A 100-200 level introduction to building hybrid ops and apps on the AWS cloud. Including DirectConnect, VPC, IAM, hybrid Monitoring and Management tools (Packer, Terraform, New Relic, Splunk etc.) and application architectures
During the session we will describe common methods used to create a Hybrid Cloud with AWS. We step through successful operational models, how to get started, and tools to simplify operations. We will explore topics such as networking, directories, DNS, and security. Importantly, we will cover ongoing operational and management practices.
Speaker: Phil Barlow, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - AMP
Hybrid IT Approach and Technologies with the AWS Cloud | AWS Public Sector Su...Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS cloud to augment their current capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models with significant cost and agility benefits. But how can the cloud benefit existing government organizations that have invested large amounts of resources in existing on-premises technologies? This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of the large-scale IT shop stakeholder. Because each organization has its unique set of challenges in cloud adoption, this session compares some of the opportunities and risks of several hybrid cloud use-case models and then helps customers understand the cloud-native and third-party vendor options available that bridge the gap to the cloud for large-scale government environments.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Partner-Led Migrations to AWS Starting with the Enterpris...Amazon Web Services
AWS is investing in enterprise migration program initiatives. In this session, learn how you can take advantage of the latest partner programs, tools, and methodologies supporting enterprise migrations. Many enterprises are starting with migrating desktop computing as a first step; we dive into specific partner opportunities and approaches to drive enterprise migration projects in this area.
Expanding your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Cloud is a new common for the Hybrid IT strategies. In this session, we will explain what’s different between cloud and your datacenter as well as how to make your Hybrid Cloud strategies
During the session we will describe common methods used to create a Hybrid Cloud with AWS. We step through successful operational models, how to get started, and tools to simplify operations. We will explore topics such as networking, directories, DNS, and security. Importantly, we will cover ongoing operational and management practices.
Speaker: Phil Barlow, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - AMP
Hybrid IT Approach and Technologies with the AWS Cloud | AWS Public Sector Su...Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS cloud to augment their current capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models with significant cost and agility benefits. But how can the cloud benefit existing government organizations that have invested large amounts of resources in existing on-premises technologies? This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of the large-scale IT shop stakeholder. Because each organization has its unique set of challenges in cloud adoption, this session compares some of the opportunities and risks of several hybrid cloud use-case models and then helps customers understand the cloud-native and third-party vendor options available that bridge the gap to the cloud for large-scale government environments.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Partner-Led Migrations to AWS Starting with the Enterpris...Amazon Web Services
AWS is investing in enterprise migration program initiatives. In this session, learn how you can take advantage of the latest partner programs, tools, and methodologies supporting enterprise migrations. Many enterprises are starting with migrating desktop computing as a first step; we dive into specific partner opportunities and approaches to drive enterprise migration projects in this area.
Expanding your Data Center with Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
Cloud is a new common for the Hybrid IT strategies. In this session, we will explain what’s different between cloud and your datacenter as well as how to make your Hybrid Cloud strategies
The Best of Both Worlds: Implementing Hybrid IT with AWS (ENT218) | AWS re:In...Amazon Web Services
(Presented by RightScale)
With the increased use of cloud services, organizations are faced with finding the most efficient way to leverage existing IT infrastructure alongside cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources. This has resulted in the rise of hybrid infrastructure so IT teams can deliver agility and performance with visibility and control.
At RightScale, we’ve implemented some of the world’s largest hybrid IT deployments. In this session, we share implementation approaches, architecture design considerations, and steps for a successful hybrid IT model.
This session covers:
-How to develop a strategy and framework for a successful path to hybrid IT
-How to prioritize applications for public cloud versus on-premises
-How to manage multiple compute resource pools through a unified management framework
-Implementation and continuous improvement of a hybrid IT environment
Examples of enterprise hybrid IT implementations include cloudbursting, high availability, and disaster recovery.
The Best of Both Worlds: Implementing Hybrid IT with AWSRightScale
With the increased use of cloud services, organizations are faced with finding the most efficient way to leverage existing IT infrastructure alongside cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources. This has resulted in the rise of hybrid infrastructure so IT teams can deliver agility and performance with visibility and control.
At RightScale, we’ve implemented some of the world’s largest hybrid IT deployments. In this session, we share implementation approaches, architecture design considerations, and steps for a successful hybrid IT model.
This session covers:
1. How to develop a strategy and framework for a successful path to hybrid IT.
2. How to prioritize applications for public cloud versus on-premises.
3. How to manage multiple compute resource pools through a unified management framework.
4. Implementation and continuous improvement of a hybrid IT environment.
Examples of enterprise hybrid IT implementations include cloudbursting, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Session Sponsored by Trend Micro: 3 Secrets to Becoming a Cloud Security Supe...Amazon Web Services
While security is a top concern in every organization these days, it often gets a bad rap. In many minds, security has the reputation of the bothersome villain who attempts to hinder performance or restrain agility. In this session we will outline three strategies to protect your valuable workloads, without falling into traditional security traps. We will walk through three stories of EC2 security superheroes who saved the day by overcoming compliance and design challenges, using a (not so) secret arsenal of AWS and Trend Micro security tools.
Key takeaways from this session include how to:
- Design a workload-centric security architecture
- Improve visibility of AWS-only or hybrid environments
- Stop patching live instances but still prevent exploits
Speaker: Sasha Pavlovic, Director, Cloud & Datacentre Security, Asia Pacific, Trend Micro
AWS re:Invent 2016: [JK REPEAT] The Enterprise Fast Lane - What Your Competit...Amazon Web Services
Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane!
Learn how AutoScout24, the largest online car marketplace Europe-wide, are building their Autobahn in the Cloud.
