This session will feature RAINN, and the always up, always on needed infrastructure required to support its mission. You will gain an understanding of their environment and why they chose AWS, how they tackle security and more.
Time to Science, Time to Results: Accelerating Research with AWS - AWS Sympos...Amazon Web Services
This session demonstrates how the Cloud can accelerate breakthroughs in scientific research by providing on-demand access to powerful computing. The Session will feature scientific researchers making use of the Cloud to increase speed to results.
AWS Public Sector Summit 2014 Talk - Science as a Service using AWSRavi Madduri
We present our work on creating sustainable science services using Globus, Amazon Web Services and Galaxy framework. We focus on Globus Genomics as successful usecase
Leveraging the Cloud to Strengthen Democracy: A Case Study - AWS Washington D...Amazon Web Services
This session will explore how the National Democratic Institute has shifted its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. You will learn their strategies for data center migration and hear best practices and lessons learned as well as specific ROI details.
Big Data on AWS is a deep dive into Cloud-based big data solutions using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and Amazon Redshift. In this session, you will learn how to create big data environments and leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness. Demonstrations will include using Amazon EMR to process log data and the ease of provisioning a Redshift data warehouse.
Running the Business of Education in the Cloud: How Central IT Leverages the ...Amazon Web Services
This session will focus on how universities are leveraging the cloud to address their unique technology needs, including curriculum delivery, enrollment systems and the rapid transformation of education.
AWS as a Data Platform - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Come hear about the services that AWS provides to manage data and when to use which tools to manage data appropriately. You will learn about both data movement and coordination, as well as data storage and analysis, including when to use relational and NoSQL approaches, Hadoop, and data warehousing. This session will highlight how AWS data services have helped real-world customers.
Security Features of AWS Services in AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS Symposium 2014 -...Amazon Web Services
Description: The Government faces the paramount challenge of building sensitive IT systems in the Cloud while maintaining stringent security requirements. Learn from the experts about using integrated security features available in AWS GovCloud (US) to make your mission workloads more secure and robust.
Time to Science, Time to Results: Accelerating Research with AWS - AWS Sympos...Amazon Web Services
This session demonstrates how the Cloud can accelerate breakthroughs in scientific research by providing on-demand access to powerful computing. The Session will feature scientific researchers making use of the Cloud to increase speed to results.
AWS Public Sector Summit 2014 Talk - Science as a Service using AWSRavi Madduri
We present our work on creating sustainable science services using Globus, Amazon Web Services and Galaxy framework. We focus on Globus Genomics as successful usecase
Leveraging the Cloud to Strengthen Democracy: A Case Study - AWS Washington D...Amazon Web Services
This session will explore how the National Democratic Institute has shifted its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. You will learn their strategies for data center migration and hear best practices and lessons learned as well as specific ROI details.
Big Data on AWS is a deep dive into Cloud-based big data solutions using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and Amazon Redshift. In this session, you will learn how to create big data environments and leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness. Demonstrations will include using Amazon EMR to process log data and the ease of provisioning a Redshift data warehouse.
Running the Business of Education in the Cloud: How Central IT Leverages the ...Amazon Web Services
This session will focus on how universities are leveraging the cloud to address their unique technology needs, including curriculum delivery, enrollment systems and the rapid transformation of education.
AWS as a Data Platform - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Come hear about the services that AWS provides to manage data and when to use which tools to manage data appropriately. You will learn about both data movement and coordination, as well as data storage and analysis, including when to use relational and NoSQL approaches, Hadoop, and data warehousing. This session will highlight how AWS data services have helped real-world customers.
Security Features of AWS Services in AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS Symposium 2014 -...Amazon Web Services
Description: The Government faces the paramount challenge of building sensitive IT systems in the Cloud while maintaining stringent security requirements. Learn from the experts about using integrated security features available in AWS GovCloud (US) to make your mission workloads more secure and robust.
Move Away From the Worry-Based Fiction of the Cloud - AWS Washington D.C. Sym...Amazon Web Services
The AWS cloud infrastructure has been architected to be one of the most flexible and secure cloud computing environments available today. In this session, we’ll provide a practical understanding of the security programs, procedures and best practices you can use to enhance your current security posture.
