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.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users (200)Amazon Web Services
This mid-level technical session will provide an overview of the techniques that you can use to build high-scalabilty applications on AWS. Take a journey from 1 user to 10 million users and understand how your application's architecture can evolve and which AWS services can help as you increase the number of users that you serve.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Design, Deploy, and Optimize Microsoft SharePoint on AWS ...Amazon Web Services
AWS can help you rapidly deploy and scale your Microsoft SharePoint environment to help you collaborate more efficiently and cost-effectively. This session reviews architectural considerations for building a SharePoint deployment on AWS, best practices to ensure optimal performance, how to leverage multiple Availability Zones for high availability and disaster recovery, and how to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. We will also look at new Quick Start guides, AWS CloudFormation templates, and other tools that dramatically reduce the time to deployment.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Options for Hybrid Environments (200)Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS Cloud to augment their current IT capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models. But for existing enterprises, in many cases, applications deployed to the cloud need to integrate with existing on-premises resources. This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of a large-scale real IT shop executive. Since each company is unique, this session compares the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks of each model and then helps participants create new hybrid orchestration and deployment options for hybrid enterprise environments.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Learning, 3D Content Rendering, and Massively Parall...Amazon Web Services
Accelerated computing is on the rise because of massively parallel, compute-intensive workloads such as deep learning, 3D content rendering, financial computing, and engineering simulations. In this session, we provide an overview of our accelerated computing instances, including how to choose instances based on your application needs, best practices and tips to optimize performance, and specific examples of accelerated computing in real-world applications.
Creating Your Virtual Data Center: VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity OptionsAmazon Web Services
In this session, we will walk through the fundamentals of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). First, we will cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We will then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks AWS makes available with VPC and how you can connect this with your offices and current data center footprint.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users (200)Amazon Web Services
This mid-level technical session will provide an overview of the techniques that you can use to build high-scalabilty applications on AWS. Take a journey from 1 user to 10 million users and understand how your application's architecture can evolve and which AWS services can help as you increase the number of users that you serve.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Design, Deploy, and Optimize Microsoft SharePoint on AWS ...Amazon Web Services
AWS can help you rapidly deploy and scale your Microsoft SharePoint environment to help you collaborate more efficiently and cost-effectively. This session reviews architectural considerations for building a SharePoint deployment on AWS, best practices to ensure optimal performance, how to leverage multiple Availability Zones for high availability and disaster recovery, and how to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. We will also look at new Quick Start guides, AWS CloudFormation templates, and other tools that dramatically reduce the time to deployment.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Options for Hybrid Environments (200)Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS Cloud to augment their current IT capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models. But for existing enterprises, in many cases, applications deployed to the cloud need to integrate with existing on-premises resources. This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of a large-scale real IT shop executive. Since each company is unique, this session compares the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks of each model and then helps participants create new hybrid orchestration and deployment options for hybrid enterprise environments.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Learning, 3D Content Rendering, and Massively Parall...Amazon Web Services
Accelerated computing is on the rise because of massively parallel, compute-intensive workloads such as deep learning, 3D content rendering, financial computing, and engineering simulations. In this session, we provide an overview of our accelerated computing instances, including how to choose instances based on your application needs, best practices and tips to optimize performance, and specific examples of accelerated computing in real-world applications.
Creating Your Virtual Data Center: VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity OptionsAmazon Web Services
In this session, we will walk through the fundamentals of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). First, we will cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We will then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks AWS makes available with VPC and how you can connect this with your offices and current data center footprint.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
SRV401 Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)Amazon Web Services
In this session we will review Amazon EFS and how it delivers fully managed, petabyte-scale file storage for Amazon EC2 instances. Large scale and consistent performance make Amazon EFS ideal for web and content serving, enterprise applications, media processing, container storage, and Big Data analytics use cases. Session attendees will learn how to identify appropriate applications for use with Amazon EFS, understand performance details and security models, and hear how established customers are using it in production. The target audience is file system administrators, application developers, and application owners that operate or build file-based applications that require consistent latencies at cloud scale.
