AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community to network, engage, and learn more about AWS. It features keynote announcements and more than 1,000 technical sessions. If you couldn't make it to re:Invent, please view this recap of the new services and features announced, as well as which services are available in the Sydney region.
CMP315_Optimizing Network Performance for Amazon EC2 InstancesAmazon Web Services
Many customers are using Amazon EC2 instances to run applications with high performance networking requirements. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon EC2 network performance features—such as enhanced networking, ENA, and placement groups—and discuss how we are innovating on behalf of our customers to improve networking performance in a scalable and cost-effective manner. We share best practices and performance tips for getting the best networking performance out of your Amazon EC2 instances.
MCL310_Building Deep Learning Applications with Apache MXNet and GluonAmazon Web Services
In this workshop, learn how to set up a deep learning environment and explore neural network architectures, namely multilayer perceptrons, convolution neural networks (CNNs), and LSTMs. You'll learn to model problems and use cases that many customers tackle by using Gluon, the new new intuitive, dynamic programming interface for Apache MXNet. You'll also learn how to model common use cases with deep learning on AWS.
DEV333_Using Amazon CloudWatch for Amazon ECS Resource Monitoring at ScaleAmazon Web Services
Learn how Mapbox improved and leveled up their Amazon ECS monitoring by using Amazon CloudWatch Events and custom metrics. We cover the events that kick off data collection, which enables our team to track the trillions of compute seconds happening every day on Mapbox’s ECS clusters. The result of the data collection includes custom metrics and alarms used to inform stakeholders across Mapbox about detailed ECS usage, so development teams and finance alike can easily put a price tag on each container.
STG330_Case Study How Experian Leverages Amazon EC2, EBS, and S3 with Clouder...Amazon Web Services
Experian gathers, analyzes, and processes credit data at massive scale to help businesses make smarter decisions, individuals gain access to financial services, and lenders to minimize risk. The company built its petabyte-scale data-ingestion and analytics solution using CDH (Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop) running on Amazon EC2, with data stored in Amazon EBS and Amazon S3. This next generation big data platform aims to improve the data accuracy by moving away from traditional batch uploads to a real-time API-based ingestion process. In this talk, you will learn how Experian has leveraged different AWS compute and storage services for agility and quicker time to market. We will discuss lessons learned and best practices for success throughout.
MBL204_Architecting Cost-Effective Mobile Backends for Scale, Security, and P...Amazon Web Services
Successful mobile applications rely on a broad spectrum of backend services that support the features and functionality of the front-end mobile application. The success of the mobile application depends on those backend services being built so that they can scale as the application’s audience grows, sometimes explosively when an app takes off. They must also protect the security and privacy of the data used in the application.
Learn about the new services and features we have and that we are launching across AWS Networking this year. Learn also about our vision for continued innovation in this space and the ongoing evolution of networking capabilities and performance. Gain insight into how these new capabilities help everyone—from developers to enterprises to startups—drive greater security and reliability, improved flexibility, and higher performance. Join Dave Brown, director of Amazon EC2 Networking, and learn more about Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS PrivateLink, VPN, AWS Direct Connect, and more. In addition, we cover new releases and show how easy it is to get started. You leave armed with details of how everything fits together in real-world customer scenarios.
How Do I Build a Global Transit Network on AWS? - MSC302 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
As customers put more workloads into AWS, the number of VPCs a customer needs to manage also grows. VPCs can exist across geographically disparate AWS Regions, or run in separate AWS accounts connecting to a common VPC that serves as a global network transit center. This session shows you how to implement a networking construct that AWS calls a transit VPC using the Cisco Cloud Services Router. This network topology simplifies network management and minimizes the number of connections that you need to set up and manage. Even better, it is implemented virtually and doesn't require physical network gear or a physical presence in a colocation transit hub. Come hear why customers are procuring this service through AWS Marketplace and how customers are using the transit VPC for private networking, shared connectivity, and cross-account AWS usage.
Containers on AWS: What You Missed at re:Invent 2017 - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- State of containerized application development and industry development trends
- Overview of new containers services and features announced at AWS re:Invent 2017
- Options for running containerized applications on AWS
CMP315_Optimizing Network Performance for Amazon EC2 InstancesAmazon Web Services
Many customers are using Amazon EC2 instances to run applications with high performance networking requirements. In this session, we provide an overview of Amazon EC2 network performance features—such as enhanced networking, ENA, and placement groups—and discuss how we are innovating on behalf of our customers to improve networking performance in a scalable and cost-effective manner. We share best practices and performance tips for getting the best networking performance out of your Amazon EC2 instances.