The secret ingredient? Culture! Because “Cloud” is only one half of the digital transformation story: The other half is how your organization deals with cultural change as you transition from the old world of IT into building microservices on AWS with agile DevOps teams in a true „you build it you run it“ fashion.
Listen to stories from the trenches, powered by Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway and much more, backed by AWS Partners, AWS Professional Services, and AWS Enterprise Support.
Key takeaways: How to become Cloud native, evolve your architecture step by step, drive cultural change across your teams, and manage your company’s transformation for the future.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
It’s not a matter of if you will move your storage to the cloud. It’s a matter of how and when. Gartner predicts 50% of enterprises will be using a hybrid cloud by 2017. If you want to learn an AWS hybrid cloud, but are having trouble getting started, attend our webinar and learn how to build your own hybrid cloud with AWS, SoftNAS and existing equipment.
In this webinar and demo, we covered:
-Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Learn how SoftNAS can be installed both in Amazon EC2 and on-premises
-How To Build a Hybrid Cloud with AWS: Watch us create a hybrid cloud using existing equipment, AWS services and SoftNAS Cloud NAS
-Best Practices for Building A Hybrid Cloud: Tips and tricks from the SoftNAS team on how to get your hybrid cloud up and running in 30 minutes.
-How To Backup Your Data with Amazon EBS: Learn how to backup data using Amazon EBS Snapshots, SoftNAS Snapshots and SoftNAS SnapClones
The video associated with these slides is located here:
https://youtu.be/Mm13GO5m_Mc
Try a 30-day free trial of SoftNAS Cloud - http://www.softnas.com/tryaws
Visit http://www.softnas.com for more information
AWS re:Invent 2016: Future-Proofing the WAN and Simplifying Security On Your ...Amazon Web Services
You can leverage the agility and scale of cloud services and consolidate your data centers, but performance and security are only as good as your WAN. Is this session, learn best practices for connecting cloud, data center, and branch sites through public and private networking to maximize performance, minimize costs, and simplify security. Session sponsored by Level 3.
Orchestrating Network with Web Services Session Sponsored by Megaport – Camer...Amazon Web Services
AWS Direct Connect and VPCs allow for a fully private and stable backhaul between your private assets and cloud services without the need for significant encryption, tunneling, or other methods. While these components can be created on the fly with an API, the network component itself cannot. Megaport demonstrates a method of creating the network components in tandem with your AWS components so that the full solution is created in a single API call to a group of endpoints.
Bhavik Vyas once again walks out through implementation of Broadcast and OTT Workloads on the AWS Cloud.
In this presentation he explains how the media supply chain can be migrated to the AWS cloud. He discusses economic, security and operational considerations, and presents real case studies of customers who already went on this path.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Reduce Your Blast Radius by Using Multiple AWS Accounts P...Amazon Web Services
This session shows you how to reduce your blast radius by using multiple AWS accounts per region and service, which helps limit the impact of a critical event such as a security breach. Using multiple accounts helps you define boundaries and provides blast-radius isolation. Though managing multiple accounts can be difficult, we will present an upcoming AWS solution that will help automate the process for controlling cross- account access by managing roles across multiple accounts.
Are you deploying Windows on AWS? Are you interested in taking advantage of existing investments when running Windows workloads on AWS? In this session we will discuss real world customer examples including as SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, and Remote Desktop Services with licensing options. We will explore deployment options and provide an overview of the AWS created QuickStarts and QuickLaunches to help with speed of deployment. This session will also include migration options for customer running End of Extended support products such as Windows Server2003 and SQL2005.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Automating and Scaling Infrastructure Administration with...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we’ll show how customers can use management tools to standardize the creation of AWS resources and then govern these resources through the lifecycle. By using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Service Catalog to provision resources at scale, AWS Config to audit any changes to the configuration of these resources, Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the health of these resources, and AWS CloudTrail to audit who or what made API calls to these resources, customers can automate and scale the administration of their infrastructure on AWS. They can even go one step further and automate compliance checking and remediation by using AWS Config rules and Amazon CloudWatch Events. We will demo how this is possible by looking at some common use cases.
Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption ...Amazon Web Services
To arm you with best practices from day one, this session presents field-tested and reusable designs that’ll set you up for long-term success in the AWS cloud. From account creation and access configuration, through security considerations and VPC design, to the use of VPC peering, ELBs and Internet Gateways, we’ll walk you through the common infrastructure elements and recommended design patterns that lead to AWS cloud adoption success.
Keeping Security In-Step with your Application Demand CurveAmazon Web Services
Protecting dynamically scaled cloud compute resources can be challenging, especially for organizations that lack the time or money it takes to maintain dynamic security. Fortinet’s auto scaling security solution addresses this issue by providing the resources to help with deployment in order to optimize organizations’ AWS networks. Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Fortinet and AWS to learn how to leverage Fortinet for auto scaling complex security policies in your Amazon VPC. Fortinet has a broad set of capabilities that when combined with AWS services creates truly a complete security architecture.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Enterprise Fundamentals: Design Your Account and VPC Arch...Amazon Web Services
Customers looking to migrate to AWS often ask the following questions at the beginning of their journey “What is the right AWS account structure and VPC design for me?” and “How do I minimize the impact to my IT operations?” This session discusses the different account structures, VPC design patterns and network deployment architectures to align to different Enterprise IT Operating Models. We will also discuss the implications each pattern has with respect to Security, Finance and Operations. Nielsen, a global enterprise providing an understanding of what consumers watch and what consumers buy, will discuss the decision making process for their AWS account and VPC design. Nielsen will also discuss the implications of their decision. This session will benefit IT architects, managers and technology strategists to:
• Understand the 4 common Enterprise IT Operating Models and the VPC design patterns associated with each
• The security, operational and financial considerations associated with each design pattern
• Ask the correct questions to determine how best to set up their AWS accounts
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS cloud to augment their current capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models with significant cost and agility benefits. But how can the cloud benefit existing government organizations that have invested large amounts of resources in existing on-premises technologies? This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of the large-scale IT shop stakeholder. Because each organization has its unique set of challenges in cloud adoption, this session compares some of the opportunities and risks of several hybrid cloud use-case models and then helps customers understand the cloud-native and third-party vendor options available that bridge the gap to the cloud for large-scale government environments.
