Season 3 Episode 16 - Certifications, Snowmobiles, and Large Language Models

In Season 3, Episode 16  Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Hero and AWS Ambassador,  Brian Tarbox. They discuss Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus revolutionizing generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets, optimizing Amazon RDS snapshot costs, Snowmobile, why certification alone isn’t enough in the dynamic world of cloud engineering and this week's tangents included trains and boats and planes!

The articles discussed in this week episode are:

03:51- Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model now available on Amazon Bedrock 

11:35 - AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets now offer enhanced change visibility for deployments 

17:12 - Programmatic approach to optimize the cost of Amazon RDS snapshots

23:42 - Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage 

29:35 - Certification is not enough 

Guest was Brian Tarbox:

• https://briantarbox.com/