MCL310_Building Deep Learning Applications with Apache MXNet and GluonAmazon Web Services
In this workshop, learn how to set up a deep learning environment and explore neural network architectures, namely multilayer perceptrons, convolution neural networks (CNNs), and LSTMs. You'll learn to model problems and use cases that many customers tackle by using Gluon, the new new intuitive, dynamic programming interface for Apache MXNet. You'll also learn how to model common use cases with deep learning on AWS.
DEV333_Using Amazon CloudWatch for Amazon ECS Resource Monitoring at ScaleAmazon Web Services
Learn how Mapbox improved and leveled up their Amazon ECS monitoring by using Amazon CloudWatch Events and custom metrics. We cover the events that kick off data collection, which enables our team to track the trillions of compute seconds happening every day on Mapbox’s ECS clusters. The result of the data collection includes custom metrics and alarms used to inform stakeholders across Mapbox about detailed ECS usage, so development teams and finance alike can easily put a price tag on each container.
STG330_Case Study How Experian Leverages Amazon EC2, EBS, and S3 with Clouder...Amazon Web Services
Experian gathers, analyzes, and processes credit data at massive scale to help businesses make smarter decisions, individuals gain access to financial services, and lenders to minimize risk. The company built its petabyte-scale data-ingestion and analytics solution using CDH (Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop) running on Amazon EC2, with data stored in Amazon EBS and Amazon S3. This next generation big data platform aims to improve the data accuracy by moving away from traditional batch uploads to a real-time API-based ingestion process. In this talk, you will learn how Experian has leveraged different AWS compute and storage services for agility and quicker time to market. We will discuss lessons learned and best practices for success throughout.
MBL204_Architecting Cost-Effective Mobile Backends for Scale, Security, and P...Amazon Web Services
Successful mobile applications rely on a broad spectrum of backend services that support the features and functionality of the front-end mobile application. The success of the mobile application depends on those backend services being built so that they can scale as the application’s audience grows, sometimes explosively when an app takes off. They must also protect the security and privacy of the data used in the application.
Learn about the new services and features we have and that we are launching across AWS Networking this year. Learn also about our vision for continued innovation in this space and the ongoing evolution of networking capabilities and performance. Gain insight into how these new capabilities help everyone—from developers to enterprises to startups—drive greater security and reliability, improved flexibility, and higher performance. Join Dave Brown, director of Amazon EC2 Networking, and learn more about Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS PrivateLink, VPN, AWS Direct Connect, and more. In addition, we cover new releases and show how easy it is to get started. You leave armed with details of how everything fits together in real-world customer scenarios.
How Do I Build a Global Transit Network on AWS? - MSC302 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
As customers put more workloads into AWS, the number of VPCs a customer needs to manage also grows. VPCs can exist across geographically disparate AWS Regions, or run in separate AWS accounts connecting to a common VPC that serves as a global network transit center. This session shows you how to implement a networking construct that AWS calls a transit VPC using the Cisco Cloud Services Router. This network topology simplifies network management and minimizes the number of connections that you need to set up and manage. Even better, it is implemented virtually and doesn't require physical network gear or a physical presence in a colocation transit hub. Come hear why customers are procuring this service through AWS Marketplace and how customers are using the transit VPC for private networking, shared connectivity, and cross-account AWS usage.
Containers on AWS: What You Missed at re:Invent 2017 - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- State of containerized application development and industry development trends
- Overview of new containers services and features announced at AWS re:Invent 2017
- Options for running containerized applications on AWS
For organizations looking to glean insights from their data, it is essential to deploy the right environment to successfully support analytics workloads. Learn about the different storage options from AWS, and discuss with our experts how to select the best option for your big data analytics workloads. Hear how one customer, ViaSat, used Amazon EBS for their Apache Kafka and Apache Hadoop workload to improve cost and performance. We also describe best practices and share tips for success throughout.
Deep Dive: AWS Direct Connect and VPNs - NET403 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
As enterprises move to the cloud, robust connectivity is often an early consideration. AWS Direct Connect provides a more consistent network experience for accessing your AWS resources, typically with greater bandwidth and reduced network costs. This session dives deep into the features of AWS Direct Connect and VPNs. We discuss deployment architectures and the process from start to finish. We show you how to configure public and private virtual interfaces, configure routers, use VPN backup, and provide secure communication between sites by using the AWS VPN CloudHub.
