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LogiCast AWS News
by Logicata
Logicast, brought to you by Logicata, is a weekly podcast hosted by Karl Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer. Each week we hand-pick a selection of news articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - we look at what’s new, technical how-to, and business-related news articles and take a deep dive, giving commentary, opinion, and a sprinkling of humor.
Episodes
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Season 5 Episode 35 Agent Cost Control, Prime Day Scale, and GPU Price Rises
Season 5, Episode 35 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast sees Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall joined for a third time by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress, to unpack a selection of recent AWS news. From tooling improvements for regional service availability and GPU price increases to the...
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Season 5, Episode 33: Claude Opus 5.5, Tokenomics on AWS, and Sovereign Cloud Models
Season 5, Episode 33 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with guest Ahmed Tariq, Cloud Platform Engineer, AWS Community Builder, and former AWS Cloud Captain at the University of Northampton. The conversation covers four AWS news topics: AI...
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Season 5 Episode 32: AWS Onboarding Revamp, DevOps Agent Slack Integration, and Multimodal EC2 Auto Scaling
Season 5, Episode 32 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with data and AI specialist Kate Gawron to unpack the latest AWS news, from simpler onboarding and Slack-based DevOps to smarter scaling, sovereign cloud and resilience in the Middle…
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Season 5, Episode 31: Lambda 90-Minute Timeout, S3 Object Lock, and Gartner Magic Quadrant
Season 5, Episode 31 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast brings together Logicata’s Karl Robinson and Jon Goodall with AWS Community Builder and cloud instructor, Charity Francis. They unpack five AWS announcements across compute, storage, operations and cost management, from extended Lambda…
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Season 5, Episode 30: Amazon Q Agent Registry, MCP Security Risks, and AWS Saudi Arabia Region
Season 5, Episode 30 of the LogiCast AWS News Podcast features hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Principal Cloud Engineer at Logicata, joined by Brian Tarbox, AWS AI Hero and author of Programming Minds and the Machines Between. The trio cover five AWS stories:...
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Season 5 Episode 29: EC2 Turns 20, Leaked AWS Keys, and the AWS-Nvidia GPU Deal
Season 5, Episode 29 of the LogiCast AWS News podcast brings together hosts Karl Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, principal cloud engineer at Logicata, with guest Khushi Nandwani, a recent graduate and AWS Community Builder in the containers category. They discuss EC2’s...
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Season 5, Episode 28: AWS Sign-In Updates, CloudWatch Observability, and Regional Power Constraints
In Season 5, Episode 28, Karl and Jon are joined by Jéssica Cristina Coelho - a platform database engineer, AWS Community Builder, and AWS User Group Leader in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Together, they discuss updates to the AWS sign-in experience, the latest CloudWatch observability announcements,...
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Season 5, Episode 27: Secrets Manager Updates, GuardDuty AI Investigations, and Trillion-Dollar Billing Glitch
In Season 5, Episode 27, Karl and Jon are joined by Alam Ahmad, AWS Community Builder and content creator, to discuss four news stories: a new Secrets Manager integration with EventBridge, an AI-powered investigation feature for GuardDuty, a widely reported AWS billing display glitch, a domain...
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Season 5 Episode 26 - Satellites, Sandboxes & Coding Model Selection
In Season 5, Episode 26, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Hero Johannes Koch to discuss recent developments across the AWS ecosystem, including Amazon's satellite broadband initiative, the retirement of Amazon Mechanical Turk, updates to coding tool Kiro, a new MCP server for accessing public data,...
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Season 5 Episode 25: CloudFormation Express, RDS Log Analysis, and AI Ethics
In Season 5, Episode 25, Karl and Jon are joined by Artem Hrechanychenko, an AWS Community Builder and expert in DevOps and Kubernetes. Together, they discuss CloudFormation Express Mode, Amazon RDS Log Analysis with Qiro and MCP, safely releasing frontier AI models to customers, AWS GPU instance...
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Season 5 Episode 24: MicroVMs, MCPs and Egress Fees
In Season 5, Episode 24, Karl and Jon are joined by Gorkem Kestane, a software developer and former Amazon Community Builder specializing in machine learning and cloud technologies. Together, they discuss the introduction of AWS Lambda microVMs and what they bring to the cloud computing…
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Season 5 Episode 23: AI Agents - Keeping Secrets, Paying for Content, and Breaking GitHub
In Season 5, Episode 23, Karl and Jon are joined by Stephen Woodard, enterprise architect and founder of Obligra Labs, a startup focused on AI governance frameworks, to discuss the latest AWS news. Topics include the introduction of AI-assisted paywall transactions through AWS Web Application...
