Everyone has a role to play in creating and sustaining an inclusive work environment, but white men often opt out of, or are excluded from, diversity and inclusion efforts because the focus is on underrepresented groups. When white men are fully engaged in diversity efforts, they can help effect change at every level, and they also benefit from a healthy, inclusive workspace. Participants explore assumptions regarding white men, diversity, and leadership that impact behavior and shape the work e...
Dec 01, 2018•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast When diversity efforts focus only on gender, they further marginalize the marginalized. How do we make sure that we address the needs of everyone that is underrepresented in the industry? Are we reaching our marginalized customers? What can we do to provide a platform for those voices to be heard and support their efforts. In this session, we hear from technical leaders on the best ways to work with and include marginalized communities. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Accenture.
Dec 01, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever thought, "I care about a more diverse and inclusive workplace, but what can I do? I'm not the VP of HR or Head of Diversity & Inclusion at my company." If so, you're not alone. Knowing how to be a better ally for underrepresented people working in tech is unfamiliar territory for many of us. Yet, there are everyday actions we can take to create a more diverse and inclusive culture. Come to this session to learn about key challenges women and underrepresented minorities face in our ...
Dec 01, 2018•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Diversity in technology often starts with a focus on women. How do we prioritize the inclusion of women from all communities (race, gender identity, ability status, and other underrepresented and intersectional communities) on technical teams? What can leaders do-from cultivating the pipeline, to hiring, to developing internal strategies-to make the future of tech more diverse and inclusive? Hear from successful executive technical leaders as they explore their journeys through the industry. Lea...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we feature the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a key stakeholder and sponsor for the new AWS Secret Region, which supports workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level and is readily available to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). NGA uses AWS Snowball Edge to support War Fighter, utilizing imagery from NGA's Open Data Store and implementing geospatial applications on the edge. AWS Snowball Edge allows NGA to directly support its mission, ...
Dec 01, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, Fannie Mae discusses how they completely re-architected a mission-critical application using AWS native services that process hundreds of thousands of mortgage loans every day in a highly scalable and reliable manner. The transaction-heavy workload uses over 20+ million Amazon S3 transactions a day, each within 150-millisecond response times, thus providing increased uptime and faster response.
Dec 01, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast AWS GovCloud (US) is isolated AWS infrastructure and services designed to allow US government agencies and enterprises in highly regulated industries to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud by addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements. While enterprises and organizations are increasingly integrating software as a service (SaaS) technologies into their IT environments, they often require SaaS products to address the same compliance features of the AWS GovCl...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast On LinkedIn, the #1 skill for three years in a row is cloud and distributed computing. The pressure on our educational system to produce tech-ready employees, and on companies to source talent, is enormous, with ripe opportunities for disintermediation. In this session, hear from the disruptors who are collaborating with AWS Educate in order to rapidly change the trajectory and impact that global skills gap. Meet both the supply and demand side for cloud jobs.
Dec 01, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, learn how Dr. Julia Lane, Director of the Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF) at NYU, used AWS and AWS Public Sector Partner Earthling Security to build a software-as-a-service (SaaS) research and analysis environment that hosts sensitive U.S. Census Bureau data. The ADRF hosted almost 50 confidential government data sets from 12 different agencies at all levels of government. The ADRF chose AWS to meet strict security and governance requirements such as FedRAMP complia...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we look at cloud-ready contracts from around the world. We compare and contrast these contracts through scope identification, end-user eligibility, and primary service offerings (i.e., MSP vs. IaaS resale) to help you determine a contract pathway that meets your mission needs. We discuss considerations for buying cloud services so that end users and organizations can extract the full benefits and power of AWS. Join us and gain an understanding of how to approach shared security,...
Dec 01, 2018•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast As public sector organizations move to the cloud, they're finding it to be a springboard for innovation. Local and regional organizations around the globe are developing digital services to improve the lives of the citizens they serve, creating platforms where citizens can be heard and increasing engagement within their communities. Join us on this panel as we travel from the Americas to Europe and Singapore and dive into stories of cloud migration and emerging innovations. We hear from Athabasc...
Dec 01, 2018•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The World Wide Public Sector Breakfast Keynote will feature Teresa Carlson, VP, World Wide Public Sector for Amazon Web Services. Customers will hear the latest global updates on the public sector business including exciting announcements, program updates, and inspiring customer stories. Don't miss the opportunity to hear directly from AWS customers across the public sector as they share the impact cloud has made on their organizations, people and mission. Breakfast will be provided.
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, learn how to architect, configure, and deploy an ASP.NET Core microservices application running in containerized AWS Fargate tasks. We cover how to use Amazon DynamoDB for session state and how to use Amazon Cognito for identity management. We also discuss using Amazon ECS for service discovery and AWS CodePipeline to create CI/CD pipelines for each microservice so that each one is individually deployed when an AWS CodeCommit repository is updated. Join us, and learn everything ...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we dive deep on best practices and design considerations for running Microsoft SQL Server on AWS. We cover how to choose between running SQL Server on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. We also cover how to optimize the performance of SQL Server on AWS, how to leverage the new the Optimize CPU feature, and how to deploy SQL Server on Linux. We also review best practices for storage, monitoring, availability, security, and backup and recovery for SQL Server.
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we discuss best practices and approaches for managing your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure on AWS. We describe the AWS services that can help you manage Windows servers at scale and realize the maximum benefit of the cloud. In addition, we show you how to build simple and effective solutions to manage logging, configuration drift, inventory, licensing, and more. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, W...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Deploying Microsoft products on AWS is fast, easy, and cost-effective. Before deploying these applications to production, it's helpful to have guidance on approaches for securing them. In this session, we outline the principles for protecting the environment of Microsoft applications hosted on AWS, with a focus on risk assessment, reducing attack surface, adhering to the principle of least privilege, and protecting data.