CTD302_How Hulu reinvented Television using the AWS CloudAmazon Web Services
In this session, learn how Hulu launched a new Live TV service and Cloud DVR platform using Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon EC2 to enable the necessary scale for live video ingest, storage, and delivery of content streams. Learn best practices for geographic redundancy, index and naming challenges, hitting performance targets, optimizing for cost, and measuring the user experience to ensure smooth playback for when you build your own video streaming solution.
Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices - NET402 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we go into detail about Elastic Load Balancing configuration and day-to-day management, and also its use with Auto Scaling. We explain how to make decisions about the service and share best practices and useful tips for success.
DEV325_Application Deployment Techniques for Amazon EC2 Workloads with AWS Co...Amazon Web Services
We’ve seen companies like fast-growing startups and large enterprises adopt and evolve strategies to optimize their application deployment to Amazon EC2. Some AWS customers perform in-place updates across their servers. Some perform blue-green deployments to newly provisioned servers. In this session, we’ll share the advantages of each approach and talk about the scenarios in which you should choose one over the other. We will also demonstrate how to perform auto-scaling and auto-rollback for deployments.
NET309_Best Practices for Securing an Amazon Virtual Private CloudAmazon Web Services
This workshop will provide practical advice and guidance for designing and building secure Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Using a hands-on approach, we'll take you through Amazon VPC features such as subnets, security groups, network ACLs, routing, flow logs and service endpoints. The AWS team will also provide some guidance around best practices for VPC design and management, based on our experience of supporting customers running large-scale infrastructures.
CTD201_Introduction to Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@EdgeAmazon Web Services
End users expect to be able to view static, dynamic, and streaming content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, recently released features and examples of how customers are using CloudFront. You will also learn about recustomizing content delivery through AWS Lambda@Edge - a serverless compute service that lets you execute functions to customize the content delivered through CloudFront.
Optimizing EC2 for Fun and Profit #bigsavings #newfeatures - CMP202 - re:Inve...Amazon Web Services
What if I told you that you could improve your EC2 performance and availability and save money… Interested? Want to learn how to use all the latest functionality including [NEW] EC2 features launched at re:Invent to optimize your spend… How about now? In this session, you’ll learn how to seamlessly combine On-Demand, Spot and Reserved Instances, and how to use the best practices deployed by customers all over the world for the most common applications and workloads.
After just one hour you’ll leave armed with multiple ways to grow your compute capacity and to enable new types of cloud computing applications - without it costing you an arm and a leg.
In this session, learn about all of the AWS storage solutions, and get guidance about which ones to use for different use cases. We discuss the core AWS storage services. These include Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Glacier, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). We also discuss data transfer services such as AWS Snowball, Snowball Edge, and AWS Snowmobile, and hybrid storage solutions such as AWS Storage Gateway.
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix - NET303 - re:Invent...Amazon Web Services
Netflix is big and dynamic. At Netflix, IP addresses mean nothing in the cloud. This is a big challenge with Amazon VPC Flow Logs. VPC Flow Log entries only present network-level information (L3 and L4), which is virtually meaningless. Our goal is to map each IP address back to an application, at scale, to derive true network-level insight within Amazon VPC. In this session, the Cloud Network Engineering team discusses the temporal nature of IP address utilization in AWS and the problem with looking at OSI Layer 3 and Layer 4 information in the cloud.
As more customers adopt Amazon VPC architectures, the features and flexibility of the service are squaring off against evolving design requirements. This session follows this evolution of a single regional VPC into a multi-VPC, multi-region design with diverse connectivity into on-premises systems and infrastructure. Along the way, we investigate creative customer solutions for scaling and securing outbound VPC traffic, securing private access to Amazon S3, managing multi-tenant VPCs, integrating existing customer networks through AWS Direct Connect, and building a full VPC mesh network across global regions.
Are you using the AWS X-Ray service to gather insights into your distributed applications and want to learn how to do more? Or are you still learning about the service and want to understand its full power and potential? This session is a deep dive into the AWS X-Ray service and how the API’s can be used to derive new and interesting insights. The session will walk through the creation of a custom analytical application, and show code samples that will be available to all attendees. An initial short overview of the service will be provided, but is recommended that for those unfamiliar with the AWS X-Ray service they attend an introductory session.
