michael Rubin</a> 
Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly</a><a href="http://bit.ly/flossweeklyguests" target="_blank">Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future</a>.Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at <a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn@stonehenge.com</a>Thanks to <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a> for providing the bandwidth for this podcast and <a href="http://lullabot.com/" target="_blank">Lullabot's</a> Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

FLOSS Weekly 434: Kubernetes Update

Join Dr Pete and Russ in the latest episode of AWS TechChat as they share security best practices and news around Amazon Rekognition, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ECS, AWS Greengrass, Amazon SQS, AWS CodeStar, AWS Lambda, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon EMR and AWS Deep Learning AMIs.

Episode 18 - Security best practices and latest AWS news

Establishing an easy-to-use hybrid cloud that delivers a seamless user experience is virtually impossible if you go the DIY route. But the process gets a whole lot easier--and a whole lot faster--when you do it with the help of the recently announced Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS. In this episode we speak with Matt Ferguson of Cisco's Multicloud Integrations and Solutions Group about why Cisco collaborated with AWS on this project, which use cases the solution is best suited for, how it works on the back end, how it's supported, and where you can go today to try it out for free.

Ep70: Exploring the Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS, with Matt Ferguson

In this hour-long themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dean reminisce about their past and cover topics that are important to the budding systems engineer, systems administrator and network engineer. 

We started the show by announcing a new region, Bahrain, the first in the Middle East taking our region count to 22. 

On the Automation front, we spoke about methods and mechanisms you can use to automate the administration of your AWS environment via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS CloudFormation, and now AWS Cloud Development Kit has gone GA.

We kept it real with a bit of QA, comparing on-premises via AWS, and Shane did not quite stump Dean, almost.

We then spoke about networking by introducing concepts and explaining ways in which you can deal with hybrid workloads at both the network layer and via DNS.

Lastly, we closed the show out with a conversation on what is the minimum kit to on-premises for most organizations before talking about Cloud migration options into AWS.

Speakers: 
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Dean Samuels - Solutions Architect Manager, AWS

Resources:
Announcing the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-the-new-aws-middle-east--bahrain--region-/
AWS Command Line Interface https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/
AWS CloudFormation https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
AWS Cloud Development Kit https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
Lambda@Edge https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/
AWS VPN https://aws.amazon.com/vpn/
Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/  
AWS Server Migration Service https://aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service/ 
AWS Database Migration Service https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ 

APAC Online Event:
AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ 
AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/

Episode 53 - SysAdmin & Hybrid Cloud Special

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane brings along a special guest, AWS Solution Architect and Container expert - Mitch Beaumont. 

We started the show reminiscing about container history, going way back looking at where we came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave a quick overview of our container offerings - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate. 

I then posed a fictitious question about container orchestration - what options are available and the pros and cons of each platform.

We looked at our container roadmap, so pop that into your favorite search engine (https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap) to get an understanding of what has shipped, what is coming soon and what we are working on.

They say, if you are not keeping score it’s just practice, so Mitch ran us through the approaches we need to take as we make the shift through to containers around observability and monitoring before talking through deployment and operational patterns. 

Lastly, to close out the show, we once again touched base with Firecracker. Firecraker provides hardware-level isolation with the convenience of containers and underpins many of the container and serverless offerings on AWS. It is open-source so feel free to download it, kick the tires and have a play.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Mitch Beaumont - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS

Resources:
What is a Container? https://aws.amazon.com/containers/
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
AWS Fargate https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
AWS Container Roadmap https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap
Elastic Network Interfaces https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
Amazon VPC CNI Plugin for Kubernetes Upgrades https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-upgrades.html
Elastic Load Balancing https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
Amazon CloudWatch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
Centralized Container Logging with Fluent Bit https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/centralized-container-logging-fluent-bit/
Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate FireLens https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/firelens
Firecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
AWS Container DevSecOps Workshop https://container-devsecops.awssecworkshops.com/

APAC Online Event:
AWSome Day Online series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/
AWS Data Analytics & Machine Learning Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/
AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/
AWS Innovate on-demand aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/

Episode 55 - Container Special

Container orchestration has drastically affected the way organizations build, ship and run software.&nbsp; One of the most effective solutions&nbsp; that can address this challenge is Kubernetes.&nbsp; In this episode of World Wide Technology’s TEC17 series two of WWT’s subject matter experts, Eric Becker and Sebastien Berube, talk about the NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS) and why it is chosen over other Kubernetes offerings.&nbsp; Eric and Sebastien also discuss what Kubernetes is in general, why Kubernetes is chosen as an open-source container system, what are some of the primary benefits of NKS and how WWT provides solutions and support to enterprise customers in this space.&nbsp; NetApp Kubernetes Service &nbsp;NetApp Cloud Data Management Workshop

Kubernetes

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat we explore methods you can use to make a step change in optimizing cost in your AWS account and we are not talking about powering off idle resources.

