Season 3 Episode 12 - Faster CloudFormation, EBS Restore Testing, and Step Functions vs. Lambda

In Season 3, Episode 12 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Stephen Sennett. They discuss updates to AWS CloudFormation ,AWS Backup, Claude models, Step Functions vs. Lambda Functions, 'builder studio' down under and the guys get sidetracked discussing swag, again...

The articles discussed in this week episode are:

06:15 - Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation

10:06 - AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive 

15:56 - Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon Bedrock

22:08 - When to use Step Functions vs. doing it all in a Lambda function 

29:23 - Amazon opens first 'builder studio' down under to accelerate tech innovation 

Guest was Stephen Sennett

• https://linkedin.com/in/ssennettau