Speaker: Craig Roach, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Operating and Managing Hybrid Cloud on AWSTom Laszewski
Operating in a hybrid architecture is a necessary component of an enterprise cloud adoption journey. Security, provisioning, change management, and monitoring are all key aspects of managing any hybrid cloud environment. This session will cover the AWS Services, open source tools, and AWS partners that can provide enterprises with a secure, well-governed, performant, reliable, and well-operated hybrid cloud environment. Infrastructure and application continuous delivery and improvement solutions, along with best practices to automate hybrid cloud provisioning and operations activities will be covered.
The Best of Both Worlds: Implementing Hybrid IT with AWS (ENT218) | AWS re:In...Amazon Web Services
(Presented by RightScale)
With the increased use of cloud services, organizations are faced with finding the most efficient way to leverage existing IT infrastructure alongside cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources. This has resulted in the rise of hybrid infrastructure so IT teams can deliver agility and performance with visibility and control.
At RightScale, we’ve implemented some of the world’s largest hybrid IT deployments. In this session, we share implementation approaches, architecture design considerations, and steps for a successful hybrid IT model.
This session covers:
-How to develop a strategy and framework for a successful path to hybrid IT
-How to prioritize applications for public cloud versus on-premises
-How to manage multiple compute resource pools through a unified management framework
-Implementation and continuous improvement of a hybrid IT environment
Examples of enterprise hybrid IT implementations include cloudbursting, high availability, and disaster recovery.
The Best of Both Worlds: Implementing Hybrid IT with AWSRightScale
With the increased use of cloud services, organizations are faced with finding the most efficient way to leverage existing IT infrastructure alongside cloud-based compute, storage, and networking resources. This has resulted in the rise of hybrid infrastructure so IT teams can deliver agility and performance with visibility and control.
At RightScale, we’ve implemented some of the world’s largest hybrid IT deployments. In this session, we share implementation approaches, architecture design considerations, and steps for a successful hybrid IT model.
This session covers:
1. How to develop a strategy and framework for a successful path to hybrid IT.
2. How to prioritize applications for public cloud versus on-premises.
3. How to manage multiple compute resource pools through a unified management framework.
4. Implementation and continuous improvement of a hybrid IT environment.
Examples of enterprise hybrid IT implementations include cloudbursting, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Session Sponsored by Trend Micro: 3 Secrets to Becoming a Cloud Security Supe...Amazon Web Services
While security is a top concern in every organization these days, it often gets a bad rap. In many minds, security has the reputation of the bothersome villain who attempts to hinder performance or restrain agility. In this session we will outline three strategies to protect your valuable workloads, without falling into traditional security traps. We will walk through three stories of EC2 security superheroes who saved the day by overcoming compliance and design challenges, using a (not so) secret arsenal of AWS and Trend Micro security tools.
Key takeaways from this session include how to:
- Design a workload-centric security architecture
- Improve visibility of AWS-only or hybrid environments
- Stop patching live instances but still prevent exploits
Speaker: Sasha Pavlovic, Director, Cloud & Datacentre Security, Asia Pacific, Trend Micro
AWS re:Invent 2016: [JK REPEAT] The Enterprise Fast Lane - What Your Competit...Amazon Web Services
Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane!
Learn how AutoScout24, the largest online car marketplace Europe-wide, are building their Autobahn in the Cloud.
The secret ingredient? Culture! Because “Cloud” is only one half of the digital transformation story: The other half is how your organization deals with cultural change as you transition from the old world of IT into building microservices on AWS with agile DevOps teams in a true „you build it you run it“ fashion.
Listen to stories from the trenches, powered by Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway and much more, backed by AWS Partners, AWS Professional Services, and AWS Enterprise Support.
Key takeaways: How to become Cloud native, evolve your architecture step by step, drive cultural change across your teams, and manage your company’s transformation for the future.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
It’s not a matter of if you will move your storage to the cloud. It’s a matter of how and when. Gartner predicts 50% of enterprises will be using a hybrid cloud by 2017. If you want to learn an AWS hybrid cloud, but are having trouble getting started, attend our webinar and learn how to build your own hybrid cloud with AWS, SoftNAS and existing equipment.
In this webinar and demo, we covered:
-Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Learn how SoftNAS can be installed both in Amazon EC2 and on-premises
-How To Build a Hybrid Cloud with AWS: Watch us create a hybrid cloud using existing equipment, AWS services and SoftNAS Cloud NAS
-Best Practices for Building A Hybrid Cloud: Tips and tricks from the SoftNAS team on how to get your hybrid cloud up and running in 30 minutes.
-How To Backup Your Data with Amazon EBS: Learn how to backup data using Amazon EBS Snapshots, SoftNAS Snapshots and SoftNAS SnapClones
The video associated with these slides is located here:
https://youtu.be/Mm13GO5m_Mc
Try a 30-day free trial of SoftNAS Cloud - http://www.softnas.com/tryaws
Visit http://www.softnas.com for more information
AWS re:Invent 2016: Future-Proofing the WAN and Simplifying Security On Your ...Amazon Web Services
You can leverage the agility and scale of cloud services and consolidate your data centers, but performance and security are only as good as your WAN. Is this session, learn best practices for connecting cloud, data center, and branch sites through public and private networking to maximize performance, minimize costs, and simplify security. Session sponsored by Level 3.
