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AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 21, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management ConsoleThe AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accountsEC2 Image Builder simplifies converting Windows ISO files to AMIsNow open — AWS Mexico (Central) RegionAWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLIAmazon Bedrock launches with Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the AWS Top Secret cloudPreventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objectsSecure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations | AWS Security BlogCost-optimized log aggregation and archival in Amazon S3 using s3tarIssue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)SponsorThe Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

Le premier episode 'Quoi de neuf ?' de cette année revient sur les prédictions technologiques pour 2025 et au delà de Werner Vogels, CTO d'Amazon. Nous parlons aussi des nouveautés des dernières semaines: Amazon bedorck et Sagemake acceuillent Les nouveaux modèles de Meta (Llama 3.3) et de Stability.ai (Stable Diffusion 3.5). On parle aussi d'un nouveau connecteur open source pour Apache Flink et Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, de Amazon Workspaces qui est désormais accessible via AWS Global Accelerator. Enfin nous abordons des nouvelles fonctions de Resources Explorer et dans la console de gestion des factures et des coûts (AWS Billing and Costs Management).

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 18, with Corey Quinn. Links:Buy a shirt benefiting 826 National!Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription feeAmazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tablesAmazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexesAmazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume healthAmazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz now generally availableAmazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS accountAWS Backup now supports copying Amazon S3 backups across Regions and accounts in opt-in RegionsAWS CloudTrail Lake announces enhanced event filteringHow and why you should move to Cost and Usage Report (CUR) 2.0?AWS BuilderCards second edition at re:Invent 2024Accelerate your third-party Amazon EKS add-on onboarding using ConformitronPython 3.13 runtime now available in AWS LambdaDeploy the Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces in a highly-regulated environment.Introducing the Live Event Framework: Live Streaming with Ad Insertion on AWSIntroducing kro: Kube Resource OrchestratorAWS Snow device updates

J'ai compté 79 nouveautés ces deux dernières semaines, un poil plus que le rhythme habituel, on sent que la conférence re:Invent à Las Vegas approche. Dans cet épisode vous découvrirez des nouveautés concernant MemoryDB où le remplacant de Redis arrive, des nouvelles API qui vont vous aider à automatiser vos postures de sécurité ou vos inventaires, des nouvelles concernant le zero ETL, Lambda, CodePipeline et Amazon Workspaces

In this episode of The Citrix Session, Bill Sutton, Andy Whiteside, and the team delve into the exciting integration between Citrix DaaS and Amazon Workspaces Core. Discover how this powerful combination simplifies virtual desktop delivery, enables the use of Microsoft 365 applications, and leverages Citrix's HDX protocol for optimized user experiences. From cost-effective deployment options to automation via Terraform, the team discusses how Citrix and AWS are better together in revolutionizing cloud-based VDI solutions. Tune in to explore the latest in virtual desktop innovation!

907: Enhancing the end-user experience is key to driving productivity, security, and scalability in today's digital landscape. In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Muneer Mirza, Director of End-User Computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Muneer shares his journey at Amazon, starting from his role in developing the company's website to overseeing AWS's end-user computing services. He provides an inside look at services like Amazon WorkSpaces, AppStream, and Secure Browser, and how these products address diverse customer needs. Muneer also delves into the challenges of balancing innovation with cybersecurity and cost management, a common struggle for tech and digital leaders. He shares AWS's customer-centric approach to problem-solving and provides insights into the role of generative AI in cloud computing. This conversation is packed with practical advice for leaders navigating the complex world of cloud economics, cybersecurity, and technological innovation.

907: Enhancing the end-user experience is key to driving productivity, security, and scalability in today's digital landscape. In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Muneer Mirza, Director of End-User Computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Muneer shares his journey at Amazon, starting from his role in developing the company's website to overseeing AWS's end-user computing services. He provides an inside look at services like Amazon WorkSpaces, AppStream, and Secure Browser, and how these products address diverse customer needs. Muneer also delves into the challenges of balancing innovation with cybersecurity and cost management, a common struggle for tech and digital leaders. He shares AWS's customer-centric approach to problem-solving and provides insights into the role of generative AI in cloud computing. This conversation is packed with practical advice for leaders navigating the complex world of cloud economics, cybersecurity, and technological innovation.

In this version of the Upload, we will discuss how ControlUp can help troubleshoot and remediate the digital employee experience across Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. Listen in to hear from Andrew Wood, and expert in both Amazon WorkSpaces and ControlUp.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of Monday, August 5th with Mike Julian. Links:Introducing AWS End User MessagingAWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernationNew Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity ReservationsAWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancementsDeliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessCost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces 2.7 releasedJeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, confirms service deprecations via Twitter

SummaryIn this episode, Frank and Steve discuss the latest news from Google, Azure, and AWS.They cover topics such as new instance types, ARM-based CPUs, storage options, cost optimization, and Kubernetes cost allocation. The conversation also touches on the challenges of reducing storage and the importance of billing cost data in Cloud FinOps. In this conversation, Steve and Frank discuss various updates and announcements from different cloud providers. They cover topics such as multiple cloud vendors providing a focused view, cost anomaly detection with AI, maximizing committed use discounts, per-second billing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances, migration vs modernization for data workloads, license portability in Amazon WorkSpaces, and Google's investment in digital connectivity to Japan. They also mention the upcoming episode on the free tier game in Azure and their attendance at FinOps  X.

J'ai compté 60 nouveautés pile poil depuis le 9 février. Dans cet épisode, nous parlons des clients légers pour Amazon Workspaces, on parle de certificats TLS et de TLS 1.3. Il y a aussi des nouvelles APIs pour gérer vos comptes AWS avec Control Tower. Les services de transfert de fichiers communiquent avec Event Bridge et le WAF s'intègre aux ALB en un seul click. Trop d'acronymes ? Ecoutez cet épisode, je vous explique tout.

J'ai compté 60 nouveautés pile poil depuis le 9 février. Dans cet épisode, nous parlons des clients légers pour Amazon Workspaces, on parle de certificats TLS et de TLS 1.3. Il y a aussi des nouvelles APIs pour gérer vos comptes AWS avec Control Tower. Les services de transfert de fichiers communiquent avec Event Bridge et le WAF s'intègre aux ALB en un seul click. Trop d'acronymes ? Ecoutez cet épisode, je vous explique tout.

AWSが手頃なシンクライアント「Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client」を提供　見た目は「Fire TV Cube」そっくり　195ドルから。　Amazon Web Services（AWS）が、仮想デスクトップサービス「Amazon WorkSpaces」用のシンクライアント端末「Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client」の提供を開始した。米国ではAmazon.comにおいて単体で195ドル（約2万8700円）、2画面出力用のUSBハブ付きで279.99ドル（約4万1200円）で販売しており、他の国／地域では2024年内に提供が始まる予定だ。

Windows Tiny11 2311 arrives, is even tinier and even 23H2er ... or something Beta channel: Teams integration with Share (Entra ID only), new language support for Ink Anywhere Dev: Copilot icon moves (!), more Copilot, Share, Ink, Android in Nearby Sharing (!) Canary: Energy Saver (new feature), more Samsung brings its browser to the Microsoft Store AI/Microsoft Microsoft and Meta reportedly receiving 3x as many NVIDIA GPUs for AI as Amazon Amazon introduces it's own AI chatbot for the enterprise, and it does have one useful and unique feature Microsoft is retiring its Microsoft 365 browser extension Evernote is still a thing and now it wants to charge everyone Amazon takes a Fire TV Cube and turns it into a remote desktop thin client Antitrust UK CMA provisionally rules against Adobe acquisition of Figma EU formally objects to Amazon acquisition of iRobot because the robot vacuum cleaner market is so important Xbox Xbox Series X and S are still on sale. Just saying The November Update for Xbox is here with rewards redemption, Xbox app gets compact mode Microsoft is reportedly deprecating the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox Netflix is bringing GTA trilogy to the service The current Call of Duty is awash in bad reviews, so let's talk about the next Call of Duty! Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Microsoft's new ugly Christmas sweater is here App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust Adoption Guidance with Nicolas Blank Brown liquor pick of the week: Pendleton Rye 12 Year Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT Traceroute Podcast

Windows Tiny11 2311 arrives, is even tinier and even 23H2er ... or something Beta channel: Teams integration with Share (Entra ID only), new language support for Ink Anywhere Dev: Copilot icon moves (!), more Copilot, Share, Ink, Android in Nearby Sharing (!) Canary: Energy Saver (new feature), more Samsung brings its browser to the Microsoft Store AI/Microsoft Microsoft and Meta reportedly receiving 3x as many NVIDIA GPUs for AI as Amazon Amazon introduces it's own AI chatbot for the enterprise, and it does have one useful and unique feature Microsoft is retiring its Microsoft 365 browser extension Evernote is still a thing and now it wants to charge everyone Amazon takes a Fire TV Cube and turns it into a remote desktop thin client Antitrust UK CMA provisionally rules against Adobe acquisition of Figma EU formally objects to Amazon acquisition of iRobot because the robot vacuum cleaner market is so important Xbox Xbox Series X and S are still on sale. Just saying The November Update for Xbox is here with rewards redemption, Xbox app gets compact mode Microsoft is reportedly deprecating the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox Netflix is bringing GTA trilogy to the service The current Call of Duty is awash in bad reviews, so let's talk about the next Call of Duty! Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Microsoft's new ugly Christmas sweater is here App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust Adoption Guidance with Nicolas Blank Brown liquor pick of the week: Pendleton Rye 12 Year Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT Traceroute Podcast

