Season 3 Episode 28 - Simplified OIDC, Redshift Serverless, and AI Content Localisation

In Season 3, Episode 28 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Joshua Walker. They discuss AWS IAM OpenID Connect, Amazon Redshift serverless, AWS WAF challenge and capture actions, Media content localization with AWS AI services, Top 10 AWS news stories of 2024 and Jon challenges AWS' definition of Serverless, again...

Articles Discussed:

04:40 - AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...

The article discusses how AWS IAM is simplifying the management of OpenID Connect identity providers by automating certificate management. This will make it easier to securely connect external identity providers.  

10:26 - Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity available in the Europe (London) Region https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what...

The article announces that Amazon Redshift serverless now has a lower base capacity available in the London region. This allows users to run analytics more cost-effectively.  

15:11 - Protect against bots with AWS WAF Challenge and CAPTCHA actions https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networki...

The article explains how to use AWS WAF challenge and capture capabilities to protect against bots by requiring suspicious traffic to solve a challenge. This is less disruptive than blocking all traffic. 

21:16 - Media content localization with AWS AI services and Amazon Bedrock https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/me...

The article demonstrates using AWS AI services like Transcribe and Translate to automatically localize text content from English to Korean. This makes it easier to reach broader audiences. 

26:40 - The 10 Biggest AWS News Stories Of 2024 (So Far) https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/t...

The hosts each highlight one of their favorite stories from a list of the top 10 AWS news items in 2022 so far. These include the CEO change, sustainability efforts, global data center expansion, and more.


Guest was Joshua Walker
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