Orchestrating Network with Web Services Session Sponsored by Megaport – Camer...Amazon Web Services
AWS Direct Connect and VPCs allow for a fully private and stable backhaul between your private assets and cloud services without the need for significant encryption, tunneling, or other methods. While these components can be created on the fly with an API, the network component itself cannot. Megaport demonstrates a method of creating the network components in tandem with your AWS components so that the full solution is created in a single API call to a group of endpoints.
Bhavik Vyas once again walks out through implementation of Broadcast and OTT Workloads on the AWS Cloud.
In this presentation he explains how the media supply chain can be migrated to the AWS cloud. He discusses economic, security and operational considerations, and presents real case studies of customers who already went on this path.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Reduce Your Blast Radius by Using Multiple AWS Accounts P...Amazon Web Services
This session shows you how to reduce your blast radius by using multiple AWS accounts per region and service, which helps limit the impact of a critical event such as a security breach. Using multiple accounts helps you define boundaries and provides blast-radius isolation. Though managing multiple accounts can be difficult, we will present an upcoming AWS solution that will help automate the process for controlling cross- account access by managing roles across multiple accounts.
Are you deploying Windows on AWS? Are you interested in taking advantage of existing investments when running Windows workloads on AWS? In this session we will discuss real world customer examples including as SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, and Remote Desktop Services with licensing options. We will explore deployment options and provide an overview of the AWS created QuickStarts and QuickLaunches to help with speed of deployment. This session will also include migration options for customer running End of Extended support products such as Windows Server2003 and SQL2005.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Automating and Scaling Infrastructure Administration with...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we’ll show how customers can use management tools to standardize the creation of AWS resources and then govern these resources through the lifecycle. By using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Service Catalog to provision resources at scale, AWS Config to audit any changes to the configuration of these resources, Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the health of these resources, and AWS CloudTrail to audit who or what made API calls to these resources, customers can automate and scale the administration of their infrastructure on AWS. They can even go one step further and automate compliance checking and remediation by using AWS Config rules and Amazon CloudWatch Events. We will demo how this is possible by looking at some common use cases.
Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption ...Amazon Web Services
To arm you with best practices from day one, this session presents field-tested and reusable designs that’ll set you up for long-term success in the AWS cloud. From account creation and access configuration, through security considerations and VPC design, to the use of VPC peering, ELBs and Internet Gateways, we’ll walk you through the common infrastructure elements and recommended design patterns that lead to AWS cloud adoption success.
Keeping Security In-Step with your Application Demand CurveAmazon Web Services
Protecting dynamically scaled cloud compute resources can be challenging, especially for organizations that lack the time or money it takes to maintain dynamic security. Fortinet’s auto scaling security solution addresses this issue by providing the resources to help with deployment in order to optimize organizations’ AWS networks. Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Fortinet and AWS to learn how to leverage Fortinet for auto scaling complex security policies in your Amazon VPC. Fortinet has a broad set of capabilities that when combined with AWS services creates truly a complete security architecture.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Enterprise Fundamentals: Design Your Account and VPC Arch...Amazon Web Services
Customers looking to migrate to AWS often ask the following questions at the beginning of their journey “What is the right AWS account structure and VPC design for me?” and “How do I minimize the impact to my IT operations?” This session discusses the different account structures, VPC design patterns and network deployment architectures to align to different Enterprise IT Operating Models. We will also discuss the implications each pattern has with respect to Security, Finance and Operations. Nielsen, a global enterprise providing an understanding of what consumers watch and what consumers buy, will discuss the decision making process for their AWS account and VPC design. Nielsen will also discuss the implications of their decision. This session will benefit IT architects, managers and technology strategists to:
• Understand the 4 common Enterprise IT Operating Models and the VPC design patterns associated with each
• The security, operational and financial considerations associated with each design pattern
• Ask the correct questions to determine how best to set up their AWS accounts
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS cloud to augment their current capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models with significant cost and agility benefits. But how can the cloud benefit existing government organizations that have invested large amounts of resources in existing on-premises technologies? This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of the large-scale IT shop stakeholder. Because each organization has its unique set of challenges in cloud adoption, this session compares some of the opportunities and risks of several hybrid cloud use-case models and then helps customers understand the cloud-native and third-party vendor options available that bridge the gap to the cloud for large-scale government environments.
Speaker: Craig Roach, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Operating and Managing Hybrid Cloud on AWSTom Laszewski
Operating in a hybrid architecture is a necessary component of an enterprise cloud adoption journey. Security, provisioning, change management, and monitoring are all key aspects of managing any hybrid cloud environment. This session will cover the AWS Services, open source tools, and AWS partners that can provide enterprises with a secure, well-governed, performant, reliable, and well-operated hybrid cloud environment. Infrastructure and application continuous delivery and improvement solutions, along with best practices to automate hybrid cloud provisioning and operations activities will be covered.
Pragmatic Approach to Workload Migrations - London Summit Enteprise Track RePlayAmazon Web Services
Migrating a portfolio of legacy applications to AWS cloud infrastructure requires careful planning as each phase needs balancing between risk tolerance and the speed of migration. This session will present a set of successful best practices, tools and techniques that help migration speed of delivery and increase success rate. We will also cover the complete lifecycle of an application portfolio migration including a special focus on how to organise and conduct the assessment and identify elements that can benefit from cloud architecture.
AWS and its partners offer a wide range of tools and features to help you to meet your security objectives. These tools mirror the familiar controls you deploy within your on-premises environments. AWS provides security-specific tools and features across network security, configuration management, access control and data security. In addition, AWS provides monitoring and logging tools to can provide full visibility into what is happening in your environment. In this session, you will get introduced to the range of security tools and features that AWS offers, and the latest security innovations coming from AWS.
