The AWS Developers Podcast
The AWS Developers Podcast is an official podcast from Amazon Web Services focusing on topics relevant to software developers. It covers cloud computing, development practices, tools, and insights from AWS engineers and industry experts. The show aims to help developers build, scale, and innovate using AWS technologies. Each episode discusses practical tips, best practices, and the latest updates from the AWS ecosystem.
Episodes
Is AWS Lambda still serverless?
Is AWS Lambda still serverless? With Managed Instances, MicroVMs, and Durable Functions, Lambda can now run workloads it was never designed for. AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui explains what changed, what you give up, and why the core serverless promise still holds.
Romain sits down with Yan Cui, AWS Serverless Hero and independent consultant, to discuss how Lambda grew into general-purpose compute an
Jev: is it just a smarter if-statement?
Is Jev just a smarter if-statement? That's the question everyone's asking about TypeSafe AI's new "System One" model. In this episode, we dig into what Jev actually is: a model that makes fast, typed decisions your code can use directly — and why it points to a bigger shift: stop defaulting to one giant LLM for everything.
Romain sits down with Mike Chambers, Senior Developer Advocate for Generati
Building Software Will Never Be The Same
Most developers say AI makes them more productive. Most companies say their teams aren't shipping faster. What's going on?
In this special solo episode, Romain unpacks the data behind the "acceleration whiplash," walks through a four-level AI maturity framework built from hundreds of customer conversations, and shares the practical lessons that separate teams getting incremental gains from those a
Kiro, Strands Agents & MCP: 10 Updates You Missed
The MCP specification just went stateless. Clare Liguori — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and core MCP maintainer — explains what changed, why it matters, and what it unlocks for agent developers building with Strands Agents and Kiro. In this episode, Romain sits down with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, to discuss the July 28 MCP spec release, new MCP extensions (Skills, Tasks,
Harness engineering: are you controlling your AI agents?
What happens when you strip the model from an agent? Everything left is the harness — and engineering that harness is the new discipline every AI builder needs to master. In this episode, Romain sits down with Mike Chambers, Senior Developer Advocate for Generative AI at AWS, fresh from speaking at the AI Engineers World's Fair 2026. They dig into harness engineering — what it means, why it matter
How Prime Video's engineers manage agents, not code
Prime Video serves over 300 million monthly customers across 240+ territories and 8,000+ device types. Lilia Abaibourova leads the AI-native transformation there. Prime Video started early, adopting CodeWhisperer as soon as it became available in preview, progressing through Amazon Q Developer, and now using Kiro to put agentic development in the hands of engineers, product managers, and designers
Your AI platform isn't mature — here's what is
I keep hearing 'we're building an AI platform' from enterprises. Most are stitching together demos. Thomson Reuters has been doing AI for 30 years. I sat down with Laura Skylaki (VP AI Engineering, Thomson Reuters) at AWS Summit London — and the gap between what they're doing vs. what most companies call 'AI maturity' is striking. In this episode, Laura breaks down how Thomson Reuters built an ent
The Delivery Gap: Why 96% of Your AI Code Is Waste
Brenn reached out via LinkedIn to share his experience with AI-driven software development and his new book, The Delivery Gap. Romain read a copy during a business trip and found it deeply aligned with how he guides customers through their AI transformation — and discovered a few new angles worth exploring, including a convergence on cost tracking that maps directly to Amazon's internal cost to se
What are MCP apps and why should you care?
Most MCP tools today return text. But what if your agent could render a chart, a form, or a full dashboard right inside the chat? That's what MCP apps do — and they're already live on ChatGPT, Claude, and Amazon Quick. Romain sits down with Luigi Pederzani, co-founder of Manufact (the company behind mcp-use, 10K+ GitHub stars), to explore MCP apps — the first official extension of the MCP protocol
5 Lessons Running AI Agents in Production
John Sexton and Aaron Tummon from Genesys join the show to share hard-won lessons from building and operating Cloud Copilot — an agentic AI layer serving 2 million users across 21+ AWS regions. Genesys powers customer experience for brands like Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone, and HSBC, and their copilot helps admins, supervisors, and agents work more efficiently through natural language. We cover the m
AWS DevOps Agent: Can Your Pipeline Keep Up with AI?