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Season 5 Episode 22: FinOps Agents, Coding Agents & Microsoft BYOL
In Season 5, Episode 22, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder and CTO Luis Valdivia to discuss the latest AWS news, including Amazon Q-powered Cost Explorer insights, the AWS FinOps Agent for cloud cost optimization, and a security maturity roadmap for operationalizing AWS security.…
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Season 5 Episode 21: Agents, AWS MCP & Ancient EC2s
In Season 5, Episode 21, Karl and Jon are joined by Jason Wood, fellow AWS Community Builder, user group leader, and AWS Ambassador. They discuss recent developments and updates in AWS services. The hosts and guest discussed various articles and features, touching upon topics such as instance...
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Season 5 Episode 20: Extend DB, DevOps Agent & Data Sovereignty
In Season 5, Episode 20, Karl and Jon are joined by Malte Polley, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss recent AWS news including ExtendDB, AWS Security Hub, the AWS DevOps Agent, unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations, and the European Sovereign Cloud. Malte brings a German...
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Season 5 Episode 19: CloudFront Pricing, Container Migrations, and AI Sovereignty
In Season 5, Episode 19, Karl and Jon are joined by Anwaar Hussain, Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS, to discuss the latest AWS updates, including Amazon CloudFront Premium Flat Rate Pricing Plans, which offer more flexible tier options for request counts and data transfer rates; AWS…
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Season 5 Episode 18: IAM Quotas, AI Coding Agents, and Drone Attacks
In Season 5, Episode 18, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Muhammad Fahid, Head of SRE in the healthcare industry, for a wide-ranging discussion covering AWS IAM quota increases for roles, policies, trust policies, and identity providers; the AWS MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server...
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Season 5 Episode 17 - Quick Desktop, Microcredentials and Maintenance Mode
In Season 5, Episode 17, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Gabriel Torres for a wide-ranging discussion on the latest AWS and cloud industry updates. They cover the launch and key features of Amazon Quick Desktop AI Assistant, new AWS Training and Certification micro credentials…
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Season 5, Episode 16: Lambda's Long Game, Claude's Complexity, and the AI Adoption Gap
In Season 5, Episode 16, Karl and Jon are joined by Taylor Dolezal, Head of Open Source at Dosu, to discuss AWS Lambda’s S3 file system integration, Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 arriving in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q’s cost management capabilities for FinOps, Microsoft’s £2.8 billion UK licensing...
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Season 5 Episode 15: Interconnect, Migrations, and Modular Data Centers
In Season 5, Episode 15, Karl and Jon are joined by Damien Jones, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss AWS Interconnect, now generally available for multi-cloud connectivity with Google Cloud Platform, with Azure and Oracle Cloud coming later; database migration acceleration using Kiro and Amazon...
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Season 5 Episode 14: S3 Files, Kubernetes Scaling, and the SaaSpocalypse
In Season 5, Episode 14, Karl and Jon are joined by Destiny Erhabor, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss S3 Files Launch, AWS’s new file system interface for S3 buckets that provides POSIX-compliant access to S3 data through a cached file system layer. They also cover EKS Managed Node Groups…
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Season 5 Episode 13: Agents, Instances, and Supply Chain Attacks
In Season 5, Episode 13, Karl and Jon discuss a packed lineup of AWS news, including the general availability of AWS DevOps Agent with autonomous incident response capabilities, support for EC2 instance store in Amazon ECS Managed Instances for latency-sensitive workloads, and the introduction of...
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Season 5 Episode 12: Buckets, Chips, and Legal Quips
In Season 5, Episode 12, Karl and Jon are joined by Farah Abdirahman, an AWS Community Builder, to discuss Amazon S3’s new account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets, deploying AWS applications and accessing AWS accounts across multiple regions with IAM Identity Center, AWS and…
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Season 5 Episode 11: Astro Datacenters, AMI Lineage, and AI Coding Concerns
In Season 5, Episode 11, Karl and Jon are joined by Dmytro Sirant, AWS Community Builder and User Group Leader from Australia, to discuss the expansion of AWS Database Savings Plans, AWS European Sovereign Cloud compliance milestones, managing Amazon Machine Image lifecycles with AMI lineage,...
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Season 5, Episode 10: CLI Updates, OpenAI Partnership, and Data Center Attacks
In Season 5, Episode 10, Karl and Jon discuss several developments in the AWS and cloud ecosystem, including the new output formats in AWS CLI v2 and how they improve usability and automation. They also explore the strategic partnership between OpenAI and Amazon and what it could mean for AI...