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We will cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Case Study: How Monsanto Uses Amazon EFS with Their Large...Amazon Web Services
At Monsanto, we build and use technologies that support our data and also BI efforts that facilitate intelligent, data-driven decisions. In the past year, we've embarked on large-scale efforts to modernize our geospatial platform and improve our analytic processing capabilities by building out new cloud and open-source based services. We found using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) gave us the flexibility and performance we were seeking while saving us significant time, effort, and cost. In this session, we discuss how Monsanto uses the Amazon EFS service to run our large scaling geospatial data sets such as raster, and to perform highly parallelized analytics for data scientists and business users. Topics include the technical architecture, how and why we chose EFS for handling data sets that are terabytes in size, our recommendations, and the lessons learned along the way.
AWS re:Invent 2016: High Performance Computing on AWS (CMP207)Amazon Web Services
High performance computing in the cloud is enabling high scale compute- and graphics-intensive workloads across industries, ranging from aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing to life sciences, financial services, and energy. AWS provides application developers and end users with unprecedented computational power for massively parallel applications, in areas such as large-scale fluid and materials simulations, 3D content rendering, financial computing, and deep learning. This session provides an overview of HPC capabilities on AWS, describes the newest generations of accelerated computing instances (including P2), as well as highlighting customer and partner use-cases across industries.
Attendees learn about best practices for running HPC workflows in the cloud, including graphical pre- and post-processing, workflow automation, and optimization. Attendees also learn about new and emerging HPC use cases: in particular, deep learning training and inference, large-scale simulations, and high performance data analytics.
AWS re:Invent 2016: From Dial-Up to DevOps - AOL’s Migration to the Cloud (DE...Amazon Web Services
AOL originally provided dial-up service to millions of people. Today, AOL powers advertising and media experiences for the web’s top destinations. How do you maintain observability and reliability to both business and technical teams for high-traffic services in a dynamic infrastructure? Join us as we discuss AOL’s DevOps journey. We will dive into its engineering culture, automation, and monitoring best practices that have allowed AOL to successfully reinvent their infrastructure, as they moved from globally distributed data centers to the AWS Cloud. Session sponsored by Datadog.
AWS Competency Partner
AWS re:Invent 2016: Hardware-Accelerating Graphics Desktop Workloads with Ama...Amazon Web Services
Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now offers GPU configurations to support design and engineering applications and three-dimensional modeling. We show you how running these applications on Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, in close proximity to data you already store on AWS, can help you process and visualize the results you need. We discuss the economics of running Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, and demonstrate the experience of running a graphics-intensive application on a GPU-enabled Amazon WorkSpace. We also invite Autodesk (or TRC or ESRi) to discuss how they are using Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles in their business.
Intended for customers who have (or will have) thousands of instances on AWS, this session is about reducing the complexity of managing costs for these large fleets so they run efficiently. Attendees will learn about common roadblocks that prevent large customers from cost optimizing, tools they can use to efficiently remove those roadblocks, and techniques to monitor their rate of cost optimization. The session will include a case study that will talk in detail about the millions of dollars saved using these techniques. Customers will learn about a range of templates they can use to quickly implement these techniques, and also partners who can help them implement these templates.
Want to get ramped up on how to use Amazon's big data web services and launch your first big data application on AWS? Join us on our journey as we discuss reference architecture, design patterns, and best practices for assembling technologies to meet your big data challenges. We will also build a big data application in real-time using Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks for Chef AutomateAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. The Chef server gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more. The Chef server centrally stores your configuration tasks and provides them to each node in your compute environment at any scale, from a few nodes to thousands of nodes. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is completely compatible with tooling and cookbooks from the Chef community and automatically registers new nodes with your Chef server.