Podcasting on AWS – A Discussion on Everything from Production to Distributio...Amazon Web Services
Reaching a large podcast audience can present some significant infrastructure scaling challenges. In this session, startup company Whooshkaa walks you through the podcasting landscape. During this session, you will learn about the new audiences you can reach through podcasts. We will explore technical solutions such as Amazon Lightsail, S3 and CloudFront which can facilitate experimentation and help you reach a global audience at low cost. We will dive into Whooshkaa’s podcasting platform and explore advanced architectures, leveraging AWS services, allowing you to curate and customize content for each listener. We will also explore tools and solutions for measuring engagement and connecting with your audience through podcasting.
NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS Fargate - CON214 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. Join us to learn more about how Fargate works, why we built it, and how you can get started using it to run containers today.
In this session, you will learn best practices for implementing simple to advanced AI/ML use cases on AWS. First. we will review the decision points for using democratised services such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly and integration with services such as Amazon Connect. Then we will look at real use cases, optimising the customer experience with chatbots, streamlining the customer experience predicting responses with Amazon Connect. Finally, we will dive deep into the most common of these patterns and cover design and implementation considerations. By the end of the session you will understand how to use Amazon Lex to optimise the user experience, through different user interactions.
Network Performance: Making Every Packet Count - NET401 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Many applications are network I/O bound, including common database-based applications and service-based architectures. But operating systems and applications are often not tuned to deliver high performance. This session uncovers hidden issues that lead to low network performance, and shows you how to overcome them to obtain the best network performance possible.
DEV204_Debugging Modern Applications Introduction to AWS X-RayAmazon Web Services
Analyzing and debugging production distributed applications built using a service oriented, microservices, or serverless architectures is a challenging task. In this session, we introduce AWS X-Ray, an AWS service that makes it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and errors, pinpoint issues to specific services in your application, identify the impact of issues on application users, and visualize the service call graph and the request timelines for your applications. We will also showcase a customer, Chick-fil-A and how they have adopted AWS X-Ray to play a role throughout the microservice lifecycle in order to ensure quality, transparency, and operational visibility for their services on AWS
In this mid-level architecture session, we cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS's highly available DNS service. Learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS. Learn also how to configure DNS failover using health checks, how and when to use private DNS within your VPC, and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2's DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network. We also walk through how to use Traffic Flow to manager traffic to your applications' globally distributed endpoints to optimize for constraints such as endpoint load, the health of your resources, geographic restrictions, and internet latency.
Surveys consistently rank backup as one of the first workloads to move to the cloud. But what does it really look like? This session gives backup managers and admins the straight story on streamlining AWS Cloud integration with existing on-premises data backup software, tape processes, virtual tape libraries, third-party snapshots, file servers, and archives. Learn how to choose the right integration with varying degrees of disruption, how to automatically migrate data for cost reductions and compliance, and how to recover individual files or many files fast. We discuss Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon EFS, AWS Snowball, AWS Storage Gateway (both as VTL and File Gateway), and third-party partner integrations.
In this session, we seek to address the many real-life conditions that lead to different VPC design scenarios. We break down the reasons why customers choose to deploy a single VPC as opposed to a multi-VPC approach. We also explore the architectures that lead to customers deploying advanced VPC designs, such as shared services VPCs or multi-region transit VPCs. The session explores in detail the tools you need to support these architectures, such as AWS Direct Connect, VPC peering, VPN, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and resource tagging.
Amazon infrastructure services (Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon VPC) form the backbone platform for hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. In this hands-on workshop we will take you to walk through these infrastructure services and how you can use them to match capacity and costs requirement.
For organizations looking to glean insights from their data, it is essential to deploy the right environment to successfully support analytics workloads. Learn about the different storage options from AWS, and discuss with our experts how to select the best option for your big data analytics workloads. Hear how one customer, ViaSat, used Amazon EBS for their Apache Kafka and Apache Hadoop workload to improve cost and performance. We also describe best practices and share tips for success throughout.
Deep Dive: AWS Direct Connect and VPNs - NET403 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
As enterprises move to the cloud, robust connectivity is often an early consideration. AWS Direct Connect provides a more consistent network experience for accessing your AWS resources, typically with greater bandwidth and reduced network costs. This session dives deep into the features of AWS Direct Connect and VPNs. We discuss deployment architectures and the process from start to finish. We show you how to configure public and private virtual interfaces, configure routers, use VPN backup, and provide secure communication between sites by using the AWS VPN CloudHub.
