You can significantly reduce database licensing and operational costs by migrating from commercial database engines to Amazon RDS. In addition, you can gain flexibility and operational efficiency by avoiding the frustrating usage constraints that accompany commercial database licenses. Amazon RDS is a fully managed database service, so you no longer need to worry about complex database management tasks. Launch a single database instance or thousands of them in just a few minutes, and pay only for what you use. Learn how AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool help you migrate commercial databases like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon RDS and Aurora easily and securely with minimal downtime.
Come see first-hand how Amazon EC2 Systems Manager can help you manage your servers at scale with the agility and security you need in today's dynamic cloud-enabled world. To be truly agile, you need a way to define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance. At the same time, you need to collect software inventory, apply OS patches, automate your system image maintenance, and configure anything in the OSs of your EC2 instances and on-premises servers. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager does all of that and more for both Linux and Windows systems. In this session, learn about the seven services that make up Amazon EC2 Systems Manager and see them in action. No matter if you are managing 10 or 10,000 instances, see how you can manage your systems, increasing your agility and security with EC2 Systems Manager.
GPSBUS221_Breaking Barriers Move Enterprise SAP Customers to SAP HANA on AWS ...Amazon Web Services
Migrating mission-critical SAP workloads to AWS allows enterprises to realize business benefits quickly and securely without a significant upfront investment. Today, customers are turning capital expense into operating expense at a record pace and are accelerating business processes and efficiency for less than the cost of a week at a beach resort. Learn how other SAP customers are removing risk and testing their SAP migrations and upgrades for low cost to jumpstart their SAP projects for low cost.
WIN204-Simplifying Microsoft Architectures with AWS ServicesAmazon Web Services
Learn how to architect fully available and scalable Microsoft solutions and environments in AWS. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage various AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, simplify architecture, provide scalability, and introduce DevOps concepts, such as compliance, governance, automation, and repeatability. Also, plan authentication and authorization, and explore various hybrid scenarios with other cloud environment and on-premise solutions/infrastructure. Learn about common architecture patterns for network design, Active Directory, and business productivity solutions like Dynamics AX, CRM, and SharePoint, also common scenarios for custom .NET, .NET Core with SQL deployments and migrations.
HLC302_Adopting Microservices in Healthcare Building a Compliant DevOps Pipel...Amazon Web Services
Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting container technology to drive innovation. In this session, join Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and ClearDATA to learn about how to integrate Amazon ECS into your deployment pipeline while maintaining compliance for healthcare workloads, how to harden container environments for sensitive workloads, and how to leverage AWS tooling and microservices to provide new views and analysis for data stored in on-premises data centers.
WIN302-Deep Dive on Active Directory From One to Many AWS RegionsAmazon Web Services
Enterprise organizations often require a global Active Directory footprint to support their Windows based workloads. This session will describe best practices for deploying Active Directory on AWS. Starting with a single VPC we will expand to many VPC’s in many Regions, thus demonstrating AWS capabilities to support a global Active Directory environment.
Migrating Your Databases to AWS – Tools and Services (Level 100)Amazon Web Services
In this webinar, you will learn how the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) can help migrate your databases to AWS for homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations. We will also discuss new sources and targets, together with new features that make DMS and SCT a powerful combination for both your database migration and data replication requirements.
Speaker: Blair Layton, APAC Business Development, Database, AWS APAC
ENT324-Automating and Auditing Cloud Governance and Compliance in Multi-Accou...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we explore multi-account considerations for compliance and auditing. We include topics such as API call prefiltering, a repeatable approach to SCP and IAM policy creation, internal separation of duty and need to know, compliance scope ring-fencing, scope of impact limitation, and mandatory access control. We review approaches for log and event analytics and log record lifecycle management (including redaction where necessary) and alerting. We also discuss how you can deploy compliance assessment tools in multi-account environments and how you can interpret these tools' output so it makes sense. Finally, no set of detailed multi-account sessions is complete without discussing tools for visualization.
In this session, we explore different approaches to migrating Microsoft applications to AWS. We walk through important considerations when planning a migration, and we show how to develop and implement a migration plan to move applications from on-premises (or traditional hosting) to AWS. We use a case study format to dive deep into successfully planning an application migration. Participants work in teams to plan a SharePoint migration that integrates with an existing Active Directory.
Come see first-hand how Amazon EC2 Systems Manager can help you manage your servers at scale with the agility and security you need in today's dynamic cloud-enabled world. To be truly agile, you need a way to define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance. At the same time, you need to collect software inventory, apply OS patches, automate your system image maintenance, and configure anything in the OSs of your EC2 instances and on-premises servers. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager does all of that and more for both Linux and Windows systems. In this session, learn about the seven services that make up Amazon EC2 Systems Manager and see them in action. No matter if you are managing 10 or 10,000 instances, see how you can manage your systems, increasing your agility and security with EC2 Systems Manager.