Federal Compliance Deep Dive: FISMA, FedRAMP, and Beyond - AWS Symposium 2014...Amazon Web Services
Security is your number one priority and it is ours too. With customers around the world across all industries, it is our top priority to ensure the underlying cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. This presentation will address our shared security/responsibility model, specific compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, DISA/DoD Cloud Security Models, and detail the specific AWS compliance programs that supports our customers in these compliance environments.
Keynote: Paving the Way and Making a Difference: AWS in the Public SectorAmazon Web Services
Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services with:
Mark Davies, Technical Lead, ChEMBL Group, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI);
Phil Young, Head of Online, Transport for London (TfL)
Tim Marshall, Executive Director of Jisc Technologies and CEO of Janet
This session will cover practical strategies for breaking down barriers to delivering content, accessing information and overcoming economics to meet student needs where they are.
Speaker: Rob Carr, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
AWS GovCloud (US) Fundamentals: Past, Present, and Future - AWS Symposium 201...Amazon Web Services
Come learn all about our AWS GovCloud (US) region. Discover the features and benefits of this government-oriented community cloud, learn about exciting new features, and get a sneak peek into where we are headed in the future.
(EDU202) Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategies in Higher Education | AWS re:In...Amazon Web Services
We have reached a tipping point in enterprise cloud adoption in higher education institutions. Many large research universities have now taken on various cloud projects, touching almost every aspect of their enterprise. One excellent example of this is Harvard University. Over the course of the past 18 months, Harvard University IT (HUIT) has been investigating, developing, and implementing an enterprise-scale cloud adoption program. This session presents HUIT's efforts to date, including approaches to vision, strategy, culture, education, staffing, and technology. The session also includes examples from other major universities. You'll receive practical advice about how to begin the adoption journey, and you'll learn about frameworks that can help you make decisions in the context of your own institutional environment.
Running Microsoft Enterprise Workloads on Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services
The cloud is the new norm for organisations of all sizes. In this session you will learn how to create an entire Microsoft Enterprise environment in AWS that includes AWS Active Directory Service, Simple System Management (SSM) service, MS Exchange and SharePoint.
James Saull, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, EMEA
AWS Webcast - Using the AWS Cloud for Disaster recovery_Public SectorAmazon Web Services
State, Local and Education customers are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their mission critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. This presentation shares informative on how AWS cloud supports many popular disaster recovery (DR) architectures from “pilot light” environments that are ready to scale up at a moment’s notice to “hot standby” environments that enable rapid failover. With infrastructure centers in 10 regions around the world, AWS provides a set of cloud-based DR services that enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.
Move Away From the Worry-Based Fiction of the Cloud - AWS Washington D.C. Sym...Amazon Web Services
The AWS cloud infrastructure has been architected to be one of the most flexible and secure cloud computing environments available today. In this session, we’ll provide a practical understanding of the security programs, procedures and best practices you can use to enhance your current security posture.
Federal Compliance Deep Dive: FISMA, FedRAMP, and Beyond - AWS Symposium 2014...Amazon Web Services
Security is your number one priority and it is ours too. With customers around the world across all industries, it is our top priority to ensure the underlying cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. This presentation will address our shared security/responsibility model, specific compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, DISA/DoD Cloud Security Models, and detail the specific AWS compliance programs that supports our customers in these compliance environments.
Keynote: Paving the Way and Making a Difference: AWS in the Public SectorAmazon Web Services
Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services with:
Mark Davies, Technical Lead, ChEMBL Group, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI);
Phil Young, Head of Online, Transport for London (TfL)
Tim Marshall, Executive Director of Jisc Technologies and CEO of Janet
This session will cover practical strategies for breaking down barriers to delivering content, accessing information and overcoming economics to meet student needs where they are.
Speaker: Rob Carr, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
AWS GovCloud (US) Fundamentals: Past, Present, and Future - AWS Symposium 201...Amazon Web Services
Come learn all about our AWS GovCloud (US) region. Discover the features and benefits of this government-oriented community cloud, learn about exciting new features, and get a sneak peek into where we are headed in the future.
(EDU202) Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategies in Higher Education | AWS re:In...Amazon Web Services
We have reached a tipping point in enterprise cloud adoption in higher education institutions. Many large research universities have now taken on various cloud projects, touching almost every aspect of their enterprise. One excellent example of this is Harvard University. Over the course of the past 18 months, Harvard University IT (HUIT) has been investigating, developing, and implementing an enterprise-scale cloud adoption program. This session presents HUIT's efforts to date, including approaches to vision, strategy, culture, education, staffing, and technology. The session also includes examples from other major universities. You'll receive practical advice about how to begin the adoption journey, and you'll learn about frameworks that can help you make decisions in the context of your own institutional environment.
