AWS re:Invent 2016

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BDM304: Analyzing Streaming Data in Real-time with Amazon Kinesis Analytics Dec 25, 2016

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As more and more organizations strive to gain real-time insights into their business, streaming data has become ubiquitous. Typical streaming data analytics solutions require specific skills and complex infrastructure. However, with Amazon Kinesis Analytics, you can analyze streaming data in real-time with standard SQL—there is no need to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks.

BDM402: Best Practices for Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift Dec 25, 2016

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Analyzing big data quickly and efficiently requires a data warehouse optimized to handle and scale for large datasets. Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data for a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses. In this session, we take an in-depth look at data warehousing with Amazon Redshift for big data analytics. We cover best practices to take advantage of Amazon Redshift's columnar technology and parallel processing capabilities to deliver high throughput and query performance. We also discuss how to design optimal schemas, load data efficiently, and use work load management.

BDM403: Beeswax: Building a Real-Time Streaming Data Platform on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon Kinesis is a platform of services for building real-time, streaming data applications in the cloud. Customers can use Amazon Kinesis to collect, stream, and process real-time data such as website clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, application logs, location-tracking events, and more. In this session, we first cover best practices for building an end-to-end streaming data applications using Amazon Kinesis. Next, Beeswax, which provides real-time Bidder as a Service for programmatic digital advertising, will talk about how they built a feature-rich, real-time streaming data solution on AWS using Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Apache Spark. Beeswax will discuss key components of their solution including scalable data capture, messaging hub for archival, data warehousing, near real-time analytics, and real-time alerting.

CMP201: Auto Scaling – the Fleet Management Solution for Planet Earth Dec 25, 2016

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Scaling allows cloud resources to scale automatically in reaction to the dynamic needs of customers. This session will show how Auto Scaling offers an advantage to everyone – whether it’s basic fleet management to keep instances healthy as an EC2 best practice, or dynamic scaling to manage “extremes”. We’ll share examples of how Auto Scaling is helping customers of all sizes and industries unlock use cases and value. We’ll also discuss how Auto Scaling is evolving to scaling different types of elastic AWS resources beyond EC2 instances. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology will share how Auto Scaling is used to scale science data processing of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data from earth-observing satellite missions, and reduce response times during hazard response events such as those from earthquakes, floods, and volcanoes. JPL will also discuss how they are integrating their science data systems with the AWS ecosystem to expand into NASA’s next two large-scale missions with remote-sensing radar-based observations. Learn how Auto Scaling is being used at a global scale – and beyond!

CMP202: Getting the most Bang for your buck with #EC2 #Winning Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon EC2 provides you with the flexibility to cost optimize your computing portfolio through purchasing models that fit your business needs. With the flexibility of mix-and-match purchasing models, you can grow your compute capacity and throughput and enable new types of cloud computing applications with the lowest TCO.

CMP203: Amazon EC2 Foundations Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing and provides you with complete control of your computing resources. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. In this session, we will take you on a journey, starting with the basics of key management and security groups and ending with an explanation of Auto Scaling and how you can use it to match capacity and costs to demand using dynamic policies. We will also discuss tools and best practices that will help you build failure resilient applications that take advantage of the scale and robustness of AWS regions

CMP205: Lessons Learned from a Year of Using Spot Fleet Dec 25, 2016

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Over the last year, Yelp has transitioned its scalable and reliable parallel task execution system, Seagull, from On-Demand and Reserved Instances entirely to Spot Fleet. Seagull runs over 28 million tests per day, launches more than 2.5 million Docker containers per day, and uses over 10,000 vCPUs in Spot Fleet at peak capacity. To deal with rising infrastructure costs for Seagull, we have extended our in-house Auto Scaling Engine called FleetMiser to scale the Spot Fleet in response to demand. FleetMiser has reduced Seagull’s cluster costs by 60% in the past year and saved Yelp thousands of dollars every month.

CMP206: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon Lightsail: Jumpstart Your Cloud Project for a Low, Predictable Price Dec 25, 2016

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Amazon Lightsail is the latest addition to the AWS family of compute services and the fastest way to get your next cloud server up and running. For a low price that starts at $5/month, Lightsail offers a bundle of resources and services that let you jumpstart your cloud project in a few clicks. The new, intuitive Lightsail console makes it simple to manage your virtual resources, letting you focus on code, not system administration. Come to this session and learn how Lightsail can get you started on AWS quickly and efficiently.

CMP207: High Performance Computing on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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High performance computing in the cloud is enabling high scale compute- and graphics-intensive workloads across industries, ranging from aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing to life sciences, financial services, and energy. AWS provides application developers and end users with unprecedented computational power for massively parallel applications, in areas such as large-scale fluid and materials simulations, 3D content rendering, financial computing, and deep learning. This session provides an overview of HPC capabilities on AWS, describes the newest generations of accelerated computing instances (including P2), as well as highlighting customer and partner use-cases across industries.

CMP209: Getting Started with Docker on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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AWS is an elastic, secure, flexible, and developer-centric ecosystem that serves as an ideal platform for Docker deployments. AWS offers the scalable infrastructure, APIs, and SDKs that integrate tightly into a development lifecycle and accentuate the benefits of the lightweight and portable containers that Docker offers to its users.

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