In this session, learn how Data Polygamy, a scalable topology-based framework, can enable users to query for statistically significant relationships between spatio-temporal datasets. With the increasing ability to collect data from urban environments and a push toward openness by governments, we can analyze numerous spatio-temporal datasets covering diverse aspects of a city. Urban data captures the behavior of the city’s citizens, existing infrastructure (physical and policies), and environment...
Dec 25, 2016•46 min
With rich controls, auditing, and broad security accreditations, AWS enables its customers to be in compliance with CJIS, FERPA, and HIPAA. Come hear customers share their approaches to achieving compliance for these and other standards across many markets.
Dec 25, 2016•59 min
Cloud computing can help government organizations increase innovation, efficiency, agility, and resiliency—all while reducing costs. This session highlights perspectives on how small, highly empowered United States Digital Service (USDS) teams within the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are breaking down innovation barriers, tackling mission-critical operations, and delivering more value with the cloud in highly regulated...
Dec 25, 2016•59 min
Cloud governance is critical to executing a systemic, supportable, and sustainable cloud transformation strategy. This session explores best practices to achieve that model, including standards policies, automation that consistently applies and enforces policies and controls, self-service capabilities that enable agility and speed, and automated monitoring and cost management that ensure operational integrity. A well-developed cloud governance model enables customers to improve operational integ...
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Learn how to architect for compliance in the AWS cloud and see how your organization can leverage the agility, cost savings, scalability, and flexibility of the cloud while meeting the most stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, including Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), ITAR, CJIS, HIPAA, and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Levels 2 and 4. Hear best practices and practical use cases for using AWS GovCloud (US) to comply with a variety...
Dec 25, 2016•41 min
Migrating on-premises workloads to AWS is a top priority for customers today. AWS has an array of tools and capabilities to make the move faster and less risky. This deep-dive session presents how to build a migration framework for your Windows-based applications by using AWS CloudFormation templates, along with multisite replication capabilities built into AWS and optimized for Microsoft Windows workloads built on SQL HA. This framework helps speed up your data center migration and minimize ris...
Dec 25, 2016•41 min
In this session, you will learn how you can use EC2 management capabilities to perform repeatable automation of your infrastructure at scale, across platforms and hybrid environments. As you embark on your cloud journey and embrace a modern DevOps mindset, you not only want to deploy software quickly but also ensure configuration consistency at cloud scale. Many enterprises have successfully used services such as EC2 Run Command to perform administrative tasks, and we'll share some of those stor...
Dec 25, 2016•49 min
Whether you are a traditional enterprise making a shift to the cloud or are already all-in, AWS EC2 management capabilities enable you to perform common tasks of inventory collection, and patch and image management of your infrastructure at scale. In this session, we'll provide a brief overview of these powerful capabilities and bring it all together with a demo of real-world hybrid-cloud management scenario.
Dec 25, 2016•49 min
Video is a 'last-mile problem' for search technology. Unlike webpages, documents, and email, content in videos has traditionally been impossible to search. Recent advances in automated speech and text recognition, however, let businesses and universities search inside video assets as easily as inside textual content. In this session, you'll learn how Panopto is using AWS to solve the video-search problem at scale, while saving over 50% in operating costs by taking advantage of Spot instances. We...
Dec 25, 2016•45 min
This session goes deep on best practices and considerations for running Microsoft SQL Server on AWS. We cover best practices for deploying SQL Server, how to choose between Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, and ways to optimize the performance of your SQL Server deployment for different application types. We review in detail how to provision and monitor your SQL Server databases, and how to manage scalability, performance, availability, security, and backup and recovery in both Amazon RDS and Amazon EC...
Dec 25, 2016•57 min
Active Directory (AD) is essential for Windows workloads in the cloud. AWS offers customers multiple ways to integrate AD with cloud workloads like EC2, RDS, and AWS Enterprise Applications: AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) as a managed service and Active Directory running on AWS EC2 Windows instances. Which option is right for you? This session will discuss the key deployment considerations for each option to help you identify which best meets your proje...
Dec 25, 2016•38 min
AWS can help you rapidly deploy and scale your Microsoft SharePoint environment to help you collaborate more efficiently and cost-effectively. This session reviews architectural considerations for building a SharePoint deployment on AWS, best practices to ensure optimal performance, how to leverage multiple Availability Zones for high availability and disaster recovery, and how to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. We will also look at new Quick Start guides, AWS CloudFormation templates...
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Running Microsoft workloads on AWS is easy and can save you money. This session will cover how to bring your own Microsoft licenses to AWS, and then demonstrate using PowerShell to import your Windows Server image from Vmware or Hyper-V, configure Windows KMS with your license key, and launch an EC2 Dedicated Host. We will discuss ways you can use AWS Config rules to manage license compliance.
Dec 25, 2016•57 min
Today, we are announcing EC2 Systems Manager. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These capabilities help you define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance of your EC2 and on-premises configurations. This session provides an overview of these newly announced services and how they work together ...