CTD302_How Hulu reinvented Television using the AWS CloudAmazon Web Services
In this session, learn how Hulu launched a new Live TV service and Cloud DVR platform using Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon EC2 to enable the necessary scale for live video ingest, storage, and delivery of content streams. Learn best practices for geographic redundancy, index and naming challenges, hitting performance targets, optimizing for cost, and measuring the user experience to ensure smooth playback for when you build your own video streaming solution.
Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices - NET402 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we go into detail about Elastic Load Balancing configuration and day-to-day management, and also its use with Auto Scaling. We explain how to make decisions about the service and share best practices and useful tips for success.
DEV325_Application Deployment Techniques for Amazon EC2 Workloads with AWS Co...Amazon Web Services
We’ve seen companies like fast-growing startups and large enterprises adopt and evolve strategies to optimize their application deployment to Amazon EC2. Some AWS customers perform in-place updates across their servers. Some perform blue-green deployments to newly provisioned servers. In this session, we’ll share the advantages of each approach and talk about the scenarios in which you should choose one over the other. We will also demonstrate how to perform auto-scaling and auto-rollback for deployments.
NET309_Best Practices for Securing an Amazon Virtual Private CloudAmazon Web Services
This workshop will provide practical advice and guidance for designing and building secure Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Using a hands-on approach, we'll take you through Amazon VPC features such as subnets, security groups, network ACLs, routing, flow logs and service endpoints. The AWS team will also provide some guidance around best practices for VPC design and management, based on our experience of supporting customers running large-scale infrastructures.
CTD201_Introduction to Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@EdgeAmazon Web Services
End users expect to be able to view static, dynamic, and streaming content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, recently released features and examples of how customers are using CloudFront. You will also learn about recustomizing content delivery through AWS Lambda@Edge - a serverless compute service that lets you execute functions to customize the content delivered through CloudFront.
Optimizing EC2 for Fun and Profit #bigsavings #newfeatures - CMP202 - re:Inve...Amazon Web Services
What if I told you that you could improve your EC2 performance and availability and save money… Interested? Want to learn how to use all the latest functionality including [NEW] EC2 features launched at re:Invent to optimize your spend… How about now? In this session, you’ll learn how to seamlessly combine On-Demand, Spot and Reserved Instances, and how to use the best practices deployed by customers all over the world for the most common applications and workloads.
After just one hour you’ll leave armed with multiple ways to grow your compute capacity and to enable new types of cloud computing applications - without it costing you an arm and a leg.
In this session, learn about all of the AWS storage solutions, and get guidance about which ones to use for different use cases. We discuss the core AWS storage services. These include Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Glacier, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). We also discuss data transfer services such as AWS Snowball, Snowball Edge, and AWS Snowmobile, and hybrid storage solutions such as AWS Storage Gateway.
A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix - NET303 - re:Invent...Amazon Web Services
Netflix is big and dynamic. At Netflix, IP addresses mean nothing in the cloud. This is a big challenge with Amazon VPC Flow Logs. VPC Flow Log entries only present network-level information (L3 and L4), which is virtually meaningless. Our goal is to map each IP address back to an application, at scale, to derive true network-level insight within Amazon VPC. In this session, the Cloud Network Engineering team discusses the temporal nature of IP address utilization in AWS and the problem with looking at OSI Layer 3 and Layer 4 information in the cloud.
As more customers adopt Amazon VPC architectures, the features and flexibility of the service are squaring off against evolving design requirements. This session follows this evolution of a single regional VPC into a multi-VPC, multi-region design with diverse connectivity into on-premises systems and infrastructure. Along the way, we investigate creative customer solutions for scaling and securing outbound VPC traffic, securing private access to Amazon S3, managing multi-tenant VPCs, integrating existing customer networks through AWS Direct Connect, and building a full VPC mesh network across global regions.
Are you using the AWS X-Ray service to gather insights into your distributed applications and want to learn how to do more? Or are you still learning about the service and want to understand its full power and potential? This session is a deep dive into the AWS X-Ray service and how the API’s can be used to derive new and interesting insights. The session will walk through the creation of a custom analytical application, and show code samples that will be available to all attendees. An initial short overview of the service will be provided, but is recommended that for those unfamiliar with the AWS X-Ray service they attend an introductory session.