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Wes Miller, Research VP at Directions on Microsoft, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the various intricacies and pitfalls of Microsoft licensing. Wes and Corey discuss what it's like to work closely with a company like Microsoft in your day-to-day career, while also looking out for the best interest of your mutual customers. Wes explains his history of working both at and with Microsoft, and the changes he's seen to their business models and the impact that has on their customers. About WesWes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft security, identity, and systems management technologies, as well as Microsoft product licensing.Before joining Directions on Microsoft in 2010, Wes was a product manager and development manager for several Austin, TX, start-ups, including Winternals Software, acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Prior to that, Wes spent seven years at Microsoft working as a program manager in the Windows Core Operating System and MSN divisions.Wes received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Links Referenced: Directions on Microsoft Website: https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/getwired LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmiller/ Directions on Microsoft Training: https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/training TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. So, I write a newsletter called Last Week in AWS, which has always felt like it's flying a little bit too close to the sun just because having AWSes name in the title of what I do feels like it's playing with copyright fire. It's nice periodically to talk to someone—again—who is in a similar boat. Wes Miller is a Research VP at Directions on Microsoft. To be clear, Directions on Microsoft is an analyst firm that talks primarily about Microsoft licensing and is not, in fact, part of Microsoft itself. Have I disclaimed that appropriately, Wes?Wes: You have. You have. And in fact, the company, when it was first born, was actually called Microsoft Directions. And they had a reasonably good relationship with Microsoft at the time and Microsoft cordially asked them, “Hey, could you at least reverse that so it corrects it in terms of trademark.” So yes, we're blessed in that regard. Something you probably would never get away with now, but that was 30 years ago.Corey: [laugh]. And now it sounds like it might as well be a product. So, I have to ask, just because the way I think of you is, you are the folks to talk to, full stop, when you have a question about anything that touches on Microsoft licensing. Is that an accurate depiction of what it is you folks do or is that just my particular corner of the world and strange equivalence that gets me there?Wes: That is our parts of the Venn diagram intersecting because that's what I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about because I teach that with our company founder, Rob Horwitz. But we also spend an inordinate amount of time taking what Microsoft is talking about shipping, maybe servicing, and help customers understand really, as we say, the ‘So, what?' What does this mean to me as a customer? Should I be using this? Should I be waiting? Should I upgrade? Should I stay? Those sorts of things.So, there's a whole roadmapping side. And then we have a [laugh]—because licensing doesn't end with a license, we have a whole side of negotiation that we spend a lot of time, we have a dedicated team that focuses on helping enterprise agreement customers get the most successful deal for their organization, basically, every three years.Corey: We do exactly that with AWS ourselves. I have to ask before we dive into this. In the early days, I felt like I had a much better relationship with Microsoft. Scott Guthrie, the head of Azure, was on this show. A number of very highly placed Microsoft folks were here. And over the years, they more or less have stopped talking to me.And that leaves me in a position where all I can see is their actions and their broad public statements without getting any nuance or context around any of it. And I don't know if this is just a commentary on human nature or me in particular, but I tend to always assume the worst when things like that happen. So, my approach to Microsoft has grown increasingly cynical over the years as a result. That said, I don't actually have an axe to grind with them from any other perspective than as a customer, and occasionally that feels like ‘victim' for a variety of different things. What's your take on Microsoft as far as, I guess, your feelings toward the company?Wes: So, a lot of people—in fact, it used to be more so, but not as much anymore, people would assume I hate Microsoft or I want to demonize Microsoft. But the irony actually is, you know, I want people to remember I worked there for seven-and-a-half years, I shipped—I was on the team that shipped Windows XP, Server 2003, and a bunch of other products that people don't remember. And I still care about the company, but the company and I are obviously in different trajectories now. And also, my company's customers today are also Microsoft's customers today, and we actually have—our customers—our mutual customers—best interest in mind with basically everything we do. Are we helping them be informed? Are we helping them color within the financial lines?And sometimes, we may say things that help a customer that aren't helping the bottom line or helping a marketing direction and I don't think that resonates well within Microsoft. So sure, sometimes we even hear from them, “Hey, it'd be great if you guys might want to, you know, say something nice once in a while.” But it's not necessarily our job to say nice things. I do it once in a while. I want to note that I said something nice about AAD last week, but the reality is that we are there to help our mutual customers.And what I found is, I have found the same thing to be true that you're finding true that, unfortunately, outbound communications from them, in particular from the whole company, have slowed. I think everybody's busier, they've got a very specific set of directions they're going on things, and as a result, we hear very little. And even getting, trying to get clarification on things sometimes, “Did we read that right?” It takes a while, and it has to go through several different rungs of people to get the answer.Corey: I have somewhat similar relationships over the years with AWS, where they—in many cases, a lot of their executives prefer not to talk to me at all. Which again, is fair. I'm not—I don't require any of them to do it. But there's something in the Amazonian ethos that requires them to talk to customers, especially when customers are having a rough time. And I'm, for better or worse, the voice of the customer.I am usually not the dumbest person in the universe when it comes to trying to understand a service or make it do something that, to me, it seems that it should be able to do. And when I actually start having in-depth conversations, people are surprised. “Wow, you were super pleasant and fun to work with. We thought you were just going to be a jerk.” It's, yeah, it turns out I don't go through every meeting like it's Twitter. What a concept.Wes: Yeah, a lot of people, I've had this happen for myself when you meet people in person, when they meet your Twitter persona, especially for someone who I think you and I both come across as rather boisterous, gregarious, and sometimes people take that as our personas. And I remember meeting a friend in the UK for the first time years ago, he's like, “You're very different in person.” I'm like, “I know. I know.”Corey: I usually get the, “You're just like Twitter.” In many respects, I am. Because people don't always see what I'm putting down. I make it a point to be humorous and I have a quick quip for a lot of things, but it's never trying to make the person I'm engaging with feel worse for it. And that's how I work.People are somewhat surprised when I'm working in client meetings that I'm fun and I have a similar sense of humor and personality, as you would see on Twitter. Believe it or not, I haven't spent all this time just doing a bit. But they're also surprised that it tends to drive toward an actual business discussion.Wes: Sure.Corey: Everything fun is contextual.Wes: Absolutely. That's the same sort of thing we get on our side when we talk to customers. I think I've learned so much from talking with them that sometimes I do get to share those things with Microsoft when they're willing to listen.Corey: So, what I'm curious about in the context of Microsoft licensing is something that, once again, it has intruded upon my notice lately with a bunch of security disclosures in which Microsoft has said remarkably little, and that is one of the most concerning things out there. They casually tried to slide past, “Oh, yeah, we had a signing key compromised.” Which is one of those, “Oh, [laugh] and by the way, the building's on fire. But let's talk about our rent [unintelligible 00:07:44] for the next year.” Like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. What?”That was one of those horrifying moments. And it came out—I believe I learned about this from you—that you needed something called E3 licensing—sorry, E5 licensing—in order to look at those audit logs, where versus E3, which sounded like the more common case. And after a couple of days of, “Explain this,” Microsoft very quickly wound up changing that. What do all these things mean? This is sort of a foreign concept to me because AWS, for better or worse, does not play games with licensing in the same way that Microsoft does.Wes: Sure. Microsoft has, over the years, you know, they are a master of building suites. This is what they've done for over 30 years. And they will build a suite, they'll sell you that suite, they'll come back around in three to six years and sell you a new version of that suite. Sometimes they'll sell you a higher price version of that suite, et cetera.And so, you'll see products evolve. And did a great podcast with my colleagues Rob and Mary Jo Foley the other day where we talked about what we've seen over the last, now for me, 11 years of teaching boot camps. And I think in particular, one of the changes we have seen is exactly what you're being exposed to on the outside and what a lot of people have been complaining about, which is, products don't sit still anymore. So, Microsoft actually makes very few products today. Almost everything they sell you is a service. There are a handful of products still.These services all evolve, and about every triennium or two—so every three to six years—you'll see a price increase and something will be added, and a price increase and something will be added. And so, all this began with the BPOS, the first version of Office 365, which became Office 365 E3, then Microsoft 365 E3 then Microsoft 365 E5. And for people who aren't in the know, basically, that means they went from Office as a subscription to Office, Windows, and a bunch of management tools as a subscription, to E5, basically, it took all of the security and compliance tools that many of us feel should have been baked into the fundamentals, into E3, the thing that everybody buys, what I refer to still today as the hero SKU and those security and compliance fundamentals should have been baked in. But no, in fact, a lot of customers when this AAD issue came out—and I think a lot discovered this ad hoc for the same reason, “Hey, we've been owned, how far back in the logs can we look?” And the answer is, you know, no farther than 90 days, a lot of customers hit that reality of, what do you mean we didn't pay for the premium thing that has all the logging that we need?Corey: Since you sat on this for eight months before mentioning it to us? Yeah.Wes: Exactly, exactly. And it's buried. And it's one of those things that, like, when we teach the licensing boot camp, I specifically call out because of my security background, it's an area of focus and interest to me. I call out to customers that a lot of the stuff we've been showing you has not questionable valuable, but kind of squishy value.This piece right here, this is both about security and compliance. Don't cheap out. If you're going to buy anything, buy this because you're going to need it later. And I've been saying that for, like, three years, but obviously only the people who were in the boot camp would hear that and then shake their head;, “Why does it have to be this difficult?” But yeah. Everything becomes a revenue opportunity if it's a potential to upsell somebody for the next tier.Corey: The couple of times I've been asked to look at Azure bills, I backed away slowly as soon as I do, just because so much of it is tied to licensing and areas that are very much outside of my wheelhouse. Because I view, in the cloud context, that cost and architecture tend to be one of the same. But when you bolt an entire layer of seat licensing and what this means for your desktop operating systems on as well as the actual cloud architecture, it gets incredibly confusing incredibly quickly. And architectural advice of the type that I give to AWS customers and would give to GCP customers is absolutely going to be harmful in many respects.I just don't know what I don't know and it's not an area that interests me, as far as learning that competency, just to jump through hoops. I mean, I frankly used to be a small business Windows admin, with the products that you talked about, back when XP and Server 2003 and a few others, I sort of ruled the roost. But I got so tired of surprise audit-style work. It felt like busy work that wasn't advancing what I was trying to get done in any meaningful way that, in a fit of rage, one day, I wound up exploring the whole Unix side of the world in 2006 and never went back.Wes: [whispering] That's how it happened.Corey: Yep.Wes: It's unfortunate that it's become so commonplace, but when Vista kind of stalled out and they started exploring other revenue opportunities, you have Vista Ultimate Enterprise, all the crazy SKUing that Vista had, I think it sort of created a mindset within the company that this is what we have to do in order to keep growing revenue up and to the right, and you know, shareholder value be the most important thing, that's what you've got to do. I agree entirely, though, the biggest challenge I could see for someone coming into our space is the fact that yes, you've got to understand Azure, Azure architecture, development architecture, and then as soon as you feel like you understand that, somebody comes along and says, “Well, yeah, but because we have an EA, we have to do it this way or we only get a discount on this thing.” And yeah, it just makes things more cumbersome. And I think that's why we still see a lot of customers who come to our boot camps who are still very dedicated AWS customers because that's where they were, and it's easier in many regards, and they just want to go with what they know.Corey: And I think that that's probably fair. I think that there is an evolution that grows here that I think catches folks by surprise. I'm fortunate in that my Microsoft involvement, if we set things like GitHub aside because I like them quite a bit and my Azure stuff as well—which is still small enough to fit in the free tier, given that I use it for one very specific, very useful thing—but the rest of it is simply seat licenses for Office 365 for my team. And I just tend to buy the retail-priced one on the internet that's licensed for business use, and I don't really think about it again. Because I don't need, as you say, in-depth audit logs for Microsoft Word. I really don't. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that that's true. But something that immediately crops up when you say this is when you talk about E3 versus E5 licensing, is that organization-wide or is that on a per-seat basis?Wes: It's even worse than that. It usually comes down to per-user licensing. The whole world used to be per device licensing in Microsoft and it switched to per user when they subscript-ified everything—that's a word I made up a while ago—so when they subscript-ified everything, they changed it over to per user. And for better or worse, today, you could—there's actually four different tiers of Microsoft 365. You could go for any one of those four for any distinct user.You could have one of them on F1, F3, E3, and E5. Now, if you do that, you create some other license non-compliance issues that we spend way too much time having to talk about during the boot camp, but the point is, you can buy to fit; it's not one-size-fits-all necessarily. But you run into, very rapidly, if you deploy E5 for some number of users because the products that are there, the security services and compliance services ironically don't do license compliance in most cases, customers can actually wind up creating new license compliance problems, thereby basically having to buy E5 for everybody. So, it's a bit of a trapdoor that customers are not often aware of when they initially step into dabbling in Microsoft 365 E5.Corey: When you take a look at this across the entire board, what is your guidance to customers? Because honestly, this feels like it is a full-time job. At scale, a full-time job for a department simply keeping up with all of the various Microsoft licensing requirements, and changes because, as you say, it's not static. And it just feels like an overwhelming amount of work that to my understanding, virtually no other vendor makes customers jump through. Sure there's Oracle, but that tends to be either in a database story or a per developer, or on rare occasions, per user when you build internal Java apps. But it's not as pervasive and as tricky as this unless I'm missing something.Wes: No, you're not. You're not missing anything. It's very true. It's interesting to think back over the years at the boot camp. There's names I've heard that I don't hear anymore in terms of companies that were as bad. But the reality is, you hear the names of the same software companies but, exactly to your point, they're all departmental. The people who make [Roxio 00:16:26] still, they're very departmentalized. Oracle, IBM, yeah, we hear about them still, but they are all absolutely very departmentalized.And Microsoft, I think one of the reason why we do get so many—for better or worse, for them—return visitors to our licensing boot camps that we do every two months, is for that exact reason, that some people have found they like outsourcing that part of at least trying to keep up with what's going on, what's the record? And so, they'll come back every two, three, or four years and get an update. And we try to keep them updated on, you know, how do I color within the lines? Should it be like this? No. But it is this way.In fact, it's funny, I think back, it was probably one of the first few boot camps I did with Rob. We were in New York and we had a very large customer who had gotten a personalized message from Microsoft talking about how they were going to simplify licensing. And we went to a cocktail hour afterwards, as we often do on the first day of the boot camp, to help people, you know, with the pain after a boot camp, and this gentleman asks us well, “So, what are you guys going to do once Microsoft simplifies licensing?” And Rob and I just, like, looked at each other, smiled, looked back at the guy, and laughed. We're