GPSBUS221_Breaking Barriers Move Enterprise SAP Customers to SAP HANA on AWS ...Amazon Web Services
Migrating mission-critical SAP workloads to AWS allows enterprises to realize business benefits quickly and securely without a significant upfront investment. Today, customers are turning capital expense into operating expense at a record pace and are accelerating business processes and efficiency for less than the cost of a week at a beach resort. Learn how other SAP customers are removing risk and testing their SAP migrations and upgrades for low cost to jumpstart their SAP projects for low cost.
WIN204-Simplifying Microsoft Architectures with AWS ServicesAmazon Web Services
Learn how to architect fully available and scalable Microsoft solutions and environments in AWS. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage various AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, simplify architecture, provide scalability, and introduce DevOps concepts, such as compliance, governance, automation, and repeatability. Also, plan authentication and authorization, and explore various hybrid scenarios with other cloud environment and on-premise solutions/infrastructure. Learn about common architecture patterns for network design, Active Directory, and business productivity solutions like Dynamics AX, CRM, and SharePoint, also common scenarios for custom .NET, .NET Core with SQL deployments and migrations.
HLC302_Adopting Microservices in Healthcare Building a Compliant DevOps Pipel...Amazon Web Services
Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting container technology to drive innovation. In this session, join Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and ClearDATA to learn about how to integrate Amazon ECS into your deployment pipeline while maintaining compliance for healthcare workloads, how to harden container environments for sensitive workloads, and how to leverage AWS tooling and microservices to provide new views and analysis for data stored in on-premises data centers.
WIN302-Deep Dive on Active Directory From One to Many AWS RegionsAmazon Web Services
Enterprise organizations often require a global Active Directory footprint to support their Windows based workloads. This session will describe best practices for deploying Active Directory on AWS. Starting with a single VPC we will expand to many VPC’s in many Regions, thus demonstrating AWS capabilities to support a global Active Directory environment.
Migrating Your Databases to AWS – Tools and Services (Level 100)Amazon Web Services
In this webinar, you will learn how the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) can help migrate your databases to AWS for homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations. We will also discuss new sources and targets, together with new features that make DMS and SCT a powerful combination for both your database migration and data replication requirements.
Speaker: Blair Layton, APAC Business Development, Database, AWS APAC
ENT324-Automating and Auditing Cloud Governance and Compliance in Multi-Accou...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we explore multi-account considerations for compliance and auditing. We include topics such as API call prefiltering, a repeatable approach to SCP and IAM policy creation, internal separation of duty and need to know, compliance scope ring-fencing, scope of impact limitation, and mandatory access control. We review approaches for log and event analytics and log record lifecycle management (including redaction where necessary) and alerting. We also discuss how you can deploy compliance assessment tools in multi-account environments and how you can interpret these tools' output so it makes sense. Finally, no set of detailed multi-account sessions is complete without discussing tools for visualization.
In this session, we explore different approaches to migrating Microsoft applications to AWS. We walk through important considerations when planning a migration, and we show how to develop and implement a migration plan to move applications from on-premises (or traditional hosting) to AWS. We use a case study format to dive deep into successfully planning an application migration. Participants work in teams to plan a SharePoint migration that integrates with an existing Active Directory.
AWS offers customers multiple solutions for federating identities on the AWS Cloud. In this session, we will embark on a tour of these solutions and the use cases they support. Along the way, we will dive deep with demonstrations and best practices to help you be successful managing identies on the AWS Cloud. We will cover how and when to use Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML), OpenID Connect (OIDC), and other AWS native federation mechanisms. You will learn how these solutions enable federated access to the AWS Management Console, APIs, and CLI, AWS Infrastructure and Managed Services, your web and mobile applications running on the AWS Cloud, and much more.
GAM310_Build a Telemetry and Analytics Pipeline for Game BalancingAmazon Web Services
In this workshop, we will together build telemetry/analytics data processing pipelines to assist game developers/architects, designers and producers. We will use a fictitious RPG and ingest data from in-game events. We will then analyze the data to help with game balancing, troubleshooting and other relevant recommendations for game developers and designers. As a participant, you will use Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Analytics, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. Prerequisites include having your own laptop and an interest in big data services, game data processing & analytics.
In order to make your time in the workshop as productive as possible, please make sure to check out the additional information below.
AWS account: Fully functional AWS Account with administrative access. Participant should have the ability to create & destroy resources in the us-west-2 and eu-west-1 regions via API, CLI & AWS Console.
Device/OS: A laptop computer – running Mac OS X, a Linux flavor or Windows. The computer will need a functional ssh/Remote Desktop client.
AWS service familiarity/experience:Familiarity/Experience with EC2, S3 & the AWS Console will be good. For the rest of the services, we will introduce each during the workshop.
