Aws Re:invent 2017

To help prevent unexpected access to your AWS resources, it is critical to maintain strong identity and access policies and track, effectively detect, and react to changes. In this session you will learn how to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to AWS resources and integrate your existing authentication system with IAM. We will cover how to deploy and control AWS infrastructure using code templates, including change management policies with AWS CloudFormation. Further, effectively detecting and reacting to changes in posture or adverse actions requires the ability to monitor and process events. There are several services within AWS that enable this kind of monitoring such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch Events, and the AWS service APIs. We learn how Netflix utilizes a combination of these services to operationalize monitoring of their deployments at scale, and discuss changes made as Netflix's deployment has grown over the years.

Driving customer engagement is critical to the success of mobile and web applications. The three main components of customer engagement are customer analytics, demographic segmentation, and multi-channel messaging. This session provides a deep dive into how Amazon Pinpoint drives customer engagement. Learn about Amazon Pinpoint's integrated campaign management is used by developers and marketers to optimize messaging and communications with customers across channels, including mobile push notifications, SMS, and email.

In this session, we will provide an overview of Amazon Neptune, AWS's newest database service. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable graph database that makes it easy to build applications over highly connected data. We will then explore how Siemens is building a knowledge using Amazon Neptune.

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service which has been built ground up for handling rich highly connected data. Graph databases have diverse use cases across multiple industries; examples include recommendation engines, knowledge graphs, fraud detection, social networks, network management and life sciences. Amazon Neptune is open and flexible with support for Apache TinkerPop and RDF/SPARQL standards. Under the hood Neptune uses the same foundational building blocks as Amazon Aurora which gives it high performance, availability and durability. In this session, we will do a deep dive into capabilities, performance and key innovations in Amazon Neptune.

In this introductory session, we look at how to convert and migrate your commercial databases and data warehouses to the cloud and gain your database freedom. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) have been used to migrate tens of thousands of databases. These include Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, Teradata and Netezza to Amazon Redshift, MongoDB to Amazon DynamoDB, and many other data source and target combinations. Learn how to easily and securely migrate your data and procedural code, enjoy flexibility and cost savings, and gain new opportunities.

Tatsuo Ishii from SRA OSS has done extensive testing to compare the Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible Edition with standard PostgreSQL. In this session, he will present his performance testing results, and his work on Pgpool-II with Aurora; Pgpool-II is an open source tool which provides load balancing, connection pooling, and connection management for PostgreSQL.

When you use the cloud to enable speed and agility, how do you know if you did it right? We are on a mission to help builders follow industry best practices within security guide rails by creating the largest compliance-as-code repo, available to all. Compliance-as-code is the idea to translate those best practices, guide rails, policies, or standards into codified unit testing. Apply this to your AWS environment to provide insights on what can/must be improved. Learn why compliance-as-code matters to gain speed (by getting developers, architects, and security pros on the same page), how it is currently used (demo), and how to start to use it or be part of building it.

Amazon Music is a popular music streaming service that uses Amazon Pinpoint to help drive growth of the service through effective engagement with its user base. In this session, learn the ins and outs of how the Amazon Music team uses the Amazon Pinpoint service to drive user growth and retention to achieve the desired business outcomes, achieve KPIs, and use app and user analytics for insight for further improvement projects.

Aurora is a cloud-optimized relational database that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In this session, we will discuss various options for migrating to Aurora with MySQL compatibility, pro and cons of each, and which method is preferred when. Migrating to Aurora is just the first step. We'll share common use cases and how you can run optimally on Aurora.

PostgreSQL is an open source database growing in popularity because of its rich features, vibrant community, and compatibility with commercial databases. Learn about ways to run PostgreSQL on AWS including self-managed, and the managed database services from AWS: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible Edition. This talk covers key Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL functionality, availability, and management. We also review general guidelines for common user operations and activities such as migration, tuning, and monitoring for their RDS for PostgreSQL instances.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) simplifies setup, operation, and management of databases in the cloud. In this session, we will explore Amazon RDS features and best practices that offer graceful migration, high performance, elastic scaling, and high availability for Oracle databases. You will also learn from the Chief Architect for Intuit's Small Business Division how the QuickBooks Online team is using Amazon RDS for Oracle to scale the world's largest online accounting platform.

