Aws Re:invent 2017

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 applications.

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.

The innovation team at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH), an integrated health care delivery system, saw AWS as an enabler to faster ideation on breakthrough patient care products over their existing internal private cloud options. In this session, you learn how they eliminated HIPAA compliance as a barrier to their speed-to-market goals by standardizing internal DevOps and DevSecOps duties across applications, as well as taking advantage of the containerization of enterprise technology. MLH partnered with Datica, an APN Healthcare Competency Partner, to address vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, disaster recovery, backups, encryption, audit logging, and deployment orchestration. You hear how, with this partnership, they ensure that the configuration and orchestration of all AWS HIPAA Eligible Services meet the controls set by healthcare's most stringent accreditation body, HITRUST, with every workload deployment. You also learn how MLH's adoption of a standard compliance layer led to quickly ac

Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and makes web scale computing easier for customers.  It offers a wide variety of compute instances is well suited to every imaginable use case, from static websites to high performance supercomputing on-demand, all available via highly flexible pricing options. This session covers the latest EC2 features and capabilities, including new instance families available in Amazon EC2, the differences among their hardware types and capabilities, and their optimal use cases.  We also will cover some best practices on how you can optimize your spend on EC2 to make the most of your EC2 instances, saving time and money.

In this session, hear how Cambia Health Solutions, a not-for-profit total health solutions company, created a self-service data model to convert a large-scale, on-premises batch processing model to a cloud-based, real-time pub-sub and RESTful API model.  Learn how Cambia leveraged AWS services like Amazon Aurora, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Lambda, and AWS messaging services to create an architecture that provides a reasonable runway for legacy customers to convert from old mode to new mode and, at the same time, offer a fast track for onboarding new customers.

What if I told you that you could improve your EC2 performance and availability and save money… Interested? Want to learn how to use all the latest functionality including [NEW] EC2 features launched at re:Invent to optimize your spend… How about now? In this session, you'll learn how to seamlessly combine On-Demand, Spot and Reserved Instances, and how to use the best practices deployed by customers all over the world for the most common applications and workloads. After just one hour you'll leave armed with multiple ways to grow your compute capacity and to enable new types of cloud computing applications - without it costing you an arm and a leg.

This session provides an overview of how Change Healthcare invested in people, process, and an automation platform to adopt a cloud-first strategy. Starting from building a Cloud Center of Excellence team, they identified the compliance, security, and cost optimization requirements and process required to build a framework. They also embedded healthcare compliance, security, architecture best practices, and customer-specific rules and standards for a managed adoption of the cloud. Change Healthcare is leveraging their Cloud 2.0 framework to rapidly deploy their mission applications into AWS. Come learn how Change Healthcare built a serverless architecture using Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Service Catalog, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and other managed services.

Auto Scaling allows cloud resources to scale automatically in reaction to the dynamic needs of customers. This session shows how Auto Scaling offers an advantage to everyone—whether it's basic fleet management to keep instances healthy as an Amazon EC2 best practice, or dynamic scaling to manage extremes. We share examples of how Auto Scaling helps customers of all sizes and industries unlock use cases and value. We also discuss how Auto Scaling is evolving to scaling different types of elastic AWS resources beyond EC2 instances. Data Scientist & Principal Investigator, Hook Hua, from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology will share how Auto Scaling is used to scale science data processing of remote sensing data from earth-observing satellite missions, and reduce response times during hazard response events such as those from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and volcanoes. JPL will also discuss how they are integrating their science data systems with the AWS ecosystem to ex

Find out how Citrix built a solution using Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift from AWS Marketplace to load all data into an Amazon Redshift cluster, allowing them to do their analytics on the entire environment at a single time. We'll discuss the transition made to consolidate multiple disparate databases in order to run analytic workloads, get a holistic view of all their data sources, and prevent inconsistent data from being captured.

Learn how to effectively use AWS automation for healthcare compliance. In this session, Verge Health (SaaS provider for practitioner management, organizational compliance, and patient and employee safety) discusses how they moved their risk management platform, supporting over 13,000 hospitals, to AWS. Because Verge Health, as a partner to healthcare organizations, is subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), it worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Partner Cloudticity to significantly increase their security, availability, performance, HIPAA compliance, and agility, while simultaneously reducing cost through fully automated DevSecOps on AWS. The session focuses on resilient architecture for HIPAA compliance, automated migration techniques for data and VPN connections, and the automation of daily tasks, such as deployments and patching.

