The document summarizes the agenda for the May 2019 Canberra AWS User Group meeting. The agenda includes discussing new features released by AWS in May, upcoming AWS training courses in Canberra, recently released whitepapers, and other upcoming AWS events in the region. The main presentation will be on building chatbots and call centers in the AWS cloud quickly using services like AWS Lambda.

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Canberra AWS User Group
May 2019

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Agenda
• What’s new in AWS this month
• Upcoming training courses
• New white paper releases
• Other upcoming events
• Main Presentation
Chat bots and call centres in the cloud, in minutes!
Brian Farnhill, Solutions Architect @ AWS

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
102 New features and releases in
May 2019 (so far!)

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Releases

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch
Container Insights for Amazon EKS
and Kubernetes - Now in Preview
Amazon GuardDuty Adds Two New
Threat Detections
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon GuardDuty

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js
v10
Share encrypted AMIs across
accounts to launch instances in a
single step
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
AWS AppSync Now Enables More
Visibility into Performance and Health
of GraphQL Operations
Amazon EC2 C5d, M5, M5d, R5, and
R5d Instances are Now Available in
Additional AWS Regions
AWS AppSync
Amazon EC2

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
AWS Systems Manager Patch
Manager Supports Microsoft
Application Patching
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now
available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia
Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific
(Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU
(London)
AWS Systems Manager
Amazon Kinesis
Data Analytics

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
AWS Storage Gateway enhances
access control for SMB shares to store
and access objects in Amazon S3
buckets
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Adds Support for File System
Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Amazon FSx
AWS Storage Gateway

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What’s new in AWS in May 2019
AWS Budgets now Supports Variable
Budget Targets for Cost and Usage
Budgets AWS Budgets

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Upcoming classes in Canberra
• Architecting on AWS (3 days)
(Multiple dates across June, July, August, October and November @ DDLS)
• AWS Technical Essentials (1 day)
(Multiple dates across June, July, August, September, October and November @
DDLS and Bespoke)
• DevOps Engineering on AWS (3 days)
(5 June @ Bespoke)
Register at https://www.aws.training ** Please note, all classes are subject to change and confirmation.

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Upcoming classes in Canberra
• Systems Operations on AWS (3 days)
(4 September @ Bespoke)
• Developing on AWS (3 days)
(12 June @ DDLS)
• Security Engineering on AWS (3 days)
(11 September @ Bespoke)
Register at https://www.aws.training ** Please note, all classes are subject to change and confirmation.

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Whitepapers released this month
• Power Machine Learning at Scale
• Designing MQTT Topics for AWS IoT Core
• Best Practices for Running Oracle Database on AWS
• AWS Security Incident Response
• Carrier-Grade Mobile Packet Core Network on AWS
• Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)
• Architecting for PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation on AWS

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Upcoming events
AWS PROTECTED Lunch and Learn
Friday 31 May, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Crowne Plaza
https://awsprotectedcertlunchlearn.splashthat.com
Well Architected/Image Data & Analysis Specialist Immersion Day
Wednesday 5 June, 9:00am-4:00pm, National Convention Centre
https://pages.awscloud.com/APAC-public-T3-AWS-Immersion-Day-June-2019-reg-
event.html
Public Sector Summit
20-12 August, National Convention Centre
https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/

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Let’s make these intro’s what you want!

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month!We actually read it and act on it, really!

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Chat bots and call centres
in the cloud, in minutes!
Brian Farnhill
Solutions Architect @ AWS
http://meetup.com/awscbr