Aws Re:invent 2017

As organizations move their workloads to the cloud, companies must take steps to protect and audit their private and confidential information. This session focuses on Amazon S3 best practices and using AWS CloudTrail Data Events to help better protect data residing within Amazon S3. The session includes a demonstration to show how CloudTrail, in combination with other AWS services, can help with Amazon S3 governance and compliance requirements.

Are you using the AWS CLI to manage your AWS services and want to do more? In this session learn how to utilize the latest features of the AWS CLI to improve your current workflows in interacting with and managing your AWS resources from the command line. It is recommended that audience members have familiarity with the AWS CLI as this talk will focus on its newer, more advanced features. Come hear from the core AWS CLI development team on how to leverage these features for 2017 and beyond!

JavaScript based applications across mobile and web can be challenging to integrate with AWS services for teams that aren't familiar with infrastructure operations. AWS Mobile has just launched a comprehensive open-source library, AWS Amplify, and tooling to help frontend and mobile developer quickly add features to their applications using a declarative programming style organized by categories of Authentication, Storage, APIs and Analytics. You'll see how Serverless infrastructure for mobile and web applications can not only be launched in a couple of commands, but you can use the new tooling to iteratively add features and code to applications that under the covers interface with Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Pinpoint. You'll also see some framework specific techniques such as leveraging Higher Order Components (HOCs) in a React or React Native application as well as other best practices and utilities that AWS Mobile has released.

Managing large-scale production environments can be complex – things will go wrong and learning to operate and manage these environments is critical. From routine tasks such as building AMIs to managing the lifecycle of your instances, investing in automation and tooling can help you detect problems earlier, minimize downtime, and reduce manual work. In this session, you will learn how to use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager to troubleshoot common issues, detect and remediate configuration drift, and automate common actions. You will learn how to author common actions and about community driven features of Systems Manager. You can use the same tools across Linux and Windows, in AWS and in hybrid environments. You will also hear from a Systems Manager customer on how they are using Systems Manager to better manage and operate their infrastructure. Our customer, Ancestry, will talk about how they are using EC2 Systems Manager to manage their environment in an agile manner.

Adversaries automate. Who says the good guys can't as well? By combining AWS offerings like AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS Config, and AWS Lambda with the power of Amazon Alexa, you can do more security tasks faster, with fewer resources. Force multiplying your security team is all about automation! Last year, we showed off penetration testing at the push of an (AWS IoT) button, and surprise-previewed how to ask Alexa to run Inspector as-needed. Want to see other ways to ask Alexa to be your cloud security sidekick? We have crazy new demos at the ready to show security geeks how to sling security automation solutions for their AWS environments (and impress and help your boss, too).

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides an easy way for you to quickly deploy, manage, and scale applications in the AWS Cloud. Through interactive demos and code samples, this session will teach you how to deploy your code using Elastic Beanstalk, provision and use other AWS services (Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CodeCommit) use your application's health metrics to tune performance, scale your application to handle millions of requests, perform zero-downtime deployments with traffic routing, and keep the underlying application platform up-to-date with managed updates.

Hubspot relies on the performance of their business-critical cloud applications; any emerging issues must be addressed immediately. Running a microservices environment made up of thousands of instances to support 45 different teams means that unexpected changes can have a major impact. Manual intervention is often not fast enough to catch emerging anomalies and to maintain the level of availability required. In this session, we discuss how we've built our own tooling around our CD pipeline and how we've utilized automation to exponentially improve our MTTR. Learn how: Hubspot manages a microservices environment to enable hundreds of deployments a day; leveraging SignalFx detectors help proactively determine emerging issues; automatically invoking AWS services reduces usage-related failures; visibility across an entire AWS environment improves MTTR. Session Sponosored by: SignalFx 

Over the years, Atlassian's engineering teams have developed a set of proven and dependable DevOps practices that have allowed us to increase velocity and ship more reliably. Like many of you, Atlassian is grappling with complex, distributed teams; ever-increasing demand on our products and services; and a greater need than ever for a fast, stable release cadence and reliable uptime. This year, we're going to be sharing 10 of our dev tested, ops approved practices with you. In this session, we discuss: how Atlassian tools integrate with AWS to break down silos, increase development speed, and minimize system outages; how to scale the DevOps basics, from building a culture of collaboration to quadrupling your release cadence; and how to track the business value of what you're building, using, deploying, and repairing. Session Sponsored by Atlassian.

Operating a security practice on AWS brings many new challenges that haven't been faced in data center environments. The dynamic nature of infrastructure, the relationship between development team members and their applications, and the architecture paradigms have all changed as a result of building software on top of AWS. In this session, learn how your security team can leverage AWS Lambda as a tool to monitor, audit, and enforce your security policies within an AWS environment.