like, “We will cross that bridge when we get to it.”Corey: Yeah, people ask us that question about AWS billing. What if they fix the billing system? Like, we should be so lucky to live that long.Wes: I have so many things I'd rather be doing. Yes.Corey: Mm-hm. Exactly. It's one of those areas where, “Well, what happens in a post-scarcity world?” Like, “I couldn't tell you. I can't even imagine what such a thing would look like.”Wes: Exactly [laugh]. Exactly.Corey: So, the last time we spoke way back, I think in 2019, Microsoft had wound up doing some unfortunate and fairly underhanded-appearing licensed changes, where it was more expensive to run a bunch of Microsoft things, such as server software, most notably SQL Server, on clouds that were not Azure. And then, because you know, you look up the word chutzpah in the dictionary, you'll find the Microsoft logo there in response, as part of the definition, they ran an advertising campaign saying that, oh, running many cloud workloads on Azure was five times cheaper than on AWS. As if they cracked some magic secret to cloud economics. Rather than no, we just decided to play dumb games that win worse prizes with cloud licensing. How did that play out?Wes: Well, so they made those changes in October of 2019, and I kind of wish they'd become a bigger deal. And I wish they'd become a bigger deal earlier so that things could have been, maybe, reversed when it was easier. But you're absolutely right. So, it—for those who don't know, it basically made licensing changes on only AWS, GCP, and Alibaba—who I never had anybody ask me about—but those three. It also added them for Azure, but then they created loopholes for themselves to make Azure actually get beneficial licensing, even better than you could get with any other cloud provider [sigh].So, the net takeaway is that every Microsoft product that matters—so traditionally, SQL Server, Windows Server, Windows client, and Office—is not impossible to use on AWS, but it is markedly more expensive. That's the first note. To your point, then they did do that marketing campaign that I know you and I probably had exchanges about at the time, and it drove me nuts as well because what they will classically do is when they tout the savings of running something on Azure, not only are they flouting the rules that they created, you know, they're basically gloating, “Look, we got a toy that they didn't,” but they're also often removing costs from the equation. So, for example, in order for you to get those discounts on Azure, you have to maintain what's called Software Assurance. You basically have to have a subscription by another name.If you don't have Software Assurance, those opportunities are not available to you. Fine. That's not my point. My point is this, that Software Assurance is basically 75% of the cost of the next version. So, it's not free, but if you look at those 5x claims that they made during that time frame, they actually were hand-waving and waving away the [assay 00:20:45] costs.So, if you actually sat down and did the math, the 5x number was a lie. It was not just very nice, but it was wrong, literally mathematically wrong. And from a—as my colleague likes to say, a ‘colors person,' not a numbers person like me, from a colors person like me, that's pretty bad. If I can see the error and your math, that's bad math.Corey: It just feels like it's one of those taxes on not knowing some of the intricacies of what the heck is going on in the world of Microsoft licensing. And I think every sufficiently complex vendor with, shall we say, non-trivial pricing dimensions, could be accused of the same thing. But it always felt particularly worrisome from the Microsoft perspective. Back in the days of BSA audits—which I don't know at all if they're still a thing or not because I got out of that space—every executive that I ever spoke to, in any company lived in fear of them, not because they were pirating software or had decided, “You know what? We have a corporate policy of now acting unethically when it comes to licensing software,” but because of the belief that no matter what they came up with or whatever good faith effort they made to remain compliant, of course, something was not going to work the way they thought it would and they were going to be smacked with a fine. Is that still the case?Wes: Absolutely. In fact, I think it's worse now than it ever was before. I will often say to customers that you are wildly uncompliant while also being wildly overcompliant because per your point about how broad and deep Microsoft is, there's so many products. Like, every company today, every company that has Project and Visio still in place today, that still pays for it, you are over-licensed. You have more of it than you need.That's just one example, but on the other side, SQL Server, odds are, every organization is subtly under-licensed because they think the rule is to do this, but the rules are actually more restrictive than they expect. So, and that's why Microsoft is, you know, the first place they look, the first rug they look under when they do walk in and do an audit, which they're entitled to do as a part of an organization's enterprise agreement. So BSA, I think they do still have those audits, but Microsoft now they have their own business that does that, or at least they have partners that do that for them. And places like SQL Server are the first places that they look.Why? Because it's big, found money, and because it's extremely hard to get right. So, there's a reason why, when we focus on our boot camps, we'll often tell people, you know, “Our goal is to save you enough money to pay for the class,” because there's so much money to be found in little mistakes that if you do a big thing wrong with Microsoft software, you could be wildly out of compliance and not know about it until Microsoft-or more likely, a Microsoft partner—points it out to you.Corey: It feels like it's an inevitability. And, on some level, it's the cost of doing business. But man, does that leave a sour taste in someone's mouth.Wes: Mm-hm. It absolutely does. It absolutely does. And I think—you know, I remember, gosh, was it Munich that was talking about, “We're going to switch to Linux,” and then they came back into the fold. I think the reality is, it absolutely does put a bad taste.And it doesn't leave customers with good hope for where they go from here. I mean, okay, fine. So, we got burned on that thing in the Microsoft 365 stack. Now, they want us to pay 30 bucks for Copilot for Microsoft 365. What? And we'd have no idea what they're even buying, so it's hard to give any kind of guidance. So, it's a weird time.Corey: I'm curious to see what the ultimate effect of this is going to be. Well, one thing I've noticed over the past decade and change—and I think everyone has as well—increasingly, the local operating system on people's laptops or desktops—or even phones, to some extent—is not what it once was. Increasingly, most of the tools that I find myself using on a daily basis are just web use or in a browser entirely. And that feels like it's an ongoing problem for a company like Microsoft when you look at it through the lens of OS. Which at some level, makes perfect sense why they would switch towards everything as a service. But it's depressing, too.Wes: Yeah. I think that's one of the reasons why, particularly after Steve left, they changed focus a lot and really begin focusing on Microsoft 365 as the platform, for better or worse. How do we make Microsoft 365 sticky? How do we make Office 365 sticky? And the thing about, like, the Microsoft 365 E5 security stuff we were talking about, it often doesn't matter what the user is accessing it through. The user could be accessing it only through a phone, they could be a frontline worker, they could be standing at a sales kiosk all day, they could be using Office every single day, or they could be an exec who's only got an iPad.The point is, you're in for a penny, in for a pound at that point that you'll still have to license the user. And so, Microsoft will recoup it either way. In some ways, they've learned to stop caring as much about, is everyone actively using our technology? And on the other side, with things like Teams, and as we're seeing very, very slowly, with the long-delayed Outlook here, you know, they're also trying to switch things to have that less Win32 surface that we're used to and focus more on the web as well. But I think that's a pretty fundamental change for Microsoft to try and take broadly and I don't anticipate, for example, Office will ever be fully replaced with a fat client like it has on Windows and the Mac OS.Corey: Yeah, part of me wonders what the future that all looks like because increasingly, it feels more than a little silly that I'm spending, like, all of this ever-increasing dollar figure on a per-seat basis every year for all of Microsoft 365. Because we don't use their email system. We don't use so much of what they offer. We need basically Word and Excel and once in a blue moon PowerPoint, I guess. But that's it. Our fundamental needs have not materially shifted since Office 2003. Other than the fact that everything uses different extensions now and there's, of course, the security story on top of it, too. We just need some fairly basic stuff.Wes: And I think that's the case for a lot of—I mean, we're the exact same way at Directions. And I think that's the case for a lot of small and even into mid-size companies. Microsoft has traditionally with the, like, Small Business Premium, they have an offering that they intentionally only scale up to 300 people. And sometimes they'll actually give you perks there that they wouldn't give away in the enterprise suite, so you arguably get more—if they let you have it, you get more than you would if you've got E5. On the other side, they've also begun, for enterprises, honing in on opportunities that they may have historically ignored.And when I was at Microsoft, you'd have an idea, like, “Hey, Bob. I got an idea. Can we try to make a new product?” He's like, “Okay, is it a billion-dollar business?” And you get waved away if it wasn't all a billion-dollar business. And I don't think that's the case anymore today, particularly if you can make the case, this thing I'm building makes Microsoft 365 sticky or makes Azure sticky. So, things like the Power Platform, which is subtly and slowly replacing Access at a minimum, but a lot of other tools.Power BI, which has come from behind. You know, people would look at it and say, “Oh, it's no Excel.” And now it, I think, far exceeds Excel for that type of user. And Copilot, as I talked about, you know, Microsoft is definitely trying to throw things in that are beyond Office, beyond what we think of as Microsoft. And why are they doing that? Because they're trying to make their platform more sticky. They're trying to put enough value in there so you need to subscribe for every user in your organization.And even things, as we call them, ‘Batteries not Included' like Copilot, that you're going to buy E5 and that you're still going to have to buy something else beyond that for some number of users. So, you may even have a picture in your head of how much it's going to cost, but it's like buying a BMW 5 Series; it's going to cost more than you think.Corey: I wish that there were a better path forward on this. Honestly, I wish that they would stop playing these games, let you know Azure compete head-to-head against AWS and let it win on some of its merits. To be clear, there are several that are great. You know, if they could get out of their own way from a security perspective, lately. But there seems to be a little appetite for that. Increasingly, it seems like even customers asking them questions tends to hit a wall until, you know, a sitting US senator screams at them on Twitter.Wes: Mm-hm. No, and then if you look carefully at—Microsoft is very good at pulling just enough off of the sweater without destroying the sweater. And for example, what they did, they gave enough away to potentially appease, but they didn't actually resolve the problem. They didn't say, “All right, everybody gets logging if they have Microsoft 365 E3,” or, “Everybody gets logging, period.” They basically said, “Here's the kind of logging you can get, and we're going to probably tweak it a little bit more in the future,” and they will not tweak it more in the future. If anything, they'll tighten it back up.This is very similar to the 2019 problem we talked about earlier, too, that you know, they began with one set of rules and they've had to revisit it a couple of times. And most of the time, when they've had an outcry, primarily from the EU, from smaller cloud providers in the EU who felt—justifiably—that Microsoft was being not—uncompetitive with Azure vis-à-vis every other cloud provider. Well, Microsoft turned around and last year changed the rules such that most of these smaller cloud providers get rules that are, ehh, similar to what Azure can provide. There are still exclusives that only Azure gets. So, what you have now is basically, if you're a customer, the best set and cheapest set is with Azure, then these smaller cloud providers give you a secondary—it's close to Azure, but still not quite as good. Then AWS, GCP, and Alibaba.So, the rules have been switched such that you have to know who you're going to in order to even know what the rules are and to know whether you can comply with those rules with the thing you want to build. And I find it most peculiar that, I believe it was the first of last month that Microsoft made the change that said, “You'll be able to run Office on AWS,” which was Amazon WorkSpaces, in particular. Which I think is huge and it's very important and I'm glad they made this change, but it's weird because it creates almost a fifth category because you can't run it anywhere else in Amazon, like if you were spinning something up in VMware on Amazon, but within Amazon WorkSpaces, you can. This is great because customers now can run Office for a fee. And it's a fee that's more than you'd pay if you were running the same thing on Microsoft's cloud.But it also was weird because let's say Google had something competitive in VDI, but they don't really, but if they had something competitive in VDI, now this is the benefit that Amazon has that's not quite as good as what Microsoft has, that Google doesn't get it at all. So, it's just weird. And it's all an attempt to hold… to both hold a market strategy and an attempt to grow market share where they're still behind. They are markedly behind in several areas. And I think the reality is, Amazon WorkSpaces is a really fine offering and a lot of customers use it.And we had a customer at our last in-person boot camp in Atlanta, and I was really impressed—she had been to one boot camp before, but I was really impressed at how much work she'd put into making sure we know, “We want to keep using Amazon WorkSpaces. We're very happy with it. We don't want to move anywhere else. Am I correct in understanding that this, this, this, and this? If we do these things will be aboveboard?” And so, she knew how much more she'd have to pay to stay on Amazon WorkSpaces, but it was that important to the company that they'd already bet the farm on the technology, and they didn't want to shift to somebody else that they didn't know.Corey: I'm wondering how many people have installed Office just through a standard Microsoft 365 subscription on a one-off Amazon WorkSpace, just because they had no idea that that was against license terms. I recall spinning up an Amazon WorkSpace back when they first launched, or when they wound up then expanding to Amazon Linux; I forget the exact timeline on this. I have no idea if I did something like that or not. Because it seems like it'd be a logical thing. “Oh, I want to travel with just an iPad. Let me go ahead and run a full desktop somewhere in the cloud. Awesome.”That feels like exactly the sort of thing an audit comes in and then people are on the hook for massive fines as a result. It just feels weird, as opposed to, there are a number of ways to detect you're running on a virtual machine that isn't approved for this. Stop the install. But of course, that doesn't happen, does it?Wes: No. When we teach at the boot camp, Rob will often point out that, you know, licensing is one of the—and it's true—licensing is one of the last things that comes in when Microsoft is releasing a product. It was that way when he was at the company before I was—he shipped Word 1.0 for the Mac, to give you an idea of his epoch—and I was there for XP, like I said, which was the first version that used activation—which was a nightmare—there was a whole dedicated team on. And that team was running down to the wire to get everything installed.And that is still the case today because marketing and legal make decisions about how a product gets sold. Licensing is usually tacked on at the very end if it gets tacked on at all. And in fact, in a lot of the security, compliance, and identity space within Microsoft 365, there is no license compliance. Microsoft will show you a document that, “Hey, we do this,” but it's very performative. You can't actually rely on it, and if you do rely on it, you'll get in trouble during an audit because you've got non-compliance problems. So yeah, it's—you would hope that it keeps you from coloring outside the lines, but it very much does not.Corey: It's just a tax on going about your business, in some ways [sigh].Wes: Exactly. “Don't worry, we'll be back to fix it for you later.”Corey: [laugh]. I really appreciate your taking the time to go through this with me. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to keep up with what you're up to?Wes: Well, obviously, I'm on Twitter, and—oh, sorry, X, whatever.Corey: No, we're calling it Twitter.Wes: Okay, I'm on—I'm on—[laugh] thank you. I'm on Twitter at @getwired. Same alias over on [BlueSky 00:35:27]. And they can also find me on LinkedIn, if they're looking for a professional question beyond that and want to send a quiet message.The other thing is, of course, go to directionsonmicrosoft.com. And directionsonmicrosoft.com/training if they're interested in one of our licensing boot camps. And like I said, Rob, and I do those every other month. We're increasingly doing them in person. We got one in Bellevue coming up in just a few weeks. So, there's opportunities to learn more.Corey: Excellent. And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:35:59]. Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me again, Wes. It's appreciated.Wes: Thank you for having me.Corey: Wes Miller, Research VP at Directions on Microsoft. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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At this year's VMware Explore in Las Vegas, there were tons of announcements in the End-User Computing or Hybrid Workforce track. In this episode, we are joined by Bharath Rangarajan (VP Products for VMware EUC) to talk about the biggest announcements and what they bring to customers. Technologies we have talked about: DEEM, Freestyle Orchestrator, Workspace ONE, Horizon and Horizon Cloud, App Volumes, Apps on-demand, Amazon Workspaces, Appstream, and Project Oakville. Follow us on Twitter for updates and news about upcoming episodes: https://twitter.com/UnexploredPod.Last but not least, make sure to hit that subscribe button, rate where ever possible, and share the episode with your friends and colleagues!

