Unleashing AI with Amazon Bedrock: A Practical Guide for Developers
 
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms how developers build, scale, and deploy modern applications. With the launch of Amazon Bedrock, AWS has democratized access to foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, AI21 Labs, Cohere, Meta, and Amazon itself. In this podcast, we'll explore how developers can harness the power of Amazon Bedrock to streamline generative AI development without managing any infrastructure.

Fixing Terraform IAM Roles After managed_policy_arns Deprecation
 
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As of recent updates in the Terraform AWS Provider, the widely used managed_policy_arns argument in the aws_iam_role resource is officially deprecated. This change has affected many infrastructure-as-code workflows, requiring teams to refactor their Terraform configurations to align with the new structure.
This podcast will walk through the deprecation, what it means, and how to fix your Terraform code to comply with the updated best practices.

AWS Config at Scale: Enforcing Compliance Across Organizations with CloudFormation Lambda Hooks
 
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In modern enterprises, cloud infrastructure grows rapidly, often across multiple AWS accounts and regions. With this growth comes the challenge of maintaining compliance with internal governance and industry regulations. AWS Config, combined with CloudFormation Lambda Hooks, offers a robust and scalable solution to enforce compliance across organizational units in real-time.
This podcast explores implementing AWS Config at scale using Lambda hooks, ensuring your infrastructure remains secure, compliant, and consistent.

Beyond Basics: Advanced DynamoDB Single Table Design Strategies
 
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Amazon DynamoDB is a robust NoSQL database that supports key-value and document data models, making it ideal for serverless and event-driven architectures. While many developers are familiar with basic DynamoDB features, mastery truly begins with single-table design. Going beyond the basics opens doors to more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective applications.
This podcast explores advanced single-table design strategies to help you architect better data models that fully leverage DynamoDB’s strengths.

Maximize EKS Efficiency: Dynamic Kubernetes Scaling with Karpenter
 
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) empowers teams to run Kubernetes workloads efficiently. However, managing infrastructure cost and performance at scale remains a challenge. Enter Karpenter, an open-source, high-performance Kubernetes auto scaler developed by AWS. This podcast delves into how Karpenter dynamically provisions compute capacity, maximizing efficiency and reducing overhead in your EKS environments.

CI/CD at Scale: Deploying Jenkins on AWS with Terraform Automation
 
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In today’s fast-paced DevOps landscape, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) are essential for delivering quality software efficiently and reliably. Jenkins, one of the most popular open-source CI/CD tools, becomes even more powerful when combined with AWS for scalability and Terraform for automation. This podcast walks you through deploying a scalable Jenkins architecture on AWS using Terraform, enabling automation, reproducibility, and efficient infrastructure management.

Hardening AWS Network Security with VPC Firewalls and Endpoints: A Complete Guide
 
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In today’s cloud-driven world, ensuring robust network security in your AWS infrastructure is not just recommended—it's essential. Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) provide powerful tools such as VPC Firewalls and VPC Endpoints that significantly enhance security, control, and traffic visibility. This podcast explores properly configuring and leveraging these features to build a secure and scalable AWS environment.

Monitoring EC2 Health and SSM Status with AWS Lambda and EventBridge: A Step-by-Step Guide
 
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Ensuring your Amazon EC2 instances are healthy and reachable is vital for infrastructure stability and application uptime. In this podcast, we’ll walk through how to monitor EC2 instance health and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) availability using AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge to automate real-time detection and alerting.

AWS at Scale: Key Takeaways from Managing a Multi-Million Dollar Data Architecture
 
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As businesses grow, so do their data needs. Managing a multi-million dollar data architecture on AWS (Amazon Web Services) demands a high level of strategy, engineering discipline, cost control, and architectural foresight. This podcast unpacks key takeaways from real-world experience running enterprise-scale data infrastructures on AWS, highlighting practical insights, architectural decisions, and battle-tested best practices.

Streaming Data to Snowflake: Load from AWS S3 with Snowpipe and CDC
 
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Modern data architectures thrive on real-time insights, and organizations increasingly need seamless ways to stream data efficiently. With its robust integration capabilities, Snowflake offers a powerful mechanism to load streaming data using Snowpipe in conjunction with AWS S3 and Change Data Capture (CDC). This podcast walks through architecting and implementing a near-real-time data ingestion pipeline using these technologies.