Tipu Qureshi — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS — joins the show fresh from the AWS Summit NYC 2026 announcements to break down how DevOps Agent is changing the way teams handle operations and release management. After 14 years across EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Support, and Networking, Tipu moved into the Agentic AI organization to build the DevOps Agent and contribute to Agent Core. We expl
KiroGraph: How a Local Code Graph Saves 80% of Your AI Tokens
Davide de Sio built KiroGraph as a personal side project to stop his AI agent from burning through credits just searching files. It turned into a community-driven, open-source MCP server that gives Kiro (and other AI agents) a semantic map of your codebase — reducing token usage by up to 80%. We dive into the architecture, security, and modules, how everything runs 100% locally, and how the AWS Co
Cutting Through the AI Developer Hype
An honest, no-filter conversation about where developers actually stand with AI today. Warren Parad — CTO at Authress, AWS Community Builder, and host of Adventures in DevOps — brings a contrarian 'LLM realist' perspective grounded in daily use, while Romain nuances with enterprise customer observations and the data behind the hype. Together they explore why 93% of devs feel productive but only 4%
Why Your Agent Evaluations Will Fail You (and How to Fix Them Before Production)
Anthropic deprecated Sonnet 3.5. Some of Xelix's pipelines migrated smoothly. Others broke — and customers noticed within hours. What separated the two? Evaluation. Paul Solomon and James Price Farr have spent 5+ years building AI systems that process millions of invoices for enterprise customers. In this episode, they share the evaluation-first framework that now saves them every time a model cha
5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents
How do you give 120+ engineers AI coding agents — and NOT break production? Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer at Motorway and AWS Community Builder (recognized as a Renaissance Developer by Werner Vogels), shares the exact system his team uses to ship 250% more deployments while keeping quality high. In this episode, we break down the 5 quality gates that let Motorway's engineering teams move faste
Dark Factories: Why Your AI Coding Setup Is Already Outdated
You're using Copilot. Maybe you've tried Cursor or Claude Code. But what if that's already the tail end of the AI wave? In this episode, Romain sits down with Christian Weichel, CTO and co-founder of Ona (formerly Gitpod), to explore 'dark factories' — autonomous AI agents that pick up work, write code, open PRs, and ship fixes while you sleep. No laptop required. Chris shares how his team of ~20
LLM-as-a-Judge, Quotation Fidelity, and A/B Testing Models: AI Publishing at Scale
What happens when a data scientist builds a generative AI proof of concept — and it scales to 700,000 articles and 4 billion page views? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Lewis James, Senior Data Scientist at Reach PLC — the UK's largest commercial publisher with over 120 brands including the Mirror, the Express, and OK Magazine. Lewis shares the full journey from GPT-2 exper
AI Agents, Friction, and the Future of Developer Experience
AI agents are transforming how we write, test, and ship software — but are they actually improving the developer experience? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Tomasz Ptak — AWS AI Hero and Senior Engineer at Duco — for a candid conversation about developer experience friction in the age of AI agents. We explore what happens when teams adopt AI coding assistants without thinki
The Evolution of Microservices: Agents, Monoliths, and the Patterns That Never Die
Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Matheus Guimaraes — Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and microservices specialist with over 25 years in tech — joins Romain to explore how agentic AI is reshaping the way we think about distributed systems architecture. From Martin Fowler's 2014 definition to agentic microservices in 2026, Matheus unpacks why the same distributed systems patterns — single respon
How Can AI Agents Cut Support Resolution Time by 95%?
