In Season 3, Episode 39 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Muhammad Rashid. They discuss Lambda VS Code IDE, Ephemeral jobs on ECS/Fargate, CloudFront/WAF billing change, Bedrock Prompt Management, AWS earnings results and Karl wonders if he may have coined the phrase 'Remote Working Natives'
07:27 - AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
New features in AWS Lambda - VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit enhancements for building Lambda applications
12:32 - Ephemeral Jobs Longer than the Lambda Timeout
Running ephemeral jobs longer than the Lambda timeout - Using ECS and Fargate for ad hoc, long running background tasks
17:31 - Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF
CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by WAF - Small billing change but reduces costs for customers
23:16 - Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management now generally available - Manages and chains prompts for more advanced AI workflows
28:39 - Amazon’s cloud unit records highest profit margin in at least a decade
AWS Q3 earnings results - AWS revenue growth remains strong, posts highest profit margin in over a decade
Guest was Muhammad Rashid