Podcasting on AWS – A Discussion on Everything from Production to Distributio...Amazon Web Services
Reaching a large podcast audience can present some significant infrastructure scaling challenges. In this session, startup company Whooshkaa walks you through the podcasting landscape. During this session, you will learn about the new audiences you can reach through podcasts. We will explore technical solutions such as Amazon Lightsail, S3 and CloudFront which can facilitate experimentation and help you reach a global audience at low cost. We will dive into Whooshkaa’s podcasting platform and explore advanced architectures, leveraging AWS services, allowing you to curate and customize content for each listener. We will also explore tools and solutions for measuring engagement and connecting with your audience through podcasting.
NEW LAUNCH! Introducing AWS Fargate - CON214 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. Join us to learn more about how Fargate works, why we built it, and how you can get started using it to run containers today.
In this session, you will learn best practices for implementing simple to advanced AI/ML use cases on AWS. First. we will review the decision points for using democratised services such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly and integration with services such as Amazon Connect. Then we will look at real use cases, optimising the customer experience with chatbots, streamlining the customer experience predicting responses with Amazon Connect. Finally, we will dive deep into the most common of these patterns and cover design and implementation considerations. By the end of the session you will understand how to use Amazon Lex to optimise the user experience, through different user interactions.
Network Performance: Making Every Packet Count - NET401 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Many applications are network I/O bound, including common database-based applications and service-based architectures. But operating systems and applications are often not tuned to deliver high performance. This session uncovers hidden issues that lead to low network performance, and shows you how to overcome them to obtain the best network performance possible.
DEV204_Debugging Modern Applications Introduction to AWS X-RayAmazon Web Services
Analyzing and debugging production distributed applications built using a service oriented, microservices, or serverless architectures is a challenging task. In this session, we introduce AWS X-Ray, an AWS service that makes it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and errors, pinpoint issues to specific services in your application, identify the impact of issues on application users, and visualize the service call graph and the request timelines for your applications. We will also showcase a customer, Chick-fil-A and how they have adopted AWS X-Ray to play a role throughout the microservice lifecycle in order to ensure quality, transparency, and operational visibility for their services on AWS
In this mid-level architecture session, we cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS's highly available DNS service. Learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS. Learn also how to configure DNS failover using health checks, how and when to use private DNS within your VPC, and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2's DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network. We also walk through how to use Traffic Flow to manager traffic to your applications' globally distributed endpoints to optimize for constraints such as endpoint load, the health of your resources, geographic restrictions, and internet latency.
Surveys consistently rank backup as one of the first workloads to move to the cloud. But what does it really look like? This session gives backup managers and admins the straight story on streamlining AWS Cloud integration with existing on-premises data backup software, tape processes, virtual tape libraries, third-party snapshots, file servers, and archives. Learn how to choose the right integration with varying degrees of disruption, how to automatically migrate data for cost reductions and compliance, and how to recover individual files or many files fast. We discuss Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon EFS, AWS Snowball, AWS Storage Gateway (both as VTL and File Gateway), and third-party partner integrations.
In this session, we seek to address the many real-life conditions that lead to different VPC design scenarios. We break down the reasons why customers choose to deploy a single VPC as opposed to a multi-VPC approach. We also explore the architectures that lead to customers deploying advanced VPC designs, such as shared services VPCs or multi-region transit VPCs. The session explores in detail the tools you need to support these architectures, such as AWS Direct Connect, VPC peering, VPN, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and resource tagging.
Amazon infrastructure services (Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon VPC) form the backbone platform for hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. In this hands-on workshop we will take you to walk through these infrastructure services and how you can use them to match capacity and costs requirement.
From One to Many: Diving Deeper into Evolving VPC Design (ARC310-R2) - AWS re...Amazon Web Services
Most organizations today run their production workloads inside Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This software-defined network structure provides the boundaries that are needed for the security that an organization and its customers require. For most organizations, the natural evolution in their architecture, security, and environment involves migrating from a single VPC to multiple VPCs in the same AWS Region and across many other AWS Regions. The question of how to enforce security policies while simplifying the flow of traffic between multiple VPCs, the data center, and remote offices while adhering to AWS best practices becomes an intricate one to answer. In this chalk talk, we provide solutions to scenarios like these and more. Topics include Amazon security groups, NACLs, static and dynamic VPNs, AWS Direct Connect, IPS and IDS, transit VPC architectures, designing for security, and more.
