AWS re:Invent 2016

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ARC314: Enabling Enterprise Migrations: Creating an AWS Landing Zone Dec 25, 2016

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With customers migrating workloads to AWS, we are starting to see a need for the creation of a prescribed landing zone, which uses native AWS capabilities and meets or exceeds customers' security and compliance objectives. In this session, we will describe an AWS landing zone and will cover solutions for account structure, user configuration, provisioning, networking and operation automation. This solution is based on AWS native capabilities such as AWS Service Catalog, AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Config Rules, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Lambda. We will provide an overview of AWS Service Catalog and how it be used to provide self-service infrastructure to applications users, including various options for automation. After this session you will be able to configure an AWS landing zone for successful large scale application migrations. Additionally, Philips will explain their cloud journey and how they have applied their guiding principles when building their landing zone.

ARC316: Hybrid IT: A Stepping Stone to All-In Dec 25, 2016

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This session demonstrates how customers can leverage hybrid IT as a transitional step on the path to going all-in on AWS. We provide a step-by-step walk-through focusing on seamless migration to the cloud, with consideration given to existing data centers, equipment, and staff retraining. Learn about the suite of capabilities AWS provides to ease and simplify your journey to the cloud.

ARC318: Busting the Myth of Vendor Lock-In: How D2L Embraced the Lock and Opened the Cage Dec 25, 2016

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When D2L first moved to the cloud, we were concerned about being locked-in to one cloud provider. We were compelled to explore the opportunities of the cloud, so we overcame our perceived risk, and turned it into an opportunity by self-rolling tools and avoiding AWS native services. In this session, you learn how D2L tried to bypass the lock but eventually embraced it and opened the cage. Avoiding AWS native tooling and pure lifts of enterprise architecture caused a drastic inflation of costs. Learn how we shifted away from a self-rolled 'lift' into an efficient and effective 'shift' while prioritizing cost, client safety, AND speed of development. Learn from D2L's successes and missteps, and convert your own enterprise systems into the cloud both through native cloud births and enterprise conversions. This session discusses D2L’s use of Amazon EC2 (with a guest appearance by Reserved Instances), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon ElastiCache.

ARC319: Datapipe Open Source: Image Development Pipeline Dec 25, 2016

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For an IT organization to be successful in rapid cloud assessment or iterative migration of their infrastructure and applications to AWS, they need to effectively plan and execute on a strategic cloud strategy that focuses not only on cloud, but also big data, DevOps, and security.

ARC402: Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices Dec 25, 2016

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As serverless architectures become more popular, AWS customers need a framework of patterns to help them deploy their workloads without managing servers or operating systems. This session introduces and describes four re-usable serverless patterns for web apps, stream processing, batch processing, and automation. For each, we provide a TCO analysis and comparison with its server-based counterpart. We also discuss the considerations and nuances associated with each pattern and have customers share similar experiences. The target audience is architects, system operators, and anyone looking for a better understanding of how serverless architectures can help them save money and improve their agility.

ARC403: Building a Microservices Gaming Platform for Turbine Mobile Games Dec 25, 2016

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Warner Bros’ Turbine team shares lessons learned from their enhanced microservices game platform, which uses Docker, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon ElastiCache to scale up in anticipation of massive game adoption. Learn about their Docker-based microservices architecture, tuned and optimized to support the demands of the massively popular [Batman: Arkham Underworld and other franchises]. Turbine invent and simplify microservices persistence services – consolidating their previous NoSQL database solution with highly performant PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS. Turbine also describes other innovative strategies, including integrated analytic techniques to anticipate and predict their scaling operations.

ARC404: Migrating a Highly Available and Scalable Database from Oracle to Amazon DynamoDB Dec 25, 2016

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In this session, we share how an Amazon.com team that owns a document management platform that manages billions of critical customer documents for Amazon.com migrated from a relational to a non-relational database. Initially, the service was built as an Oracle database. As it grew, the team discovered the limits of the relational model and decided to migrate to a non-relational database. They chose Amazon DynamoDB for its built-in resilience, scalability, and predictability. We provide a template that you can use to migrate from a relational data store to DynamoDB. We also provide details about the entire process: design patterns for moving from a SQL schema to a NoSQL schema; mechanisms used to transition from an ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) model to an eventually consistent model; migration alternatives considered; pitfalls in common migration strategies; and how to ensure service availability and consistency during migration.

ARC405: Running, Configuring, and Securing Windows Workloads Dec 25, 2016

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From servers to workstations, AWS provides the best place to run your Windows workloads. In this session, we'll discuss the ease of deploying Windows workloads on AWS, and architecting for performance, scalability, security, and cost savings. We will explore the use of AWS Directory Service, the Amazon EC2 Run command, and Windows PowerShell to bootstrap your instances for seamless Microsoft Active Directory integration, application installation, and management. We will walk through an architecture that includes Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, and Amazon WorkSpaces, and discuss the secure relationships among these services. You will learn how you can use native AWS services as well as the tools you are already familiar with to manage your Windows environment.

ARC406: Encoding Artifacts to Emmy Awards: Taking on Terabyte-Scale, 1-Gbps, 4K Video Processing in the Cloud Dec 25, 2016

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The advent of 4K video has resulted in a huge uptick in resource requirements, which is difficult to scale in a traditional environment. The cloud is a perfect environment for handling problems of this scale; however, there are many unanswered questions around best practices and suitable architectures for dealing with massive, high-quality assets. In this session, we will define problem cases and discuss practical architectural patterns for dealing with these challenges by using AWS services such as Amazon EC2 (graphical instances), Amazon EMR, Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, Amazon Glacier, AWS Snowball, and the new magnetic EBS volumes. The best practices that we'll discuss will also be helpful to architects and engineers who are dealing with non-video data. Amazon Studios will present how, powered by AWS, they solved many of these problems and are able to create, manage, and distribute Emmy Award-winning content.

ARC408: Optimizing SaaS Solutions for AWS Dec 25, 2016

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OK, so you have your SaaS application up and running on AWS and now the real fun begins. The adoption of SaaS and a shared multi-tenant infrastructure brings with it a unique set of challenges that require developers to find new and creative ways to optimize their SaaS applications. For many engineers, this means tackling a whole new realm of questions. How do you optimize tenant experience by tiers? How do you perform real-time performance tuning or centralized tenant policy management? How do you collect and aggregate tenant analytics? How do you implement scalable policy-driven configuration of tenant experience? These and many other challenging topics will be covered in this technical deep dive. Tod Golding, an AWS Solutions Architect specializing in helping AWS partners build SaaS systems, will explore a collection of strategies that can be leveraged to increase the performance, flexibility, and agility of SaaS environments. You will learn how to identify areas where services, tools, and design strategies can be combined to enrich the agility of your SaaS architecture.

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