Season 4 Episode 27: DynamoDB Consistency, ECS Windows AMIs, and AI Landing Zones

In Season 4, Episode 27, Karl and Jon are joined by AWS Community Member, Tim Dodd. They discuss Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency, Amazon ECS-optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs, AWS Backup support for copying S3 backups across regions/accounts in GovCloud, a Chrome extension using AI to summarize web pages, and building a generative AI landing zone on AWS and then the guys realized they’d spent more time talking about the world’s weather than any of the AWS articles.

 

03:19 - Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with multi-region strong consistency

This feature allows for strongly consistent multi-region DynamoDB tables, similar to Aurora DSQL. It's currently limited to major AWS regions but enables applications to have the same consistent data across multiple geographic locations. This is useful for disaster recovery, high availability, and serving users in different regions with the same synchronized dataset.

08:49 -Amazon ECS optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs 

AWS has released new Amazon ECS optimized Windows Server 2025 AMIs. While not groundbreaking, this update ensures Windows container users can run workloads on up-to-date host systems. It highlights the ongoing need to support Windows workloads in containerized environments, despite limitations compared to Linux containers.

13:30 - AWS Backup support for copying S3 backups across regions/accounts in GovCloud

This feature allows GovCloud users to copy S3 backups across regions and accounts, bringing capabilities already available in commercial AWS regions to GovCloud. It's particularly relevant for government agencies adopting cloud-first strategies and implementing best practices for data backup and disaster recovery.

20:12 - Chrome extension using AI to summarize web pages 

A developer created a Chrome extension that uses AI to summarize web page content. This tool addresses short attention spans and language barriers by providing quick summaries of long articles or content in unfamiliar languages. It demonstrates a practical application of AI for improving web accessibility and information consumption.

26:59 - Building a generative AI landing zone on AWS 

This article discusses how to build a generative AI landing zone on AWS, adapting traditional landing zone concepts to AI workloads. It covers foundational guardrails, development fast lanes, composable building blocks, observability, and governance specific to AI applications. The approach aims to provide a secure, compliant, and efficient foundation for deploying AI workloads on AWS.