AWS has launched Amazon Sumerian. Sumerian lets you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. In this session, we will dive deep into details about Sumerian so you can see what's under the hood. We will cover creating a project, using the visual state machine, connecting an Amazon Sumerian scene to AWS services, and using a Sumerian Host to add presence to your applic...
Dec 01, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast AWS has launched Amazon Sumerian. Sumerian lets you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. In this session, we will introduce you to Sumerian, and how you can build highly immersive and interactive scenes for the enterprise that run on popular hardware such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and iOS mobile devices.
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us to hear about our strategy for driving machine learning innovation for our customers and learn what's new from AWS in the machine learning space. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Amazon Machine Learning, will discuss and demonstrate the latest new services for ML on AWS: Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepLens, Amazon Rekogntion Video, Amazon Translate, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Comprehend. Attend this session to understand how to make the most of machine learning in the cloud.
Dec 01, 2017•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join senior leadership from AWS as they introduce some of the most innovative women in fashion, philanthropy, and technology, who have gender equity at the center of their work. In this series of rapid talks, you get a front row seat to the world's leading, and up-and-coming women in tech.
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast This panel focuses on the racial digital divide. Panelists discuss the pipeline, recruiting, hiring, and retention—and share stories on what it means to be underrepresented in this industry. They also discuss strategies for overcoming both microaggressions and systemic challenges.
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast FedRAMP introduced an expedited version of its authorization process called FedRAMP Accelerated. The US General Services Administration used this redesign to advance cloud.gov, which runs on AWS GovCloud (US). With cloud.gov, government agencies can quickly deploy applications including highly sensitive workloads that comply with federal policies; run scalable cloud-native applications; try experiments: build and test prototypes without adding extra expense; and shorten the path to Authority to ...
Dec 01, 2017•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS in examining governance and compliance designs aimed at helping organizations meet HIPAA and HITRUST standards. Learn how to better validate and document your compliance, expedite access to AWS compliance accelerators, and discover new ways to use AWS native features to monitor and control your accounts. This session is for a technical audience seeking to dive deep into the AWS service offerings, console, and API.
Dec 01, 2017•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Explore how education can create equitable learning experiences in the era of bring-your-own-device and Google Chromebooks, by delivering Microsoft Windows applications to students with Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0. We discuss how students of all ages can use design applications, business intelligence tools, technical programs, and even desktop games such as Minecraft as part of their class curriculum, and still have a unified end-user experience, regardless of the hardware they ar...
Dec 01, 2017•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS Region designed to help US government agencies and highly regulated organizations meet their compliance needs, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). AWS GovCloud (US) makes it safe and easy to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud, through its adherence to numerous compliance and regulatory requirements. Join us to learn about AWS GovCloud (US) and ...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Emergencies happen with no notice, whether with weather-related events or man-made incidents. Countless lives can be saved not only by predicting disastrous events but also by reacting quickly and effectively. In this session, you will discover how organizations are using AWS capabilities to predict and respond to emergencies around the world. StormSense, a project led by City of Virginia Beach enhances the capability of VA Beach and the neighboring communities of Hampton Roads, VA to predict co...
Dec 01, 2017•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, you will learn from AWS customers who are developing curriculum and training programs to build tech talent of the future. Come hear from Digital Divide Data about their work alongside AWS and the National Museum Kenya. Listen to their story of how they virtually captured one of the largest collections or archeology and paleontology in 3D digital imagery, while simultaneously empowering young adults with skills in digitalization, cloud services, mobile technologies, and database ...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Many enterprises choosing to adopt Office 365 for business productivity continue to use Amazon EC2 instances to run Microsoft workloads that require highly advanced functionality and customization. In addition, many enterprise deployments of Office 365 have requirements to manage and synchronize user profiles to Office 365, such as restricting user access and providing secure mobile access. They leverage AWS for these components. In this session, you learn how to architect a solution that benefi...
Dec 01, 2017•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you move Windows workloads to AWS, it is important to have an Active Directory in the cloud to support group policy management, authentication, and authorization. This session is a deep dive on AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD). We cover how the service operates in support of stand-alone directory and trust-based federation use cases. Topics include features that enable you to migrate a broad range of applications...
Dec 01, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast The new AWS Tools for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide integration into many popular AWS services, such as Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Lambda, and more. These tools provide customers with a set of tasks they can include in build and release definitions in VSTS and on-premises TFS instances to work with AWS services. In this session, we show how you can use the new AWS Tools for VSTS in new and existing VSTS build/release pipelines to interoperate with many AWS...