Dec 25, 2016•51 min
Edwards Lifesciences partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies in the areas of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring to help patients live longer, healthier and more productive lives. The Edwards Lifesciences IT team recently embarked on a journey to move many of their business critical corporate IT applications to AWS to better support the Edwards Lifesciences mission to help patients worldwide. In this session, the Edwards Lifesciences team would like to propo...
Dec 25, 2016•56 min
Pitney Bowes is reinventing its business based on a SaaS and a cloud-based model to deliver services for their clients globally centered on the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud. The
Dec 25, 2016•34 min
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 ...
Dec 25, 2016•54 min
In this session, you learn how to monitor and manage your serverless APIs in production. We show you how to set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms, interpret CloudWatch logs for Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda, and automate common maintenance and management tasks on your service.
Dec 25, 2016•47 min
Defining infrastructure resource policies in an organized manner can help your company better manage its infrastructure resources.
Dec 25, 2016•40 min
Join us to learn about the state of serverless computing from Dr. Tim Wagner, General Manager of AWS Lambda. Dr. Wagner discusses the latest developments from AWS Lambda and the serverless computing ecosystem. He talks about how serverless computing is becoming a core component in how companies build and run their applications and services, and he also discusses how serverless computing will continue to evolve.
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr
Vevo has undergone a complete strategic and technical reboot, driven not only by product, but also by engineering. Since November 2015, Vevo has been replacing monolithic, legacy content services with a modern, modular, microservices architecture, all while developing new features and functionality. In parallel, Vevo has built its data platform from scratch to power internal analytics as well as a unique music video consumption experience through a new personalized feed of recommendations — all ...
Dec 25, 2016•56 min
Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda provide a new way of building applications by removing servers from the picture. But what does the removal of servers mean to tasks like deployment, monitoring, and debugging? How should you set up blue-green deployments or set alarms? Come learn all this and more, including how to use AWS services and tools like AWS CodePipeline, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch to manage your serverless applications at high quality.
Dec 25, 2016•40 min
In the middle of 2015, Expedia started using AWS Lambda for serverless computing. We built boilerplate templates in Node.js, Java, and Python so development teams could build and deploy serverless applications into AWS. Currently, we have 300 AWS Lambda functions processing 40 million invocations per day.
Dec 25, 2016•41 min
Ever wished you had a list of cheat codes to unleash the full power of AWS Lambda for your production workload? Come learn how to build a robust, scalable, and highly available serverless application using AWS Lambda. In this session, we discuss hacks and tricks for maximizing your AWS Lambda performance, such as leveraging customer reuse, using the 500 MB scratch space and local cache, creating custom metrics for managing operations, aligning upstream and downstream services to scale along with...
Dec 25, 2016•59 min
Chatbots are the new apps. Businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, are looking for new ways to connect with their users through natural, conversational interfaces. Developers have started using chatbots to improve the productivity and efficiency of their operations. In this session, we show how to use AWS Lambda and other serverless offerings from AWS to build chatbots quickly and efficiently. We share examples from our recently concluded AWS Slack Hackathon with a full walkthroug...
Dec 25, 2016•48 min
The value of building serverless applications on AWS applies to businesses of all sizes. For enterprises that own hundreds or thousands of applications, the cost of managing and securing servers could equal millions of dollars per year. In this session, we will discuss how building serverless applications on AWS can eliminate many of those costs and still meet enterprise requirements across a breadth of areas: including identity and access control, network security, performance, availability, de...
Dec 25, 2016•56 min
AWS Lambda empowers developers to build cloud-native web applications or platforms using microservices architecture. The three-tier web app has been a cornerstone architecture pattern for decades in this space. This session walks you through the process of identifying the presentation, logic, and data tiers required to build web applications with AWS Lambda at the core. By using AWS Lambda as your logic tier, you have a wide number of data storage options for your data tier. AWS offers a wide ra...
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr 6 min
Serverless architecture can eliminate the need to provision and manage servers required to process files or streaming data in real time. In this session, we will cover the fundamentals of using AWS Lambda to process data in real-time from push sources such as AWS Iot and pull sources such as Amazon DynamoDB Streams or Amazon Kinesis. We will walk through sample use cases and demonstrate how to set up some of these real-time data processing solutions. We'll also discuss best practices and do a de...
Dec 25, 2016•39 min
In this session, you'll learn what’s new and hot with AWS Lambda. Come on a tour with Dr. Tim Wagner, General Manager of AWS Lambda, to learn what we’ve been working on and what we are planning for the future. You'll get a hands-on demonstration of some our newest features which will provide you with a launching pad for some of the later sessions in the day.
Dec 25, 2016•57 min
AWS Step Functions is a new, fully-managed service that makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Step Functions is a reliable way to connect and step through a series of AWS Lambda functions so that you can build and run multi-step applications in a matter of minutes. This session shows how to use AWS Step Functions to create, run, and debug cloud state machines to execute parallel, sequential, and branching steps of your ap...
Dec 25, 2016•51 min