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AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 7, 2023 with Corey Quinn. Links: In Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy said that every Amazon team is working on Generative AI Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains  AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS US West Phoenix Local Zone Amazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instance Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds schedule deletion after completion AWS Application Composer updates: Undo and Redo, Export Canvas, and Local Sync Mode Now Open – AWS Israel (Tel Aviv ) Region Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers  Estimate cost savings for the Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized feature using Amazon CloudWatch  Empowering your workforce with Amazon WorkSpaces services and Microsoft 365 Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation  Identify and optimize public IPv4 address usage on AWS 

Everett Berry, Growth and Open Source at Vantage, joins Corey at Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the complex world of cloud costs. Everett describes how Vantage takes a broad approach to understanding and cutting cloud costs across a number of different providers, and reveals which providers he feels generate large costs quickly. Everett also explains some of his best practices for cutting costs on cloud providers, and explores what he feels the impact of AI will be on cloud providers. Corey and Everett also discuss the pros and cons of AWS savings plans, why AWS can't be counted out when it comes to AI, and why there seems to be such a delay in upgrading instances despite the cost savings. About EverettEverett is the maintainer of ec2instances.info at Vantage. He also writes about cloud infrastructure and analyzes cloud spend. Prior to Vantage Everett was a developer advocate at Arctype, a collaborative SQL client acquired by ClickHouse. Before that, Everett was cofounder and CTO of Perceive, a computer vision company. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf, reading sci-fi, and scrolling Twitter.Links Referenced: Vantage: https://www.vantage.sh/ Vantage Cloud Cost Report: https://www.vantage.sh/cloud-cost-report Everett Berry Twitter: https://twitter.com/retttx Vantage Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoinVantage TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. 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And who better to do that than this week, my guest is Everett Berry who is growth in open-source over at Vantage. And they've just released the Vantage Cloud Cost Report for Q1 of 2023. Everett, thank you for joining me.Everett: Thanks for having me, Corey.Corey: I enjoy playing slap and tickle with AWS bills because I am broken in exactly that kind of way where this is the thing I'm going to do with my time and energy and career. It's rare to find people who are, I guess, similarly afflicted. So, it's great to wind up talking to you, first off.Everett: Yeah, great to be with you as well. Last Week in AWS and in particular, your Twitter account, are things that we follow religiously at Vantage.Corey: Uh-oh [laugh]. So, I want to be clear because I'm sure someone's thinking it out there, that, wait, Vantage does cloud cost optimization as a service? Isn't that what I do? Aren't we competitors? And the answer that I have to that is not by any definition that I've ever seen that was even halfway sensible.If SaaS could do the kind of bespoke consulting engagements that I do, we would not sell bespoke consulting engagements because it's easier to click button: receive software. And I also will point out that we tend to work once customers are at a certain point at scale that in many cases is a bit prohibitive for folks who are just now trying to understand what the heck's going on the first time finance has some very pointed questions about the AWS bill. That's how I see it from my perspective, anyway. Agree? Disagree?Everett: Yeah, I agree with that. I think the product solution, the system of record that companies need when they're dealing with Cloud costs ends up being a different service than the one that you guys provide. And I think actually the to work in concert very well, where you establish a cloud cost optimization practice, and then you keep it in place via software and via sort of the various reporting tools that the Vantage provide. So, I completely agree with you. In fact, in the hundreds of customers and deals that Vantage has worked on, I don't think we have ever come up against Duckbill Group. So, that tells you everything you need to know in that regard.Corey: Yeah. And what's interesting about this is that you have a different scale of visibility into the environment. We wind up dealing with a certain profile, or a couple of profiles, in our customer base. We work with dozens of companies a year; you work with hundreds. And that's bigger numbers, of course, but also in many cases at different segments of the industry.I also am somewhat fond of saying that Vantage is more focused on going broad in ways where we tend to focus on going exclusively deep. We do AWS; the end. You folks do a number of different cloud providers, you do Datadog cost visibility. I've lost track of all the different services that you wind up tracking costs for.Everett: Yeah, that's right. We just launched our 11th provider, which was OpenAI and for the first time in this report, we're actually breaking out data among the different clouds and we're comparing services across AWS, Google, and Azure. And I think it's a bit of a milestone for us because we started on AWS, where I think the cost problem is the most acute, if you will, and we've hit a point now across Azure and Google where we actually have enough data to say some interesting things about how those clouds work. But in general, we have this term, single pane of glass, which is the idea that you use 5, 6, 7 services, and you want to bundle all those costs into one report.Corey: Yeah. And that is something that we see in many cases where customers are taking a more holistic look at things. But, on some level, when people ask me, “Oh, do you focus on Google bills, too,” or Azure bills in the early days, it was, “Well, not yet. Let's take a look.” And what I was seeing was, they're spending, you know, millions or hundreds of millions, in some cases, on AWS, and oh, yeah, here's, like, a $300,000 thing we're running over on GCP is a proof-of-concept or some bizdev thing. And it's… yeah, why don't we focus on the big numbers first? The true secret of cloud economics is, you know, big numbers first rather than alphabetical, but don't tell anyone I told you that.Everett: It's pretty interesting you say that because, you know, in this graph where we break down costs across providers, you can really see that effect on Google and Azure. So, for example, the number three spending category on Google is BigQuery and I think many people would say BigQuery is kind of the jewel of the Google Cloud empire. Similarly for Azure, we actually found Databricks showing up as a top-ten service. Compare that to AWS where you just see a very routine, you know, compute, database, storage, monitoring, bandwidth, down the line. AWS still is the king of costs, if you will, in terms of, like, just running classic compute workloads. And the other services are a little bit more bespoke, which has been something interesting to see play out in our data.Corey: One thing that I've heard that's fascinating to me is that I've now heard from multiple Fortune 500 companies where the Datadog bill is now a board-level concern, given the size and scale of it. And for fun, once I modeled out all the instance-based pricing models that they have for the suite of services they offer, and at the time was three or $400 a month, per instance to run everything that they've got, which, you know, when you look at the instances that I have, costing, you know, 15, 20 bucks a month, in some cases, hmm, seems a little out of whack. And I can absolutely see that turning into an unbounded growth problem in kind of the same way. I just… I don't need to conquer the world. I'm not VC-backed. I am perfectly content at the scale that I'm at—Everett: [laugh].Corey: —with the focus on the problems that I'm focused on.Everett: Yeah, Datadog has been fascinating. It's been one of our fastest-growing providers of sort of the ‘others' category that we've launched. And I think the thing with Datadog that is interesting is you have this phrase cloud costs are all about cloud architecture and I think that's more true on Datadog than a lot of other services because if you have a model where you have, you know, thousands of hosts, and then you add-on one of Datadogs 20 services, which charges per host, suddenly your cloud bill has grown exponentially compared to probably the thing that you were after. And a similar thing happens—actually, my favorite Datadog cost recommendation is, when you have multiple endpoints, and you have sort of multiple query parameters for those endpoints, you end up in this cardinality situation where suddenly Datadog is tracking, again, like, exponentially increasing number of data points, which it's then charging to you on a usage-based model. And so, Datadog is great partners with AWS and I think it's no surprise because the two of them actually sort of go hand-in-hand in terms of the way that they… I don't want to say take ad—Corey: Extract revenue?Everett: Yeah, extract revenue. That's a good term. And, you know, you might say a similar thing about Snowflake, possibly, and the way that they do things. Like oh, the, you know, warehouse has to be on for one minute, minimum, no matter how long the query runs, and various architectural decisions that these folks make that if you were building a cost-optimized version of the service, you would probably go in the other direction.Corey: One thing that I'm also seeing, too, is that I can look at the AWS bill—and just billing data alone—and then say, “Okay, you're using Datadog, aren't you?” Like, “How did you know that?” Like, well, first, most people are secondly, CloudWatch is your number two largest service spend right now. And it's the downstream effect of hammering all the endpoints with all of the systems. And is that data you're actually using? Probably not, in some cases. It's, everyone turns on all the Datadog integrations the first time and then goes back and resets and never does it again.Everett: Yeah, I think we have this set of advice that we give Datadog folks and a lot of it is just, like, turn down the ingestion volume on your logs. Most likely, logs from 30 days ago that are correlated with some new services that you spun up—like you just talked about—are potentially not relevant anymore, for the kind of day-to-day cadence that you want to get into with your cloud spending. So yeah, I mean, I imagine when you're talking to customers, they're bringing up sort of like this interesting distinction where you may end up in a meeting room with the actual engineering team looking at the actual YAML configuration of the Datadog script, just to get a sense of like, well, what are the buttons I can press here? And so, that's… yeah, I mean, that's one reason cloud costs are a pretty interesting world is, on the surface level, you may end up buying some RIs or savings plans, but then when you really get into saving money, you end up actually changing the knobs on the services that you're talking about.Corey: That's always a fun thing when we talk to people in our sales process. It's been sord—“Are you just going to come in and tell us to buy savings plans or reserved instances?” Because the answer to that used to be, “No, that's ridiculous. That's not what we do.” But then we get into environments and find they haven't bought any of those things in 18 months.Everett: [laugh].Corey: —and it's well… okay, that's step two. Step one is what are you using you shouldn't be? Like, basically measure first then cut as opposed to going the other direction and then having to back your way into stuff. Doesn't go well.Everett: Yeah. One of the things that you were discussing last year that I thought was pretty interesting was the gp3 volumes that are now available for RDS and how those volumes, while they offer a nice discount and a nice bump in price-to-performance on EC2, actually don't offer any of that on RDS except for specific workloads. And so, I think that's the kind of thing where, as you're working with folks, as Vantage is working with people, the discussion ends up in these sort of nuanced niche areas, and that's why I think, like, these reports, hopefully, are helping people get a sense of, like, well, what's normal in my architecture or where am I sort of out of bounds? Oh, the fact that I'm spending most of my bill on NAT gateways and bandwidth egress? Well, that's not normal. That would be something that would be not typical of what your normal AWS user is doing.Corey: Right. There's always a question of, “Am I normal?” is one of the first things people love to ask. And it comes in different forms. But it's benchmarking. It's, okay, how much should it cost us to service a thousand monthly active users? It's like, there's no good way to say that across the board for everyone.Everett: Yeah. I like the model of getting into the actual unit costs. I have this sort of vision in my head of, you know, if I'm Uber and I'm reporting metrics to the public stock market, I'm actually reporting a cost to serve a rider, a cost to deliver an Uber Eats meal, in terms of my cloud spend. And that sort of data is just ridiculously hard to get to today. I think it's what we're working towards with Vantage and I think it's something that with these Cloud Cost Reports, we're hoping to get into over time, where we're actually helping companies think about well, okay, within my cloud spend, it's not just what I'm spending on these different services, there's also an idea of how much of my cost to deliver my service should be realized by my cloud spending.Corey: And then people have the uncomfortable realization that wait, my bill is less a function of number of customers I have but more the number of engineers I've hired. What's going on with that?Everett: [laugh]. Yeah, it is interesting to me just how many people end up being involved in this problem at the company. But to your earlier point, the cloud spending discussion has really ramped up over the past year. And I think, hopefully, we are going to be able to converge on a place where we are realizing the promise of the cloud, if you will, which is that it's actually cheaper. And I think what these reports show so far is, like, we've still got a long ways to go for that.Corey: One thing that I think is opportune about the timing of this recording is that as of last week, Amazon wound up announcing their earnings. And Andy Jassy has started getting on the earnings calls, which is how you know it's bad because the CEO of Amazon never deigned to show up on those things before. And he said that a lot of AWS employees are focused and spending their time on helping customers lower their AWS bills. And I'm listening to this going, “Oh, they must be talking to different customers than the ones that I'm talking to.” Are you seeing a lot of Amazonian involvement in reducing AWS bills? Because I'm not and I'm wondering where these people are hiding.Everett: So, we do see one thing, which is reps pushing savings plans on customers, which in general, is great. It's kind of good for everybody, it locks people into longer-term spend on Amazon, it gets them a lower rate, savings plans have some interesting functionality where they can be automatically applied to the area where they offer the most discount. And so, those things are all positive. I will say with Vantage, we're a cloud cost optimization company, of course, and so when folks talk to us, they often already have talked to their AWS rep. And the classic scenario is, that the rep passes over a large spreadsheet of options and ways to reduce costs, but for the company, that spreadsheet may end up being quite a ways away from the point where they actually realize cost savings.And ultimately, the people that are working on cloud cost optimization for Amazon are account reps who are comped by how much cloud spending their accounts are using on Amazon. And so, at the end of the day, some of the, I would say, most hard-hitting optimizations that you work on that we work on, end up hitting areas where they do actually reduce the bill which ends up being not in the account manager's favor. And so, it's a real chicken-and-egg game, except for savings plans is one area where I think everybody can kind of work together.Corey: I have found that… in fairness, there is some defense for Amazon in this but their cost-cutting approach has been rightsizing instances, buy some savings plans, and we are completely out of ideas. Wait, can you switch to Graviton and/or move to serverless? And I used to make fun of them for this but honestly that is some of the only advice that works across the board, irrespective in most cases, of what a customer is doing. Everything else is nuanced and it depends.That's why in some cases, I find that I'm advising customers to spend more money on certain things. Like, the reason that I don't charge percentage of savings in part is because otherwise I'm incentivized to say things like, “Backups? What are you, some kind of coward? Get rid of them.” And that doesn't seem like it's going to be in the customer's interest every time. And as soon as you start down that path, it starts getting a little weird.But people have asked me, what if my customers reach out to their account teams instead of talking to us? And it's, we do bespoke consulting engagements; I do not believe that we have ever had a client who did not first reach out to their account team. If the account teams were capable of doing this at the level that worked for customers, I would have to be doing something else with my business. It is not something that we are seeing hit customers in a way that is effective, and certainly not at scale. You said—as you were right on this—that there's an element here of account managers doing this stuff, there's an [unintelligible 00:15:54] incentive issue in part, but it's also, quality is extraordinarily uneven when it comes to these things because it is its own niche and a lot of people focus in different areas in different ways.Everett: Yeah. And to the areas that you brought up in terms of general advice that's given, we actually have some data on this in this report. In particular Graviton, this is something we've been tracking the whole time we've been doing these reports, which is the past three quarters and we actually are seeing Graviton adoption start to increase more rapidly than it was before. And so, for this last quarter Q1, we're seeing 5% of our costs that we're measuring on EC2 coming from Graviton, which is up from, I want to say 2% the previous quarter, and, like, less than 1% the quarter before. The previous quarter, we also reported that Lambda costs are now majority on ARM among the Vantage customer base.And that one makes some sense to me just because in most cases with Lambda, it's a flip of a switch. And then to your archival point on backups, this is something that we report in this one is that intelligent tiering, which we saw, like, really make an impact for folks towards the end of last year, the numbers for that were flat quarter over quarter. And so, what I mean by that is, we reported that I think, like, two-thirds of our S3 costs are still in the standard storage tier, which is the most expensive tier. And folks have enabled S3 intelligent tiering, which moves your data to progressively cheaper tiers, but we haven't seen that increase this quarter. So, it's the same number as it was last quarter.And I think speaks to what you're talking about with a ceiling on some cost optimization techniques, where it's like, you're not just going to get rid of all your backups; you're not just going to get rid of your, you know, Amazon WorkSpaces archived desktop snapshots that you need for some HIPAA compliance reason. Those things have an upper limit and so that's where, when the AWS rep comes in, it's like, as they go through the list of top spending categories, the recommendations they can give start to provide diminishing returns.Corey: I also think this is sort of a law of large numbers issue. When you start seeing a drop off in the growth rate of large cloud providers, like, there's a problem, in that there are only so many exabyte scale workloads that can be moved inside of a given quarter into the cloud. You're not going to see the same unbounded infinite growth that you would expect mathematically. And people lose their minds when they start to see those things pointed out, but the blame that oh, that's caused by cost optimization efforts, with respect, bullshit it is. I have seen customers devote significant efforts to reducing their AWS bills and it takes massive amounts of work and even then they don't always succeed in getting there.It gets better, but they still wind up a year later, having spent more on a month-by-month basis than they did when they started. Sure they understand it better and it's organic growth that's driving it and they've solved the low hanging fruit problem, but there is a challenge in acting as a boundary for what is, in effect, an unbounded growth problem.Everett: Yeah. And speaking to growth, I thought Microsoft had the most interesting take on where things could happen next quarter, and that, of course, is AI. And so, they attributed, I think it was, 1% of their guidance regarding 26 or 27% growth for Q2 Cloud revenue and it attributed 1% of that to AI. And I think Amazon is really trying to be in the room for those discussions when a large enterprise is talking about AI workloads because it's one of the few remaining cloud workloads that if it's not in the cloud already, is generating potentially massive amounts of growth for these guys.And so, I'm not really sure if I believe the 1% number. I think Microsoft may be having some fun with the fact that, of course, OpenAI is paying them for acting as a cloud provider for ChatGPT and further API, but I do think that AWS, although they were maybe a little slow to the game, they did, to their credit, launch a number of AI services that I'm excited to see if that contributes to the cost that we're measuring next quarter. We did measure, for the first time, a sudden increase on those new [Inf1 00:20:17] EC2 instances, which are optimized for machine learning. And I think if AWS can have success moving customers to those the way they have with Graviton, then that's going to be a very healthy area of growth for them.Corey: I'll also say that it's pretty clear to me that Amazon does not know what it's doing in its world of machine-learning-powered services. I use Azure for the [unintelligible 00:20:44] clients I built originally for Twitter, then for Mastodon—I'm sure Bluesky is coming—but the problem that I'm seeing there is across the board, start to finish, that there is no cohesive story from the AWS side of here's a picture tell me what's in it and if it's words, describe it to me. That's a single API call when we go to Azure. And the more that Amazon talks about something, I find, the less effective they're being in that space. And they will not stop talking about machine learning. Yes, they have instances that are powered by GPUs; that's awesome. But they're an infrastructure provider and moving up the stack is not in their DNA. But that's where all the interest and excitement and discussion is going to be increasingly in the AI space. Good luck.Everett: I think it might be something similar to what you've talked about before with all the options to run containers on AWS. I think they today have a bit of a grab bag of services and they may actually be looking forward to the fact that they're these truly foundational models which let you do a number of tasks, and so they may not need to rely so much on you know, Amazon Polly and Amazon Rekognition and sort of these task-specific services, which to date, I'm not really sure of the takeoff rates on those. We have this cloud costs leaderboard and I don't think you would find them in the top 50 of AWS services. But we'll see what happens with that.AWS I think, ends up being surprisingly good at sticking with it. I think our view is that they probably have the most customer spend on Kubernetes of any major cloud, even though you might say Google at first had the lead on Kubernetes and maybe should have done more with GKE. But to date, I would kind of agree with your take on AI services and I think Azure is… it's Azure's to lose for the moment.Corey: I would agree. I think the future of the cloud is largely Azure's to lose and it has been for a while, just because they get user experience, they get how to talk to enterprises. I just… I wish they would get security a little bit more effectively, and if failing that, communicating with their customers about security more effectively. But it's hard for a leopard to change its spots. Microsoft though has demonstrated an ability to change their nature multiple times, in ways that I would have bet were impossible. So, I just want to see them do it again. It's about time.Everett: Yeah, it's been interesting building on Azure for the past year or so. I wrote a post recently about, kind of, accessing billing data across the different providers and it's interesting in that every cloud provider is unique in the way that it simply provides an external endpoint for downloading your billing data, but Azure is probably one of the easiest integrations; it's just a REST API. However, behind that REST API are, like, years and years of different ways to pay Microsoft: are you on a pay-as-you-go plan, are you on an Azure enterprise plan? So, there's all this sort of organizational complexity hidden behind Azure and I think sometimes it rears its ugly head in a way that stringing together services on Amazon may not, even if that's still a bear in and of itself, if you will.Corey: Any other surprises that you found in the Cloud Cost Report? I mean, looking through it, it seems directionally aligned with what I see in my environments with customers. Like for example, you're not going to see Kubernetes showing up as a line item on any of these things just because—Everett: Yeah.Corey: That is indistinguishable from a billing perspective when we're looking at EC2 spend versus control plane spend. I don't tend to [find 00:24:04] too much that's shocking me. My numbers are of course, different percentage-wise, but surprise, surprise, different companies doing different things doing different percentages, I'm sure only AWS knows for sure.Everett: Yeah, I think the biggest surprise was just the—and, this could very well just be kind of measurement method, but I really expected to see AI services driving more costs, whether it was GPU instances, or AI-specific services—which we actually didn't report on at all, just because they weren't material—or just any indication that AI was a real driver of cloud spending. But I think what you see instead is sort of the same old folks at the top, and if you look at the breakdown of services across providers, that's, you know, compute, database, storage, bandwidth, monitoring. And if you look at our percentage of AI costs as a percentage of EC2 costs, it's relatively flat, quarter over quarter. So, I would have thought that would have shown up in some way in our data and we really didn't see it.Corey: It feels like there's a law of large numbers things. Everyone's talking about it. It's very hype right now—Everett: Yeah.Corey: But it's also—you talk to these companies, like, “Okay, we have four exabytes of data that we're storing and we have a couple 100,000 instances at any given point in time, so yeah, we're going to start spending $100,000 a month on our AI adventures and experiments.” It's like, that's just noise and froth in the bill, comparatively.Everett: Exactly, yeah. And so, that's why I think Microsoft's thought about AI driving a lot of growth in the coming quarters is, we'll see how that plays out, basically. The one other thing I would point to is—and this is probably not surprising, maybe, for you having been in the infrastructure world and seeing a lot of this, but for me, just seeing the length of time it takes companies to upgrade their instance cycles. We're clocking in at almost three years since the C6 series instances have been released and for just now seeing C6 and R6 start to edge above 10% of our compute usage. I actually wonder if that's just the stranglehold that Intel has on cloud computing workloads because it was only last year around re:Invent that the C6in and the Intel version of the C6 series instances had been released. So, I do think in general, there's supposed to be a price-to-performance benefit of upgrading your instances, and so sometimes it surprises me to see how long it takes companies to get around to doing that.Corey: Generation 6 to 7 is also 6% more expensive in my sampling.Everett: Right. That's right. I think Amazon has some work to do to actually make that price-to-performance argument, sort of the way that we were discussing with gp2 versus gp3 volumes. But yeah, I mean, other than that, I think, in general, my view is that we're past the worst of it, if you will, for cloud spending. Q4 was sort of a real letdown, I think, in terms of the data we had and the earnings that these cloud providers had and I think Q1 is actually everyone looking forward to perhaps what we call out at the beginning of the report, which is a return to normal spend patterns across the cloud.Corey: I think that it's going to be an interesting case. One thing that I'm seeing that might very well explain some of the reluctance to upgrade EC2 instances has been that a lot of those EC2 instances are databases. And once those things are up and running and working, people are hesitant to do too much with them. One of the [unintelligible 00:27:29] roads that I've seen of their savings plan approach is that you can migrate EC2 spend to Fargate to Lambda—and that's great—but not RDS. You're effectively leaving a giant pile of money on the table if you've made a three-year purchase commitment on these things. So, all right, we're not going to be in any rush to migrate to those things, which I think is AWS getting in its own way.Everett: That's exactly right. When we encounter customers that have a large amount of database spend, the most cost-effective option is almost always basically bare-metal EC2 even with the overhead of managing the backup-restore scalability of those things. So, in some ways, that's a good thing because it means that you can then take advantage of the, kind of, heavy committed use options on EC2, but of course, in other ways, it's a bit of a letdown because, in the ideal case, RDS would scale with the level of workloads and the economics would make more sense, but it seems that is really not the case.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to come on the show and talk to me. I'll include a link in the [show notes 00:28:37] to the Cost Report. One thing I appreciate is the fact that it doesn't have one of those gates in front of it of, your email address, and what country you're in, and how can our salespeople best bother you. It's just, here's a link to the PDF. The end. So, thanks for that; it's appreciated. Where else can people go to find you?Everett: So, I'm on Twitter talking about cloud infrastructure and AI. I'm at@retttx, that's R-E-T-T-T-X. And then of course, Vantage also did quick hot-takes on this report with a series of graphs and explainers in a Twitter thread and that's @JoinVantage.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:29:15]. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Everett: Thanks, Corey. Great to chat.Corey: Everett Berry, growth in open-source at Vantage. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment that will increase its vitriol generation over generation, by approximately 6%.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. 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RE:INVENT NOTICE Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam's keynote on Tuesday, Swami's keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner's keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc.  On The Cloud Pod this week, a new AWS region is open in Spain and NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you're having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. General News [0:04]      