IT teams in K12 wear many hats. From helping with technology in the classroom to managing district wide operations, it’s a balancing act every day. Join this webinar on Thursday, June 29 and learn how the cloud enables district IT teams be as agile and flexible as the students they serve, even during unexpected emergencies. The cloud offers numerous benefits including lower costs, faster experimentation, pay-as-you-go usage, and no physical infrastructure to manage. You’ll learn: • What is the cloud and why it matters to K12 • Best practices to ensure smooth system operations during peak registration, graduation, and testing periods • How to prepare for inevitable emergencies with long-term record storage in redundant cloud environments • How one district has saved up to 50% on IT costs over five years, helping them focus on teaching and learning • How to build redundancy into your school’s IT plan, allowing you to access records at any time
Getting Started with Windows Workloads on Amazon EC2 - TorontoAmazon Web Services
Thinking through how you want to run Microsoft Windows Server and application workloads on AWS is straightforward, when you have a game plan. Understanding which service to leverage– like Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Directory Services to name a few – will accelerate the process further. There are also a number of new enhancements to help make things even easier. In this session we will walk through how to think about mapping to the various AWS services available so you can get your deployment or migration project off to the right start. Think of this session as the decoder ring between your on-premises deployment and what you can expect from the AWS cloud for your Microsoft Windows Server and applications.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Simplifying Microsoft Architectures with AWS services (WI...Amazon 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, introduce DevOps concepts, automation and repeatability. Plan authentication and authorization, various hybrid scenarios with other cloud environment and on premise solutions/infrastructure. Learn about common architecture patterns for Active Directory and business productivity solutions like SharePoint, Exchange and Skype for Business, also common scenarios for SQL deployments and System Center.
Day 1 - Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services
Whether you are running applications that share photos or support critical operations of your business, you need rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. The term "cloud computing" refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are a startup who wants to accelerate growth without a big upfront investment in cash or time for technology or an Enterprise looking for IT innovation, agility and resiliency while reducing costs, the AWS Cloud provides a complete set of infrastructure services at zero upfront costs which are available with a few clicks and within minutes. Join this webinar to learn more about the benefits of Cloud Computing.
Reasons to attend:
- Learn the concepts of utility computing and elasticity and why these are important to a cost-effective, scalable and reliable IT architecture.
- Hear about the AWS service portfolio and the global footprint on which it is delivered and the value proposition of the AWS Cloud.
AWS Enterprise Day | Securing your Web Applications in the CloudAmazon Web Services
Security is a top priority to both AWS and its customers and many enterprises trust us with some of their most sensitive information, including financial, personal and health information. Learn about the key security features of AWS that these enterprise customers are using to build their own secure applications and secure and encrypt their content. We will also share how you can integrate AWS into your existing security policies and how partners like Trend Micro can help you extend this into the AWS Cloud.
AWS 201 - A Walk through the AWS Cloud: What's New with AWSAmazon Web Services
In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services - now commonly known as cloud computing. Since then, our pace of innovation has continued rapidly. Let's take a look at some of the exciting announcements and latest service updates over the past 6 months and learn about:
- New features and enhancements to existing services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Redshift and Amazon SNS
- How these features and services fit together in the overall AWS landscape
- New solutions and approaches to common IT use cases that are now possible
In this session, learn how you evaluate, design, build, and manage distributed applications over hybrid infrastructures using Amazon Web Services. This session follows the evolution of a simple legacy data center expansion with basic connectivity into managing complex hybrid applications. Along the way, we investigate best practice designs in use by AWS customers. Topics covered include interconnectivity, availability, security, and hybrid networks with Amazon VPC and AWS Direct Connect, as well as automated provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and configuration management with AWS OpsWorks.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
12. • Secure, flexible networking between
cloud and on-premise
• Secure, federated access
management
• Management tools for hybrid
environments
• Integrated monitoring tools
HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
13. • Secure, flexible networking between
cloud and on-premise
• Secure, federated access
management
• Management tools for hybrid
environments
• Integrated monitoring tools
HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
14. Secure, flexible connectivity
OPS | NETWORKING
AWS DirectConnect
• Extend your data center network to the
AWS cloud using a leased-line/circuit
• Secure, consistent performance on a
private network - avoid internet traversal
• Lower data transfer costs (vs VPN)
• 1Mbps to multiple 10Gbps
• Simpler management of multi-VPC
environments
• IPSEC VPNs can also be used for small
deployments, POCs and extra redundancy
15. Secure, flexible networking
OPS | NETWORKING
AWS Virtual Private Cloud
• Create a software-defined network
topology for your cloud including private
and public subnets (RFC1918), routing,
firewall policies and NAT
• Connect VPCs together using peering, or
directly to your data center and offices
Implement network isolation at any level, e.g.