Audience: Game Developers (server programmers), Architects, Game Producers/Designers, Game Marketing/Analytics team – hands-on members
Deploying Business Analytics at Enterprise Scale - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Deploy business analytics to thousands of users using Active Directory and Federated SSO
- Securely access data sources in Amazon VPCs or on-premises and build data marts with SPICE
- Control access to your data sources, implement row-level security, and audit access to your data
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the foundation that all AWS services require to function and perform any action. Mastering IAM is the skill set you need in your arsenal so that you can provide best-in-breed services through your application or services to your customers. This session shows you best practices for IAM, the latest service additions, and advanced automation techniques to become a certified IAM ninja.
How does a practice become a "best" practice? How does a pattern become an "anti" pattern? As always, experience is the best teacher. As Partner Solution Architects, we receive a lot of partner feedback on how practices and design patterns work—and occasionally fail to work—in the real world. We use this feedback to inform our recommendations and reference architectures. In this session, we explore a representative set of real-life "failures." We look at what these failures have to teach us about design and how to prioritize remediation of known issues.
FSV308-Culture Shift How to Move a Global Financial Services Organization to ...Amazon Web Services
Many enterprises that follow regulated, process-driven workflows would like to take advantage of the innate features and benefits of AWS to become more agile, achieve operational excellence, and accelerate time-to-market while leveraging a DevOps culture and development methodology. But building a mature DevOps capability doesn’t happen overnight. Creating and implementing testing, compliance, and security automation frameworks requires time and organizational and process changes. Financial institutions are addressing this challenge by using AWS Service Catalog to help bridge the gap between traditional operations and true DevOps.
Enabling Governance, Compliance, and Operational and Risk Auditing with AWS M...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn how you can enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account through a combination of continuous monitoring, auditing, and evaluation of your AWS resources. With AWS management tools, you can see a history of AWS API calls for your account, review changes in configurations and relationships among AWS resources, and dive into detailed resource configuration histories. You can determine your overall compliance with the configurations specified in your internal guidelines, and you can give developers and systems administrators a secure and compliant means to create and manage AWS resources.
DVC303-Technological Accelerants for Organizational TransformationAmazon Web Services
"Developers and management can seem at cross purposes when one group looks at technologies and the other looks at organizational issues. Both groups are looking for ways to deliver value faster, leaner, and at less cost. There are technological avenues for accomplishing these goals, including DevOps and serverless architectures. However, these approaches also have organizational implications, as they change the nature and content of communication between teams. In this session, we cover the technology benefits and organizational transformations involved in DevOps and serverless architectures.
This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities."
GPSWKS408-GPS Migrate Your Databases with AWS Database Migration Service and ...Amazon Web Services
Database migration is one of the most commonly performed tasks in the journey to the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, we help migration solutions architects, engineers, and program staff gain in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience, and best practices in using the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and its companion, the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). First, we walk through database migration methodologies and provide field data about what customers are doing with AWS DMS and AWS SCT. Then, we take a closer look at AWS DMS and AWS SCT features, architecture, workflows, and Amazon Aurora as a destination database. Attendees work through a lab to gain firsthand experience in database migration. To get the most out of this session, bring a laptop for the lab and have a QwikLabs account.
ENT223_Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to Build Your Cloud Action...Amazon Web Services
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) incorporates best practices and guidance learned through hundreds of customer engagements, into a comprehensive framework for implementing cloud computing across your organization. In this workshop, we break down the complicated process of launching your cloud adoption journey into manageable areas of focus that cover both technical and business stakeholders. Within each focus area, you learn to define work streams spanning multiple disciplines and teams, including how to create an action plan that can guide your organization's change management during your journey to the cloud. Attendees can prepare by reading theAWS Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction Whitepaper . Technical and nontechnical leaders and managers are encouraged to attend.
NEW LAUNCH! Building Alexa Skills for Businesses (ALX204) Amazon Web Services
Alexa for Business makes it possible for businesses to create Alexa skills designed specifically for employees or customers. With Alexa for Business, devices can be managed and provisioned to be used by employees in conference rooms, at employees’ desks, or around the workplace. You can also create skills that can be used by customers, in places like hotel rooms, restaurants, hospitality suites, or even stores. In this session, we’ll provide an overview of Alexa for Business, and show you how Alexa for Business creates business value for both customers and employees.
Migrating Your Microsoft Applications to AWS - ENT325 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
When you plan your data center migration to the cloud, it's critical to consider how workloads will run to ensure maximum performance and availability. With Microsoft applications making up 60% or more of most on-premises data centers, more and more customers are moving their Microsoft workloads to AWS to improve performance, increase availability, and improve their security posture. In this session, we discuss how customers are accomplishing this task. We cover the common architectural patterns for moving Microsoft applications such as SQL Server, SharePoint, and Dynamics, and we discuss how to integrate with Active Directory for a seamless transition. We also examine tools like AWS Application Discovery and AWS Server Migration Service that can help make your move faster and easier.
