Episodes

  • AWSPU Ep 9: APN Blogs May Roundup: Innovations in AI Observability, Accessibility, and Performance
    Jun 2 2025

    In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, we explore four innovative collaborations between AWS and its partners showcased in recent APN blogs. We highlight how Dynatrace provides comprehensive observability for generative AI applications built on Amazon Bedrock, ensuring reliable and compliant AI operations with features like guardrail analysis and audit trails. We then examine how AWS and Intel are making large language models more accessible and cost-effective through model distillation and CPU optimizations. We also discuss MongoDB Atlas's impressive 14x improvement in search indexing performance by leveraging Amazon S3 for index snapshots, and conclude with an exploration of an AI assistant for Splunk that transforms natural language queries into efficient search queries using Amazon Bedrock agents. Throughout the episode, we emphasize how these technical innovations deliver tangible business value by addressing real-world challenges for partners and their customers.

    The blog links:

    • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/elevating-llm-observability-with-amazon-bedrock-and-dynatrace/
    • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how-aws-and-intel-make-llms-more-accessible-and-cost-effective-with-deepseek/
    • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/improving-mongodb-atlas-search-elasticity-with-amazon-s3/
    • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/unlocking-the-power-of-splunk-with-amazon-bedrock-an-agentic-ai-approach-to-build-customized-splunk-assistants-using-bedrock-agents/


    To reach us: aws-partner-unplugged-podcast-hosts@amazon.com

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    23 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 8: AWS Region Expansion Strategies for Partners
    May 14 2025

    In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, we discuss AWS region expansions with Liora and Nehika, two leads from the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization. They explore how AWS partners grow by expanding into new AWS regions, with AWS providing significant support through the Region Custom Funding program. The discussion covers key aspects of regional expansion including technical readiness, compliance requirements, go-to-market strategies, and co-branding opportunities. They highlight upcoming AWS region launches in Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany (European Sovereign Cloud), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chile over the next two years, and explain how partners can leverage AWS to support infrastructure deployment, compliance readiness, marketing, and sales incentives when expanding into these new regions.


    Liora: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liora-rait-b4862b21/

    Nehika: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehikamiglani/

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    To reach the hosts: aws-partner-unplugged-podcast-hosts@amazon.com


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    12 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 7: Using Agentic AI to Orchestrate Business Transformation with Workato and AWS
    May 6 2025

    In this insightful episode, we sit down with Chandar Pattabhiram, Chief Go-to-Market Officer at Workato, who shares how their integration platform is revolutionizing business connectivity by orchestrating data,

    processes, and applications across the enterprise while eliminating traditional bottlenecks. Chander highlights Workato's impressive scale on AWS—processing over 750 billion tasks in the past year—and details

    their vision for bringing agent capabilities from edge to core through complete enterprise context, model choice flexibility, pre-configured agents, no-code environments, and robust governance built on AWS's

    scalable infrastructure. The conversation explores the joint checklist Workato developed with AWS covering best practices for agent deployment and their comprehensive partnership spanning thought leadership, AWS

    Marketplace integration, and collaborative customer success stories, while offering a glimpse into Workato's strategic investment in their "Workato One" unified agent enablement platform that combines agent

    foundations with enterprise context, governance, and AWS cloud scalability.

    Chandar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandarp/

    Sri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sraghavan24/

    Workato Agentic Enterprise: https://www.workato.com/the-connector/workato-one/


    Agentic Enterprise Checklist

    • Scalable global infrastructure
    • Enterprise-wide trust & governance
    • Both coded & configurable agents
    • Model choice
    • Orchestration: Enterprise context & skills
    • Comprehensive connectivity
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    27 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 6: Interview with Mona Chadha
    Mar 14 2025

    Mona Chadha leads the infrastructure partners team at AWS. In this episode, Mona breaks down how AWS collaborates with partners and demystifies the AWS Marketplace. She shares valuable insights on what makes partnerships successful, from integration strategies to marketing best practices. Mona also dives into AWS's approach to generative AI, discussing their commitment to trustworthy solutions and highlighting key offerings like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q. Whether you're a current AWS partner or considering the partnership journey, this episode offers essential perspectives on navigating the AWS ecosystem effectively.


    Mona: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-chadha-6a32b610/

    Sri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sraghavan24/

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    22 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 5: From Lab to Launch: the Next Wave of Generative AI with AWS Partners
    Feb 25 2025

    Join us for an episode of "AWS Partners Unplugged" where Ayan Ray dives deep into the cutting-edge world of generative AI. From the challenges of moving AI projects from concept to production, to groundbreaking developments in Amazon Bedrock, this episode covers the latest trends reshaping the AI landscape. Learn about retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multi-agent systems, and how generative AI is expanding beyond chatbots. We explore the DeepSeek models and techniques like model distillation and synthetic data generation. Whether you're an Generative AI earlier adopter or just starting, this episode offers valuable insights into the future of artificial intelligence.


    Links:

    • Blog: https://www.elastic.co/blog/hybrid-geospatial-rag-application-elastic-amazon-bedrock
    • re:Invent talk: https://youtu.be/2Qa7PWTrjdY?si=hdm5QgaD37jNZNt1
    • Code sample: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-generativeai-partner-samples/blob/main/elastic/stream-lit-app/README.md
    • Announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-r1-models-now-available-on-aws/


    Ayan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayan-ray-90331466/

    Igor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-alekseev-b6425835/


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    27 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 4: Introduction for Resilience Lifecycle Framework for ISVs
    Nov 22 2024

    In today's always-on world, customers expect applications to be continuously available. Resilience is the ability of an application to resist or quickly recover from disruptions, which is a shared responsibility between AWS and its ISV partners. While AWS is responsible for the underlying cloud infrastructure, partners are responsible for the resilience of their applications built on AWS. In this podcast we discuss AWS Resilience Lifecycle Framework and how it applies to ISV and Consulting Partners.


    Links:

    • https://aws.amazon.com/resilience-hub/
    • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-analysis-framework/introduction.html
    • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-lifecycle-framework/introduction.html


    To reach us:

    • Diego: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegoaugustodalmolin/
    • Igor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-alekseev-b6425835/


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    20 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 3: Interview with Danielle Greshock
    Nov 6 2024

    Danielle Greshock leads the partner solution architecture organization at AWS that works with technology partners. In this episode we discuss the AWS ISV Partners, their Generative AI journeys and how we jointly delight our customers!


    To reach us:

    • Danielle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-greshock-6078a5/
    • Igor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-alekseev-b6425835/


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    14 mins
  • AWSPU Ep 2: MongoDB 2024
    Sep 25 2024

    In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, we explore the exciting collaboration between MongoDB and AWS. Shane Mcallister, a lead on MongoDB's Developer Relations team, provides an overview of MongoDB Atlas, the database-as-a-service offering with integrations with AWS services. Igor and Shane delve into how MongoDB Atlas simplifies database management, allowing developers to focus on building applications. A highlight is the integration between MongoDB Atlas and AWS services, such as the collaboration on fine-tuning Amazon Q Developer to include code generation capabilities for MongoDB.

    Links and Resources:

    • https://www.mongodb.com/products/platform/atlas-cloud-providers/aws
    • https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock
    • https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/
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    25 mins
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