• App environment, tier, business unit, team,
application / project and data classification
16. OPS | NETWORKING
Your Data Center
IPSEC VPN
Tunnels(x2)
AWS DirectConnect
Peering Location
Circuit(s), e.g
Metro Ethernet
AWS
Fibre cross connect
Terminated on an AWS
or customer managed gateway
(Internet)
Network Extension
17. (Optional) Bring your favorite security tools
Unified Threat
Management & WAF
VPN / Routing,
Application Delivery,
Key Management
AVAILABLE NOW
20. Federated Access Management
OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
AWS Directory Service – AD Connector
• Easily federate your corporate Active
Directory environment to AWS and enable
single sign-on – no need for SAML
infrastructure
• Proxy only – does not store credentials
• Supports RADIUS-based MFA
• Connects to Domain Controllers in your
VPC or on-premise Domain Controllers
Customers can also use ADFS or partner
solutions
21. AWS Identity & Access Management
OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
AWS Identity and Access Management
• Securely control access to AWS services
and resources
• Combine IAM and AD Connector to
develop role based security policies for
AWS resources using your existing AD
identities
• Fine grained control of permissions with
auditing via CloudTrail
22. OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
AWS Management
Console
Your Identity Provider
E.g. Active Directory
AWS IAM
(Federated users)
Policies AWS Services &
Resources
AD Connector – (Proxy only)
AWS Directory Service
Forward Authentication
Access per IAM
policies
Authentication
Authorization
Allow / deny
23. OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
AWS Management
Console
Your Identity Provider
E.g. Active Directory
AWS IAM
(Federated users)
Policies AWS Services &
Resources
AD Connector – (Proxy only)
AWS Directory Service
Forward Authentication
Access per IAM
policies
Authentication
Authorization
Allow / deny
Ready in
15 minutes!
34. Importing existing VM images
AWS Management Portal for
VMWARE vCenter
AWS VM Import
Point and click
migration for VMware
Migrate VMWare, Hyper-V
and Citrix Xen images
OPS | MANAGEMENT
35. AWS Import / Export
Snowball
• 50 TB Amazon-owned appliance design
to help move petabytes of data per week
• 256-bit data encryption (KMS)
• Tamper resistant, durable and rugged
enclosure
• 10 GB network – takes ~13 hours to load
a 50TB Snowball
Use Snowball to move data centers, large
data sets or individual VMs
OPS | MANAGEMENT
36. • Secure, flexible networking
between cloud and on-premise
• Secure, federated access
management
• Management tools for hybrid
environments
• Integrated monitoring tools
HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
VPC & DirectConnect IAM, Directory Service
Packer, Terraform, Ansible and VM Import
37. • Secure, flexible networking
between cloud and on-premise
• Secure, federated access
management
• Management tools for hybrid
environments
• Integrated monitoring tools
HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
VPC & DirectConnect IAM, Directory Service
Packer, Terraform, Ansible and VM Import
44. The first, and the most important, reason we go with AWS is for the self-service flexibility. The fact
that we can be up and running with a test environment in minutes … in the classic model, I’d
probably still be negotiating data center contracts.
– Lorin Kobashigawa-Bates
Director of Technology, Expedia APAC & AirAsia Go
”
“
45. Dev & Test on AWS
Performant Lower costAutomated Available
Automate
environment
builds and release
processes
(CI/CD)
Deploy and test
code at full scale
and in replica
environments
Pay as you go –
but turn it off
when idle
On demand
resources in 11
regions globally –
no need to wait
for hardware
46. On-Demand Development Environments
Amazon Workspaces
• Secure and isolated virtual desktop
environments
• Windows 7 desktop experience
• Fully customizable image and apps
• Active Directory integration & MFA
• Pay as you go
Amazon Workspaces
On-demand
virtual desktops
Dev Environments
Great for company contractors or
companies that outsource development
47. AWS Device Farm
AWS CodeCommit
Managed GIT Repository
AWS CodePipeline
Continous Delivery
Real mobile device
testing
AWS CodeDeploy
Automated Deployments
Develop, test and release
49. ..[AWS] significantly improved our business
continuity capabilities, including seamless
failovers
- Kevin Quinlivan
Chief Information Officer, Delaware North
”
“
Hybrid and Disaster Recovery
Architecture
50. Disaster Recovery on AWS
Performant No secondary
site expense
Highly
Secure
Geo DR
AWS data
centers are
compliant to
15+
international
security
standards
Provision DR
environments
to production
scale
Turn it on when
you need it
and run DR
tests frequently
without financial
penalties
Backup your
systems to 11
AWS regions
globally
Eliminate
Tape
Use more
durable disk
based storage
for backup,
archive and
compliance
workloads
51. Store backups data on AWS
Amazon S3 / Glacier Connector &
AWS Storage Gateway VTL
AWS Storage Gateway (VM)
Mirror data to AWS
Pay as you grow storage
Infinitely scalable
On-prem storage
52. Live on-prem to AWS VM/App replication
Network
constrained?
Use Snowball to
transfer VM’s or
data to AWS for
disaster recovery
54. Production on AWS
Highly
Secure
AWS data centers
are compliant to
15+ international
security standards
Digital
Ready
Extensive set of
services for big
data, predictive
analytics, IoT and
mobile apps
Global
Footprint
11 Regions and
over 50 availability
zones and POPs
Open &
Flexible
Language and
operating system
agnostic
55. Adobe Experience Manager (formely CQ)
The rich API set that AWS offers us allows us to
deeply integrate our automation systems into AWS
and provide an efficient operating environment for our
customers
– Mitch Nelson
Director of Managed Services Products, Adobe
”
“
56. Digital Applications
You code. AWS builds and deploys
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS)
Mobile and Web
Supports: Supports Java, .NET, PHP,
Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker
Mobile only
AWS Mobile Hub
A complete mobile platform
Features: User sign-in and data storage
(Cognito), cloud logic (Lamda), Push
notifications (SNS), analytics, content delivery
& app testing (Device Farm)
60. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premise
• Secure, federated access management
• Management tools for hybrid environments
• Integrated monitoring tools
Development and Test
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Mobile & Web
Streaming / Analytics
Questions and Feedback? karimh@amazon.com
Duration: ~60 mins.
This session will provide a 100-200 level introduction into hybrid on AWS.
We’ll talk about the AWS hybrid story
And we’ll split the body of the session into two key parts
Implementing hybrid ops
Implementing apps
Then we’ll wrap it up
…NEXT
Hybrid Ops provide the foundations, including networking, security and management tools
Hybrid Apps sit on top of these foundations. Later in the session we wil talk about the common patterns for hybrid apps
At AWS is not an all or nothing proposition.