Don’t blink because in this session, we quickly show you thirty different architectural patterns that you can use with AWS Lambda to solve everything from basic infrastructure automation tasks to building chatbots. We cover the services that connect to AWS Lambda and help you create serverless applications that can respond to requests from many AWS services today. We will also discuss how to secure these serverless applications, deploy them, monitor them, and profile them for issues. By the end of this session, expect to have ideas on how serverless architecture can improve your life.
Learn how to effectively use AWS automation for healthcare compliance. In this session, Verge Health (SaaS provider for practitioner management, organizational compliance, and patient and employee safety) discusses how they moved their risk management platform, supporting over 13,000 hospitals, to AWS. Because Verge Health, as a partner to healthcare organizations, is subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), it worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Partner Cloudticity to significantly increase their security, availability, performance, HIPAA compliance, and agility, while simultaneously reducing cost through fully automated DevSecOps on AWS. The session focuses on resilient architecture for HIPAA compliance, automated migration techniques for data and VPN connections, and the automation of daily tasks, such as deployments and patching.
How Nextdoor Built a Scalable, Serverless Data Pipeline for Billions of Event...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn how Nextdoor replaced their home-grown data pipeline based on a topology of Flume nodes with a completely serverless architecture based on Kinesis and Lambda. By making these changes, they improved both the reliability of their data and the delivery times of billions of records of data to their Amazon S3–based data lake and Amazon Redshift cluster. Nextdoor is a private social networking service for neighborhoods.
Operation Monitoring and Alerting at Scale in GE Transportation - ENT340 - re...Amazon Web Services
As GE Transportation moved their applications to the cloud, they faced operational challenges with monitoring their applications and platforms for availability, performance, and compliance. To address their exact requirements, GE developed a cost effective, scalable monitoring and alerting solution based on fully-managed AWS services. In this session, GE Transportation reviews this capability and discusses its process for implementing the solution. Attendees also learn reusable design patterns using AWS managed services that can be applied in a self-service model to scale efficiently across the enterprise.
DAT317_Migrating Databases and Data Warehouses to the CloudAmazon Web Services
In this introductory session, we look at how to convert and migrate your commercial databases and data warehouses to the cloud and gain your database freedom. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) have been used to migrate tens of thousands of databases. These include Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, Teradata and Netezza to Amazon Redshift, MongoDB to Amazon DynamoDB, and many other data source and target combinations. Learn how to easily and securely migrate your data and procedural code, enjoy flexibility and cost savings, and gain new opportunities.
Oracle Enterprise Solutions on AWS - ENT326 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Oracle enterprise applications and middleware such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and WebLogic are central to many IT departments. They often require complex deployments that can greatly benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and security of the cloud. In this session, we discuss architecture patterns and best practices for migrating these applications to and running these applications on AWS. We cover how to work with Oracle enterprise applications and multiple services including Amazon RDS, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon Elastic File System, and AWS CloudFormation. As part of this, we show examples of successful customer deployments.
AWS offers customers multiple solutions for federating identities on the AWS Cloud. In this session, we will embark on a tour of these solutions and the use cases they support. Along the way, we will dive deep with demonstrations and best practices to help you be successful managing identies on the AWS Cloud. We will cover how and when to use Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML), OpenID Connect (OIDC), and other AWS native federation mechanisms. You will learn how these solutions enable federated access to the AWS Management Console, APIs, and CLI, AWS Infrastructure and Managed Services, your web and mobile applications running on the AWS Cloud, and much more.
GAM310_Build a Telemetry and Analytics Pipeline for Game BalancingAmazon Web Services
In this workshop, we will together build telemetry/analytics data processing pipelines to assist game developers/architects, designers and producers. We will use a fictitious RPG and ingest data from in-game events. We will then analyze the data to help with game balancing, troubleshooting and other relevant recommendations for game developers and designers. As a participant, you will use Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Analytics, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. Prerequisites include having your own laptop and an interest in big data services, game data processing & analytics.
In order to make your time in the workshop as productive as possible, please make sure to check out the additional information below.
AWS account: Fully functional AWS Account with administrative access. Participant should have the ability to create & destroy resources in the us-west-2 and eu-west-1 regions via API, CLI & AWS Console.
Device/OS: A laptop computer – running Mac OS X, a Linux flavor or Windows. The computer will need a functional ssh/Remote Desktop client.
AWS service familiarity/experience:Familiarity/Experience with EC2, S3 & the AWS Console will be good. For the rest of the services, we will introduce each during the workshop.
Audience: Game Developers (server programmers), Architects, Game Producers/Designers, Game Marketing/Analytics team – hands-on members
Deploying Business Analytics at Enterprise Scale - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Deploy business analytics to thousands of users using Active Directory and Federated SSO
- Securely access data sources in Amazon VPCs or on-premises and build data marts with SPICE
- Control access to your data sources, implement row-level security, and audit access to your data
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the foundation that all AWS services require to function and perform any action. Mastering IAM is the skill set you need in your arsenal so that you can provide best-in-breed services through your application or services to your customers. This session shows you best practices for IAM, the latest service additions, and advanced automation techniques to become a certified IAM ninja.
