AWS re:Invent 2016

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NET403: Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices Dec 25, 2016

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Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we go into detail about Elastic Load Balancing configuration and day-to-day management, as well as its use in conjunction with Auto Scaling. We explain how to make decisions about the service and share best practices and useful tips for success.

SAC310: Securing Serverless Architectures, and API Filtering at Layer 7 Dec 25, 2016

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AWS serverless architecture components such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, CloudWatch Logs, DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, and Lambda can be tightly constrained in their operation. However, it may still be possible to use some of them to propagate payloads that could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in some consuming endpoints or user-generated code. This session explores techniques for enhancing the security of these services, from assessing and tightening permissions in IAM to integrating tools and mechanisms for inline and out-of-band payload analysis that are more typically applied to traditional server-based architectures.

SAC318: Life Without SSH: Immutable Infrastructure in Production Dec 25, 2016

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This session covers what a real-world production deployment of a fully automated deployment pipeline looks like with instances that are deployed without SSH keys. By leveraging AWS CloudFormation along with Docker and AWS CodeDeploy, we show how we achieved semi-immutable and fully immutable infrastructures, and what the challenges and remediations were.

SAC319: Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy Dec 25, 2016

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Whether it is per business unit or per application, many AWS customers use multiple accounts to meet their infrastructure isolation and billing requirements. In this session, we discuss considerations, limitations, and security patterns when building out a multi-account strategy. We explore topics such as identity federation, cross-account roles, consolidated logging, and account governance. Thomson Reuters also presents their approach to a multi-account strategy.

STG207: Case Study: How Atlassian Uses Amazon EFS with JIRA to Cut Costs and Accelerate Performance Dec 25, 2016

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At Atlassian, we create popular software tools to help every team unleash their full potential. We use our issue tracking tool JIRA to handle customer support issues from around the globe. As the business grew, we decided to move from a single server instance of JIRA to our JIRA Data Center product on AWS infrastructure to increase reliability, scale, and security. JIRA Data Center's requirement to use a shared file system caused us to try several in-house and third-party solutions prior to the availability of Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). We chose EFS for its performance, ease of use, automatic scaling, and out-of-the-box distribution capabilities. In this session, we discuss how Atlassian uses EFS to run JIRA Data Center. Topics include the technical architecture, how and why we chose EFS, our recommendations, and the lessons learned along the way.

STG209: Strategic Planning for Long-Term Data Archiving with Amazon Glacier Dec 25, 2016

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Without careful planning, data management can quickly turn complex with a runaway cost structure. Enterprise customers are turning to the cloud to solve long-term data archive needs such as reliability, compliance, and agility while optimizing the overall cost. Come to this session and hear how AWS customers are using Amazon Glacier to simplify their archiving strategy. Learn how customers architect their cloud archiving applications and share integration to streamline their organization's data management and establish successful IT best practices.

SVR307: Application Lifecycle Management in a Serverless World Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda provide a new way of building applications by removing servers from the picture. But what does the removal of servers mean to tasks like deployment, monitoring, and debugging? How should you set up blue-green deployments or set alarms? Come learn all this and more, including how to use AWS services and tools like AWS CodePipeline, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch to manage your serverless applications at high quality.

SVR308: Content and Data Platforms at Vevo: Rebuilding and Scaling from Zero in One Year Dec 25, 2016

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Vevo has undergone a complete strategic and technical reboot, driven not only by product, but also by engineering. Since November 2015, Vevo has been replacing monolithic, legacy content services with a modern, modular, microservices architecture, all while developing new features and functionality. In parallel, Vevo has built its data platform from scratch to power internal analytics as well as a unique music video consumption experience through a new personalized feed of recommendations — all in less than one year.

SVR311: The State of Serverless Computing Dec 25, 2016

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Join us to learn about the state of serverless computing from Dr. Tim Wagner, General Manager of AWS Lambda. Dr. Wagner discusses the latest developments from AWS Lambda and the serverless computing ecosystem. He talks about how serverless computing is becoming a core component in how companies build and run their applications and services, and he also discusses how serverless computing will continue to evolve.

SVR401: Using AWS Lambda to Build Control Systems for Your AWS Infrastructure Dec 25, 2016

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Defining infrastructure resource policies in an organized manner can help your company better manage its infrastructure resources.

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