Running Microsoft Enterprise Workloads on Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services
The cloud is the new norm for organisations of all sizes. In this session you will learn how to create an entire Microsoft Enterprise environment in AWS that includes AWS Active Directory Service, Simple System Management (SSM) service, MS Exchange and SharePoint.
James Saull, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, EMEA
AWS Webcast - Using the AWS Cloud for Disaster recovery_Public SectorAmazon Web Services
State, Local and Education customers are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their mission critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. This presentation shares informative on how AWS cloud supports many popular disaster recovery (DR) architectures from “pilot light” environments that are ready to scale up at a moment’s notice to “hot standby” environments that enable rapid failover. With infrastructure centers in 10 regions around the world, AWS provides a set of cloud-based DR services that enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.
MBL203 Building a Mobile Application Platform on AWS - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Get under the hood with Parse.com’s founder to see how they used AWS to build their mobile Platform as a Service. In this session, you learn how Parse is using a variety of AWS services including Amazon EC2, S3, ELB, EBS and Route53 to build data storage, push, and easy upload services for mobile developers.
AWS makes development of cross-platform mobile applications easy. With highly-scalable cloud services such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon SNS, mobile developers can build powerful cloud-backed mobile apps with just a few lines of code. In this session, you will learn how to connect directly to these services and how to build a powerful back end for your Android and iOS applications. We will also share some best practices from other successful apps such as Flipboard and Supercell so you can focus on differentiating your app functionality whilst leaving the 'table stakes' with no differentiated value to the cloud.
In this session, learn how to move your existing database applications to the cloud. We cover the best practices for planning your migrations, moving your data over, sizing your AWS deployment appropriately, and minimizing downtime. You also hear from some of our customers who have successfully migrated their applications about the techniques they used and the reasons they moved onto the cloud.
You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your organizations data in the cloud. You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your workloads on AWS. You just need to be informed of the many security tools available in AWS, and learn how to use them.
Taking a highly automated approach to security, you can use key features of the AWS Cloud to transform security in your organization. As with infrastructure as an API, security as an API allows you to move rapidly & stay secure. From AWS security groups, to virtual private networks, to security tools, you need to learn how to automate and accelerate.
In this talk, you’ll see how various AWS features and cloud-aware security controls can work together to protect your deployments. Using real-world examples, you’ll come away with an understanding of steps you can take to ensure that you maximize the security of your deployment while minimizing the work it takes to keep it secure.
You will learn a logical approach to modern security that you can immediately apply to your own AWS deployments. You will learn how to use security tools and techniques to help you build with confidence.
AWS Summit Auckland 2014 | Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million UsersAmazon Web Services
You have attended AWS training. Gathered all the relevant information about AWS services but how do you now show the value of the AWS Cloud to your business. This session will run through how you would build a business case for the cloud including TCO and cost comparisons.
AWS Summit 2014 Melbourne - Breakout 1
Amazon Workspaces is a new service from AWS that delivery fully managed desktops in the Cloud. In this session you be able to learn more about the benefits and capabilities of Workspaces and see a demo of the user's experience when using Workspaces and the administrators experience in managing it.
Presenter: Dean Samuels, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
The AWS cloud infrastructure has been architected to be one of the most flexible and secure cloud computing environments available today. Security for AWS is about three related elements: visibility, auditability, and control. You have to know what you have and where it is before you can assess the environment against best practices, internal standards, and compliance standards. Controls enable you to place precise, well-understood limits on the access to your information. Did you know, for example, that you can define a rule that says that “Tom is the only person who can access this data object that I store with Amazon, and he can only do so from his corporate desktop on the corporate network, from Monday-Friday 9-5 and when he uses MFA?” That’s the level of granularity you can choose to implement if you wish. In this session, we’ll cover these topics to provide a practical understanding of the security programs, procedures, and best practices you can use to enhance your current security posture.
Leveraging the Cloud to Strengthen Democracy: NDI Case Study - AWS Washington...Amazon Web Services
This session will explore the National Democratic Institute has shifted its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. You will learn their strategies for data center migration and hear best practices and lessons learned as well as specific ROI details.
GIS on AWS Deep Dive - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
This session will highlight how to run OGC compliant mapping services on top of a shared authoritative source. You will gain insight into how everyone can look at the same map data.