Running Lean and Mean: Designing Cost-efficient Architectures on AWS (ARC313)...Amazon Web Services
Whether you're a startup getting to profitability or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. Dive deep into techniques used by successful customers to reduce waste and fine-tune their AWS spending, often with improved performance and a better end-customer experience. Some techniques covered in this session: Learn how to make the most of Auto Scaling, develop an effective Spot Instance strategy, and optimize for your daily traffic cycles. Learn techniques to tier storage, offload your static content to Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront, reduce your database loads with edge caching, spawn part-time databases, pool resources across accounts, and even teach your dev/test instances to sleep. Showcasing easily-applicable methods, this session could be your best invested hour all day.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Bring Microsoft Applications to AWS to Save Money and Sta...Amazon Web Services
Running Microsoft workloads on AWS is easy and can save you money. This session will cover how to bring your own Microsoft licenses to AWS, and then demonstrate using PowerShell to import your Windows Server image from Vmware or Hyper-V, configure Windows KMS with your license key, and launch an EC2 Dedicated Host. We will discuss ways you can use AWS Config rules to manage license compliance.
Review of how AWS EC2 storage options have evolved, and making the right selection for your workload. Covering Amazon Elastic Block Storage, EBS and Amazon Elastic File System, EFS.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Best Practices for Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift ...Amazon Web Services
Analyzing big data quickly and efficiently requires a data warehouse optimized to handle and scale for large datasets. Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data for a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses. In this session, we take an in-depth look at data warehousing with Amazon Redshift for big data analytics. We cover best practices to take advantage of Amazon Redshift's columnar technology and parallel processing capabilities to deliver high throughput and query performance. We also discuss how to design optimal schemas, load data efficiently, and use work load management.
Learn how Amazon Redshift, our fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse, can help you quickly and cost-effectively analyze all of your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Get an introduction to how Amazon Redshift uses massively parallel processing, scale-out architecture, and columnar direct-attached storage to minimize I/O time and maximize performance. Learn how you can gain deeper business insights and save money and time by migrating to Amazon Redshift. Take away strategies for migrating from on-premises data warehousing solutions, tuning schema and queries, and utilizing third party solutions.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
BDA 302 Deep Dive on Migrating Big Data Workloads to Amazon EMRAmazon Web Services
Customers are migrating their analytics, data processing (ETL), and data science workloads running on Apache Hadoop, Spark, and data warehouse appliances from on-premise deployments to Amazon EMR in order to save costs, increase availability, and improve performance. Amazon EMR is a managed service that lets you process and analyze extremely large data sets using the latest versions of over 15 open-source frameworks in the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystems. This session will focus on identifying the components and workflows in your current environment and providing the best practices to migrate these workloads to Amazon EMR. We will explain how to move from HDFS to Amazon S3 as a durable storage layer, and how to lower costs with Amazon EC2 Spot instances and Auto Scaling. Additionally, we will go over common security recommendations and tuning tips to accelerate the time to production.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Move your desktops to the cloud with Amazon WorkSpaces (B...Amazon Web Services
Organizations today are striving to provide a more flexible environment for their end users, allowing them access to corporate resources from any device, anytime. At the same time, securing corporate information remains a top priority for CIOs. Traditional solutions such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offer worker flexibility and security benefits, but they are expensive to purchase, complex to deploy, and they don’t scale well. In this session, you’ll learn how Amazon WorkSpaces combines the benefits of VDI with the economics of the cloud to deliver better value for organizations. We’ll show you just how easy it is to get started, and talk through how customers are using Amazon WorkSpaces today.
Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, "Where do I start?" Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from zero to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure in the cloud.
Amazon AppStream is a new service that provides developers with the ability to stream resource intensive applications, such as 3D games or rich graphical applications, from the cloud. With Amazon AppStream, mobile and PC developers have the flexibility to stream their entire application or only parts of their application that need additional cloud resources. Learn how to build, upload, and deploy your first application, how to create clients for PC and mobile devices, and considerations for optimizing your application for Amazon AppStream.
