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Episode573

VirtuSwap’s Giant Panda Accelerato

09.25.2023
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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Episode Show Notes

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 25, 2023, with Corey Quinn.

Links:

  • Today Corey is hosting a drink-up at 6 PM in Seattle at Outer Planet Brewing. If you're in town / free, come on by; let him buy you a beer.
  • Later this week Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on YouTube. Bring questions!
  • Accenture Extends Generative AI Capabilities to Accelerate Adoption and Value on AWS 
  • New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers 
  • How Chime Financial uses AWS to build a serverless stream analytics platform and defeat fraudsters 
  • Centralizing management of AWS Lambda layers across multiple AWS Accounts
  • Handle traffic spikes with Amazon DynamoDB provisioned capacity
  • Streamline interstate Department of Motor Vehicles collaboration with Private Blockchain 
  • How to host your Unreal Engine game for under $1 per player with Amazon GameLift 
  • How United Airlines built a cost-efficient Optical Character Recognition active learning pipeline
  • How VirtuSwap accelerates their pandas ... -based trading simulations with an Amazon SageMaker Studio custom container and AWS GPU instances
  • Provision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control Tower
  • Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture - Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture
  • From Massage Therapist to Cloud Associate with AWS Academy

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