Learn about digital transformation with AWS, originally presented at AWS Vancouver Initiate Day on October 27, 2018.

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Dave Liggat, Cloud Infrastructure Architect
AWS Professional Services
2018-09-27
Digital Transformation: Why Public Sector
Customers are Moving to the Cloud

4. What is Cloud
Computing
• On-Demand delivery of IT resources over
public or private networks with zero up-
front costs, no long-term contracts, and
pay-as-you-go pricing.
• Easily and quickly acquire compute, storage,
databases, and other services as needed.
• Capacity can grow and shrink instantly
• Cloud computing has become the new
normal
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5. A W S G L O B A L
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

6. 18 Regions – 55 Availability Zones – 100+ Edge Locations
Region & Number of Availability Zones
AWS GovCloud (2) EU
Ireland (3)
US West Frankfurt (3)
Oregon (3) London (3)
Northern California (3) Paris (3)
Asia Pacific
US East Singapore (2)
N. Virginia (6), Ohio (3) Sydney (3), Tokyo (3),
Seoul (2), Mumbai (2)
Canada Osaka-Local (1)
Central (2)
China
South America Beijing (2)
São Paulo (3) Ningxia (2)
Announced Regions
Bahrain, Hong Kong, Sweden,
AWS Govcloud (US-East)

7. North America
US East (Northern Virginia) Region US East (Ohio) Region
EC2 Availability Zones: 6 EC2 Availability Zones: 3
US West (Oregon) Region US West (Northern California) Region
EC2 Availability Zones: 3 EC2 Availability Zones: 3
AWS GovCoud (US-West Region Canada (Central)
EC2 Availability Zones: 2 EC2 Availability Zones: 2
AWS Edge Locations
Edge locations - Ashburn, VA (3); Atlanta GA (3); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL (2);
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (4); Denver, CO; Hayward, CA; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles,
CA (3); Miami, FL (2); Minneapolis, MN; Montreal, QC; New York, NY (3); Newark, NJ
(2); Palo Alto, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA (3); South
Bend, IN; St. Louis, MO; Toronto, ON

8. AWS Canada Public Sector Customers

9. W H AT C A N I D O
T O D A Y ?

10. C l oud A d o ption P ath
DEVELOPMENT
& TEST
DIGITAL
ANALYTICS
MOBILE
DC MIGRATION
MISSION
CRITICAL APPS
ALL IN
1 2 3 4

11. Now is the time to engage…

12. You should probably start engaging with the idea
that the cloud can be considerably more secure
than the private cloud or your own data centre,
and start engaging with the risks that are building
in the spaces where you haven't moved to the
cloud yet.
David Rogers, Head of Technology, UK MoJ
I love RDS so much I wish I could hug it. It
means I don’t have to worry about databases…
Chris Wood, Cloud Platforms Technical Lead, UK MoJ

13. M A K I N G T H E T R A N S I T I O N …

14. J O I I TO | D I R E C TO R | M I T M E D I A L A B
IF YOU WANT TO
I N C R E A S E
I N N O V A T I O N
Y O U H A V E T O
L O W E R T H E
COST OF FAILURE

15. AT A M A Z O N , W E
A LWAY S W O R K
B A C K WA R D S F R O M
T H E C U S T O M E R …

17. Two-pizzas teams
Full ownership
Full accountability
Aligned incentives
“DevOps”

19. W H AT C A N I D O
T O M O R R O W ?

20. GB TB
PB
ZB
EB
95% of the 1.2 zettabytes
of data in the digital
universe is unstructured
70% of of this is user-
generated content
Unstructured data growth
explosive, with estimates
of compound annual
growth (CAGR) at 62%
from 2008 – 2012.
Source: IDC
Big Data: Unconstrained data growth

21. Machine Learning &
Artificial Intelligence
B i g D a t a
MORE USERS BETTER PRODUCTS
MORE DATA BETTER ANALYTICS
A F ly wh e e l F o r D a ta

22. Free access to big data sets
a ws . a ma z o n .co m/ pu bl i cd ata se ts
Public Data Sets

23. Thousands Of Employees Across The Company Focused on AI
DISCOVERY
& SEARCH
FULFILLMENT
& LOGISTICS
DEFINE NEW
CATEGORIES
A rti fi cial In te l ligenc e A t A ma z o n
ENHANCE
EXISTING PRODUCTS
BRING MACHINE
LEARNING TO ALL

24. Artificial Intelligence
At Amazon (1995)

25. Amazon AI
Intelligent Services Powered By Deep Learning

26. Rich Metadata Index
objects, scenes, facial attributes,
persons
Amazon Rekognition
Deep Learning-Based Image Recognition Service

27. Deer 98.8%
Wildlife 95.1%
Conifer 95.1%
Spruce 95.1%
Wood 78.3%
Tree 63.5%
Forest 63.5%
Vegetation 61.9%
Pine 60.6%
Outdoors 54.0%
Flower 53.9%
Plant 52.9%
Nature 50.7%
Field 50.7%
Grass 50.7%

28.  Detect images with explicit or suggestive adult
content
 Optimize manual review processes
Ima g e Mo d e ration

29. A ma z o n L e x
NATURAL LANGUAGE
UNDERSTANDING
Po we r e d b y t h e s a me De e p L e a r n i n g t e c h n ol o gy a s Al e xa
SPEECH RECOGNITION

30. Amazon Lex – Use Cases
INFORMATIONAL BOTS
Chatbots for everyday consumer requests
APPLICATION BOTS
Build powerful interfaces to mobile applications
• News updates
• Weather information
• Game scores ….
• Book tickets
• Order food
• Manage bank accounts ….
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTIVITY BOTS
Streamline enterprise work activities and improve efficiencies
• Check sales numbers
• Marketing performance
• Inventory status ….
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) BOTS
Enable conversational interfaces for device interactions
• Wearables
• Appliances
• Auto ….

31. “B o o k a H o te l”
Book Hotel
NYC
“Book a Hotel in
NYC”
Automatic Speech
Recognition
Hotel Booking
New York City
Natural Language
Understanding
Intent/Slot
Model
UtterancesHotel Booking
City New York City
Check In Nov 30th
Check Out Dec 2nd
“Your hotel is booked for
Nov 30th”
Polly
Confirmation: “Your hotel
is booked for Nov 30th”
a
in
“Can I go ahead
with the booking?

32. CONVERTS TEXT
TO SPEECH
47 VOICES 24 LANGUAGES LOW LATENCY,
REAL TIME
FULLY MANAGED
Amazon Polly: Life-like Speech Service
Voice Quality & Pronunciation
1. Automatic, Accurate Text Processing
2. Intelligible and Easy to Understand
3. Add Semantic Meaning to Text
4. Customized Pronunciation
Articles and Blogs
Training Material
Chatbots (Lex)
Public Announcements

33. H O W C A N W E H E L P Y O U G E T O N
T H E F I R S T R U N G O F T H E L A D D E R
O R I N D E E D T H E L A S T ?

34. Join us for our first-ever Amazon Web Services Summit
in Ottawa on October 29, 2018
15 sessions featuring various
management and technical
topics
Connect with AWS & our
Canadian public sector partners
in the Solutions Expo
Meet and mingle with other public
sector customers from government,
education, and nonprofits
Register today!
aws.amazon.com/summits/ottawa-public-sector

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