AWS Foundations
Well Architected Framework and AWS Trusted Advisor
Global Infrastructure
Demo - Designing the network (VPC) for HA and FT
VPC Network security
re:Invent CON320 Tracing and Debugging for Containerized ServicesCalvin French-Owen
My talk for re:Invent here tries to answer a simple question:
"It's 2am, I'm getting paged. Now what?"
I've shared a bunch of the techniques and tools we've found really powerful at Segment, hopefully you find them useful too.
Migrate Workloads with Large Storage and I/O Demands (GPSTEC311) - AWS re:Inv...Amazon Web Services
When you consider migrating your on-premises storage workloads to AWS, it's important to consider both performance and features. In this session, you learn how to use I/O profiling before you move your workload to AWS in order to understand your performance needs. Learn to translate your performance and feature requirements into solutions which might include AWS services and partner solutions. In addition we show you how to keep monitoring your storage workload once you're running on AWS.
Best Practices for Running SQL Server on Amazon RDS (DAT323) - AWS re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides a managed service to run SQL Server databases in AWS. While Amazon RDS handles provisioning and maintaining the SQL Server instance, there are things you can do to ensure that the SQL Server instance is healthy. We'll review some best practices involved in configuring the Amazon RDS SQL Server instance, focusing on availability, security and migration. We'll also hear from our customer Allstate, sharing details about their use of Amazon RDS.
Why AWS for running Microsoft workloads - CMP202-I - New York AWS SummitAmazon Web Services
Enterprises run their Windows workloads on the AWS Cloud because of its experience, reliability, security, and performance. In this session, we discuss AWS strategy and latest features, and we share best practices for running Microsoft workloads, such as Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET applications, on AWS. An addition, we cover the evolution of AWS as the leading platform for hosting business-critical applications, and we dispel myths around running Microsoft workloads on AWS by sharing real customer examples. From lowering TCO to maximizing five-year ROI, learn how organizations are realizing maximum benefit from running Windows on AWS.
Introduction to AWS Global Accelerator - SVC211 - Chicago AWS SummitAmazon Web Services
No matter how much effort, money, and resources you invest in your applications to ensure high availability and low latency, it won’t matter if your users are accessing them via a slow or congested public network. In this session, we introduce AWS Global Accelerator, a new global service that enables you to optimally route traffic to your multi-regional endpoints via static Anycast IP addresses that are announced from the expansive AWS edge network. This session walks through various features and customer use cases, including several examples that demonstrate how you can use Global Accelerator to achieve near-zero application downtime and reduce latency for your global applications.
Global Capabilities of the AWS Platform - building for resilience on AWSAmazon Web Services
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
In this presentation, we present the building components that enable developers and IT professionals, to implement World-Class, high resiliency applications. Designed to withstand disasters, and provide a highly resilient solution for IT workloads.
AWS 기반 지속 가능한 데이터 분석 플랫폼 구축하기
소성운, 지그재그
한명의 데이터 분석가로서 AWS를 통해 어떻게 손쉽게 분석 플랫폼을 구축할 수 있는지 사례를 통해 알아봅니다. 1위 초등 스마트 홈러닝 서비스인 아이스크림 홈런에서 사용자의 학습 데이터를 분석하기 위해 Amazon Kinesis, Glue, Redshift 등의 서비스를 사용하면서 겪었던 문제와 해결 노하우를 공유합니다. 또한, 매일 신상품이 1만건 이상 등록되고, 월 활성화유저(MAU) 230만에 육박하는 쇼핑몰 모음 서비스인 지그재그에서 데이터 전처리 부터 시각화까지 Amazon S3, EMR, Glue, Tableau(BI) 도구를 통해 통해 어떻게 클라우드를 통해 단발성이 아닌 지속 가능한 관리 가능한 데이터 분석 프로세스를 만들 수 있는지 알아봅니다.
Disaster Recovery with AWS: Tiered Approaches to Balance Cost with Recovery O...Amazon Web Services
Learn how to take advantage of AWS for disaster recovery. In this session, we examine how traditional disaster recovery concepts can be adapted to the cloud. We also explore ways to cost-effectively reinvent disaster recovery, so it can extend to applications and workloads that have never had it before. This session walks you through tiered technology approaches to apply as part of a disaster recovery strategy that aligns costs to intended business outcomes.
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility is a relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. We review the functionality in order to understand the architectural differences that contribute to improved scalability, availability, and durability. We also dive deep into the capabilities of the service and review the latest available features. Finally, we walk through the techniques that can be used to migrate to Amazon Aurora.
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.