Aws Re:invent 2017

Setting a goal for your teams to move a large number of workloads to AWS in a short period of time can be a great way to motivate teams to migrate quickly. Cardinal Health created a migration factory composed of teams, tools, and processes that streamlined the movement of workloads from on-premises to AWS. In this session, hear from Cardinal Health about how they used a migration factory to successfully move thousands of applications to the AWS Cloud.  In addition, learn best practices for creating an effective migration platform and process in your organization.

Where are you on the spectrum of IT leaders? Are you confident that you're providing the technology and solutions that consistently meet or exceed the needs of your internal customers? Do your peers at the executive table see you as an innovative technology leader? Innovative IT leaders understand the value of getting data and analytics directly into the hands of decision makers, and into their own. In this session, Daren Thayne, Domo's Chief Technology Officer, shares how innovative IT leaders are helping drive a culture change at their organizations. See how transformative it can be to have real-time access to all of the data that' is relevant to YOUR job (including a complete view of your entire AWS environment), as well as understand how it can help you lead the way in applying that same pattern throughout your entire company. Session sponsored by Domo

As a fully managed database service, Amazon DynamoDB is a natural fit for serverless architectures. In this session, we dive deep into why and how to use DynamoDB in serverless applications, followed by a real-world use case from CapitalOne. First, we dive into the relevant DynamoDB features, and how you can use it effectively with AWS Lambda in solutions ranging from web applications to real-time data processing. We show how some of the new features in DynamoDB, such as Auto Scaling and Time to Live (TTL), are particularly useful in serverless architectures, and distill the best practices to help you create effective serverless applications. In the second part, we talk about how CapitalOne migrated billions of transactions to a completely serverless architecture and built a scalable, resilient and fast transaction platform by leveraging DynamoDB, AWS Lambda and other services within the serverless ecosystem.

The science of saving on AWS has undergone some major revolutions in the past year. New services, Reserved Instance options, increased flexibility, and discount programs have all created 100's of new opportunities to optimize your usage and spending. We've also seen a significant uplift in operational maturity that is increasing the overall savings to be had while limiting operational risk. The most mature organizations are now using a particular set of metrics to drive their cost optimization activities as part of a repeatable feedback loop. Join Cloudability's J.R. Storment and Atlassian's Mike Fuller as they walk you through this changing landscape and how it impacts the decisions your team makes every day. Topics include: cost avoidance and savings metrics to drive your optimization initiatives; data points and techniques for making effective rightsizing decisions; maximizing coverage and flexibility with ISF and convertible Reserved Instances; and lessons from the front lines with Atlassian's Mike Fuller

IoT and big data have made their way out of industrial applications, general automation, and consumer goods, and are now a valuable tool for improving consumer engagement across a number of industries, including media, entertainment, and sports. The low cost and ease of implementation of AWS analytics services and AWS IoT have allowed AGT, a leader in IoT, to develop their IoTA analytics platform. Using IoTA, AGT brought a tailored solution to EuroLeague Basketball for real-time content production and fan engagement during the 2017-18 season. In this session, we take a deep dive into how this solution is architected for secure, scalable, and highly performant data collection from athletes, coaches, and fans. We also talk about how the data is transformed into insights and integrated into a content generation pipeline. Lastly, we demonstrate how this solution can be easily adapted for other industries and applications.

In this session, we will discuss how the AWS Serverless Application Repository makes it easy to discover and deploy serverless applications published by fellow developers and companies like Datadog, Here, Splunk, and many others. We will cover how you can use the repository to find applications for a variety of use cases and then deploy them to your AWS account. In addition, we will discuss how you can publish your own applications to the repository. You will also hear from two contributors, Datadog and Here, who will describe their approach to building the serverless applications that they have published to the Serverless Application Repository.

Although there are many ways to optimize the speech generated by Amazon Polly's text-to-speech voices, you might find it challenging to apply the most effective enhancements in each situation. Learn how you can control pronunciation, intonation, and timing for text-to-speech voices. In this session, you get a comprehensive overview of the available tools and methods available for modifying Amazon Polly speech output, including SSML tags, lexicons, and punctuation. You also get recommendations for streamlining application of these techniques. Come away with insider tips on the best speech optimization techniques to provide a more natural voice experience.

Governing cloud infrastructure at scale requires software that enables you to capture and drive management from internal policies, best practices, and reference architectures. A policy-driven management and governance strategy is critical to successfully operate in cloud and hybrid environments. As infrastructure grows, you might leverage knowledge that extends beyond the organization. An open-source “cloud policy framework” enables users to leverage a community that can help define and tune best practice policies, and help SaaS vendors and ISVs capture the best way to manage an application and share it with customers. A well-defined management and governance strategy enables you to put automation in place that keeps your cloud running securely and efficiently without having to take it on as a full-time job. This session discusses the development of a “cloud policy framework” that enables users to leverage open source rule definition organizations can use to govern their cloud. Learn best practice policies fo

Reducing the time to get actionable insights from data is important to all businesses, and customers who employ batch data analytics tools are exploring the benefits of streaming analytics. Learn best practices to extend your architecture from data warehouses and databases to real-time solutions. Learn how to use Amazon Kinesis to get real-time data insights and integrate them with Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3. The Amazon Flex team describes how they used streaming analytics in their Amazon Flex mobile app, used by Amazon delivery drivers to deliver millions of packages each month on time. They discuss the architecture that enabled the move from a batch processing system to a real-time system, overcoming the challenges of migrating existing batch data to streaming data, and how to benefit from real-time analytics.