SRV401 Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)Amazon Web Services
In this session we will review Amazon EFS and how it delivers fully managed, petabyte-scale file storage for Amazon EC2 instances. Large scale and consistent performance make Amazon EFS ideal for web and content serving, enterprise applications, media processing, container storage, and Big Data analytics use cases. Session attendees will learn how to identify appropriate applications for use with Amazon EFS, understand performance details and security models, and hear how established customers are using it in production. The target audience is file system administrators, application developers, and application owners that operate or build file-based applications that require consistent latencies at cloud scale.
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We will cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Case Study: How Monsanto Uses Amazon EFS with Their Large...Amazon Web Services
At Monsanto, we build and use technologies that support our data and also BI efforts that facilitate intelligent, data-driven decisions. In the past year, we've embarked on large-scale efforts to modernize our geospatial platform and improve our analytic processing capabilities by building out new cloud and open-source based services. We found using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) gave us the flexibility and performance we were seeking while saving us significant time, effort, and cost. In this session, we discuss how Monsanto uses the Amazon EFS service to run our large scaling geospatial data sets such as raster, and to perform highly parallelized analytics for data scientists and business users. Topics include the technical architecture, how and why we chose EFS for handling data sets that are terabytes in size, our recommendations, and the lessons learned along the way.
AWS re:Invent 2016: High Performance Computing on AWS (CMP207)Amazon Web Services
High performance computing in the cloud is enabling high scale compute- and graphics-intensive workloads across industries, ranging from aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing to life sciences, financial services, and energy. AWS provides application developers and end users with unprecedented computational power for massively parallel applications, in areas such as large-scale fluid and materials simulations, 3D content rendering, financial computing, and deep learning. This session provides an overview of HPC capabilities on AWS, describes the newest generations of accelerated computing instances (including P2), as well as highlighting customer and partner use-cases across industries.
Attendees learn about best practices for running HPC workflows in the cloud, including graphical pre- and post-processing, workflow automation, and optimization. Attendees also learn about new and emerging HPC use cases: in particular, deep learning training and inference, large-scale simulations, and high performance data analytics.
AWS re:Invent 2016: From Dial-Up to DevOps - AOL’s Migration to the Cloud (DE...Amazon Web Services
AOL originally provided dial-up service to millions of people. Today, AOL powers advertising and media experiences for the web’s top destinations. How do you maintain observability and reliability to both business and technical teams for high-traffic services in a dynamic infrastructure? Join us as we discuss AOL’s DevOps journey. We will dive into its engineering culture, automation, and monitoring best practices that have allowed AOL to successfully reinvent their infrastructure, as they moved from globally distributed data centers to the AWS Cloud. Session sponsored by Datadog.
AWS Competency Partner
AWS re:Invent 2016: Hardware-Accelerating Graphics Desktop Workloads with Ama...Amazon Web Services
Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop computing service that runs in the cloud, and now offers GPU configurations to support design and engineering applications and three-dimensional modeling. We show you how running these applications on Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, in close proximity to data you already store on AWS, can help you process and visualize the results you need. We discuss the economics of running Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles, and demonstrate the experience of running a graphics-intensive application on a GPU-enabled Amazon WorkSpace. We also invite Autodesk (or TRC or ESRi) to discuss how they are using Amazon WorkSpaces graphics bundles in their business.
Intended for customers who have (or will have) thousands of instances on AWS, this session is about reducing the complexity of managing costs for these large fleets so they run efficiently. Attendees will learn about common roadblocks that prevent large customers from cost optimizing, tools they can use to efficiently remove those roadblocks, and techniques to monitor their rate of cost optimization. The session will include a case study that will talk in detail about the millions of dollars saved using these techniques. Customers will learn about a range of templates they can use to quickly implement these techniques, and also partners who can help them implement these templates.