CyberArk's support team was drowning in logs. With 40+ products across SaaS and self-hosted environments, each generating logs in different formats, support engineers were spending days just preparing data before they could even start investigating a customer issue. Complex cases took up to 15 days to resolve. Moshiko Ben Abu, a Software Engineer at CyberArk — now part of Palo Alto Networks — buil
Spec-Driven Development and the AI Unified Process — with Simon Martinelli
Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, and Oracle ACE Pro with over three decades of experience building enterprise software. In this episode, he introduces the AI Unified Process (AIUP) — a methodology he created that combines the rigor of the Rational Unified Process with modern AI-assisted development, and makes a compelling case for why specifications, not code, should be the so
Neurosymbolic AI: Combining GenAI with Mathematical Proof — with Danilo Poccia
What if you could combine the creative power of generative AI with the mathematical certainty of formal verification? In this episode, Danilo Poccia — Principal Developer Advocate at AWS — breaks down automated reasoning, a field of AI that has been quietly powering critical AWS services for years and is now becoming essential for production AI systems. We explore why generative AI alone is not en
Agent-Native Serverless Development with Shridhar Pandey
In this episode, we sit down with Shridhar Pandey, Principal Product Manager on AWS Serverless Compute, to explore how the serverless team is pioneering agent-native development. Shridhar walks us through a remarkable March 2026 where the team shipped three major capabilities in just three weeks — a Kiro Power for Durable Functions, a Kiro Power for SAM, and a serverless agent plugin now available
The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive's Path from Monolith to Microservices
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Alexander 'Sasha' Lisachenko (Software Architect) and Artem Gab (Senior Engineering Manager) from inDrive, one of the global leaders in mobility operating in 48 countries and processing over 8 million rides per day. Sasha and Artem take us through their four-year transformation journey from a monolithic bare-metal setup in a single data center to a fully
Spring AI and AgentCore: Building Enterprise AI Agents in Java
It's a milestone — episode 200! And to mark the occasion, we're doing something we've never done before: hosting two guests at the same time. James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate at AWS) and Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, Java Champion, and host of 'A Bootiful Podcast') join Romain for a wide-ranging conversation about why Java and Spring AI are becoming the go-to stack for
AWS Hero Linda Mohamed: Juggling Cloud, Community & Agentic AI
Some guests make you want to close your laptop and go build something. Linda Mohamed is one of them. In this episode, Romain sits down with Linda — AWS Community Hero, User Group Leader, Chairwoman of the AWS Community DACH Association, and independent cloud consultant based in Vienna. Linda started as a Java developer in on-premises enterprise environments. Her first AWS touch point? Building an
Evolving Lambda: from ephemeral compute to durable execution
In this episode, Romain sits down with Michael Gasch, Product Manager at AWS for Lambda Durable Functions, to explore one of the most exciting launches in the Serverless space in recent years. Michael shares the full story: from the early days of Lambda and the evolution of the serverless developer experience, to the challenges developers face when building multi-step, stateful workflows — and how
Your AI Agent Can't Multitask — Here's How to Fix It
Mike Chambers is back — calling in from the other side of the globe — and he brought a lot to unpack. We pick up threads from our first conversation and follow them into genuinely exciting (and occasionally mind-bending) territory. We start with OpenClaw, the open-source agentic framework that took the developer world by storm. Mike shares his take on why it happened now — not just what it is — an
Chris Miller on AI Coding, Multi-Agent Systems, and the Silicon Valley Vibe
Join us for an engaging conversation with Chris Miller, an AWS Hero since 2021 and AI Software Engineer at Workato. Chris shares his journey from accidentally winning a DeepRacer competition to becoming a community leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. We dive deep into the realities of AI-assisted development, exploring multi-agent architectures, the Road to re:Invent hackathon experience, and wh
From MCP to Multi-Agents: The Evolution of Agentic AI (and What's Next)
Mike Chambers reflects on 2025 as 'the year of agents' - though not quite in the way he predicted. From MCP's rocky launch to the rise of AI coding assistants, Mike shares hard-won lessons about what actually worked in production, the security challenges developers face, and why the future might be about giving agents access to filesystems and command lines rather than endless tool definitions. Di
Spec-Driven Development in Practice: A AWS Hero Journey
Christian, AWS Hero and Solution Architect at Bundesliga, shares his journey and hard-won lessons from adopting spec-driven development with AI coding assistants at enterprise scale. Learn when to use specs vs vibe coding, how to build effective steering documents, and practical strategies for helping engineering teams transition from traditional development to AI-assisted workflows. Discover the
Native Speed, Modern Safety: Swift for Backend Development
Join us as we explore Swift beyond iOS with Sebastien Stormacq, AWS Developer Advocate and Swift specialist. Discover why Swift is becoming a compelling choice for server-side development, offering native compilation, memory safety without garbage collection, and modern concurrency features that deliver exceptional performance and cost efficiency. Seb shares how Apple processes billions of daily r
Local Unit Testing for Step Functions
Join us as we dive into the new local unit testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions with Jas Narula, Product Manager from the Step Functions team. We explore how developers can now test their workflows locally using the enhanced Test State API, moving beyond the limitations of the discontinued Step Functions Local container.