Dec 01, 2017•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Over the past decade, Verizon built significant investments in on-premises technology. Migrating legacy applications and IT systems takes time, so architecting a secure and performant hybrid architecture is essential to Verizon's cloud adoption. In this session, you see how Verizon operationalized their existing on-premises IT infrastructure with AWS while providing the flexibility needed for both modern and legacy applications. Verizon solved extremely challenging enterprise constraints. Learn ...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast This session dives 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 types of applications. 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 Amaz...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast VMware Cloud on AWS lets you migrate your existing on-premises applications to the AWS Cloud while retaining the tooling, management, and operating process you already have. VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware's Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) to the AWS Cloud, allowing customers to run applications across operationally consistent VMware vSphere®-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, with optimized access to AWS services. You can use the VMware on AWS solution to bring the scal...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast More and more, companies recognize the untold riches they can save by moving their existing software licenses to AWS. This session covers how to bring your Microsoft licenses to AWS, and then demonstrates 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 discuss ways you can use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to manage license compliance.
Dec 01, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Moving your entire CI/CD pipeline to AWS can be a daunting task. You have put years into building out your current system and perfecting it. How do you know the new world will be better, easier, and more scalable? The good news is you don't have to go “all in”. When developing software, we have learned that small, incremental steps are usually the safest and fastest way to go. Why would modifying your CI/CD pipeline be any different? In this session, we move a .NET application from a VSTS enviro...
Dec 01, 2017•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Dec 01, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Restor...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/in...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Learn how media and entertainment companies use Amazon EC2 for Windows Server for fast rendering on film and television projects. In this session, we discuss how to architect a Windows solution using Deadline to allow the freedom to easily access any combination of on-premises or cloud-based compute resources. Also, learn how to set up a hybrid Windows file system and storage for best performance and cost efficiency. With flexible third-party licensing options, customers using AWS resources can ...
Dec 01, 2017•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast DraftKings is the largest Daily Fantasy Sports platform on which millions of users compete in 11 different fantasy sports for a chance to win real money. The traffic on the DraftKings website and native apps is highly volatile and directly correlates with the interest in sporting events, with scoring events in those games frequently driving a five-fold spike in traffic on a minute-to-minute basis. In this session, you learn how DraftKings runs a highly elastic server farm and scales its Windows-...
Dec 01, 2017•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join this State of the Union to learn about the latest developments from Amazon for enterprise workloads such as Windows, VMware, and SAP. Sandy Carter, AWS vice president for Enterprise Workloads, discusses the evolution of AWS services for enterprise workloads and the new features and services that we are launching for Windows and VMware. She shares the company's vision for continuing to innovate in this space to make AWS the premier place for enterprise customers. Also, several major customer...
Dec 01, 2017•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In June 2017, AWS announced the general availability of the Greengrass service bringing local compute, messaging, data caching and synch capabilities to network edge devices. In this session, you will learn how AWS IOT, Greengrass and Lambda@Edge are integrated into Nokia's Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC) solution, enabling a platform that provides a programming model at the edge as well as specialized access necessary for the roll-out of advanced 4G and 5G use cases. We will dive into the archi...
Dec 01, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Customers like Twilio, AudioCodes, and Vonage power their voice, video and messaging services using AWS's global infrastructure. In this session, we walk through the core AWS features and partner products that enable carrier-grade Voice-over-IP (VoIP), WebRTC, and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) solutions. You'll walk away with best practices and lessons learned from our customers' experience. We address the requirements for low latency, high availability, and scalability, critical to communicati...
Dec 01, 2017•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Over 40 years, Aspect Software has grown into a multinational leader for contact center solutions, recently launching Aspect Via, a comprehensive cloud-based customer engagement platform. In this session, learn how Aspect used AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Application Load Balancer, development tooling from Swagger, and microservices to build a secure, scalable, and maintainable API framework that can be integrated into multiple channels of customer interaction. We focus on best practices for ...
Dec 01, 2017•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Headquartered in the UK, Vodafone provides services in 26 additional markets via Operating Companies (OpCos). The Vodafone Digital TV team's journey on AWS began with the goal of enabling these OpCos to ramp up their TV deployment within 24 hours. This session covers two phases of Vodafone's journey to bring agility, cost, and operational efficiencies to their Pay TV offering. We dive into technical details, architecture, and lessons learned from Vodafone's lift-and-shift hybrid approach in the ...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is your chance to learn directly from top CTOs and Cloud Architects from some of the most innovative AWS customers. In this lightning round session, we'll have an action-packed hour, jumping straight to the architecture and technical detail for some of the most innovative data storage solutions of 2017. Hear how Insitu collects and analyzes data from drone flights in the field with AWS Snowball Edge. See how iRobot collects and analyzes IoT data from their robotic vacuums, mops, and pool cl...
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