Traditional solutions for using Microsoft Active Directory across on-premises and AWS Cloud Windows workloads can require complex networking or synching identities across multiple systems. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed AD, offers you actual Microsoft Active Directory on the AWS Cloud as a managed service. In this session, you learn how Capital One uses AWS Managed AD to provide highly available authentication and authorization services for its Windows workloads, such as Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We detail how Capital One uses Lambda, Python, and PowerShell with cross-account AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to automate directory deployment across AWS accounts. We also cover best practices for integrating AWS Managed AD with your on-premises domain securely, and show you how to automate the joining of AWS resources to your managed domain.

Learn what it takes to migrate an on-premises database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, and how you can take advantage of the features and options available in the fully managed Amazon RDS platform. This session walks through best practices for system sizing and configuration, various database migration strategies, and how to leverage your existing authentication system using Amazon RDS.

Testing your mobile app is important!  In this session, learn about UI testing and how to build UI tests, then run the UI tests on a variety of mobile devices in the cloud. Learn how you can go completely device free by using devices in the cloud for your development.  Also, learn about using tools like Appium and Jenkins as part of your testing and QA process. We use PWA and native apps in this session to show the difference.

In this talk, Anurag Gupta, VP for AWS Analytic and Transactional Database Services, will talk about some of the key trends we see in data processing and how they shape the services we offer at AWS. Specific trends will include the rise of machine generated logs as the dominant source of data, the move towards Serverless, api-centric computing, and the growing need for local access to data from users around the world.

We have recently seen some convergence of different database technologies. Many customers are evaluating heterogeneous migrations as their database needs have evolved or changed. Evaluating the best database to use for a job isn't as clear as it was ten years ago. In this session, we discuss the ideal use cases for relational and nonrelational data services, including Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. This session digs into how to evaluate a new workload for the best managed database option.

For Vanguard, managing the creation of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects is key to balancing developer velocity and compliance. In this session, you will learn how Vanguard designs IAM roles to control the blast radius of AWS resources and maintain simplicity for developers. Vanguard will also share best practices to help you manage governance and improve your visibility across your AWS resources.

You can significantly reduce database licensing and operational costs by migrating from commercial database engines to Amazon RDS. In addition, you can gain flexibility and operational efficiency by avoiding the frustrating usage constraints that accompany commercial database licenses. Amazon RDS is a fully managed database service, so you no longer need to worry about complex database management tasks. Launch a single database instance or thousands of them in just a few minutes, and pay only for what you use. Learn how AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool help you migrate commercial databases like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon RDS and Aurora easily and securely with minimal downtime.

Vivint Solar is a leading full-service residential solar provider in the United States with more than 100,000 solar systems to its credit. Vivint Solar uses MicroStrategy on AWS to keep track of internal processes, including operations, finance, customer support, and human resources. With MicroStrategy on AWS, Vivint Solar could deploy a fully configured MicroStrategy environment in just an hour, giving their IT team more time to focus on other high-value projects. Today, Vivint Solar uses over 25 different AWS tools and services including, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodeDeploy to track and analyze their data. Join us in this session to learn how Vivint Solar is using analytics to transform the way they do business and revolutionize the way people think about renewable energy. Session sponsored by MicroStrategy

Netflix runs hundreds of multivariate A/B tests a year, many of which help personalize the experience in the UI. This causes an exponential growth in the number of user experiences served to members, with each unique experience resulting in a unique JS/CSS bundle. Pre-publishing millions of permutations to the CDN for each build of each UI simply does not work at Netflix scale. In this session, we discuss how we built, designed, and scaled a brand new Node.js service, Codex. Its sole responsibility is to build personalized JS/CSS bundles on the fly for members as they move through the Netflix user experience. We've learned a ton about building a horizontally scalable Node.js microservice using core AWS services. Codex depends on Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB to meet the streaming needs of our 100 million customers.