AWS re:Invent 2016

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STG208: Case Study: How Monsanto Uses Amazon EFS with Their Large-Scale Geospatial Data Sets Dec 25, 2016

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At Monsanto, we build and use technologies that support our data and also BI efforts that facilitate intelligent, data-driven decisions. In the past year, we've embarked on large-scale efforts to modernize our geospatial platform and improve our analytic processing capabilities by building out new cloud and open-source based services. We found using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) gave us the flexibility and performance we were seeking while saving us significant time, effort, and cost. In this session, we discuss how Monsanto uses the Amazon EFS service to run our large scaling geospatial data sets such as raster, and to perform highly parallelized analytics for data scientists and business users. Topics include the technical architecture, how and why we chose EFS for handling data sets that are terabytes in size, our recommendations, and the lessons learned along the way.

SVR305: ↑↑↓↓←→←→ BA Lambda Start Dec 25, 2016

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Ever wished you had a list of cheat codes to unleash the full power of AWS Lambda for your production workload? Come learn how to build a robust, scalable, and highly available serverless application using AWS Lambda. In this session, we discuss hacks and tricks for maximizing your AWS Lambda performance, such as leveraging customer reuse, using the 500 MB scratch space and local cache, creating custom metrics for managing operations, aligning upstream and downstream services to scale along with Lambda, and many other workarounds and optimizations across your entire function lifecycle.

WIN305: Best Practices for Integrating Active Directory with AWS Workloads Dec 25, 2016

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Active Directory (AD) is essential for Windows workloads in the cloud. AWS offers customers multiple ways to integrate AD with cloud workloads like EC2, RDS, and AWS Enterprise Applications: AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) as a managed service and Active Directory running on AWS EC2 Windows instances. Which option is right for you? This session will discuss the key deployment considerations for each option to help you identify which best meets your project goals, and the effort involved. The session will cover options for integrating with your on-premises directory, port and security considerations, application considerations, and best practices.

WIN401: How to Manage Inventory, Patching, and System Images for Your Hybrid Cloud with AWS Management Capabilities Dec 25, 2016

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Whether you are a traditional enterprise making a shift to the cloud or are already all-in, AWS EC2 management capabilities enable you to perform common tasks of inventory collection, and patch and image management of your infrastructure at scale. In this session, we'll provide a brief overview of these powerful capabilities and bring it all together with a demo of real-world hybrid-cloud management scenario.

WIN402: How I learned to embrace DevOps and Configure Infrastructure at Scale Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, you will learn how you can use EC2 management capabilities to perform repeatable automation of your infrastructure at scale, across platforms and hybrid environments. As you embark on your cloud journey and embrace a modern DevOps mindset, you not only want to deploy software quickly but also ensure configuration consistency at cloud scale. Many enterprises have successfully used services such as EC2 Run Command to perform administrative tasks, and we'll share some of those stories. In addition, we will demo new capabilities to ensure a desired state approach to software configuration either through predefined or easy to build custom configurations, and also how you can integrate with other AWS services to deliver enterprise IT and business value.

WIN403: How to Migrate Microsoft Windows Applications to AWS Quickly, with Less Risk, Using Multisite Replication and SQL HA Dec 25, 2016

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Migrating on-premises workloads to AWS is a top priority for customers today. AWS has an array of tools and capabilities to make the move faster and less risky. This deep-dive session presents how to build a migration framework for your Windows-based applications by using AWS CloudFormation templates, along with multisite replication capabilities built into AWS and optimized for Microsoft Windows workloads built on SQL HA. This framework helps speed up your data center migration and minimize risk during the process.

WWPS301: AWS GovCloud (US) for Highly Regulated Workloads Dec 25, 2016

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Learn how to architect for compliance in the AWS cloud and see how your organization can leverage the agility, cost savings, scalability, and flexibility of the cloud while meeting the most stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, including Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), ITAR, CJIS, HIPAA, and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Levels 2 and 4. Hear best practices and practical use cases for using AWS GovCloud (US) to comply with a variety of regulatory regimes.

WWPS302: Governance Strategies for Cloud Transformation Dec 25, 2016

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Cloud governance is critical to executing a systemic, supportable, and sustainable cloud transformation strategy. This session explores best practices to achieve that model, including standards policies, automation that consistently applies and enforces policies and controls, self-service capabilities that enable agility and speed, and automated monitoring and cost management that ensure operational integrity. A well-developed cloud governance model enables customers to improve operational integrity, reliability, performance, and transparency using the AWS cloud. This session guides you through a best practice governance model, including policy considerations and recommendations, self-service automation methods towards IT-as-a-Service, and use case examples.

WWPS303: Modernizing Government in the Cloud in Highly Regulated Environments Dec 25, 2016

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Cloud computing can help government organizations increase innovation, efficiency, agility, and resiliency—all while reducing costs. This session highlights perspectives on how small, highly empowered United States Digital Service (USDS) teams within the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are breaking down innovation barriers, tackling mission-critical operations, and delivering more value with the cloud in highly regulated, unclassified environments.

WWPS304: Using AWS to Meet Requirements for Education, Healthcare and Public Safety (HIPAA, FERPA, and CJIS) Dec 25, 2016

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With rich controls, auditing, and broad security accreditations, AWS enables its customers to be in compliance with CJIS, FERPA, and HIPAA. Come hear customers share their approaches to achieving compliance for these and other standards across many markets.

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