Spikey Workloads - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. - Partner Presentatio...Amazon Web Services
One of the best use cases for the cloud involves websites with surges in computing needs. This session will feature two organizations that have leveraged the cloud to handle their unique burst workloads without breaking the bank: The National Novel Writing Month project (aka “Nanowrimo”) and Code.org’s Hour of Code.
Continuous Integration and Deployment Best Practices on AWS - AWS Symposium 2...Amazon Web Services
With AWS, organizations now have the ability to develop and run their applications with speed and flexibility like never before. Working with an infrastructure that can be 100% API-driven enables organizations to use lean methodologies and realize these benefits. In this session, we will explore some key concepts and design patterns for continuous deployment and continuous integration, two elements of lean application and infrastructure development. We will look at several use cases where IT organizations leveraged AWS to rapidly develop and iterate on applications for scale, high availability and cost optimization.
DevOps and Continuous Deployment @ WWPS Government, Education, and Non-profit...John Schneider
Leo Zhadanovsky and I talked to a group of Government, Non-profit, and Education representatives about DevOps and how they could use it to speed up their organization.
Outcome Broker: Data Driven Innovation - AWS Washington D.C. Symposium 2014Amazon Web Services
Being an Outcome Broker: An overarching global conversation about open data innovation. This session highlights how democratizing access to information drives innovation and greater impact. Frank DiGiammarino, Innovation and Global Expansion, AWS Worldwide Public Sector. Cordell Schachter, CTO NYDOT joins Franks to highlight and share what they are doing to enhance data driven innovation in NYC.
Bringing Governance to an Existing Cloud at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services provides JPL with a vast array of capabilities to store, process, and analyze mission data. JPLers were early to adopt AWS services to build complex solutions, but quickly grew to over 50 AWS accounts, 80 IAM users, and hundreds of resources. To deal with this complexity, a team of engineers inside JPL's Office of the CIO developed a cloud governance model. The true challenge was implementing it on existing deployments. Learn about their model and how they overcame the challenges.
Welcome to the AWS Cloud - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Steven Halliwell, General Manager, Amazon Web Services, will provide an Introduction to AWS, Why Organizations are choosing AWS, What Workloads are appropriate on AWS, and How Organizations are getting started with AWS. Steven will discuss what many AWS public sector customers and partners are doing with and saying about AWS. Lastly, Steven will talk about various strategies for how customers and partners can get started with AWS.
Big Open Data Transformation Through Public Data Sets - AWS Washington D.C. S...Amazon Web Services
In this conversation, AWS and government thought leaders will discuss ways to encourage public private partnership to solve societal problems thru open data. Ariel Gold, Program Manager, AWS and Tsengdar Lee of NASA will shares insight on NASA NEX.
AWS Service Drill Downs - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
This session will highlight the breadth and depth of services that make up the AWS platform. Participants will learn about the AWS Global Infrastructure, Networking, Compute, Storage, Database, Application Services, and Deployment & Administration. This session is designed for technical decision-makers to come away with a top-level understanding of AWS building block cloud services.
AWS Shared Responsibility Model - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model (SRM) varies somewhat according to the type of AWS service involved, from infrastructure to container to abstracted services. In this session we will move beyond the “hypervisor up/down” summary of the SRM and explore how the SRM works for services beyond EC2.
Updating Security Operations for the Cloud - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington ...Amazon Web Services
Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your security operations as you move to the Cloud. We will discuss how your current incident response, monitoring, and audit response tactics have to change in the Cloud. Drawing from experiences helping clients move to the Cloud, industry research, and the 'school of hard knocks', this talk will help provide practical advice you can apply today. This session is recommended for technical users who want to know how the day-to-day work of securing their on-premises workloads should change when moving to the Cloud.
Moving Workloads into AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
In a 2012 IDC study, researchers found that customers who migrated to AWS broke even in just seven months and experienced a 626% five-year return on investment. Furthermore, public sector customers’ typical migration needs make this even easier, faster, and more cost effective. Learn how to identify the best workloads to move, the logistics of this transition (“lift-and-shift” or a phased approach), and the benefits your organization will experience from day one.