In this session, attain knowledge about how AWS can help create a differentiated customer experience for your end users and employees, at scale and at the speed of innovation to meet your customer's expectations. Hear from a panel of enterprise IT executives, including Glenn Weinstein, CIO of Appirio, who are innovating and driving real transformations of their business via the AWS Cloud. They are leveraging AWS offerings to build, migrate and run their applications on AWS, including AWS Lex, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Redshift. Session sponsored by Wipro

This session is aimed at those who want to learn how a large enterprise organization adapted their teams, tooling, and methodology to successfully migrate and operate business critical functions in the cloud. You also learn how the organization used migration as a launchpad for additional innovation. Session Sponsored by Cloudreach

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), and other processing. In this session, we introduce Kinesis Video Streams and its key features, and review common use cases including smart home, smart city, industrial automation, and computer vision. We also discuss how you can use the Kinesis Video Streams parser library to work with the output of video streams to power popular deep learning frameworks. Lastly, Abeja, a leading Japanese artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider, talks about how they built a deep-learning system for the retail industry using Kinesis Video Streams to deliver better shopping experience.

Hundreds of microservices, millions of AWS Lambda invocations, and dozens of global regions—the way we design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and applications is increasingly distributed and composed of ephemeral components. From experience, we know a key to success with these systems is the ability to understand them using data. While there is considerable knowledge around how to use metrics and logs to analyze and troubleshoot traditional applications and infrastructure, emerging technology like serverless functions and orchestrated containers require a new observability approach. This is especially true when trying to understand the relationship between new services, like an IoT or mobile backend, and legacy systems. Session sponsored by New Relic

With cloud maturity comes operational efficiencies and endless potential for innovation and business growth. It is critical to have a well-thought-out strategy for governing your cloud infrastructure. Visibility, accountability, and actionable insights are some of the invaluable considerations. The AWS Cloud enables convenience and cost savings for organizations that know how to leverage its potential. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, in particular, present a tremendous opportunity when scaling to save significantly on capacity. But there are many considerations to fully reap the benefits. CloudCheckr CTO Patrick Gartlan presents issues that every organization runs into when scaling, provides best practices for how to combat them, and helps you show your boss how Reserved Instances can help your organization save money and move faster. Session sponsored by CloudCheckr

With customers demanding relevant and real-time experiences across a range of devices, digital businesses are looking to gather user data at scale, understand this data, and respond to customer needs instantly. This requires tools that can record large volumes of user data in a structured fashion, and then instantly make this data available to generate insights. In this session, we demonstrate how you can use Amazon Pinpoint to capture user data in a structured yet flexible manner. Further, we demonstrate how this data can be set up for instant consumption using services like Amazon Kinesis Firehose and Amazon Redshift. We walk through example data based on real world scenarios, to illustrate how Amazon Pinpoint lets you easily organize millions of events, record them in real-time, and store them for further analysis.

This presentation will include a deep dive into the code behind multiple security automation and remediation functions. This session will consider potential use cases, as well as feature a demonstration of a proposed script, and then walk through the code set to explain the various challenges and solutions of the intended script. All examples of code will be previously unreleased and will feature integration with services such as Trusted Advisor and Macie. All code will be released as OSS after re:Invent.

When migrating lots of applications to the AWS Cloud, it's important to architect cloud environments that are efficient, secure, and compliant.  Landing zones are a prescriptive set of instructions for deploying an AWS-recommended foundation of interrelated AWS accounts, networks, and core services for your initial AWS application environments.  In this session, we will review the benefits and best practices for developing landing zones as well as how to incorporate them into your migration process.

Learn how customers are leveraging AWS to better position their enterprises for the digital transformation journey. In this session, you hear about: operations and process; the SAP transformation journey including architecting, migrating, running SAP on AWS; complete automation and management of the AWS layer using AWS native services; and a customer example. We also discuss the challenges of migration to the cloud and a managed services environment; the benefits to the customer of the new operating model; and lessons learned. By the end of the session, you understand why you should consider AWS for your next SAP platform, how to get there when you are ready and some best practices to manage your SAP systems on AWS. session sponsored by DXC Technology

The session will focus on the newly-launched security tool Hammer, which Dow Jones developed after identifying a security vulnerability internally. Users will learn more about Hammer and how it solves certain security configuration issues in the AWS cloud. The team behind the development of Hammer will showcase real-world examples of the tool identifying, analyzing and remediating issues, all as part of Dow Jones' commitment to helping everyone in the community as they make the jump to the cloud.

Motion detection triggers have reduced the amount of video recorded by modern devices. But maybe you want to reduce that further—maybe you only care if a car or a person is on-camera before recording or sending a notification. Security cameras and smart doorbells can use Amazon Rekognition to reduce the number of false alarms. Learn how device makers and home enthusiasts are building their own smart layers of person and car detection to reduce false alarms and limit video volume. Learn too how you can use face detection and recognition to notify you when a friend has arrived.