Want to get ramped up on how to use Amazon's big data web services and launch your first big data application on AWS? Join us on our journey as we discuss reference architecture, design patterns, and best practices for assembling technologies to meet your big data challenges. We will also build a big data application in real-time using Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
Configuration Management with AWS OpsWorks for Chef AutomateAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status. The Chef server gives you full stack automation by handling operational tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more. The Chef server centrally stores your configuration tasks and provides them to each node in your compute environment at any scale, from a few nodes to thousands of nodes. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is completely compatible with tooling and cookbooks from the Chef community and automatically registers new nodes with your Chef server.
Running Lean and Mean: Designing Cost-efficient Architectures on AWS (ARC313)...Amazon Web Services
Whether you're a startup getting to profitability or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. Dive deep into techniques used by successful customers to reduce waste and fine-tune their AWS spending, often with improved performance and a better end-customer experience. Some techniques covered in this session: Learn how to make the most of Auto Scaling, develop an effective Spot Instance strategy, and optimize for your daily traffic cycles. Learn techniques to tier storage, offload your static content to Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront, reduce your database loads with edge caching, spawn part-time databases, pool resources across accounts, and even teach your dev/test instances to sleep. Showcasing easily-applicable methods, this session could be your best invested hour all day.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Bring Microsoft Applications to AWS to Save Money and Sta...Amazon Web Services
Running Microsoft workloads on AWS is easy and can save you money. This session will cover how to bring your own Microsoft licenses to AWS, and then demonstrate using PowerShell to import your Windows Server image from Vmware or Hyper-V, configure Windows KMS with your license key, and launch an EC2 Dedicated Host. We will discuss ways you can use AWS Config rules to manage license compliance.
Review of how AWS EC2 storage options have evolved, and making the right selection for your workload. Covering Amazon Elastic Block Storage, EBS and Amazon Elastic File System, EFS.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Best Practices for Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift ...Amazon Web Services
Analyzing big data quickly and efficiently requires a data warehouse optimized to handle and scale for large datasets. Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data for a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses. In this session, we take an in-depth look at data warehousing with Amazon Redshift for big data analytics. We cover best practices to take advantage of Amazon Redshift's columnar technology and parallel processing capabilities to deliver high throughput and query performance. We also discuss how to design optimal schemas, load data efficiently, and use work load management.
Learn how Amazon Redshift, our fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse, can help you quickly and cost-effectively analyze all of your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Get an introduction to how Amazon Redshift uses massively parallel processing, scale-out architecture, and columnar direct-attached storage to minimize I/O time and maximize performance. Learn how you can gain deeper business insights and save money and time by migrating to Amazon Redshift. Take away strategies for migrating from on-premises data warehousing solutions, tuning schema and queries, and utilizing third party solutions.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
BDA 302 Deep Dive on Migrating Big Data Workloads to Amazon EMRAmazon Web Services
Customers are migrating their analytics, data processing (ETL), and data science workloads running on Apache Hadoop, Spark, and data warehouse appliances from on-premise deployments to Amazon EMR in order to save costs, increase availability, and improve performance. Amazon EMR is a managed service that lets you process and analyze extremely large data sets using the latest versions of over 15 open-source frameworks in the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystems. This session will focus on identifying the components and workflows in your current environment and providing the best practices to migrate these workloads to Amazon EMR. We will explain how to move from HDFS to Amazon S3 as a durable storage layer, and how to lower costs with Amazon EC2 Spot instances and Auto Scaling. Additionally, we will go over common security recommendations and tuning tips to accelerate the time to production.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Move your desktops to the cloud with Amazon WorkSpaces (B...Amazon Web Services
Organizations today are striving to provide a more flexible environment for their end users, allowing them access to corporate resources from any device, anytime. At the same time, securing corporate information remains a top priority for CIOs. Traditional solutions such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offer worker flexibility and security benefits, but they are expensive to purchase, complex to deploy, and they don’t scale well. In this session, you’ll learn how Amazon WorkSpaces combines the benefits of VDI with the economics of the cloud to deliver better value for organizations. We’ll show you just how easy it is to get started, and talk through how customers are using Amazon WorkSpaces today.
Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, "Where do I start?" Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from zero to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure in the cloud.
Amazon AppStream is a new service that provides developers with the ability to stream resource intensive applications, such as 3D games or rich graphical applications, from the cloud. With Amazon AppStream, mobile and PC developers have the flexibility to stream their entire application or only parts of their application that need additional cloud resources. Learn how to build, upload, and deploy your first application, how to create clients for PC and mobile devices, and considerations for optimizing your application for Amazon AppStream.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Maximising EC2 and EBC Performance (400)Amazon Web Services
This advanced technical session is ideal for customers that are looking to maximise the performance of AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage to support workloads with demanding IO performance requirements. If you need to run high IO workloads on EBS such as NoSQL or RBDMS systems then attend this session to find out how to optimise your EBS configuration to enable this.
This mid-level technical session will help you choose among the AWS services that can help you deploy and run your applications more easily. You will learn how to get an application running using AWS OpsWorks and AWS Elastic Beanstalk and how to use AWS CloudFormation templates to document, version control, and share your application configuration
AWS Summit London 2014 | Introduction to Amazon EC2 (100)Amazon Web Services
This session will provide an overview of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service capability and help you understand the latest updates to the range of instances types, virtual private cloud (VPC) features. It will also help you to understand the broad range of pricing options that EC2 provides and how you can use these to make smart decisions that reduce your costs.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Uses and Best Practices for Amazon Redshift (200)Amazon Web Services
Interested in finding out more about the AWS data warehouse service, Amazon Redshift? Then join us for this introductory level technical session where you can learn more about the way in which AWS customers are using Redshift and the benefits that they have delivered to their organisations as a result as well as tricks and tips for getting the most from Redshift.
AWS Summit London 2014 | From One to Many - Evolving VPC Design (400)Amazon Web Services
In this advanced technical session you will learn how you can use AWS to build and deploy virtual data centres as fast as you can design them. Learn how to combine CloudFormation templates together with best practice techniques that are in use by AWS customers today to optimise the design and implementation of your VPCs
AWS Summit London 2014 | Optimising TCO for the AWS Cloud (100)Amazon Web Services
This introductory level business focused session will help you to understand how to calculate, track and optimise the costs of using AWS to deliver your applications and run other IT workloads.
Il seminario mostra come le moderne tecnologie di Cloud Computing possono essere applicate per migliorare l'utilizzabilità e l'efficacia di strumenti di simulazione e di analisi di dati ambientali, con grandi vantaggi dal punto di vista della semplificazione dei flussi di lavoro.
Best Practices for Decommission PSTs - EPC Group High Level OverviewEPC Group
Best Practices - Best Practices for Decommission PSTs - EPC Group - Very high level overview of decommissioning PST files (from Exchange 2007) into a new environment with Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010. EPC Group.net
Over the past decade we’ve built out the most comprehensive and tested connection broker for supporting Linux clients and desktops. Whether you’re working with a 100% Linux environment or mixed, we can help.
Diversity in the technical workforce is a valuable asset for all companies, because it encourages different types of thinking and taps into the full potential of your team. Come learn from one AWS organization how a fast-moving, fast-growing team has put in place a "diversity circle" for personal and professional development. This program provides a peer mentoring group that builds skills and establishes informal networking support. The host and active participants of this two-year program will share tips and best practices for running a diversity peer mentoring group that spans engineering, product management, and operations.
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully-managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows you to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets. It’s easy to provision WorkSpaces for any number of users with a few clicks in the AWS management console and WorkSpaces can join your existing Active Directory domain so that users can continue to use their corporate credentials to access resources. This session will provide an overview of the key features and benefits of Amazon WorkSpaces, including a live demonstration.
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully-managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows you to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets.
It’s easy to provision WorkSpaces for any number of users with a few clicks in the AWS management console and WorkSpaces can join your existing Active Directory domain so that users can continue to use their corporate credentials to access resources. This webinar will provide an overview of the key features and benefits of Amazon WorkSpaces.
