In this hour-long themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Dean reminisce about their past and cover topics that are important to the budding systems engineer, systems administrator and network engineer. We started the show by announcing a new region, Bahrain, the first in the Middle East taking our region count to 22. On the Automation front, we spoke about methods and mechanisms you can use to automate the administration of your AWS environment via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS CloudFormation, and now AWS Cloud Development Kit has gone GA. We kept it real with a bit of QA, comparing on-premises via AWS, and Shane did not quite stump Dean, almost. We then spoke about networking by introducing concepts and explaining ways in which you can deal with hybrid workloads at both the network layer and via DNS. Lastly, we closed the show out with a conversation on what is the minimum kit to on-premises for most organizations before talking about Cloud migration options into AWS. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Dean Samuels - Solutions Architect Manager, AWS Resources: Announcing the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-the-new-aws-middle-east--bahrain--region-/ AWS Command Line Interface https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/ AWS CloudFormation https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ AWS Cloud Development Kit https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ Lambda@Edge https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/ AWS VPN https://aws.amazon.com/vpn/ Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ AWS Server Migration Service https://aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service/ AWS Database Migration Service https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ APAC Online Event: AWS Builders Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Innovate on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/