We talk about the new AWS Graviton Processor in the form of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6G, R6G and C6G. Currently in public preview, meaning you can request access. If your workload can make use of an aarch64 architecture, they can save you in the realm of 40% off your EC2 costs.

We also talk about Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that lets you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand price, which is something to hang your hat on. You can consume spot from AWS Fargate - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EC2, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Data Pipleline and AWS Batch.

We then pivot to AWS Well-Architected Framework that provides best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. We hone in on the cost optimization pillar before riffing over some tips from a field solution architect on what they look when trying to trim costs out of an account. 

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS

Resources:
Amazon WorkSpaces https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Workspaces_June30
Amazon Chime https://aws.amazon.com/chime/pricing/?sc_icampaign=Launch_4027_Chime_June30
Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/working-from-home-heres-how-aws-can-help/
AWS Digital Training https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/
AWS Graviton Processor https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ 
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
AWS Well-Architected https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/ 
Cost Optimization https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/cost-optimization/

AWS Events:
AWSome Day Online Conference https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ 
AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/   
AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ 
AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

Episode 69 - Cost Optimisation Special

In this 1 hour long themed episode of AWS TechChat, I am joined by my container yoda Mitch Beaumont explore everything containers in the world of Kubernetes, or is that Kube or K8?

It is Kubernetes themed affair, we start the show reminiscing about its history, going back, way back looking at where Kubernetes came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave an overview of Kubernetes concepts in the forms of Pods, ReplicaSet, Services, Volumes, NameSpaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets & DaemonSet.

We then speak about CNI (Container Network Interface) and Istio for container networking and service discovery before a bit of a Q&A session on why Kubernetes?

Lastly we talk about Amazon’s Kubernetes offerings in the form of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate for EKS and how you can get started on Kubernetes journey.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Mitch Beaumont - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS

Resources:
Episode 55 - Container Special https://soundcloud.com/user-684142981/episode-55-container-special
CNI custom networking https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-custom-network.html
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
AWS Fargate https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

AWS Events:
AWS Summit Online on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/ 
AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/   
AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

Episode 71 - Kubernetes Special

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete perform a tech round up from May through to June of 2020.

There is now an ability to provide AWS Direct Connect testing. You can now use the Resiliency Toolkit to test the resiliency of the AWS Direct Connect connections. The failover testing feature enables customers to test resiliency by disabling one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface, or AWS Direct Connect API.

AWS Shield Advanced now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected. When you turn on proactive engagement, the DRT will directly contact you if an Amazon Route 53 health check associated with your protected resource becomes unhealthy during an event that's detected by Shield Advanced.

Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Tighten Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of Amazon S3 actions.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades.

We pivot to share the AWS Transfer family update, you can now use the source IP as an additional factor of authentication.

A raft of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) updates including the availability of the Graviton 2 based instances.

Finally, we talk about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS

Resources:
AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/aws-direct-connect-enables-failover-testing/ 
AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/aws-shield-advanced-now-supports-proactive-event-response/  
Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/amazon-redshift-now-delivers-better-cold-query-performance/
Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/query-for-aws-availability-zones-local-zones-using-aws-systems-manager-parameter-store/
Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/tighten-s3-permissions-iam-users-roles-access-history-s3-actions/ 
Amazon MSK now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-msk-supports-apache-kafka-version-upgrades/ 
Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/announcing-general-availability-amazon-ec2-g4dn-bare-metal-instances/
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-grow-storage-scale-performance-on-file-system/ 

AWS Events:
AWS Data, Databases, and Analytics Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/
AWS Summit Online on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/ 
AWS Innovate AIML Edition on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/machine-learning/   
AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/
AWS Events and Webinars https://aws.amazon.com/events/

Episode 72 - May / June Tech Round-up

In this 1 hour-long themed episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we sail to the Edge and demystify many of the core concepts that occur before end-user requests are made.

We start the show setting a foundation of Domain Name System (DNS), why it is important, before talking about Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable cloud DNS Service. It is also a full featured DNS service that is API, SDK, and CLI driven.

We then introduce the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and talk about Amazon CloudFront which speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content. Amazon CloudFront also delivers the content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations.

Amazon CloudFront allows you to run AWS Lambda functions at the edge. Lambda@Edge is an extension of AWS Lambda which lets you execute functions and customize the content Amazon CloudFront delivers.

Before closing out, we talk about AWS Global Accelerator, a service that improves the availability and performance of your applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints in a single or multiple AWS Regions.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Dean Samuels - Lead Technologist, ASEAN, AWS

Resources:
Amazon CloudFront - https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ 
Amazon Route53 - https://aws.amazon.com/route53/  
AWS Global Accelerator - https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/

AWS Events:
AWS Builders Online Series http://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ 
AWS Summit Online on-demand - http://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online 
AWS Events and Webinars - http://aws.amazon.com/events/

Episode 73 - Edge Networking Special

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