Episode description

Scott Pletcher is here with your weekly dose of AWS news! This week, our reaction to the big news that AWS head Andy Jassy will take over from Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO, AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now available, AWS launches GovTechStart to help GovTech startups, and the DeepRacer 2021 pre-season is now open. Will Scott strap back in for another shot at DeepRacer glory?

Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
0:31 – Jeff Bezos to step aside and Andy Jassy to step up as Amazon CEO
1:42 – AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3
2:53 – AWS launches GovTechStart to help GovTech startups
3:39 – The DeepRacer 2021 pre-season is now open
4:17 – AWS Community Builders Program

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AWS This Week episode resources:

• Subscribe to A Cloud Guru for weekly AWS news updates: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8lLM2JP_1pv6E0NQ38pqw/?sub_confirmation=1
• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees
• AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is Now Generally Available: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-privatelink-for-amazon-s3-now-available/
• AWS launches AWS GovTechStart to help GovTech startups: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-expands-aws-edstart-model-launch-aws-govtechstart/
• AWS GovTechStart: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/government/aws-govtechstart/
• AWS DeepRacer pre-season racing is now open: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/get-ready-to-roll-aws-deepracer-pre-season-racing-is-now-open/
• AWS Community Builders: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/community-builders/
• Scott’s Multi-Cloud Challenge ACG Project: https://youtu.be/CEF9dBqxogA
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