Overview and What's New slides for the Denver AWS Users' Group March 2018 Meetup

1. Thanks to our Host, Sempera!
Please thank them for the food and beverages!
WiFi for members:
Network: 400Inverness
Password:

2. AWS Users’ Group March 2018!
David “Mac” McDaniel
Sr. Solution & Cloud Architect - Independent Consultant
david@mobile-360.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbmcdaniel
Twitter: @CloudKegGuy, @ServerlessJava
Twitter list: https://twitter.com/CloudKegGuy/lists/aws/members

3. Communication Items
Slack Channel: https://DenverAWSUsersGroup.slack.com, email me at
david@mobile-360.com for an invite.
We now have our own Twitter handle: @DenverAWSUG. Please follow and we’ll
post updates and surveys there as well!
We are now listed on AWS UG site:
https://aws.amazon.com/usergroups/americas/
We are sponsored by CloudAcademy! They have a free portal for our members at:
https://cloudacademy.com/aws-usergroup/?code=newawsugs

4. Learn about Elastic deployment options on AWS. We will look
at different departmental solutions of Elastic. We will then go
through considerations of deploying the Elastic Stack on AWS
EC2, in an Enterprise Elastic Cloud Environment, and as a fully
managed Elastic cloud service in the AWS cloud.
Speakers: Matteo Rebeschini & Susan Herchenach
Tonight’s Topic: Deploy Elastic on AWS

5. Recent AWS Updates
Real-Time Hotspot Detection in Amazon Kinesis
Analytics via ML Integration
Chime - Usage Based Pricing
SageMaker - Auto Scaling now available
Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Releases API
for Managing Health Status of Service Instances
AWS CloudTrail Log Search Using Amazon
Athena
Manage your Amazon RDS, Redshift, and
ElastiCache Reservations via the Reserved
Instance (RI) Coverage Report in AWS Cost
Explorer
Deploy a Cloud Video Editing Environment on
the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
AWS Service Catalog Announces AutoTags for
Automatic Tagging of Provisioned Resources

6. Thoughts?
Thinking about creating a workshop day
- where participants get to go hands-on!
Our sponsor would enable us to provide
AWS usage credit.
Topic ideas include:
● Migrating a workload from on-prem
to AWS Cloud
● Hosting a web application
● Building an API application
● Strategy Presentation
○ How to create a Cloud Migration
Strategy
○ Pitfalls
○ How to execute the strategy
○ Picking the right partners

7. Upcoming Meetups
● April 9, 2018 - Special Event: GOTO Conference & Serverless speaker Russ
Miles - aka, Geek on a Bike @ WeWork Union Station
● April 18, 2018 - TBD - Sponsor: Dynatrace

8. Resources
● AWS Blog:
○ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws
● Curated Twitter List:
○ https://twitter.com/Chris_Kasten/lists/aws
● AWS Podcasts:
○ https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast

9. Questions?