How does a practice become a "best" practice? How does a pattern become an "anti" pattern? As always, experience is the best teacher. As Partner Solution Architects, we receive a lot of partner feedback on how practices and design patterns work—and occasionally fail to work—in the real world. We use this feedback to inform our recommendations and reference architectures. In this session, we explore a representative set of real-life "failures." We look at what these failures have to teach us about design and how to prioritize remediation of known issues.
FSV308-Culture Shift How to Move a Global Financial Services Organization to ...Amazon Web Services
Many enterprises that follow regulated, process-driven workflows would like to take advantage of the innate features and benefits of AWS to become more agile, achieve operational excellence, and accelerate time-to-market while leveraging a DevOps culture and development methodology. But building a mature DevOps capability doesn’t happen overnight. Creating and implementing testing, compliance, and security automation frameworks requires time and organizational and process changes. Financial institutions are addressing this challenge by using AWS Service Catalog to help bridge the gap between traditional operations and true DevOps.
Enabling Governance, Compliance, and Operational and Risk Auditing with AWS M...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn how you can enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account through a combination of continuous monitoring, auditing, and evaluation of your AWS resources. With AWS management tools, you can see a history of AWS API calls for your account, review changes in configurations and relationships among AWS resources, and dive into detailed resource configuration histories. You can determine your overall compliance with the configurations specified in your internal guidelines, and you can give developers and systems administrators a secure and compliant means to create and manage AWS resources.
DVC303-Technological Accelerants for Organizational TransformationAmazon Web Services
"Developers and management can seem at cross purposes when one group looks at technologies and the other looks at organizational issues. Both groups are looking for ways to deliver value faster, leaner, and at less cost. There are technological avenues for accomplishing these goals, including DevOps and serverless architectures. However, these approaches also have organizational implications, as they change the nature and content of communication between teams. In this session, we cover the technology benefits and organizational transformations involved in DevOps and serverless architectures.
This session is part of the re:Invent Developer Community Day, six community-led sessions where AWS enthusiasts share technical insights on trending topics based on first-hand experiences and knowledge shared within local AWS communities."
GPSWKS408-GPS Migrate Your Databases with AWS Database Migration Service and ...Amazon Web Services
Database migration is one of the most commonly performed tasks in the journey to the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, we help migration solutions architects, engineers, and program staff gain in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience, and best practices in using the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and its companion, the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). First, we walk through database migration methodologies and provide field data about what customers are doing with AWS DMS and AWS SCT. Then, we take a closer look at AWS DMS and AWS SCT features, architecture, workflows, and Amazon Aurora as a destination database. Attendees work through a lab to gain firsthand experience in database migration. To get the most out of this session, bring a laptop for the lab and have a QwikLabs account.
ENT223_Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to Build Your Cloud Action...Amazon Web Services
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) incorporates best practices and guidance learned through hundreds of customer engagements, into a comprehensive framework for implementing cloud computing across your organization. In this workshop, we break down the complicated process of launching your cloud adoption journey into manageable areas of focus that cover both technical and business stakeholders. Within each focus area, you learn to define work streams spanning multiple disciplines and teams, including how to create an action plan that can guide your organization's change management during your journey to the cloud. Attendees can prepare by reading theAWS Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction Whitepaper . Technical and nontechnical leaders and managers are encouraged to attend.
NEW LAUNCH! Building Alexa Skills for Businesses (ALX204) Amazon Web Services
Alexa for Business makes it possible for businesses to create Alexa skills designed specifically for employees or customers. With Alexa for Business, devices can be managed and provisioned to be used by employees in conference rooms, at employees’ desks, or around the workplace. You can also create skills that can be used by customers, in places like hotel rooms, restaurants, hospitality suites, or even stores. In this session, we’ll provide an overview of Alexa for Business, and show you how Alexa for Business creates business value for both customers and employees.
Migrating Your Microsoft Applications to AWS - ENT325 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
When you plan your data center migration to the cloud, it's critical to consider how workloads will run to ensure maximum performance and availability. With Microsoft applications making up 60% or more of most on-premises data centers, more and more customers are moving their Microsoft workloads to AWS to improve performance, increase availability, and improve their security posture. In this session, we discuss how customers are accomplishing this task. We cover the common architectural patterns for moving Microsoft applications such as SQL Server, SharePoint, and Dynamics, and we discuss how to integrate with Active Directory for a seamless transition. We also examine tools like AWS Application Discovery and AWS Server Migration Service that can help make your move faster and easier.