Just a few weeks ago at VMware Explore, I presented a session called “What's New in Anywhere Workspace.” In that session, I showcased many new innovations in our VMware Horizon solution, including enhancements to our VMware Blast protocol, next-generation hybrid cloud support, and improvements in scalability. Another key announcement was our collaboration with Amazon Web Services for Horizon on Amazon WorkSpaces. I encourage you to watch the recording to see how our Horizon 8 platform can bring the power of our Blast protocol to Amazon WorkSpaces. We're partnering to provide an optimized user experience for Amazon WorkSpaces end users across devices, locations, media, and network connections. Customers can also benefit from the hybrid cloud virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) management capabilities of Horizon 8, from on-premises to Amazon WorkSpaces.  Today, we are excited to build on our collaboration with Amazon to provide even more flexibility and choice for desktop and app virtualization infrastructure with Horizon and Amazon WorkSpaces Core integration. In addition to deploying Horizon virtual desktops on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS, when available, customers will be able to also deploy Horizon virtual desktops on Amazon WorkSpaces and on Amazon WorkSpaces Core. Amazon WorkSpaces Core extends Amazon WorkSpaces services by providing a set of new APIs that can be used for integrations by partners like VMware to seamlessly provision and manage Amazon WorkSpaces Core capacity.  Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Shawn Bass

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On this week's episode of the podcast, I cover stories of 2 Microsoft Exchange Zero Days being exploited in the wild, more problems with Windows 11 22H2 and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/even-more-windows-11-22h2-problems-2-exchange-zero-days-exploited-amazon-workspaces-news/