In this session, we explore how enterprises are rethinking their graphics workstation strategy, and moving their 3D apps to the cloud using Amazon AppStream 2.0. We discuss common use cases for delivering 3D apps to users and how to implement them. You'll learn about the benefits of integration with other AWS resources for driving simulations and storing data, while lowering your costs by avoiding upfront investments, and only paying for what you use. Our guest speaker from Cornell University will share his experience delivering industry-standard simulation tools such as ANSYS FLUENT into courses. We will also demonstrate popular 3D Graphics apps running on AppStream 2.0 using newer graphics design and pro instances.

Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting container technology to drive innovation.  In this session, join Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and ClearDATA to learn about how to integrate Amazon ECS into your deployment pipeline while maintaining compliance for healthcare workloads, how to harden container environments for sensitive workloads, and how to leverage AWS tooling and microservices to provide new views and analysis for data stored in on-premises data centers.

In this session, you'll learn how to migrate your virtualized desktop apps to the cloud using Amazon AppStream 2.0, and stream them to a desktop browser. We discuss how to assess your existing virtualized application environment, map to concepts in Amazon AppStream 2.0, and start the planning and architecture process. We demo the building blocks you use to create your AppStream 2.0 environment, and provide tips for achieving the best performance and user experience.

Healthcare data is often large and complex enough to be complete, or simple enough to be usable: choose one. In this session, you will learn how Cerner tackled this problem for healthcare and other complex data sets on AWS. Cerner started with patterns to quickly evolve an infrastructure based on AWS to meet new demands, move into data engineering techniques on Apache Spark to make otherwise unmanageable data sets simple and usable, and connect that through to popular front-end tools for analysts and data scientists like Jupyter. You will also learn how Cerner is helping healthcare informaticians focus more on their analysis and less on undifferentiated heavy data lifting.

Alexa for Business allows you to use Alexa-enabled devices to transform your conference rooms. Using simple voice skills, you can control the conference room environment, start online meetings, turn on video projectors, and more. In thiAlexa for Business allows you to use Alexa-enabled devices to transform your conference rooms. Using simple voice skills, you can control the conference room environment, start online meetings, turn on video projectors, and more. In this session, we'll walk through the Alexa-enabled conference room, and show you how you can use Alexa for Business to specify device locations, connect to conference room calendars, and provide access to meeting-specific skills. session, we'll walk through the Alexa-enabled conference room, and show you how you can use Alexa for Business to specify device locations, connect to conference room calendars, and provide access to meeting-specific skills.

Advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, along with the rapid deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, are changing how physical products are designed and built. In this session, learn how AWS partners Siemens and Autodesk use AWS to enhance the design process and how they're incorporating AWS services into their products and smart factories. We explore how these trends impact the future of design and manufacturing.

With Alexa for Business, your employees and customers can access a variety of different voice skills that relate to your business. Alexa for Business allows you to easily manage where and how these voice skills can be accessed, and by whom. In this session, we'll walk through how you can use Alexa for Business to deploy and manage access to the custom skills you build for your organization. We'll walk through how employees "enroll" to use Alexa at work, and how the permissions model for your voice skills works. This session will include a demo showing the deployment of a pre-built custom skill, and the enrollment process for employees.

Organizations use application delivery controllers (ADCs) to ensure that their most important applications receive the best performance across their network. In this session, you learn how and why Salesforce used the F5 BIG-IP platform, an ADC solution from AWS Marketplace, during a migration to AWS. To preserve an existing skillset within their business, Salesforce chose AWS Marketplace to first evaluate the solution on the AWS platform before ultimately selecting it as part of their international rollout. You see how BIG-IP performs application routing and security, and how it works with existing AWS networking solutions to provide a consistent experience for domestic and international rollouts. You also learn how Salesforce successfully used the AWS Marketplace Private Offers program to procure an enterprise license and consolidate the expenditure onto their AWS bill.

Dive deep into storage solutions for enterprise applications, debunk performance and availability perceptions, and learn about anti-patterns. Focusing on consulting and technology partner use cases, this session incorporates live demonstrations, including APN Competency Partner solutions. Attendees learn about reference architectures for enterprise storage solutions and how to incorporate components into new solutions for enterprise workloads.

Learn how to use Amazon Connect with AWS IoT and AWS Lambda to proactively resolve customer issues before they occur. In this session, we show you how to configure an AWS IoT device to proactively place a phone call to a customer using the Amazon Connect API when an impending problem is detected. From there, we demonstrate how Amazon Connect contact flows make the customer interaction personal, more satisfying, and less costly.