Similar to Scale and Reach: Always Up - Always On - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. - Partner Presentation - PBS Digital (20)
Come costruire servizi di Forecasting sfruttando algoritmi di ML e deep learn...Amazon Web Services
Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
Big Data per le Startup: come creare applicazioni Big Data in modalità Server...Amazon Web Services
La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
Tuttavia gestire grandi quantità di dati può apparire complesso: creare cluster Big Data su larga scala sembra essere un investimento accessibile solo ad aziende consolidate. Ma l’elasticità del Cloud e, in particolare, i servizi Serverless ci permettono di rompere questi limiti.
Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
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Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
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Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
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Cyber risk predictions
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Download the full report from here:
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The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
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We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
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My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing Days
Scale and Reach: Always Up - Always On - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. - Partner Presentation - PBS Digital
1. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
“Always Up-Always On”:
Scale and Reach
Jacob Hileman, RAINN
Mike Howsden, PBS
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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
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Crisis Services in the Cloud
Jacob Hileman
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About RAINN
• Nation’s largest anti-sexual assault
organization
• Public policy
• Prevention and education
• Victim services
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Victim Services
• 1-866-95-HOPE
– 1100 partner centers
• www.RAINN.org
• Online Hotline: online.RAINN.org
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National Sexual Assault Hotline
• Over 1.5 million callers helped
• Routes to the closest Rape Crisis Center
– 1100 partner centers
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RAINN.org
• First contact point for our users
• Wide array of content:
– Laws in your state
– Articles for victims
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Why 24/7 Is Important
• Many service providers only operate
during business hours
• Getting help when you need it is important
• Different demographics seek help at
different parts of the day
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Importance of 24/7
APRIL 2014:
270,000visitors
650,000page views
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Importance of 24/7
2014 pace:
3,000,000
visitors
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Importance of 24/7
54%
of traffic outside of
business hours
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Online Hotline
• Web-based crisis intervention chat.
• It’s private. No transcripts are kept.
• It’s anonymous. No IP addresses stored.
• It’s encrypted. All chats over SSL.
• Yearly security review.
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Online Hotline
350,000
visits since launch
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Online Hotline
JANUARY – JUNE 2014
3x
the traffic we saw in all of 2011
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Security & Availability
• Security Groups
– Servers have only the network access
they need
– No master security group that holds
everything
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Security & Availability
• Use a staging environment
– Updates verified in a staging environment
– Then promoted to production
– CloudFormation
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Security & Availability
• Use Amazon’s VPN Gateway
• Launch private instances only available
to your office network
• Keep database and app servers off the
internet
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Security & Availability
• Elastic Load Balancers
• Update servers with no downtime
– Connection Draining
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Security & Availability
• Amazon RDS
– Point in time backups
– Access to logs
– Multi-AZ failover
• mySQL & SQL Server
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Security & Availability
• Use multi-factor identification
– Google Authenticator
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User Trust
• User privacy and safety are important
• Keep your users first
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Thank You
JacobH@RAINN.org
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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Scaling Downton Abbey with AWS
Mike Howsden
mvhowsden@pbs.org
23. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Downton Abbey Audience
• Record-breaking 11.1 million streams of full-episodes for season 4.
– 46% of that content was consumed on mobile and over-the-top devices.
• There were 15 million streams of all Downton Abbey content during the
streaming window (clips, previews and full episodes combined)
• The MASTERPIECE website saw 10.1 million unique visitors who
generated 22.2 million visits in January and February.
• Single-day streams of 410,000 for the premiere of Episode 1. The biggest
premiere out of any Downton season.
Source: Google Analytics January 6 - March 9, 2014
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Not your normal week at PBS
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Scaling Reads
• EC2 Servers
(Horizontally Scaled)
• RDS
• ELB
• Cache Servers
• S3+Cloudfront for
HLS/RTMP video
and static media
delivery
Lessons learned:
read-only mode, long
cache-times help
weather a storm
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Advantages in AWS
• Sunk costs aren’t sunk
– Servers can scale without having to purchase new
hardware
– Optimize at your leisure, fixes hit the budget
immediately
• Lower barriers to adopting new services
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Looking Forward
• Utilizing Elastic Map Reduce to better
understand video QOS
• Better leverage CDN and Delivery routes to
improve end users experiences
• Launching on numerous additional platforms
(OTT/mobile)
• Scaling writes (more user specific services)
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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Thank You
Mike Howsden
mvhowsden@pbs.org
Editor's Notes
I’m jacob hileman. i’m the director of technology at rainn. I’m going to talk about rainn and a few of the services we offer and what we do to keep the services up 24/7.