Mobile app development toolchains leveraging JavaScript, such as Ionic and React Native, are growing in popularity more each day. The pace of business makes it difficult to hire multiple engineers for different platforms and duplicate efforts. In this session you'll see hands on how you can build beautiful user applications using Ionic and React Native without spending months learning how your backend architecture should be designed. Using the newly released AWS Mobile CLI and build tooling you'll understand how your mobile developers can with a set of simple commands interface with Serverless AWS infrastructure and add in features such as User Sign-In and Sign-Up with Amazon Cognito, Serverless infrastructures using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB, and comprehensive analytics through Amazon Pinpoint.

Static applications living on long-running servers and assumptions about monitoring are becoming history on the cloud. Now, we routinely deploy a range of services, from automatic scaling to decoupled message queues to serverless applications. These dynamic services, with microservices architectures, can break or coexist with traditional monitoring and instrumentation approaches. Whether you're building new apps, were told to migrate yesterday, are currently migrating, or are already scaling your apps on AWS, this session dives into the how, where, and when to monitor your applications and infrastructure, no matter where your apps run. Also hear best practices we've learned from our customers, and from running our own service (1.5 billion+ metrics per minute). Join us for a little bit of history and a whole lot of now as we show you how and what you need to scale and prove your success on the AWS Cloud.   Session sponsored by New Relic

Interested in new ways to extend and deploy Ruby applications on AWS?  There are a number of tools and services to help streamline your application management and deployments in AWS. In this session we will take an example Ruby application and demonstrate how you can deploy and extend it using AWS tools.

Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments that indicate a possible account compromise. Enabled with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, Amazon GuardDuty can immediately begin analyzing billions of events across your AWS accounts for signs of risk. It does not require you to deploy and maintain software or security infrastructure, meaning it can be enabled quickly with no risk of negatively impacting existing application workloads.

Come join us as we take a deeper look at Amazon's approach to releasing mission critical software. In this session, we will take a journey through the release process of an AWS Tier 1 service on its way to production. We'll follow a single code change throughout the entire process from idea to release, and focus on how Amazon updates critical software quickly and safely for its global customers. Throughout the talk we'll demonstrate how our internal software release processes map to AWS Developer tools, highlighting how you can leverage AWS's CI/CD services to create your own robust release process.

The AWS SDK for Java (Version 1.x) has been connecting JVM based applications to AWS services since 2010. However, the JVM eco-system has changed a lot in the last 7 years. Based on a lot of customer feedback, we recently launched a developer preview of Version 2.0 of the AWS SDK for Java, which has been completely re-written from the core HTTP layer to the service clients. In this session, we'll get under the covers of the code-base to see how we've been able to get over 100,000 TPS from a single client instance during initial testing. We'll also go over some of the many new features and highlight some of the major differences with 1.x including: pluggable HTTP, non-blocking I/O, enhanced pagination, immutability and more.

In this session, we will build a highly scalable mobile app, website, and serverless mobile backend architecture that demonstrates on-demand video streaming, adaptive multi-bitrate transcoding, and video content ingestion. We use AWS Lambda and Amazon Elastic Transcoder to automatically convert high resolution videos upon upload, Amazon CloudFront to stream video content to devices using network-aware adaptive multi-bitrate protocols (such as HLS), Amazon Cognito to authenticate users, and AWS Mobile Hub and AWS CloudFormation to automate setting up the required resources.

Analyzing and debugging production distributed applications built using a service oriented, microservices, or serverless architectures is a challenging task. In this session, we introduce AWS X-Ray, an AWS service that makes it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and errors, pinpoint issues to specific services in your application, identify the impact of issues on application users, and visualize the service call graph and the request timelines for your applications. We will also showcase a customer, Chick-fil-A and how they have adopted AWS X-Ray to play a role throughout the microservice lifecycle in order to ensure quality, transparency, and operational visibility for their services on AWS

Today, small software teams have the ability to disrupt big markets as more and more businesses start to deliver their products as-a-service. The ability for teams to respond to customers and innovate quickly is their key differentiator. In this session, we will cover how you can begin your DevOps journey by sharing best practices used by the "two pizza" engineering teams at Amazon. We will showcase how you can accelerate developer productivity by implementing continuous Integration and delivery workflows using AWS Developer tools including AWS CodeStar, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy. Finally, we will demonstrate how to build an end-to-end CICD pipeline with CodeStar in minutes.

In this session, you learn how to adapt application defenses and operational responses based on your unique requirements. You also hear directly from customers about how they architected their applications on AWS to protect their applications. There are many ways to build secure, high-availability applications in the cloud. Services such as API Gateway, Amazon VPC, ALB, ELB, and Amazon EC2 are the basic building blocks that enable you to address a wide range of use cases. Best practices for defending your applications against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, exploitation attempts, and bad bots can vary with your choices in architecture.

Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The initial launch of Amazon Aurora delivered these benefits for MySQL. We have now added PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora. In this session, Amazon Aurora experts discuss best practices to maximize the benefits of the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition in your environment.