AWS re:Invent 2016

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ENT206: Lift and Evolve – Saving Money in the Cloud is Easy, Making Money Takes Help Dec 25, 2016

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Every enterprise knows by now that it can save money by simply lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud, but many are missing the larger opportunity to also make money by moving. While quick costs savings are good for the bottom line, they do little to move the top line numbers. To achieve both savings and earnings, corporate thinking about technologies must change in order to enable faster processes leveraged enterprise-wide. In this session we will explore multiple customer success stories where the customers have evolved from leveraging basic compute and storage products (EC2 and S3) to integrating new services into operations by leveraging Lambda, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, etc. Once this is achieved, enterprises are enabled to manage and deploy code rapidly in a programmatic and elastic secure network, ensuring governance and security standards across the globe. We will look at the migration process trusted by hundreds of clients as well as how to cope with the process and people components that are so important to enable agility, while focusing heavily on the technology. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and 2nd Watch story will dive deep into the technology that allows TCCC to manage hundreds of AWS Accounts, hundreds of workloads, thousands of instances, and hundreds of business partners around the globe. TCCC’s Configuration Management System has Puppet at the core and relies on over a dozen core and emerging AWS products across accounts, availability zones and regions. This complex and globally-available system ensures all of TCCC’s workloads in AWS meet corporate policies but also allows for rapid scale of both consumer and enterprise workloads.

FIN301: Fraud Detection with Amazon Machine Learning on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we provide programmatic guidance on building tools and applications to detect and manage fraud and unusual activity specific to financial services institutions. Payment fraud is an ongoing concern for merchants and credit card issuers alike and these activities impact all industries, but are specifically detrimental to Financial Services. We provide a step-by-step walkthrough of a reference solution to detect and address credit card fraud in real time by using Apache Apex and Amazon Machine Learning capabilities. We also outline different resource and performance optimization options and how to work data security into the fraud detection workflow.

FIN302: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for Systemically Important Financial Institutions Dec 25, 2016

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Modern financial services organizations rely heavily on technology and automated systems to run business-as-usual. However, if this technology were interrupted by natural disasters or other events, there could be a devastating impact on investors and market participants, and in turn your reputational brand. In this session, we provide a step-by-step disaster recovery solution employed by a major exchange. This solution leverages Amazon EC2 Container Service to provide Docker containers, Weave Net to support a multicast overlay network that enables high volume multicast feeds in a cloud environment, and AWS CloudFormation for the ability to easily create and manage AWS assets. The session also covers the importance of redundancy (not just operationally, but for SEC compliance reasons as well) and how financial services organizations can increase geographical diversification of their primary and disaster recovery data centers. We dive deep into each major component of the solution.

FIN303: Use AWS to Secure Your DevOps Pipeline Like a Bank Dec 25, 2016

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Continuous Delivery can be challenging, especially for enterprises that deal with strict compliance requirements like those in the financial services sector. AWS and Stelligent frequently work together with many large Financial Services Enterprises to help incorporate their capabilities securely on the Cloud. From security of the source code used to trigger builds, to the insertion of strict business controls at run time, and out to the continuous inspection of the running infrastructure to ensure compliance, we are helping to build capabilities that are enabling them to run their business faster and safer on AWS.

FIN304: Grid Computing for Risk Management on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we explain how Financial Services organizations can leverage AWS grid computing capabilities to perform large-scale calculations for risk management purposes. Numerous financial services companies face the same basic challenge: modeling multiple scenarios with different risk factors simultaneously or in quick succession in order to make informed decisions that maximize gains and minimize financial loss. Some examples of these workloads include Monte Carlo simulations, price model validation and back-testing, and risk calculations for hedging and capital optimization strategies. We provide programmatic guidance around what AWS services to use when running a grid computing cluster that requires thousands of cores and specific industry use cases and key benefits around speed and costs that the AWS platform, auto-scaling capabilities, and various compute services can help achieve.

GA201: Diversify Tech: Building the Future IT Workforce Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, learn about efforts to diversify IT, from programs in high schools all the way up to diversity among top-level executives. Regardless of where you are in your career, this session dives deep to speak to you about the changing tech landscape. Through successes and failures, speakers candidly discuss how everyone can help in changing the ratio to attract a more diverse workforce and create a culture of inclusion. Bring your questions, network with peers, and be inspired by both women and men making an impact in non-profit, enterprise and government sectors.

NET308: How Gree Launched New Games Faster and More Securely with AWS Marketplace and Amazon VPC Dec 25, 2016

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Gree is a gaming company with the distinction of launching the world’s first mobile social game in 2007 and later went on to develop a rich portfolio of original games. With an active acquisition and development strategy, Gree is transforming the way games are built. Learn how Gree leveraged Amazon VPCs and Aviatrix Enterprise cloud-defined networking in AWS Marketplace to rapidly integrate acquisitions and develop new games to maintain competitive differentiation in this fast moving segment. Hear about the use case, requirements and lessons learned. Learn how you can transitioned to Amazon VPCs in the middle of the development process.

NET402: Deep Dive: AWS Direct Connect and VPNs Dec 25, 2016

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As enterprises move to the cloud, robust connectivity is often an early consideration. AWS Direct Connect provides a more consistent network experience for accessing your AWS resources, typically with greater bandwidth and reduced network costs. This session dives deep into the features of AWS Direct Connect and VPNs. We discuss deployment architectures and demonstrate the process from start to finish. We show you how to configure public and private virtual interfaces, configure routers, use VPN backup, and provide secure communication between sites by using the AWS VPN CloudHub.

STG305: Reinventing Disaster Recovery Leveraging AWS Cloud Infrastructure, with special guest, Dow Jones Dec 25, 2016

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These days, EVERY workload is considered critical by someone in the organization. As a result, SLAs are shrinking. IT is challenged to meet these SLAs, but there isn’t enough budget to provide services like disaster recovery (DR) using traditional methods and infrastructure. The good news is that public cloud platforms, like AWS, are becoming the de facto infrastructure choice for DR. However, workload portability solutions that simplify cross-platform or cloud recovery are required to meet most RTO & RPO SLAs in the cloud. AWS provides the infrastructure we need to bring DR to tier 2 and tier 3 workloads that have never been able to afford it before. Now, we need orchestration and automation to make it scalable and reliable.

SVR302: Optimizing the Data Tier in Serverless Web Applications Dec 25, 2016

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AWS Lambda empowers developers to build cloud-native web applications or platforms using microservices architecture. The three-tier web app has been a cornerstone architecture pattern for decades in this space. This session walks you through the process of identifying the presentation, logic, and data tiers required to build web applications with AWS Lambda at the core. By using AWS Lambda as your logic tier, you have a wide number of data storage options for your data tier. AWS offers a wide range of database services to fit your application requirements. We dive into methodologies for picking the right database technology based on your application requirements.

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