So first, about rainn.
Rainn is the nation’s largest anti sexual assault organization. Our efforts are primarily focused on three areas:
--Public policy
--Prevention and education
--And victim services
I’m going to concentrate on victim services and some of the programs we offer them.
We have three major services we offer survivors.
The first is a telephone hotline that connects you to your closest rape crisis center. We are partners with over 1100 centers in the US.
Next we have our website rainn.org. Which has articles, a rape crisis center map and search, and other resources that survivors and family members can use.
And last we have an online chat hotline at online.rainn.org the online hotline is a web based chat where you can talk with one of our staffers for support, crisis intervention and referrals.
The national sexual assault hotline was rainn’s first program originally launched in 1994. it allows victims a centralized number they can call to be connected with their local rape crisis center.
The hotline worker they reach can tell the caller about therapeutic services, medical attention or reporting options in their area
For example, if we call from DC, we’d reach a hotline worker through the DC Rape Crisis Center. They’re up in Fort Totten. They could explain to the caller that the right place in DC to get a rape kit is the Washington Hospital Center. They could also arrange to have an advocate meet them at the hospital, and then offer therapy for afterwards. Or, they could talk to the caller about pros and cons of reporting if they’re feeling unsure.
Next is rainn.org
--People searching google for rape help or sexual assault help will typically find us as the number one search result. So we’re often the first or second resource for people trying to understand their assault or a friend or family member’s assault.
--and we help them do this with a wide array of content including:
the laws in your state regarding everything from hiv testing, the statute of limitations on rape and even confidentiality laws.
-For example, a visitor might want to know if she can still report her child sexual abuse because after years of silence, she’s ready to tell. -Another visitor might need to know whether or not they can receive medical attention and disclose the rape to a physician without being forced to report to local police.
--we have resources for survivors, including articles about the effects of sexual assault, info for adult survivors, depression, suicide, and even resources for victims of military sexual assault.
-for example, Visitors that are struggling with flashbacks can visit RAINN’s page about that to read a breathing exercise and tips on how to avoid or manage flashbacks -Loved ones of survivors can visit our page on “How to Help a Loved One” to better understand how to be supportive and sensitive to their loved one’s needs -Anyone who is unsure of whether or not their experience would be considered rape can visit “Was I Raped?” to gain a better understanding of what would or would not be considered rape -Survivors often feel crazy or isolated by their experience. They can visit our page that discusses common side effects and get some affirmation that their thoughts and feelings are natural reactions to what happened
As you can tell, 24/7 is very important to our organization
--Sexual violence doesn’t happen on a 9-5 schedule and getting a voicemail is not helpful during a crisis
--getting help when you need it can turn a crisis into an opportunity. For example, a visitor can’t decide whether or not to report, or doesn’t understand the importance of medical attention.
--different demorgraphics seek help at different points in the day. For example:
-Moms that need to chat but can only do so after the kids go to bed
-Or teens that need to use it after school
-Or working professionals who can’t get help during business hours
-Or survivors who are having trouble getting through the night because of nightmares
-Or even someone doing peace corps abroad.
And like I mentioned earlier, our website rainn.org is typically the first point of contact for our users.
And we have a lot of them.
So in april of this year, we had 270,000 visitors
With over 650,000 page views
That’s a lot of people looking for information.
And we’re on pace for over
For over 3,000,000 visits this year.
what I think is most surprising about these numbers is that
54% of all those visits happened outside of business hours.
These numbers really illustrate how important high availability is.
When serving our demographic we need to be available to them when they need it.
Now The other major service we offer victims is our online hotline.
The online hotline is a web based crisis intervention chat and our flagship program
You visit our site and chat one on one with a trained staffer.
We take the privacy and security of the online hotline users very seriously.
--It’s private, anonymous, and one on one.
--We don’t store transcripts of chats. Once the chat is over the transcripts are cleared.
--It’s anonymous. We don’t store access logs or web logs.
--And it’s encrypted. All our chats occur over ssl.
--It goes through a yearly security review done by an independent third party.
Essentially, what this privacy means to our users – a woman experiencing DV or a teen being abused by her dad, is that they don’t have to worry that their abuser will be able to find any record of their contact with RAINN; Staffers are trained to teach visitors how to clear their history, cookies, and cache just in case. We’re even working on a new service that allows victims to call our telephone hotline using their browser, so that there’s no record of the call on their phone bill.