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Season 5, Episode 9: Pipelines, Powers and Penetration Tests
In Season 5, Episode 9, Karl and Jon are joined by Jenn Bergstrom, VP of Cloud and Data Solutions at Parsons, AWS Community Builder, and AWS Ambassador. They discuss AWS Landing Zone Accelerator and custom CI/CD pipelines, AWS Security Agent’s new support for penetration tests on shared VPCs, A...
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Season 5, Episode 8: Space, Satellites, and Spreadsheets
In Season 5, Episode 8, Karl and Jon are joined by Jack McGuire*, an AWS Community Builder and software engineer at Green Man Gaming. They discuss how Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots, default encryption at rest for new Amazon Aurora clusters, AWS’s plans for...
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Season 5, Episode 7: Serverless Streams, Sovereign Clouds, and Surprising Costs
In Season 5, Episode 7, Karl and Jon are joined by - Kai (Huynh Le Nhat Nghia), AWS Community Builder from Vietnam. They discuss cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB - choosing between Amazon ECS Blue/Green native or AWS CodeDeploy for deployments - how AWS Support helped...
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Season 5, Episode 6: Security Groups, Space Centers, and Serverless Updates
In Season 5, Episode 6, Karl and Jon are joined by Danielle Heberling, an AWS Hero, to dig into AWS Serverless updates from Q4 2025, including Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables now supporting cross-account replication, a new feature for displaying related resources for EC2 and VPC security groups…
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Season 5 Episode 5: Layoffs, Lambdas, and Language Models
In Season 5, Episode 5, Karl and Jon are joined by Brian Tarbox, an AWS Hero. Together they discuss Amazon's recent job cuts and their impact on AWS community programs, Amazon Route 53 adding support for new top-level domains, increased payload size for serverless services, Amazon Bedrock's...
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Season 5, Episode 4: Streams, Serverless, and Supply Chain Security
In Season 5, Episode 4, Karl and Jon are joined by Ran Isenberg*, an AWS Serverless Hero. Together they discuss AWS Lambda cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams, Lambda durable functions, and a CI/CD security risk identified in AWS CodeBuild. They also touch on the potential AI bubble...
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Season 5 Episode 3: Observability, Backups, and Sovereign Clouds
In Season 5, Episode 3, Karl and Jon are joined by Matt Martz, Principal Software Architect at Definitive and an AWS Community Builder. They discuss AWS CloudWatch’s evolution into a unified observability platform with Apache Iceberg support; AWS Backup’s 2023 year in review and new features…
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Season 5 Episode 2: GPUs, Gremlins, and Growth
In Season 5, Episode 2, Karl and Jon are joined by Allen Helton, an AWS Hero and ecosystem engineer at Momento. They discuss AWS raising GPU prices by 15% for specific instance types, accelerating cloud modernization with AWS MCPs and Quiro, AWS getting approval for three new data centers in...
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Season 5 Episode 1: AI Investments, Leadership Changes, and Community Surveys
In Season 5, Episode 1, Karl and Jon are joined by Peter Sankauscas, an AWS Hero and User Group Leader. They discuss whether AI is replacing younger employees and what that could mean for businesses, OpenAI’s potential investment from Amazon, and AWS leadership changes — including Peter…
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Season 4 Episode 46: Resurrected Repositories, Global Deployments, and DNS Recovery
In Season 4, Episode 46, Karl and Jon are joined by Matheus Guimaraes, AWS Lead Developer Advocate. Together, they cover the AWS CodeCommit resurrection and roadmap, the AWS Builder Center wishlist feature, ECS Express for simplified container deployment, an ECR archiving tier for cost...
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Season 4 Episode 45: re:Invent Recap: Agents, AI, and AWS Announcements
In Season 4, Episode 45, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Hero Johannes Koch for a recap of the big AWS re:Invent 2023 announcements, including Lambda Managed Instances, Database Savings Plans, new EKS capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management, and AWS AI Frontier Agents...
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Season 4 Episode 44 - AWS Kiro - Spec-Driven Agentic AI IDE Deep Dive
In Season 4, Episode 44, Karl and Jon are joined by Tech Lead for the Developer Experience team at AWS, Brian Beach. They discuss Introduction to Kiro, AWS's new AI coding assistant, Spec-driven development and its benefits, property-based testing in Kiro, MCP support and agent hooks in Kiro,...
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Season 4 Episode 43: Optimizing Databases, Pricing Insights, and Cloud Financial Management
In Season 4, Episode 43, Karl and Jon are joined by Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, Loïc Fournier, to discuss optimizing Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs and performance with AWS Compute Optimizer, the introduction of AWS pricing capabilities in Amazon Q Developer, serverless...
