For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style. This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023. You can find the user group here: Our website @awsmelb@awscommunity.so…

For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as wel…

After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements. Discussed Announcements Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing You can now assign …

In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how …

Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. NewsFinally in Sydney AWS Snowcone SSD is now…

A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft. NewsFinally in Sydney Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is …

After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well. As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks. NewsF…

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. N…

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual. NewsFinally in Sydney AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions Serverless Ama…

Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown. NewsFinally in Sydney 😢 ServerlessLambda Getting Started with Your Favorite O…

Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released. NewsFinally in Sydney Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS i…

Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month. NewsFinally in Sydney AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia AWS C…

February was a slow month for AWS releases, but Arjen, JM, and Guy did their best to make it fun anyway. Except for those times where Arjen tried to convince everyone to fall asleep to his new podcast. The NewsThe shameless plug Arjen Without Sleep Finally in Sydney AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hon…

In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation. What's NewFinally in Sydney PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia P…

re:Invent arrived, and with it came a lot of announcements. Some meh, some good, some great. In this episode Arjen, Jean-Manuel, Guy, and special guest star Rob will do their best to make sense of it. Or maybe they just make it more confusing? Who knows? Our brains can't really handle the number of announcements. Which is probably also why it took …

Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode. What's newFinally in Sydney Amazon Kendra now available i…

In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle". Talk to us in our Slack or on Twitter! The News Finally in Sydney Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Austr…

A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake? The News Finally in ANZ Amazon Lex launches support for Aust…

Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano The NewsFinally in Sydney Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances pow…

July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all. The NewsFinally in Sydney AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions AWS Secrets Mana…

AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts. The NewsFinally in Sydney ANZ Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available Announcing…

Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing. The NewsFinally in Sydney Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ pric…

A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music. The NewsFinally in Sydney Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Da…

In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy. This episode was recorded on the evening of the 27th of March 2020 (Australian time). COVID-19 Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help | AWS News Blog Remote Work & Learning | Amazon Web Service…