AWS Goodies - April 12, 2024

It is Friday afternoon here in Seattle and the weather is awesome. I took an early-morning water taxi ride from Seattle to Vashon-Maury Island and spent a pleasant day at my keyboard, with a quick break for a walk on the beach at low tide:

Here are my goodies for today:

Automate Video Dubbing with AWS Step Functions - My colleague Marcia Villalba published a video that shows you how to use AWS Step Functions to manage a complex workflow that dubs her videos from English to Spanish:

Marcia explains every aspect of her solution, including her decision to use nested state machines. To me, the best part is her declaration that

This demo didn't start as a demo, it started as a real problem.

You can find the code and other resources for her work in the sam-ai-helper repo.

VPC Peering - Ajit Punchhi wrote a post to show you how to Create an AWS VPC Peering Connection. In his post, Ajit explains the key features of VPC Peering in depth, outlines several usage scenarios, and then walks you through the process of setting it all up.

Career Progression Interview - Earlier this month I was interviewed by my colleague Rajdeep Saha. We discussed my career progression, learning AWS, effective networking, GenAI, and lots more. Here's the finished video:

AWS Inferentia2 at Leonardo.ai - At the recent AWS Summit in Sydney, Jessie Hughes of Leonardo.ai explained how they used EC2 instances equipped with Inferentia2 chips to achieve a 60% reduction in inference cost while increasing performance by 35%:

And that should do it for today, and for the week! Have a great weekend and standby for more goodies next week.