Don’t blink because in this session, we quickly show you thirty different architectural patterns that you can use with AWS Lambda to solve everything from basic infrastructure automation tasks to building chatbots. We cover the services that connect to AWS Lambda and help you create serverless applications that can respond to requests from many AWS services today. We will also discuss how to secure these serverless applications, deploy them, monitor them, and profile them for issues. By the end of this session, expect to have ideas on how serverless architecture can improve your life.
Learn how to effectively use AWS automation for healthcare compliance. In this session, Verge Health (SaaS provider for practitioner management, organizational compliance, and patient and employee safety) discusses how they moved their risk management platform, supporting over 13,000 hospitals, to AWS. Because Verge Health, as a partner to healthcare organizations, is subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), it worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Partner Cloudticity to significantly increase their security, availability, performance, HIPAA compliance, and agility, while simultaneously reducing cost through fully automated DevSecOps on AWS. The session focuses on resilient architecture for HIPAA compliance, automated migration techniques for data and VPN connections, and the automation of daily tasks, such as deployments and patching.
How Nextdoor Built a Scalable, Serverless Data Pipeline for Billions of Event...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn how Nextdoor replaced their home-grown data pipeline based on a topology of Flume nodes with a completely serverless architecture based on Kinesis and Lambda. By making these changes, they improved both the reliability of their data and the delivery times of billions of records of data to their Amazon S3–based data lake and Amazon Redshift cluster. Nextdoor is a private social networking service for neighborhoods.
Operation Monitoring and Alerting at Scale in GE Transportation - ENT340 - re...Amazon Web Services
As GE Transportation moved their applications to the cloud, they faced operational challenges with monitoring their applications and platforms for availability, performance, and compliance. To address their exact requirements, GE developed a cost effective, scalable monitoring and alerting solution based on fully-managed AWS services. In this session, GE Transportation reviews this capability and discusses its process for implementing the solution. Attendees also learn reusable design patterns using AWS managed services that can be applied in a self-service model to scale efficiently across the enterprise.
DAT317_Migrating Databases and Data Warehouses to the CloudAmazon Web Services
In this introductory session, we look at how to convert and migrate your commercial databases and data warehouses to the cloud and gain your database freedom. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) have been used to migrate tens of thousands of databases. These include Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, Teradata and Netezza to Amazon Redshift, MongoDB to Amazon DynamoDB, and many other data source and target combinations. Learn how to easily and securely migrate your data and procedural code, enjoy flexibility and cost savings, and gain new opportunities.
Oracle Enterprise Solutions on AWS - ENT326 - re:Invent 2017Amazon Web Services
Oracle enterprise applications and middleware such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and WebLogic are central to many IT departments. They often require complex deployments that can greatly benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and security of the cloud. In this session, we discuss architecture patterns and best practices for migrating these applications to and running these applications on AWS. We cover how to work with Oracle enterprise applications and multiple services including Amazon RDS, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon Elastic File System, and AWS CloudFormation. As part of this, we show examples of successful customer deployments.
Migrating Microsoft SQL Server Databases to AWS – Best Practices and Patterns...Amazon Web Services
Migrating databases to the cloud is a critical part of organizations cloud journey and requires careful planning and architecture considerations including migration methods. This session will provide you with best practices and guidelines in migrating and/or architecting hybrid database architecture on AWS with focus on Microsoft SQL server databases. We will review current SQL on RDS, SQL on EC2 capabilities, compare and contrast various migration methods including SQL Export, Backup and Restore, and using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). We will also look at how Expedia is migrating monolith SQL server databases to AWS using a hybrid approach leveraging SQL Server Distributed Availability Architecture. Expedia will share lessons learned during initial test and deployment phase followed by a demo of their existing architecture and deployment.
WIN301-Migrating Microsoft SQL Server Databases to AWS-Best Practices and Pat...Amazon Web Services
Migrating databases to the cloud is a critical part of organizations cloud journey and requires careful planning and architecture considerations including migration methods. This session will provide you with best practices and guidelines in migrating and/or architecting hybrid database architecture on AWS with focus on Microsoft SQL server databases. We will review current SQL on RDS, SQL on EC2 capabilities, compare and contrast various migration methods including SQL Export, Backup and Restore, and using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). We will also look at how Expedia is migrating monolith SQL server databases to AWS using a hybrid approach leveraging SQL Server Distributed Availability Architecture. Expedia will share lessons learned during initial test and deployment phase followed by a demo of their existing architecture and deployment.
GPSWKS407-Strategies for Migrating Microsoft SQL Databases to AWSAmazon Web Services
Data is king! In this workshop, we explore different strategies and options for migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to AWS. We cover the migration process, mechanisms, best practices, version and object compatibility, and licensing. We walk you through the migration plan and activities, landing zone, and what you need to consider before migrating. We also discuss the different tools you can use for migration, monitoring, and backup and recovery.