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Links: their investigation of the January 2022 Okta compromise: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-investigation-of-the-january-2022-okta-compromise/ You know it's a legit AWS email because the instructions are very bad: https://Twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1506258309715673089 sabotaged their own package: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ “AWS IAM Demystified”: https://www.daan.fyi/writings/iam from a third-party: https://www.opsmorph.com/Blog/usergroupspoofing “Generate logon messages for security and compliance in Amazon WorkSpaces.”: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/generate-logon-messages-for-security-and-compliance-in-amazon-windows-workspaces/ “Ransomware mitigation: Using Amazon WorkDocs to protect end-user data”: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ransomware-mitigation-using-amazon-workdocs-to-protect-end-user-data/ “CVE-2022-0778 awareness”: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2022-003/ ElectricEye: https://github.com/jonrau1/ElectricEye TranscriptCorey: This is the AWS Morning Brief: Security Edition. AWS is fond of saying security is job zero. That means it's nobody in particular's job, which means it falls to the rest of us. Just the news you need to know, none of the fluff.Corey: Today's episode is brought to you in part by our friends at MinIO the high-performance Kubernetes native object store that's built for the multi-cloud, creating a consistent data storage layer for your public cloud instances, your private cloud instances, and even your edge instances, depending upon what the heck you're defining those as, which depends probably on where you work. It's getting that unified is one of the greatest challenges facing developers and architects today. It requires S3 compatibility, enterprise-grade security and resiliency, the speed to run any workload, and the footprint to run anywhere, and that's exactly what MinIO offers. With superb read speeds in excess of 360 gigs and 100-megabyte binary that doesn't eat all the data you've gotten on the system, it's exactly what you've been looking for. Check it out today at min.io/download, and see for yourself. That's min.io/download, and be sure to tell them that I sent you.Corey: The Okta breach continues to reverberate. As of this recording, the real damage remains the lack of clear, concise, and upfront communication about this. It's become very clear that had the Lapsus$ folks not gone public about the breach, Okta certainly never would have either.Now, from the community. Let's see what they had to say. Cloudflare has posted the results of their investigation of the January 2022 Okta compromise to their blog post and I have a few things I want to say about it.First, I love that they do this. I would be a bit annoyed at them taking digs at other companies except for the part where they're at least as rigorous in investigations that they post about their own security and uptime challenges. Secondly, they've been levelheaded and remarkably clear in their communication around the issue which only really affects them as an Okta customer. Okta themselves have issued a baffling series of contradicting claims. Regardless of the truth of what happened from a security point of view, the lack of ability to quickly and clearly articulate the situation means that Okta is now under a microscope for folks who care about security—which basically rounds to every last one of their customers.Now, I generally don't talk too much about tweets because this is Twitter revisited as a general rule, but Scott Piper had an issue about trying to keep his flaws.cloud thing open, and he got an account being closed down notice from AWS. And a phrase he used that I loved was, “You know it's a legit AWS email because the instructions are very bad.”I really can't stress enough that while clear communication is always a virtue, circumstances involving InfoSec, fraud, account closures, and similar should all be ones in which particular care is taken to exactly what you say and how you say it.An NPM package maintainer sabotaged their own package to protest the war in Ukraine, which is a less legitimate form of protest than many others. There's never been a better time to make sure you're pinning dependencies in your various projects.It's always worth reading an article titled “AWS IAM Demystified” because it's mystifying unless you're one of a very small number of people. I learned new things myself by doing that and you probably will too.And oof. A while back Cognito User Groups apparently didn't have delimiter detection working quite right. As a result, you could potentially get access to groups you weren't supposed to be part of. While AWS did update some of their documentation and fix the problem, it's a security issue without provable customer impact, so of course, we're learning about it from a third-party: Opsmorph in this case. Good find.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by LaunchDarkly. Take a look at what it takes to get your code into production. I'm going to just guess that it's awful because it's always awful. No one loves their deployment process. What if launching new features didn't require you to do a full-on code and possibly infrastructure deploy? What if you could test on a small subset of users and then roll it back immediately if results aren't what you expect? LaunchDarkly does exactly this. To learn more, visit launchdarkly.com and tell them Corey sent you, and watch for the wince.Corey: Now, from the mouth of the AWS horse itself, “Generate logon messages for security and compliance in Amazon WorkSpaces.” for compliance, sure. For security, can you name a single security benefit to having a logon message greet users? “It reminds them that—” Yeah, yeah, nobody reads the popup ever again after the first time, and not always the first time either. Security is important—and fatiguing your users into not reading pop-up messages that don't respect their time is a great way to teach them to ignore you. Don't do it.“Ransomware mitigation: Using Amazon WorkDocs to protect end-user data”. Security through obscurity has been thoroughly debunked by security professionals everywhere, but I still can't help but think that WorkDocs is so narrowly deployed in the industry that it's never really caught the attention of bad actors.And “CVE-2022-0778 awareness”. Cross-account access between their customers, AWS is largely silent about, but an OpenSSL issue, “In which a certificate containing invalid explicit curve parameters can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering an infinite logic loop” is clearly Not Their Fault, so of course, this is the thing that gets a rather rare security bulletin from them. Of course, as of the time of recording this, it hadn't been updated past an initial ‘we're aware of the issue.'And in the world of tools, ElectricEye is a set of Python scripts—affectionately called Auditors—that continuously monitor your AWS infrastructure looking for configurations related to confidentiality, integrity, and availability that align, or don't align—the other way—with AWS best practices. The fact that it's open-source and free is eyebrow-raising because usually things that do this cost thousands and thousands of dollars. ElectricEye instead leaves that part to AWS Security Hub itself. And that's what happened last week in the wide world of AWS. I'm Corey Quinn, thanks for listening.Corey: Thank you for listening to the AWS Morning Brief: Security Edition with the latest in AWS security that actually matters. Please follow AWS Morning Brief on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Overcast—or wherever the hell it is you find the dulcet tones of my voice—and be sure to sign up for the Last Week in AWS newsletter at lastweekinaws.com.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn't really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode. News Finally in Sydney Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9 AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source Amplify AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify Other Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs Containers Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21 Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades Amazon EKS now supports Multus Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits EC2 & VPC Instances Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events Auto Scaling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in Other Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs) AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints Dev & Ops Dev Tooling EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications CDK/CloudFormation Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012 AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances Other AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics Security AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring Data Storage & Processing AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2 Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling EBS AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs Athena Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI S3 AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control Redshift Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions Glue AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables Snow Family AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AI & ML Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2 SageMaker Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2 Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times Kendra Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector Other Cool Stuff IoT AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available AWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregations Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise) Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3 The rest The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance AWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policies AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available Introducing AWS for Health Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News Blog CloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHub Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

Where we discuss the use of AWS Cloudstations and graphical remote desktop environments to get $work done. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Links for Episode 122: Amazon Workspaces Overview Google Cloudtops For Employees Only VSCode Remote SSH VSCode Remote Development HP t630 Thin Client A Hobbyist's Guide to Amazon WorkSpaces

Visibility into endpoint metrics and new digital workspace experience management capabilities deliver critical insight to keep work from anywhere productive Liquidware has teamed up with IGEL and ServiceNow to provide unparalleled visibility and insight into end-user experience.Leading the Charge in Digital Workspace Management Monitoring the user experience of your virtual desktop environment, regardless if it is Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), VMware Horizon, Amazon WorkSpaces, Nutanix Frame, etc., is critical to success these days. Knowing the complete end-to-end user experience should not be ignored as you don't want any blind spots for the entire connection path for end users. Liquidware is an IGEL Ready alliance partner and has enabled tight integration and a purpose-built agent called the “Connector ID” embedded within the IGEL Edge OS. To enable monitoring of IGEL OS client sessions, simply go into the Configuration section of the IGEL Edge OS or IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) server console and check the box to enable the Connector ID. Then you enter the hostname of the Stratusphere Hub virtual appliance and that's it, your user experience metrics will begin flowing into Stratusphere and it will allow for these metrics to be correlated with the virtual desktop sessions to get comprehensive end-to-end user experience metrics. Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Chris FeeneyGuest: Chris Walker

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AMAZON WORKSPACES ON IGEL IS HERE!On February 25th, 2021, at IGEL DISRUPT Unite, IGEL announced and released a private build (fully supported) of IGEL OS containing an integration of Amazon WorkSpaces Linux client conveying to the world that all major VDI/DaaS platforms were now available.As significant, or as insignificant, as this may seem to Citrix, Microsoft, or VMware customers, the impact is undeniable:The next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces now fully supports ALL public, hybrid, and private cloud mainstream virtual desktop platforms.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Chris FeeneyGuest: Mike Barmonde

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Bienvenidos a este primer episodio del podcast oficial de AWS en español. Estamos muy emocionados por contar con este espacio dedicado a nuestros clientes de habla hispana alrededor del mundo. En este episodio Iván Salazar, Jesús Contreras y Gustavo Veloso, Arquitectos de Soluciones de AWS, hablarán sobre cómo los clientes de AWS se benefician de los servicios de la nube, especialmente en tiempos de contingencia como el que estamos viviendo. Hablaremos sobre la continuidad de los negocios utilizando herramientas como Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Connect o Amazon Client VPN.

On this episode of The Six Five - Insiders Edition hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman welcome Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist at AWS to discuss AWS’ response to COVID-19 and exciting new product announcements.   AWS’ Response to COVID-19   During this COVID-19 pandemic, AWS has been focused on helping customers continue to operate as efficiently as possible. One of the first things the company did was make it easier for businesses to get access to Amazon Workspaces, a virtual desktop in the cloud. They also had special offers for Amazon Chime and Amazon WorkDocs to help companies facilitate collaboration.   In addition to helping customers, AWS launched the Diagnostic Development Initiative (DDI) to provide support for innovation around both testing and development of different kinds of solutions. They’ve also made AWS compute power more available to researchers who are studying different possible solutions and vaccines.   Finally, AWS launched a public data lake with curated data sets so experiments could actually run queries on real data which will hopefully allow scientists and researchers to find a cure faster.   AWS Virtual Summit   Traditionally, AWS hosts Global Summits throughout the year, but given the current stay-at-home orders still in place, they’ve had to pivot to a virtual summit the first of which was Wednesday, May 13.   The summit is free, online and anyone interested can join. The event is designed to bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Attendees will hear from CTO Werner Vogels, CEO Andy Jassy, and several other AWS employees who are subject matter experts in various AWS categories.   Breaking Down AWS Announcements   Jeff, Patrick and Daniel spent time discussing several of the new AWS announcements from the last few months that are making a difference for customers all over the world.   Amazon Macie   Macie is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover and protect sensitive data in AWS. This service has been around for about a year, but AWS has recently made some great additions including updating the machine learning models so customers can scan for even more types of private information. They’ve also added some customizability if customers have special data types that might have different kinds of proprietary or sensitive data inside. The best part is AWS has lowered the price down to a fifth of what it previously cost so more customers are able to benefit from the different services.   Amazon Elasticsearch Service   Data is growing exponentially in quantity and size and Amazon Elasticsearch Service customers are needing new ways to store and access data as efficiently as possible, specifically data that was collected for the long-term. The current storage tier was called Hot for quickly accessed storage. AWS just introduced a new tier — Ultra Warm — that will hold the more historic data that customers don’t need as often and it will take slightly longer to access.   Amazon AppFlow   SaaS applications have been highly functional, but the data created and collected across these many applications has effectively been in a silo. Amazon AppFlow is a service that allows customers to securely transfer data between SaaS applications. Customers can unlock the access to that data, making it easier for data to flow from the SaaS app into AWS as well as the other way around. and the other way around as well. Customers can run data flows on a schedule, in response to an event, or on demand — basically whenever they need it.   Amazon Kendra   AWS’ enterprise search tool Kendra gives customers powerful natural language search capabilities across websites and applications so users can easily find information in the data spread across the enterprise.   While most search tools use keyword queries, Kendra is able to use natural language questions to search through portals, wikis, databases, and document repositories to find whatever is needed. It not only captures the data, but also the access permissions for the data too.   Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)   Many current machine learning applications require humans to review predictions to ensure results are correct. Amazon Augmented AI or A2I makes it easy to build the workflows required for these reviews and provides a built-in review system for common machine learning use cases.   Customers are able to choose three different categories of human reviewers. They can use the 500,000 global workers that make use of Mechanical Turk. There's a set of third party organizations that have a base of pre-authorized workers, or organizations can make use of a private pool or workers.   AWS Snow Family   The Snow Family devices are physical devices that have both storage and local compute power making it easy to migrate data into and out of AWS. Recently AWS launched an improved version of the Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. These devices provide both block storage and Amazon S3-compatible object storage.   AWS did a hardware refresh, added additional processing power, and added some additional SSD storage inside. Now if you launch EC2 instances on the Snowball Edge those instances have access to this SSD powered storage.   You can use these devices for data collection, machine learning and processing, and storage in environments with limited connectivity giving customers the ability to use them basically anywhere.   Finally, AWS also made it easier for our customers to set up and manage the Snowball Family devices with AWS OpsHub, a graphical user interface where customers can unlock, configure, copy data to and from the device via drag and drop even if they're not connected to the Internet.   If you’d like to learn more about any of these announcements, be sure to visit the AWS website. Make sure to listen to the entire episode below and while you’re at it, be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode.

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Learn how enterprises like Facebook deploy and manage Amazon WorkSpaces at scale. Dive deep into Facebook's technical deployment from start to finish, and walk through key Amazon WorkSpaces features that can benefit your enterprise's global deployment.

Some people prefer to keep their code and tooling on premises, though this can create headaches and slow teams down. Others prefer keeping code off of laptops that can be misplaced. In this session, we walk through the alternatives and recommend best practices for securing your code in cloud and on-premises environments. We demonstrate how to use services such as Amazon WorkSpaces to keep code secure in the cloud. We also show how to connect tools such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and AWS CodeBuild with your on-premises environments so that your teams can go fast while keeping your data off of the public internet.

In this session, Nathan Thomas, GM of Amazon WorkSpaces, and Muneer Mirza, GM of Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkLink, share our vision for end-user computing at AWS. We show how the world's largest companies are deploying global solutions for their users, and dive into recent feature updates.

IT organizations today need to support a mobile, flexible, global workforce and ensure that their users can be productive anywhere. Moving desktops and applications to AWS offers improved security, scale, and performance with cloud economics. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, and we discuss the use cases for each. Then, we dive deep into best practices for implementing Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0, including how to integrate with your existing identity, security, networking, and storage solutions.

Learn why enterprises like Carnival Cruise Line are leaving the complexity and costs of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Amazon WorkSpaces. We dive into the business value that Amazon WorkSpaces provides Carnival, and how Carnival quickly and easily deployed solutions for multiple use cases.