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Season 4, Episode 42: Planning, Pools, and Painful Deployments
In Season 4, Episode 42, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Sujal Shaw to discuss a range of new AWS developments. Topics include the New AWS Region Planner for easier regional planning and global deployments, EC2 Auto Scaling warm pool support for mixed instance policies, the AWS...
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Season 4 Episode 41: Payload Increase, Uptime Decrease, Share Price Skyrocket!
In Season 4, Episode 41, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Fabien Zucchet to discuss AWS Lambda’s increased payload size for asynchronous invocations and what it means for developers building event-driven applications. They cover the new metrics dashboard for AWS Step Functions…
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Season 4 Episode 40: Outages, Optimizations, and Obsolescence
In Season 4, Episode 40, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder Jason Wood to discuss the recent AWS outage in the US-East-1 region and its impact across multiple services. They cover simplified model access in Amazon Bedrock, the introduction of the Claude 4.5 Haiku model, the launch…
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Season 4 Episode 38: Containers, Claude & Compromises
In Season 4, Episode 38, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Luis Valdivia. They discuss the new ECS managed instances for containerized applications on AWS, the cost-effectiveness of serverless architecture at scale, and the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 model now available in Amazon...
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Season 4 Episode 37: Cancelling Refreshes, Copying Snapshots, and Centralizing Logs
In Season 4, Episode 37, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Mahmoud Khatib to the show. Together, they dive into some of the latest AWS announcements, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s new support for forced cancellation of instance refreshes, Amazon RDS enabling cross-region and...
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Season 4 Episode 36: Guard Duty Plans, Container Migrations, and Gartner Quadrants
In Season 4, Episode 36, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder Neeraj Sharma to the show. Their conversation covers a wide range of updates and insights, including AWS Organizations’ new Account State Information feature, the migration from Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon...
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Season 4 Episode 35: Budget Automation, Database Migration & end to end IPv6
In Season 4, Episode 35, Karl and Jon dive into AWS Budget Controls with automated actions, explore DMS Data Resync for seamless database migrations, and look at CloudFront’s new support for IPv6 origins. They also compare Fargate and ECS for container orchestration and discuss the shift from the...
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Season 4 Episode 34: Budgets, Databases, and Prime Day Peaks
In Season 4, Episode 34, Karl and Jon sit down with AWS Community Builder and Software Engineer Iyanuoluwa Ajao for a fast-paced chat on the latest in cloud and beyond. They cover the new AWS Budgets features for cross-account cost visibility, smart ways to optimize Amazon RDS and Aurora costs…
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Season 4 Episode 33: Customized Dashboards, AI Agents, and Aurora's Decade
In Season 4, Episode 33, Karl and Jon chat with AWS Community Builder William Antonio Guzmán Bernal. They cover the new AWS Cost Management dashboards, a security issue in AWS Trusted Advisor related to public S3 buckets, how to build AI agents using AWS Serverless, and how to set up large-scale...
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Season 4 Episode 32: Bigger Payloads, Bedrock Expansion, and Capacity Constraints
In Season 4, Episode 32, Karl and Jon welcome AWS Community Builder and DynamoDB and Serverless technologies expert, Uriel Bitton. Together, they explore a range of fresh developments in the AWS ecosystem: the introduction of Amazon CloudWatch’s organization-wide VPC Flow Logs enablement, Amazon...
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Season 4 Episode 31: Cloud Wars, Code Builds, and CMA Probes
In Season 4, Episode 31, Karl and Jon are joined by Warren Parad, CTO of Authress. Together, they discuss a range of topics including AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and best practices for security, the Amazon Q Developer CLI and serverless solutions, implementing defense-in-depth security...
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Season 4 Episode 30: Security, MCPs, and Open Source Perils
In Season 4, Episode 30, Karl and Jon are joined by Pieter VanIperen, CISO at AlphaSense. They discussed AWS security best practices and authentication methods, the Security Reference Architecture (SRA) and the SRA Verify tool, as well as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its implications for...
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Logicast, brought to you by Logicata, is a weekly podcast hosted by Karl Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer. Each week we hand-pick a selection of news articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - we look at what’s new, technical how-to, and business-related news articles and take a deep dive, giving commentary, opinion, and a sprinkling of humor.
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Logicast, brought to you by Logicata, is a weekly podcast hosted by Karl Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of Logicata, and Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer. Each week we hand-pick a selection of news articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - we look at what’s new, technical how-to, and business-related...
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