Jas walks us through the new mocking capabilities, support for advance
Building AWS Builder Center: Architecture Lessons from a Large-Scale Community Platform
In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Builder Center, the new community platform designed to consolidate all AWS developer resources into one central hub. Roopal Jain, Software Development Engineer on the Builder Center team, explains how this platform brings together previously scattered AWS community properties like re:Post, Skill Builder, and community.aws into a unified experience for builder
Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
In this episode, we dive deep into Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option that bridges the gap between EC2 and Fargate for container deployments. Our guest Olly Pomeroy, AWS Container Specialist, explains how this new offering provides the flexibility of EC2 with the managed experience of Fargate. Learn about the architecture behind ECS Managed Instances, its pricing model, and how it
How to not worry about networking on AWS?
In this follow-up episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we continue the conversation with Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on Amazon VPC Lattice. We explore how developers can simplify networking concerns while maintaining robust connectivity between applications. Alex explains how VPC Lattice introduces a new boundary concept called service networks,
Why developers should care about cloud networking
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into the world of networking from a developer's perspective. Join host Sebastien Stormacq and guest Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, as they explore why developers should care about networking in the cloud. They discuss the evolution of networking roles from traditional IT to cloud environments, explai
AgentCore Identity
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Identity with Abram Douglas. Learn how this new service helps developers manage identities and authentication flows for AI agents at scale. Discover the seven core components of Agent Core and understand how the identity service simplifies complex OAuth2 flows and token management. Whether you're building AI
Building AI Agents with the Strands SDK
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Strands Agents, AWS's open-source framework for building AI agents. Our guest Arron Bailiss, Principal Engineer and Tech Lead for Strands, explains how this framework evolved from an internal AWS tool to a developer-friendly, open-source solution. Learn how Strands simplifies AI agent development with just a few lines of code while m
Scaling E-commerce with Serverless: The moonpig.com Story
In this episode, we dive deep into Moonpig's migration journey from an on-premise ASP.NET monolithic application to a fully serverless architecture on AWS. Richard Pearson, Head of Engineering, and Alexis Lowe, Principal Engineer at Moonpig, share their experience transforming a 25-year-old e-commerce platform. They discuss how they tackled the challenges of migrating from SQL Server to DynamoDB,
Deploying MCP servers on Lambda
Update Oct 25.: After we recorded this episode (July 10th 2025), AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (that went in preview on July 16th, 2025) and generally available since Oct. 13rd, 2025. AgentCore is the recommanded solution to deploy your MCP agents on AWS. We keep this episode available as a learning experience but deploying MCP on Lambda is not the recommanded architecture for your product
When AI meets biology: Using LLM to find natural alternatives to antibiotics
In this episode, we explore how Phagos, a French biotech startup, combines biology, data science, and cloud computing to combat antimicrobial resistance. Their innovative approach uses bacteriophages - natural predators of bacteria - as an alternative to antibiotics. We discuss how they leverage AWS services, including SageMaker and batch processing, to analyze genomic data and train specialized l
From Monolith to Microservices: How Zilch Scaled a Modern Payment Platform
Join us for an insightful conversation with Mike Davis, Engineering Manager, and Rob Nelson, VP of Engineering at Zilch, a leading UK-based buy now pay later platform. Discover how this cloud fintech scaled from a monolithic architecture to a sophisticated microservices ecosystem serving 5 million customers. Learn about their journey migrating from MSSQL to Aurora, their innovative use of AWS serv
Lambda Runtimes deep dive: Behind the serverless curtain
In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Lambda runtime environments with Maxime David, Software Development Engineer in the Lambda runtime team. Discover how AWS manages and updates the foundation of serverless computing, ensuring millions of functions continue to run smoothly while being patched and updated behind the scenes. Learn about the complex deployment processes, security considerations, a
Gaming Development Demystified
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of game development with our special guest Matheus, a former game developer turned AWS Developer Advocate. We explore why and how to get started in game development, discussing everything from game engines to the technical challenges of creating games. Matheus shares his personal journey from Brazil to becoming a game developer, and provides practical a
The future of fast builds: inside Depot's cloud-native CI/CD platform
In this episode, Jacob Gillespie, co-founder and CTO of Depot, reveals how they're changing CI/CD by making builds dramatically faster. Learn how Depot achieves up to 40x speed improvements through innovative use of AWS services, sophisticated caching mechanisms, and custom low-level optimizations. Jacob shares technical details about their architecture, from EC2 instance management to distributed
Empowering Women in Tech: A Perspective from India
This episode of the AWS Developers Podcast focuses on the empowerment of women in technology, particularly in India. The conversation highlights personal journeys of women in tech, the challenges they face, the importance of mentorship, and the need to break stereotypes surrounding women in the tech industry. The speakers share their experiences, insights, and advice for aspiring women in tech, em
Vibe Coding — The future of AI-assisted development?