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully-managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows you to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets. It’s easy to provision WorkSpaces for any number of users with a few clicks in the AWS management console and WorkSpaces can join your existing Active Directory domain so that users can continue to use their corporate credentials to access resources. This session will provide an overview of the key features and benefits of Amazon WorkSpaces, including a live demonstration.
Amazon WorkSpaces provides a virtual desktop experience in the cloud. It replaces traditional computer lab approaches through mobile desktop environments that can be accessed from the classroom or at home. WorkSpaces’ device agnostic technology also pairs well with one-to-one initiatives across geographies on almost every tablet and/or computer in the market – all while enforcing security policies across the fleet. WorkSpaces also helps educational institutions quickly provision multiple desktops where users can access their applications, documents, and intranet resources that they need from a centralized location. Attend this webinar to discover alternatives to traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and learn how to centralize management of student IT resources quickly, efficiently and at the lowest cost possible.
AWS Summit 2014 Brisbane - Breakout 3
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
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablets, and zero clients. This webinar will introduce you to Amazon WorkSpaces, common ways people are using the service, and the updates we’ve been making.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Understand why customers run VDI and current IT challenges
• Value proposition of Amazon WorkSpaces
• Challenges of document access and sharing
• Overview of Amazon WorkDocs
• Demo
Who Should Attend:
• Desktop infrastructure managers
• VDI infrastructure managers
• Business decision makers responsible for new desktop initiatives
• Business decision makers responsible for remote offices, mobile users, BYOD initiatives, students, and off-shore developers
• IT administrators
AWS Summit 2014 Perth - Breakout 6
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
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Public sector customers can now leverage Amazon WorkSpaces; a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can provision a high-quality cloud desktop experience for any number of users at a cost that is highly competitive with traditional desktops and half the cost of most virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
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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
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Deploy, Scale and Manage your Microsoft Investments with AWS Amazon Web Services
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- Modernizing your Windows 2003 Servers applications before End of Support
- AWS .net benefits and services and many more
Deploy, Scale and Manage your Microsoft Investments with AWSAmazon Web Services
AWS Summit 2014 Melbourne - Breakout 3
Many IT professionals are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy, scale and manage fully supported Microsoft Windows Server workloads and Windows Server applications such as SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server that are fully supported on the AWS Cloud. Attend this session to find out:
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Amazon Enterprise Applications deliver secure managed desktop and productivity capabilities run on the AWS cloud. These services make it easy for organizations to support a modern workforce, offering flexibility and global scale, keeping data secure, and providing integration with existing IT assets. Come and learn more about Amazon Enterprise Applications, how they are being used today, and how easy it is to get started. This session is for IT professionals and business decision makers interested in learning how to simplify desktop management and productivity for their organizations.
Should I move my database to the cloud?James Serra
So you have been running on-prem SQL Server for a while now. Maybe you have taken the step to move it from bare metal to a VM, and have seen some nice benefits. Ready to see a TON more benefits? If you said “YES!”, then this is the session for you as I will go over the many benefits gained by moving your on-prem SQL Server to an Azure VM (IaaS). Then I will really blow your mind by showing you even more benefits by moving to Azure SQL Database (PaaS/DBaaS). And for those of you with a large data warehouse, I also got you covered with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Along the way I will talk about the many hybrid approaches so you can take a gradual approve to moving to the cloud. If you are interested in cost savings, additional features, ease of use, quick scaling, improved reliability and ending the days of upgrading hardware, this is the session for you!
Today, the development and operations landscape has shifted to a more collaborative model merging the two (DevOps). Developers need to know much more about the operational components of their software - especially around network programming, services development, and continuous deployment. Likewise, the developer's IT counterpart needs to know much more about development - especially around infrastructure automation (Chef/Puppet), automated testing, and continuous deployment.
