Simon Elisha and Jillian Ford interview AWS engineers and customers building on Bedrock and CloudFront.
AWS Podcast pairs product news with practitioner conversations about how cloud systems are built, moved, secured, and scaled. Recent episodes move from AI agents in healthcare to SAP modernization, re:Invent announcements, and the changing craft of software development.
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AWS Podcast is the official podcast of Amazon Web Services, structured as one-on-one interviews between an AWS host and AWS staff or customer representatives. Hosts Simon Elisha and Jillian Ford lead the episodes sampled here, walking guests through specific services, product launches, and implementation stories. Recurring themes include generative AI and agentic development on Amazon Bedrock, cloud infrastructure modernization such as SAP-to-AWS migrations and edge network rebuilds, serverless and developer-productivity tooling, and cloud cost governance. Guests are typically AWS employees — distinguished engineers, principal account managers, solutions architects, product managers — paired in many episodes with customer engineers or executives who describe a real deployment, such as Booking.com's CloudFront migration or Cohere Health's use of Bedrock Agent Core for prior authorization automation. A smaller set of episodes takes a wider view, including Werner Vogels' yearly predictions on topics like post-quantum cryptography and the changing role of developers. Episodes tend to include concrete technical detail — named services, architecture walkthroughs, and quantified outcomes like automation percentages, latency reductions, or migration timelines — rather than general industry talk. The tone is professional and explanatory, aimed at conveying how a given AWS technology solves a specific engineering or business problem rather than at entertainment. Episode length in the sample ranges from about 30 to 65 minutes. The show functions as both a product-education vehicle for AWS services and a running library of customer case studies. Listeners get service-level technical depth combined with the business context behind why an organization made a given architecture choice.
Made for: Cloud engineers, solutions architects, and IT decision-makers who build on or evaluate AWS services.
What sets it apart: Produced directly by AWS rather than an independent outlet, pairing internal engineers with customer case studies for service-specific technical depth instead of general cloud-industry news.
The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
AWS Podcast makes cloud architecture concrete through practitioner interviews focused on implementation choices, operational constraints, and the changing work of developers.
AWS Podcast turns cloud infrastructure into a conversation about how systems are built, migrated, and operated. Simon Elisha and Jillian Ford keep interviews moving from the business problem toward implementation details, asking guests to explain architecture, security,…
CloudFront requests get traced hop by hop, so your architecture curiosity never settles for the headline.
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A practical look at healthcare agents, with security and production pressure front and center.
AWS Podcast frames healthcare agent adoption as a practical problem, not a headline. The discussion works best when it stays on security, memory, and the pressure of putting agents into production, especially in Cohere Health's account of building with Bedrock Agent Core.
A practical look at AI-assisted development inside AWS.
The AWS podcast centers on Joe McGarimov, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, as he looks back on 20 years at Amazon and the move from retail systems into cloud work.
A calm, practical SAP migration conversation that treats cloud adoption as a trust problem as much as a technical one.
An AWS Podcast conversation turns SAP modernization into a guided story rather than a straight technical briefing. Tushar Srivastava and Simon spend much of the discussion on the practical pressures that come with moving SAP to AWS: reliability, performance, certification,…
Werner Vogels turns predictions into a grounded look at patterns, tools, and developer responsibility.
Werner Vogels frames his predictions as a way of naming patterns he has seen across customers, from healthcare to smallholder farming, and the episode treats that habit as practical reporting rather than prophecy.
Terraform and code generation turn a cloud transition into a lesson in fast, repeatable account setup.
AWS Podcast frames Occidental Petroleum's cloud transition as a practical look at Terraform and the fast account setup that matters when a platform is moving at speed.
A grounded edge-infrastructure case study with real operational stakes.
Booking.com's edge migration is a grounded AWS case study, moving cleanly from DNS to CloudFront to Lambda@Edge and always coming back to the business payoff.
A practical AWS answer to the slow, messy business of making prototypes real.
AWS turns a familiar enterprise bottleneck into something concrete: a way for teams to prototype without getting trapped in manual permission cycles. The episode works best when it moves from product framing into a worked example.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
AWS Podcast host Jillian Ford interviews Gigi Yuen, Chief Data and AI Officer, and Kenji Fujita, Staff AI Platform Engineer, at Cohere Health, a clinical intelligence company that streamlines prior authorization and administrative transactions between insurance payers and healthcare providers.