Join us for an exciting episode recorded live from AWS Summit India in Bangalore, where we dive deep into 'Vibe Coding' with Amazon Q. Our special guest Omshree, an AWS Community Builder and Cloud Engineer, shares her journey of transforming tedious coding tasks into enjoyable experiences using AI-assisted development. Discover how Amazon Q Developer CLI is transforming the way developers build ap
Lambda Extensions - the unsung hero for observability
In this episode recorded live from AWS Summit Bangalore, we dive deep into AWS Lambda Extensions and Observability with Jones, a serverless hero and developer advocate at New Relic. Learn about the critical role of observability in serverless architectures, how Lambda Extensions work as sidecars to enhance monitoring capabilities, and the different types of extensions available. Jones explains the
The power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock agents
In this episode, we dive into the world of Amazon Bedrock Agent and MCP with special guest Vivek Raja, an AWS machine learning hero. Recorded live from the AWS Summit in Bangalore, we explore the evolving landscape of AI agents, the significance of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how these technologies are shaping the future of development. Join us as we discuss the practical applications, c
Breaking data silos with Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio
Join us as we talk with AWS Hero and data specialist Dipali at the AWS Summit Bangalore about building enterprise data platforms. She shares how her FinTech company moved from scattered data systems to a unified data platform using AWS DataZone and the newly launched Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. The episode covers practical challenges of connecting data silos, implementing governance, and crea
Jupyter Hub on Amazon EKS
Dive deep into the world of Jupyter Hub deployment on Amazon EKS. Join us as we explore the challenges and solutions of scaling Jupyter environments in the cloud, from VPN integration to resource optimization. Our guest shares valuable insights on implementing Azure AD authentication, leveraging Karpenter for EC2 management, and integrating powerful tools like Amazon Q and SageMaker. Whether you'r
Your next ETL pipeline will be serverless
In this episode from AWS Summit Bengaluru, Poonam Pratik, Director at The Line Tech UK and AWS Community Builder, discusses practical approaches to serverless ETL implementation. We cover key aspects of data processing including quality control, AWS Glue orchestration, and effective data validation methods. Poonam explains how serverless architectures can reduce operational complexity while mainta
How I learned to stop worrying and love chaos (Engineering)
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, recorded live at the AWS Summit in London, we dive into the world of chaos engineering with guest Simon Hanmer, Principal Consultant at GlobalLogic and AWS Community Builder. Together with Tiffany and Sébastien, we unpack what chaos engineering is, why it matters for resilience in modern cloud architectures, and how AWS customers are adopting these pr
Navigating Machine-to-Machine Security
In this episode, Seb and Abram Douglas dive deep into OAuth 2.0 and the challenges of machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication. They unpack the security trade-offs between API keys and the client credentials grant flow, explaining how Amazon Cognito can generate time-bound access tokens and use Lambda triggers for token customization. The conversation highlights token claims, secure verification me
Adobe: 10 years of cloud, how to not clutter your AWS accounts
In this episode, we celebrate a decade of cloud innovation at Adobe with Johannes Gehrs, Site Reliability Engineer, who shares how his team keeps AWS environments clean, efficient, and developer-friendly. We dive into practical strategies to reduce account sprawl, enforce good governance, and standardize everything on infrastructure as code. From using service control policies to building an inter
Cancer Research UK goes Serverless
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we explore the first major step in Cancer Research UK’s broader move to serverless: the migration of their payment systems. While this application was the first to make the shift, it paved the way for many other products and services that have since followed suit—marking a significant milestone in their serverless journey. Our guests, Ellie Wintram an
