Aws Re:invent 2017

Netflix is big and dynamic. At Netflix, IP addresses mean nothing in the cloud. This is a big challenge with Amazon VPC Flow Logs. VPC Flow Log entries only present network-level information (L3 and L4), which is virtually meaningless. Our goal is to map each IP address back to an application, at scale, to derive true network-level insight within Amazon VPC. In this session, the Cloud Network Engineering team discusses the temporal nature of IP address utilization in AWS and the problem with looking at OSI Layer 3 and Layer 4 information in the cloud.

Containers can make it easier to scale applications in the cloud, but how do you set up your CI/CD workflow to automatically test and deploy code to containerized apps? In this session, we explore how developers can build effective CI/CD workflows to manage their containerized code deployments on AWS. Ajit Zadgaonkar, director of engineering and operations at Edmunds, walks through best practices for CI/CD architectures used by his team to deploy containers. We also deep dive into topics such as how to create an accessible CI/CD platform and architect for safe Blue-Green deployments.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a new managed service for running Kubernetes on AWS. This session will provide an overview of Amazon EKS, why we built it, and how it works.

Implementing stringent security and compliance controls, like GxP, across your enterprise cloud ecosystem, while ensuring the agility of the DevSecOps process requires significant expertise and a lot of time to design, build, and maintain custom operations tooling. In this session, you learn how Turbot used AWS services to simplify IT operations to provide continuous compliance to major life sciences customers. You also hear how life sciences companies like Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) have become agile, ensured control, and automated best practices using automated policy controls to configure, monitor, and maintain their cloud resources. By doing this, they became more supportive of their researchers' application stack. You also learn how data scientists and core researchers can take advantage of the power of DevOps and cloud computing without compromising enterprise security or data protection requirements.

AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. Join us to learn more about how Fargate works, why we built it, and how you can get started using it to run containers today.

In this mid-level architecture session, we cover everything you need to get started with Amazon Route 53, AWS's highly available DNS service. Learn how to use public DNS, including routing techniques such as weighted round-robin, latency-based routing, and geo DNS. Learn also how to configure DNS failover using health checks, how and when to use private DNS within your VPC, and how Amazon Route 53 interacts with Amazon EC2's DNS for instance naming and DNS resolution across your network. We also walk through how to use Traffic Flow to manager traffic to your applications' globally distributed endpoints to optimize for constraints such as endpoint load, the health of your resources, geographic restrictions, and internet latency.

Increasingly, organizations are turning to microservices to help them empower autonomous teams, letting them innovate and ship software faster than ever before. But implementing a microservices architecture comes with a number of new challenges that need to be dealt with. Chief among these finding an appropriate platform to help manage a growing number of independently deployable services.  In this session, Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and a renowned expert in microservices strategy, will discuss strategies for building scalable and robust microservices architectures, how to choose the right platform for building microservices, and common challenges and mistakes organizations make when they move to microservices architectures.

With the increasing use of genomic sequencing for scientific discovery, the rate-limiting step for researchers is not in obtaining genetic code, but in having the capacity for storage and computing power to analyze it. In this session, you learn how Eagle Genomics built a cloud platform that uses an open-source workflow engine (eHive), Docker containers to process jobs, and a REST service to manage pipeline runs, all to help customers process genetic sequences up to 20 times faster without additional costs. You also learn how Eagle used Amazon EC2 Spot instances to provide low-cost compute power, and services such as Amazon S3 to power their cost-effective and scalable genetic processing platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Containers Platform uses Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and persistent storage to provide a high performance, optimized, and scalable Linux container infrastructure leveraging Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this session, we discuss best practices on successfully designing, implementing, and managing distributed microservices applications at any scale. We also explore other innovative strategies, including integrated analytic techniques to anticipate and predict scaling operations to allow infrastructures to scale elastically on-demand. Session sponsored by Red Hat

Cloud native architectures take advantage of on-demand delivery, global deployment, elasticity, and higher-level services to enable developer productivity and business agility. Open source is a core part of making cloud native possible for everyone. In this session, we welcome thought leaders from the CNCF, Docker, and AWS to discuss the cloud's direction for growth and enablement of the open source community. We also discuss how AWS is integrating open source code into its container services and its contributions to open source projects.

Many enterprises on their journey into the cloud require consistent and highly secure connectivity between their existing data center and AWS footprints. In this session, we walk through the different architecture options for establishing this connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN. With each option, we evaluate the considerations and discuss risk, performance, encryption, and cost. As we walk through these options, we answer some of the common questions that arise from enterprises that tackle design and implementation. You'll learn how to make connectivity decisions that are suitable for your workloads, and how to best prepare against business impact in the event of failure.