In this monster episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Tom (yes he is back) come at you with a raft of short sharp and important updates that occurred in the month of July in the year 2019. They started the show with two Amazon CloudWatch updates. Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, which applies machine learning to continuously analyze a specific CloudWatch metrics determines a nominal baseline, and surfaces anomalies, all without user intervention before introducing you to Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and as the sticker says, is a fully managed service to help monitor and troubleshoot containers. Both of these additions are not GA but get your hands dirty and have a play. They then pivoted by introducing you to a new service, Amazon EventBridge, which is a serverless event bus that routes real-time data streams from your applications and services to targets like AWS Lambda. EventBridge facilitates event-driven application development by simplifying the process of ingesting and delivering events across your application architecture, and by providing built-in security and error handling. What's more, there are built-in integrations from the likes of ZenDesk, Pager Duty, and more. On the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) front, we spoke of four updates. 1. Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.1 2. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless has gone GA. 3. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions. 4. Amazon RDS introduces Compatibility Checks for Upgrades from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0. Another new feature - Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, introduces that ability to control Secure Shell (SSH) access to your instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, plus with AWS CloudTrail events giving you a centralized way to audit your SSH connections. Finally, Tom snuck in some last-minute updates around Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon AppStream 2.0 adding in support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 base images. Amazon WorkSpaces is now allowing you to copy your Amazon WorkSpaces Images across AWS regions. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Tom McMeekin - Solutions Architect, AWS Resources: Amazon CloudWatch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-now-in-preview/ Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/cloudwatch-container-insights-for-eks-and-kubernetes-preview/ Amazon EventBridge https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.1 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-rds-oracle-supports-oracle-application-express-version-191/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-serverless/ Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/amazon-rds-postgresql-supports-minor-version-112/ Amazon RDS introduces Compatibility Checks https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_rds_introduces_compatibility_checks/ Introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-instance-connect/ AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) https://aws.amazon.com/iam/ AWS CloudTrail https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/ Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-appstream-20-adds-support-for-windows-server-2016-and-windows-server-2019/ Amazon WorkSpaces now supports copying Images across AWS Regions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_workspaces_now_supports_copying_images_across_aws_regions/

Simon and Nicki share a bumper-crop of interesting, useful and cool new services and features for AWS customers! Chapter Timings 00:01:17 Storage 00:03:15 Compute 00:07:13 Network 00:10:27 Databases 00:16:04 Migration 00:17:43 Developer Tools 00:22:47 Analytics 00:27:07 IoT 00:28:14 End User Computing 00:29:25 Machine Learning 00:30:49 Application Integration 00:34:18 Management and Governance 00:41:42 Customer Engagement 00:42:47 Media 00:44:03 Security 00:46:26 Gaming 00:47:54 AWS Marketplace 00:49:07 Robotics Shownotes Topic || Storage Optimize Cost with Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Lifecycle Management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/optimize-cost-amazon-efs-infrequent-access-lifecycle-management/ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Enables You to Use File Systems Directly With Your Organization’s Self-Managed Active Directory | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-use-file-systems-directly-with-your-organizations-self-managed-active-directory/ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to use a single AWS Managed AD with file systems across VPCs or accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-use-a-single-aws-managed-ad-with-file-systems-across-vpcs-or-accounts/ AWS Storage Gateway now supports Amazon VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-storage-gateway-now-supports-amazon-vpc-endpoints-aws-privatelink/ File Gateway adds encryption & signing options for SMB clients – Amazon Web Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/file-gateway-adds-options-to-enforce-encryption-and-signing-for-smb-shares/ New AWS Public Datasets Available from Facebook, Yale, Allen Institute for Brain Science, NOAA, and others | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/new-aws-public-datasets-available-from-facebook-yale-allen/ Topic || Compute Introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-amazon-ec2-instance-connect/ Introducing New Instances Sizes for Amazon EC2 M5 and R5 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-new-instances-sizes-for-amazon-ec2-m5-and-r5-instances/ Introducing New Instance Sizes for Amazon EC2 C5 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-new-instance-sizes-for-amazon-ec2-c5-instances/ Amazon ECS now supports additional resource-level permissions and tag-based access controls | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-ecs-now-supports-resource-level-permissions-and-tag-based-access-controls/ Amazon ECS now offers improved capabilities for local testing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-ecs-now-offers-improved-capabilities-for-local-testing/ AWS Container Services launches AWS For Fluent Bit | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-container-services-launches-aws-for-fluent-bit/ Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.13, ECR PrivateLink, and Kubernetes Pod Security Policies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes113-ecr-privatelink-kubernetes-pod-security/ AWS VPC CNI Version 1.5.0 Now Default for Amazon EKS Clusters | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-vpc-cni-version-150-now-default-for-amazon-eks-clusters/ Announcing Enhanced Lambda@Edge Monitoring within the Amazon CloudFront Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-enhanced-lambda-edge-monitoring-amazon-cloudfront-console/ AWS Lambda Console shows recent invocations using CloudWatch Logs Insights | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-lambda-console-recent-invocations-using-cloudwatch-logs-insights/ AWS Thinkbox Deadline with Resource Tracker | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/thinkbox-deadline-resource-tracker/ Topic || Network Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/network-load-balancer-now-supports-udp-protocol/ Announcing Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring for Amazon EC2 Instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-amazon-vpc-traffic-mirroring-for-amazon-ec2-instances/ AWS ParallelCluster now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-parallelcluster-supports-elastic-fabric-adapter/ AWS Direct Connect launches first location in Italy | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws_direct_connect_locations_in_italy/ Amazon CloudFront announces seven new Edge locations in North America, Europe, and Australia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/cloudfront-seven-edge-locations-june2019/ Now Add Endpoint Policies to Interface Endpoints for AWS Services | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/now-add-endpoint-policies-to-interface-endpoints-for-aws-services/ Topic || Databases Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-serverless/ Amazon RDS now supports Storage Auto Scaling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/rds-storage-auto-scaling/ Amazon RDS Introduces Compatibility Checks for Upgrades from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_rds_introduces_compatibility_checks/ Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 11.4, 10.9, 9.6.14, 9.5.18, and 9.4.23 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-rds-postgresql-supports-minor-version-114/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Cluster Cache Management | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-cluster-cache-management/ Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Data Import from Amazon S3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-data-import-from-amazon-s3/ Amazon Aurora Supports Cloning Across AWS Accounts | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon_aurora_supportscloningacrossawsaccounts-/ Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports z1d instance types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-z1d-instance-types/ Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.1 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-rds-oracle-supports-oracle-application-express-version-191/ Amazon ElastiCache launches reader endpoints for Redis | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-elasticache-launches-reader-endpoint-for-redis/ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports Stopping and Starting Clusters | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-documentdb-supports-stopping-starting-cluters/ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Provides Cluster Deletion Protection | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-documentdb-provides-cluster-deletion-protection/ You can now publish Amazon Neptune Audit Logs to Cloudwatch | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/you-can-now-publish-amazon-neptune-audit-logs-to-cloudwatch/ Amazon DynamoDB now supports deleting a global secondary index before it finishes building | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-dynamodb-now-supports-deleting-a-global-secondary-index-before-it-finishes-building/ Amazon DynamoDB now supports up to 25 unique items and 4 MB of data per transactional request | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-dynamodb-now-supports-up-to-25-unique-items-and-4-mb-of-data-per-transactional-request/ Topic || Migration CloudEndure Migration is now available at no charge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/cloudendure-migration-available-at-no-charge/ New AWS ISV Workload Migration Program | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/isv-workload-migration/ AWS Migration Hub Adds Support for Service-Linked Roles | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws_migration_hub_adds_support_for_service_linked_roles/ Topic || Developer Tools The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-aws-toolkit-for-visual-studio-code/ The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/the-aws-cloud-development-kit-aws-cdk-is-now-generally-available1/ AWS CodeCommit Supports Two Additional Merge Strategies and Merge Conflict Resolution | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-codecommit-supports-2-additional-merge-strategies-and-merge-conflict-resolution/ AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-codecommit-now-supports-resource-tagging/ AWS CodeBuild adds Support for Polyglot Builds | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-codebuild-adds-support-for-polyglot-builds/ AWS Amplify Console Updates Build image with SAM CLI and Custom Container Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-amplify-console-updates-build-image-sam-cli-and-custom-container-support/ AWS Amplify Console announces Manual Deploys for Static Web Hosting | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-amplify-console-announces-manual-deploys-for-static-web-hosting/ Amplify Framework now Supports Adding AWS Lambda Triggers for events in Auth and Storage categories | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amplify-framework-now-supports-adding-aws-lambda-triggers-for-events-auth-storage-categories/ AWS Amplify Console now supports AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-amplify-console-supports-aws-cloudformation/ AWS CloudFormation updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EFS, Amazon S3 and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-cloudformation-updates-amazon-ec2-ecs-efs-s3-and-more/ Topic || Analytics Amazon QuickSight launches multi-sheet dashboards, new visual types and more | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-quickSight-launches-multi-sheet-dashboards-new-visual-types-and-more/ Amazon QuickSight now supports fine-grained access control over Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena! | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-quickSight-now-supports-fine-grained-access-control-over-amazon-S3-and-amazon-athena/ Announcing EMR Release 5.24.0: With performance improvements in Spark, new versions of Flink, Presto, and Hue, and enhanced CloudFormation support for EMR Instance Fleets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/announcing-emr-release-5240-with-performance-improvements-in-spark-new-versions-of-flink-presto-Hue-and-cloudformation-support-for-launching-clusters-in-multiple-subnets-through-emr-instance-fleets/ AWS Glue now provides workflows to orchestrate your ETL workloads | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-glue-now-provides-workflows-to-orchestrate-etl-workloads/ Amazon Elasticsearch Service increases data protection with automated hourly snapshots at no extra charge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-elasticsearch-service-increases-data-protection-with-automated-hourly-snapshots-at-no-extra-charge/ Amazon MSK is Now Integrated with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_msk_is_now_integrated_with_aws_cloudformation_and_terraform/ Kinesis Video Streams adds support for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and H.265 video | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/kinesis-video-streams-adds-support-for-dynamic-adaptive-streaming-over-http-dash-and-h-2-6-5-video/ Announcing the availability of Amazon Kinesis Video Producer SDK in C | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-availability-of-amazon-kinesis-video-producer-sdk-in-c/ Topic || IoT AWS IoT Expands Globally | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-iot-expands-globally/ Bluetooth Low Energy Support and New MQTT Library Now Generally Available in Amazon FreeRTOS 201906.00 Major | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/bluetooth-low-energy-support-amazon-freertos-now-available/ AWS IoT Greengrass 1.9.2 With Support for OpenWrt and AWS IoT Device Tester is Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-iot-greengrass-support-openwrt-aws-iot-device-tester-available/ Topic || End User Computing Amazon Chime Achieves HIPAA Eligibility | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/chime_hipaa_eligibility/ Amazon WorkSpaces now supports copying Images across AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon_workspaces_now_supports_copying_images_across_aws_regions/ Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-appstream-20-adds-support-for-windows-server-2016-and-windows-server-2019/ AWS Client VPN now includes support for AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-client-vpn-includes-support-for-aws-cloudformation/ Topic || Machine Learning Amazon Comprehend Medical is now Available in Sydney, London, and Canada | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/comprehend-medical-available-in-asia-pacific-eu-canada/ Amazon Personalize Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-personalize-now-generally-available/ New in AWS Deep Learning Containers: Support for Amazon SageMaker and MXNet 1.4.1 with CUDA 10.0 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/new-in-aws-deep-learning-containers-support-for-amazon-sagemaker-libraries-and-mxnet-1-4-1-with-cuda-10-0/ Topic || Application Integration Introducing Amazon EventBridge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-eventbridge/ AWS App Mesh Service Discovery with AWS Cloud Map generally available. | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-app-mesh-service-discovery-with-aws-cloud-map-generally-available/ Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on WebSocket APIs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-api-gateway-supports-tag-based-access-control-tags-on-websocket/ Amazon API Gateway Adds Configurable Transport Layer Security Version for Custom Domains | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-api-gateway-adds-configurable-transport-layer-security-version-custom-domains/ Topic || Management and Governance Introducing AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter to enable faster issue resolution | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-aws-systems-manager-opscenter-to-enable-faster-issue-resolution/ Introducing Service Quotas: View and manage your quotas for AWS services from one central location | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-service-quotas-view-and-manage-quotas-for-aws-services-from-one-location/ Introducing AWS Budgets Reports | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-aws-budgets-reports/ Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection – Now in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-now-in-preview/ Amazon CloudWatch Launches Dynamic Labels on Dashboards | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-launches-dynamic-labels-on-dashboards/ Amazon CloudWatch Adds Visibility for your .NET and SQL Server Application Health | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-adds-visibility-for-your-net-sql-server-application-health/ Amazon CloudWatch Events Now Supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs as a Target and Tagging of CloudWatch Events Rules | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-cloudwatch-events-now-supports-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-target-tagging-cloudwatch-events-rules/ Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate - Now in Preview | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-container-insights-for-ecs-and-aws-fargate-in-preview/ AWS Config now enables you to provision AWS Config rules across all AWS accounts in your organization | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-config-now-enables-you-to-provision-config-rules-across-all-aws-accounts-in-your-organization/ Session Manager launches Run As to start interactive sessions with your own operating system user account | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/session-manager-launches-run-as-to-start-interactive-sessions-with-your-own-operating-system-user-account/ Session Manager launches tunneling support for SSH and SCP | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/session-manager-launches-tunneling-support-for-ssh-and-scp/ Use IAM access advisor with AWS Organizations to set permission guardrails confidently | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/now-use-iam-access-advisor-with-aws-organizations-to-set-permission-guardrails-confidently/ AWS Resource Groups is Now SOC Compliant | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-resource-groups-is-now-soc-compliant/ Topic || Customer Engagement Introducing AI Powered Speech Analytics for Amazon Connect | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introducing-ai-powered-speech-analytics-for-amazon-connect/ Amazon Connect Launches Contact Flow Versioning | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/amazon-connect-launches-contact-flow-versioning/ Topic || Media AWS Elemental MediaConnect Now Supports SPEKE for Conditional Access | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-elemental-mediaconnect-now-supports-speke-for-conditional-access/ AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports AWS CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-elemental-medialive-now-supports-aws-cloudformation/ AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Ingests Files from HTTPS Sources | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-elemental-mediaconvert-now-ingests-files-from-https-sources/ Topic || Security AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports root CA hierarchies | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-certificate-manager-private-certificate-authority-now-supports-root-CA-heirarchies/ AWS Control Tower is now generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-control-tower-is-now-generally-available/ AWS Security Hub is now generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-security-hub-now-generally-available/ AWS Single Sign-On now makes it easy to access more business applications including Asana and Jamf | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-single-sign-on-access-business-applications-including-asana-and-jamf/ Topic || Gaming Large Match Support for Amazon GameLift Now Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/large-match-support-for-amazon-gameLift-now-available/ New Dynamic Vegetation System in Lumberyard Beta 1.19 – Available Now | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/lumberyard-beta-119-available-now/ Topic || AWS Marketplace AWS Marketplace now integrates with your procurement systems | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-marketplace-now-integrates-with-your-procurement-systems/ Topic || Robotics AWS RoboMaker announces support for Robot Operating System (ROS) Melodic | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/aws-robomaker-support-robot-operating-system-melodic/