Providing a safe environment to our users is a major priority for us.
And our hotline has had a lot of users visit it since its launch
--Over 350,000 visits have been made to our hotline service since its launch in 2007.
--That’s an incredible amount of people looking for crisis services.
--and they are coming from all across the country and all times of the day.
And traffic is continuing to grow
In the first 5 months of 2014 we’ve already tripled the traffic we saw in all of 2011.
and it’s only june.
3 times the traffic. We’re on pace to do nearly 12x the traffic from 2011 by the end of the year.
And like I said before This traffic spread out all across the day. There isn’t a time where there are no users visiting our hotline. It is a true 24/7 service.
Okay so now let’s talk about some of the ways we use aws for security and high availability
We do a few things to minimize threats and maximize uptime. One of the easiest and most beneficial things we do is take advantage of the vpc security groups.
Using security groups you can restrict network access to servers on a protocol and port by port level.
This lets us lock down servers to only have only the network access they need to do their job.
Only give your servers network access they need to do their job.
Another thing we do is to never update production servers.
We’ve built a staging environment that matches our production environment and we do all our testing there.
If an update to our software is needed, we launch the ami that the production servers are running, update it, test it and then promote it to production. No accidental bugs. No accidental downtime.
Having a staging environment and a production environment at amazon is still less than half of what we were paying previously at a physical host. And the best part is staging doesn’t even have to be up all the time. Using Cloudformation you can spin up the entire environment from a configuration file on demand. Then turn it off when you don’t need it anymore. So you’re only paying for those resources when you use them.
So I can’t recommend this enough.
Use amazon’s vpn gateway.
It allows you to extend your office datacenter or server room straight into the cloud. You can keep database and app servers private and off the internet while still allowing you to connect to them from your office. It’s a fantastic feature.
Elastic load balancers.
We use elastic load balancers in front of all of our public instances. they allow you to better distribute traffic across your application and web servers for quick and easy scaling.
Now While being able to scale your infrastructure based on demand is pretty cool, I think the connection draining feature is their biggest selling point.
When you enable Connection Draining on a load balancer, any back-end instances that you deregister will complete requests that are in progress before deregistration.
For example, when we update drupal we add the new drupal instances to the production ELB pool while deregistering the old instances. Users slowly get routed to the new drupal instances without ever noticing a difference.
It’s a feature that makes high availability dead simple to achieve.
Here’s one way that moving our infrastructure has already saved us time…
we had one of the physical servers hosting rainn.org crash a few months ago. Even though we were receiving fanatical support, it took over 24 hours for our site to be restored from backups. That’s 8,000 visitors we weren’t able to help. We found that during our disaster recovery tabletop exercises we’d be able to bring our website back up in that situation within an hour at amazon. that’s 350 lost visitors instead of 8,000.
We also take full advantage of amazon rds.. Which is their fully managed database service.
It includes point in time backups, access to server logs, and even multi az failover.
They handle all of the server upgrades and security patches. You just give them a window of time, usually 30 minutes, where they can perform the upgrades once a week. The best part is during this time the servers failover to a redundant copy with no downtime to you. It happens in the background so your applications never notice it.
While mySQL has had multi az for a while, they just added the feature to SQL server so it’s a perfect fit for our applications.
Multi factor.
We also use multi factor authentication. You can install google authenticator on your phone and it’ll give you a six digit number you enter in after your password. It’s free and adds a simple, but enormously effective layer of security to your system.
Your entire infrastructure could easily be hosted at amazon. Letting someone get access to it just by guessing your password is a scary thought.
For my last slide I want to shift and talk a little bit about user privacy and safety and how your users trust is important.
If you work in a direct service envinronment, as I’m sure some of you do, you want to always keep your users privacy and safety in mind.
When implementing or changing any process or system, put yourself in the user’s shoes. Knowing what you know and what you’re able to do, would you be comfortable using the service if you were in a crisis situation? If you wouldn’t be, fix it. Change the process or the system. Revisit the drawing board, figure out where the breakdown is happening.
If people are coming to your service for help it’s because they trust you. The last thing you want to do is jeopardize that trust. You want to always Keep your users first.
Thank you.
So this is the task, more than I’ve handled before and a very different context, how do we handle this?
How have I handled scaling reads in the past (Atlantic Media, datacenter, CDN, no cloud)?
Number of video streams and website views goes up significantly during Downton but for the rest of the year stays pretty constant.