AWS Bites
by AWS Bites
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155. How We Made AWS Containers Start Up to 10× Faster!
155. How We Made AWS Containers Start Up to 10× Faster!
About this podcast
AWS Bites is the show where we answer questions about AWS! This show is brought to you be Eoin Shanaghy and Luciano Mammino, certified AWS experts.
Episodes
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- 155. How We Made AWS Containers Start Up to 10× Faster! · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 155What if you could make your AWS containers start up to 10× faster, without changing your application code? In this episode of AWS Bites, we explore practical ways to speed up…
- 154. S3 Files · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 154We take a deep dive into Amazon S3 Files, AWS's exciting new managed file system backed by S3! We kick things off by exploring why S3 isn't a traditional file system, covering…
- 153. LLM Inference with Bedrock · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 153If you’re curious about building with LLMs, but you want to skip the hype and learn what it takes to ship something reliable in production, this episode is for you.We share our…
- 152. Exploring Lambda Durable Functions · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 152AWS Lambda is fantastic for small, stateless code on demand. But when your “function” starts looking like a workflow (retries, backoff, long waits, human approvals, callbacks)…
- 151. EC2 ❤️ Lambda - Lambda Managed Instances · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 151AWS just made Lambda… less serverless. Lambda Managed Instances (Lambda MI) brings managed EC2 capacity into Lambda, and it changes the rules: environments stay warm, a single…
- 150. Exploring All-New ECS Managed Instances (MI) Mode · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 150Love AWS Fargate, but occasionally hit the “I need more control” wall (GPUs, storage, network bandwidth, instance sizing)? In this episode of AWS Bites, Eoin and Luciano put the…
- 149. Headless CMS on AWS · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 149We dive deep into Strapi, an open-source headless CMS that's changing how we approach content management and CRUD applications. In this episode, we explore how Strapi separates…
- 148. Lambda and Java with Mark Sailes · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 149What if “Java is too old for serverless” is the myth holding your team back in 2025? We put it to the test with Mark Sailes (ex-AWS, Java-on-Lambda expert). In this AWS Bites…
- 147. Spec coding with Kiro · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 147What if AWS built an IDE to rival your favorite editor? Turns out they did!In this episode of AWS Bites, we dive into Kiro, an AI centric fork of VS Code that tries to turn an…
- 146. The AWS Product Lifecycle page · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 146What if AWS had its own version of Killed by Google? Well… turns out it kind of does.In this episode of AWS Bites, we explore the AWS Product Lifecycle page, the official place…
- 145. We Tried Amazon DSQL So You Don’t Have To (But You Might Want To) · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 145Amazon Aurora DSQL promises to bring a truly serverless experience to SQL databases. But does it actually deliver? In this episode of AWS Bites, we put Aurora DSQL to the test…
- 144. Lambda Billing Changes, Cold Start Costs, and Log Savings: What You Need to Know · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 144Cost is always top of mind when building in the cloud, and recently AWS has introduced some changes worth paying attention to. In this episode of AWS Bites, we explore a shift…
- 143. Is App Runner better than Fargate? · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 143Picture this. You’ve got a web app built with Rust and Solid.js. It started life running on a dusty on-prem server, but now it's time to move it to the cloud. The clock is…
- 142. Escape from S3 · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 142We discuss common use cases and challenges for copying data between S3 buckets and S3-compatible object storage services. We share our experience building an open source Node.js…
- 141. Step Functions with JSONata and Variables · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 141In this episode, we provide an overview of AWS Step Functions and dive deep into the powerful new JSONata and variables features. We explain how JSONata allows complex JSON…
- 140. DuckDB Meets AWS: A Match Made in Cloud · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 140In this episode, we explore DuckDB, an open-source analytical database known for its speed and simplicity. Discover how DuckDB stands out in various applications and compare it…
- 139. Building Great APIs with Powertools · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 139In this episode, we discuss using AWS Lambda Powertools for Python to build serverless REST APIs with AWS Lambda. We cover the benefits of using Powertools for routing…
- 138. How Do You Become A Cloud Architect? · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 138Ready to take your tech career to the cloud and build those awe-inspiring systems you see? Then you're in the right place. This episode of AWS Bites is your blueprint for…
- 137. Transit Gateway Explained · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 137In this episode, David Lynam provides an overview of AWS Transit Gateway, which aims to simplify complex network connectivity between VPCs, VPNs, and on-premises networks. We…
- 136. 20 Amazing New AWS Features · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 136In this pre-re:Invent 2024 episode, Luciano and Eoin discuss some of their favorite recent AWS announcements, including improvements to AWS Step Functions, Lambda runtime…