SAP is the predominant mission-critical business software platform for Life Sciences companies. SAP often handles multiple areas of the business including finance, HR, training, manufacturing, and supply chain. In this session, learn from Amgen about how they implemented SAP to comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), how to avoid unexpected challenges with upgrades, how to structure your project, and best practice approaches when migrating your SAP environment to AWS. 

Containers allow you to easily package an application's code, configurations, and dependencies into easy to use building blocks that deliver environmental consistency, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and version control. But how can developers leverage containers to drive innovation for their applications, their team, and organization?   In this session, Asif Khan Technical Business Manager for AWS will discuss how containers are becoming a new cloud native compute primitive, and how your organization can use containers as a building block to accelerate innovation.   WeWork's Christopher Tava, Joshua Davis, and OpsLine's Radek Wierzbicki will show how they adopted containers as discipline in code development, and how they refactored their production architecture into containers running on Amazon ECS in under 8 months.

By packaging software into standardized units, Docker gives code everything it needs to run, ensuring consistency from your laptop all the way into production. But once you have your code ready to ship, how do you run and scale it in the cloud? In this session, you become comfortable running containerized services in production using Amazon EC2 Container Service. We cover container deployment, cluster management, service auto-scaling, service discovery, secrets management, logging, monitoring, security, and other core concepts. We also cover integrated AWS services and supplementary services that you can take advantage of to run and scale container-based services in the cloud.

Historically, there has been an information asymmetry in pharmaceutical R&D where the biopharmaceutical companies had the deepest understanding and knowledge about their products and how they helped and interacted with patients. Now, there's new, real-world data that exists from regulators, health plans, government authorities, and patients, which is helping pharma companies to understand how their therapies and their innovations drive value and impact in patient populations. There are imperatives to leverage that data, create new partnerships in their ecosystem, and get access to that data in an ethical way to derive insights to both fuel innovation and drive discovery. In this session, you learn best practices from Deloitte and Celgene about strategy, operating models, and execution frameworks when implementing a real-world, evidence data platform.

Just over four years after the first public release of Docker, and three years to the day after the launch of Amazon EC2 Container Service, the use of containers has surged to run a significant percentage of production workloads at startups and enterprise organizations. Join Deepak Singh, General Manager of Amazon Container Services, as we cover the state of containerized application development and deployment trends, new container capabilities on AWS that are available now, options for running containerized applications on AWS, and how AWS customers successfully run container workloads in production.

Learn about the new services and features we have and that we are launching across AWS Networking this year. Learn also about our vision for continued innovation in this space and the ongoing evolution of networking capabilities and performance. Gain insight into how these new capabilities help everyone—from developers to enterprises to startups—drive greater security and reliability, improved flexibility, and higher performance. Join Dave Brown, director of Amazon EC2 Networking, and learn more about Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS PrivateLink, VPN, AWS Direct Connect, and more. In addition, we cover new releases and show how easy it is to get started. You leave armed with details of how everything fits together in real-world customer scenarios.

HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering the C5 compute intensive instance at AWS and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting to consider hybrid strategies to increase productivity and lower their capital expenditure and maintenance costs. Also learn how to adapt this model to meet the increasing HPC and data analytics needs for your applications with the new technologies incorporated into the platform. Also find out how high performance computing via Rescale's cloud platform using Intel's latest technology seamlessly brings these advantages to HPC management and users. To access team management and throughput, all can benefit from cloud platform adoption as demand increases. Learn how customers are already benefiting. Richard Childress Racing (RCR) discusses its use of AWS C5 via the Rescale platform and how the combination is giving it an edge in the highly competitive field of motorsport. Session sponsored b

DREAM Challenges pose fundamental questions about systems biology and translational medicine. Designed and run by a community of researchers from a variety of organizations, the challenges invite participants to propose solutions, fostering collaboration and building communities in the process. The Sage Bionetworks Synapse platform, which powers many research consortiums including the DREAM Challenges, are starting to put into practice model cloud-initiatives that not only provide impactful discoveries in the areas of neuroscience, infectious disease, and cancer, but are also revolutionizing scientific research by enabling an interactive consortium science platform. In this session, you learn how to build a "consortium model" of research in order to connect research organizations with non-profit organizations, technology companies, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies. You can also learn about how to leverage machine learning, Amazon ECS, and R for consortium-based science initiatives.

Over the last 11 years, the Amazon EC2 virtualization platform has quietly evolved to take advantage of unique hardware and silicon, an accelerated network and storage architecture, and with the launch of C5 instances, a bespoke hypervisor to deliver the maximum amount of resources and performance to instances. Come to this deep dive to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our virtualization stack has evolved, including a peak at how our latest generation platform works under the covers.