AWS re:Invent 2016

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ALX304: Tips and Tricks on Bringing Alexa to Your Products Dec 25, 2016

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Ever wonder what it takes to add the power of Alexa to your own products? Are you curious about what Alexa partners have learned on their way to a successful product launch? In this session you will learn about the top tips and tricks on how to go from VUI newbie to an Alexa-enabled product launch. Key concepts around hardware selection, enabling far field voice interaction, building a robust Alexa Voice Service (AVS) client and more will be discussed along with customer and partner examples on how to plan for and avoid common challenges in product design, development and delivery.

ALX305: From VUI to QA: Building a Voice-Based Adventure Game for Alexa Dec 25, 2016

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Hitting the submit button to publish your skill is similar to sending your child to their first day of school. You want it to be set up for a successful launch day and for many days thereafter. Learn how to set your skill up for success from Andy Huntwork, Alexa Principal Engineer and one of the creators of the popular Alexa skill 'The Magic Door'. You will learn the most common reasons why skills fail and also some of the more unique use cases. The purpose of this session is to help you build better skills by knowing what to look out for and what you can test for before submitting. In this session, you will learn what most developers do wrong, how to successfully test and QA your skill, how to set your skill up for successful certification, and the process of how a skill gets certified.

ALX306: State of the Union: Amazon Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AI Dec 25, 2016

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The way humans interact with machines is at a turning point, and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation. Learn how Amazon is using machine learning and cloud computing to fuel innovation in AI, making Amazon Alexa smarter every day. Alexa VP and Head Scientist Rohit Prasad presents the state of the union Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AIn for Alexa. He addresses Alexa's advances in spoken language understanding and machine learning, and shares Amazon's thoughts about building the next generation of user experiences.

ALX307: Voice-enabling Your Home and Devices with Amazon Alexa and AWS IoT Dec 25, 2016

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Want to learn how to Alexa-power your home? Join Brookfield Residential CIO and EVP Tom Wynnyk and Senior Solutions Architect Nathan Grice, for Alexa Smart Home for an overview of building the next generation of integrated smart homes using Alexa to create voice-first experiences. Understand the technologies used and how to best expose voice experiences to users through Alexa. Paul and Nathan cover the difference between custom Alexa skills and Smart Home Skill API skills, and build a home automation control from the ground up using Alexa and AWS IoT.

ARC202: Accenture Cloud Platform Serverless Journey Dec 25, 2016

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Accenture Cloud Platform helps customers manage public and private enterprise cloud resources effectively and securely. In this session, learn how we designed and built new core platform capabilities using a serverless, microservices-based architecture that is based on AWS services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. During our journey, we discovered a number of key benefits, including a dramatic increase in developer velocity, a reduction (to almost zero) of reliance on other teams, reduced costs, greater resilience, and scalability. We describe the (wild) successes we’ve had and the challenges we’ve overcome to create an AWS serverless architecture at scale. Session sponsored by Accenture.

ARC203: Achieving Agility by Following Well-Architected Framework Principles on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn how National Instruments used the Well-Architected Framework to follow AWS guidelines and best practices. By developing a strategy based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, National Instruments was able to triple the number of applications running in the cloud without additional head count, significantly increase the frequency of code deployments, and reduce deployment times from two weeks to a single day. As a result, National Instruments was able to deliver a more scalable, dynamic, and resilient LabVIEW platform with agility.

ARC204: From Resilience to Ubiquity - #NetflixEverywhere Global Architecture Dec 25, 2016

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Building and evolving a pervasive, global service requires a multi-disciplined approach that balances requirements with service availability, latency, data replication, compute capacity, and efficiency. In this session, we’ll follow the Netflix journey of failure, innovation, and ubiquity. We'll review the many facets of globalization and then delve deep into the architectural patterns that enable seamless, multi-region traffic management; reliable, fast data propagation; and efficient service infrastructure. The patterns presented will be broadly applicable to internet services with global aspirations.

ARC205: Born in the Cloud; Built Like a Startup Dec 25, 2016

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This presentation provides a comparison of three modern architecture patterns that startups are building their business around. It includes a realistic analysis of cost, team management, and security implications of each approach. It covers Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon ECS, Docker, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudFront, as well as Docker.

ARC207: NEW LAUNCH! Additional transparency and control for your AWS environment through AWS Personal Health Dashboard Dec 25, 2016

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When your business is counting on the performance of your cloud solutions, having relevant and timely insights into events impacting your AWS resources is essential. AWS Personal Health Dashboard serves as the primary destination for you to receive personalized information related to your AWS infrastructure, guiding your through scheduled changes, and accelerating the troubleshooting of issues impacting your AWS resources. The service, powered by AWS Health APIs, integrates with your in-house event management systems, and can be programmatically configured to proactively get the right information into the right hands at the right time. The service is integrated with Splunk App for AWS to enhance Splunk’s dashboards, reports and alerts to deliver real-time visibility into your environment.

ARC301: Architecting Next Generation SaaS Applications on AWS Dec 25, 2016

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AWS provides a broad array of services, tools, and constructs that can be used to design, operate, and deliver SaaS applications. In this session, Tod Golding, the AWS Partner Solutions Architect, shares the wisdom and lessons learned from working with dozens of customers and partners building SaaS solutions on AWS. We discuss key architectural strategies and patterns that are used to deliver multi-tenant SaaS models on AWS and dive into the full spectrum of SaaS design and architecture considerations, including tenant isolation models, tenant identity management, serverless SaaS, and multi-tenant storage strategies. This session connects the dots between general SaaS best practices and what it means to realize these patterns on AWS, weighing the architectural tradeoffs of each model and assessing its influence on the agility, manageability, and cost profile of your SaaS solution.

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