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Matt Coles - Principal Engineer, AWS
Matt has authored and releasing a number of enterprise mobile applications, worked in mobile device security, and developed global innovations within the chatbot technology space. He now works at AWS helping customers scale their applications

Deb Maud - Senior Product Manager (Technical), AWS
Deb has over 30 years of experience in agile environments in both Development and Product Management roles, delivering globally acclaimed user experiences. She now works at AWS in her key passion area of solving customer problems by working backwards.
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#64: Amazon SageMaker Special
In this Amazon SageMaker themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane & Tom start the show level setting on what Amazon SageMaker is and how and where it slots in to our product offerings. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly at scale.
Machine Learning on AWS | AWS Innovate - AIML Edition | AWS Events and Webinars
#68: Cloud Adoption Anti-Patterns
In this episode of AWS TechChat Peter ‘Dr Pete’ Stanski speaks with Mark Brown (Enterprise Lead) and they discuss some of the things that slow down cloud adoption. With a combined cloud experience tenure of more than 16 years, they share the five common anti-patterns for cloud projects. They dig deep and break these down into Leadership, Skills, Security, Operating models and Data
AWS Events and Webinars | AWS Modern Applications Online Series | AWS Data, Databases, and Analytics Online Series | AWS Builders Online Series
#77: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management Special
In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, we are joined by Darko Meshzaros as he helps to navigate all things Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management. IaC is such an important concept for advancing your IT maturity. In this episode we take a journey around IaC and Configuration Management and talk about some of the core concepts and hopefully demystify many of these topics for you. We answer the questions on why we use IaC, discuss about elasticity with IaC and share with you the differences between IaC vs. Configuration Management. Before closing out, we talk through some relevant AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (cdktf), Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes (cdk8s) and the AWS OpsWorks family.
AWS CloudFormation | AWS Cloud Development Kit | AWS Serverless Application Model | Darko Meszaros YouTube channel
#80: AWS re:Invent 2020 - Customer engagement, gaming, IoT, and marketplace recap
In this episode of AWS TechChat, we continue our four part re:Invent 2020 series with this episode covering Customer Engagement, Gaming, IOT and Industry, Marketplace, Misc.., and closed out with Partner Updates.
AWS re:Invent | Customer Engagement on AWS | AWS IoT | AWS Marketplace
#74: July / August Tech Round-up
In this episode of AWS TechChat, join us as we perform a tech round-up from July to August of 2020. We start the show with containers, and we talk about AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK) which means you can leverage AWS services directly in your Kubernetes applications. Compute wise, Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips are now available in additional AWS regions and EC2Launch is now at v2 with a range of new features, including renaming of the administrator account. We then introduce a new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume type - Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) which fits in between io1 and General Purpose SSD (gp2) based volumes. It has 99.999% of durability and up to 64,000 IOPS per EBS volume. On the development front, AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing. Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services, meaning you no longer need to proxy through code as well as Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs. Amazon Lightsail now offers content delivery network (CDN) distributions to accelerate content delivery. Lightsail CDN, which is backed by Amazon CloudFront offers three fixed-price data plans, including an introductory plan that's free for 12 months. Before closing out, we talk about AWS Glue version 2.0 which has some sizeable changes around functionality, cost, and speed.
AWS Events and Webinars | AWS Modern Applications Online Series | AWS Data, Databases, and Analytics Online Series | AWS Builders Online Series