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, learn how to architect Microsoft solutions on AWS for both high availability and scalability. Discover how Microsoft solutions can leverage AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, and provide scalability. We explore hybrid architecture scenarios and common architecture patterns for Microsoft Active Directory and productivity solutions, such as Dynamics AX, CRM, and SharePoint. We also cover common design patterns for .NET applications, including ...
Dec 01, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we cover how to leverage Docker for Windows and the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) as an effective solution for migrating legacy .NET applications to the cloud. We use Microsoft Visual Studio to demonstrate how to containerize a legacy .NET app including the Docker build and deployment process. We also cover how to deploy the container to Amazon ECS using the Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) service to host the Docker image.
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Want to learn about your options for running Microsoft Active Directory on AWS? When you move Microsoft workloads to AWS, it is important to consider how to deploy Microsoft Active Directory in support of group policy management, authentication, and authorization. In this session, we discuss options for deploying Microsoft Active Directory to AWS, including AWS Managed Microsoft AD and deploying Active Directory to Windows on Amazon EC2. We cover such topics as how to integrate your on-premises ...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud is a critical part of a cloud journey and requires planning and architectural considerations. In this session, we cover best practices and guidelines in migrating and/or architecting a hybrid SQL Server architecture on AWS. We compare and contrast various migration methods, including SQL export, backup and restore, and using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). We also provide guidance on how to migrate products that have approached their end of l...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Microsoft applications make up 60% of on-premises IT environments. Join us as we discuss the journey of migrating the Unicorn Shop's on-premises Microsoft infrastructure to AWS. We discuss how we migrated core business productivity systems, Microsoft SQL Server, and a number of .NET applications that required seamless migration with minimal downtime. We also walk through the process for building your landing zone on AWS, including fully automated compliance controls, before embarking on your mig...
Dec 01, 2018•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join this Leadership Session to learn about AWS's strategy, the latest features, and best practices from customers on how to run Microsoft workloads like Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET applications on AWS. Sandy Carter, Vice President for Enterprise Applications, discusses the evolution of AWS as the leading platform for hosting business-critical applications, and dispels the myths around running Microsoft workloads on AWS using real customer examples. In this session, we showca...
Dec 01, 2018•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we cover practical steps for cost-optimizing your Microsoft workloads on AWS from both a licensing and infrastructure perspective. We discuss ways to diversify and optimize your current licensing investments, how to think strategically about licensing in the cloud, and how to bring your own licenses to AWS. We also cover a variety of additional cost optimization features and approaches, and we explain how these can be applied to Microsoft-specific workloads.
Dec 01, 2018•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, learn from market-leader Vonage how and why they re-architected their QoS-sensitive, highly available and highly performant legacy real-time communications systems to take advantage of Amazon EC2, Enhanced Networking, Amazon S3, ASG, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Lambda, StepFunctions, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EFS, and more. We also learn how Aspect, a multinational leader in call center solutions, used AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Kinesis, ...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this session, we cover the strategic and technical innovations that have driven T-Mobile's digital transformation journey, with a focus on AWS serverless (AWS Lambda) and container technologies (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS). Learn about T-Mobile's Shift-Right strategy that anchors most new development with serverless and containers, which led to the build-out of their open-sourced, Jazz Function-as-a-Service platform. We review workload characteristics that play to the strengths of containers vers...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Telecom industry is at the cusp of major transformation. On the technological side, the advent of 5G networks with the promise for massive mobile broadband, billions of connected devices, and ultra-low latency applications presents a unique opportunity, but also requires changes to core Telecom systems for operational and business support. On the business side, there are competitive market forces and ecosystem disruptors that challenge the industry to explore new avenues for cost optimizatio...
Dec 01, 2018•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast eSports streaming platform, Bebo, has thousands of servers in 15 AWS Regions and a fully dynamic automatically scaling stack with good uptime. Its servers are also managed by a teenager who can't yet get a driver's license. In this talk, listen as Bebo CTO Furqan Rydhan and DevOps engineer Johnny Dallas discuss how 16-year-old Dallas, who graduated from San Francisco's Drew School two years early, built Bebo's fully automated infrastructure in two months and finds the time to balance coding with...
Dec 01, 2018•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Reddit is one of the world's most trafficked websites, with over 330 million monthly active users. Reddit built the vast majority of its infrastructure on AWS to support its increasing growth. As the world shifts to video-first, Reddit has redesigned its website and launched a new video platform. In this talk, we discuss design paradigms, tradeoffs made, and lessons learned from rearchitecting one of the internet's top sites. See how this infrastructure operates at scale and how the team leverag...
Dec 01, 2018•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast At Affirm, we lend billions of dollars to millions of customers using data-driven machine learning models that are trained on years of lending history. Feature extraction and validation in a risk management context presents unique challenges, so we have built a pipeline to eliminate training/serving skew in both development and production systems, and to run extensive regression testing on proposed PRs. Running Spark on Amazon EMR clusters provides an economic means to speed up this process. In ...
Dec 01, 2018•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast As BuzzFeed transitioned to a microservice platform build on Amazon ECS, it needed to secure a growing number of independent internal apps. The first solution was an open source OAuth proxy service deployed in front of each app, but this approach had a number of issues. In this talk, software engineer, Shraya Ramani, discusses BuzzFeed's experience and introduces SSO, a centralized authentication solution, which elegantly solved the problems faced by the company.
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