There are four dimensions to this.
Security, is our #1 priority at AWS and we have invested heavily into improving security for all customers
Scale, 10x more than the others,
Breadth of services, more than 50 at last count
Depth of features, we are adding more than 1 new feature every single day.
Security certifications apply globally to all of our DCs
Security is also not a static craft at AWS. We are constantly evolvong and just recently we announce we have achieved ISO27018 certification which relates to data privacy in the cloud
We also announced a number of new security products, including a security assessment service Amazon Inpsect, a WAF and a cloud governance solution called AWS config rules
In 2015 we have already surpassed this number
And at our annual confernece “re:invent” just a few weeks ago we launched a number of entirely new products
Complete technology and enterprise services platform
Compute Server Storage Networking Security
Enterprise Apps for email, virtual desktops, directory services
Mobile development tools, scalable Analytics infrastructure and now reporting tools like Quicksight,
Marketplace offers easy software and infrastructure procurement
Enterprise Support, professional services and training
So how do you capitalise on these products and sevrices.
In this section we will talk about how companies start by laying the foundations for a hybrid operating model.
This is the type of plumbing that enterprises have told us they need to implement
The first thing that is critical is secure, reliable networking
Next, we need to make it easy for companies to connect their access management systems like Active Directory to the cloud
Then, enterprises need tools that work with both AWS and their on-premise infrastructure
Finally, monitoring tools that can keep your services running smoothly
As a best practice we don’t disclose locations of our data centers, and so we use peering partners like Equinix who provide demarcation point and cross connect into our cloud services.
DX is a Layer 3 service between AWS and your co-lo.
BGP and HSRP for failover etc.
Customers can use multiple DX and VPNs for redundancy and BGP/HSRP to manage failover
If you have additional security products in your on-premise envioronment you can bring them along with you.
AWS Marketplace makes procuring and implementing these solutions a one-click experience. Licensing is handled by marketplace and fees are automatically charged to your AWS account. Once purchased Marketplace install the solution into the VPC of your choice.
There are thousands of products across multiple categories like security, business intelligence and management in AWS Marketplcaae
So I’ve shown you how easy it is to setup a high performance, secure and scalable connectivity and networking between AWS and your existing environment using DirectConnect and VPC. Let’s move onto the next step …. NEXT
Secure access management is the next step…NEXT
AWS Directory Service is a full managed directory service that operates in two modes. One is as a standadlone SAMBA4 compatible directory.
The other is as a Connector (or Proxy) to your Active Directory environment.
With a few clicks you can have your corporate AD environment federated with AWS to for secure access management and single-signon. This means your AD identities can be associated with permissions to AWS platform services. Such as the ability to create and terminate EC2 instances. In CloudTrail, which keeps a log of activities – down to the API level – you will be able to sit individual AD user and what action they attempted to perform.
IAM is our policy driven access management system. It is extremely fine grained.
You can use IAMs built in identities, or federate, to link IAM to your existing AD environment
Using AWS Directory Service and AD Connector it takes just 15 minutes to setup!
For those who want to use their existing Identity Management solutions, we have partnered with all the leading vendors, including those which you can see here
Almost every company we work with that is implementing a hybrid strategy is actually choosing just one cloud to partner with. Customers tell us they prefer a cloud partner with a large breadth and depth of services.
Multi-cloud is being talked about as a potential long term option, but they are all starting with one knowing that the beginning of a long journey starts with a few humble footsteps.
Cloud brokers, or systems that abstract customers from cloud providers APIs, products and services, negate just about all of the benefits of the cloud. Broker platforms are slow to respond to or never support new services, features and API. They can become bottlenecks and introduce reliability issues. In fact, many brokers stop at “VM” integration which is simply not enough.
Open source has well and truly arrived and it is an extremely viable, and in many cases better alternative to commercial solutions. OS is free, often field tested at scale and is updated frequently. Some of the worlds largest startups like Netflix use AWS and are building ecosystems of management tools to add additional features and capabilities.
Enterprises are using tools like these to fully automate the deployment of their applications
HASHICORP Packer: solves the problem of building multi-platform (VMWare, AWS) machine images
Terraform: allows you to describe an application stack (e.g. 3 tier) as a template and then use that template to deploy app environments
Ansible: a popular configuration manegment tooll for scripting changes to virtual machines, EC2 instances and applications
Describe the basic machine type (specifications, running services tc. and types of images you want to produce “builders”) and packer automatically generates those images (AMI, VMX etc.)
The config follows the industry standard JSON format
If you were using VMWare you would create another builder config with the desired specification
Terraform uses a similar JSON based format. This script for an application running on AWS creates 5 amazon EC2 instances of “m1.small” type and puts them behind a AWS manage load balancer on port 80 and routes through to internal port of 8000.
This is a common workflow in enterprise environments. Let’s walk through it
If you have existing VM images you can easily migrate them to AWS using these tools
What if you wanted to move lots of virtual machines or evne an entire data center
That’s where Snowball comes in.
Keys are not stored on the appliance
It can withstand a 6 G jolt
So we have talked about how packer, terraform, ansible can help you implement automated builds across your on-prem and AWS environments
Now let’s talk about monitoring tools
AWS comes with a built-in monitoring platform called CloudWatch. CloudWatch provides useful dashboards and metrics and simple alerts for our platform services and features. Many of these are at the infrastructure level. But you WILL need more detail than that, so you want to invest or textend in your existing tools.
New Relic and App dynamics provide application and infrastructure performance management. And data dog provides really detailed infrastructure.