Getting Started with AWS Enterprise Applications: WorkSpaces, WorkMail, WorkDocsAmazon Web Services
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2. What we’ll cover:
• Why WorkSpaces?
• What WorkSpaces offers you
• Demo!
• WorkSpace Sync + Demo!
• Integrating with your existing infrastructure
• Another demo!
• Q&A
4. Some Customer Challenges
• Realizing the “Virtual Desktop Dream”
• BYOD is increasingly popular
• Workforces are increasingly diverse
• Tablet adoption significant
• Keeping all these desktops secure
5. What does WorkSpaces offer you..?
• Fully Managed
• Support Multiple
Devices
• Keep Data Secure
and Available
• Choose Software &
Hardware
• Pay as You Go
• Corporate Directory
Integration
6. Sample Use Cases (there are many more)
• Mobile Device Access
• Secure WorkSpaces
• Remote Employees
• Seasonal Workers
• Student WorkSpaces
• Developer WorkSpaces
7. Fully Managed
• Launch the number of WorkSpaces you need
• All heavy lifting taken care of by AWS
• Users receive email to install clients and connect
WorkSpaces
9. Support Multiple Devices
• iPad
• Kindle Fire HDX (Keyboard & Mouse)
• Android Tablet
• Microsoft Windows
• Mac
10. Keep Data Secure and Available
• No data stored on end-user device
• Only Pixels delivered to users (PCoIP)
• User volume backed by Amazon S3
11. Keep Data Secure and Available
• Securely backup and sync users data
• Install on the WorkSpace and a PC or Mac
• Data is backed up to Amazon S3
• Users can access their data when they need it
13. Choose Software and Hardware
All WorkSpaces Bundles provide the Windows 7 Experience to users (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2 with RDS).
14. Install your own software
• No technical restrictions on software installation
• Use the tools you already use to distribute
• Check with your ISV
• Ask for WorkSpaces support
15. Pay as You Go
WorkSpaces Bundle Monthly Price
Standard $35
Standard Plus $50
Performance $60
Performance Plus $75
• No up-front commitment
• Delete WorkSpaces at any time
• Price includes infrastructure (compute/storage/bandwidth) application access
16. WorkSpaces Connect: AD Integration
• Users: Get to use existing Enterprise Credentials
• IT: WorkSpaces behave like regular desktops
17. Corporate Directory Integration
• Manage WorkSpaces like any other desktop
– Group Policy
– Install agents
– Software Distributions Tool
• Store in the OU that makes sense to you
• Don’t change the way you manage
– Just less heavy lifting
18. Corporate Directory Integration Steps
• Ensure existing AD is reachable (via VPC)
• This could be on-premises or in EC2
• Configure WorkSpaces Connect
• Launch WorkSpaces in connected directory
19. Corporate Directory Integration
Subnet 2
Subnet 1
AZ ‘A’
AZ ‘B’
Workspaces API
End-point
(Customer
Network)
VPN
Connection
OAuth
Gateway
Public IP
Secure Auth (443)
Public IP
WS
User1
Public IP
WS
User2
On-premises
Domain Controllers
Directory
Join
Directory
Join
WorkSpaces
Connect
WorkSpaces
Connect
On-premises
Resources
20. Resource Access
Subnet 2
AZ ‘A’
AZ ‘B’
Workspaces API
End-point
(Customer
Network)
VPN
Connection
OAuth
Gateway
Public IP
Secure Auth (443)
Public IP
WS
User1
Public IP
WS
User2
On-premises
Domain Controllers
On-premises
Resources
Subnet 1 Subnet 3
Subnet 4
22. Availability
• WorkSpaces is now available to all customers
• AWS region availability:
– US-East-1 (N.Virginia)
– US-West-2 (Oregon)
• Further regions to follow soon
23. Recap
• Amazon WorkSpaces is available to all customers
• Fully-managed desktops
• No commitment – provision in minutes
• Choice of bundles of hardware and software
• Securely sync data
• Support multiple devices
• Integrate with your corporate Active Directory