Join Shane and Dr. Pete as they close our two-part series on getting started on AWS. In this episode they build on part 1 by extending the foundational concepts, allowing the student to become the master. They cover ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) via Amazon Elasticsearch Service allowing you to keep score on your website by visualizing logs, spotting trends and finding that needle in the haystack. They then pivot to collaboration and helping reduce feedback cycles and bring your team closer together via Amazon Chime before briefly touching on Managed Active Directory and why you should run it on AWS. Lastly, they talk about Amazon WorkSpaces, your VDI experience in the cloud allowing you to build desktop systems at scale from general purpose, to GPU backed instances and pay for them by the hour.

IT organizations today need to support a modern, flexible, global workforce and ensure that their users can be productive anywhere. Moving desktops and applications to the AWS Cloud offers improved security, scale, and performance with cloud economics. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, and we discuss the use cases for each. Then, we dive deep into best practices for implementing Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0, including how to integrate with your existing identity, security, networking, and storage solutions. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Move Your Desktops & Applications to AWS with Amazon WorkSpaces & AppStream 2.0 (BAP323)

Learn why more customers than ever are leaving the complexity and costs of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for cloud desktop solutions like Amazon WorkSpaces. In this session, we discuss how you can use Amazon WorkSpaces to give your employees a responsive, secure, and delightful desktop experience while simplifying your own processes. We demonstrate the flexibility of Amazon WorkSpaces and show how easy it is to get started. We also cover more advanced topics, including using Microsoft Active Directory for end-user management and authentication, and using Amazon WorkSpaces to implement a bring- your-own-device policy.

Tens of thousands of customers are moving their desktops and application infrastructure to the cloud to help IT be more efficient and help their employees be more productive. Join us to hear from AWS leaders and customers alike to learn about end user computing services from AWS. Get insights into how you can use these services. We discuss the most recent announcements from Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream, and we explain how you can use AWS capabilities to deliver end user computing solutions for your organization.

Sam and Ryan chat about Sketch’s new Prototyping feature, using Amazon Workspaces to develop Ember apps in a Windows environment on a Mac, and how to use git tag to ensure your project’s dependencies don’t disappear. They also answer some listener questions. Topics Sketch prototyping + design Ember on Windows git tag for immutable gh references Questions Q: with the latest Router service it’s possible to transition to another page from everywhere in the code. Before, we created specific actions in the route, just to transition to another page. Is transitioning to other pages from inside components considered a bad practise, or is it totally fine (My co workers feels it’s ‘dirty’ to transition from inside components.)? Do you have any guidelines when and where to transition with the new service? (edited) (@maarten from Slack) Can you use mirage for other applications as well? (ex: Rails app with same API dependencies as Ember.) (https://twitter.com/keystonelemur/status/979777292745363456) Can you talk about how to upgrade ember.js smoothly? I always have trouble bumping our ember version, mainly I think due to some add-ons. But the error message are not that useful. (https://twitter.com/tantantanmian/status/980662478374805505)

In this episode, Jim describes his experience in first selecting and then purchasing a Chromebook to replace his PC. While doing this he realized that the Chromebook may be an ideal fit for nonprofits, both because of the price points, and also because through Google Docs, it is an ideal way to share work products within a group. Birgit provides the technical narratives that allow us to focus on the technical features of the Chromebook. There are links attached to lead the reader to the online comparisons and recommendations that led Jim to his purchase.

Explore how education can create equitable learning experiences in the era of bring-your-own-device and Google Chromebooks, by delivering Microsoft Windows applications to students with Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0. We discuss how students of all ages can use design applications, business intelligence tools, technical programs, and even desktop games such as Minecraft as part of their class curriculum, and still have a unified end-user experience, regardless of the hardware they are using. We dive into the steps for setting up WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 within a classroom, choosing the right option for your school, connecting existing storage and identity, enabling applications for students, and managing costs.

Desktop and Application Streaming solutions provide the "last mile” between users and their applications and data. In this session, we will review the elements and benefits of the layered desktop image, application dependencies, and lifecycle management of desktops. Liquidware Labs, a APN partner, will showcase their toolset that helps customers deploy on AWS with ease. This deep dive on desktop image management for Amazon WorkSpaces will focus on enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud and will benefit engineers and system administrators that are new to this space as well as experienced architects with existing deployments on AWS.

IT organizations today need to support a modern, flexible, global workforce and ensure their users can be productive from anywhere. Moving desktops and applications to AWS offers improved security, scale, and performance, with cloud economics. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, and talk through best practices for moving your end-user computing to AWS. We also dive deep into Amazon AppStream 2.0, and demonstrate some of the newest capabilities, including Microsoft Active Directory integration, single sign-on with SAML 2.0, and new graphics instances.

Are you tired of maintaining and upgrading the PC infrastructure for your organization? Do you want to provide your users with a fast, fluid desktop that is accessible from anywhere, on any device? With Amazon WorkSpaces, you can do both simultaneously by running your desktops on AWS. In this session, we demonstrate the flexibility of Amazon WorkSpaces and show you how easy it is to get started. We also cover more advanced topics, including using Microsoft Active Directory for end-user management and authentication, and using Amazon WorkSpaces to implement a bring-your-own-device policy.

You've successfully moved your desktops to AWS using Amazon WorkSpaces. Now, you'd like to start automating your operations. In this session, we show you how to use the Amazon WorkSpaces APIs to automate common tasks, such as provisioning and deprovisioning WorkSpaces, building self-service portals to allow your users to perform basic support tasks themselves, and integrating WorkSpace operations into your existing workflow and helpdesk tools.

In the latest episode of AWS TechChat, Dr.Pete welcomes Olivier Klein as the new co-host. The hosts kick off the episode with, information and updates around Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), AWS Config, Amazon Kinesis, New Quick Start, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon Athena, Amazon Route 53 and wrap it up with an Amazon Connect demo.

It is time again to catch up on a raft of updates for customers! This week’s updates include: AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IoT Button, AWS Mobile Hub, Amazon ECS and Amazon DynamoDB just to name a few!

Amazon WorkSpaces is an enterprise desktop computing service that runs in the cloud. In this deep-dive session, we discuss advanced topics and best practices for deploying Amazon WorkSpaces in your organization. We discuss Amazon VPC design and public endpoints, AWS Directory Service, integrating with your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory, using multi-factor authentication, and monitoring and logging with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. We walk through how to do all this using a combination of the AWS Command Line Interface, the AWS Management Console, and AWS CloudFormation templates.

Your enterprise has decided it is exiting the traditional desktop business and migrating to Amazon WorkSpaces. Your challenge: how do you provide end users a high quality experience using DaaS while integrating key enterprise services? Focusing on user adoption and simplified operational management DaaS offers significant benefits over traditional physical desktops and VDI solutions. These benefits include hourly consumption pricing, sizing flexibility, linear scalability, and simplified management.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now supports both monthly and hourly billing. In this session, we help you determine the right billing method for your use cases, show you how to provision Amazon WorkSpaces for monthly or hourly billing, and work through a real-world example. News UK, a media organization that owns a stable of news and media brands, describes how they use Amazon WorkSpaces to solve a unique business need.

Organizations today are striving to provide a more flexible environment for their end users, allowing them access to corporate resources from any device, anytime. At the same time, securing corporate information remains a top priority for CIOs. Traditional solutions such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offer worker flexibility and security benefits, but they are expensive to purchase, complex to deploy, and they don’t scale well. In this session, you’ll learn how Amazon WorkSpaces combines the benefits of VDI with the economics of the cloud to deliver better value for organizations. We’ll show you just how easy it is to get started, and talk through how customers are using Amazon WorkSpaces today.

You’ve bet big with Amazon WorkSpaces to remove challenges managing your physical fleet of Macs and PCs. Now what? In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can deploy a rich cloud-based Windows experience on lightweight hardware to reign in management issues, improve TCO, and be at parity with your traditional environment. We’ll take you through the client device ecosystem – from Zero to thin to Google Chrome and Chromium OS clients – and strengthen your ability to determine the right client device strategy moving forward. Live product demonstrations will be provided as we journal how customers are moving to lightweight devices, and what best practices we’ve learned along the way.

Join leaders in higher education in this panel discussion as they share how they use Amazon WorkSpaces to move to desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) to provide faculty, staff, and students, access to applications and information they need in classrooms, research labs, and across campus. Amazon WorkSpaces enables major educational institutions be more agile, improve their security posture, and offer end users a more flexible experience, while meeting stringent compliance requirements and remaining cost effective. Hear directly from the world of higher education about their projects to deliver the next generation of end-user computing in their organizations.

From servers to workstations, AWS provides the best place to run your Windows workloads. In this session, we'll discuss the ease of deploying Windows workloads on AWS, and architecting for performance, scalability, security, and cost savings. We will explore the use of AWS Directory Service, the Amazon EC2 Run command, and Windows PowerShell to bootstrap your instances for seamless Microsoft Active Directory integration, application installation, and management. We will walk through an architecture that includes Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon WorkSpaces, and discuss the secure relationships among these services. You will learn how you can use native AWS services as well as the tools you are already familiar with to manage your Windows environment.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now offers GPU configurations to support design and engineering applications and three-dimensional modeling. We show you how running these applications on Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, in close proximity to data you already store on AWS, can help you process and visualize the results you need. We discuss the economics of running Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, and demonstrate the experience of running a graphics-intensive application on a GPU-enabled Amazon WorkSpace. We also invite Autodesk (or TRC or ESRi) to discuss how they are using Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles in their business.

We recently had to find a home for a legacy client/server accounting application, running in a location that was far, far away.  The software came to us through an acquisition of another company.   Our ultimate goal is to migrate the parent and child to a single, unified cloud-based application.  In the near term, however, we needed to allow the remote team to access the software as per usual, right alongside the finance team back at headquarters. And, we needed to insure that the software was backed up properly and secure.   The solution turned out to be Amazon's WorkSpaces product.

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Elements of critical thinking (criticalthinking.org, using XP safely after retirement (keep away from Internet and thumb drives), Amazon Workspaces (virtual desktops on demand, paid by the month), tracing email using headers (needed since send info is easily spoofed), blacklisted IP addresses in forums (blacklist limitations, getting off blacklist, using proxy workaround), Profiles in IT (William Cleland Lowe, father of the IBM PC), 3D models of Smithsonian artifacts (open source code, can be printed with 3D printer, great online viewer), MapQuest releases now app (tries to compete with Google, paid version has no ads), Waze naviation (combines social networking and navigation, best program for realtime traffic data and speed trap locations), and GooglesProject Loon (worldwide network of balloons to delivery Internet, balloons will circle the Earth 3 times in 100 hours before replacement). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 16, 2013, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Elements of critical thinking (criticalthinking.org, using XP safely after retirement (keep away from Internet and thumb drives), Amazon Workspaces (virtual desktops on demand, paid by the month), tracing email using headers (needed since send info is easily spoofed), blacklisted IP addresses in forums (blacklist limitations, getting off blacklist, using proxy workaround), Profiles in IT (William Cleland Lowe, father of the IBM PC), 3D models of Smithsonian artifacts (open source code, can be printed with 3D printer, great online viewer), MapQuest releases now app (tries to compete with Google, paid version has no ads), Waze naviation (combines social networking and navigation, best program for realtime traffic data and speed trap locations), and GooglesProject Loon (worldwide network of balloons to delivery Internet, balloons will circle the Earth 3 times in 100 hours before replacement). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 16, 2013, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).