Migrating Your Oracle Database to PostgreSQL - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the capabilities of the PostgreSQL database
- Learn about PostgreSQL offerings on AWS
- Learn how to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL with minimal disruption
Migrating Your Oracle Database to PostgreSQL - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the capabilities of the PostgreSQL database
- Learn about PostgreSQL offerings on AWS
- Learn how to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL with minimal disruption
Use AWS DMS to Securely Migrate Your Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora with Mi...Amazon Web Services
Changing database engines is often daunting to customers. However, the value of a highly scalable, cost-effective, and fully managed service, such as Amazon Aurora, can make the challenge worth it. In this hand-on lab, we demonstrate how to take advantage of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to facilitate and simplify migrating an Oracle database to the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible Edition. We connect to an Oracle (source) and a PostgreSQL (target) instance, and convert the Oracle database schema and code objects to PostgreSQL using AWS SCT. Then, we migrate and replicate the data using AWS DMS. AWS credits are provided. Bring your laptop, and have an active AWS account.
Heterogenous Migration with DMS and SCT: Database Week San FranciscoAmazon Web Services
Database Week at the San Francisco Loft: Heterogeneous Migration with DMS and SCT - Oracle RDS to Aurora PostgreSQL migration lab using DMS and SCT.
Speakers:
Ramya Kaushik - Database Engineer, DMS/SCT, AWS
Jatin Singh - Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Running Oracle Databases on Amazon RDS and Migrating to PostgreSQL (DAT307-R1...Amazon Web Services
If you'd like to move your Oracle databases to the cloud, this workshop is for you. We review the basics of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and how Oracle databases run in Amazon RDS. We then leverage the combination of AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), and we show you how to migrate your databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. We provide an AWS CloudFormation template to set up the entire environment for the lab. You need a laptop with a Firefox or Chrome browser and a working AWS account.
Migrating Massive Databases and Data Warehouses to the Cloud - ENT327 - re:In...Amazon Web Services
Databases continue to grow to be multiple terabytes in size, but migrating to the cloud doesn't have to take days or create disruption for your business. To perform data migration at petabyte scale with minimal impact to your business, you can now use the new combination of AWS Database Migration Service replication agents and AWS Snowball. In this session, we discuss how to extract large-scale data from an on-premises Oracle database and migrate it to Amazon Aurora. We then outline a step-by-step process for converting your Oracle schema to a PostgreSQL-based schema.
A Practitioner’s Guide on Migrating to, and Running on Amazon Aurora - DAT315...Amazon Web Services
Aurora is a cloud-optimized relational database that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In this session, we will discuss various options for migrating to Aurora with MySQL compatibility, pro and cons of each, and which method is preferred when. Migrating to Aurora is just the first step. We’ll share common use cases and how you can run optimally on Aurora.
ABD324_Migrating Your Oracle Data Warehouse to Amazon Redshift Using AWS DMS ...Amazon Web Services
Customers that have Oracle Data warehouses find them complex and expensive to manage. Most are struggling with data load and performance issues. They are looking to migrate to something which is easy to manage, cost effective, and improves their query performance. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Migrating your Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift can substantially improve query and data load performance, increase scalability, and save costs. This workshop leverages AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool to migrate an existing Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. When migrating your database from one engine to another, you have two major things to consider: the conversion of the schema and code objects, and the migration and conversion of the data itself. You can convert schema and code with AWS SCT and migrate data with AWS DMS. AWS DMS helps you migrate your data easily and securely with minimal downtime. Prerequisites: Have an AWS account with IAM admin permissions and sufficient limits for AWS resources above, with a comfortable working knowledge of AWS console, relational databases (Oracle) and Amazon Redshift.
What’s New in Amazon RDS for Open-Source and Commercial Databases: Amazon Web Services
by Kwesi Edwards, Business Development Manager, AWS
In the past year, Amazon RDS has continued to expand functionality, scalability, availability and ease of use for all supported database engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. We’ll take a close look at RDS use cases and new capabilities, splitting the time between open-source and commercial database engines. Level 300
GPS: Migrate Your Databases with the AWS Database Migration Service and AWS S...Amazon Web Services
Database migration is one of the most commonly performed tasks in the journey to the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, we help migration solutions architects, engineers, and program staff gain in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience, and best practices in using the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and its companion, the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). First, we walk through database migration methodologies and provide field data about what customers are doing with AWS DMS and AWS SCT. Then, we take a closer look at AWS DMS and AWS SCT features, architecture, workflows, and Amazon Aurora as a destination database. Attendees work through a lab to gain firsthand experience in database migration. To get the most out of this session, bring a laptop for the lab and have a QwikLabs account.
How will my on-premises data migrate to the cloud? How can I make it transparent to my users? Afterwards, how will on-premises and cloud data interact? In this session you will learn about the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and the AWS Schema Migration Tool (SCT). You can use these tools to convert your commercial database and database warehouse to open-source engines or AWS-native services, such as Amazon Aurora and Redshift.