Ryanair: a journey towards responsible AI
In this episode of the AWS Developer Podcast, we dive into Ryanair's journey towards responsible AI. As the airline aims to carry 300 million passengers in less than a decade, it is turning to generative AI to enhance productivity and scale operations. The conversation explores how Ryanair is identifying and implementing use cases, the role of its generative AI center of excellence, and the import
Multi-Model Magic: Inside SurrealDB
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, host Sebastien Stormacq sits down with Toby, CEO and co-founder of SurrealDB, to explore the world of multi-model databases. They unpack how SurrealDB stands out by cleanly separating storage from compute, supporting multiple data models within a single engine, and delivering a developer-friendly experience through its web-based tools and Rust-powered
Inside Valkey GLIDE: building a next-gen Valkey client library with Rust
This week on the AWS Developers Podcast, we sit down with Avi Fenesh to explore the evolution of Redis into Valkey, an open-source alternative born after Redis changed its licensing model. They take a deep dive into Valkey GLIDE, a new client library designed to provide a seamless developer experience, making it easier to connect to Valkey with zero configuration. The conversation covers the archi
3 ways to deploy your large language models on AWS
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive into the different ways to deploy large language models (LLMs) on AWS. From self-managed deployments on EC2 to fully managed services like SageMaker and Bedrock, we break down the pros and cons of each approach. Whether you're optimizing for compliance, cost, or time-to-market, we explore the trade-offs between flexibility and simplicity. You'
The golden jacket: a journey towards 12 AWS certifications
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we sit down with Ivan Casco, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Community Builder, and one of the rare few to have earned all 14 AWS certifications—an achievement that earned him the coveted Golden Jacket. Ivan takes us through his remarkable journey, from his first certification back in 2017 to joining the Community Builders program in 2023, and fina
AWS Compute Optimizer: Beyond Simple Resource Sizing
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Rick Ochs from AWS as we explore the powerful capabilities of AWS Compute Optimizer. Discover how this free tool changes cloud resource management by leveraging machine learning to deliver precise recommendations for EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and more. Rick shares insights on how Compute Optimizer analyzes historical utilization data to help organization
The new stack: AI, Tools, MCP (& Amazon Bedrock)
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, Sebastien Stormacq is joined by Giuseppe Battista and Kevin Shaffer-Morrison for a deep dive into Agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). They explore how startups are rapidly adopting generative AI and the business and technical hurdles they encounter along the way. The conversation covers how AI agents are integrated into workflows, the rol
Behind the Scenes of AWS SDK Development
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we sit down with Trevor Rowe, Senior Manager of the AWS SDK team, for a deep dive into the evolution and inner workings of the AWS SDKs. We explore how the SDKs scale to support over 320+ AWS services, the importance of maintaining backward compatibility, and the role of developer experience in shaping the SDK design. Trevor explains how the team uses
promptz.dev, a repository for your Amazon Q Developer prompts
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we welcome Christian Bonzelet to discuss the art of prompting in software development. Together, we explore how PromptZ.dev helps developers structure and share their prompts to maximize efficiency. Christian shares his insights from hands-on workshops, the challenges engineers face, and the importance of community feedback. The episode also delves in
AWS Trust Center: a conversation with AWS's CISO.