These vendors all have integration with AWS and are mutli platform supporting AWS cloud and on-prem infrastructure
Splunk App covers cloudtrail, AWS config, EC2 ++
Now that you are paying as you go, it’s important to track your spend.
AWS provides native tools to do so, and its easy to setup billing alerts.
Many of our enterprise customers also use a produc called Cloudability” which gives them detailed spending reports, usage analytics and tools to govern and regulate spending
Finally, we added application performance monitoring and integrated splunk for operational analytics
And you’re done.
Enterprises start with dev and test because it’s a low risk and high return prospect
More performant: Using AWS, we decreased average network latency from 700 milliseconds to less than 50 milliseconds.” Figure 1 demonstrates the ESS typeahead suggestion service running on AWS. They push servers from 30% utilization up to 70% utilization.
Scale your testing: Blue green deployments – multiple live production environments
Create application templates, implement CI, CD and make DevOps a reality.
Test full scale environments.
One thing I hear over and over again from developerss that there simply arnet enough development environments to go around
Developers want more, and they want their own discrete environments. And they want environments that replicate the performance dynamics of the production environment. What about a fully built and managed, data center clustered Oracle 12 database in 15 mins? Or SQL, Mysql, Postgres or even MariaDB?
And if you’re outsourcing development you also need to provide a secure workspace. With Workspaces, our virrtual desktop as a service, its easy to do this. Plus with the power of VPC, you can provide network isolated environments.
J&J is in the process of rollut out 25,000 Amazon Workspaces for temporary employees
AWS have developer focused services for enterprises and startups.
Even if you’re not doing continuous integration and delivery, you can still harvest the benefits of our developer tools.
CodeCommit, Git compatible repository fully managed (we handle storage scalability, security and availability)
CodeDeploy to managed deployments. This is based on a tool named Apollo that Amazon has been buulding over the last 10 years as part of our journey towards micro-services.
The next step some customers take is to move Disaster Recovery environments to the cloud. Because enterprises are paying a lot of money for secondary sites that they seldom use. With AWS, you pay for what you use when you’re using it.
Not all customers move DR, in fact many skip it and move straight into production workloads.
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/delaware-north/
x months into its cloud migration, Delaware North was realizing benefits in addition to its data center consolidation, including cost-effective security compliance, enhanced disaster recovery, and faster deployment times for new services.
“Robust security in a retail environment is critical for us because of our many retail operations, and AWS is enormously helpful for that,” says Brian Mercer, the senior software architect for the project. “By leveraging the security best practices of AWS, we’ve been able to eliminate a lot of compliance tasks that in the past took up valuable time and money.”
He adds that the company also has increased its disaster recovery capabilities at a lower cost than what was available in its previous data center deployment. “It significantly improved our business continuity capabilities, including seamless failovers,” he says.
The solution is also helping Delaware North operate with greater speed and agility. For example, it can bring in new businesses—either through contracts or acquisitions—and get them online much faster than in the past by eliminating the need for traditional IT procurement and provisioning. It used to take between two and three weeks to provision new business units; now it takes one day. The Delaware North IT team is also using AWS to overhaul its operations by eliminating outdated and cumbersome processes, cleaning up documentation, and leveraging the benefits of running test and development tasks in combination with rapid deployment of services through the cloud.
“Our DevOps team can now spin up the resources to push out a service in just minutes, compared to the weeks it used to take,” says Scott Mercer. “With AWS, we can respond much faster to business needs. And we can start repurposing time and resources to deliver more value and services to our internal teams and to our customers.”
If you decomission tape altogether, at the very least send your daily, weekly backups to AWS.
Companies like CommVault and Symantec have made that easy with NATIVE integration for AWS S3 as a storage provider.
Even if you doint use those products you can use the AWS Storage Gateway, a virtual appliance, that asynchronously replicates data to Amazon S3. Likewise, ordinary server volumes mounted across iSCSI can be replicated into the AWS cloud enabling you to protect specific systems or datasets attached to servers (like databases)
What about live replicating virtual machines and apps to AWS for DR? That’s possible too
Racemi and CLoudVelox both provide solutions to do this and to failover in the event of an issue.
Or consider this as a simple and cost effective insurance policy. Use VM Export to make a monthly copy of all of your VMs to a Snowball device and then import them back into the cloud as on-standby virtual machine instances.
So you got through dev and test and DR… and an amazing new digital project has come up.
First off, digital projects are the BEST place to start with AWS … so why is that
AWS is digital. In fact we have a lot of digital services, like IoT, machine learning, data analytics – but we wont have time to cover all of them in this session – so I’ll just focus on a few
Adobe launched their cloud computing offering on AWS and one of the primary reasons for that is the level of automation the AWS platform provides.
We have a large variety of services. If you’re building a new mobile app from scratch then check out Mobile Hub. It This is designed to help you ship your product faster by providing you with all the basic mobile app functionality including identity management and session storage, analytics, content delivery, and app testing.
If you have an existing app, or a project already underway, you should definitely check out Elastic Beanstalk. With EB, just upload the code and AWS does the rest, buidling the infrastructure (LB app and database) and scaling to adapt to peaks in demand. Apps can take as little as 2 minutes to deploy and it supports all of the major languages and container types.
If you want to implement an app architecture that uses both on-prem and cloud, then you can – using DirectConnect. Just remember to keep the app and database as together for a better customer experience.
For streaming analytics we added two products recently – Amazon Kinesis Firehose which make it easier to get data into Redshift and Amazon S3 and Kinesis Analytics which enables analysts to query streaming data using standard SQL queries.
So today we’ve talked about the 4 steps to enable Hybrid Operations and some of the really common initial use cases for enterprises.
Finally, lets stay in touch…please connect with me on LinkedIn
Thank you