Speakers:
Saurabh Saxena - Principal Technical Account Manager, AWS
Chris England - Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS
Strategies for Migrating Microsoft SQL Databases to AWS - WIN314 - re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
In this workshop, we explore different strategies and options for migrating Microsoft SQL databases to AWS. We cover the migration process, mechanisms, best practices, version and object compatibility, and licensing. We walk you through the migration plan and activities, landing zone, and what you need to consider before migrating. We also discuss the different tools that you can use for migration, monitoring, and backup and recovery.
Running SQL Server on Amazon RDS and Migrating to MySQL (DAT306-R1) - AWS re:...Amazon Web Services
If you'd like to move your SQL Server databases to the cloud, this workshop is for you. We review the basics of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and how SQL Server databases run in Amazon RDS. We then leverage the combination of AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), and we show you how to migrate your databases to Amazon Aurora MySQL. We provide an AWS CloudFormation template to set up the entire environment for the lab. You need a laptop with a Firefox or Chrome browser and a working AWS account.
Database migration doesn’t need to be difficult or time-consuming. Learn about the AWS Database Migration Service, which helps you migrate databases with minimal downtime from on-premises and cloud environments to Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EC2. We discuss homogeneous (same database engine) and heterogeneous migrations, as well as migrations from data warehouse platforms. We’ll also talk about the AWS Schema Conversion Tool, which saves you development time when migrating your Oracle, SQL Server, and data warehouse schemas and procedural code and exporting your data to the cloud. You'll hear from GumGum, an artificial intelligence company with deep expertise in computer vision that uses DMS to replicate its dimension data from different sources into a cohesive data warehouse.
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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.
11. Why use RDS for Microsoft
and Oracle Databases?
• Speed of provisioning, secure, fully managed Amazon RDS
experience
• Single-click high availability, easy scaling
• Broad set of engine features supported
• Flexible licensing models
• Bring your own license (BYOL)
• License included (LI)
• SQL Server Express, Web, Standard & Enterprise editions
supported—2014, 2016, and 2017
• Oracle Standard and Enterprise Editions
12. Amazon RDS for Oracle
Recently shipped features
• OEM Agent 13c
• Oracle Spatial/Locator/Multimedia
• Customer-initiated snapshot upgrade
• Support for APEX 5.0
• R4, t2.xlarge, t2.2xlarge, and m4.16xlarge instances
• Support for up to 16 TB of storage per instance
13. Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Recently shipped features
• Support for forced SSL
• HIPAA BAA inclusion
• Region expansion for Enterprise Edition License included
• Storage scaling up to 16 TB
• SQL Server 2017 support
• R4 and m4.16xlarge instances
• Storage reconfiguration on snapshot restore
15. Why migrate from Oracle or SQL Server
to open source?
Simplicity and innovations of open source
Lower cost and no licensing
Reduce uncertainty
Compatibility between Oracle/SQL Server
and PostgreSQL
17. Open-source database
In active development for 20 years
Owned by a foundation, not a single company
Permissive innovation-friendly open-source license
High performance out of the box
Object-oriented and ANSI-SQL:2008-compatible
Most geospatial features of any open-source database
Supports stored procedures in 12 languages (Java, Perl, Python,
Ruby, Tcl, C/C++, its own Oracle-like PL/pgSQL, etc.)
Most Oracle-compatible open-source database
Highest AWS Schema Conversion Tool automatic conversion rates
are from Oracle to PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL fast facts
Open Source Initiative
19. A service-oriented architecture
applied to the database
Move the logging and storage layer into a
multitenant, scale-out, database-optimized
storage service
Integrate with other AWS services like
Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon
DynamoDB, Amazon SWF, and Amazon
Route 53 for control and monitoring
Make it a managed service—using Amazon
RDS; takes care of management and
administrative functions
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon SWF
Amazon Route 53
Logging + Storage
SQL
Transactions
Caching
Amazon S3
1
2
3
Amazon RDS
20. Scale-out, distributed, log-structured storage
Master Replica Replica Replica
Availability Zone 1
Shared Storage Volume – Transaction Aware
Primary
Database
Node
Read
Replica /
Secondary
Node
Read
Replica /
Secondary
Node
Read
Replica /
Secondary
Node
Availability Zone 2 Availability Zone 3
AWS Region
Storage
Monitoring
Database and
Instance
Monitoring
21. Amazon Aurora storage engine overview
Data is replicated six times across three Availability
Zones
Continuous backup to Amazon S3
(built for 11 9s of durability)
Continuous monitoring of nodes and disks for repair
10 GB segments as unit of repair or hotspot rebalance
Quorum system for read/write; latency-tolerant
Quorum membership changes do not stall writes
Storage volume automatically grows up to 64 TB
AZ 1 AZ 2 AZ 3
Amazon S3
Database
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Node
Storage
Monitoring