This episode features an interview with Gigi Yuen and Kenji Fujita from Cohere Health about how they use AI agents to accelerate healthcare decisions and streamline payer-provider collaboration in a regulated industry.
Episode 753 starts with Joe McGarimov's long run at Amazon, but it quickly turns practical.
Episode 752 starts with SAP skepticism.
Predictions start with patterns customers keep showing.
This episode wraps up day three of AWS re:Invent 2025, focusing on the announcement of Graviton 5 and its performance improvements for EC2 M9 instances.
This episode covers key announcements from Swami Sivasubramanian's keynote at AWS re:Invent 2025, including AWS AI Factories and new hardware like EC2 Tranium 3 Ultra servers for generative AI.
This episode of the AWS podcast analyzes Matt Garman's keynote at re:Invent 2025, focusing on announcements like AWS CleanRooms' privacy-enhancing synthetic dataset generation for ML training.
This episode features an interview with AWS distinguished scientist Byron Cook discussing automated reasoning, its historical roots in mathematical logic, and its practical applications in AI security and program verification.
This episode discusses new AWS tools like a regional planning tool for comparing services across regions and an MCP proxy, along with updates on reInvent coverage.
Episode 745 starts with Oxy's move into the cloud.
This episode of the AWS podcast discusses the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, highlighting its features for building, deploying, and operating agents securely at scale, along with updates on VPC support, runtime capabilities, memory management, and authentication.
This episode features Werner Vogels and Boyan Slat discussing the Ocean Cleanup's frugal, iterative approach to removing plastic from oceans and rivers, highlighting its growth from a small idea to a global operation.
This episode covers the latest AWS updates, including the launch of Amazon QuickSuite, an agentic AI-powered workspace.
Episode 741 starts at the edge, and stays refreshingly close to the wire.
Episode 740 covers over 70 AWS updates, with a deep dive into EC2 instance attestation for verifying trusted software on cloud instances.
An episode of the AWS Podcast discussing multi-region architectures and resilience with expert guests Jeff Ferris and Scott Weinstock.
This episode covers the latest AWS updates, including Amazon Bedrock's global cross-region inference support for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.
Episode 737 introduces Innovation Sandbox on AWS.
This episode covers the latest AWS service updates including EMR enhancements, OpenSearch ABAC, and CleanRooms error configurations.
Werner Vogels and Liz Shear interview Craig Link, Chief Cloud Architect at Zillow, about frugal architecture and lessons learned from his career.
This episode covers the latest AWS updates, including Amazon Application Recovery Controller's new Region Switch feature for automated multi-region failover.
Episode 733 of the AWS Podcast features a deep dive into Amazon Connect with Senior Solutions Architect Douglas Park.
This episode covers the new EKS Dashboard feature for centralizing visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS regions and accounts.
This episode discusses AWS CloudFormation hooks, featuring interviews with a product manager and a software engineer about using infrastructure as code.
This episode covers the launch of Amazon Nova Sonic, a new foundational model for speech understanding and generation, along with other AWS news.
This episode covers new AWS capabilities including Amazon Q in QuickSight scenario analysis for data-driven decision making.
An episode of the AWS Podcast discussing AWS Config for assessing, auditing, and evaluating cloud resources for compliance and security.
This episode covers the availability of DeepSeek R1 models on AWS services like Bedrock, SageMaker, and EC2.
This episode discusses LLM Ops (operationalizing large language models) using Amazon SageMaker, featuring interviews with product managers and specialists.
Simon Elisha covers over 160 AWS updates from pre-reInvent, focusing on Amazon Redshift enhancements including multi-data warehouse writes, Kafka support, and security defaults.
This episode covers highlights from the AWS reInvent 2024 keynote, including the launch of EC2 TRN2 instances and Ultra servers for AI training and inference.
This episode covers the latest AWS announcements from re:Invent 2024, including Marketplace updates, OpenSearch integrations, and analytics enhancements.
Werner Vogels interviews Mike Norton, VP of Cloud Services at PBS, about building cost-aware and sustainable architectures.
This episode features an interview with former WeTransfer CTO Dan Conte about building cost-aware, sustainable architectures, part of a series on frugality.