In this episode, Chris Betz, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at AWS, introduces the Trust Center, a new essential resource for understanding security and trust in the cloud. He explains how AWS helps businesses navigate the challenges of compliance, data protection, and security best practices. Betz also shares practical advice for developers, enabling them to seamlessly integrate securi
Duolingo: continuous integration on Amazon EC2 Mac
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we explore how Duolingo—the app with 100 million monthly active users—optimized its CI/CD infrastructure to handle builds for 300 pull requests every week. Sharanya Viswanath and Murtaza Javaid explain how their platform engineering team reduced build times from 50 minutes to just 16 minutes by migrating to Amazon EC2 Mac and implementing advanced aut
Lambda Event Sources: From Infrastructure to Implementation
Hosts Tiffany Souterre and Sebastien Stormacq sit down with Rajesh Pandey to explore the critical role of events in AWS Lambda. They dive deep into how events trigger Lambda functions and how AWS has built infrastructure to ensure high availability while optimizing costs for customers. Rajesh explains the various event sources supported by Lambda and discusses important considerations around strea
The AWS Documentation, past, present, and future
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we welcome Greg Wilson, Director of AWS Documentation, SDK, and CLI. Together, we dive into the world of AWS documentation, its evolution, and the challenges it presents. Greg shares how his team is restructuring content to improve accessibility and make it easier for developers to find the information they need. He explains how customer feedback driv
In-Memory Solutions on AWS: ElastiCache, Valkey, and MemoryDB Explained
In this episode, I'm joined by Lakshmi Peri, Solutions Architect Specialist for in-memory services at AWS, to explore the landscape of in-memory database solutions available on AWS.
From the history of ElastiCache to the latest developments with Valkey and MemoryDB, this conversation covers everything developers need to know about leveraging in-memory technologies for their applications. Lakshmi e
A thousand apps in the cloud: bsport's iOS building strategy on EC2 Mac
bsport, a startup, provides a SaaS application to manage wellness studios like pilates, fitness, and yoga places. They also offer a white-label mobile application that customers can personalize and publish on the Google Play Store and App Store. Previously, provisioning macOS machines on-prem was time-consuming. Now, they automate the entire continuous integration chain in the cloud, regularly bui
Unlocking VPC integration with Step Functions and EventBridge
In this conversation, Justin, Ashish and Seb discuss the integration of AWS services such as Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions with private APIs powered by AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice. They explore customer requirements for secure access to private resources, highlighting the collaborative efforts among AWS teams to address these needs and emphasizing the importance of establish
Amazon Cognito - Simplifying user authentication
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we welcome Rahul Sharma and Kevin Shanley to discuss AWS Cognito, a service for user authentication and identity management in web and mobile applications.
The guests outline Cognito's updates: a new getting started experience, managed login features, and passwordless authentication options. They explain how these changes affect developers implementin
Integrate Pandas with AWS services
In this episode, we explore the AWS SDK for Pandas, an open-source library that simplifies integration between Pandas and AWS services. We discuss the importance of Pandas in data processing, the challenges faced by users, and real-world use cases. We also highlight the community contributing to the library's improvement and the various ways it can be deployed. This conversation delves into the in
Blue green deployment for your databases
In this episode, we talked with Keyur Diwan to dive deep into the concept of Blue-Green Deployment, particularly in the context of databases on AWS. We discuss the origins of this deployment strategy and how it has evolved to suit cloud environments. The conversation covers the benefits, challenges, and cost implications of implementing Blue-Green Deployment for stateful systems like databases, fo
Meet Darya, from sitting-at-home mom to data scientist
In this episode, Darya Petrashka shares her inspiring journey from being a stay-at-home mom to becoming a data scientist. She discusses the challenges she faced in transitioning to a tech career, the importance of mentorship, and her experiences with cloud computing. Darya emphasizes the significance of community engagement and offers valuable advice for aspiring tech professionals, particularly w
Poolside.ai: personalized AI for the modern developer
In this episode, Seb talks with Vitor Monteiro to explore how AI is transforming developer tools, focusing on Poolside, a company building custom AI models for software development. They discuss data quality, reinforcement learning, user experience, and the importance of personalization in AI tools. The conversation also touches on infrastructure, productivity, and the challenges of adopting AI in
New AWS Account? 10 steps to get started right
Managing AWS accounts effectively is essential for ensuring security, cost efficiency, and streamlined operations. In this episode, Cobus Bernard delves into the critical steps and best practices every developer and team should adopt. From the initial setup of a new AWS account to advanced automation techniques with Terraform, the conversation covers everything you need to build a robust cloud man
Retro coding - Commodore 64 and Amazon Q for developers
Ever dreamed of stepping back in time to the golden age of personal computing? In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we journey back to the 1980s with Ricardo Sueiras, where we explore the iconic Commodore 64. Discover the challenges and triumphs of programming on this legendary machine, from the limitations of hardware to the vibrant community that formed around it. We'll delve into the
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